bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Features of antiplatelet therapy with P2Y12 receptor inhibitors in patients with myocardial infarction according to the Russian Register of Acute Myocardial Infarction REGION-MI
Authors: Boytsov S. A. , Shakhnovich R. M. , Tereschenko S. N. , Erlikh A. D. , Kukava N. G. , Pevsner D. V. , Rytova Yu. K.
Published: October 2022

Aim    To study specific features of administering platelet P2Y12 receptor inhibitors to patients with myocardial infarction (MI) in real-life clinical practice; to reveal a possible inconsistency of the therapy with clinical guidelines; to evaluate the patients’ compliance with the medication at the outpatient stage; and to outline major direction for improving quality of the antiplatelet treatment.Material and methods    REGION-MI is a multicenter prospective, observational study. The observational period is divided into 3 stages: during the stay in the hospital and at 3 and 12 months following the inclusion into the registry. Information about the drug therapy (used at the time of hospitalization, administered before the hospitalization, received in the hospital, and prescribed at discharge from the hospital) was recorded in the patient’s individual registration card. Information about the antiplatelet treatment at 6 months following enrollment into the study was obtain by phone.Results    The study included 4 553 patients. Dual antiplatelet therapy was administered after MI to 94.4 % patients: clopidogrel was administered to 52 %, ticagrelor to 42.2 %, and prasugrel to 11 patients (0.2 %). Ticagrelor was administered significantly more frequently in ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) than in NSTEMI, 45 % and 33 %, respectively (p<0.001); clopidogrel was also administered more frequently to patients with STEMI than with NSTEMI, 59 % and 50 %, respectively. According to ARC-HBR criteria, in MI and a high risk of bleeding, clopidogrel was administered more frequently than ticagrelor (p <0.001). Ticagrelor was significantly more frequently administered to patients with MI and a low risk of bleeding than to patients with a high risk (p<0.001). In STEMI and a low risk of bleeding, ticagrelor was administered somewhat more frequently than clopidogrel, 56 % and 44 %, respectively (р<0.05). In NSTEMI and a low risk of bleeding, clopidogrel was administered more frequently than ticagrelor, 53 % and 47 %, respectively (p<0.05). At 6 months post-MI, 94 % of patients continued taking one of the P2Y12 inhibitors.Conclusion    According to data of the REGION-MI registry, the frequency of administering P2Y12 inhibitors to patients with acute MI was high, and the patients’ compliance with this therapy was high at 6 months following MI. Although ticagrelor (the most available drug of all powerful platelet P2Y12 receptor inhibitors) has been prescribed more frequently in the recent years, a definite reserve exists for increasing the frequency of its administration. This is particularly important with a low risk of bleeding and the absence of requirement for anticoagulants. Thus, the prognosis for MI patients can be considerably improved.
Impact of companies’ statements about Their Environmental Actions on stock Prices
Authors: Karginova-Gubinova V. V.
Published: October 2022

Purpose: the purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of the impact of companies’statements about their perceived environmental actions on their stock prices on the developed and developing stock exchanges. The contradictory findings on the impact of corporate environmental announcements on stock prices and the low level of green production, especially in developing countries, make this research work relevant.Methods: the research methodology is based on event analysis and the examination of the impact of some environmental announcements on the quotations of both developed and developing stock exchanges.Results: the environmental approach to business operations, as compared to traditional operations, often requires additional financial resources, and many companies refuse to go green. This paper examines whether the market value of a company increases after the growth of its environmental orientation and whether this can be used as additional motivation for companies to carry out environmental activities. The work has shown that greening in a developed market is primarily driven by government policy, while in an developing market – by the desire to enter international product and capital markets, and that the directions of greening reflect global rather than national priorities. In the developed market, the impact of environmental announcements is observed only in isolated cases and can be both positive and negative. In the developing market, the significance of announcements is higher, and they lead to a short-term decline in exchange prices.Сonclusions and Relevance: it is concluded that it is seen necessary to improve markets’ regulatory and information space and to harmonize the interests of all participants to address environmental issues. The results will be of interest to investors, corporate managers, territorial governments, as well as specialists in green economy and behavioral finance.
Сhina blockchain internationalization opportunities: economic and technological sides
Authors: Nikitin A. V.
Published: October 2022

Purpose: is to study and analyze the rapid development of the practical application of the blockchain in the economy of the PRC. The Chinese government keeps pursuing a policy of intensive introduction of the technology in manufacturing and trade, what could become a determining factor in interaction with partner countries.Methods: the paper is based on a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the strategy for the development of blockchain technology in China, as well as an analysis of the intermediate results of the phased introduction of technology into the national economy of the country.Results: the Chinese government is aimed at large-scale implementation of blockchain solutions in the country's economy as part of the measures to intensively develop the «digital economy» and strengthen their leading position in the global economy. China demonstrates its strong intention to participate at first-hand in setting standards and rules for blockchain technologies in the field of finance and international trade through the internationalization of national blockchain technologies, including the digital yuan, in cooperation with partner countries and trade associations.Сonclusions and Relevance: the formation of China's economic regional and global is due to the strengthening of the national economy, its resilience and ability to recover quickly, and intensification its position in world trade. At the same time, the intensive development of blockchain technologies in China, pushing the technology into the national economy and state support determine the strengthening of leading positions in the technological field. To accelerate the internationalization of its blockchain solutions, the Chinese government, on the one hand, relies on the proposed solutions innovativeness and exclusivity, on the other hand, takes measures at the political and diplomatic levels to foster it.
Disaster Mitigation in Coastal Areas: Perspective of the Indonesian Spatial Planning Law
Authors: Widowati Dyah Ayu
Published: October 2022

This article is a critical analysis on spatial planning with regard to disaster mitigation in coastal areas. The author explores the concepts and regulations of disaster mitigation and spatial planning in Indonesian coastal areas to identify how spatial planning works in terms of disaster mitigation in coastal areas and the roles of stakeholders in disaster mitigation in coastal areas in the context of the spatial planning law. This normative legal research was conducted by examining secondary data from relevant books, journals, and published documents. This study finds out that, first, according to the Spatial Planning Law, Management of Coastal Zone and Small Islands Law, Disaster Management Law, Job Creation Law, and their derivative regulations, there have been regulations mandating spatial planning as a non-structural mitigative measure with regard to disaster management in coastal areas. Second, in terms of spatial planning and disaster mitigation, the government is the dominant stakeholder, while the role of non-government stakeholders is not expressly provided for which may eventually result in "tokenism" participation in disaster mitigation in coastal areas.
Cognizance and awareness of COVID-19 virus amongst the non-teaching staff at health care center- A cross sectional study
Authors: Sachdeva Shivani , Dave Kajal , Saluja Harish
Published: October 2022

COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) was declared a “pandemic” by the World Health Organization (WHO) in early March 2020. All over the world extraordinary measures are being adopted to fight the spread of the ongoing outbreak. Under such conditions, people’s knowledge to preventive measures is greatly affected by their awareness of the disease.

Aim of the present study was to assess the awareness and knowledge about Covid-19 among non-treating staff in hospitals.

The community-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted using a self-developed structured questionnaire and individuals were personally interviewed. A total of 82 individuals were interviewed who included the sterilization workers, cleaners and ward staff. The non-teaching staff included was working in the dental, medical and physiotherapy institute.

The result interpretation showed that 95.1% of participants included in the study knew about Covid-19. Awareness was pragmatic among 89% about the precautions to be taken. While, 63.4% agreed on getting formal training from the workplace. Respondents agreed to change the methods and adopt newer techniques to bout with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since its initial outbreak in China in December 2019, the COVID-19 disease has had a cascading effect worldwide. Even though these subjects are not actively involved in patient management, there are high chances of non-clinical staff having patient contact at some point in the healthcare setting and therefore at risk of contracting and spreading the infection.
Mutagenicity of a bi-stranded clustered DNA lesion containing (5’S) or (5’R) 5’,8-cyclo-2’-deoxyAdenosine in Escherichia coli model
Authors: Boguszewska Karolina , Kaźmierczak-Barańska Julia , Karwowski Bolesław T.
Published: October 2022

Ionizing radiation induces DNA damage, including characteristic clusters and tandem lesions e.g., 5’,8-cyclo-2’-deoxyPurines (cdPus). Clustered DNA Lesions (CDL) defined as 2 or more lesions within 1-2 helical turns resulting from a single radiation track contribute to the harmful effects of radiation. Moreover, the presence of CDL and cdPus in human DNA may decrease the efficiency of the DNA repair mechanisms, which in consequence may lead to, e.g., carcinogenesis. This preliminary study showed the mutagenic potential of CDL containing dU on one strand and 5’,8-cyclo-2’-deoxyAdenosine (cdA) on a complementary strand separated by up to 4 bp. Mutagenicity was determined using Escherichia coli reporter assay and 40-mer model ds-oligonucleotides with CDL. Mutation frequencies were determined to be significantly higher for CDL than for single isolated lesions (cdA or dU placed only in one strand). The results demonstrated that the dU lesion located on the opposite DNA strand separated by 0 or 1 bp from cdA led to severe mutagenicity. The most frequent mutations observed comprised point deletions and transitions. Oligonucleotides with CDL containing ScdA/RcdA demonstrated even up to 100% mutation rate. Interestingly, increasing the distance between lesions within CDL to 4 bp led to full recovery of the correct sequence of ds-oligonucleotides, indicating an efficient repair process. The results obtained with the bacterial model are in agreement with previous in vitro studies on eukaryotic models. The high mutagenicity and/or inhibited repair process of clusters with lesions located in close proximity provides additional verification of the previously presented trends describing how the distance between cdPu and dU affects DNA repair processes.
Resonant and nonlinear phenomena during the propagation of magnetostatic waves in multiferroid, semiconductor and metallized structures based on ferromagnetic films and magnonic crystals
Authors:   Saratov State University, Morozova Maria , Matveev Oleg ,   Saratov State University
Published: October 2022

Purpose of this work is to compile an overview of a new and fruitful scientific direction in magnonics, which grew out of the works of Ph.D., Professor Yuri Pavlovich Sharaevsky, and related to the study of resonant and nonlinear phenomena during the propagation of magnetostatic waves in ferromagnetic films, ferromagnetic films with periodic inhomogeneities (magnonic crystals), coupled (layered and lateral) ferromagnetic structures, as well as ferromagnetic structures with layers of a different physical nature (semiconductor, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, normal metal layers). Methods. Experimental and theoretical methods have been used to study spin-wave excitations in a wide class of structures with ferromagnetic layers. In particular, experimental radiophysical methods of microwave measurements and optical methods of Mandelstam-Brillouin spectroscopy. For the construction of theoretical models, the following methods are used: the method of coupled waves, the method of crosslinking magnetic permeability at the boundaries of layers, the method of transmission matrices, long-wave approximation. Results. The presented results are of general scientific importance for understanding the basic laws of the joint influence of coupling, periodicity and interactions of different physical nature (the influence on the magnetostatic wave of deformation in periodic structures with piezoelectric, electromagnetic wave in structures with ferroelectric, electric current in structures with semiconductor, spin current in structures with normal metal). In applied terms, the identified effects open up wide opportunities for creation of new devices of spin-wave electronics with the possibility of dynamic control of characteristics when changing the electric and magnetic fields, as well as the power of the input signal. Conclusions. The review of the most interesting results obtained by the authors together with Yuri Pavlovich and which are an ideological continuation of the foundations laid by him is given.
Spin-wave diagnostics of epitaxial ferrite-dielectric structures
Authors:   Saratov State University, Tikhonov Vladimir , Gubanov Vladislav ,   Saratov State University
Published: October 2022

Purpose of this study is to elucidate the mechanism of transformation of electromagnetic and exchange spin waves (ESW) in a thin transition layer of epitaxial ferrite–dielectric structures, as well as to investigate the possibilities of using short-wave ESW to diagnose magnetic inhomogeneities of epitaxial yttrium-iron garnet (YIG) films. Methods. In this paper, we study the hybridization processes of electromagnetic and exchange spin waves that occur in the transition layer of the YIG film. The features of the dispersion of coupled waves in the vicinity of phase synchronism frequencies under normal and tangential magnetization of the YIG film are investigated. Results. It is shown that within of the thickness transition layer, the dispersion of the excited ESW experiences significant distortions, which manifests itself in frequency shifts of the spin-wave resonance. Based on this, a method for calculating the distribution of spontaneous magnetization over the thickness of the YIG film was proposed, which was used to simulate the processes of excitation of spin-wave resonances. Conclusion. The proposed technique of spin-wave diagnostics of YIG films can be effectively used for non-destructive testing of all types of epitaxial ferrite-dielectric structures, which may be in demand in the field of production and in the field of their practical application.
About My Generation
Authors: Motroshilova N.V.
Published: October 2022

The article is devoted to the generation of the sixties. The author, relying on personal memories and testimonies of contemporaries, presents a generalized portrait of the intellectuals of that era, reflects on how they manifested themselves in philosophical life and philosophical work. The sixties are presented as a philosophically united generation, determined by the similarity of orientations, values, attitudes, which are clearly seen in everything they did in their profession. Along with an analysis of the intellectual life of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University and the central themes developed by colleagues from the Institute of Philosophy, the author talks about the functioning of heterodox philosophical communities in the 1960s. Particular attention is paid to the interaction of philosophers of the sixties and cultural figures of that era.
My Generation of the 1960s
Authors: Pruzhinin B.I.
Published: October 2022

The author of the article tries to clarify the peculiarities of the views of the generation of philosophers of the sixties, based on his personal experience. According to the author, the worldview and personal characteristics of this generation are based on the experience and understanding of the events of the national history of the 1950s, associated with the exposure of the personality cult of Stalin, and the phenomenon of the thaw. These events allowed the generation of the sixties to form a worldview based on a rethinking of their views, first – spiritual independence.
“About Agriculture” and About “Slave Lifeˮ. The Economic Thinker of Peter the Great's Time About the Peasantry
Authors: Glasunova Elizaveta E. , Mininkova Ludmila V.
Published: October 2022

I.T. Pososhkov, an original economic thinker, is one of the most controversial personalities of Peter the Great's time. Apologists pointed to the progressive features of his worldview, to the fact that he put forward an agrarian project that his supposed to lead to the eradication of serfdom. Critics pointed to the conservative sides of this project. Pososhkov himself strongly denied the rights of landlords to peasants, but believed that the sovereign had those rights. At that suggestion, the landlords received the duty to ensure that the peasants were not lazy to their detriment, since that caused the poverty to the peasants, and it was unprofitable for the sovereign. Pososhkov's thinking had quite traditions, the source of which was the idea of the state us a royal patrimony, widespread in Moscow Russia. But Pososhkov's ideas were not accidental. They expressed the direction of public thought, in which a little later the peasant question took a leading place in the socio-political life of the country.
Naked barley: taxonomy, breeding, and prospects of utilization
Authors: Lukina K. A. , Kovaleva O. N. , Loskutov I. G.
Published: October 2022

This review surveys the current state of taxonomy, origin, and utilization prospects for naked barley. The cultivated barley Hordeum vulgare L. incorporates the covered and naked barley groups. Naked barleys are divided into six-row naked barley (convar. сoeleste (L.) A. Trof.) and two-row naked barley (convar. nudum (L.) A. Trof.). The groups include botanical varieties differing in the structural features of spikes, awns, floret and spikelet glumes, and the color of kernels. The centers of morphogenesis for naked barley are scrutinized employing archeological and paleoethnobotanical data, and the diversity of its forms. Hypotheses on the centers of its origin are discussed using DNA marker data. The main areas of its cultivation are shown, along with possible reasons for such a predominating or exclusive distribution of naked barley in highland areas. Inheritance of nakedness and mechanisms of its manifestation are considered in the context of new data in genetics. The biochemical composition of barley grain in protein, some essential and nonessential amino acids, β-glucans, vitamins, and antioxidants is described. Naked barley is shown to be a valuable source of unique combinations of soluble and insoluble dietary fibers and polysaccharides. The parameters limiting wider distribution of naked barley over the world are emphasized, and breeding efforts that could mitigate them are proposed. Pathogen-resistant naked barley accessions are identified to serve as promising sources for increasing grain yield and quality. Main stages and trends of naked barley breeding are considered and the importance of the VIR global germplasm collection as the richest repository of genetic material for the development of breeding is shown.
Rare Wolbachia genotypes in laboratory Drosophila melanogaster strains
Authors: Ryabinin A. S. , Shishkina O. D. , Ilinsky Yu. Yu. , Bykov R. A.
Published: October 2022

Symbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are widespread in Drosophila melanogaster populations. Based on the polymorphism of the Wolbachia genome, the symbionts’ diversity in D. melanogaster is presented by two groups: MEL (wMel, wMel2, wMel3 and wMel4) and CS (wMelCS and wMelCS2). The wMel genotype is predominant in natural D. melanogaster populations and is distributed all over the world. The CS genotypes, on the other hand, are of particular interest because it is unclear how they are maintained in the fruit f ly populations since they should have been eliminated from them due to their low frequency and genetic drift or been replaced by the wMel genotype. However, this is not what is really observed, which means these genotypes are supported by selection. It is known that the wMelPlus strain of the wMelCS genotype can increase the lifespan of infected f lies at high temperatures. The same genotype also increases the intensity of dopamine metabolism in Drosophila compared to the MEL-group genotypes. In the present study, we searched for the rare Wolbachia wMelCS and wMelCS2 genotypes, as well as for new genotypes in wild-type D. melanogaster strains and in several mutant laboratory strains. The symbiont was found in all populations, in 200 out of 385 wild-type strains and in 83 out of 170 mutant strains. Wolbachia diversity in D. melanogaster wild-type strains was represented by the wMel, wMelCS and wMelCS2 genotypes. More than 90 % of the infected strains carried wMel; 9 %, wMelCS2; and only two strains were found to carry wMelCS. No new Wolbachia genotypes were found. The northernmost point reported for the wMelCS2 genotype was Izhevsk city (Udmurtia, Russia). For the f irst time the wMelCS2 genotype was detected in D. melanogaster from the Sakhalin Island, and wMelCS, in the f lies from Nalchik (the North Caucasus). A comparison of Wolbachia genetic diversity between the wild-type laboratory strains and previously obtained data on mutant laboratory strains demonstrated differences in the frequencies of rare CS genotypes, which were more prevalent in mutant strains, apparently due to the breeding history of these Drosophila strains.
„My a wy” – transgeneracyjne przesłanie publicystyki patriotycznej w pokoleniu historycznym Heleny Radlińskiej
Authors: Żukiewicz Arkadiusz
Published: October 2022

Artykuł powstał w wyniku realizacji badań podjętych na warsztacie poznania historycznego, wpisujących się w tradycję badań społeczno-pedagogicznych zainicjowanych przez Helenę Radlińską – twórczynię polskiej pedagogiki społecznej. Eksplorację źródeł i dokumentów prowadzono w oparciu o społeczno-pedagogiczną metodę analizy historycznej wypracowaną przez Radlińską na bazie jej studiów realizowanych w Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim pod kierunkiem prof. Stanisława Krzyżanowskiego w zakresie historii społecznej (Radlińska 1964: 349–350). Tekst wpisuje się w projekt wydawniczy pt. „Helena Radlińska i jej pokolenie historyczne”. Naświetla praktyczny wymiar zagadnienia „pokolenie historyczne”, stanowiącego zarazem jedną z głównych i źródłowych kategorii polskiej pedagogiki społecznej. Odnosi się w szczególności do transgeneracyjnego przekazu publicystyki Heleny Radlińskiej tworzonej w okresie aktywnej walki o Polskę podczas Wielkiej Wojny 1914–1918.
Wojewódzka Biblioteka Pedagogiczna im. Heleny Radlińskiej w Szczecinie jako instytucja łącząca pokolenia
Authors: Magiera Elżbieta
Published: October 2022

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie patronatu Heleny Radlińskiej nad Biblioteką Pedagogiczną w Szczecinie i jego konsekwencji, które wpisują się w zagadnienie łączenia pokoleń. Geneza biblioteki sięga 1946 roku, ale dopiero w 1976 roku, w czasie obchodów jubileuszu 30-lecia działalności, nadano szczecińskiej bibliotece imię Heleny Radlińskiej. Matką chrzestną biblioteki była studentka i współpracownica Heleny Radlińskiej, Irena Lepalczyk, profesor Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, która uczestniczyła w kolejnych wydarzeniach organizowanych przez bibliotekę, upamiętniających jej patronkę. Artykuł przedstawia genezę biblioteki, przygotowania do uroczystości nadania imienia H. Radlińskiej, przebieg uroczystości, nadesłane telegramy i listy oraz reakcję szczecińskiej prasy codziennej wobec tego wydarzenia. Tekst nawiązuje również do kolejnych wydarzeń: 40-lecia i 50-lecia Biblioteki Pedagogicznej w Szczecinie oraz spotkań z okazji rocznic patronki, stanowiących łącznik pokoleń. Zawiera również odniesienia do stałej wystawy poświęconej Helenie Radlińskiej.
Performance of Green Gram Varieties under Organic Production System
Authors: Lal G. , Lal S. , Chaudhary N. , Choudhary M.K. , Meena S.S. , Kumar N.
Published: October 2022

Background: Indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers causes’ harmful impact on soil, environment and human being, hence demand of organic food products has shot up recently. Organic farming aims to optimization of crop productivity rather than its maximization through renewal and strengthening of ecological processes and functions of whole ecosystem. Limited varieties information is available on long term performance of pulse crop varieties under organic cultivation system so far. Therefore, this experiment was conducted to investigate the growth and yield performance of green gram varieties under organic production system. Methods: Eight varieties of green gram were studied under organic production system. Experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications. The recommended dose of nutrients for green gram is 15:40:00 kg ha-1 and manures were applied on nitrogen equivalent basis through organic sources. The observations on growth and yield parameters of green gram were recorded at the time of harvesting. Soil and plant samples were collected at time of harvest and analyzed for available nutrients in soil and nutrient content in seed samples. Result: The maximum plant height at harvest (62.47cm), number of primary branches per plant (5.18), number of pods per plant (27.27), number of seeds per pod (11.27) with highest seed yield (809.80 kg ha-1) exhibited by variety MUM-2 followed by RMG-975 (802.47 kg ha-1) and lowest seed yield (617.80 kg ha-1) was found in the variety MSG-118. MUM-2 variety recorded highest plant nutrient status as compared to other varieties. Among eight varieties of green gram MUM-2 and RMG-975 found better for organic farming in terms of growth, seed yield and quality aspects.
Effects of Different Bio-fertilizer Treatments on the Growth and Quality of Alfalfa
Authors: Liu Zhen , Li Zichao , Wei Shaochong , Yang Pengyuan , Liu Guixia
Published: October 2022

Background: Alfalfa has small seeds and is intolerant to deep-sowing. We investigated seed emergence of alfalfa variety “Longmu 801” from deep-sowing and its quality improvement through different bio-fertilizer treatments. Methods: Seven fertilization treatments were tested: CK: no fertilization (control), A: amino acid fertilizer, B: amino acid fertilizer + selenium-rich yeast fertilizer diluent, C: amino acid fertilizer + selenium-rich yeast fertilizer dilution + microbial agent, D: amino acid fertilizer + algae extract, E: amino acid fertilizer + microbial agent and F: amino acid fertilizer + selenium-rich yeast fertilizer diluent + microbial agent + algae extract. Result: The bio-fertilizer treatments improved the alfalfa seedling emergence, growth and quality. Treatment E increased the emergence rate, plant height and yield by 10.6%, 41.0% and 68.9%, respectively; decreased the stem-leaf ratio, neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber by 41.7%, 3.7% and 3.17%, respectively and increased crude protein, crude fat and relative feeding value by 2.5%, 0.5% and 8.6%, respectively; compared with that of the control. Soaking alfalfa seeds in 0.2% amino acid fertilizer and applying 13.5 g microbial agent was suggested as the most efficient fertilization technique to promote alfalfa emergence, growth and quality and provide profits to farmers due to its low cost.
Integration of life skills into basic student basketball training program for positive youth development
Authors: Suardika I Kadek , Ma'mun Amung , Kusmaedi Nurlan , Budiana Dian , Mile Sarjan , Purnomo Eko
Published: October 2022

Sports is an excellent way to increase many important values in life (including developing positive youth). This study aims to improve and develop positive youth development through the life skills programme that has been prepared. This study uses a quantitative method with a pre-test–post-test control group design approach. In this study, the researcher used a sampling technique, namely purposive sampling, with a total of 30 students aged 11–12 years. Then, the group was divided into three, namely (1) groups with basketball practice and integrated with life skills; (2) groups with basketball practice but not integrated with life skills; and (3) groups without basketball practice and also without integrating life skills. The test instrument uses the Life Skills for Sport Scale. The results of the study show that group A is better than groups B and C. These results have implications for the trainers to be able to incorporate life skills into the programme designed.
 
Keywords: Student, basketball, training, life skills, positive youth development
Impacts of formative evaluation model towards improving students’ learning outcomes in online teaching platforms
Authors: Winarno Sri , Rohmani Asih , Senata Denny , Andono Pulung Nurtantio
Published: October 2022

Education is one of the areas that was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the current situation, lecturers must have the ability to use the appropriate approach in the teaching and learning process. The majority of universities have used online teaching platforms in the teaching and learning process. However, Lecturers have many obstacles in the learning process. One of them is that the lecturer does not know the online-based evaluation platforms. This situation has decreased students’ knowledge. Therefore, innovation of the learning evaluation model is imperative to development. This study discusses the impacts of the Formative Evaluation Model (FEM) in improving students' learning outcomes. FEM is applied in KULINO as a Learning Management System (LMS). A total of 120 students and 2 lecturers were involved in this research. Using two learning approaches; one group used the summative evaluation model while the latter group used the FEM evaluation model. Questionnaires about students’ perceptions were distributed before and after the experimental learning process. There were differences in the mean scores between pre and post-test. The mean score of students’ attitude increased by 6.74 points and students’ knowledge mean score increased by 2.23 points.

 

 Keywords- Education, Formative evaluation model, Learning management system
Students’ response to the implementation of brain-based learning (the BBL) approach in history teaching
Authors: Darmawan Wawan , Fauzi Wildan Insan , Santosa Ayi Budi , Nisa Jakiatin
Published: October 2022

This study focuses on how students respond to brain-based learning (the BBL) in History teaching to enhance cognitive, social, reflective, emotional, and physical aspects. The study used a survey-based approach and collected data  through questionnaires, interviews, and two-month observations of three participating schools.  Findings indicate that the teaching-learning process using  the BBL approach helps educators understand students’ different characteristics and build a conducive classroom atmosphere that facilitates cooperation, historical reflection, as well as historical fact memorizing skills. However, it appears that this approach has not  addressed students’ emotional intelligence, historical empathy, and stress management. Findings show that the students were still anxious when facing a History test involving a vast amount of data that required them to memorize facts even though they had been provided with  training on different memorizing techniques.  In addition, the students were not guided to express their feelings about a  particular historical phenomenon.         

 

Keywords: brain, history, learning, memorizing, textbook.
Linguistic Identity Construal of Spanish Youth: ‘The Media Network Has Its Idols, But Its Principal Idol is Its Own Style Which Generates an Aura of Winning and Leaves the Rest in Darkness’
Authors: Gogrichiani Tamara Guliashvili
Published: October 2022

The present investigation attempts to verify why and through what via the contact with English insertions in Spanish discourse changes the speech style and construes the linguistic identity of Spanish youth, even if they hardly speak English. In order to throw light on the above-mentioned hypothesis, Allan Bell’s (1977, 1984, 1991, 1997, 2001) Audience Design Theory was combined with an Attitudinal Experiment in which 250 students participated from Madrid Complutense University and Castilla la Mancha University. The students were asked to listen to two different recordings of females reading almost the same text, the difference being that one text contained English insertions and the other did not. As the culmination the experiment participants did the specially designed Likert Test. According to the results the following conclusions were reached: (i) The majority of the Attitudinal Experiment participants, the “new generation of Digital Natives” (Prensky 2001), accept that mass media is the major factor that influence their speech style; (ii) Spanish youth use English insertions in their Spanish discourse because they perceive someone who does as being young, modern, a cosmopolitan, a Spanish-English bilingual and someone trendy; (iii) Spanish youngsters use English insertions without being Spanish-English bilinguals; (iv) for the Attitudinal Experiment participants neither a particular speech style nor a sweet type of vice can measure cleverness of a speaker; (v) for the Attitudinal Experiment participants a sweet type of voice together with a particular speech style does matter.
Lentes de contacto
Authors: García Ramírez Sergio Mario
Published: October 2022

Este trabajo se orientó como texto de guía y estudio para los estudiantes que se inician en el arte de la adaptación de lentes de contacto. Este manual sencillo, busca facilitar el manejo de los lentes de contacto, para que el estudiante pueda calcular las características del lente de acuerdo a las necesidades del paciente. Este manual es una guía sencilla y fácil en la adaptación de lentes rígidos permeables al gas y blandos.
Fostering a Democratic Culture: Lessons for the Eastern Neighbourhood
Authors: Haider Huma
Published: October 2022

Political culture is the values, beliefs, and emotions that members of a society express about the political regime and their role in it (Pickering, 2022, p. 5). Norms, values, attitudes and practices considered integral to a “culture of democracy”, according to the Council of Europe, include: a commitment to public deliberation, discussion, and the free expression of opinions; a commitment to electoral rules; the rule of law; and the protection of minority rights; peaceful conflict resolution. The consolidation of democracy involves not only institutional change, but also instilling a democratic culture in a society (Balčytienė, 2021). Research on democratic consolidation in various countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) finds that a key impediment to consolidation is the persistence of old, authoritarian political culture that undermines political and civic participation. This rapid review looks at aspects of democratic culture and potential ways to foster it, focusing on educational initiatives and opportunities for civic action — which comprise much of the literature on developing the values, attitudes and behaviours of democracy. Discussion on the strengthening of democratic institutions or assistance to electoral processes is outside the scope of the report.
China’s Preferential Trading Schemes for Developing Countries
Authors: Avis William
Published: October 2022

This literature review collates available evidence on China’s preferential trading schemes for developing countries. It draws on a diverse range of sources from multiple academic disciplines and grey literature. The review focuses explicitly on that literature that discusses preferential trade agreements as a specific form of free trade agreements. The review acknowledges that impacts are multidimensional and multifaceted and will be reflected differently across sectors and countries making conclusions hard to reach. One of the most important elements of many countries trade policy since the turn of the century has been the rapid growth of various forms of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). There are different definitions of PTAs, some include regional trade agreements as a form of PTA i.e. where a country gives preferential trade to your regional partners - this is not always true and WTO does not define RTAs as PTA. A preferential trade area established via a preferential trade agreement is a trading bloc that gives preferential access to certain products from participating countries. This is accomplished by reducing trade tariffs and is considered a first stage of economic integration.
Evaluating External Government Audit
Authors: Khan Mahreen
Published: October 2022

This rapid literature review of primary and grey sources found substantial evidence of the merits of donor support to Public Financial Management (PFM) initiatives but no specific evidence assessing donor support for external government audit, such as Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs). PFM reforms are established as being generally beneficial, assist in reducing or preventing corruption, increasing transparency and accountability, as well as improving service delivery quality, although the exact impacts are difficult to measure. Performance auditing has recently attracted more attention than traditional financial or compliance auditing and is seen by many sources to be conducive to improving accountability, although compliance and financial auditing are still viewed as the core of external audit. There is a substantial body of literature on donor-assisted PFM reforms but a paucity of focused study or discussion of donor support to external audit specifically. This evidence gap may be due to the cost of examining the narrow focus required on donor-assisted external audit specifically. This is compounded by the complexity of gathering a sufficiently large database through surveys combined with the lack of access (for individual academics) to official datasets across countries. Furthermore, measuring the impact of SAIs, for example, is difficult due to the variety of regulatory structures that exist, inhibiting comparative cross-country studies, which has resulted in a preference for in-depth analyses. Only multilateral institutions have conducted comprehensive cross-country surveys. However, the evidence does show that strengthened PFM systems and SAIs,1 if they are independent and fully resourced, increase transparency and accountability, helping to combat corruption, when governments are made answerable to their audit findings. The evidence on the effectiveness of SAIs (against corruption) is mixed and not as strong as for PFM reforms in general. The impact of PFM interventions in preventing or reducing corruption increases when reforms are sector-specific and complemented by societal awareness initiatives, citizen participation, and infomediary advocacy. This finding seems applicable to SAIs as the discourse is increasingly on improving comprehension of audit reports and wider dissemination to relevant stakeholders.
Youth Councils of the Heads of Local Governments in Leningradskaya Oblast’
Authors: Sungurov Аlexandr , Kukartcev Stanislav , Noskov Mikhail
Published: October 2022

The article is devoted to the analysis of youth councils under the heads of administrations of municipalities of the Leningrad region, both MO–1 (cities and towns) and MO–2 (districts of the Leningrad region). Information about the development, activities and problems of youth councils was obtained through semi-structured expert anonymous interviews, both with activists of these youth councils and with employees of municipalities overseeing their activities. Based on the research materials, we can identify three main options for the real activity of youth councils under the heads of district administrations: Option A – “Club of interested leaders of youth initiatives”, option B – “A communicative platform for dialogue with the interested head of the district”, option C – “A communicative platform without the participation of the head of the district”. An analysis of the development of youth councils in municipalities of the 1st level allows us to conclude that three factors are important conditions for success. The first is the presence in the settlements of at least a small group of young people with some expressed interests. The most frequent interests are sports and modern music. There is also an interest in volunteering, local history, etc. (as a result of the school's efforts). The second factor is the presence of an extensive network of youth policy specialists who will be able to see such young people and see the specifics of their interests in order to help them find themselves. These may be employees of both local administrations and other structures working with young people. And the third factor is the attention to initiative youth from the head of the settlement. The communication factor itself is important, as well as the opportunity to provide some financial support, starting with a room in which young people can meet.
Social Memory of the Youth of the EAEU: Research Results
Authors: Roslavtseva Maria
Published: October 2022

Within the framework of this article, the research team studies the state of social memory of young people in the EAEU member states. The purpose of the presented work is to describe the trends in the development of social memory of young people in the Eurasia in order to maintain productive socio-economic cooperation of the EAEU countries in the future. The hypothesis of the research is: the social memory of the youth of the EAEU countries contains little information about the common past of the countries of this union, and there is also no positive image of the integration association, so the governments of the EAEU countries need to form and implement a number of measures to consolidate the youth of these countries. To test the hypothesis a theoretical review was conducted as well as an empirical study by the method of semistructured interviews. Fifty expert interviews were held with representatives of all EAEU member states and candidate countries for joining the Union. As a result a detailed expert assessment of the development of social memory and its promotion policy was obtained. Authors have highlighted positive and negative trends in the formation of ideas about the common past and the current state of Eurasian integration among the youth of the EAEU. Authors also gave practical recommendations the implementation of which will consolidate the youth of Eurasia and form a positive image of their common past and future. The results of the study can be interesting to the political leadership of the EAEU countries as they highlight the problems of insufficient integration policy of the union. In the future it is of interest to evaluate the implementation of the measures proposed by experts in practice
Demographic Development of the Fergana Valley as a Border Region of Central Asia
Authors: Ryazantsev Sergey , Garibova Farzona
Published: October 2022

The aim of the study – to analyze the demographic development of the Ferghana Valley and the socio-economic consequences. The methodology of the study. The study used statistical and analytical methods. The data of the Agency on Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics and the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic were analyzed. Research result. The Ferghana Valley is located in the Central Asia region with a length of about 300 km, where about 16 million people live in 2020. About a third of the population of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and about half of the population of Kyrgyzstan live in the valley. On average, this is more than 200 people per 1 square kilometer, which is comparable to the most densely populated areas of India and China. In general, the statistical data used and the analysis of the work in the study become a source of theoretical conclusions and ensure the reliability of the results obtained. The analysis showed that the Ferghana Valley is characterized by a high natural population growth. The share of the rural population in the region is more than 50% and there is a migration of the rural population to the cities. The population in the region, the ethnic composition of the population and migration processes are determined. The Fergana Valley is characterized by a high level of labor migration to the CIS countries and Russia. This study made it possible to determine the main trends in the demographic development of the Fergana Valley and their socio-economic consequences. We see prospects for further research of the problem in a more detailed study of the demographic development of the Ferghana Valley.
Humor gráfico y estereotipos de género en redes sociales
Authors: Amezquita Bautista Leidy Carolina , Cárdenas Hernández Camila Brigitte , Castro Morales Juliet Carolina , Molina Lozano Viviana Alejandra
Published: October 2022

La presente investigación de alcance exploratorio, se realizó bajo el marco de la psicología social y el marco paradigmático y epistemológico del construccionismo crítico, cuyo objetivo se orienta a comprender la relación del humor gráfico sobre la identidad y el bienestar subjetivo de mujeres usuarias de Facebook e Instagram de diferentes países de habla hispana. El objetivo se logra siguiendo un diseño metodológico cualitativo orientado por la netnografía, el análisis de contenido y el Análisis Crítico del Discurso (ahora en adelante ACD), técnicas que se ajustaron y diseñaron para suplir las necesidades de la investigación y los objetivos específicos de la misma. En un principio, se evidencia cómo la mujer está siendo representada a través de las piezas de humor gráfico publicadas en dichas redes sociales, perpetuando estereotipos sociales y de género socialmente aceptados, poniéndola en desventaja frente al género masculino o cuya representación es la de un objeto sexual, incidiendo en su bienestar subjetivo y construcción identitaria; por otro lado, se evidencia cómo el mismo humor gráfico se ha consolidado como medio de expresión para ellas, como discurso de resistencia y una forma de hacer denuncia al presentar contranarrativas y fortalecer la sororidad femenina; resultados que permitieron aportar y ratificar lo expuesto por la mayoría de investigaciones en la línea de estudios de género, pero esta vez desde la psicología.