bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Esther und ihre Töchter. Geschlechterrollen und Wirtschaftstätigkeit jüdischer Frauen in der Vormoderne
Authors: Porzelt Christian
Published: November 2021

This essay examines the commercial activities of Jewish women in the Franconian town of Kronach, a district seat in the northern part of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, in the early modern period. It focuses on the widow Esther (c. 1645–1727), a contemporary of the famous merchant woman Glikl bas Judah Leib in Altona. Esther’s business activities, which are documented for a period of more than four decades, included the sale of household goods and textiles as well as the marketing of agrarian products. In addition, she was involved in credit transactions and pawnbroking. Numerous contacts with town dwellers and country people demonstrate her involvement in Christian economic and credit networks. As the biographies of Esther’s daughters Ella and Jüdla show, married women also played central roles within households and working communities. They not only supported their husbands, but continued to run their businesses in their absence and engaged in trade on their own accounts.
The impacts of reading strategy instruction on improving the reading comprehension of students with different learning styles
Authors: Tadayonifar Mojtaba , Valizadeh Mohammadreza , Entezari Mahnaz , Bahraman Mosfata
Published: November 2021

The current study explores the short- and long-term impacts of explicit reading strategy instruction for improving reading comprehension of students with different learning styles. Sixty Iranian EFL learners took part in this study. They took the Cambridge ECCE reading test as the pre-test and were divided into five groups according to learner type based on Flemings’s VARK questionnaire. The participants underwent 12 weeks of explicit reading strategy instruction and took a post-test to determine the immediate effects of reading strategy training. Three months later, they took a delayed post-test to check the long-term effects of the training. The results of paired samples T-Test and ANOVA using SPSS indicated that there were significant differences in the pre-and post-test scores for all groups in all tests. The results of the post hoc analysis indicated that the auditory type showed the most and the visual type showed the least amount of improvement. The study thus suggests equipping students with appropriate reading strategies that are tailored to their perceived learning style in order to lead to better comprehension and subsequently more enjoyment when reading.
Analysis of China’s Film Industry in 2020
Authors: Yin Hong , Sun Yanbin
Published: November 2021

The influence of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic impacted the global film market in 2020. Across the world, the Chinese film market was the first to recover and, as a result, assumed a leading position. This was because the government launched a return-to-work policy, the capital market became more rational, the integration of film companies accelerated, the film industry model trended toward centralization, and market structures underwent deep adjustments. Despite shrinking market space and declining film production during 2020, the industry produced films that remained diverse in genre and subject. Where the “Matthew effect” of accumulated advantage is much more acute in the film industry, a more diverse distribution approach has emerged in the field of new media. With box office returns approaching a ceiling, it has become more urgent to stabilize the quality of top films, enrich and enhance the competitiveness of genre films, and strengthen the theatricality of art films. It also became urgent to improve the film industry system, the product system, the market system, and the box office window system.
Sociodemographic factors affecting perceived stress during pregnancy and the association with immune-mediator concentrations
Authors: McLeod Caroline , Ebeling Myla D. , Baatz John E. , Shary Judy R. , Mulligan Jennifer R. , Wagner Carol L.
Published: November 2021

Objectives

Determine which sociodemographic factors are most associated with increased maternal perceived stress during pregnancy. Evaluate the association between maternal stress and plasma immune-mediator concentrations (IMCs).

Methods

As part of a prospective, randomized clinical trial, 247 participants completed a Perceived Stress Scale survey (PSS-10) during each trimester of pregnancy. Blood samples were collected from participants and were analyzed for 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration and for several IMCs: interferon-gamma, interleukins (IL-) IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, vascular endothelial growth factor, c-reactive protein, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) (R&D Elisa). The potential associations between PSS-10 scores, sociodemographic factors, and IMCs were assessed.

Results

In bivariate analysis, participants who were not married and/or had high risk pregnancies were more likely to have increased PSS-10 scores (p<0.05). Increased PSS-10 scores were associated with higher serum concentrations of IL-2 and TNF-α, and decreased concentrations of IL-10 and 25(OH)D. In linear regression analysis, single marital status, high-risk pregnancy, IL-2, and TNF-α were independent predictors of PSS-10 scores.

Conclusions

This study identifies specific sociodemographic factors that are associated with increased perceived stress during pregnancy. This study also provides evidence that increased perceived stress is associated with physiological changes as measured by changes in circulating IL-2, TNF-α, IL-10, and 25(OH)D concentrations.
Hebt ein gesteigertes Vertrauen in die Polizei das kriminalitätsbezogene Sicherheitsbefinden?
Authors: Hirtenlehner Helmut , Leitgöb-Guzy Nathalie , Bacher Johann
Published: November 2021

Kurzfassung

Die in der Bevölkerung verbreitete assoziative Verknüpfung von Polizei und Kriminalität bzw. deren Bekämpfung gibt Anlass zur Vermutung, ein hohes Vertrauen in die Exekutive würde Verbrechensfurcht reduzieren. Die Belastbarkeit dieser »Beruhigungshypothese« kann anhand von Daten des Deutschen Viktimisierungssurveys 2017 empirisch geprüft werden. Die Resultate mehrerer Instrumentalvariablenanalysen sprechen gegen eine furchtpräventive Wirksamkeit des persönlichen Polizeivertrauens. Als maßgebliche Bestimmungsgröße des kriminalitätsbezogenen Sicherheitsempfindens erweist sich indes die Intensität ökonomisch konnotierter Abstiegsbefürchtungen.
Nonradiating sources for efficient wireless power transfer
Authors: Zanganeh Esmaeel , Song Mingzhao , Valero Adrià Canós , Shalin Alexander S. , Nenasheva Elizaveta , Miroshnichenko Andrey , Evlyukhin Andrey , Kapitanova Polina
Published: November 2021

Nonradiating sources of energy realized under a wave scattering on high-index dielectric nanoparticles have attracted a lot of attention in nano-optics and nanophotonics. They do not emit energy to the far-field, but simultaneously provides strong near-field energy confinement. Near-field wireless power transfer technologies suffer from low efficiency and short operation distance. The key factor to improve efficiency is to reduce the radiation loss of the resonators included in the transmitter and receiver. In this paper, we develop a wireless power transfer system based on nonradiating sources implemented using colossal permittivity dielectric disk resonator and a subwavelength metal loop. We demonstrate that this nonradiating nature is due to the hybrid anapole state originated by destructive interference of the fields generated by multipole moments of different parts of the nonradiating source, without a contribution of toroidal moments. We experimentally investigate a wireless power transfer system prototype and demonstrate that higher efficiency can be achieved when operating on the nonradiating hybrid anapole state compared to the systems operating on magnetic dipole and magnetic quadrupole modes due to the radiation loss suppression.
Bound states in the continuum in periodic structures with structural disorder
Authors: Maslova Ekaterina E. , Rybin Mikhail V. , Bogdanov Andrey A. , Sadrieva Zarina F.
Published: November 2021

We study the effect of structural disorder on the transition from the bound states in the continuum (BICs) to quasi-BICs by the example of the periodic photonic structure composed of two layers of parallel dielectric rods. We uncover the specificity in the robustness of the symmetry-protected and accidental BICs against various types of structural disorder. We analyze how the spatial mode localization induced by the structural disorder results in an effective reduction of the system length and limits the Q factor of quasi-BICs. Our results are essential for the practical implementation of BICs especially in natural and self-assembled photonic structures, where the structural disorder plays a crucial role.
Sex allocation and field population sex ratio of Apanteles taragamae Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a larval parasitoid of the cucumber moth Diaphania indica Saunders (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
Authors: Nurkomar Ihsan , Azhar Azru , Buchori Damayanti
Published: November 2021

Sex ratio is one of the most important biological characteristics of arthropods. In a parasitoid population, sex ratio can influence the suppression of host populations or the stability of host–parasitoid interactions in the field. In this study, a survey was carried out to determine the sex allocation through the sequence of male/female adult emergence and calculate the sex ratio of selected populations of Apanteles taragamae in their natural habitat. Assessment of sex ratio at the population and individual level (brood size per female) was examined. We found no difference in the likelihood that either sex would emerge before the other. Observations of sex ratio at the population and individual level reveal a females biased sex ratio. Analysis of the relationship between brood size and sex ratio of A. taragamae shows that brood size may influence the proportion of male to female offspring yielded. A male-biased sex ratio tends to be found in smaller brood size. However, sex ratio is shifted to female biased in larger brood size.
Non-identical cognates yield facilitation in translation – does the way foreign vocabulary is learned affect its processing?
Authors: Lijewska Agnieszka , Błaszkowska Hanka
Published: November 2021

Cognates (words sharing form and meaning across languages, e.g. Polish–English FILM–FILM (identical cognates) or TUNNEL–TUNEL (non-identical cognates)) are processed faster than single-language words (cognate facilitation effect), which is modulated by a number of factors. Here, we extended the study reported by Lijewska and Chmiel (2015) and tested the influence of learning experience on non-identical cognate processing in a translation task in 2 experiments with Polish-German–English trilinguals and with German–English bilinguals. The trilinguals learned English and German via Polish, whereas the bilinguals learnt English via German. They translated Polish–English non-identical cognates (MUSZTARDA–SENF–MUSTARD), German–English non-identical cognates (TRAWA–GRAS–GRASS) and controls from English into Polish and into German (trilinguals) or only into German (bilinguals). We found no evidence for the influence of learning experience on cognate processing but the novel finding was a reliable facilitation effect obtained when only non-identical cognates were tested in a translation task with trilinguals (in the accuracy data) as well as with bilinguals (in translation latencies). Additionally, the reported study pointed to the important role of language proficiency in processing.
Markedness relation, identity avoidance, and clausal recursion in Mandarin Chinese
Authors: Tseng Yu-Ching
Published: November 2021

This paper uses optimality theory (OT) to account for the phenomenon of identity occurrence resulting from clausal recursion, which we argue is derived from syntactic embedding and syntactic adjunction. This paper shows that the interaction between faithfulness and economy constraints allows for the optional deletion of functional morphemes that occur repetitively. The syntactic process of deletion is sensitive to the concept of markedness in a few ways. First, the marked, rather than the unmarked, pattern is the trigger for deletion; second, unmarked constructions have priority over marked constructions as the target for deletion. All of these ideas are integrated into the OT model that involves self-conjoined constraints, the mechanism of harmonic alignment, and the competition between faithfulness and economy constraints.
Mit Nächstenliebe gegen den Kommunismus
Authors: Dotter Marion
Published: November 2021

This study examines the strategies adopted by the Catholic church in the post-World War II German-speaking area to curtail the ‚communist threat‘. The text compares two dioceses, St. Pölten in the eastern part of Austria, and Munich-Freising in Bavaria, that saw the need to react to the rise of communist regimes immediately outside their borders in East-Central Europe with the means at their disposal. The starting point for this analysis is the „Decree against Communism“ of Pope Pius XII, which belongs to a long tradition of ecclesiastical criticism directed against the great ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries, and which was widely adopted by the German-speaking clergy. The discussion of the methods by which the church attempted to influence the east-west conflict and their constraints will address three topics: aid for refugees, the social question, and issues related to schooling. In these areas, the church used a variety of resources to achieve its aims and exploited the Roman curia’s position as a global actor – from its parishes and monasteries at the local level to its spheres of political influence at the nation-state level.
Historiographische Praxis und politische Ästhetik
Authors: Walter Viktoria
Published: November 2021

Schiller-research is quite dissonant with respect to the question whether or not his second play, The Conspiracy (1783), is »republican« in a ›modern‹, political sense. Many readers have concluded that the historiographic approach displayed in the play was utterly implausible. This article summarizes the interpretations on Schiller’s historiographic practice and takes them to a deeper understanding of the political aesthetic the play is set out to expose. A close reading of the animal fable in the play, with a special focus on its anthropomorphic dimension, shows that its political implications are rather diverse and exist side by side – a narrative technique that illustrates formally what has been addressed as a »play with different options«.
Mythos: rhetorisch wirksam gemachte Geschichte
Authors: Schuhmacher Frank
Published: November 2021

In this article, it is argued that history and narration in the ancient rhetoric were (mostly) used as an argument for reaching their own objectives. This attitude towards history is essentially mythical and pragmatic, disregarding the special context of a particular event. At the beginning of the 19th century, there was a time when a critical spirit evolved amongst positivist historians and suppressed the pragmatic view of history. This evoked a response not only from intellectuals such as Nietzsche and Croce, but also from fascists – especially Mussolini – putting the emphasis again on and taking up the old tradition of the rhetorical use of history.
»Die Natur braucht keine Namen«
Authors: Enzinger Julia
Published: November 2021

The present article investigates the literary representation of biographical and geological coherence in Max Frisch’s narrative Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (1979), a story about a pensioner suffering from dementia, who has to cope with both the erosion of his memory as well as the geological erosion in the Swiss Alps. On the basis of Hayden White’s tropics of discourse and Stephen Jay Gould’s study on Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time, the rhetorical strategies being used by Frisch are examined in order to articulate the tension between human history and the history of nature and earth. Focusing on the two main tropes in the text, synecdoche and irony, the analysis will show how the text tries to escape forms of anthropomorphism – especially by generating a ›transhuman‹ perspective – but ultimately confesses its failure to do so. Holozän thus can be seen as an ironical (self-)reflection on the limits of rhetoric and language in terms of depicting non-human history.
»Hätte der Hund nicht, dann hätt’ er den Hasen ...«
Authors: Biebuyck Benjamin
Published: November 2021

Günter Grass’s Mein Jahrhundert represents the 20th century as a series of hundred anecdotes, narrated from the perspective of in many cases unknown or (seemingly) unidentified witnesses. As such, it is often read as an example of fictional history writing within Grass’s encompassing framework of rediscovering the lives of those who underwent history rather than make it. The »sequential communal narration« (Lanser) adopted in this book was, however, criticized harshly by many readers as a patronizing form of postmodern – narrative – historiography. This article aims to show that the oral configuration of the narrative and the consistent use of a silent editor role, rhetorically directing the narrative and systematically linking the narrative with verifiable historical events and persons, does not reinforce the fictionality of writing history, but on the contrary underpins the double attempt to display not only the bias of historical witnessing, but also the historicity (and selectivity) of recording history. Grass’s bringing in the silent editor hence must be seen as an (hyperrealistic) attempt to stem the tide of negationism, revisionism and the manipulation of history telling.
Perspective Taking als Methode zur kommunikativen Kom­pe­tenz­entwicklung im Jurastudium
Authors: Gleiss Theresa , Kramer Olaf
Published: November 2021

Although lawyers and judges often face communicative challenges in their everyday work, communicative skills are hardly trained in legal education. Based on the interdisciplinary project „Law and Rhetoric“ at the University of Tübingen, the paper highlights addressee-oriented communication and perspective-taking as central aspects of communicative competence. Through addressee orientation and the development of the ability to adopt perspectives, students are given the opportunity to think through communicative situations systematically and to anticipate communicative resistances. In contrast, the widespread focus on performance in the field of rhetorical key qualifications in legal educations only allows a restricted growth of communication skills and does not reach far enough.
Vision and Decision
Authors: Goodrich Peter
Published: November 2021

The rhetorical formula ‘law and literature’ places law before literature while the usually conjunctive ‘and’ connotes hierarchy and disjunction rather than equality and encounter. The concept of jurisliterature provides a lexical and theoretical remedy for such alienation and non-recognition. In the era of imaginal law and the politicization of common law practices through viral relay and online video presence the spectacle of governance becomes the governance of spectacles. Vision increasingly determines decision. Using the example of a recent four-part documentary trial,Woody Allen v Mia Farrow, this article examines the stakes of imaginal law, and the consequences of a juridism set free from the archive.
Trading with the Dead
Authors: Leeson Peter T.
Published: November 2021

Late medieval Englishmen provided for their wellbeing in the hereafter by purchasing intercession for their souls. They traded valuable landed endowments for the promise of posthumous Masses and prayers whose daily observance contractual counterparties agreed to underwrite for decades, centuries, even eternally. Intercessory foundations so contracted were called chantries. Chantry contracts constituted trades with the dead in the sense that the promisees were deceased when the promisors were supposed to perform. I study the special problems that chantry contract promisees faced in enforcing their rights from the grave and analyze the devices they used for that purpose. Chantry founders wary of their fates in the afterlife showed equal concern for the challenges their contracts would encounter in this life long after they were gone. Founders met those challenges by leveraging the economics of incentives to develop a strategy of chantry contract self-enforcement: profit the living, present and future, for monitoring the contractual performance of promisors and promisors’ agents, and for punishing them should they breach. Chantry founders’ strategy was successful, enabling trade with the dead.
Faseroptische Kalibrierung von Positionssensoren für Planck-Waagen
Authors: Germanow Philipp , Rogge Norbert , Hausotte Tino , Fröhlich Thomas
Published: November 2021

Zur Kibble-Kalibrierung von EMK-Systemen (sogenannte Planck-Waagen) muss die induzierte Spulenspannung, sowie die Geschwindigkeit der Aktorspule während der Bewegung relativ zum Magnetfeld erfasst werden. Die Bestimmung der Geschwindigkeit erfolgt anhand der, über die Zeit, gemessenen Position. Als Alternative zur interferometrischen Messung wird in diesem Artikel ein Verfahren zur faseroptischen Kalibrierung der, bei EMK-Systemen weit verbreiteten, optischen Positionssensoren vorgestellt. Der eigens entwickelte faseroptische Sensor, sowie die theoretisch beschriebene Kalibrierung wurden an einer Planck-Waage messtechnisch validiert. Im direkten Vergleich mit einem kommerziellen Interferometer wurden Kennlinienabweichungen von unter 60 nm über einem Bewegungsbereich von

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Beiträge zum Wortschatz des Alten Testaments
Authors: Theis Christoffer
Published: November 2021

The article examines the theory of Manfred Görg, who postulated two Egyptian loanwords in the Old Testament in 2003. By an inclusion of phonetic laws, sound changes and cultural-historical aspects, the theory that Liwyatan (לִוְיַתַן) and Nəhūštān (נְחֻשְׁתָּן) are Egyptian loanwords must be rejected.
Mysterious Wooden Objects Represented in the Punt Portico in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari
Authors: Taterka Filip
Published: November 2021

The article presents a previously unpublished block coming from the Southern Lower Portico (also known as the Punt Portico) in Hatshepsut’s temple of millions of years at Deir el-Bahari. It contains a depiction of a young Nubian man carrying two mysterious objects. The one is the double tjsw-staff, while the other is most likely a wooden stool. In order to support his identification of the objects in question, the author discusses some parallels coming from early 18th dynasty private tombs at Thebes.
Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?
Authors: Engel Eva-Maria
Published: November 2021

The article examines archaeological and epigraphic evidence from the subsidiary chambers of the Early Dynastic royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab/Abydos. Not surprisingly it turns out that this group of people was more diverse than the often used modern descriptions as “artisans and concubines” reveal.
Accommodating log dimensions and geometry in log procurement decisions for spindleless rotary veneer production
Authors: Venn Tyron J. , McGavin Robert L. , Ergashev Alisher
Published: November 2021

Information to support efficient log procurement decisions based on log cost as well as volume and value of veneer produced from log volume is scarce. The objective of this study was to systematically investigate the effect of log dimensions and geometry (small-end diameter under bark (SEDUB), taper, sweep, and ovality) on the recovery of marketable veneer from log volume, and to produce a metric to support efficient log procurement decisions. The metric developed was the maximum that could be paid for mill-delivered logs of a specific log geometry (MDLCmax) while attaining a target gross margin. In decreasing order of impact on the net recovery of marketable veneer from log volume, the log characteristics were sweep, SEDUB, taper, and ovality. In an Australian case study, log dimensions and geometry were found to substantially affect MDLCmax. Relative to a 2.6-m cylindrical log, taper of 0.01 m/m of log length decreased MDLCmax $10/m3 and sweep of 0.01 m/m of log length decreased MDLCmax $20/m3. This metric is useful for supporting log procurement decisions of the timber industry.
Identification of topography of surfaces created by turning biomaterials with optical profilometry
Authors: Mitaľová Zuzana , Mitaľ Dušan , Botko František , Litecká Juliána , Zajac Jozef , Harničárová Marta , Valíček Jan
Published: November 2021

This study deals with the identification of the topography of the surface that is created by machining composite materials with natural fibres (biomaterials, wood-plastic composites – a material with plastic matrix and natural reinforcement). The final surface was evaluated based on tool geometry (turning technology), and the influence of the tool on selected evaluating parameters of the obtained surface was evaluated using a non-contact method, applying an optical profilometer (MicroProf FRT). After machining the surface, characteristic relief (a trace on the surface of the material) was visible depending on the machining factors combination (machine, tool, workpiece, and fixture). The initial material also played a prominent role in the surface monitoring, in relationship to the composition of the material and the interaction between the matrix and reinforcement, i.e., detection of defects in the area of the interaction between the initial components.
Assessment of the Impact of Factors Determining the Teachers’ Salary: the Case of Radviliškis District
Authors: Matuzevičiūtė-Balčiūnienė Kristina , Jašinskienė Dovilė
Published: November 2021

Based on the results of the theoretical analysis, problems such as the aging population of teachers, the lack of attractiveness of the teaching profession and the shortage of teachers in certain subjects have been identified in the education system, as well as in some geographical areas. The recent reform of the teacher’s payment system in Lithuania was started in 2018, so the problem analysed in the article is relatively new, which leads to a lack of research, as apart from some statistics, analysts’ insights and forecasts, scientific research on this topic is insufficient. In this study, an independently pooled cross-sections model is used to assess the factors of teachers ’salaries. The results of the research show that after the introduction of the full- time payment system, the salaries of teachers in Radviliškis district did not increase. This was due to the reduction in the size of the workload following the introduction of the full- time payment system.
Investigation of buffer capacity of the recreational environmental through the self-purification of natural-technogenic hydroecosystems in the Carpathian region
Authors: Hryniuk Victoria I. , Arkhypova Lyudmyla M. , Korchemlyuk Marta V.
Published: November 2021

The aim of research was to investigate the theoretical and practical aspects of the buffer capacity of the recreational environment of the Carpathian region of Ukraine through the improvement of self-purification assessment on the example of natural-technogenic hydroecosystems. Studies of the self-purification process were carried out on the example of the right tributaries of the river Svicha in the Carpathian region, which are water intakes of wastewater from the oil and gas industry enterprise of Ivano-Frankivsk region. The main factors influencing the natural process of self-purification of natural watercourses are determined. As a result, the indicator of wastewater dilution intensity was improved with the substantiation of the proposed coefficients, which depend on the value of the river flow velocity and water temperature. A scale for assessing surface waters has been developed, that allows to determine the degree of natural self-purification of water from pollutants. Based on the results of the analysis of selected water samples, the pattern of self-purification of natural watercourses from oil products is obtained, which will allow to make forecast maps of the buffer capacity of the recreational environment of the Carpathian region. A regression analysis was performed, which proves the relationship between the content of petroleum products and the distance of their distribution from the source of pollution in the Lushchava River. Fisher's F-test was used to check the significance of the dependence. The reliability of the relationship between the indicators is confirmed by the coefficient of determination (D = r2), which is 0.96. Summarizing the results of the study the scale of estimation of natural self-purification of surface waters from pollutants depending on the calculated indicator of wastewater dilution intensity which’s criteria are the accounting for speed of a river flow and a temperature mode is offered. When establishing the range of n values, the average value of the calculated indicator of the intensity of wastewater dilution for the studied rivers, which is 4, was taken into account. As a result, the proposed scale of assessment of natural self-purification of surface waters allows to determine the degree of self-purification of the right tributaries of the river Svicha, which is necessary for further forecasting of water pollution in the Carpathian region.
Long-term changes in the chemical composition of the water of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers within the Kryvorizkyi Iron Ore Basin (1980–2020)
Authors: Khilchevskyi V. K. , Sherstiuk N. P.
Published: November 2021

The article presents the generalized results of chemical composition research of waters from Inhulets and Saksahan rivers on the territory adjacent to the Northern and Inhulets with pumping of underground waters (mine and quarry), which have an abnormal chemical composition, high mineralization and contain high concentrations of microcomponents. The following scheme of mine water utilization is used in the Kryvyi Rih iron ore basin: the mines of the northern part of Kryvbas discharge water into the tailings dam of Northern Iron Ore Dressing works (Northern GZK); mines of the southern part discharge mine waters into the storage pond of the Svistunov creek during the year, and in the winter its waters are discharged into the Inhulets River with subsequent washing of the river in the spring-summer period. Such treatment of mine and quarry waters has led to the formation of a hydrochemical anomaly on the territory of Northern GZK with the center in the tailings. The mineralization of water in the pond reaches 23 g / l (2020). There is a high content of microcomponents: lead, cadmium, vanadium, manganese, boron, bromine, nickel, mercury, thiocyanates. As a result, the mineralization of the Saksahan River water increases over time (up to 5.4 g / l), the content of microcomponents also increases and becomes quite high. Prolonged use of the Inhulets River for utilization of mine water from the Svistunov creek storage pond has led to a change in the type of water: instead of type II (river water), Inhulets water belongs to the type III (metamorphosed waters). There are no regularities in the change of chemical composition of water (hydrochemical regime) in Inhulets, which is a consequence of the introduction of the scheme "discharge – flushing" for the disposal of mine water. Among the microcomponents in the water of Inhulets there is an increased content of vanadium, boron and bromine (7–8 times), single excess of lead content. The analysis of equilibria in the carbonate-calcium system of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers confirmed that the existing hydrochemical regime for the studied rivers is stationary, thus, the environmental measures implemented will not have rapid consequences.
Explosive range expansion of Eulophia graminea (Orchidaceae) in Puerto Ricio and the West Indies
Authors: Ackerman James D. , González-Orellana Normandie
Published: November 2021

Eulophia graminea Lindley (Orchidaceae), a native orchid of tropical and subtropical Asia, was first reported in the Western Hemisphere from populations in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. where it spread rapidly through the southern part of the state. Here we report the first record of this species for Puerto Rico and sightings in the Bahamas and Cuba, reflecting the rapid spread seen in southern Florida (U.S.A).
Sinais de bem-estar docente em práticas de professores de educação básica
Authors: Machado Laeda Bezerra , Afonso Ferreira de Araújo Camila
Published: November 2021

Este artigo objetiva identificar professores na condição de bem-estar docente na escola básica a fim de descrever elementos de suas práticas que caracterizam o bem-estar na docência.  Bem-estar docente diz respeito a uma avaliação pessoal positiva da vida e da docência, com base em critérios cognitivos e afetivos. Desenvolvemos um estudo de abordagem qualitativa, delineado como estudo de campo com quatro professores de educação básica pública da cidade do Recife-PE. Por meio da observação participante, caracterizamos as práticas desses professores. Constatamos que os professores investigados vivenciam o bem-estar docente, pois, apesar das adversidades enfrentadas nas escolas públicas, reconhecem o valor social da profissão, cultivam relações saudáveis com seus alunos e pares e desejam prosseguir no exercício do magistério. Entendemos que para manter estes profissionais na condição de bem-estar docente, medidas de intervenção devem ser tomadas por parte dos órgãos gestores da educação. Tais medidas estão relacionadas à carreira, formação continuada e melhoria das condições de trabalho nas escolas. Essas ações fortalecem as práticas e posturas dos profissionais investigados e podem vir a incentivar outros professores a terem um olhar mais positivo para a profissão.
Analysis of droughts due to the operation of water structures: Gidra river case study
Authors: Čubanová Lea , Šoltész Andrej , Mydla Jakub
Published: November 2021

The paper deals with an analysis of a drought in the small basin of the Gidra River in Slovakia due to problems with the abstraction of water from small reservoirs and ponds. A detailed hydrological assessment of the M-daily discharges for a long-term period was based on a dataset from the only gauging station on the upper part of the river. Because of the existing water structures with prescribed operations during the year, hydrometric and geodetic measurements were taken by the authors. The solution to this problem represents the conditions for the minimum required Q355discharge in the river anytime and anywhere. This can only be solved with a master operational manual for the whole river to be able to flexibly react to the current hydrological situation.
Aspects of ethnocultural values in the strategy for creating an author's brand
Authors: Timofeeva Marina , Churakov Stanislav
Published: November 2021

The article presents the results of the study of ethnocultural values in the strategy of creating an author's brand. Topical aspects are formulated that form the resources of the brand of the future, with the potential of a sustainable business idea working ahead of schedule. The relevance of the studied topic is revealed in connection with the request of the target audience for self-identification, the need for an original product and the aesthetic value of this product in the fashion industry. And also the emergence of interest in local cultures, as a result — in local brands, and the interaction of identity and competition. It also considers the aspect of emotional satisfaction and the departure from the realities of life's problems through narratives, which resulted in the processes of forming a new reality that affect the whole industry, and an appeal to cultural traditions.
The authors analyze the formation of the connection of identities with territory, ecology, psychology, culture, economics. Is considered the influence of tradition and fashion on the landscape of the cultural map of the world. When designers not only create the visual language and design codes of our time, but also preserve the traditional values of folk culture, create a connection with history, invest new meanings in modern fashion, and respond to the requests of entire generations.
The article describes the main problems and tasks that the designer should take into account, choosing ethnic conception as the main idea of the brand. The theoretical and applied significance of the work is that the study creates a model of the value of cultural meanings for implementation commercial projects.
The work contains illustrative material that renders examples of working with references and using them when creating collections.
Los suplementos dietéticos reducen la recurrencia de estomatitis aftosa recurrente: una revisión sistemática
Authors: González Andrea , Hormazábal Elizabeth , Rivera César
Published: November 2021

La causa de la estomatitis aftosa recurrente sigue siendo desconocida, sin embargo, se han encontrado diferentes factores causales que podrían gatillar esta enfermedad, entre ellos, las deficiencias nutricionales de vitaminas y minerales. En esta revisión sistemática (registro PROSPERO #CRD42021259412), mostramos que los suplementos dietéticos disminuyen el número de episodios de estomatitis aftosa recurrente. La eficacia de estos suplementos a largo plazo corrobora el papel de estas deficiencias en algunos pacientes, lo que indica que los episodios de úlceras podrían prevenirse.
Binary logistic regression approach for decision making in bridge management
Authors: Wijesuriya Uditha A , Tennant Adam G
Published: November 2021

Bridge management professionals need effective tools to help guide the decision making process and maintain quality infrastructure in a region. Using logistic regression for a novel binary response defined by at-risk and not-at-risk bridges based on their existing overall condition scores, the probability of a bridge being at risk is expressed in terms of the primary bridge factors age, load, the type of construction material and structural design and conditions of the deck, superstructure and substructure. These estimated probabilities multiplied by specified consequence values are used to introduce the risk classes and their ranks. Employing the method for training and validating sets of sizes 13 540 and 3385 in 2017 and 13 481 and 3370 in 2018 data in the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Indiana, a statistically significant model is established containing the age, load and conditions of both superstructure and substructure. Moreover, at-risk bridges are identified from Indiana NBI data in both years and for a subset from Connecticut in 2017. The innovative bridge-ranking tool prioritises bridges for maintenance purposes such as replacing or repairing and hence efficiently guides the management in the decision making process for capital expenditures and perhaps for predicting the missing overall bridge condition.
Mortality Risk in People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Large Prospective PopulationBased Cohort Study (The Ayrshire Diabetes Follow-Up Cohort (ADOC) Study)
Authors: A Collier , M Hair , L Cameron , S Ghosh , J Boyle , M Walters , N Waugh
Published: November 2021

Background: This study investigated the effects of age, gender, socio-economic status, smoking status, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, Body Mass Index (BMI), Glycaemic control (HbA1c) and dyslipidaemia in type 2 diabetes in a population-based analysis.
Fedwire Funds Service: Payments, Balances, and Available Liquidity
Authors: Badev Anton , Clark Lauren , Ebanks Daniel , Marquardt Jeffrey , Mills David
Published: November 2021

We analyze the universe of payments settled through the Fedwire Funds Service--the primary U.S. real-time gross settlement service operated by the Federal Reserve--for the period January 2004 to December 2020. We report on trends in payments volume, payments value, balances, and overdrafts, in addition to documenting changes in the behavior of financial institutions transacting via the Fedwire Funds Service.
U.S. Housing as a Global Safe Asset: Evidence from China Shocks
Authors: Barcelona William , Converse Nathan , Wong Anna
Published: November 2021

&lt;ns2:p&gt;This paper demonstrates that the measured stock of China's holding of U.S. assets could be much higher than indicated by the U.S. net international investment position data due to unrecorded historical Chinese in ows into an increasingly popular global safe haven asset: U.S. residential real estate. We first use aggregate capital ows data to show that the increase in unrecorded capital in ows in the U.S. balance of payment accounts over the past decade is mainly linked to in ows from China into U.S. housing markets. Then, using a unique web traffic dataset that provides a direct measure of Chinese demand for U.S. housing at the zip code level, we estimate via a difference-in-difference matching framework that house prices in major U.S. cities that are highly exposed to demand from China have on average grown 7 percentage points faster than similar neighborhoods with low exposure over the period 2010-2016. These average excess price growth gaps co-move closely with macro-level measures of U.S. capital in ows from China, and tend to widen following periods of economic stress in China, suggesting that Chinese households view U.S. housing as a safe haven asset.&lt;/ns2:p&gt;
Identification of Graph Thinking in Solving Mathematical Problems Naturally
Authors: PRAYİTNO Anggar Titis , NUSANTARA Toto , HİDAYANTO Erry , RAHARDJO Swasono
Published: November 2021

This study attempts to describe characteristics of graph thinking in solving a mathematical problem. Three students at the 10th grade of senior-high schools were involved as the subject. The data was collected from the result of an optimization problem task (OPT), video recording, interviews, and field notes. The results showed two major characteristics of graph thinking were found in solving the problem. First, students used the concept of graph theory to create a problem modelling. They were able to represent the information given in the problem in the form of graph. Second, students also used the concept of graph theory to create a problem modelling and search algorithm. The problem modelling was created as the students interpreted the problem by making connection between the objects in the form of an adjacency matrix and connectivity. In devising a plan, the students referred to the problem modelling to develop search algorithms. However, the algorithms were not entirely efficient. Some of them required the students to initially describe all answer possibilities. The algorithms constructed by the students referred to sequential and conditional algorithms. This study argues that graph-thinking skill can be developed through a learning process which involves students in the solving of open-ended problem to stimulate ideas of problem solving. By developing graph thinking ability, students will be able to analyse and reason information, express mathematical ideas, and have flexibility in solving a problem. These skills are urgently needed in the 21st century where rapid and continuous changes occur.
Applying Complementary Credit Scores to Calculate Aggregate Ranking
Authors: Seleznyova Zinaida
Published: November 2021

Researchers have been improving credit scoring models for decades, as an increase in the predictive ability of scoring even by a small amount can allow financial institutions to avoid significant losses. Many researchers believe that ensembles of classifiers or aggregated scorings are the most effective. However, ensembles outperform base classifiers by thousandths of a percent on unbalanced samples.

This article proposes an aggregated scoring model. In contrast to previous models, its base classifiers are focused on identifying different types of borrowers. We illustrate the effectiveness of such scoring aggregation on real unbalanced data.

As the effectiveness indicator we use the performance measure of the area under the ROC curve. The DeLong, DeLong and Clarke-Pearson test is used to measure the statistical difference between two or more areas. In addition, we apply a logistic model of defaults (logistic regression) to the data of company financial statements. This model is usually used to identify default borrowers. To obtain a scoring aimed at non-default borrowers, we employ a modified Kemeny median, which was initially developed to rank companies with credit ratings. Both scores are aggregated by logistic regression.

Our data Russian banks that existed or defaulted between July 1, 2010, and July 1, 2015. This sample of banks is highly unbalanced, with a concentration of defaults of about 5%. The aggregation was carried out for banks with several ratings.

We show that aggregated classifiers based on different types of information significantly improve the discriminatory power of scoring even on an unbalanced sample. Moreover, the absolute value of this improvement surpasses all the values previously obtained from unbalanced samples.

The aggregated scoring and the approach to its construction can be applied by financial institutions to credit risk assessment and as an auxiliary tool in the decision-making process thanks to the relatively high interpretability of the scores.
Enforcing L2 Learner Autonomy in Higher Education: The Top 50 Cited Articles
Authors: Raitskaya Lilia , Mekeko Natalia , Golubovskaya Elena
Published: November 2021

Learner autonomy as both a pre-condition of self-efficacy and higher achievements in learning and an essential learning outcome has been in the highlight in the higher education domain for many years. This review aims to single out the most influential publications (with 10 citations or more) on foreign language and L2 learner autonomy in tertiary education in the highly reputed journals indexed with the Scopus database, with the publication period limited to the last ten years (2011-2020). The key findings show that the top 50 cited articles on learner autonomy broadly cover conceptual development; self-efficacy and motivation within the learner autonomy concept; educational technologies and web-based activities in fostering learner autonomy; country-specific issues of learner autonomy as the prevailing directions of study in the field of learner autonomy.
Analisis Deskriptif Tingkat Kepercayaan Pelanggan PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk Berdasarkan Dimensi Integrity (Studi pada Pendukung Petisi Online IndiHome di Change.org)
Authors: Soedardji Imam , Febrina Diah
Published: November 2021

ABSTRAK Pesatnya perkembangan internet mengubah cara PR terhubung dengan publiknya. Itu juga diikuti oleh kata "tanpa batas" yang berarti tidak terbatas pada pengguna untuk berdebat tentang produk atau layanan yang dapat mengakibatkan kerusakan kepercayaan yang telah didirikan selama bertahun-tahun oleh perusahaan dan publik mereka. Petisi tentang IndiHome di Change.org berarti jika pelanggan merasa kecewa dan tidak bisa lagi mempercayai Telkom. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif dengan kuesioner sebagai instrumen penelitian dan didistribusikan kepada konsumen dan pendukung petisi tentang Indiome di Change.org. Data dianalisis menggunakan tabel distribusi frekuensi dan kemudian data dikode ulang menjadi tiga kategori. Temuan dalam penelitian ini adalah dimensi integritas adalah level sedang. Kata kunci: hubungan masyarakat, kepercayaan, integritas, petisi online ABSTRACT The rapid development of the internet changes the way of public relations get connected with their public. It also followed by “borderless” word which means limitless on users to argue about a product or service that may result in damage to the trust that has been established for many years by the company and their publics. Petition about IndiHome on Change.org means if customers feel disappointed and can’t longer believe Telkom. This study used quantitative descriptive research with questionnaire as a research instrument and distributed to consumers and supporter of petition about Indiome on Change.org. The data were analyzed using table of distribution of frequency and then the data recoded into three categories. The findings in this study were the dimension of integrity is moderate level. Keyword: public relations, trust, integrity, petition online