bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
An Integrative Model of Intercultural Interaction: A Qualitative Analysis Experience
Authors: Tkachenko Natalya V. , Khukhlaev Oleg E.
Published: October 2021

The study of intercultural interaction has recently become one of the topical problems of social psychology. Considered often in the context of developing intercultural competence, they nevertheless ignore the mechanisms that underlie the causes of effective or ineffective communication. The mechanism by which intercultural competence contributes to intercultural efficiency is described in an integrative model of intercultural interaction, which unites a group of theories of communicativistic and socio-psychological approaches. This model substantiates the contribution of uncertainty and anxiety to the effectiveness of intercultural communication, which has been widely studied in quantitative studies. The aim of the study is to test the idea of the role of the situation of uncertainty and anxiety in the situation of intercultural interaction using qualitative analysis. The research was carried out based on a theoretical socio-psychological model of intercultural interaction. Using the in-depth interview method and subsequent phenomenological data analysis, a dense description of effective and ineffective intercultural communication was obtained from the point of view of each of the four aspects of the model: anxiety, uncertainty, social identity and intergroup anxiety. As a result of the analysis, data were obtained that reveal the content of some of the blocks of the model (intercultural abilities, communication efficiency, management of uncertainty), as well as a new block (emotion management) was identified and the properties of connections (between anxiety management and communication efficiency, between emotion management and anxiety management) were highlighted. Since the qualitative analysis made it possible to adjust the theoretical integrative model of intercultural interaction, and also revealed additional components of the model that develop theoretical ideas about the mechanisms underlying effective and ineffective communication, the results of this study can serve as a basis for the practice of the training of specialists working in the field of international relations: teachers of multicultural education, HRs in the field of international business, specialists in intercultural consulting, etc.
Value Predictors of Older Adolescents’ Growing-up in the Context of Their Professional Self-Determination: A Case Study of Cadets of the Suvorov Military School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Authors: Bezgodova Svetlana A. , Kulinchenko Alina V. , Miklyaeva Anastasia V. , Shapoval Valentin A.
Published: October 2021

Against the background of social changes in the last decade, the increasing priority of the role of a child in relation to the role of an adult, modern adolescents are faced with a choice of growing-up strategies, which is accompanied by an internal conflict of this process, a contradiction between the laws of development, including social and modern cultural imperatives. This urgent problem is in the focus of the presented research. The process of modern Russian adolescents growing-up in the context of their professional self-determination is analyzed. Professional self-determination is considered as a factor of positive growing-up acceptance due to certain value orientations. It is assumed that the choice of a future profession made by adolescents (i.e., their professional self-determination) increases their self-assessment of adulthood, and value orientations can act as its predictors as determining the meaning of growing up for them. The study involved 302 male teenagers aged 14-17 years, including: 148 cadets of the Suvorov School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and 154 students of secondary schools. The study used the questionnaire method, modified Dembo - Rubinstein Self-Assessment Methods and Schwartz Value Survey. Statistical processing was based on a comparative ( F -tests and the Mann -Whitney U test), variance ( F ), and regression ( B ) analyses. The results of the study show that the professional self-determination of adolescents increases their self-assessment of adulthood. The professional self-determination of adolescents is associated with the factor of primary professional socialization, namely, the conditions of the educational environment in which they grow up. The value orientations of adolescents are predictors of their self-assessment of adulthood, and are mediated by group, gender, and social stereotypes in the image of an adult and the role of an adult.
Differentiated Analysis of the «Insult» Speech Genrebased on Messages from a Social Network Internet Sites
Authors: Komalova Liliya R. , Goloshchapova Tatiana I.
Published: October 2021

The study of Internet mediated speech communication seems relevant due to the dynamic development of the Internet language, the lack of its codification and legal regulation, duplication of social practices and processes in the virtual environment. The present research is focused on one of the conflicting speech genres (speech acts), which is frequent within Internet communication. Speech actions in the genre of insult in some cases acquire illegal actions and are considered from the standpoint of law enforcement in the practice of forensic linguistics. The novelty of this study lies in the differentiated approach to insults as applied not only to the binary division of its interpretation within the ordinary logic and legal grounds, but also to the study of the distinctive characteristics of this phenomenon in refraction to various legal interpretations (in the criminal, civil, administrative codes). We analyzed written messages of Russian-speaking users of the social network site VKontakte, which were considered through the prism of the provisions of Article 5.61 Insult of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. In the course of the study, it was revealed that even within a specialized dataset of messages, perceived by the recipients as insulting messages, the share of messages corresponding to the criterion basis of insult (Article 5.61) is negligible.
Numeral Systems in Various Fula Lects
Authors: Kosogorova Maria A.
Published: October 2021

The paper presents the analysis of Fula numeral system. Fula is an Atlantic language, dispersed throughout a vast territory in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has over 20 differently-sized lects subdivided into three zones - Western, Central and Eastern. The research included collecting the language data on six major lects, two from each zone. Then this data was analyzed from the point of view of internal and external syntax of ordinal, cardinal, distributive and fraction numerals. The comparative analysis of Fula numeral system on inter-lect scale has never been reflected in earlier Fula studies. Apart from a unique collection of numeral data from all language zones of Fula, the paper presents comparative analysis of such data, including, but not limited to, phonetic and contact-induced variabilities. The sources of structural and lexical loans in the system are listed wherever possible, because the disperse nature of Fula lects means that the contact languages and the ensuing changes can be different for each lect. Special attention is paid to the numeral bases, which can be somatic, commercial of a combination of the two. The Fula numeral system has never been analyzed from this point of view, and the contact changes to it are of great linguistic interest. Also cardinal numerals in Fula can change their form depending on the personality parameter of head noun. This system is unique for Fula and, more specifically, to its numeral system, and is properly described for the first time. Some parts of the Fula numeral system, like distributive and fraction numerals for some lects, have been found underrepresented and poorly described, which leaves room for further research, both field one and typological.
Hashtag as a Linguocognitive Unit of Spanish Political Discourse
Authors: Larionova Marina V. , Demkina Anastasia V.
Published: October 2021

The article presents an analysis of the discursive features of the hashtags functioning in the current Spanish political discourse which are retrieved from Spanish government, ministries and bodies web publications dedicated to combating coronavirus infection. The purpose of the research is to understand and treat hashtags as a discursive unit in terms of theoretical linguistics, discourse theory, cognitive science and pragmalinguistics. The paper reveals significant linguo-cognitive parameters of the hashtags functioning in Spanish political communication and determines the impact of their verbal and pragmatic influence as a tool for structuring the political agenda in the interests of the sender and manipulative means influencing the consciousness and behavior of the addressee. The interdisciplinary approach is applied together with a set of systemic linguistic research methods - cognitive, pragmalinguistic, comparative, semantic, contextual and discourse analysis. The article clarifies the status of hashtags as an independent category of discourse, in other words, a unit of meaningful information that seamlessly conveys the designed content in the Internet communication, which includes political discourse. In accordance with the functional criterion, the following taxonomic classification of hashtags is substantiated: hashtags-prototypes of a situation or event, hashtags-concepts, hashtags-metaphors, hashtags-imperatives and hashtags-performatives. Key cognitive-pragmatic and linguistic characteristics of hashtags include: metatext structure, semiotic polycode, hypertextuality, interactive essence, intentionality, manipulative potential, simplified syntax, frequent use of performative and imperative verbs to intensify a call to action, emotionality, empathy, use of a language game mechanism to facilitate memorization of a key message, repetitions, rhythm.
The History of Semiotic Ideas: Victoria Lady Welby’s Significs
Authors: Skripnik Konstantin D.
Published: October 2021

The purpose of this article is to characterize the basic ideas of the conception of significs, the original science of sign and meaning that emerged at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries in the works of Victoria Lady Welby (1837-1912). The article explains the features of significs, which considers the meaning of verbal and non-verbal signs as a complex hierarchical structure, the levels of which are sense, meaning, and significance. Significance includes the preceding levels and takes into account their relations with axiological characteristics. The author points out that the content of the structure of sense-meaning-significance can be represented in different ways, depending on metaphorical, terminological, social and communicative factors. The conception of significs thus becomes universal and fundamental. The article emphasizes that significs highlights the dynamic nature of meaning, considering changes, that take place on each of its levels. The author sees in this fact the connection of significs with the evolutionary ideas contained in linguistics and natural science, and traces the process of formation of significs, arguing that its foundations lie in the description of various examples of the use of language, undertaken by V. Welby at the early stages of her research. The article is based on the study and comparative analysis of both the works of V. Welby herself and the commentary literature. In conclusion the author specifizes the value of the conception of significs as an integral dynamic theory of sign, meaning, and significance, which incorporates the various aspects of sign issues - from the logical and linguistic to the axiological and pragmatic ones, and indicates the ways of explication the impact of significs on the subsequent development of semiotic, philosophical, and linguistic researches.
FLUID FLOW STUDY IN VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES OF HORIZONTAL AXIS SEA CURRENT TURBINE
Authors: Rumaherang Wulfilla Maxmilian , Latuny Jonny
Published: October 2021

The ducted tidal turbine models have been developed to utilize the conversion of the kinetic energy on ocean currents. The research in refining the turbine characteristics has been carried out by modifying the turbine’s shape and size. This study investigated flow characteristics in the meridional section of five ducted turbines models for seawater flow with velocity U0 = 1.5 m/s. The ducted turbine design and construction have five different impeller house diameters and fixed inlet and outlet diameters. The potential energy flow theory and experimental data are used to analyze the flow characteristics of the model. The results show that flow velocity in the x-direction at the inlet and outlet cross-section is getting smaller, reducing the impeller house cross section. Each impeller house size reduction increases the flow speed in the impeller house cross-section and also pressure on all other cross-sections tested. In the inlet area, the increased pressure indicates a decrease in speed flow and discharge coefficient value. The discharge coefficient value decreases from CQ = 0.9 at the diameter ratio of dr = 1 to CQ = 0.56 at the diameter ratio of dr = 0.375. The maximum value of power coefficient was determined at dr = 0,61÷0.73 or dr = 0.69 which is equivalent to average internal flow velocity Vr =2.0÷2.6 m/s and the static pressure ps = 97.1÷ 94.4 kPa. At the ratio value of D0/D2 = 0.83, the optimal diameter ratio dropt=0,61÷0.73 is in line with the duct model of case 3 and case 4, but it may be determined solely as for case 4.
POSITION CONTROL OF VTOL SYSTEM USING ANFIS VIA HARDWARE IN THE LOOP
Authors: Maghfiroh Hari , Hermanu Chico , Sitorini Zul Hizmi Vernanda
Published: October 2021

Electric motors have been widely applied in various equipment. One application is found in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). An electric motor speed control system that can balance the aircraft's position is one of the mandatory features that must be owned by the aircraft. The position balancer control also supports the Vertical Take-Off Landing (VTOL) system. This study's VTOL position control system uses Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) method with MATLAB Simulink and Arduino. ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inferences System) is used as a position control algorithm. The controller performance is compared with conventional PID and FLC (Fuzzy Logic Controller). The system is tested as an initial position variation and loading test. The experiment shows that HIL can help fast prototyping by faster changes in the controller algorithms and is easy to program. The result is varied in each experiment. In the ISE (Integral Square of Error) point of view, ANFIS is better than PID by 100 % and has a very small difference from FLC in the initial position test. ANFIS is better by 95.44% and 4.56% compared with PID and FLC in the loading test, respectively.
OPTIMIZATION OF THE RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING PROCESS OF SECC-AF AND SGCC GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET USING THE TAGUCHI METHOD
Authors: Sukarman Sukarman , Abdulah Amri , Shieddieque Apang Djafar , Rahdiana Nana , Khoirudin Khoirudin
Published: October 2021

This article present the optimization work describes out to joint the dissimilar galvanized steel of SECC-AF (JIS G 3313) and SGCC (JIS G 3302) material. A zinc coating on the surfaces of the galvanized steel sheets will decrease the weldability characteristic of the material. This study used dissimilar galvanised steel sheets to obtain the highest tensile shear strength from the specified resistance spot welding. This research used the Taguchi method with 4-variables and mixed-experimental levels. The mixed-experimental level, namely 2-experimental levels for the first variable and 3-experimental levels for other variables. The highest tensile shear strength was achieved in 5282.13 N. This condition is achieved at a squeezed time of 20 cycles, 27 kA-welding currents, welding time of 0.5 seconds, and holding time of 18 cycles. The S/N ratio analysis has shown the welding current had the most significant effect, followed by welding time, squeeze time, and holding time. The delta values of S/N ratio were 0.79, 0.64, 0.26 and 0.07, respectively. The ANOVA analysis has shown that the P-value of welding current and welding time is 0.006 (0.6%) and 0.015 (1.5%), respectively. This result is expected for optimizing resistance spot welding quality in other materials or significant aspects.
The Changing Educational Gradient in Marriage: Evidence from Malaysia
Authors: Lai Siow Li
Published: October 2021

The rising age at marriage and non-marriage has been occurring concurrently with the rising educational level in many developing countries. This paper examines the changing relationship between educational attainment and the marriage rate (per cent ever married) and timing (age at marriage) in Malaysia over the past four decades, using multiple waves of Labour Force Survey data. Bivariate analyses show significant educational differentials in the proportion ever married and mean age at marriage for males and females, across ethnic groups and urban-rural locations. The educational effect on the rate and timing of marriage varied over time. Results from binary logistic regression show that controlling for ethnicity, urban-rural location, and age, the negative educational effect on the rate of marriage has turned positive in recent years. The change in the direction of the relationship between education and marriage rate was more pronounced for males than for females. The reduction in the educational gradient and a shift from negative to positive effect means that the conventional hypothesis of the education-marriage nexus needs to be re-assessed. The effects of rising education on the rate and timing of marriage should be considered in the implementation of the National Family Policy.
Family Social Reproduction: Conflict and Compromise in Cross-Border Marriages between Chinese Malaysian Men and Vietnamese Women
Authors: Leng Chee Heng , Yeoh Brenda S.A.
Published: October 2021

In this paper, we use the framework of family social reproduction to investigate care relationships within cross-border marriages in Malaysia. Examining the narratives of Chinese Malaysian men and their Vietnamese spouses, we find that (i) the Malaysian men’s labour migration during their twenties and thirties leads to the deferment as well as enablement of marriage, reconfiguring social reproduction temporally and spatially within their life courses, while (ii) the Vietnamese women’s aspirations for migration, work, and marriage interlink with their desire to seek a better life, and their motivations to secure better options to contribute to the social reproduction of their natal families. Tensions in cross-border marriage arise from unmet expectations of care and sustenance, leading to frictions over contested roles and responsibilities in daily household maintenance and care activities, and compromises as marriage partners formulate social reproductive strategies. Exchanges of care, reproductive labour, and money within these marriages are embedded in relational meanings, pointing to the significance of recognising that the care work that shapes and sustains marital relationships is bidirectional, reciprocal, and undertaken by husbands as much as wives.
Gender-Affirming Care Curriculum in Family Medicine Residencies: A CERA Study
Authors: Donovan Michael , VanDerKolk Kristi , Graves Lisa , McKinney Vicki R. , Everard Kelly  M.
Published: October 2021

Background and Objectives: Family physicians are positioned to provide care for transgender patients, but few are trained in this care during residency. This study examines associations between program directors’ (PDs) perceptions/beliefs on transgender health care and inclusion of gender-affirming health care (GAH) in residency curriculum.
Methods: Questions regarding current training in GAH, provision of GAH, competency in GAH delivery, barriers to GAH training, resident desire for GAH training, access to GAH curriculum, and feelings/perceptions about GAH were included in the 2020 Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) Program Director Survey.
Results: Challenges to including GAH in residency curriculum were inadequate numbers of transgender patients for residents to provide care (35.4%) and lack of faculty expertise in GAH for transgender patients (24.6%). PDs were more likely to include GAH into curriculum when they provided care for transgender patients in their own practice, completed continuing medical education in GAH since completing residency, had confidence in teaching GAH to residents, had residents who requested training on GAH, or had access to a GAH curriculum. PDs who believed that GAH should be a core competency in residency curriculum were more likely to have residents who requested increased education in GAH and wanted to provide GAH to transgender patients in their future practices.
Conclusions: Barriers persist for training family medicine residents in GAH for transgender patients, but further training opportunities for faculty could help to decrease identified barriers. Further research should explore how best to increase family medicine faculty comfort/competence in educating residents in GAH.
Presença de fatores de crescimento em saliva humana e possíveis relações com observações clínicas
Authors: Ferreira Luiza A. Faria , Simões Wilma Alexandre
Published: October 2021

There are significative changes on the human saliva and the occlusal plane during the prepubertal and pubertal period. Saliva samples were collected from 30 subjects, both sexes, between 11 and 16 years old. The results show a major incidence of cells proliferations in girls, between 11-13 years, and boys from 14 to 16 years. There is some evidence that this occurrence coincides with a constellation of clinical features indicative of the growth process.
A semi-analytical method to evaluate the J-R curve for the surface-cracked round bar under three-point bending
Authors: He Guangwei , CAI Lixun , Bao Chen , Qian Xudong
Published: October 2021

The current paper presents a semi-analytical method for obtaining
J-R curves of round bars with elliptical cracks. This method
derives the semi-analytical expressions between load and displacement,
J-integral and displacement for surface-cracked round bars, based
on the energy density equivalence principle, taking into account the
effect of material and crack size. The validity of semi-analytical
expressions examined by three-dimensional finite element analysis shows
that load~displacement curves and
J-integral~load curves predicted by the
expressions match well with the simulation results. Through fracture
toughness testing conducted on the carbon steel 45, the
load~displacement data are used to calculate the average
J-R curves for the surface-cracked round bar by the
semi-analytical expressions. With the distributions of J-integral
along the crack front obtained from three-dimensional finite element
analyses, this study also determines the J-R curves at different
crack-front points.
The gut-liver axis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: association of intestinal permeability with disease severity and treatment outcomes
Authors: Zhuang Yu-Pei , Zhang Yi-Ting , Zhong Hao-Jie , He Xing-Xiang
Published: October 2021

Objective To investigate the association between intestinal permeability
and severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and the value
of intestinal permeability in predicting the efficacy of metabolic
therapy for NAFLD. Methods Disease severity was compared between
patients with normal and elevated intestinal permeability; correlations
between D-lactate and different NAFLD parameters were analyzed; and the
effects of metabolic therapy on NAFLD patients with normal and elevated
intestinal permeability were evaluated. Results A total of 190 patients
with NAFLD were enrolled. NAFLD patients with elevated intestinal
permeability had significantly higher levels of liver test parameters,
liver ultrasonographic fat attenuation parameter, triglyceride,
homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance value and diamine
oxidase (all P˂0.05) than NAFLD patients with normal intestinal
permeability. Further, serum D-lactate levels were positively correlated
with alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, gamma-glutamyl
transpeptidase, total bilirubin, indirect bilirubin, fat attenuation
parameter, triglyceride, and diamine oxidase (all P˂0.05). Moreover,
NAFLD patients with elevated intestinal permeability showed less
improvement in TG levels (P=0.014) after metabolic therapy. Conclusion
Intestinal permeability correlates with the disease severity in patients
with NAFLD. Moreover, intestinal permeability may have value for
predicting the efficacy of metabolic therapy for NAFLD patients.
Splenic hemangiomas with different imaging findings: two laparoscopically resected incidentalomas
Authors: Hiyama Kazuhiro , Kirino Izumi , Fukui Yasuo , Terashima Hideo
Published: October 2021

Although splenic tumors are relatively rare, we sometimes encounter
incidentalomas in the spleen. In such cases, we must plan treatment
based on imaging studies. Herein, we report two cases of splenic
hemangioma with different imaging findings, which were resected
laparoscopically.
Intralesional Bleomycin for Treatment of a Recalcitrant Wart in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Safe, Effective, and Underutilized Therapy
Authors: Ngo Tracy , Hwang Hannah , Amin Bijal , Cohen Steven
Published: October 2021

Injectable bleomycin is infrequently used for recalcitrant warts despite
its efficacy, acceptable safety profile, and high patient satisfaction
compared to other treatment modalities. We present an immunocompromised
patient with a large recalcitrant wart successfully treated with
intralesional bleomycin to provide greater clinical exposure, training,
and practice with intralesional bleomycin.
Lumpy skin disease (LSD): Pathomorphological features and molecular detection in dairy cattle of west coastal India
Authors: Nayakvadi Shivasharanappa , Joshi Samruddhi Prasad , Rajkumar Susitha , HB ChethanKumar , Bathini Jagruti , Uddarwar Sanjaykumar
Published: October 2021

Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an emerging pox viral disease affecting
cattle population worldwide. In India, the first outbreak of LSD is
reported during August 2019 in Odisha state, which then followed by
outbreaks in crossbred and indigenous cattle population of other states.
Present investigation designed to study the prevalence,
pathomorphological changes and molecular detection of LSD virus in
naturally infected cattle. The overall morbidity of LSD was 4.48% among
30 dairy farms. Skin nodular biopsy, whole blood and serum samples (n=
66) were collected for the diagnosis of LSD by histopathology, PCR and
sequencing. The envelope protein gene (P32), Fusion protein (F) and DNA
dependent RNA polymerase 30 kDa subunit (RPO30) genes were targeted for
PCR testing. Out of 66, 46 cattle showed generalized skin nodules and
papules of various sizes (0.5 - 6.5cm) on the skin particularly at neck,
face, nose, tail, perineum and udder. Microscopic examination of the
skin nodule biopsy tissue revealed presence of diffuse granulomatous
inflammation, hyperkeratosis, focal to diffuse vasculitis and
lymphangitis, vacuolar degeneration, spongiosis and acanthosis. The
inflammatory cells typically comprised of macrophages, lymphocytes,
neutrophils and eosinophils along with diffuse necrosis in dermis in
chronic cases. The eosinophilic intracytoplasmic viral inclusions in
keratinocytes and epithelial cells were detected in few cases. Gel-PCR
assay detected P32 gene in 83%, F gene in 72% and RPO30 gene in 77%
of skin biopsy samples. Three blood samples were also found positive for
P32 gene by PCR. Whereas TaqMan™ probe Real Time PCR targeting EEV
glycoprotein gene (LSDV126) detected LSDV in 94% of biopsy samples and
three blood samples which indicated its higher sensitive for the
diagnosis of LSDV. Phylogenetic analysis of RPO30 gene sequence showed
that the isolates from this study were grouped in same cluster with LSDV
isolates of Bangladesh, Kenya and other Indian isolates detected during
2019-20.
SFGAN: Unsupervised Generative Adversarial Learning of 3D Scene Flow from the 3D Scene Self
Authors: Wang Guangming , Jiang Chaokang , Shen Zehang , Miao Yanzi , Wang Hesheng
Published: October 2021

3D scene flow presents the 3D motion of each point in the 3D space,
which forms the fundamental 3D motion perception for autonomous driving
and server robots. Although the RGBD camera or LiDAR capture discrete 3D
points in space, the objects and motions usually are continuous in the
macro world. That is, the objects keep themselves consistent as they
flow from the current frame to the next frame. Based on this insight,
the Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is utilized to self-learn 3D
scene flow with no need for ground truth. The fake point cloud of the
second frame is synthesized from the predicted scene flow and the point
cloud of the first frame. The adversarial training of the generator and
discriminator is realized through synthesizing indistinguishable fake
point cloud and discriminating the real point cloud and the synthesized
fake point cloud. The experiments on KITTI scene flow dataset show that
our method realizes promising results without ground truth. Just like a
human observing a real-world scene, the proposed approach is capable of
determining the consistency of the scene at different moments in spite
of the exact flow value of each point is unknown in advance.

Corresponding author(s)
Email: wanghesheng@sjtu.edu.cn
Exploratory analysis of multiple traits co-adaptations in the population history
Authors: Nakamichi Reiichiro , Kitada Shuichi , Kishino Hirohisa
Published: October 2021

During the history of range expansion, the populations encounter with
variety of environments. They respond to the local environments by
modifying the mutually interacting traits. Therefore, to understand the
whole life history of the populations, it is ideal to capture the
history of their range expansion with reference to the series of
surrounding environments and to infer the coadaptation of the multiple
traits. Toward this end, we provide an exploratory analysis based on the
features of populations: site frequency spectra of populations,
population-specific FST, association between genes and environments,
positive selections on traits mapped on the admixture graph, and GWAS
results. Correspondence analysis of genes, environments, and traits
provides a bird’s-eye view of the history of population differentiation
and range expansion and various types of environmental selections at the
times. Principal component analysis of the estimated trait-specific
polygenic adaptations mapped on the admixture graph enables to
understand the coadaptation of multiple traits. The potential usefulness
was confirmed by analyzing a public dataset of wild poplar in
northwestern America. In response to the northern cold temperature and
longer daylength, the populations increased the photosynthetic activity
and nutrient use efficiency at the expense of the risk of pathogen
invasion, and in response to warm temperature, they increased the
growth. At higher altitude, they shifted the maximum activity to earlier
period in spring to reduce the activity in dry summer. The R codes for
our representation method and simulations of population colonization
used in this study are available as supplementary script.
Universal Health Care and political economy, neoliberalism and effects of COVID-19 -- a view of systems and complexity
Authors: Peterson Chris , Walker Christine
Published: October 2021

Sturmberg and Martin’s application of systems and complexity theory to
understanding Universal Health Care (UHC) and Primary Health Care (PHC)
is evaluated in the light of the influence of political economy on
health systems. Further the role that neoliberal approaches to
governance have had in creating increased inequities is seen as a key
challenge for UHC. COVID-19 has emphasized long standing discrepancies
in health and these disadvantages require government will and
cooperation together with adequate social services to redress these
discrepancies in UHC.
Urgent excision of primary intracardiac Burkitt Lymphoma in a child
Authors: Ashry Amr , Tarmahomed Abdulla , Samaddar Avishek , Kutty Ramesh , Dhannapuneni Ramana , Lotto Attilio , Guerrero rafael
Published: October 2021

We present the case of a 9-year-old girl who was referred to our service
with a recent history of shortness of breath on exertion and fatigue in
addition to visual disturbances and gastrointestinal symptoms. A
Transthoracic Echocardiography demonstrated the presence of 3 large
intracardiac masses in both the right and left atrium protruding into
the mitral and tricuspid valve orifices causing bilateral inflow
obstruction. The patient underwent urgent surgical excision of the
masses which was uncomplicated. Histological testing was consistent with
a rare intracardiac location of Burkitt’s Lymphoma.
Monitoring the integrity and usability of policy evaluation tools within an evolving socio-cultural context: A demonstration of reflexivity using the CFPC Family Medicine Longitudinal Survey
Authors: Hamza Deena , Grierson Lawrence
Published: October 2021

Rationale, aims and objectives: Over the last decade, policy changes
have prompted Canadian medical education to emphasize a transformation
to competency-based education, and subsequent development of evaluation
tools. The pandemic provides a unique opportunity to emphasize the value
of reflexive monitoring, a cyclical and iterative process of appraisal
and adaptation, since tools are influenced by social and cultural
factors relevant at the time of their development. Methods: Deductive
content analysis of documents and resources about the advancement of
primary care. Reflexive monitoring of the Family Medicine Longitudinal
Survey (FMLS), an evaluation tool for physician training. Results: The
FMLS tool does not explore all training experiences that are currently
relevant; including, incorporating technology, infection control and
safety, public health services referrals, patient preferences for care
modality, and trauma-informed culturally safe care. Conclusion: The
results illustrate that reflection promotes the validity and usefulness
of the data collected to inform policy performance and other
initiatives. Keywords: program evaluation; health professions education;
reflexive monitoring; competency-based education; healthcare policy
Leukocyte chemotactic factor 2 related amyloidosis presented with severe jaundice and hepatic encephalopathy.
Authors: Almasri Hussam , Lutf Abdo , Razok Almurtada , Badi Ahmed , Almohannadi Muneera , Petkar Mahir , Elzouki Abdel-Naser
Published: October 2021

One of the most recently identified types is Leukocyte chemotactic
factor 2 amyloidosis (LECT 2) which was found to be common in certain
ethnic backgrounds. It is suggested that the diagnosis of this type is
vital to prevent any therapy-related complications when it is
erroneously diagnosed as AL amyloidosis.
An overview of experimental Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) poisoning programs in northern Ontario, 1956 to 1964
Authors: Harris Allan G. , Armstrong Ted (Edward) R.
Published: October 2021

In the late 1950s, the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests commenced an experimental Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) poisoning program in northern Ontario, the results of which were documented in a series of unpublished reports. Most projects consisted of distributing baits poisoned with strychnine on frozen lakes in late winter; 12 were conducted by district staff and typically consisted of <10 bait stations monitored for two to four months. An intensive three-year program was completed in the Allanwater area, about 250 km north of Thunder Bay, where up to 56 bait stations were distributed on a grid covering >25 000 km2. Thirty eight wolf kills were reported in the district projects and 81 in the Allanwater study. In total, where sex was identified 56% were male and 44% female. Adults made up 51% of the kill in the Allanwater study, subadults (<2 years old) 44%, and 5% were of unknown age. Two hundred and sixty five kills of species other than wolves were documented from all studies, comprising 10 mammal and nine bird species. Common Raven (Corvus corax) and Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) made up 54% and 24% of the non-target mortality, respectively, and were recorded in most studies. Kills of wolves and non-target species were probably under-reported because animals left bait stations before dying, were buried by snow, were removed by bounty hunters, or monitoring for non-target species was poor. Although completed over 50 years ago, the studies summarized here provide context on the ecological impacts and ethics of poison use to control wolves.
Overall and repeated floral visitation by insects suggests flower flies (Syrphidae) as the major pollinator group of Alaska Wild Rhubarb (Koenigia alaskana var. glabrescens; Polygonaceae) in Northwest Territories, Canada
Authors: Catling Paul M. , Kostiuk Brenda , Skevington Jeffrey H.
Published: October 2021

Alaska Wild Rhubarb (Koenigia alaskana var. glabrescens; Polygonaceae) is a native Arctic, subarctic, and alpine plant of northwestern North America. Although the plant has some economic and ecological importance, its biology is poorly known. At 11 sites in the northeast corner of its range in Northwest Territories, we found that 87% of its floral visitors were flies, mostly Syrphidae, a diverse family known to be important pollinators. Insects visiting consecutive flowers on different plants and, thus, likely effecting pollination were also flies (78.6%) and also mostly Syrphidae (72.7%) followed by Hymenoptera (20%). Although syrphids were the dominant potential pollinators at most sites, there was some variation among sites. Our results provide quantitative support for pollinator diversity and the major role of Syrphidae in pollination of Alaska Wild Rhubarb. We suggest that pollination is not a limiting factor in this plant’s spread, nor its rare and local occurrence and restricted distribution, because the majority of its pollinators are widespread.
The first documented migration of a potter wasp, Ancistrocerus adiabatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)
Authors: Skevington Jeffrey H. , Buck Matthias
Published: October 2021

Eumenine wasps are not known to be migratory and have never been proposed as migrants, let alone documented as such. We document a large-scale migration of a common eumenine, Ancistrocerus adiabatus, during which 44 000–68 000 wasps moved through a known migration corridor in southwestern Ontario, Canada, in less than an hour. Evidence for migration of another eumenine, Pachodynerus erynnis, six species of flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae), and two dragonflies (Odonata) is also provided. We hope that this note encourages naturalists to focus their attention on insects at known migration concentration sites to learn more about this grossly understudied aspect of animal behaviour.
Thermal parameters defined with graph theory approach in synthetized diamonds
Authors: Mitic Vojislav , Randjelovic Branislav , Ribar Srdjan , Cebela Maria , Mohr Markus , Vlahovic Branislav , Fecht Hans
Published: October 2021

The Nanocrystaline diamonds are very important biomedical material with variety of applications. The experimental procedures and results have been done in the Institute of Functional Nanosystems at the University Ulm, Germany. There is an existing biocompatibility of the diamond layers, selectively improved by biomimetic 3-D patterns structuring. Based on that, we have been inspired to apply the graph theory approach in analysing and defining the physical parameters within the structure of materials structure samples. Instead the parameters values, characteristic at the samples surface, we penetrate the graphs deeply in the bulk structure. These values could be only, with some probability, distributed through the micro-structure what defines not enough precious parameters values between the micro-structure constituents, grains and pores. So, we originally applied the graph theory to get defined the physical parameters at the grains and pores levels. This novelty, in our paper, we applied for thermophysical parameters, like thermoconductiviy. By graph approach we open new frontiers in controlling and defining the processes at micro-structure relations. In this way, we can easily predict and design the structure with proposed parameters.
Study of typical water header flow structure by large eddy simulation and RANS
Authors: Qin Hao , Wang Bin , Guo Yun , Hu Miao
Published: October 2021

Water header is the most common structure in the design of flow system for energy and power system. The complex flow structure could result in some problems when CFD simulation is applied in the whole system analysis. The rapid change in velocity distribution of the flow field leads to difficulties to create suitable boundary-layer mesh, and the complex flow structure will also make residuals hard to reach convergence criteria. Large eddy simulation is promising to promote these studies, it is more accurate than RANS method and can capture many non-steady-state characteristics those RANS method cannot obtain. In this study a typical water header flow structure is investigated by RANS and large eddy simulation methods. By comparing the detailed flow structures in the results of two methods, the deficiency of RANS method was found. The results of large eddy simulation can be used to guide the establishment of meshes and the application of time-averaged turbulence models to improve efficiency in engineering. The asymmetric Reynolds stresses may induce asymmetric flow field in symmetric geometry.
Changes in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies and Diabetes Prevalence: Analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data From 2004 to 2014
Authors: Khatana Sameed Ahmed M. , Illenberger Nicholas , Werner Rachel M. , Groeneveld Peter W. , Mitra Nandita
Published: October 2021

OBJECTIVE

Food insecurity is associated with diabetes. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest U.S. government food assistance program. Whether such programs impact diabetes trends is unclear. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between changes in state-level policies affecting SNAP participation and county-level diabetes prevalence.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

We evaluated the association between change in county-level diabetes prevalence and changes in the U.S. Department of Agriculture SNAP policy index—a measure of adoption of state-level policies associated with increased SNAP participation (higher value indicating adoption of more policies associated with increased SNAP participation; range 1–10)—from 2004 to 2014 using g-computation, a robust causal inference methodology. The study included all U.S. counties with diabetes prevalence data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s U.S. Diabetes Surveillance System.

RESULTS

The study included 3,135 of 3,143 U.S. counties. Mean diabetes prevalence increased from 7.3% (SD 1.3) in 2004 to 9.1% (SD 1.8) in 2014. The mean SNAP policy index increased from 6.4 (SD 0.9) to 8.2 (SD 0.6) in 2014. After accounting for changes in demographic-, economic-, and health care-related variables and the baseline SNAP policy index, a 1-point absolute increase in the SNAP policy index between 2004 and 2014 was associated with a 0.050 (95% CI 0.042–0.057) percentage point lower diabetes prevalence per year.

CONCLUSIONS

State policies aimed at increasing SNAP participation were independently associated with a lower rise in diabetes prevalence between 2004 and 2014.
Structural state of diaphysis of humeral bone after implantation of hydroxylapatite into tibia and oral administration of calcium medications
Authors:   Saint Luka Lugansk State Medical University, Luzin V.I. , Koch’yan A.L. ,   Staritsa Central Regional Hospital, Morozov V.N. ,   Belgorod National Research University, Morozova Е.N. ,   Belgorod National Research University
Published: October 2021

BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis and osteopenias are the most common metabolic diseases of skeleton leading to loss of bone mass, which in turn contributes to increase in the incidence of fractures occur against their background. To note, bone fractures often require not only correction of phosphorus-calcium metabolism, but also bone-plastic operations. AIM: To investigate the structure of the middiaphysis of the humeral bone after plastic surgery of the tibia defect with OK-015 material and substantiate the possibilities of correction of its damages by “Biomin MK”. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The experiment involved 210 male laboratory rats with initial body weight from 135 to 145 g: group A — control, in group B perforation of the tibia, in group C filling of the defect with OK-015 material. In the group D after perforation and in the group E after implantation, “Biomin MK” was used intragastrically through a tube at a dose of 90 mg/kg/day. RESULTS: Perforation of the tibia was accompanied by an increase in resorptive processes and inhibition of bone formation in the diaphysis of the humeral bone with maximum deviations by the 30th day after surgery. The implantation of the OK-015 material was accompanied by aggravation of the identified alterations within 15 days, but in the later period, the structure of the middiaphysis recovered faster. With intragastric administration of “Biomin MK” through a tube after the bone plasty, the structure of the middiaphysis of the humeral bones showed more evident changes by the 7th and 15th day, but by the 30th and 60th day after the implantation, the thickness of the layer of the external circumferential lamellae was greater than in group C by the 3.77% and 4.27%, and the thickness of the internal circumferential lamellae and the diameter of osteons by the 60th day — by 3.51%, 6.46% and 18.64%. CONCLUSIONS: The administration of “Biomin MK” during implantation of OK-015 material into the tibia is accompanied by the restoration of the structure of the middiaphysis of the humeral bones, mainly from the 30th to 60th days after the surgery.