bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Relationship between the cytokine profle of supernatants of invasive breast carcinoma and its molecular and histopathological characteristics
Authors: Autenshlyus A. I. , Arkhipov S. A. , Mikhaylova E. S. , Arkhipova V. V. , Varaksin N. A.
Published: January 2024

The aim of the study was to analyze the correlation between the cytokine profile of supernatants of invasive breast carcinoma of a nonspecific type (IBC-NST) samples, histopathological and molecular genetic parameters of IBC-NST, expression of the CD34 as a marker of angiogenesis and metastasis to regional lymph nodes (RLN).

Material and Methods. The production of 14 cytokines in IBC-NST biopsy samples from 28 patients aged 37–60 years was studied. The concentration of cytokines in the supernatants of biopsies (CCSB) was determined (in pg/ml) using enzyme immunoassay (ELISA). The expression of CD34 and markers of IBC-NST molecular subtypes (HER2/neu, ER, PR, Ki67) in IBC-NST biopsy samples was evaluated by immunohistochemical method. The relative content of tumor cells of different differentiation grade in the IBC- NST samples was evaluated by histopathological analysis.

Results. The assessment of CCSB showed statistically significant differences in IFN-γ, G-CSF, IL-2, IL-10 and MCP-1 between patients of group I (with metastases in RLNs) and group II (without metastases in RLNs). In group I, the correlations between histopathological parameters (Her2/neu, CD34 and Ki67 expressions, % of mitoses and poorly-differentiated cancer cells) and CCSB (MCP-1, IL-18) were revealed. In group II, the correlations between CCSB (IL-2, VEGF-A, G-CSF, IL-1Ra) and histopathological parameters, such as expression of Her2/neu, CD34, PR, % of mitoses and well-differentiated cancer cells, were revealed. The ROC analysis showed that the presence or absence of metastases in RLNs can be predicted on the basis of CD34 expression levels and concentrations of IL-10, G-CSF, and MCP-1 in supernatants of IBC-NST biopsy samples. The quality of the model for stratifying patients into groups with and without RLN metastases, based on the assessment of the concentration of MCP-1 in the supernatants of IBC-NST biopsies, reached maximum values (AUC=1.000) with relatively high CD34 expression.

Conclusion. The analysis of the data obtained showed that the assessment of CD34 expression and production of cytokines in IBC-NST biopsies is important for predicting the presence or absence of metastases in RLNs.
Typology of fakes about the special operation in Ukraine in the digital public sphere
Authors: Zaitsev A. V. , Akhunzianova F. T.
Published: January 2024

The article represents the analysis of fake information distributed in the digital public sphere, namely, of a very significant amount of digital content about the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine. The object of the study is the nature of the discursive interaction of agents of political communication in the digital public sphere in the process of broadcasting their views and opinions. The analysis is based on the messages posted primarily on the social network VKontakte. The most important criterion for selecting material included in the scope of the study was its fake, that is, unreliable, distorted content. As a result of the analysis, the authors make an attempt to classify the fake narratives within this topic and highlight their features. The understanding such features of fake narratives, on the one hand, should allow critical perception of the information disseminated in the sphere of public digital discourse and diagnose fake information as such, and, on the other hand, facilitate the legal assessment of fakes.
Local communities as the basis for preserving the cultural diversity of modern Russia: methodological approaches
Authors: Bazhenov E. N.
Published: January 2024

The article discusses approaches to the study of local communities associated with sociocultural transformations of modern Russian society. In Western and Russian scientific schools, the study of local communities differs. Since the first half of the 19th century, Western science has observed the development of communities and their transformations in the process of urbanization, which broke communal tradition. Today in Western sociology, the study of communities is carried out primarily in the everyday, everyday field. The Russian practice of studying local communities was formed later, towards the end of the 20th century, during the formation of the system of local government bodies, therefore the local community is considered by Russian researchers as a phenomenon of local government. In modern urban-oriented culture, it is important to form and develop the local community not only as the basis for preserving the population and territories in the region. Mechanisms for consolidating people into a community through social activity not only solve the practical problem of preserving territories and their resources, but can be considered as a model for assembling such a complex social entity as Russia. Socio-cultural technologies of working with communities occupy a special place. Participatory budgeting and asset-based community development (ABCD), among others, play an important role. The latter formed the basis of the “cultural mosaic” program, initiated by the Timchenko Foundation.
The concept and the essence of political cartoon in the modern world
Authors: Belyaeva E. V.
Published: January 2024

The paper is dedicated to the analysis of the theoretical component of political cartoon, its essence and concept. Attention is focused on the importance of political cartoons in modern political and legal reality with the rapid development of information systems and technologies. The author notes that the topic of political cartoons in the modern world is relevant and requires comprehensive research. A political cartoon is an important element of state, political and legal processes, since it acts as a vivid expression of public opinion regarding certain important situations in the global and intrastate field. The significance of a political caricature necessitates an in-depth approach to the analysis of the doctrinal foundations of the phenomenon under study, and therefore the paper represents the review of various approaches to understanding the concept and essence of a political caricature. In conclusion, the author notes that despite the widespread prevalence of political cartoons and the presence of a large number of studies on this topic, the problem of the place of political cartoons in the system of the humanities remains significant, as well as the lack of uniformity in the understanding of this phenomenon.
Political orientation as a characteristic of media (on the example of ancient Chinese newspapers)
Authors: Lai L.
Published: January 2024

The manuscript is devoted to identifying the types and political characteristics of ancient Chinese newspapers. The study of the history of journalism is an important part of the study of Chinese history and, at the same time, contributes to a clear understanding of modern processes. The scientific discourse discusses historical and cultural factors influencing the development of modern journalism. Meanwhile, studying the history of ancient Chinese journalism is no less important than studying modern journalism in a given country. The article analyzes the socio-political conditions of the birth of newspapers in ancient China, the activities of their publishers, the political goals and content of newspapers, the audience, and interaction with the ruling authorities. A comparative analysis of ancient Chinese official, private legal and illegal publications is given. The author analyzes scientific sources based on the principle of historicism, such general scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction. The main research methods are historical-genetic and historical typological.
Impact Performance Improvement of Multiscale Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites with CNT
Authors: Ferik Erdem , Kaboglu Cihan
Published: January 2024

Improving the interface properties of carbon nanotubes increases the mechanical performance of fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites. Studies on different fiber types and different polymer matrix materials present promising results in literature. The effect of carbon nanotube (CNT) additives on impact performance of fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites produced by vacuum infusion method and drop weight impact test applied. Glass and carbon 1 m2 fiber fabrics were divided into 9 equal square pieces and placed on top of each other to make them multi-layered structure. Fiber reinforcements were produced using vacuum infusion method with epoxy resin. 0.5% of the total composite weight was added to CNT with same production parameters and intraply hybrid composite containing glass, carbon and aramid fibers was also produced. Samples were produced from the composite plates and the drop weight impact test was performed with 50 J impact energy in accordance with ASTM D7136 standard. While this increase could be observed in glass fiber and carbon fiber reinforced composites, the impact energy absorption performance in carbon fiber reinforced composite increased more than 100%. CNT increased the impact performance of multi-layer fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites.
On correlation functions in models related to the Temperley-Lieb algebra
Authors: Fukai Kouhei , Kleinemühl Raphael , Pozsgay Balázs , Vernier Eric
Published: January 2024

We deal with quantum spin chains whose Hamiltonian arises from a representation of the Temperley-Lieb algebra, and we consider the mean values of those local operators which are generated by the Temperley-Lieb algebra. We present two key conjectures which relate these mean values to existing literature about factorized correlation functions in the XXZ spin chain. The first conjecture states that the finite volume mean values of the current and generalized current operators are given by the same simple formulas as in the case of the XXZ chain. The second conjecture states that the mean values of products of Temperley-Lieb generators can be factorized: they can expressed as sums of products of current mean values, such that the coefficients in the factorization depend neither on the eigenstate in question, nor on the selected representation of the algebra. The coefficients can be extracted from existing work on factorized correlation functions in the XXZ model. The conjectures should hold for all eigenstates that are non-degenerate with respect to the local charges of the models. We consider concrete representations, where we check the conjectures: the so-called golden chain, the QQ-state Potts model, and the trace representation. We also explain how to derive the generalized current operators from concrete expressions for the local charges.
Electric conductivity in non-Hermitian holography
Authors: Xian Zhuo-Yu , Rodríguez Fernández David , Chen Zhaohui , Liu Yang , Meyer René
Published: January 2024

We study the phase structure and charge transport at finite temperature and chemical potential in the non-Hermitian \mathcal{PT}𝒫𝒯-symmetric holographic model of [SciPost Phys. 9, 032 (2020)]. The non-Hermitian \mathcal{PT}𝒫𝒯-symmetric deformation is realized by promoting the parameter of a global U(1) symmetry to a complex number. Depending on the strength of the deformation, we find three phases: stable \mathcal{PT}𝒫𝒯-symmetric phase, unstable \mathcal{PT}𝒫𝒯-symmetric phase, and an unstable \mathcal{PT}𝒫𝒯-symmetry broken phase. In the three phases, the square of the condensate and also the spectral weight of the AC conductivity at zero frequency are, respectively, positive, negative, and complex. We check that the Ferrell-Glover-Tinkham sum rule for the AC conductivity holds in all the three phases. We also investigate a complexified U(1) rotor model with \mathcal{PT}𝒫𝒯-symmetric deformation, derive its phase structure and condensation pattern, and find a zero frequency spectral weight analogous to the holographic model.
Suppression of scattering from slow to fast subsystems and application to resonantly Floquet-driven impurities in strongly interacting systems
Authors: Hübner Friedrich
Published: January 2024

We study solutions to the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in systems where a slow subsystem is coupled to a fast subsystem via an impurity. Such situations appear when a high-frequency Floquet-driven impurity is introduced into a low-energy system, but the driving frequency is at resonance with a high-energy band. In contrast to the case of resonant bulk driving, where the particles in the low-energy system are excited into the high-energy band, we surprisingly find that these excitations are suppressed for resonantly driven impurities. Still, the transmission through the impurity is strongly affected by the presence of the high-energy band in a universal way that does not depend on the details of the high-energy band. We apply our general result to two examples and show the suppression of excitations from the low-energy band into the high-energy band: a) bound pairs in a Fermi-Hubbard chain scattering at a driven impurity, which is at resonance with the Hubbard interaction and b) particles in a deep optical lattice described by the tight-binding approximation, which scatter at a driven impurity, whose driving frequency equals the band gap between the two lowest energy bands.
JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN INDONESIA AND ASEAN FOR DISABLED PERSONS (STUDY ON PEOPLE AFFECTED BY LEPROSY)
Authors: Tarigan Nuah Perdamenta , Siregar Christian , Tampubolon Simon Mangatur
Published: January 2024

Justice that has not existed and is apparent among the disabilities in Indonesia is very large and spread in the archipelago is very large, making the issue of equality is a very important thing especially with the publication of the Disability Act No. 8 of 2016 at the beginning of that year. Only a few provinces that understand properly and well on open and potential issues and issues will affect other areas including the increasingly growing number of elderly people in Indonesia due to the increasing welfare of the people. The government of DKI Jakarta, including the most concerned with disability, from the beginning has set a bold step to defend things related to disability, including local governments in Solo, Bali, Makassar and several other areas. Leprosy belonging to the disability community has a very tough marginalization, the disability that arises from leprosy quite a lot, reaches ten percent more and covers the poor areas of Indonesia, such as Nusa Tenggara Timur, Papua, South Sulawesi Provinces and even East Java and West Java and Central Java Provinces. If we compare again with the ASEAN countries we also do not miss the moment in ratifying the CRPD (Convention of Rights for People with Disability) into the Law of Disability No. 8 of 2016 which, although already published but still get rejections in some sections because do not provide proper empowerment and rights equality. The struggle is long and must be continued to build equal rights in all areas, not only health and welfare but also in the right of the right to receive continuous inclusive education.
THE QUALITY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION SERVICE IN INDONESIA
Authors: Sanny Lim
Published: January 2024

Education is the most important thing as education  is a strategic tool to improve the standard  of human life. Parents play a very important role in choosing their children’s school. This research aims to  find  out  the  effect  of  quality  of  educational  service  and  school  reputation  to  parents’ satisfaction towards  parents’ decision  in  choosing  the  school.  Research  is  done  in  Indonesia,  taking  400  random samples from Indonesia’s big cities. The result shows that parents’ decision in choosing a school is highly affected by the service quality of educational service and school reputation. As a result, the improvement of service quality for every school is required in order to make parents more satisfied and to gain a good reputation.
UTILIZING A WEBSITE TO INCREASE EDUCATION QUALITY AWARENESS IN WEST KALIMANTAN RURAL VILLAGES
Authors: Ernawaty Ernawaty , Chandra Yacob Utama
Published: January 2024

Education already become a basic human right since they were born. But geographical condition differentiates the level of education quality they get. Especially in most development countries with low implementation of ICT (Information, Communication, and Technology). In this digital era, it is hard to achieve an effective and efficient learning environment in rural areas. Infrastructures and teaching tools in those areas are very humble. Few books can be read. With limited educational background, social-economy issues will always keep remain. Love Borneo is an organic community that want to make a change for children in rural villages in West Kalimantan. They build a facility called Rumah Baca that provide good quality books suitable for children. They collect donated books and some money to buy books and educational games for children. Since 2015, they already build 10 Rumah Baca. But there are still so many villages that need this kind of facility. To build awareness about education for children in rural villages, this article discusses the development of a dedicated website called www.loveborneo.org that provides up to date information about this community and their activities. People around the world can access this website and can officially support this community. www.loveborneo.org is only one example of ICT implementation to help rural citizens.
ANDROID APPLICATION FOR DETECTION OF SKIN CANCER USING EXPERT SYSTEM
Authors: Udjaja Yogi
Published: January 2024

Skin cancer is an abnormal growth of human skin that can damage skin cells. By knowing the symptoms of skin cancer as early as posssible, it is helpful in preventing the spread of cancer cells and treatment. There are many factors that cause skin cancer, but in general the cause is exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun. Therefore, an expert system application is required to detectskin cancer. By using backward chining and probalility methode; which data is in form of someone’s risk factor and clinical sympthoms, then the application will provide temporary diagnosis. This application is built in an android platfrom because in its development android is more used than other platforms. The accuracy obtained from this application is 96.67%.
THE INFLUENCE OF SERVICE QUALITY, PERCEIVED VALUE AND CORPORATE IMAGE TOWARD INPATIENT SATISFACTION ON PRIVATE HOSPITAL
Authors: Novella Selly , Polla Johannes Ronaldy , Dharma Octa Marihot , Walia Puspa
Published: January 2024

The purpose of this research was to determine the influence of service quality, perceived value, and corporate image of the hospital toward inpatient satisfaction of private hospitals in Jabodetabek.  This study is categorized as a survey research, where researchers distributed questionnaires to 155 respondents who had been inpatients in private hospitals in Jabodetabek area. The method that used in this research is quantitative method and descriptive analysis. The method used in this research is simple and multiple linear regressions using SPSS v20. The results of this research showed that service quality, perceived value, and corporate image of Private Hospitals in Jabodetabek have significantly affect patient satisfaction on private hospitals in Jabodetabek.
THE EFFECT OF FIRM’S CHARACTERISTIC AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE TO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT DISCLOSURE
Authors: Lucia Lucia , Panggabean Rosinta Ria
Published: January 2024

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of company’s characteristic which are profitability (ROA), leverage (DER), liquidity (CR), company size (SIZE), and corporate governance proxied by board of directors and audit committee (KA) to disclosure of sustainability reports (SR). The study had 105 samples of manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia StockExchange and 262 manufacturing companies listed on Malaysia Exchange in year 2013-2015. Data analysis using regression logistic method with E-views version 9. Hypothesis testing results show that the partial results of hypothesis testing variable DER, CR, and Directors do not have significant effect on internet financial reporting, but ROA and SIZE have significant influence on sustainability report disclosure (SR) of manufacturing companies listed in IDX and Bursa Malaysia.
CHALLENGING ROLES OF THE TEACHER IN INDONESIAN MODERN MIDDLE SCHOOLS
Authors: Wang Gunawan
Published: January 2024

Since year 2000, Indonesian ministry of education has allowed open curriculum system especially for adopting foreign curriculum system into national middle school system. As a result, there are demanding trends amongst parents and communities to reshape the role of teacher. The traditional instruction which emphasized the role of teacher as primarily source of knowledge is considered no longer effective to cope with latest trend of globalisation and internet technologies. For this reason, the article addressed the changing roles of modern teacher along with enhancing instructional activities. The article also examines the important trends that commonly ignored by the teachers such as: advance internet applications and characteristics of digital generation, and link them with variety of learningapproaches.
Business Perspective in Integrating Agricultural Commodity Exchange and Warehouse Receipt System: A decade of Indonesia Experience
Authors: Sunarto Hari , Marwati Marwati , Hananto Hans , Yuliawati Yuliawati
Published: January 2024

This exploratory research on the integration process of Agricultural Commodity Exchange (ACE) and Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) which has been launched since 2008 in Indonesia is based on a business perspective. The study is part of a comprehensive research that has been started in 2008 and is expected to continue until 2019. Data are obtained through  observation, interviews with key informants implementing government  policies, several WRS warehouse managers and ACE, secondary data and surveys to farmers. ACE is meant to increase famers bargaining power and WRS is to increase the price of agricultural commodities as well as part of the national logistics system that supports national food security policies. The efforts of CoFTRA to develop and integrate between ACE and WRS were never stopped since they were introduced in 2008, in fact until now they have not been well integrated. From a business perspective, so far there has not been a choice of sustainable business models for ACE and WRS as business start-ups that benefit all stakeholders, assuming without the support of government subsidies.
Hedonic Eating among Female Students: A Descriptive Study
Authors: Cahyani Anggita , Setyorini Ari , Ispurwanto Wing
Published: January 2024

Obesogenic environment which characterized by a large number of cheap, easily accessible, delicious, and energy-dense foods has switch eating from energy need to pleasure. It raises the term hedonic hunger, or eats outside hunger and for pleasure. The aim of the study is to explore hedonic hunger in female students. Female students have been found as the more vulnerable when it comes about eating behaviour. N=211 in this study reported their hedonic hunger level using the Power of Food scale. The design of this study was quantitative descriptive. Data was analysed using descriptive technique. The result show that 37% participants were categorized as low in hedonic hunger, 37 % moderate, and 31.3% high. We conclude that this finding can be used as basis for healthy eating intervention that emphasizing the psychological aspect of eating.
Google’s Open Source and Interests of Internet Users on Searching It
Authors: Maharani Anita
Published: January 2024

This article starts with a discussion on why open source is important, especially for education. Although open source develops for all kinds of matter, but for education it will deliver long term effect for the society. Open source, has two types, one is offered in cheaper price, and other is offered in free of purchasing price, and we know it as Free and open source software (FOSS). Frankly, FOSS is part of technology and knowledge transfer and development to support Global Goals Part 17. Google, has role in FOSS development, and FOSS is as their spirit. When Google first launched their Open Source initiatives openly through opensource.google.com, it is interesting to see what are products that they offer to the society, and since Google is an internet-based information technology company, then we use Google Trends to see interests of internet users on searching for Google’s Open Source. To support this research, we use Google Trends as our research tool, among several information given in Google only information’s that related with user’s interest that will be continue for discussion. Results shows that recently only two countries that show strong interest in Google’s Open Source, they are India and United States. It can also be argued that although Google has been established for more than 10 years as it may be accessible to internet users as society, but Google still need to find ways to promote opensource.google.com to larger numbers of internet users, this resulted when writer tries to compare between Google’s Open Source as keyword and Open Source as keyword, where Open Source as keyword have highest interest user in aggregate.
Circ_0079471 Regulates the Proliferation, Migration, Invasion and Apoptosis of Osteosarcoma Cells by Mediating miR-485-3p and TRIP6
Authors: Liu Wei , Li Qingning , Zhu Nan , Zhang Shuo , Jing Juehua , Zhan Junfeng
Published: January 2024

Background:

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a special class of non-coding
RNA molecules that show a closed circular structure and have been implicated in both
tumour formation and oncogenesis.

Objective:

This study aimed to learn more about how circ_0079471 functions in osteosarcomas
(OSs).

Methods:

Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to detect the expression
levels of thyroid hormone receptor-interacting protein 6 (TRIP6), miR-485-3p
and circ_0079471. Methyl-thiazolyl-tetrazolium and flow cytometry were used to track
cell growth and cell-cycle progression, and the research explored wound healing (migration)
and invasion using Transwell plates. Western blotting was used to determine the
protein expression of TRIP6, proliferating cell nuclear antigen and cyclin D1, and a dual-
luciferase assay revealed the target relationship.

Results:

A xenograft experiment evaluated the in vivo effects of circ_0079471 on OS,
and the results revealed the high expression of circ_0079471 in OS tissue and cells. The
proliferation, cell-cycle migration and invasion of cells were reduced after circ_0079471
knockdown in OS cells; however, the effects of this knockdown were reversed when
TRIP6 was overexpressed in the OS cells. The function of circ_0079471 was also
achieved by in vivo miR-485-3p sponging. The upregulation of miR-485-3p and the
downregulation of TRIP6 partly resulted in circ_0079471 downregulation, which subsequently
inhibited OS progression.

Conclusion:

According to these results, circ_0079471 influences the development of
OS by regulating miR-485-3p and TRIP6.
Fusobacterium/Peptostreptococcus - A Case Report of Community-
Acquired Empyema Resulting in Surgical Decortication with Prolonged
Antibiotic Therapy: A Case Series and Review of the Literature
Authors: Emmanuel Garrastegui-Mercado , Chady Awad , Antony Suresh
Published: January 2024

Background:

Infections caused by anaerobic bacteria occur frequently and can be serious
and life-threatening. Anaerobes are a rare cause of community-acquired pneumonia with Streptococcus
pneumonia and respiratory viruses being the most frequently detected pathogens. We, herein,
report a case of Fusobacterium/Peptostreptococcus parapneumonic effusion with empyema in a patient
without risk factors for aspiration pneumonia. This case presents an opportunity to discuss an
unusual case of community-acquired empyema secondary to anaerobic infection in a patient without
the common risk factors for aspiration.

Case Presentation:

A 59-year-old male patient without significant past medical history apart from a
twenty-five-year history of smoking presented due to left flank pain and shortness of breath. Findings
of a complicated parapneumonic effusion were found on imaging, resulting in surgical decortication
and prolonged antibiotic therapy.

Discussion:

Parapneumonic effusions and empyema are relatively common complications of pneumonia.
It is important to note that the incidence of anaerobic empyema has been on the rise due to
more modern culturing techniques.

Conclusion:

This case highlights an unusual presentation of community-acquired empyema secondary
to anaerobes without any risk factors for aspiration pneumonia. Therefore, clinicians should consider
the possibility of anaerobic coverage in the treatment of community-acquired empyema in the
appropriate setting.
Existe música surrealista? Intersecções, cruzamentos, desvios
Authors: Roberto Isabela Cortada
Published: January 2024

It took around to two or three years, between 1923 and 1924, for the movement to be fully nominated and characterized by André Breton in his Surrealist Manifest. Many were its artistic ramifications that were being manifested until then, with a special focus on the fine arts and cinema. Nevertheless, whether there is a surrealist music or not there seems to be no critical consensus, which keeps this field of study an ongoing and provisional research matter with provisional results, always open to revision. Being aware of the respective scarce scientific production, we will resort to some authors we were able to identify as having written in a consistent manner about the subject of our choice, with a focus on Theodor Adorno, in alignment with other authors such as Max Paddison, Anne LeBaron and Hannah Lewis who will serve our aim: starting with a contextualization of the movement, we will try to amplify and build a mapping of the surrealist music, although still in a preliminary fashion, by exploring possible definitions and depictions of surrealist music in connection with the philosophic guide-lines that empower the surrealistic thinking and action. The list of the major contributors of this type of music will include names such as Stravinsky, Kurt Weill, Erik Satie, George Antheil, to which we will add, amongst the many others that could be chosen as being the most paradigmatic representatives of this musical revolution, Edgar Varèse, Pierre Schaeffer, and John Cage.
A poesia de Isabel Meyrelles entre o rumor e o rugido
Authors: Simas Mônica
Published: January 2024

This text tries to demonstrate the relevance of surrealism, hglighting contemporary issues based on the Venice Biennale of Art in 2022. The study analyses poems from four books by Isabel Meyrelles, starting from the hypothesis that there is a relational unity ‘I’ - ‘you’ in metamorphosis in her work. Additionally, the temporal relationship between past and future is emphasized, highlighting the surrealistic perfect present of the love question. The work is revisited through the analysis of past repertoires and transgressions of the present, bringing Isabel Meyrelles’perspective closer to that of Donna Haraway’s perspective of the blasphemous myth.
Dança em mudez: Mário Cesariny leitor de Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Authors: Araújo Raphael Filipe Pereira de
Published: January 2024

The essay is dedicated to Mário Cesariny's critical exercise on Maria Helena Vieira da Silva paintings. We seek to think how the poet engages in this dialogue to elaborate a thought about the image and its temporalities. Articulating his texts to the work of authors such as Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin and Georges Didi-Huberman, we seek to circumscribe Mário Cesariny's work in a theoretical scene that dedicates itself to the disarticulation of pre-established knowledge about the arts and their historical materiality. The siren's song and the texture's sewing unfold throughout the pages as images that move the reading that is conceived here.
O surrealismo à moda brasileira de Murilo Mendes
Authors: Khéde Raphael Salomão
Published: January 2024

Murilo Mendes (1901-1975) viene riconosciuto per la sua doppia specificità: è, da una parte, poeta della cosiddetta seconda fase del Modernismo brasiliano, soprattutto per quanto riguarda i suoi primi tre libri, Poemas, História do Brasil e O visionário, influenzati dallo humor dei poemas-piada di Oswald de Andrade; dall’altra, è un poeta surrealista, che si distingue per la costruzione di immagini insolite nei suoi poemi. Nella fase italiana (1957-1975), nei testi poetici o di prosa poetica, Murilo Mendes ha riflettuto sul surrealismo dal punto di vista critico e memorialistico. Questo saggio ha come obiettivo quello di riscostruire l’influenza del surrealismo nei testi del poeta brasiliano, partendo da un doppio percorso: le caratteristiche surrealiste della sua opera, indicate dalla critica e la riflessione del poeta sul suo processo di assimilazione del surrealismo.
As irmãs de Fernando Pessoa
Authors: Freitas Marinela
Published: January 2024

In the same year that Fernando Pessoa and António Botto published the Anthology of Modern Portuguese Poems in Lisbon, Virginia Woolf published, in London, her famous book A Room of One’s Own, in which Woolf reflected on what life would have been like for William Shakespeare’s sister if she had existed and had revealed the same literary talent as her brother. Inspired by this speculative feminist exercise, this paper proposes that we think about what would have happened if Fernando Pessoa’s three sisters (Maria Clara, Henriqueta and Madalena) had turned out to be modernist poetic geniuses like their brother. What obstacles would they have had to face? Would they have been included in Pessoa and Botto’s anthology? And what consequences would their existence have for 20th century Portuguese literary and cultural history?
Effect of different sweetener and concentration on sensory and chemical attributes of peeled and un-peeled coffee kombucha
Authors: Fibrianto Kiki , Aunura Fadila Artameivia
Published: January 2024

The exocarp and mesocarp of the coffee bean are traditionally not peeled in some regions of Indonesia when producing coffee using traditional methods. Even though it has been a long practice among traditional coffee farmers, unpeeled coffee has a very limited market due to its sensory weakness and thus hardly meets international coffee standards. Therefore, product diversification can be a strategic approach to improving this sub-grade coffee’s economic value. One of the alternatives is developing the coffee into kombucha. Kombucha processing has been well known for its ability to transform non-delightful sensory attributes into something more acceptable. In this study, the effects of different sweeteners and concentrations were investigated and designed as a nested experiment. Both peeled and unpeeled coffee were brewed with the French-press technique and used as a medium for kombucha. Different sweeteners, such as sucrose, glucose, and a mixture of sucrose and honey, were also applied in ratios of 5, 10, and 15%. It was observed that both peeled and unpeeled coffee kombucha have a competitive level of sensory preference with similar total sugar, total acidity, and total dissolved solids (p-value > 0.05). Those were achieved by adding 15% sucrose for peeled coffee kombucha and 10% sucrose-honey mix for the unpeeled one.
Enzyme dosage detection to degrade feathers in edible bird’s nests: A comparative convolutional neural networks study
Authors: Liana Verianti , Arifiandika Rizal , Rohmatulloh Bagas , Nafi’ah Riris Waladatun , Hidayat Arif , Hendrawan Yusuf , Al-Riza Dimas Firmanda , Mahatmanto Tunjung , Nugroho Hermawan
Published: January 2024

Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN), a costly food product made from swiftlet’s saliva, has encountered a longstanding problem of plucking the swiftlet’s feather from the nests. The destructive and inefficient manual process of plucking the feathers can be substituted with a serine protease enzyme alternative. Accurate detection of enzyme dosage is crucial for ensuring efficient feather degradation with cost-effective enzyme usage. This research employed the transfer learning method using pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks (Pt-CNN) to detect enzyme dosage based on EBN’s images. This study aimed to compare the image classification mechanisms, architectures, and performance of three Pt-CNN: Resnet50, InceptionResnetV2, and EfficientNetV2S. InceptionResnetV2, using parallel convolutions and residual networks, significantly contributes to learning rich informative features. Consequently, the InceptionResnetV2 model achieved the highest accuracy of 96.18%, while Resnet50 and EfficientNetV2S attained only 30.44% and 17.82%, respectively. The differences in architecture complexity, parameter count, dataset characteristics, and image resolution also play a role in the performance disparities among the models. The study’s findings aid future researchers in streamlining model selection when facing limited datasets by understanding the reasons for the model’s performance and contributing to a non-destructive and quick solution for EBN’s cleaning process.
Exploring the psychological determinants of household's intention to reduce food waste: Insight from Yogyakarta Indonesia
Authors: Anggrasari Herdiana , Cahyasita Dhika , Ridwan Muhamad
Published: January 2024

Food waste's negative effects on the environment and monetary losses have made it a major concern. Food waste at the consuming stage has been directly affected by customer purchasing behaviour. Moreover, the majority of food waste happens within households. This means examining the reasons behind household food waste behaviour is a potential safeguard against food waste issues. This research aimed to analyze household food waste behavior in the Special Region of Yogyakarta after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted with a questionnaire survey from June to July 2023 to households in the Yogyakarta Special Region. Data was collected purposively using online and offline methods simultaneously. A total of 245 responses were obtained, and 203 were valid for use. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used as the analytical method. The research results showed that psychological factors such as attitudes, perceived behavioral control, emotions, moral beliefs, and knowledge about food management influenced households' intentions to reduce food waste. By examining the factors that affect food waste, it is hoped that this research will advance our understanding of trends in food waste behavior at the household consumer level in developing nations.
Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Journal of Energy and Power Technology in 2023
Authors: Editorial Office Journal of Energy and Power Technology
Published: January 2024

The editors of Journal of Energy and Power Technology would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2023. We greatly appreciate the contribution of expert reviewers, which is crucial to the journal's editorial process. We aim to recognize reviewer contributions through several mechanisms, of which the annual publication of reviewer names is one. Reviewers can download a certificate of recognition directly from our submission system. Additionally, reviewers can sign up to the Web of Science Reviewer Recognition Service (formerly Publons) (https://webofscience.com/wos/) to receive recognition. Of course, in these initiatives we are careful not to compromise reviewer confidentiality. Many reviewers see their work as a voluntary and often unseen part of their role as researchers. We are grateful for the time reviewers donate to our journals and the contribution they make.
Acknowledgment to Reviewers of OBM Genetics in 2023
Authors: Zhang Ellen
Published: January 2024

The editors of OBM Genetics would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2023. We greatly appreciate the contribution of expert reviewers, which is crucial to the journal's editorial process. We aim to recognize reviewer contributions through several mechanisms, of which the annual publication of reviewer names is one. Reviewers can download a certificate of recognition directly from our submission system. Additionally, reviewers can sign up to the Web of Science Reviewer Recognition Service (formerly Publons) (https://webofscience.com/wos/) to receive recognition. Of course, in these initiatives we are careful not to compromise reviewer confidentiality. Many reviewers see their work as a voluntary and often unseen part of their role as researchers. We are grateful for the time reviewers donate to our journals and the contribution they make.
Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Recent Progress in Nutrition in 2023
Authors: Editorial Office Recent Progress in Nutrition
Published: January 2024

The editors of Recent Progress in Nutrition would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2023. We greatly appreciate the contribution of expert reviewers, which is crucial to the journal's editorial process. We aim to recognize reviewer contributions through several mechanisms, of which the annual publication of reviewer names is one. Reviewers can download a certificate of recognition directly from our submission system. Additionally, reviewers can sign up to the Web of Science Reviewer Recognition Service (formerly Publons) (https://webofscience.com/wos/) to receive recognition. Of course, in these initiatives we are careful not to compromise reviewer confidentiality. Many reviewers see their work as a voluntary and often unseen part of their role as researchers. We are grateful for the time reviewers donate to our journals and the contribution they make.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Cross-Sectional Study Among Medical Students on Application, Education, and Ethical Aspects
Authors: Weidener Lukas , Fischer Michael
Published: January 2024

Background

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine not only directly impacts the medical profession but is also increasingly associated with various potential ethical aspects. In addition, the expanding use of AI and AI-based applications such as ChatGPT demands a corresponding shift in medical education to adequately prepare future practitioners for the effective use of these tools and address the associated ethical challenges they present.

Objective

This study aims to explore how medical students from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland perceive the use of AI in medicine and the teaching of AI and AI ethics in medical education in accordance with their use of AI-based chat applications, such as ChatGPT.

Methods

This cross-sectional study, conducted from June 15 to July 15, 2023, surveyed medical students across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland using a web-based survey. This study aimed to assess students’ perceptions of AI in medicine and the integration of AI and AI ethics into medical education. The survey, which included 53 items across 6 sections, was developed and pretested. Data analysis used descriptive statistics (median, mode, IQR, total number, and percentages) and either the chi-square or Mann-Whitney U tests, as appropriate.

Results

Surveying 487 medical students across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland revealed limited formal education on AI or AI ethics within medical curricula, although 38.8% (189/487) had prior experience with AI-based chat applications, such as ChatGPT. Despite varied prior exposures, 71.7% (349/487) anticipated a positive impact of AI on medicine. There was widespread consensus (385/487, 74.9%) on the need for AI and AI ethics instruction in medical education, although the current offerings were deemed inadequate. Regarding the AI ethics education content, all proposed topics were rated as highly relevant.

Conclusions

This study revealed a pronounced discrepancy between the use of AI-based (chat) applications, such as ChatGPT, among medical students in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and the teaching of AI in medical education. To adequately prepare future medical professionals, there is an urgent need to integrate the teaching of AI and AI ethics into the medical curricula.
Documentation Completeness and Nurses’ Perceptions of a Novel Electronic App for Medical Resuscitation in the Emergency Room: Mixed Methods Approach (Preprint)
Authors: Cheung Kin , Yip Chak Sum
Published: January 2024

BACKGROUND

Complete documentation of critical care events in the accident and emergency department (AED) is essential. Due to the fast-paced and complex nature of resuscitation cases, missing data is a common issue during emergency situations.

OBJECTIVE

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a tablet-based resuscitation record on documentation completeness during medical resuscitations and nurses’ perceptions of the use of the tablet app.

METHODS

A mixed methods approach was adopted. To collect quantitative data, randomized retrospective reviews of paper-based resuscitation records before implementation of the tablet (Pre-App Paper; n=176), paper-based resuscitation records after implementation of the tablet (Post-App Paper; n=176), and electronic tablet-based resuscitation records (Post-App Electronic; n=176) using a documentation completeness checklist were conducted. The checklist was validated by 4 experts in the emergency medicine field. The content validity index (CVI) was calculated using the scale CVI (S-CVI). The universal agreement S-CVI was 0.822, and the average S-CVI was 0.939. The checklist consisted of the following 5 domains: basic information, vital signs, procedures, investigations, and medications. To collect qualitative data, nurses’ perceptions of the app for electronic resuscitation documentation were obtained using individual interviews. Reporting of the qualitative data was guided by Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Studies (COREQ) to enhance rigor.

RESULTS

A significantly higher documentation rate in all 5 domains (ie, basic information, vital signs, procedures, investigations, and medications) was present with Post-App Electronic than with Post-App Paper, but there were no significant differences in the 5 domains between Pre-App Paper and Post-App Paper. The qualitative analysis resulted in main categories of “advantages of tablet-based documentation of resuscitation records,” “challenges with tablet-based documentation of resuscitation records,” and “areas for improvement of tablet-based resuscitation records.”

CONCLUSIONS

This study demonstrated that higher documentation completion rates are achieved with electronic tablet-based resuscitation records than with traditional paper records. During the transition period, the nurse documenters faced general problems with resuscitation documentation such as multitasking and unique challenges such as software updates and a need to familiarize themselves with the app’s layout. Automation should be considered during future app development to improve documentation and redistribute more time for patient care. Nurses should continue to provide feedback on the app’s usability and functionality during app refinement to ensure a successful transition and future development of electronic documentation records.