bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Russian Movie T-34: a duel between soldiers and their tanks.
Authors: Álvarez José Maurício
Published: January 2023

The aim of this essay is to exploratory analyze the Russian film Russian War T. 34, by Alexey Sidorov, as a symbolic duel between two individuals, a Nazi German and the other one Soviet, employing their tanks, their backgrounds, their industrial cultures, and ideologies. The Dominant Explain Comes from the Curzio Malaparte reports that, at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa of 1941, advocated Nazi defeat. We use the works of Steve Zaloga to analyze the use of tanks as a combat machines. John Erickson, Brandon Schechter's reading, explains the victory of the Red Army and the USSR, mobilizing industrial, human, and cultural means employing, according to Lewin, the memory of the Russian victory over Napoleon in 1812. Our Findings indicate that the consolidation of an accelerated industrial mindset produced a new ethics where Tank Crews were soldiers and mechanically inspired and, like an elite, along with industrial technique, employed tricks as a tactic weapon, according to Michel de Certeau. Narrating the dynamic plastic of the battle between tanks, Sidorov's film holds the viewer's attention by employing the narrative aesthetics of silent cinema and visualizing his scenes dispensing with the reading of Russian subtitles. The film puts the tank, the top product of the 1930s and 40s celebrated industrial development, as a complex war tool whose employment requires exceptional individuals endowed with cunning and technique of fighting, simultaneously soldiers and mechanical.
A Comparison of Internationalization Indicators of Evaluation for Higher Education among the Three Quality Assurance Agencies in Taiwan
Authors: Wang Ru-Jer , Wang Yang-Chih
Published: January 2023

In line with the internationalization of higher education, the quality assurance and evaluation of higher education is a global phenomenon. It is critical to examine whether internationalization is considered one of the crucial indicators in evaluating higher education. The research aims to examine the internationalization indicators and compare them in the three Quality Assurance Agencies in Taiwan. The methods of documentary analysis and comparative analysis were employed in the study. Based on the results, it can be concluded: in terms of internationalization as an indicator for higher education evaluation, of the three QA agencies in Taiwan, the TWAEA and the IEET take it into account; in contrast, the HEEACT has it as part of its purposes. Because international competence is essential in a globalized employment market, the university is responsible for internationalizing its students. Although a diversity of evaluation indicators is expected in Taiwan, some indicators are considered universal, including internationalization.
Translating legal formulae: a corpus-driven approach
Authors: Giampieri Patrizia
Published: January 2023

Fixed lexical or syntactical expressions and formulae hallmark legal language. They serve both linguistic and legal purposes, and should be rendered accordingly in a target language and legal system. Most of the times, however, formulaic expressions are translated by resorting to calques, false cognates, or phrases that are uncommon in the target legal language (and legal system). This paper is aimed at exploring how and if corpus analysis can dispel doubts and help find acceptable translation candidates. As there are currently no publicly available legal corpora addressing corporate documents such as contracts and agreements, this paper wishes to bridge this gap by building and relying on an ad hoc corpus of authentic agreements written in English as a first language according to the laws of England and Wales. In this way, corpus evidence can help find equivalents and, possibly, address recurrent mistranslations from Italian into English. During the corpus analysis process, the paper shows and discusses search queries and how equivalents can be obtained. At the same time, it questions dictionary entries. The paper findings highlight that the consultation of the ad hoc corpus allows to find acceptable translations of Italian legal formulae and address recurrent mistranslations. English formulaic expressions, in fact, can be rendered satisfactorily thanks to the possibility of noticing word usages in context, keywords in contexts and collocations. Further research can encompass a wider variety of formulae and/or legal documents so that scholars and translators can be equipped with useful reference tools.
A note on second derivative estimates for Monge-Ampère-type equations
Authors: Trudinger Neil S.
Published: January 2023

In this article, we revisit previous Pogorelov-type interior and global second derivative estimates of N. S. Trudinger, F. Jiang, and J. Liu for solutions of Monge-Ampère-type partial differential equations. Taking account of recent strict convexity regularity results of Guillen-Kitagawa and Rankin and following our earlier work in the optimal transportation case, we remove the monotonicity assumptions in the more general case of generated Jacobian equations and consequently in the subsequent application to classical solvability and global regularity for second boundary value problems.
Unravelling the genetic links between Parkinson’s disease and lung cancer
Authors: Leong Yong Qi , Koh Rhun Yian , Chye Soi Moi , Ng Khuen Yen
Published: January 2023

Increase evidence from epidemiological studies have shown an inverse association between Parkinson’s disease (PD) and lung cancer. PD and lung cancer are both geriatric diseases, where these two diseases are sharing some common genetic determinants. Several PD-associated genes including alpha synuclein (SNCA), PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1), parkin, parkinsonism associated deglycase (DJ-1), leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), F-box protein 7 (FBXO7) and ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1) were reported to have altered expressions in lung cancer patients. This indicates that certain PD-associated genes might be important in conferring anticancer effects. This review aims to depict the physiological functions of these genes, and discuss the putative roles of these PD-associated genes in lung cancer. The understanding of the roles of these genes in the lung cancer progression might be important in the identification of new treatment targets for lung cancer. Gene therapy that aims to alter the expressions of these genes could be developed for future anticancer therapy. As a result, studying the roles of these genes in lung cancer may also help to understand their involvements as well as their roles in the pathogenesis of PD.
On numerical characterizations of the topological reduction of incomplete information systems based on evidence theory
Authors: Li Changqing , Zhang Yanlan
Published: January 2023

Knowledge reduction of information systems is one of the most important parts of rough set theory in real-world applications. Based on the connections between the rough set theory and the theory of topology, a kind of topological reduction of incomplete information systems is discussed. In this study, the topological reduction of incomplete information systems is characterized by belief and plausibility functions from evidence theory. First, we present that a topological space induced by a pair of approximation operators in an incomplete information system is pseudo-discrete, which deduces a partition. Then, the topological reduction is characterized by the belief and plausibility function values of the sets in the partition. A topological reduction algorithm for computing the topological reducts in incomplete information systems is also proposed based on evidence theory, and its efficiency is examined by an example. Moreover, relationships among the concepts of topological reduct, classical reduct, belief reduct, and plausibility reduct of an incomplete information system are presented.
On the connection between S

p
-almost periodic functions defined on time scales and ℝ
Authors: Yang Hao , Li Hong-Xu
Published: January 2023

It is well known that a sufficient and necessary condition for a continuous function

g

g

to be almost periodic on time scale

T

{\mathbb{T}}

is the existence of an almost periodic function

f

f

on

R

{\mathbb{R}}

such that

f

f

is an extension of

g

g

. The purpose of this article is to extend these results to

S

p

{S}^{p}

-almost periodic functions. We prove that the necessity is true, that is, an

S

p

{S}^{p}

-almost periodic function on

T

{\mathbb{T}}

can be extended to an

S

p

{S}^{p}

-almost periodic function on

R

{\mathbb{R}}

. However, a counterexample is given to show that the sufficiency is not true in general. By introducing a concept of minor translation set and characterizing the almost periodicity on

T

{\mathbb{T}}

in terms of this new concept, we obtain a condition to ensure the sufficiency. Moreover, we show the necessity of this condition by a counterexample.
Optische Messung der Werkzeugablenkung in der inkrementellen Blechumformung
Authors: von Freyberg Axel , Terlau Marina , Stöbener Dirk , Fischer Andreas
Published: January 2023

Zum Umformen großer Bleche in kleinen Stückzahlen stellt die inkrementelle Blechumformung eine wirtschaftliche Alternative zum Tiefziehen dar. Auftretende Werkzeugablenkungen führen jedoch zu erhöhten Formabweichungen. Mit einer von der Maschinenkinematik unabhängigen In-Prozess-Messung der Werkzeugablenkung könnten diese kompensiert und somit die geometrischen Abweichungen minimiert werden. Deshalb wird ein optisches Multi-Sensorsystem konzipiert, um eine berührungslose Messung der Werkzeugposition mit der geforderten Messunsicherheit von 15 µm in einem Messabstand bis 2 m zu ermöglichen. Das Sensorsystemkonzept sieht eine Vielzahl preiswerter Sensoren vor, die jeweils einen Winkel zu einer Punktlichtquelle am Werkzeug erfassen. Basierend auf den gemessenen Winkeln aller zueinander kalibrierten Sensoren lässt sich die Position des Werkzeugs im dreidimensionalen Fertigungsvolumen per Multiangulation berechnen. Die mit dem Gesamtsystem erreichbare Messunsicherheit wurde mittels einer experimentellen Charakterisierung eines realisierten Angulationssensors sowie einer Unsicherheitsfortpflanzung abgeschätzt. Im Ergebnis erfüllt das Multi-Sensorkonzept sämtliche Anforderungen an die In-Prozess-Messung der Werkzeugablenkung bei der inkrementellen Blechumformung.
Authority, Critical Thinking, and the University in the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Anderson Lisa
Published: January 2023

A contribution to the “Review Symposium: Universities Between Inter-and Re-nationalization,” this essay argues that the critical inquiry characteristic of the university is intrinsically subversive and hence always suspect in the eyes of powerholders. The resulting tension may be expressed in various ways, from social aspiration or popular skepticism to political control or hostility but it never fully resolved.
Analysis and evaluation of albergo diffuso as sustainable business model
Authors: Hrvatin Stella , Markuz Ana , Miklošević Ivana
Published: January 2023

Social entrepreneurship literature continuously emphasizes the need for innovations in business models as businesses gain more importance in achievement of sustainable development. However, there is a lack of practical examples of sustainable business models which prevents their faster adoption among entrepreneurs. This paper analyzes and evaluates alternative hospitality model - Albergo diffuso which is by many authors considered to be an example of sustainable business model. Albergo diffuso is used for tourism restart and revitalization of rural areas as it recovers old buildings, creates new jobs, involves local farmers and entrepreneurs in value creation network and preserves local traditions. This paper applied qualitative research approach to analyze the business model of Croatian Albergo diffuso ‘Ražnjevića dvori’ using the semi-structured interviews. Tourism is of huge importance for economies around the world but at the same time it produces a lot of negative environmental and social impacts on local communities. Therefore, sustainable innovation, especially in business models, is needed to achieve sustainable development of tourism. This research showed that Albergo diffuso can be regarded as a sustainable business model because it creates sustainable value, includes stakeholders in the value network and establishes mutual value flows and thirdly internalizes negative environmental and social externalities. Researchers conclude that with small adjustments, Albergo diffuso as sustainable business model could contribute to sustainable tourism development. However, conclusions cannot be generalized due to limitations of the study that include small research sample and application on single case and further research is required.
Reproductive Decisions of the 1970–1984 Cohort Born in Lithuania
Authors: Platūkytė Ernesta
Published: January 2023

Even though childbirth in developed societies is increasingly associated with compromises in pursuit of a professional career, education, or other important goals, parenthood has remained an important significant life stage in the process of family formation. Change of structural and contextual circumstances influences the decision of individuals on whether to have children or not, and this increasingly depends on the desire to fulfil personal wishes and satisfy personal needs. Using qualitative research, this paper analyzes the reproductive decisions of a cohort born in Lithuania during the period of 1970–1984. The research informants are often referred to as a generation of a “natural social experiment”; a generation that experienced an active stage of family life in the conditions of drastic societal change. An analysis of personal accounts displays that for this generation, marriage had been the most favourable form of family formation, and procreative decisions were greatly influenced by the prevailing contextual circumstances in society. Maintaining the sequence of normativity of the life course created favourable conditions for those born in Lithuania in 1970–1984 to have children, and procreative expectations were associated with the institutionalization of family relations.
Spatial-temporal dynamics of vegetation cover, land use and anthropogenic transformations of landscape in the Cabaçal river basin, Mato Grosso state, Brazil
Authors: Helen Lorenzon Thiziane , Santos Galvanin Edinéia Aparecida dos , da Silva Neves Sandra Mara Alves , Kreitlow Jesã Pereira , Silva Miranda Miriam Raquel da
Published: January 2023

The landscapes are suffering intrinsic changes to the shape of land use, causing increasing forest removal for the insertion of agricultural/livestock activities. This study aimed to evaluate, within the spatial-temporal perspective and through geo-technologies, vegetation cover, land use and anthropogenic transformation of the landscape in the Cabaçal river basin, Mato Grosso state (Brazil). The images were geo-referenced, classified and processed using the SPRING software, and the thematic classes quantified and edited with the ArcGIS software. The degree of human disturbance was verified through the Anthropogenic Transformation Index. It identified ten classes related to land use and vegetation cover. During the analyzed period of 29 years, the vegetation cover was reduced in all subbasins of the study area for livestock development, with an increase of 237% for this activity. At the subbasin Nascentes do rio Cabaçal there was an increase of 56.77% from this land use, resulting in the deforestation of both Amazon and Cerrado biomes. The ATI has shown that forest removal increases gradually, classifying the landscape conservation status of the basin as “Regular”. The Interbacia do rio Cabaçal, located in the Amazon and Pantanal biomes, increased by 71.64% in the degree of human disturbance. The projection shows that for the year 2080 the degree of human disturbance is foreseen as “Regular”. For the year 2100 the projection demonstrates an Anthropogenic Transformation Index of 5.43 for the basin area as “Degraded”, which may result in a substantial loss of the remainder from the Cerrado, Amazon and Pantanal biomes.
Prevention and treatment of home moisture: the case of Douala city
Authors: Victorien Bienvenu Abanda Well
Published: January 2023

Many cities of the world are affected by home moisture. This is typically the case of Douala city. The negative impact of home moisture on the human life and buildings are very important. Thus, it is a health and environmental concern. Many factors such as flooding, poor material for building construction, non-mastery of construction technics, poor drainage network and low visibility of hazards cartography increase the vulnerability of houses to moisture. To mitigate this problem, the study recommends: the construction of more drainage networks, the vulgarization of flood cartography, the mastering of construction technics to mitigate moisture and people sensitization about the effect of home moisture on their health.
Risk of alcohol consumption during pregnancy on fetus
Authors: Bereda Gudisa
Published: January 2023

Miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth, low birth weight, and a range of lifelong disorders can caused by excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy is called fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Alcohol is the most hazardous teratogens which are substances that can detriment an advancing fetus. Every time a pregnant woman has a drink; her unborn child has only, too. Alcohol, like carbon monoxide from cigarettes, passes easily through the placenta from the mother's bloodstream into her baby's blood and puts her fetus at risk of having a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Drinking alcohol while pregnant can result in cognitive, social, and motor inadequacies and distinctive lifelong challenges. Usage of alcoholic beverages by pregnant women perhaps results in abortion, fetal mortality and prematurity. The intentions of this review is to teach the women about risk of alcohol consumption during pregnancy on their child and also on themselves and warn them to cease alcohol during pregnancy totally to safe their child from various defects and themselves from unexpected health challenges.
Phosphate solubilizing microbes: an incredible role for plant supplements
Authors: Bhodiwal Shweta , Barupal Tansukh
Published: January 2023

Plants procure phosphorus from soil as the phosphate anion. It is the most un-portable component in plant and soil in comparison to other macronutrients. It’s very well known that phosphorus is the second most significant supplement after the nitrogen required/needed in plant growth. It is a fundamental component in every single living system. Barely 1%-2% of phosphorous is provided to different parts of the plants. It precipitates in soil as orthophosphate or is adsorbed by Fe and Al oxides through legend exchange. Phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria play a substantial part in phosphorus nutrition by increasing phosphorus' accessibility to plants through discharge from inorganic and natural soil P pools by solubilization and mineralization. Lowering the pH of the soil through microbial generation of natural acids and mineralization of natural phosphorus by acid phosphates is the key element in the soil for mineral phosphate solubilization. Chemical composts are used as an additional source of phosphorous to satisfy the plant’s need. Additionally, co-inoculating P solubilizing microorganisms with other beneficial bacteria and mycorrhiza has shown to increase their efficiency. Microbial inoculants or biofertilizers can thus be used as an alternative source because they are both economical and environmentally favourable.
Breast carcinoma initially diagnosed by Bone Marrow Metastasis; case report and literature review
Authors: F Boutaibi
Published: January 2023

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer affecting women around the world. Symptomatic bone marrow metastases is a rare occurrence in patients with metastatic breast cancer. For the specialists, managing patients with bone marrow metastases presents significant challenges. Therefore it is important to carefully balance the risks and benefits of a course of treatment. We present a case study of a 56-year-old female patient with pancytopenia who showed no signs of breast cancer. However the breast carcinoma were discovered in the bone marrow by a biopsy. Chemotherapy and hormonal therapy were administered to this patient, and the outcomes were encouraging
Synthetic and analytical way of expressing diminutivity in the Ukrainian language of the 11th–18th centuries
Authors:   National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Semerenko Hanna
Published: January 2023

The main means of diminutive word formation are suffixes, which are of the greatest interest to researchers of diminutival and affectionate vocabulary, however, when studying the problem of the history of diminutive word formation, it is worth taking into account the history of other means of expressing diminutiveness, as word-forming and syntactic ways of expressing diminutiveness have always functioned alongside and interacted. These are analytical and synthetic-analytic means of conveying diminutiveness. The paper presents the results of the analysis of diminutiveness in its pure form, the primacy of diminutiveness and the secondariness of expressive shades based on the example of synthetic-analytical constructions of the 11th–18th centuries. The author determined the synthetic-analytical way of conveying diminutiveness and its role in demarcating small and emotional formations as well. Each lexeme was analyzed in a specific lexical environment, since in diachronic research it is not always possible to be guided by the general meaning, which is the basis of the evaluative word and is established by the generalization of separate multiple contexts, since in past eras diminutiveness was transmitted not only by suffixes, as in affectionate formations, but also with the help of indicator words малъ (малыи) in the 11th–13th centuries, and in the following epochs by such words as невеликий, маленький, мілкий, менший, дрібний etc. These words enable to distinguish smallness from emotionality: горка та не велика, но мала (1106–1108, сп. ХV, ЖХД, 21). A greater role in the detection of diminutive semantics is played by textual clarifications when, for instance, the size of the object was determined: свѣтлочка мала, лав три; в кѣльици малѣ, яко четыре лакоть (КПП, 135) і под. When diminutiveness is conveyed with the use of indicator words in conjunction with a common noun, we are talking about the analytical method: городъ малъ (под 1097, ПВЛ, 234), малого воза (1552, АЮЗР, 1/VІІ, 112). The presence of indicator words великий, болшій in structures with diminutive formants signals dediminution. Without such indicator words, it is often impossible to practically divide lexemes into diminutive, emotional and dediminutive. The materials of the conducted research can be used by derivationists in the study of historical word-forms, the history of the Ukrainian language, teachers, and students in the study of the relevant subject. Keywords: word-form, historical word-form, diminutiveness, pettiness, syntactic means of word-formation
Valency-based and non-valency based conjugability of verbs to perform / have performed in musical texts
Authors:   Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Stashkiv Solomiia
Published: January 2023

The article examines the valency of the verbs ‘to perform / have performed’ as the basis of their conjugability with other words in musical texts. The four-component valency frame of these verbs is substantiated, communicative and pragmatic factors affecting the verbalization of various sets of non-predicate nouns are defined. The semantic content and morphological expression of valency-based and non-valency-based components are clarified. A conclusion was made about the mandatory expression of valency-predicted subject and object components in musical texts and about limited conjugability with instrumental and address components. Typical secondary predicate syntaxes used in simple non-elementary sentences with these verbs are established. Keywords: verbs to perform / have performed, valency, conjugability, valency-conditioned com-ponents, valency-free components, non-predicate nouns, secondary predicate syntaxeme
Conditions of formation and stages of mineralization of the Pyazbashi gold-sulfide-quartz deposits (Leser Caucasus, Azerbaijan)
Authors: Mansurov Mamoy I. , Kerimli Ulker I.
Published: January 2023

We analyzed the conditions of the formation and stages of mineralization of the Pyazbashi gold-sulfide-quartz deposits. The deposits were determined to contain three structural-morphologic types of ore bodies: gold-quartz-sulfide – veinular, gold-bearing veins and the strip of gold-bearing metasomatites. We determined that in the deposits, quartz-pytire, quartz-carbonate and carbonate veins with gold and polymetal mineralization are confined to the volcanic-tectonic structures. Those volcanic-tectonic structures have various fracture systems, are complicated and have been inherited by later changes that occurred after the formation of the Lower and Middle Eocene volcanogenic complexes, and some of them have been embedded again. We de- termined that gold ore mineralization in the deposits is related to various hydrothermal-metasomatic formations and has developed in complex multy-stage process. Interaction of various veins and minerals that comprise them allow us to assume the following pattern in the sequence of the mineralization stages (from early stage to later stages): 1-quartz-sericite; 2-quartz-pyrite-molybdenum; 3-quartz- pyrite-gold ore; 4-quartz-polymetal; 5-carbonate. Gold-ore bodies are mainly complicated by aggregates of quartz-pyrite-gold ore stage of mineralization, which is the productive stage. We present the results of chemical analysis of native pyrite and chalcopyrite. We determined that native gold occurs as small, regular-shaped bodies in pyrite grains. In the veinlets of chalcopyrite, it is usually confined to marginal parts.
Lithoecotopes and vegetation of the Left -bank and the Right-bank dumps of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant
Authors: Voroshylova Nataliia V. , Сhorna Valentyna I. , Dotsenko Larisa V. , Katsevych Viktoria V. , Ananieva Tamila V. , Harchenko Kateryna S.
Published: January 2023

The article clarifies the peculiarities of the development of vegetation that is formed on the rock dumps of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant or their rock components (lithoecotopes), that is, only lithophilic vegetation. The problem of researching lithophilic plant communities from the point of view of forecasting their natural development and optimization is relevant not only for Kryvbas, but also for all industrial areas of open mining, in which significant masses of hard overburden rocks are brought to the surface of the earth. We have defined various lithoecotopes and described plant groups of varying complexity on plateau peaks, terraces and slopes depending on the specifics of their constituent rocks and typological features. Plant lithophilic groups of dumps of the Southern Mining and Processing Plant in accordance with the state of lithoecotopes, including all typological characteristics and geochemical nature of rocks, are marked by significant analytical (floristic and ecomorphic composition, occur- rence, stratification, physiognomy, abundance, coverage) and synthetic (similarity, constancy) differences signs A detailed study of thecondition of plants and their groups in lithoecotopes made it possible to make sure that their distribution and development have clearly defined substrate and relief-exposure dependencies, which can be used in phytotic and phytocenotic improvement of these man-made ecotopes. The natural overgrowth of all dumps has a mixed shrub-tree forest and grassy character in accordance with the typological characteristics and composition of the rocks. It was found that the change of plant communities on the lithoecotopes left without hu- man influence is endoexogenous in nature, because the ecesis external pressure is imposed on intracenotic processes. As a result of such integration, both fluctuations and successions naturally occur against the background of one or another substrate. The occurrence of species, the species and petrophytic capacity of plant communities, and their petrophytic indices in the lithoecotopes of the dumps have discrepancies depending on the specifics of the conditions. In general, the taxonomic composition of the plant communities of the dumps of the Pidennoy GZK of Kryvbas is determined by 218 species belonging to 54 families, 84 species of which are petrophytes.
Sanity and Social Control in the System of Socio-Philosophical Knowledge
Authors: Pisachkina Yana S.
Published: January 2023

Introduction. Sanity is the most important priority in the formation of the modern era in the context of reformatting the unipolar world at the turn of the millennium and the transition to a multipolar world in solving the deep crises and catastrophes experienced by mankind, wars and pandemics. The purpose of the article is to model the forms of social control integrated into the living space of society based on the synthesis of potentials, and to unite the basic constants in the picture of the world.

Materials and Methods. As a theoretical and methodological research strategy, an integrative approach is considered, the implementation of which, in conjunction with a systemic, personal-activity, competence-based, synergistic approach, ensures the unification of various structures, links, components of pre-university education and its output to a higher quality level.

Discussion and Conclusion. The emergence of social control is associated with a cognitive revolution caused by a genetic mutation. The source of the internal energy of this process is spontaneity, as a condition for the cognition of all the processes of the world in their self-movement. Sanity in social philosophy is based on the unity and unity of the basic constants in the picture of the world: cognitive, vital, spiritual, technological, economic, sociological, anthropological, communication.

Results. The developed model of sanity as a basic, fundamental core in the structure of assessment of the forms and quality of thinking is presented. The rationality of people is due to practical expediency and vitally justified behavior. In this regard, the ideals and norms of sanity are not absolute, but they are controlled and sanctioned by the state of being rooted in everyday life.
Soil water tensions and potassium fertilization in cherry tomato cultivation
Authors: PACHECO ADRIANO BICIONI , SILVA TONNY JOSÉ ARAÚJO DA , BONFIM-SILVA EDNA MARIA , DAMASCENO ANA PAULA ALVES BARRETO , KOETZ MARCIO , DUARTE THIAGO FRANCO
Published: January 2023

The aimed to evaluate the accumulated water consumption, growth characteristics, chlorophyll index, soil pH and the productive characteristics of cherry tomatoes cultivated in pots under soil water tensions and potassium doses in a protected environment. The experiment was carried out in a greenhouse in pots of 12 dm3 soil, in a dystrophic Oxisol. The experimental design was in randomized blocks in a 52 fractioned factorial arrangement, with five water availabilities in the soil (4, 14, 24, 34 and 44 kPa) and five potassium doses (0, 125, 250, 375 and 500 mg dm-3) with four blocks. The accumulated water consumption indicates that the greatest water restrictions growing and development were for soil water tensions of 44 and 34 kPa. The soil water tension in the around 22 kPa provided greater growth in the flowering stage. The potassium fertilization in the dose of 500 mg dm-1 were observed the largest masses of roots, leaves and stems. The highest dry mass of cherry tomato fruits occurs in the soil water tension of 28 kPa and in the potassium dose of 284 mg dm-3. Deficiency and excess potassium in the soil reduced fruit production, as well as the deficit and excess water in the soil.
Editorial
Authors: Lara Largo Sofía , Suárez Guava Luis Alberto
Published: January 2023

En el actual número los lectores y las lectoras se encontrarán en un primer momento con un ensayo introductorio en donde Fabián Herrera Morales, editor invitado del dossier en la primera parte, discute acerca del marco cognitivo de las políticas públicas como apuestas hacia la construcción de paz y la participación política. En la misma dirección, insistiendo en la acción y participación política, Clara Inés Carreño presenta los resultados de su trabajo con jóvenes estudiantes y la manera en que ejercen dicha participación a través de sus narrativas escritas en el marco del posconflicto y la paz anunciada por los acuerdos con la guerrilla de las FARC.
Autoetnografía animalista: perspectivas multiespecie sobre la subjetivación política de los veganismos
Authors: Ponce León Juan José
Published: January 2023

Este artículo aborda la subjetividad animalista en clave autoetnográfica y multiespecie. Esta investigación es fruto de mi lugar vivencial como investigador y activista anarquista y antiespecista, por tanto, se describe tanto mi proceso de politización como mis experiencias etnográficas con mis informantes. Para ello, se intercalan fragmentos de 20 entrevistas en profundidad, realizadas entre el año 2019 y 2020, a 12 varones y 8 mujeres, entre 22 y 65 años, junto con mis memorias sobre mi devenir animalista antiautoritario. Esta pesquisa se dio en el marco del trabajo de campo efectuado para la obtención del título de Magíster en Sociología Política por la Flacso. Se trabaja el vínculo humanoperro en sus desplazamientos heterogéneos, se aborda la noción de familias multiespecie, “mascota” y mascotismo, así como los lugares de contacto intersubjetivo, con amplios registros corporales, afectivos y perceptivos, que permiten mirar a los animales más allá del prejuicio especista.
El trabajo del barro: una forma de conocer y hacer. Pormenores de la alfarería de La Chamba, Tolima
Authors: González Quiñones Edward Iván
Published: January 2023

Este artículo ofrece una descripción actualizada de la alfarería de La Chamba, Tolima, cuyo propósito es privilegiar el punto de vista conceptual de lasartesanas y los artesanos y los sucesos imponderables de todo el proceso de creación con el barro. Pretende mostrar, más que argumentar, que el trabajo del barro es un oficio cuya sabiduría reside en el sometimiento a las propiedades y posibilidades del barro y otros materiales implicados, por medio de un conocimiento metódico, sensible y plástico, como el barro mismo. De esto se ofrece una exploración a partir de la noción de catear y de punto. El escrito es resultado de una estadía de más de cuatro meses en la vereda, guiada por una orientación metodológica que es posible llamar observación participante, consistente en ser aprendiz del oficio y acompañar la vida de las alfareras y alfareros.
Children with Disabilities Attending Montessori Programs in the United States
Authors: Long Toby , Westerman Clare , Ferranti Nadia
Published: January 2023

Early childhood education plays a critical role in establishing positive social-emotional behaviors and promoting the development of skills needed to succeed in elementary school. Although inclusion of children with disabilities (CWD) in early childhood classrooms is increasing throughout the world, numerous social, logistical, and political factors continue to present challenges to full inclusion. The Montessori educational approach, established at the beginning of the 20th century and now applied widely throughout Europe and the United States, may present a highly suitable learning context for CWD, particularly given its historical basis in efforts to meet the needs of underprivileged and cognitively delayed children. On a theoretical level, the inclusion of CWD should be an accepted practice for Montessori programs yet reports of the number and characteristics of CWD attending Montessori programs are scarce. This paper reports upon the findings of a survey of U.S. Montessori early childhood programs’ current enrollment of CWD. The survey indicated that CWD represent 3.75% of the infant and toddler (0–3 years) population and 8.49% of the preschool/early childhood (3–6 years) population at responding institutions. Additionally, although school directors indicate that their teachers generally feel confident and competent including CWD in their classrooms, they expressed a need for ongoing professional development and additional support from special education experts to further empower the inclusion of CWD in all aspects of Montessori education.
Narcissism: Variations on a Theme (To the Results of the Discussion)
Authors:   Economic Science Sector Institute of Economics RAS, Moscow, Orekhovsky Petr , Razumov Vladimir ,   Omsk State University named after F.M. Dostoevsky, Russian Federation,   Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Russian Federation
Published: January 2023

The article is an attempt to generalize the results of the discussion that was held on the pages of this journal after the publication of the article [9] on its pages. In total, 11 authors participated in the discussion, published in the journal “Ideas and Ideals”. Summing up the discussion, we note that narcissism is interesting as a topic of interdisciplinary research and discussions. The available materials allow us to conclude that either the phenomenon of narcissism itself or its reflection by specialists are at the initial stage of formation. The published articles allow us to conclude that different groups of authors interpret both culture itself and the modern phenomenon of narcissism in different ways. The understanding of culture as a set of practices used by P.A. Orekhovsky and V.I. Razumov, is shared by N.I. Martishina, V.A. Skorev, Yu.Yu. Pershin, G.A. Illarionov, V.I. Kudashov. The approach to culture as a metasystem is typical for the works of A.G. Teslinova and L.Yu. Logunova. A variant of culture as a feature of cognition was proposed by O.V. Khlebnikova (“conceptual” and “clip” thinking), a variant of distinguishing socialist and capitalist (“necrophilic”) culture is used by S.M. Zhuravleva. Thus, narcissism is considered in very different contexts, which makes it difficult to understand it and makes, in fact, impossible to develop a conventional attitude towards practices implemented in politics, science, and education. It is appropriate to refer to the following discussions of the theory and practice of narcissism with the topic of the relationship of narcissism with religiosity. From a prognostic perspective, it is interesting to look at the prospects for links between narcissism and the future of postmodernism and the mass consumer society. According to P.A. Orekhovsky and V.I. Razumov, if we consider the discussion that took place as an experiment in the indication of scientific rhetoric, then its results convincingly testify both to the fruitfulness of the concept of narcissism and to the legitimacy of concern for the preservation of the universe of previous practices and conventions. The lack of clarity in the understanding of narcissism indicates that this phenomenon is just beginning to attract the attention of specialists.
Preparing MEF-cultured hPSCs for nucleofection v2
Authors: Li Hanqin
Published: January 2023

This protocol describes the procedure or preparing MEF-cultured human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) for the delivery of plasmids, mRNA or ribonucleoprotein (RNP) using nucleofection. General notes 1. Throughout this protocol, the term hPSC is used to collectively refer to both hiPSCs and hESCs. All described procedures have been tested and work equally well for hiPSCs and hESCs. 2. This protocol is to prepare cells for protocol nucleofection of hPSCs. Before starting, familiarize yourself with the protocol and the required preparations. A detailed protocol on maintaining MEF-cultured hPSCs can be found in the collection "Maintenance and inactivation of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) as feeder cells for human pluripotent stem cell culture;" doi: 3. Detailed protocols for preparing plasmids, RNA, and RNP for nucleofection can be found in the collection "Nucleofection (Amaxa) and electroporation (Biorad) of hPSCs." A link to this collection can be found in the title section of this protocol, located above
Lluvias e inundaciones en el desierto: percepción de riesgo, discusión política y propuestas económicas en la provincia de Tarapacá (Perú), a través de la prensa escrita (1829–1875)
Authors: Castro Castro Luis
Published: January 2023

Si bien la provincia de Tarapacá se ubica en el desierto más seco del planeta, el de Atacama, ocasionalmente se ve afectada por inundaciones desatadas entre los meses de diciembre a marzo a causa de lluvias estivales provenientes desde Bolivia. Este fenómeno, conocido localmente como el “invierno boliviano”, ha terminado por ubicarse en el imaginario de los tarapaqueños, como también en el seno de las discusiones políticas y propuestas económicas en orden a mitigar los daños que provoca cuando su intensidad se incrementa, como también recuperar el excedente de agua para fines agrícolas y consumo humano. El propósito de este trabajo es adentrarse en estas discusiones, desplegadas en la prensa escrita, en un periodo particularmente complejo e interesante, la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, debido a la formación de la república del Perú, la expansión de la industria salitrera y el traspaso de este territorio a la soberanía chilena.
Introduction: When Security Meet Politics of Conflict, Women, Development and Peace, Get Ready For A Challenging Year
Authors: Chen Mumin , Othman Zarina , Mat Bakri
Published: January 2023

This editorial note serves as an introductory explanation as we approach the dawn of 2023. The hardship of a total lockdown changes how we look at space and time or spatiotemporal beyond ordinary linearity of progress and regress. Nevertheless, how do we use space and time to make sense of the most significant concerns of threats to our security? How do we refine constructive ideas about safety and inspire others to think beyond the rigidity of rational choice and nearly no freedom to choose? Time and space transform our perceived secured reality and insinuate threat discursively, whether yesterday or today, international or local. In our nested security discourse, we challenge the archaic and unstable binary boundaries between international and internal delineation of security threats and peace concerns. Altogether, temporal constraints and limited space disperse our cognitive inability to operate within the tesseract of multiple data analytics, eternal realities, and organic, meaningful solutions to give hope to humanity and freedom to coexist mutually. Underpinned by multidimensions and nested security discourse, we present our readers with our final thoughts in selecting six research articles, three research notes, two commentaries, and one book review.
From Violent Victims to Emancipatory Agency of Peace: Exploring Female Jirga as Local Gendered Peace Formation and Community Peacebuilding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Authors: Khan Irfan
Published: January 2023

For years, the insecurity and violence against women in many parts of Pakistan have magnified the danger of the prevalent worldview of strong and protective men. In contrast, women are weak and protected by men. Inevitable victimisation and powerless women are counterproductive since women are central to the community's household institution. This paper explores local community peacebuilding initiatives of women's first Jirga by a local activist Tabassum Adnan in Pakistan's Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Exploring women's Jirga as an agency of regional and gendered peace formation in a salient patriarchal Pakhtun worldview underscores women's security and gendered Peace perspective in recognising the need to consider the missing systemic and unpeaceful change and transformation in contemporary Pakistan and South Asia. Adopting qualitative methods of Feminist Peace research unravels the potential and pitfalls of how women can embark upon alternative dispute resolutions (ADR) when patriarchal conceptualisations of conflict resolution prevent their active participation. Findings show multidimensional links between local community peace and global systemic and peaceful transformation of international relations (IR). Recognising the transformative roles of women in overcoming GBV is a critical transnational shift from the past and minimal human rights protection of women to the present and maximal recognition of women as emancipatory agents of peace.
Against All Odds? Blue Economy and Blue Ocean Maritime Strategy in Seychelles and Mauritius
Authors: Hisyam Muhammad Ammar , As-Shung Emma Michelle Lee Yuk Ying , Sariburaja Kennimrod , Garibay Daniel Ruiz
Published: January 2023

Does Blue Ocean become the perfect mantra for reaching desired developmental goals? Blue Economy is an essential sustainable development framework for coastal and island states who rely on the ocean and marine resources as a source of livelihood. The concept of a Blue Economy merges economic development and conservation for coastal and island states. The Seychelles and Mauritius are two Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Western Indian Ocean, faced with economic development and conservation dilemmas. Identifying and understanding the challenges and limitations of Blue Economy for SIDS are required to understand the vulnerability of those nations, which is essential to the future outcomes of sustainable development in the Seychelles and Mauritius. Adopting library research methods and online focus group conversations with different stakeholders in both countries, and over two years, during pre-and post-Covid lockdown periods, provide this paper with fascinating findings. Further identification and understanding of vulnerability, overcoming challenge and paradox of Blue Economic ideals in these two cases of SDIS refine the authors’ scepticism upon the myth of the SDG. The authors’ preliminary findings explain the difficulty of the Covid-19 pandemic in allowing both states to realise their SDG targets.
Understanding the History and Geopolitics of the United States in the Thailand's Golden Triangle: Relations Between Drug Addiction and Trafficking on Malaysian Security
Authors: Mohamad Yasid Amer Fawwaz , Zulkifli Noraini
Published: January 2023

We examine the latest proposals of new Malaysia's government to decriminalise drug addiction issues. From defence and security perspective, the authors cautioned Malaysia's hasty decision to decriminalise drug addicts when existing security measures to combat drug smuggling at the cross-border remained unresolved. In demonstrating the relations between illegal drug supplies in the Malaysian black market with the transnational drug syndicate, the authors focus historical existence of the Golden Triangle and the US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) presence in the area during the Cold War. The CIA’s involvement in the drug triangle within complex nested security threats. It brought the Malaysian history of drugs and the introduction of capital punishment with the past relations of Malaya's communist insurgency with the northern Vietnam government and the Vietnam War. Given the current shift of the Southeast Asian tension involving the US-China power rivalry in the South China Sea, any current attempt to decriminalise dangerous addicted substances must take into past the historical geopolitical complexity of transnational and traditional security threats. Currently, the conceptualisation of drug addictions as national security threats relies upon existing capital punishment for drug abuse as a criminal offence. These offences relied heavily upon jurisprudence conceptualisation of addiction with possession of the abused substance. A proposal to decriminalise Malaysian addicts needs to understand the reliance of threats upon criminal offence concepts of the addictive substance. Thus, without criminological concepts of unlawful possession, legal loopholes cannot deter transnational security problems caused by drug traffickers and smugglers.