bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Autonomous Learning as a Pedagogical Tool: Exploring the Perceptions of Teaching and Learning Practices at Writing Hub
Authors:   English Department, Applied College for Girls, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia., Sheerah Hebah Asaad Hamza , Yadav Meenakshi Sharma
Published: January 2023

Even though there are incredible number of schemes to create EFL curricula, textbooks, and a range of professional development courses, Saudi Arabian EFL students’ level of English language proficiency still has to be raised (Khadawardi, 2022). It has been determined that learner autonomy (AL) is an effective method for promoting learning. This study explores how EFL instructors and students view the value and efficiency of independent learning strategies for improving writing. What do EFL teachers and students think about the writing hub’s learning strategies for enhancing autonomous learning as a teaching tool to assist EFL writing? And to what extent is the significance of autonomous learning noticeable in EFL writing classrooms? These questions were addressed by this study, which evaluated the optimal data of 77 female students and their eight instructors at Applied College for Girls at King Khalid University to get actionable implications and desirable outcomes. The results indicated that learners’ autonomy could be achieved practically. The writing exercises practiced at writing classes; ‘Writing hub’ proved successful in enhancing autonomy among the learners. The t-test scores reject the null hypotheses, and the data was strongly normal and optimal to support the study. However, the findings also showed that the concept and notion of autonomy and students’ role in it must be introduced before executing it to the students. In addition, most teachers indicated that learners’ autonomy is helpful and achievable in EFL settings. They identified four main factors vocabulary, mind- map, the process approach, and peer feedback; and technology-based strategies worked best for composing writing and inculcating autonomy among the learners. In the future, more approaches can be applied to enhance and boost autonomy among learners.
Social Media and COVID -19 Pandemic: Accelerating the Learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
Authors:   Department of English Literature, College of Sciences and Literature in Sajir, Shaqra University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia., Akhter Tawhida
Published: January 2023

COVID-19 began in China (2019) and spread to other nations and become a world pandemic (2020). The news media and social media platforms have played an important role in information dissemination about the Coronavirus throughout the world. During COVID-19 Pandemic, social media has become a key tool for enhancing social networking and information sharing via the web. As more people turn to the internet for health information, social media platforms are helping to spread life-saving precautions that individuals, families, and communities may take to reduce their chance of contracting the virus. Language learners are linked to interactive social media platforms in Social Media Language Learning. The goal of this study was to look at the role of social media during COVID in foreign language acquisition. The participants in this study were Saudi Arabian college students. The study’s sample comprised 200 (n=200) college students, and the social media platforms investigated included Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat and other platforms. Questionnaires were used to collect the data. The results indicated that the students used various social media platforms in order to get the appropriate information about the virus which indirectly helped and motivated them to learn a new language. These learners lack the self-motivation needed to use social media to develop their English language abilities. The study discovered that adopting online social media during a pandemic for English language learning had a significant impact on interactions with peers and teachers.
“Fluid” temporality: the conflict of gender and age in the postmodern socio-cultural context
Authors:   Philology Department, Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Dnipro, Ukraine., Vlasova Tetiana , Skyba Eleonora , Vlasova Olha , Liashenko Iryna
Published: January 2023

Temporality, being an intrinsic property of the subject/object relations in the multiplicity of the socio-cultural and gender narratives, presents one of the most complicated ideas of postmodernity. The project of temporality embraces ambivalent scripts in their “momentous transition”, revealing the attempts at generalizing ages of men and women in the certain “unified” narratives. The latter is expressed in the triad paradigm of “past-present-future” with “present” as the dominating member. While conceptualizing binary oppositions, namely, the dualism “man/woman”, it is evident that nowadays the biological “intrinsic value” of the human being’s identity has become less relevant. The man/woman’s identity is not fixed anymore by anatomy, at present it is “fluid” with the time and age “shifts” of femininity and masculinity. The decentering “situation”, having transformed the temporal aspects of man/woman’s value in the social practices and corresponding narratives, nowadays demands their valorizing by means of the conceptual impact on the transformations of the “liquid temporality”.
Gender Equality in the Posters Designed for Covid 19 Prevention
Authors:   National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, Yerevan, Atsharyan Ani , Paytyan Tatevik ,   National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, Yerevan, Melikyan Artashes ,   National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, Yerevan,, Baghdasaryan Ashot ,   National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, Yerevan
Published: January 2023

Since the Covid-19 eruption in 2020 designers from all over the world started to concentrate their efforts to increase the awareness of the population through visual methods and prevent the spread of the disease. As the germ itself is invisible to the naked eye, graphic designers created an iconic visual identity 3D image of a particle, which became the widespread inspiration for future propaganda and informational posters. Furthermore, the visualization of the virus particle was not enough to influence the wide scope of people; thus, the new problem for designers became to make such posters that could reveal virus vs human “relations”, taking into account gender characteristics as well. The article consists of analytical research on gender-based graphic design’s role in the prevention of viruses throughout history. The main problem is how graphic design projects influence the decrease of the virus spread and how gender equality-cantered design contributes to it. First time in the article are presented the basic principles of poster design considered for all genders to present the serious message of the urgent prevention of the virus. In the article, the works of designers are analysed and reviewed as well. The significance of the article is emphasizing the importance of gender equality in design visualization to increase the influence of them on people’s behaviour.
Plague, Nature, Planetary Future: A Posthumanist Reading of The Scarlet Plague
Authors:   English Department, Beihang University., Zhou Xinshuo , Wang Quan ,   English Department, Beihang University.
Published: January 2023

This article proposes a posthumanist reading of Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague, and argues that to secure a sustainable planetary future, human beings should understand the posthumanist nature of the world, and learn to respect nature. This article investigates two kinds of worlds, showing a preference for the posthumanist one after the plague over the anthropocentric one before the plague. In the anthropocentric world, the life of human beings is heavily industrialized and isolated from nature, and this causes disaster. However, in the posthumanist world, everything follows natural laws. Human beings are no longer dominators of the world, but share the planet with the nonhuman. In this way, both the human and the nonhuman survive and prosper. Thus, posthumanist thinking provides human beings with a way to make sustainable developments and to build a bright future.
Twinning the Pandemic and the Anthropocene: Crises, Challenge and Conciliation in the Anxious Witnessing of Nonhuman Agency
Authors:   Cotton University, Assam., Kashyap Kaustabh
Published: January 2023

This paper seeks to situate the anxieties engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic within the framework of the Anthropocene to analyse the multi-faceted ramifications of human and nonhuman interaction. By connecting this ongoing global crisis of human health with the politics of climate change, it attempts to read the forgotten agency of the nonhuman microbe in the light of the rude disruption of the traditional understandings of biopolitics (where bare life has taken centre stage) and the difficulties it has brought in bridging the rift between abstract and concrete information, leading to the scapegoating of victims. It ends with the suggestion of preparation for greener futures by imagining human health within planetary health instead of an anxious wait for a return to pre-pandemic times.
Assessment of aerogenic risks for people living in close proximity to Ulba Metallurgical Plant
Authors:   National Center of Public Health Care, 8 Auezova Str., Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan 2Scientific and Practical Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Expertise and Monitoring, 84 Auezova Str., Almaty, 050008, Kazakhstan, Tokbergenov E.T. , Dosmukhametov A.T. ,   Scientific and Practical Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Expertise and Monitoring, 84 Auezova Str., Almaty, 050008, Kazakhstan, Askarov K.A. ,   National Center of Public Health Care, 8 Auezova Str., Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan 2Scientific and Practical Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Expertise and Monitoring, 84 Auezova Str., Almaty, 050008, Kazakhstan, Amrin M.K. ,   Branch of RSE “Infrakos” in Almaty, 191 Abai Ave., Almaty, 050046, Kazakhstan, Askarov D.M. ,   Scientific and Practical Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Expertise and Monitoring, 84 Auezova Str., Almaty, 050008, Kazakhstan, Beisenbinova Z.B. ,   Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, 94 Tole bi Str., Almaty, 050012, Kazakhstan
Published: January 2023

In this study, our aim was to assess public health risks caused by ambient air pollution in close proximity to production facilities of “Ulba Metallurgical Plant” JSC (JSC “UMP”) located in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. The study relied on the health risk assessment methodology under exposure to chemical environmental factors. Our research objects were chemical pollution in ambient air in close proximity to production facilities of “Ulba Metal-lurgical Plant” JSC and its effects on public health. We assessed public health risks caused by chemical pollution in ambient air in close proximity to production facilities of JSC “UMP”. The assessment relied on data obtained at monitoring posts of RSE “Kazhydromet” between 2018 and 2021. We identified six carcinogens in the analyzed area that created unacceptable public health risks. High non-carcinogenic risks were typically caused by exposure to particulate matter (dust), РМ2.5 and РМ10, sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. Our assessment of non-accidental mortality risks caused by exposure to РМ2.5 in ambient air established unacceptable relative risks (RR: 1.27–1.78), individual risks of non-accidental (1.5–2.1•10-3) and cardiopulmonary mortality (between 8.3•10-4 and 1.0•10-3). Unfavorable meteorological factors and geographic location can promote high levels of ambient air pollution and created aerogenic health risks for people living in the analyzed industrial area. The established risks require developing and implementing scheduled health-improving activities aimed at raising quality of the environment.
Routine use of mobile electronic devises by schoolchildren and students and its correction by hygienic education
Authors:   Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanova Str., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, Milushkina O.Yu. , Skoblina N.A. ,   Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanova Str., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, Pivovarov Yu.P. ,   Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanova Str., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, Markelova S.V. ,   Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanova Str., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, Mettin E. ,   Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanova Str., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, Ievleva O.V. ,   Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanova Str., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, Tatarinchik A.A. ,   Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 1 Ostrovityanova Str., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation
Published: January 2023

Many research works have described negative effects produced by use of electronic devices, mobile ones (smartphone, tablets) included, on children, adolescents and youth. However, the problem has many aspects and not all of them have been explored profoundly. In this study, our aim was to conduct hygienic assessment of routine use of mobile electronic devices by schoolchildren and students and to give grounds for its correction by hygienic education. By conducting a survey, we obtained data on use of mobile electronic devices by 1218 schoolchildren and students both in their educational and spare time activities and created a profile of a work and rest routine when working with mobile electronic devices. 943 students and schoolchildren were examined by an ophthalmologist. Next, issues related to hygienic education were integrated into the training program for medical students at the Hygiene Department of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. The emphasis was on creating a safe routine of using mobile electronic devices. Schoolchildren and students who adhered to a healthy work and rest routine when working with mobile electronic devices complained about health disorders authentically less frequently (p ≤ 0.05).We established a statistically significant relative risk for visual acuity if schoolchildren and students did not pursue a safe routine of using mobile electronic devices. Its level was RR = 3.07 (95 % CI =1.88–5.03). By the end of hygienic studies with their focus on creating a safe routine of using mobile electronic devices, medical students had an authentic (p ≤ 0.05) increase in visual acuity due to decline in such states as routine accommodative excess and pre-myopia. Work and rest routines accepted by children, adolescents and youth when they use mobile electronic devices are a manageable risk factor of health disorders in these population groups. This study shows that hygienic education may be quite effective for correcting a routine of using mobile electronic devices by schoolchildren and students.
Patient-specific 0D–3D modeling of blood flow in newborns to predict risks of complications after surgery
Authors:   Perm National Research Polytechnic University, 29 Komsomolskii Ave., Perm, 614990, Russian Federation, Kuchumov A.G. , Kamaltdinov M.R. ,   Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, 82 Monastyrskaya Str., Perm, 614045, Russian Federation, Khairulin A.R. ,   Perm National Research Polytechnic University, 29 Komsomolskii Ave., Perm, 614990, Russian Federation, Kochergin M.V. ,   Perm National Research Polytechnic University, 29 Komsomolskii Ave., Perm, 614990, Russian Federation, Shmurak M.I. ,   Perm National Research Polytechnic University, 29 Komsomolskii Ave., Perm, 614990, Russian Federation
Published: January 2023

Abnormal developments of the cardiovascular system are common congenital malformations. Computational fluid dynamics and mathematical modeling can be used to perform quantitative predictive assessments of hemodynamic properties in varied conditions. This article addresses the development of a coupled 0D–3D model of blood flow in newborns to predict risks of complications after surgery. The 0D-model of systemic circulations is created by using the analogy between the blood flow in vessels and the flow of current through an electric circuit. A shunted section of the aorta and pulmonary artery is replaced with a 3D-model with two-way fluid-solid interaction (FSI).A section in a vessel with the aortic valve is examined in a separate 3D-model. Three-dimensional geometry is based on real CT-scans of a patient. The algorithm for coupling models of different levels relies on meeting the condition that pressures and volumetric blood flows are equal at the interaction boundary. We have developed an algorithm for identifying personal parameters from the results obtained by solving an optimization problem. Computational experiments with different individual geometry of the aorta and aortic valve made it possible to analyze blood flow velocities, near-wall stresses, flows, and valve deformations. Observable near-wall stresses can be considered risk factors that could cause calcification on valve leaflets and other valve diseases. Computational solutions in the “aorta – shunt – pulmonary artery” 3D-system allowed obtaining spatial distributions of velocities, pressures, near-wall stresses and other parameters that are significant in respect to probable pathology development. The developed approaches are primarily relevant for decision-making in surgical practice to predict risks of postoperative complications. In future, our plans are to develop the model so that it covers also saturation and oxygen exchange. This is necessary for assessing whether oxygen supply to the lungs is adequate.
Risk of allergy and its immune phenotypes in children with MMP9 Q279R gene polymorphism
Authors:   Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, 82 Monastyrskaya Str., Perm, 614045, Russian Federation, Starkova K.G. , Dolgikh O.V. ,   Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, 82 Monastyrskaya Str., Perm, 614045, Russian Federation, Legostaeva T.A. ,   Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies, 82 Monastyrskaya Str., Perm, 614045, Russian Federation, Ukhabov V.M. ,   Perm State Medical University named after Academician E.A. Wagner, 26 Petropavlovskaya Str., Perm, 614000, Russian Federation
Published: January 2023

Scientific research with its focus on allergic diseases relies on up-to-date molecular-genetic methods for identifying individual genetic variability; it seems an important stage in the implementation of programs with their aim to early detect and mitigate risks of such diseases. In this study, our aim was to identify features of immune regulation associated with Q279R MMP9 gene polymorphism (rs17576) and benzene contamination in biological media in children with allergic diseases. The test group included 33 children with allergic diseases; the reference group consisted of 40 relatively healthy children. CD-markers were identified with flow cytometry. Genotyping was performed with a real-time polymerase chain reaction. The research revealed elevated levels of total IgE, IL-4 and TNFalfa under elevated benzene contamination in biological media that were by 1.2–4.2 times higher in the examined children with allergic diseases than in the reference group (р = 0.006–0.03). Q279R MMP9 gene polymorphismin in children from the test group had authentically more frequent oc-currence of the GG and AG genotypes, by 1.7 times higher than in the reference group. This allows considering the allele G of the MMP9 gene as a sensitivity marker in children with allergic diseases (OR = 2.34; 95 % CI = 1.17–4.65). We established a growth by 2.8 times in total IgE level and greater IL-4 and TNFalfa expression, by 1.4 and 1.3 times accordingly, in carriers of the allele G against those carrying the homozygote AA genotype among the examined children with allergic diseases (р = 0.020–0.042). Logistic regression analysis established the adequacy of the dominant model (p = 0.01) and revealed a possible association between carriage of the AG and GG genotypes of Q279R MMP9 gene polymorphism and developing allergy (OR = 3.61; 95 % CI = 1.34–9.71). A risk of developing allergy combined with benzene contamination in biological media and gene polymorphism of matrix metalloproteinase MMP9 (rs17576) is by 2.1 times higher for the allele G carriers against the AA genotype carriers (RR = 2.08; 95 % CI = 1.13–3.83). This allows considering the allele G of the MMP9 Q279R gene as a sensitivity marker in children with allergic diseases.
Assessing risks of functional disorders of hepatobiliary system in workers employed at butyl rubber production allowing for analysis of the ogg1 gene polymorphic variant rs1052133
Authors:   Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, 94 Stepana Kuvykina Str., Ufa, 450106, Russian Federation, Kudoyarov E.R. , Karimov D.O. ,   Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, 94 Stepana Kuvykina Str., Ufa, 450106, Russian Federation, Bakirov A.B. ,   Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, 94 Stepana Kuvykina Str., Ufa, 450106, Russian Federation,   Bashkir State Medical University, 3 Lenina Str., Ufa, 450008, Russian Federation, Mukhammadieva G.F. ,   Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, 94 Stepana Kuvykina Str., Ufa, 450106, Russian Federation, Karimova L.K. ,   Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, 94 Stepana Kuvykina Str., Ufa, 450106, Russian Federation, Galimova R.R. ,   Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, 94 Stepana Kuvykina Str., Ufa, 450106, Russian Federation,   Bashkir State Medical University, 3 Lenina Str., Ufa, 450008, Russian Federation
Published: January 2023

Contemporary petrochemical productions maintain strict control over contents of adverse chemicals in workplace air. Despite that, the chemical factor remains one of the major harmful occupational factors and can produce adverse effects on workers’ health by increasing, among other things, risks of general somatic diseases. Given that, prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases in workers employed at chemical productions remains a vital challenge for occupational medicine. A way to tackle it is to timely detect risk groups relying on, among other things, analysis of workers’ genetic peculiarities. This article presents a study with 140 volunteers participating in it; they had basic occupations required at contemporary butyl rubber production. It was conducted within a periodical medical examination that involved using up-to-date hygienic, clinical-laboratory and genetic methods. The study included hygienic assessment of the chemical factor at the analyzed production, examination of hematologic and biochemical blood indicators, identification of workers’ genetic status as per the rs1052133 polymorphic variant of the OGG1 gene and the severity of DNA breaks. The study revealed adverse effects produced by the chemical factors on health of workers with basic occupations based on deviations in biochemical blood indicators obtained by tests that included indicator enzyme identification, and DNA damage. Following the study results, a risk group was created as per the state of the hepatobiliary system. To preserve workers’ health, it is necessary to implement certain preventive measures that include providing safe working conditions as regards the chemical factor, timely detection of risk groups and rehabilitation activities.
Molecular and genetic aspects of health risks and their association with adverse environmental conditions and diets (systemic review)
Authors:   Yekaterinburg Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection in Industrial Workers, 30 Popova Str., Ekaterinburg, 620014, Russian Federation, Mazhaeva T.V.
Published: January 2023

At present, it is vital to examine adverse effects produced on gene expression by negative environmental factors and nutrients. In this study, our aim was to generalize data available in literature on an association between health risks and polymorphisms of genes that participated in xenobiotic detoxification and allergic status, food intolerance included, in adults and children. We also considered influence exerted by various components in diets on gene expression. Available research data indicate that GSTP1 and SOD gene polymorphisms have their effects on a decline in detoxification and antioxidant functions and early development of allergic, occupational and oncological diseases under exposure to harmful chemicals. Micronutrients in diets that can protect from adverse effects produced by chemicals can act not only as substrates but also as detoxification enzyme inducers. Great quantities of biologically active compounds in the Mediterranean diet are assumed to be able to modulate functional activity of certain genes. Such nutrients as polyphenols, flavonoids, catechins, glucosinolates, anthocyanins, stilbenes, carotinoids, polyamines, spermidine and spermine produce anti-genotoxic and anti-carcinogenic effects. Use of combined nutrigenetic and phenotypic data seems a promising trend in effective modeling of a healthy diet. The research data outlined in this review indicate there is solid evidence that health risks can depend on a genotype, phenotype and quality of the environment. These risks also differ depending on a diet. Modeling a healthy diet based on available knowledge on nutritional genetic and nutritional genomics is a promising trend within non-carcinogenic health risk management, including risks of oncological diseases caused by exposure to adverse environmental factors.
As contribuições do pensamento haitiano para o giro decolonial:
Authors: Troitinho Bruna Ribeiro
Published: January 2023

O giro decolonial é um projeto inacabado de ordem global que analisa outras formas de saber, poder e ser. Neste artigo, apresentamos as contribuições teóricas dos intelectuais haitianos Barão de Vastey, Anténor Firmin, Louis-Joseph Janvier e Hannibal Price para o giro decolonial. As contribuições desses autores não se limitaram a denunciar a falseabilidade do conceito de “raças” humanas do século XIX, como também pensaram uma nova concepção de ser humano que englobava os povos escravizados. Analisando as contribuições desses autores, percebemos algumas pistas que nos permitem pensar que suas obras são precursoras nas teorias críticas à colonização
Funcionalismo linguístico e ensino de português: convergências, possibilidades e prática docente
Authors: Bispo Edvaldo Balduino , Cordeiro Fernando da Silva , Lucena Nedja Lima de
Published: January 2023

Na esteira de pesquisas que tratam das contribuições da Linguística ao ensino de línguas, analisamos, neste artigo, a convergência entre os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Linguística Funcional e o ensino de Língua Portuguesa na Educação Básica. Objetivamos explicitar a existência de três fases, no contexto brasileiro, de investigações funcionalistas de vertente norte-americana na interface com o ensino de português. Para tanto, baseamo-nos em postulados teórico-metodológicos da Linguística Funcional norte-americana e nas orientações curriculares nacionais para o ensino de Língua Portuguesa. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, descritivo-explicativa, com abordagem qualitativo-interpretativista. Concluímos que, embora o quadro teórico do funcionalismo norte-americano não esteja essencialmente voltado ao ensino de línguas, há um movimento de pesquisadores funcionalistas brasileiros nessa direção a partir de três fases distintas: i) a do estabelecimento de um diálogo teórico entre as premissas, os objetivos e os procedimentos de análise da LF e as diretrizes educacionais que embasam o ensino língua portuguesa no Brasil; ii) o da aproximação por meio de sugestões de encaminhamentos metodológicos voltados ao ensino de língua portuguesa, mas sem intervenção no ambiente escolar; iii) a da elaboração e da aplicação de propostas intervencionistas em salas de aula da Educação Básica
Estudo sobre epêntese em Espanhol na produção de estudantes brasileiros
Authors: Souza Prietsch Nycole , Bassols Brisolara Luciene
Published: January 2023

O presente trabalho estudou a produção de encontros consonantais em espanhol de estudantes brasileiros, a fim de examinar se haveria realização de epêntese vocálica, fenômeno de inserção de uma vogal entre consoantes de sílabas diferentes. Foram consideradas palavras cognatas e não-cognatas do português e do espanhol para ver se havia diferenças entre essas palavras e também se verificou se havia influência dos padrões silábicos da língua materna durante a produção em língua estrangeira. Participaram desse estudo graduandos de Letras – Português/Espanhol da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do primeiro e do quinto semestres. Os dados de produção desses estudantes foram submetidos à análise estatística através do programa GoldVarbX (2005), que identificou quais contextos linguísticos e extralinguísticos eram mais favorecedores da realização do fenômeno de epêntese. Acreditava-se que a taxa de realização de epêntese entre os estudantes do primeiro semestre seria maior do que a taxa de realização do fenômeno entre os graduandos do quinto semestre, em virtude do pouco contato com a língua-alvo por parte dos estudantes de nível inicial. Contrariando o que se esperava, no entanto, os resultados mostraram uma baixa porcentagem de realização de epêntese, de modo que os estudantes conservaram os padrões silábicos da língua estrangeira durante sua produção, mantendo os encontros consonantais e evitando a inserção do segmento vocálico, independentemente do semestre em que estavam matriculados.
Modified Synthesis and Isolation of an Advanced Intermediate of Remdesivir
Authors: Mohite Dhanaji M. , Pandey Arjun P. , Chavhan Pandurang M.
Published: January 2023

Synthesis and isolation of an advanced intermediate (S)-2-Ethylbutyl 2-(((S)-(4-
nitrophenoxy) (phenoxy) phosphoryl) amino) propanoate (1b), which is being used for the
manufacture of the prodrug diastereoisomer 1d called Remdesivir have been carried out in
high yield with efficient stereoselectivity. The isolated advanced intermediate 1b was a diastereoselective
nucleoside phosphoramidate prodrug used as an antiviral agent having a mixture
of two (SS) and (SR) diastereomers with stereocenter at phosphorus, which was purified
by converting into a more stable diastereoselective isomer (SS) by simple physical fractional
crystallization process, resulting in an improved yield of ~45%. The recrystallization has been
afforded diastereomerically in 99% pure (SS)-isomer 1b. The 1H NMR characterization data
confirm the (SS)-isomer (1b). The developed process holds significant potential for large-scale
reactions relatively with commercially available low-cost solvents and co-solvents, resulting in an alternative
cheaper process.
The Semantics of COVID-19 Web Data: Ontology Learning and Population
Authors: Sharma Sumit , Jain Sarika
Published: January 2023

Background:

The acquisition and exchange of meaningful, integrated, and accurate
information are at the forefront of the combat against COVID-19; still, there are many countries
whose health systems are disrupted. Moreover, no one is adequately equipped for COVID-19
contingencies. Many organizations have established static information systems to manage the information.
This fact presents numerous issues, including delays, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies
in COVID-19 information collected for pandemic control and monitoring.

Objective:

This paper presents a semantic representation of COVID-19 data, a domain ontology
to facilitate measurement, clarification, linking, and sharing. We automatically generate a computer-
intelligible knowledge base from COVID-19 case information, which contains machineunderstandable
information. Furthermore, we have anticipated an ontology population algorithm
from tabular data that delivers interoperable, consistent, and accurate content with COVID-19 information.

Methods:

We utilized the tabula package to extract the tables from PDF files and user NLP libraries
to sort and rearrange tables. The proposed algorithm was then applied to all instances to
automatically add to the input ontology using the Owlready Python module. Moreover, to evaluate
the performance, SPARQL queries were used to retrieve answers to competency questions.

Results:

When there is an equivalence relationship, the suggested algorithm consistently finds the
right alignments and performs at its best or very close to it in terms of precision. Moreover, a
demonstration of algorithm performance and a case study on COVID-19 data to information
management and visualization of the populated data are also presented.

Conclusion:

This paper presents an ontology learning/matching tool for ontology and populating
instances automatically to ontology by emphasizing the importance of a unit's distinguishing features
by unit matching.
Multiple Intelligence-based basketball performance assessment in high school
Authors: Huda Nurul , Sukarmin Yustinus , Dimyati Dimyati
Published: January 2023

This study aims to develop performance assessment instruments in the MI (Multiple Intelligences) based basketball game by: (1) proving the validity of the content of the instrument, (2) proving the validity of the instrument construct, (3) conducting a model fit analysis and item fit with IRT (Item Response Theory), and (4) analyzing the effectiveness of the developed instrument product. Methods in developing assessment models using IDDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation). The research subjects used were 1053 students in five schools in five districts in Yogyakarta Province. The development of a scoring model resulted in (1) the validity of the contents of the five raters using the V-Aiken method yielding a value of 0.92; (2) the validity of the performance instrument construct shows 28 aspects of the warning with a loading factor of 0.3; (3) the fit model for this instrument matches the ability of the learner between -4.817 to 2.24; (4) the effectiveness of the product showed a high value, i.e., 38% of users felt "very satisfied," 56% of users felt "satisfied," and 6% of users felt "dissatisfied."
Changes in Mobile Health Apps Usage Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: Semilongitudinal Survey
Authors: Yang Le , Wu Jiadong , Mo Xiaoxiao , Chen Yaqin , Huang Shanshan , Zhou Linlin , Dai Jiaqi , Xie Linna , Chen Siyu , Shang Hao , Rao Beibei , Weng Bingtao , Abulimiti Ayiguli , Wu Siying , Xie Xiaoxu
Published: January 2023

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) apps are rapidly emerging technologies in China due to strictly controlled medical needs during the COVID-19 pandemic while continuing essential services for chronic diseases. However, there have been no large-scale, systematic efforts to evaluate relevant apps.

Objective

We aim to provide a landscape of mHealth apps in China by describing and comparing digital health concerns before and after the COVID-19 outbreak, including mHealth app data flow and user experience, and analyze the impact of COVID-19 on mHealth apps.

Methods

We conducted a semilongitudinal survey of 1593 mHealth apps to study the app data flow and clarify usage changes and influencing factors. We selected mHealth apps in app markets, web pages from the Baidu search engine, the 2018 top 100 hospitals with internet hospitals, and online shopping sites with apps that connect to smart devices. For user experience, we recruited residents from a community in southeastern China from October 2019 to November 2019 (before the outbreak) and from June 2020 to August 2020 (after the outbreak) comparing the attention of the population to apps. We also examined associations between app characteristics, functions, and outcomes at specific quantiles of distribution in download changes using quantile regression models.

Results

Rehabilitation medical support was the top-ranked functionality, with a median 1.44 million downloads per app prepandemic and a median 2.74 million downloads per app postpandemic. Among the top 10 functions postpandemic, 4 were related to maternal and child health: pregnancy preparation (ranked second; fold change 4.13), women's health (ranked fifth; fold change 5.16), pregnancy (ranked sixth; fold change 5.78), and parenting (ranked tenth; fold change 4.03). Quantile regression models showed that rehabilitation (P75, P90), pregnancy preparation (P90), bodybuilding (P50, P90), and vaccination (P75) were positively associated with an increase in downloads after the outbreak. In the user experience survey, the attention given to health information (prepandemic: 249/375, 66.4%; postpandemic: 146/178, 82.0%; P=.006) steadily increased after the outbreak.

Conclusions

mHealth apps are an effective health care approach gaining in popularity among the Chinese population following the COVID-19 outbreak. This research provides direction for subsequent mHealth app development and promotion in the postepidemic era, supporting medical model reformation in China as a reference, which may provide new avenues for designing and evaluating indirect public health interventions such as health education and health promotion.
Monitoring School Absenteeism for Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: Tsang Tim K , Huang Xiaotong , Guo Yiyang , Lau Eric H Y , Cowling Benjamin J , Ip Dennis K M
Published: January 2023

Background

Influenza causes considerable disease burden each year, particularly in children. Monitoring school absenteeism has long been proposed as a surveillance tool of influenza activity in the community, but the practice of school absenteeism could be varying, and the potential of such usage remains unclear.

Objective

The aim of this paper is to determine the potential of monitoring school absenteeism as a surveillance tool of influenza.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of the published literature on the relationship between school absenteeism and influenza activity in the community. We categorized the types of school absenteeism and influenza activity in the community to determine the correlation between these data streams. We also extracted this correlation with different lags in community surveillance to determine the potential of using school absenteeism as a leading indicator of influenza activity.

Results

Among the 35 identified studies, 22 (63%), 12 (34%), and 8 (23%) studies monitored all-cause, illness-specific, and influenza-like illness (ILI)–specific absents, respectively, and 16 (46%) used quantitative approaches and provided 33 estimates on the temporal correlation between school absenteeism and influenza activity in the community. The pooled estimate of correlation between school absenteeism and community surveillance without lag, with 1-week lag, and with 2-week lag were 0.44 (95% CI 0.34, 0.53), 0.29 (95% CI 0.15, 0.42), and 0.21 (95% CI 0.11, 0.31), respectively. The correlation between influenza activity in the community and ILI-specific absenteeism was higher than that between influenza activity in community all-cause absenteeism. Among the 19 studies that used qualitative approaches, 15 (79%) concluded that school absenteeism was in concordance with, coincided with, or was associated with community surveillance. Of the 35 identified studies, only 6 (17%) attempted to predict influenza activity in the community from school absenteeism surveillance.

Conclusions

There was a moderate correlation between school absenteeism and influenza activity in the community. The smaller correlation between school absenteeism and community surveillance with lag, compared to without lag, suggested that careful application was required to use school absenteeism as a leading indicator of influenza epidemics. ILI-specific absenteeism could monitor influenza activity more closely, but the required resource or school participation willingness may require careful consideration to weight against the associated costs. Further development is required to use and optimize the use of school absenteeism to predict influenza activity. In particular, the potential of using more advanced statistical models and validation of the predictions should be explored.
Research on the Application of Online and Offline Mixed Teaching Mode of Marketing Course Based on the BOPPPS Model
Authors: Huang Chih-Hsuan , Li Li , Liu Cuiyun , Yao Jingyi , Li Xiumei
Published: January 2023

BOPPPS teaching fully integrates the advantages of online self-study and offline courses. This kind of teaching has been widely used in college education, and has proved to have a positive effect on improving students’ ability to solve problems. It also has a significant effect on improving students’ sense of self-efficacy, stimulating learning interest and improving their ability to learn independently in practice. During the implementation of the research, the team explored and practiced the online and offline mixed teaching mode of marketing course with the wisdom tree teaching platform, and built teaching resources for students to learn and discuss on their own, which is a reference for future online mixed teaching.
ANÁLISE DE DESEMPENHO DOS DISPOSITIVOS DE SAÍDA PARA RESERVATÓRIOS DE DETENÇÃO NO CONTROLE DE CHEIAS URBANAS EM FORTALEZA
Authors: Siebra Lopes Gustavo , Meneses Filho Anísio de Sousa
Published: January 2023

Estudos hidrológicos e hidráulicos são necessários para o entendimento da dinâmica das inundações e o controle dos seus impactos, para melhor balizamento de alternativas eficazes, notadamente em áreas urbanas que mais frequentemente são alcançadas pelos efeitos danosos do excesso de escoamento superficial. Esses estudos baseiam-se, em geral, na estimativa das vazões máximas que são atingidas em pontos críticos da bacia hidrográfica, para que sejam definidos os dispositivos hidráulicos que transfiram ou atenuem seus efeitos. Nessa perspectiva, impõe-se a simulação das alternativas para a inferência de desempenho no propósito do controle efetivo das cheias. Este trabalho tem como foco avaliar o desempenho de diversas combinações de dispositivos de saída, notadamente orifícios e vertedouro de vários tamanhos, em reservatório de detenção, uma técnica compensatória pautada no armazenamento temporário do excedente de vazão, assumindo dois objetivos básicos precípuos: reduzir o pico de vazão e retardar o tempo de pico. No desenvolvimento do trabalho, utilizam-se a relação empírica IDF (intensidade-duração-frequência) de Fortaleza (CE) para a obtenção do hietograma de projeto, o modelo SCS (Soil Conservation Service) para a confecção do hidrograma afluente ao reservatório, e o método de Puls para a propagação de vazões. O processo metodológico desenvolvido se orienta para a tomada de decisão na escolha do dispositivo a ser adotado no projeto executivo do empreendimento. Os resultados evidenciam diferentes níveis de desempenho do reservatório, conforme sejam os critérios de seleção e dimensionamento dos elementos hidráulicos promotores do hidrograma efluente.
ANAEROBIC CO-DIGESTION OF SUGARCANE VINASSE AND ELEPHANT GRASS JUICE FOR BIOMETHAN PRODUCTION
Authors: Rocha e Silva Olga Eliza , Farias Ana Beatriz Vitorino de , Peiter Fernanda Santana , Marafon Anderson Carlos , Vich Daniele Vital , Amorim Eduardo Lucena Cavalcante de
Published: January 2023

In the present study, biogas production was investigated by co-digesting elephant grass juice (EGJ) and sugarcane vinasse using batch reactor. Some factors that influence biomethane production were observed, including initial pH, inoculum concentration and proportions of each substrate. Two tests were carried out. In Experiment I, the following proportions (%v/v sugarcane vinasse/elephant grass juice) were tested: A - 25/75, B - 50/50, C - 75/25, D - 100/0, E - 0/100. In Experiment II, the effect of adding alkalizer to the condition that showed the highest methane production (in Experiment I) was also evaluated. In the Experiment I, the highest accumulated production was observed for the proportion 1:1 corresponding to 50% of EGJ and 50% of vinasse (370.94 mLCH4/gVS). Experiment II showed the higher values of accumulated methane production of 1,364.1 mLCH4/gVS. Regarding addition of alkalizing, a maximum production of 836.18 mLCH4/gVS was obtained in the experimental condition with 50% EGJ and 50% vinasse, but with the lowest addition of alkalizer tested (0.05 g HCO3/gCOD). In general, the use of elephant grass caused the acidification of the reactors and was unfavorable for biogas production.
System for Managing Vehicle Services
Authors: Prasad Rayapati Hari Chandra , Mounika J. , Gopi Sangala
Published: January 2023

Abstract: Vehicle owners can prevent unexpected automotive problems by routinely maintaining their vehicles. It's critical to identify car issues as soon as possible to stop them from becoming major problems. Vehicle owners routinely ask auto shops about servicing. Vehicle mechanics inspect important components and address issues to make sure they are in good shape and won't break down unexpectedly. Researchers conducted the study to assess the routine business transactions and activities in vehicle repair shops. Preliminary data collected by the researchers revealed that the majority of vehicle repair companies or garages continue to conduct daily transactions manually. Customer records, client interactions, billing, tracking the progress of auto repairs, and service updates are all still entered by hand. The capstone project, "System for managing vehicle services" will automate the operations and regular transactions of the car repair shop. The system will electronically streamline processes including managing car repair orders, maintaining maintenance logs, monitoring customer and transaction records, servicing updates, and billing. The system's installation will benefit both customers and auto shops. The company's use of the system will enable vehicle garages to grow and enhance operational effectiveness. Customers can easily and comfortably conduct business for vehicle servicing.
Editorial
Authors: Muñoz-Sanguinetti Claudia
Published: January 2023

I am pleased to present the new edition of Revista Habitat Sustentable V12N2, supported by the Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Design, whose valuable and rich repertoire of articles collaborates from research to sustainability in the built environment, at different scales. Through significant contributions to the discussion in the areas of circular economy of material resources and life cycle of buildings, resilience of cities and buildings to climate change, environmental comfort, habitability, urban mobility and lighting sufficiency, authors from Latin America (Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile) share their proposals here.