bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
On the investigation of fractional coupled nonlinear integrable dynamical system: Dynamics of soliton solutions
Authors: Muhammad Jan , Younas Usman , Rezazadeh Hadi , Hosseinzadeh Mohammad Ali , Salahshour Soheil
Published: May 2024

The primary focus of this paper is the investigation of the truncated M fractional Kuralay equation, which finds applicability in various domains such as engineering, nonlinear optics, ferromagnetic materials, signal processing, and optical fibers. As a result of its capacity to elucidate a vast array of complex physical phenomena and unveil more dynamic structures of localized wave solutions, the Kuralay equation has received considerable interest in the scientific community. To extract the solutions, the recently developed integration method, referred to as the modified generalized Riccati equation mapping (mGREM) approach, is utilized as the solving tool. Multiple types of optical solitons, including mixed, dark, singular, bright-dark, bright, complex, and combined solitons, are extracted. Furthermore, solutions that are periodic, hyperbolic, and exponential are produced. To acquire a valuable understanding of the solution dynamics, the research employs numerical simulations to examine and investigate the exact soliton solutions. Graphs in both two and three dimensions are presented. The graphical representations offer significant insights into the patterns of voltage propagation within the system. The aforementioned results make a valuable addition to the current body of knowledge and lay the groundwork for future inquiries in the domain of nonlinear sciences. The efficacy of the modified GREM method in generating a wide range of traveling wave solutions for the coupled Kuralay equation is illustrated in this study.
Decentralized edge computing approach for secure and efficient preservation of short-term electronic forensic evidence through consensus
Authors: He Shan
Published: May 2024

With the burgeoning prevalence of edge computing, there has been a significant surge in the utilization of content caching across the digital landscape, significantly streamlining and expediting short-term electronic forensic operations. This study pioneers an innovative caching model tailored specifically for short-lived electronic forensic evidence within edge computing environments. The novel framework integrates blockchain technology to ensure the secure storage of evidentiary data, bolstered by an advanced consensus mechanism rooted in the MerkleTree architecture. This design safeguards the consistency and immutability of stored information. By decentralizing the process, this approach empowers real-time, on-the-edge electronic forensic investigations, effectively mitigating any risk of tampering from all parties involved, such as forensic examiners, cloud service providers, and end-users. Empirical findings robustly substantiate the efficacy of this proposed model in safeguarding and maintaining the fidelity of electronic evidence records, thus guaranteeing both the integrity and promptness of forensic materials. This groundbreaking solution sets a new standard for trustworthy and expedient handling of digital forensics at the edge of networks.
Zyryanka Basin Composite Tectono-Sedimentary Element, northeastern Asia
Authors: Ershova Victoria B. , Prokopiev Andrei V. , Drachev Sergey S. , Shimanskiy Sergey V.
Published: May 2024

The Zyryanka Composite Tectono-Sedimentary Element is located in NE Asia. It consists of a synonymous sedimentary basin that is one of the least studied onshore basins in NE Asia due to its remoteness and the scarcity of wells and geophysical data. The basin evolved through four episodes of subsidence and two episodes of contraction. The Late Jurassic–Late Cretaceous subsidence is inferred to be caused by tectonic loading during contraction events within the Verkhoyansk–Kolyma Orogen, which led to the deposition of up to 10 km of predominantly continental siliciclastic strata. In the Cenozoic, the basin evolved in a post-orogenic intracontinental setting and accumulated a 2–3 km-thick succession of continental siliciclastic strata. In the Oligocene–Mid-Miocene, the basin evolved in a contractional setting, caused by a convergence between the Eurasian and North American lithospheric plates, and underwent a contractional deformation in the Middle Miocene. We recognize four individual tectono-sedimentary elements that are related to different stages of the basin's evolution. The basin contains significant coal resources. It was also considered a potential prospective area for the formation of hydrocarbon accumulations, especially in its Upper Jurassic–Cretaceous strata; however, drilled wells did not encounter any oil- or gas-bearing reservoirs.
OptimML: Joint Control of Inference Latency and Server Power Consumption for ML Performance Optimization
Authors: Chen Guoyu , Wang Xiaorui
Published: May 2024

Power capping is an important technique for high-density servers to safely oversubscribe the power infrastructure in a data center. However, power capping is commonly accomplished by dynamically lowering the server processors’ frequency levels, which can result in degraded application performance. For servers that run important machine learning (ML) applications with Service-Level Objective (SLO) requirements, inference performance such as recognition accuracy must be optimized within a certain latency constraint, which demands high server performance. In order to achieve the best inference accuracy under the desired latency and server power constraints, this paper proposes OptimML, a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) control framework that jointly controls both inference latency and server power consumption, by flexibly adjusting the machine learning model size (and so its required computing resources) when server frequency needs to be lowered for power capping. Our results on a hardware testbed with widely adopted ML framework (including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and MXNet) show that OptimML achieves higher inference accuracy compared with several well-designed baselines, while respecting both latency and power constraints. Furthermore, an adaptive control scheme with online model switching and estimation is designed to achieve analytic assurance of control accuracy and system stability, even in the face of significant workload/hardware variations.
Exploration of Speech and Music Information for Movie Genre Classification
Authors: Bhattacharjee Mrinmoy , S. R. Prasanna Mahadeva , Guha Prithwijit
Published: May 2024

Movie genre prediction from trailers is mostly attempted in a multi-modal manner. However, the characteristics of movie trailer audio indicate that this modality alone might be highly effective in genre prediction. Movie trailer audio predominantly consists of speech and music signals in isolation or overlapping conditions. This work hypothesizes that the genre labels of movie trailers might relate to the composition of their audio component. In this regard, speech-music confidence sequences for the trailer audio are used as a feature. In addition, two other features previously proposed for discriminating speech-music are also adopted in the current task. This work proposes a time and channel Attention Convolutional Neural Network (ACNN) classifier for the genre classification task. The convolutional layers in ACNN learn the spatial relationships in the input features. The time and channel attention layers learn to focus on crucial timesteps and CNN kernel outputs, respectively. The Moviescope dataset is used to perform the experiments, and two audio-based baseline methods are employed to benchmark this work. The proposed feature set with the ACNN classifier improves the genre classification performance over the baselines. Moreover, decent generalization performance is obtained for genre prediction of movies with different cultural influences (EmoGDB).
Evaluating GPT-4V (GPT-4 with Vision) on Detection of Radiologic Findings on Chest Radiographs
Authors: Zhou Yiliang , Ong Hanley , Kennedy Patrick , Wu Carol C. , Kazam Jacob , Hentel Keith , Flanders Adam , Shih George , Peng Yifan
Published: May 2024

This study examined the application of GPT-4 with vision (GPT-4V), a multimodal large language model with visual recognition, in detecting radiologic findings from a set of 100 chest radiographs and suggests that GPT-4V is currently not ready for real-world diagnostic usage in interpreting chest radiographs.
Effect of knocking out mouse Slc44a4 on colonic uptake of the microbiota-generated thiamine pyrophosphate and colon physiology
Authors: Sabui Subrata , Anthonymuthu Selvaraj , Ramamoorthy Kalidas , Skupsky Jonathan , Jennings Tara Sinta Kartika , Rahmatpanah Farah , Fleckenstein James M. , Said Hamid M.
Published: May 2024

This study shows that Slc44a4 is the predominant or only transport system involved in the uptake of the gut microbiota-generated thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) in the colon and that its deletion affects colon physiology and increases its susceptibility to inflammation.
Cholesterol uptake in the intestine is regulated by the LASP1-AKT-NPC1L1 signaling pathway
Authors: Butt Elke , Günder Thorsten , Stürzebecher Paulina , Kowalski Isabel , Schneider Pia , Buschmann Nils , Schäfer Sarah , Bender Alicia , Hermanns Heike M. , Zernecke Alma
Published: May 2024

We here uncovered LASP1 as a novel regulator of the shuttling of the sterol transporter NPC1L1 to the cell surface in enterocytes to control cholesterol absorption. Accordingly, LASP1-deficient mice displayed lowered serum cholesterol levels under dietary cholesterol supplementation.
Detection of Biofilm Production and Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern among Clinically Isolated Staphylococcus aureus
Authors: Pokhrel Sushant , Sharma Namrata , Aryal Suraj , Khadka Rachita , Thapa Tika Bahadur , Pandey Pawan , Joshi Govardhan
Published: May 2024

Aim. The increasing antibiotic resistance and the ability to form biofilms in medical devices have become the leading cause of severe infections associated with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). Since the bacteria living in biofilms can exhibit 10- to 1,000-fold increase in antibiotic resistance and implicate chronic infectious diseases, the detection of S. aureus ability to form biofilms is of great importance for managing, minimizing, and effectively treating infections caused by it. This study aimed to compare the tube and tissue culture methods to detect biofilm production and antibiotic susceptibility in MRSA and MSSA. Materials and Methods. The S. aureus isolates were identified by the examination of the colony morphology, Gram staining, and various biochemical tests. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of all isolates was performed by the modified Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method as recommended by CLSI guidelines. MRSA screening was performed phenotypically using a cefoxitin disc (30 µg). Isolates were tested for inducible resistance using the D-test, and two phenotypic methods detected biofilm formation. Results. Among 982 nonrepeated clinical specimens, S. aureus was isolated from 103 (10.48%). Among 103 clinical isolates of S. aureus, 54 (52.42%) isolates were MRSA, and 49 (47.57%) were MSSA. Among 54 MRSA isolates, the inducible MLSB phenotype was observed in 23/54 (42.59%) with a positive D-test. By TCP method, 26 (48.1%) MRSA isolates were strong biofilm producers, whereas, among all MSSA isolates, only 6 (12.2%) were strong biofilm producers. Conclusion. MRSA showed strong biofilm production in comparison with MSSA. The TCP method is a recommended reliable method to detect the biofilm among S. aureus isolates, and the TM method could be useful for the screening of biofilm production in S. aureus in the routine clinical laboratory.
The Effect of Oral Gabapentin and Pregabalin as a Prodrug in Pain Control after Orthopedic Surgery on the Upper Limb: A Double-Blind Parallel Randomized Clinical Trial Study
Authors: Nouri Lida , Roshanfekr Rana , Biderafsh Azam , Pakzad Reza , Azadi Hamed
Published: May 2024

Objective. To compare the effects of oral gabapentin (GBP) and pregabalin (PGB) in pain control after orthopedic surgery on the upper limb. Methods. In this double-blind randomized clinical trial study, 80 patients who were the candidates for elective orthopedic surgery on one of the parts of the upper limb were divided into two groups using balance-block randomization. For the first group, a 150 mg capsule of PGB (one hour before the surgery) and for the second group, a 300 mg capsule of GBP (two hours before the surgery) were prescribed. Patients were subjected to standard monitoring at the beginning and during surgery. The pain scores were evaluated at before surgery, in PACU (postanesthesia care unit), and 6 and 12 hours after the surgery by VAS (visual analog scale). Results. In this study, 37 subjects were allocated to each group. The participation rate was 92.5%. The mean with 95% confidence interval (CI) of pain scores over 4 times in the PGB group was 4.03 (3.25–4.79), 3.76 (3.02–4.49), 3.65 (3.06–4.23), and 3.41 (2.88–3.93) and in the GBP group was 4.08 (3.33–4.83), 2.78 (2.11–4.45), 2.3 (2.05–2.54), and 2 (1.51–2.50), respectively. The within-group comparisons showed a significant decrease in the pain score over time (P<0.001). Also, the between-group comparison showed significant differences between the two groups in terms of pain score (P<0.001). In the end, results showed that there is a significant interaction between time and intervention for pain score (P=0.042). Conclusion. Although two medicines led to a reduction in the pain score, but the rate reduction in the PGB group was significantly more than that in the GBP group. This trial is registered with IRCT20211013052759N1.
Parentage Determination of Chinese Hooksnout Carp (Opsariichthys bidens) Based on Microsatellite DNA Markers
Authors: Ge Jianhui , Xu Xiaojun , Ren Jindong , Shen Xiaoming , Yu Jin , Lou Bao
Published: May 2024

In this study, a panel of 14 microsatellite markers was screened to determine the parentage of 144 progenies in 12 Chinese hooksnout carp (Opsariichthys bidens) full‐sib families. The combined exclusion probabilities for 14 loci were 97.6% and 99.9%, respectively, when there was no available parent information or only one parent information was provided. Simulation analysis demonstrated that the power of five loci to exclude false parents exceeded 99.0%, while that of eight loci reached 99.9% based on allele frequency data obtained from full‐sib families (168 individuals). Moreover, the cumulative assignment success rate reached 100% with known parental and filial information when utilizing 13 or more loci, even in cases where no parent information was available. The results showed that this set of microsatellite markers proved to be a reliable and efficient tool for parentage determination of O. bidens.
cuidado no remunerado, ese trabajo invisibilizado que sustenta la vida y que es capaz de poner en jaque nuestro futuro
Authors: Fernández Marín Ana María
Published: May 2024

Uno no de los principales desafíos estructurales que presenta nuestro mercado laboral es la baja participación de las mujeres chilenas en este espacio público de la producción. (seguir leyendo...)
¿Cambio o fetichismo tecnológico? Notas sobre el alcance y el impacto de los procesos de digitalización en la industria del auto en Argentina
Authors: Atzeni Maurizio
Published: May 2024

Los debates sobre el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en el mundo del trabajo y sobre la relación maquinas/humanos que los acompaña, como en el caso de la inteligencia artificial y/o de dispositivos digitales que aumentan la productividad del trabajo y facilitan la eliminación de puestos de trabajo, tienden a presentar estos cambios como tendencias lineares, como eventos que ocurren y hay que darle una respuesta para estar ‘al paso con los tiempos’. (seguir leyendo...)
Consumo Responsable para una Economía Circular en Chile en el marco de la Ley REP: El Caso de Envases y Embalajes
Authors: Guesalaga Rodrigo
Published: May 2024

Uno de los grandes desafíos que tenemos como sociedad y como planeta es contribuir a un desarrollo sostenible, en que las necesidades presentes sean satisfechas sin comprometer las posibilidades de que las futuras generaciones satisfagan las suyas.(seguir leyendo...)
TABLE 2 from Stay on Track: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial on the Feasibility of a Diet and Exercise Intervention in Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Radiotherapy
Authors: SenthilKumar Gopika , Schottstaedt Aronne M. , Peterson Lindsay L. , Pedersen Lauren N. , Chitambar Christopher R. , Vistocky Alexis , Banerjee Anjishnu , Longo John M. , Kelly Tracy , Currey Adam , Stolley Melinda R. , Bergom Carmen
Published: May 2024

QoL measures and patient-reported physical activity at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months
The Prognostic Value of Perioperative Platelet and Leukocyte Values in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy: A Prospective Long-Term Cohort Study
Authors: Pyrgidis Nikolaos , Schulz Gerald B. , Volz Yannic , Ebner Benedikt , Rodler Severin , Westhofen Thilo , Eismann Lennert , Marcon Julian , Stief Christian G. , Jokisch Friedrich
Published: May 2024

Introduction: Studies assessing the impact of preoperative and first-day postoperative values of leukocytes, thrombocytes, and platelet/leukocyte ratio (PLR) after radical cystectomy (RC) are sparse. We aimed to assess the impact of these factors on long-term survival after RC. Methods: An analysis of patients undergoing open RC from 2004 to 2023 at our center was performed. Leukocytosis was defined as ≥8,000 leukocytes/μL and thrombocytosis as ≥400,000 thrombocytes/μL. Similarly, the cutoff for PLR was set at 28. A multivariable Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the role of leukocytosis, thrombocytosis, and PLR on long-term survival after RC. For all analyses, hazard ratios (HRs) with the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated. Results: A total of 1,817 patients with a median age of 70 years (interquartile range [IQR]: 62–77) were included. Overall, 804 (44%), 175 (10%), and 1,296 (71%) patients presented with leukocytosis, thrombocytosis, and PLR ≥28 preoperatively. Accordingly, 1,414 (78%), 37 (2%), and 249 (14%) patients presented with leukocytosis, thrombocytosis, and PLR ≥28 on the first day after RC. At a median follow-up of 26 months (IQR: 8–68) after RC, 896 (49%) patients died. In the multivariate Cox regression analysis after adjusting for major perioperative risk factors, only preoperative leukocytosis (HR: 1.3, 95% CI: 1.1–1.6, p = 0.01), as well as both preoperative and first-day thrombocytosis (HR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.5–2.9, and HR: 2.8, 95% CI: 1.6–5.1, p < 0.001, accordingly) were associated with worse overall survival. Conclusion: PLR should not be used as a prognostic marker for survival after RC. On the contrary, preoperative leukocytosis, as well as preoperative and first-day thrombocytosis should raise awareness among clinicians performing RC since they were independently associated with worse survival after RC.
Bailes da vida: a positivação da vida na cena artística contemporânea de hiv/aids
Authors: Fontes Ramon Victor Belmonte
Published: May 2024

Este artículo hace una lectura crítica de las performances de dos artistas que viven con vih/sida: Franco Fonseca (Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil) y Maria Sil (São Paulo). A partir del concepto de ikupolítica, se destaca cómo estas obras de arte contemporáneo han reinterpretado imágenes de dolor y muerte, que se desarrollaron a lo largo de cuatro décadas de epidemia de vih/sida en territorio brasileño. Se sostiene que este giro discursivo apunta al reposicionamiento de imágenes e imaginarios sobre la epidemia, a un enfrentamiento directo contra el estigma y la serofobia, además de una visión positiva de los significados de vivir con vih/sida en la cuarta década de la epidemia, nuestro tiempo.
Origem e trajetória do Plano Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático e a relação com o desenvolvimento de formação de leitores
Authors: Chung Marques Corrêa Cintia , Gonçalves Doro Fernanda
Published: May 2024

O presente texto tem por objetivo mostrar a trajetória do Plano Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático (PNLD), desde sua origem ao atual formato, ressaltando a sua importância para o trabalho de incentivo à leitura e formação de leitores desenvolvido nas escolas de todo o Brasil. A fim de contextualizar o surgimento dos programas voltados para a leitura, buscou-se descrever as principais políticas relacionadas ao tema que permearam o cenário educacional brasileiro desde a Proclamação da República, em 1889, até a consolidação do PNLD. Assim, recorreu-se à diversas fontes de dados como textos e pesquisas e os sites oficiais do governo federal para que se pudesse desenhar os contornos dessas políticas, buscando mostrar a importância dessas para a constituição do sistema atual de educação. Ao final, concluiu-se que, cabe ao poder público, dar continuidade ao programa de seleção e distribuição de livros didáticos e literários; à escola, o desenvolvimento de um trabalho voltado para a interação com as obras; e à sociedade, a valorização da cultura escrita, que se dará a partir das ações citadas anteriormente.
A egiptomania e o orientalismo de D. Pedro II por seu retrato e diários egípcios
Authors: Paschoal Nina Ingrid Caputo
Published: May 2024

Discutiremos os conceitos de egiptomania e orientalismo e como eles se adequam à figura e aos interesses de d. Pedro II. Para isso, serão mobilizados dois tipos de fontes: os diários de viagem e uma fotografia do imperador, ambos realizados em suas viagens ao Egito. Pelo emprego da análise do discurso, demonstraremos como as informações anotadas podem ser repositórios para a verificação dos dois fenômenos. Já a partir da fotografia, faremos a análise iconográfica e iconológica, tangenciando também a chegada da técnica ao Brasil, seu uso pelo monarca e, ainda, a forma pela qual ele se utilizou da imagem do Egito para construção de sua própria e na projeção de seu ideário político.
Desenhando e apagando América nas textualidades da antropofagia
Authors: Almeida Maria Cândida Ferreira de
Published: May 2024

Este artigo parte do momento em que, a través de navegações europeias, se fixaram textual e visualmente as fronteiras imaginárias e reais do que seria considerado Brasil, para identificar como uma imagem específica — a mulher nua — se tornou índice do povo brasileiro. Retomo o ritual antropofágico como textualidade estruturadora desta configuração inicial, apontando que a ênfases dada a esta expressão cultural aparecerá na iconografia desde o século XVI e o conteúdo destas narrativas visuais fixará uma imagem em especial: A antropofagia como valor diferenciador dos brasileiros.
Europe is not a country: da Europa às europas nos estúdios literário
Authors: Bucaioni Marco
Published: May 2024

“Africa is not a Country” is a slogan that opposes reducing the African reality to an overly simplistic narration. Starting from the concept of Orientalism and its homonymous work from Said, I will try to tackle instances that tend to flatten the European reality into the exclusive perception of the colonial legacy. I want to reflect on the borders of the “abyssal line,” showing how Chakrabarty's discourse on provincializing Europe cannot be completed until we abandon this monolithic vision and manage to re-think Europe as europes, uncapitalized and in the plural form, to embrace the whole declination of European possibilities and taking off epistemic privileges from this area of the world and gaining a cultural province of the world-literary landscape.
A jornada do discurso missionário: da polêmica religiosa à curiosidade intelectual
Authors: Bernabé Renata Cabral
Published: May 2024

In the context of European expansion during the 16th century, the evangelization of peoples labeled as pagans occupied a central role. The missionaries did not take long to realize that the evangelization of these populations could only advance if carried out in a negotiated manner. With this in mind, the missionaries, especially the Jesuits, devoted themselves to studying the languages and customs of the peoples they sought to evangelize. Using the example of the Jesuit experience in Japan, I will discuss the way the missionary reports about the "religion" of pagan populations, as the authors called it, propelled an unprecedented intellectual curiosity in Europe.
A questão do reconhecimento: Fanon e a dialética hegeliana
Authors: Silva Paulo César Andrade da
Published: May 2024

Partindo do plano das atividades da “Década Internacional de Afrodescendentes”, proclamada pela Assembleia Geral da ONU (2015 a 2024), este artigo propõe refletir sobre o reconhecimento do sujeito colonial em duas dimensões: a) a negação do homem negro encenada na poesia de Cruz e Souza e Oswaldo de Camargo; b) o diálogo que Frantz Fanon estabelece com Hegel. Fanon adverte que o homem negro está fora do processo da história, porque é apresentado dentro do circuito fechado da consciência-de-si ou “em-si” e jamais como o estágio da consciência crítica de um “ser-para-si”, pois não lhe é dada a reciprocidade do reconhecimento.
Humanizar os legados feridos do passado colonial: o dever de pós-memória em Estranha Guerra de Uso Comum
Authors: Khan Sheila
Published: May 2024

This work seeks to reflect on the wounded legacies of colonialism from a post     memory perspective, that is, under the sign of an urgency to understand, humanize, and universalize the evils that resulted from the Portuguese experience in      colonized African territories, namely, with regard to the traumas, silences      and scars created by this overseas experience. To erase the past is, in the light of this pretense, a mistake. Therefore, the merit of this emerging paradigm of the study of memory highlights the historical will of a generation that, due to family proximity, seeks through      processes of recognition and compassion to bring to the place of sorrow a more positive, understanding      and fraternal light.
Acute Stress Effects on Statistical Learning and Episodic Memory
Authors: Sherman Brynn E. , Huang Isabella , Wijaya Elaine G. , Turk-Browne Nicholas B. , Goldfarb Elizabeth V.
Published: May 2024

Stress is widely considered to negatively impact hippocampal function, thus impairing episodic memory. However, the hippocampus is not merely the seat of episodic memory. Rather, it also (via distinct circuitry) supports statistical learning. On the basis of rodent work suggesting that stress may impair the hippocampal pathway involved in episodic memory while sparing or enhancing the pathway involved in statistical learning, we developed a behavioral experiment to investigate the effects of acute stress on both episodic memory and statistical learning in humans. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: stress (socially evaluated cold pressor) immediately before learning, stress ∼15 min before learning, or no stress. In the learning task, participants viewed a series of trial-unique scenes (allowing for episodic encoding of each image) in which certain scene categories reliably followed one another (allowing for statistical learning of associations between paired categories). Memory was assessed 24 hr later to isolate stress effects on encoding/learning rather than retrieval. We found modest support for our hypothesis that acute stress can amplify statistical learning: Only participants stressed ∼15 min in advance exhibited reliable evidence of learning across multiple measures. Furthermore, stress-induced cortisol levels predicted statistical learning retention 24 hr later. In contrast, episodic memory did not differ by stress condition, although we did find preliminary evidence that acute stress promoted memory for statistically predictable information and attenuated competition between statistical and episodic encoding. Together, these findings provide initial insights into how stress may differentially modulate learning processes within the hippocampus.
Subjective Criteria for the Preference of Profession and Work in Senior Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Authors: Emelin Vadim A. , Rasskazova Elena I. , Tkhostov Aleksandr Sh.
Published: May 2024

Background. The present article addresses the criteria for choosing a profession and work among modern adolescents and young adults in the changing and transient world. It sets the ideals of professions that illusorily seem to be accessible, easy, well-paid, and interesting at the same time. Objective. The present study aims at identifying subjective criteria of the preference for occupation and work in senior adolescents and young adults and their relationship with personality traits, values, user activity, and subjective well-being. Study Participants. 172 subjects, 54 students of 8–11 grades at the age from 13 to 16 and 118 students of Moscow universities at the age from 17 to 23, including 103 males (59.9%) and 69 females (40.1%). Methods. The respondents fill in the scale of subjective criteria for job preference, the Ten Item Personality Measure, the Portrait Values Questionnaire and techniques for assessing subjective well-being and user activity. The answer the questions about the possibility and intention to combine several criteria of career and job choice. Results. The scale of the subjective criteria for job preference is a reliable, factor- and content-valid screening instrument assessing the importance of payment, interest, convenience, prospect, usefulness to others, ease, difficulty, and image in the work. In choosing a profession and job, both high school and college students focus on a wide range of criteria. Conscientiousness is associated with the preference for a well-paid, promising, and challenging work; openness to new experience is associated with the preference for interesting work. Orientation to the values of conformity and tradition is associated with the readiness to choose between different criteria, while the orientation to the values of achievement and power is associated with a wider range of subjective criteria, which the future job should correspond to. A higher level of positive emotions is associated with the preference for many criteria of job selection at the same time. A greater user activity is connected to the desire for easy work. Conclusions. In contemporary adolescents and young adults, a greater subjective well-being and the values of achievement and power are paradoxically associated with an unrealistically wide range of criteria of choosing a profession and job that are simultaneously important to them. This may further lead to some difficulties in searching for the job and disappointments in it.
Subjective Well-Being and Career Orientations of Adolescents with the Signs of Giftedness in Different Areas of Activity
Authors: Malenova Arina Yu. , Potapova Yuliya V. , Malenov Aleksandr A. , Potapov Alexander K.
Published: May 2024

Background. The optimal condition for the progressive development of society is the creation of an educational environment that takes into account the psychological characteristics of gifted students in the context of achieving their subjective well-being in the present and professional well-being in the future. Objective. The aim is to study the characteristics of subjective well-being and career orientations in schoolchildren with signs of giftedness in different areas of activity. Study Participants. The comparative study involved 461 Omsk schoolchildren (groups were identified as academic, creative, sports gifted, combining two and three types of giftedness, and a control group. Methods. The comparative study involved diagnosis of subjective well-being by R.M. Shamionov and T.V. Beskova, and the teqnique for studying motivation in professional career by E. Shein in the adaptation of V.E. Vinokurova and V.A. Chiker. Results. It was revealed that the highest levels of well-being are found in adolescents who combine signs of sports talent with creative or academic giftedness. The third position is occupied by schoolchildren with signs of academic giftedness. The lowest integral indicators of well-being are observed among adolescents with signs of creative giftedness and those who combine signs of giftedness in the creative and academic spheres. The dominant career orientations of adolescents with creative achievements are autonomy, professional competence, job stability, integration of lifestyles. The orientation towards entrepreneurship is most closely associated with well-being. Those with achievements in sports orient towards management and entrepreneurship, which are also interconnected with the growth of emotional and existential-effective well-being. Service orientation is more pronounced in adolescents who have signs of sports and creative talent. Teenagers who combine signs of all three types of giftedness show the lowest indicators of career orientations in the absence of their connection with well-being and unformed accents in the profile. Conclusion. The features and interrelations of the components of subjective well-being and career orientations in schoolchildren with signs of giftedness in different areas of activity: academic, creative, sports, and their combinations, which are the basis for the psychological support of gifted adolescents, are determined.
Value and Meaning Determinants of Professional Responsibility in Ordinary Representations of Russians
Authors: Zhuravlev Anatoliy L. , Zinchenko Yuri P. , Kitova Juliet A. , Pervacheva Olga A.
Published: May 2024

Background. The study of the value-meaning aspect of notions of professional responsibility is due to their potential impact on the efficiency of work and on psychological well-being of a specialist. The analysis of literary sources showed insufficient development of the emotional component of the studied phenomenon. Objectives. The article focuses on carrying out a structural and informative analysis of the views of Internet users on professional responsibility as well as on selecting value-meaning factors from the general context of representations. Study Participants. Users of the social network VKontakte and specialized Internet forums participated in the study. The number of author’s texts analysed was 1010. Each participant submitted one communication, i.e. the number of participants corresponds to the number of texts and amounts to 1,010 people. The total number of messages included 800 texts from the social network and 210 texts from the Internet forums. Methods. The study of ordinary representations of Internet users about professional responsibility is conducted with the help of statistical analysis of word occurrence frequency (PyMorphy2). Classification of the analyzed units (nouns, verbs, adjectives) is made on the basis of statistical processing and expert evaluation, structural elements of the phenomenon of “professional responsibility” and its value-meaning characteristics are shown. The analysis of contingency on the basis of testing with corpus of Russian language dataset RuTweetCorp, based on Bernoulli distribution, neuronetwork model of analysis of emotional background of messages (FastText), neuronetwork model Dostoevsky and dataset RuSentiment. Results. The conducted analysis allowed to present the structure of “professional responsibility”, to reveal cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components. The study identified a fourth meta-structural component, never previously identified by other authors, which is related to the “God” construct. The value-meaning patterns of professional responsibility have been identified and described. The analysis of the emotional background of the messages made it possible to highlight the trend towards negative assessments of the phenomenon of “professional responsibility” at the current stage of society development. Conclusions. The approach proposed in the study allows to reveal the psychological essence of professional responsibility, to highlight the importance of the emotional component in the strategies of acceptance/avoidance of responsibility. The equation of professional responsibility with personal responsibility of a specialist has been revealed, while the notions of national, social, and corporate responsibility are manifested insignificantly. The study of professional responsibility through the value-meaning aspect can become the basis for analysis of social behavior in a person as a whole in the future.
Religious Reformation and Ethical Transformation in the Hatata of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat
Authors: Merawi Fasil
Published: May 2024

The Hatatas of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat are seen as the precursors of a written Ethiopian philosophy. Commentators on these texts such as Claude Sumner and Teodros Kiros argue that, one is able to locate the Cartesian mode of subjectivity in the Hatatas. Against this, this paper argues that the form of subjectivity found in the Hatatas of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat is not fully demythologized and dwells in the background of religious authority, and therefore should not be identified with the Cartesian conception of the human subject. Alternatively, I argue that the goal of the Hatatas is attaining religious reformation. The form of subjectivity found in the Hatatas is founded on communal life and religious experience. The paper concludes that the Hatatas of Zera Yaeqob and Welda Heywat should be read as a call for religious renewal and ethical transformation.
On the Function and Nature of Historical Counterfactuals. Clarifying Confusions
Authors: Virmajoki Veli
Published: May 2024

In this article, I analyze historical counterfactuals. Historical counterfactuals are conditional statements in which the antecedent refers to some change in the past. We ask what would have happened, had that change occurred. I discuss the nature of such counterfactuals. I then identify important functions that historical counterfactuals have. I point out that they are at the heart of explanations and, therefore, reveal issues related to contingency and actual history. I then discuss counterfactual reasoning in historiography. I argue that the problem of suitable antecedent conditions has been exaggerated, and more serious issues concern the tracking of counterfactual scenarios. Throughout the paper, I argue that the interventionist way of thinking about historical counterfactuals clarifies both historical explanations and the nature of historical counterfactuals and should be adopted as the standard. I conclude by noting that historical counterfactuals may not fundamentally differ from more familiar forms of historiography.
‘Here is the Thing’: On Object, Ground and Background in the History of Art and Images
Authors: Stumpel Jeroen
Published: May 2024

Space-rendering devices as perspective (Albertian, before and beyond) were a special by-product of a human universal wish to render objects. It is argued that this impulse lies at the root of human image production. On the basis of this assumption a taxonomy is presented, or rather a basic syntax, of images, of which perspective is an exceptional variant; an outsider case a sense, which for all kinds of reasons has come to dominate our thinking and analysis of pictures.
Three new species of Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) from Mindanao Island, Philippines
Authors: TAMAYO MAVERICK N. , AMOROSO VICTOR B. , CORITICO FULGENT P. , PENNEYS DARIN S. , CALLADO JOHN REY C. , HORNER JOHN D. , FRITSCH PETER W.
Published: May 2024

Three new species of Vaccinium endemic to the island of Mindanao, Philippines are here described and illustrated. Vaccinium fallax most closely resembles V. myrtoides, but differs by having smaller leaves, caducous bracts, shorter pedicels, a broadly obconical hypanthium, broadly triangular calyx lobes, and a deep pink and broadly urceolate corolla. It grows on exposed areas and among sulfur vents at and near the summit of Mt. Apo. Vaccinium gamay most closely resembles V. gitingense, but differs in having shorter inflorescences, early caducous inflorescence bracts, shorter pedicels, presence of clavate glands on the hypanthium, and an absence of anther spurs. It grows on exposed areas in the ultramafic forest of Mt. Hamiguitan. It is one of only two Philippine Vaccinium species possessing distinctly callose-thickened calyx lobes, the other being V. gitingense. Vaccinium vomicum most closely resembles V. carmesinum, but differs by having smaller leaves, presence of glands on the extreme end of the leaf blade base, presence of clavate glands on the hypanthium, shorter stamens, and presence of stalked glands on the dentate apex of the tubules. It grows in the mossy rainforest of Mt. Kitanglad, and it is the only Philippine species of Vaccinium with glands on the extreme end of its leaf blade base. Following IUCN guidelines, we propose a conservation status of Critically Endangered for V. fallax, Endangered for V. gamay, and Data Deficient for V. vomicum. With these discoveries, the number of Vaccinium species in Mindanao Islands increases to 22 and in the Philippines to 44. Furthermore, the Mindanao Islands can now be considered the center of Vaccinium diversity in the Philippines.
Molecular characterization uncovering a novel genus of tapering-filamentous cyanobacteria from Thailand: Phayaothrix lacustris gen. & sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanophyta)
Authors: TAWONG WITTAYA , NISHIMURA TOMOHIRO , PONGCHAROEN PONGSANAT , SAIJUNTHA WEERACHAI , KUCHAROENPHAIBUL SIRIWAT , SUNPAPAO PATHIPAT , PONGPADUNG PIYAWAT , PONZA SUPAT
Published: May 2024

In this study, novel Calothrix-like strains NUACC09 and NUACC10 were isolated from the surfaces of rocks in Phayao Lake, Thailand. Morphological, molecular and ecological comparisons were investigated to characterize the taxonomic status of these novel strains. Under the light microscope, morphological studies indicated that these two strains were morphologically similar to Calothrix but could be differentiated by production of a non-hyaline hair at the terminal end, a low degree of tapering, twisted or loop-forming filaments, a knotted growth form, intertwined trichomes and presenting more than one trichome within the single sheath. In the 16S rRNA and rbcLX gene phylogenetic tree analyses, our strains formed a monophyletic clade with former freshwater/terrestrial Calothrix-like taxa separating distantly from other Calothrix-like genera. Furthermore, low 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (<94.9%) to the closely related genera and species delimitation analyses (PTP/bPTP, GMYC, ABGD and ASAP methods) indicated that this clade should be considered as a different cyanobacterial lineage. The phylogenetic tree and secondary structures (D1–D1′, V2, Box-B and V3 helix) based on 16S–23S rRNA ITS regions suggested that multiple species might be contained in this clade. Therefore, here, Phayaothrix was proposed as a novel cyanobacterial genus with Phayaothrix lacustris sp. nov. as the type species following the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants.
New alien in town: first record of Parakontikia ventrolineata (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) in Italy
Authors: MORI EMILIANO , ROMITI FEDERICO , MAGLIANO ADELE , LIBERATO CLAUDIO DE , ANCILLOTTO LEONARDO
Published: May 2024

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The endemic Hawaiian mealybug genus Phyllococcus Ehrhorn, 1916 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae): redescription of the type species and description of a new species on an endangered host plant, Cryptocarya mannii (Lauraceae)
Authors: PERCY DIANA M. , WATSON GILLIAN W. , HODGSON CHRIS J.
Published: May 2024

The endemic Hawaiian mealybug genus Phyllococcus Ehrhorn (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) was erected in 1916 as a monotypic genus for a gall-inducing mealybug collected on the island of Oahu on Urera sandwicensis (now referred to genus Touchardia) (Urticaceae) in 1911. The species induces deep horn-shaped galls on the leaves of the host plant. Here we redescribe the adult female and adult male of Ph. oahuensis (Ehrhorn) and designate a lectotype; and we report a new record for Ph. oahuensis from the island of Maui. Additionally, we describe the adult female and second- and third-instar female nymphs of a new gall-inducing Phyllococcus species, Ph. cryptocaryae Percy, Watson & Hodgson, sp. n., found in galls on the leaves of Cryptocarya mannii (Lauraceae) in the central Waianae Mountains on Oahu. Also found galling the same host plant, and often in close proximity on the same leaf, were immatures of the triozid psyllid, Paurotriozana adaptata Caldwell, 1940 (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Triozidae). Both the new mealybug and the triozid psyllid appear to be geographically restricted to the only remaining tree of C. mannii on Oahu and are therefore extremely vulnerable to extinction.
A new species of the genus Xistra (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea: Metrodorinae) with comments on the characters of mitochondrial genome
Authors: BAI QIU-XIA , LONG MIN , DENG WEI-AN
Published: May 2024

A new species from Jiangxi Province of China, Xistra zhengi Deng, sp. nov. is described and illustrated. Meanwhile, the complete mitochondrical genome of the new species was determined and annotated. It has the typical invertebrate mitochondrial gene arrangement, the size of the sequenced mitogenomes is 18148 bp. The constructed phylogenetic tree showed that the new species was placed in Metrodorinae, and formed a separate clade from other species of Metrodorinae.
Description of final stadium larva of Dysphaea gloriosa Fraser, 1938, (Odonata: Euphaeidae) with notes on its habitat and biology
Authors: NGUYEN MINH TY , IGNATIUS KAEWPAWIKA JITTHAMMA , SUNPRASIT SOMNEUK , PHAN QUOC TOAN , KEETAPITHCHAYAKUL TOSAPHOL SAETUNG
Published: May 2024

The final instar larva of the genus Dysphaea Selys, 1853 is described and figured for the first time based on specimens of D. gloriosa Fraser, 1938 from Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. The larvae of D. gloriosa are very rarely encountered. The larvae are characterized by the relatively larger head, the swollen heavily spined genae extending well beyond the eyes, the swollen postocular lobes bearing a disordered row of dense strong marginal spines, the outer armature of the mandibles and the unusual labrum. Notes on the habitat and biology of the larvae are also provided.