bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The development and content validity of the emotional recognition memory training program (ERMTP) for children with autism spectrum disorder: A trial phase
Authors:   Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Jesu Priya Victor Paulra Smily , Chinchai Supaporn ,   Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Munkhetvit Peeraya ,   Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Sriphetcharawut Sarinya ,   Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Published: December 2023

Background: Facial expression, tone of voice, body language, and context are unrecognizable to children with autism. Emotional arousal and emotion recognition (required emotion empathy and cognitive processing empathy) induce downstream illnesses in children with ASD. Thus, the proposed study aimed to develop a computer-based Emotional Recognition Memory Training Program (ERMTP) for ASD. Objective: Firstly, to develop and validate the ERMTP for social cognitive abilities in children with ASD and secondly, to conduct pilot-tested it in typically developing children and children with ASD. Materials and methods: This study consisted of 3 phases. The first phase was developing the ERMTP from the literature review. The second phase was analyzed for content validity with five experts about Task 1 (two activities) and Task 2 (nine activities) comprising ERMTP. Computer-based learning of six fundamental facial emotions (happy, sad, angry, fear, disgusted, and surprised) improves social cognition. Finally, the pilot test was analyzed to discover the ERMTP’s challenges for five children with typical development and ASD. Results: The ERMTP’s activity items have good content validity, especially regarding clarity and relevance. All five raters gave the intervention a 1.0 IOC for its distinct components. In the training program, we followed the expert instructions regarding background music or voice and the generalization task. Descriptive analysis indicated that all five normal-developing children followed emotional expressions and instructions (100%). All five parents reported there were changes in focus and memory skills. Emotion regulation, memory abilities, and the social cognition index demonstrated statistically significant (p<0.05) effects before and after ERMTP treatment in ASD. Conclusion: ERMTP seeks to improve the social cognition of children with ASD by the use of feedback from both specialists and the children themselves. However, further research will be necessary to investigate ASD using a randomized control trial.
Application of Gray Expansion Model in Energy Economic Analysis and Load Forecasting
Authors: Jie Yin
Published: December 2023

Objective and effective prediction of energy consumption can not only optimize the energy consumption structure, but also provide important information for the government to formulate energy conservation and emission reduction measures. With the development of new energy sources and changes in the global energy consumption structure, historical energy data that are too old may no longer be reliable for forecasting, which leads to a decrease in the amount of information on energy, and the gray theory, which is applicable to “poor information”, has gained attention. Firstly, the optimization of energy economic objectives and transformation path methods at this stage is clarified; then, the DEA-Malmqusit model is used to improve the shortcomings of the traditional model that can only compare different cross-sections at the same time node, and to evaluate and analyze the full-factor multi-indicators of energy enterprises in terms of technological empowerment, environmental dynamics, and economic output efficiency; finally, the LEAPS-based energy system consumption and load capacity prediction model. The results show that the traditional algorithm is not accurate enough and has some deviation when the energy raw data fluctuates a lot. The algorithm proposed in this paper still gives a better prediction, predicting a city’s carbon emission to be 65,240,100 tons in 2024, with a 3.6% increase in energy output year by year.
Welfare of the Population in the Far Eastern Federal District: Q1 2019 – Q2 2023
Authors:   Economic Research Institute FEB RAS, Naiden Svetlana , Bravok Polina ,   Economic Research Institute FEB RAS
Published: December 2023

Based on statistical, analytical and expert information, monitoring of the socio-economic situation and analysis of social indicators (income, wages, pensions, unemployment, migration, housing) characterizing the standard of living and well-being of the population of the Russian Far East in the period from Q1 2019 to Q2 2023 are presented. Using statistical indicators of Rosstat, a comparative assessment of the welfare index generated for 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation was carried out, with a focus on the Far Eastern Federal District. It is shown that during the period of active shock impacts, the Far Eastern territories, thanks to state support of labor markets both during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021) and during the period of the influence of international sanctions (2022 – the first half of 2023), largely retained their positions in terms of well-being, despite the fall in real incomes of the population. A slight reduction in the gap between the Far Eastern regions in terms of the welfare index still does not lead to a smoothing out of inequality in the social space of the macroregion
Far East in Terms of Energy Consumption and Sanctions Restrictions
Authors:   Economic Research Institute FEB RAS, Dyomina Olga
Published: December 2023

It is shown that the development of the world coal market in the long term is determined by the intensity of the energy transition process. It has been determined that the traditional markets for Russian coal in Japan and the Republic of Korea may be lost by 2030 because of the active policies of these countries to transition their economies to carbon neutrality, related to the large-scale reduction of coal generation. The market niche for Russian coal in China in the 2035–2040 period may also be significantly reduced, both because of a general contraction in demand as the economy transitions to carbon neutrality, and as a result of increased competition with other suppliers and the country’s own production. This is also due to increased competition with other suppliers and our own production in the country India is the most promising market for Russian coal in the long term. Sanctions restrictions imposed on the Russian fuel and energy complex, partially supported by Japan and the Republic of Korea. They cause even higher rates of abandonment of Russian coal than expected because of the energy transition. China and India did not support the sanctions restrictions, which, in the face of the loss of traditional sales markets for Russia, made it possible to reorient most of the flows. The Far Eastern coal industry is characterized by more favorable development conditions compared to other regions of Russia. As a result, high industry performance indicators are observed for 2022 and 9 months of 2023, and project development continues. The key factor determining the dynamics of production in the coal industry in the mainland of the Far East is access to scarce infrastructure
Multivariance of Assessments of the Potential of Socio-Economic Development of Municipalities. Example of the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region
Authors:   Economic Research Institute FEB RAS, Leonov Sergey
Published: December 2023

Recently, issues of unification (consolidation) of the subjects of the Russian Federation have become more acute to improve the standard of living of the population and accelerate regional development. In the Far East, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Khabarovsk Territory are considered as such subjects of the federation, which until 1992 formed a single administrative-territorial unit, and are currently the subject of discussion about the prospects of their merger. It is important to assess the potential of the municipalities of the named territories and the possibilities of its rational use. Using general scientific research methods, the work examines the concept of «socio-economic potential of a municipality» and identifies approaches to its quantitative assessment. Municipalities have been identified – the «locomotives» of economic development of the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region, which have the most significant and actively used potential for municipal development; the high importance of the socio-economic potentials of urban districts is shown and the comparative values of the development potentials of municipal districts are assessed. The multivariance of assessments (multiplicity of options) of the potential of municipalities for the purposes of economic growth has been revealed. It has been determined that the structure of the socio-economic potential of the municipality also remains a subject of debate in the scientific community; there is no consensus on its constituent elements. It is noted that the systematization of the structural elements of the socio-economic potential of the municipality and approaches to its determination is especially relevant for the economy of modern Russia, as it allows us to determine the directions for using the resource component of the economy of the constituent entities of the federation
Terminology and conceptual apparatus of tissue donation and tissue banking: interdisciplinary expert consensus (Part 1)
Authors: Kirilova I. A. , Aleynik D. Ya. , Basankin I. V. , Bozhkova S. A. , Borovkova N. V. , Vorobyev K. A. , Gilevich I. V. , Duginovа M. V. , Kozlovskikh et al. O. V.
Published: December 2023

An interdisciplinary consensus of experts has been formed in the area of medical activity such as tissue banking. An analysis and attempt was made to systematize some of the terms and definitions used by tissue bank specialists in the process of their work and presented in the Federal laws and orders of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation regulating medical activities in the field of tissue donation and their clinical use.
Assessing the Responsibilities of the International Criminal Court in the Investigation of War Crimes in Ukraine
Authors: Ablamskyi Serhii , Tchobo Denakpon L.R. , Romaniuk Vitalii , Šimić Goran , Ilchyshyn Nadiya
Published: December 2023

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are working in cooperation with the International Criminal Court - ICC and countries that jointly support the ICC to collect evidence of Russia’s atrocity crimes in order to hold the alleged perpetrators accountable. The collection of evidence in the situation of Ukraine ever turned into an unprecedented investigation of the likely international crimes committed by Russian armed forces in Ukraine. This study aims to determine the fundamental role and significance of the ICC in a collective investigation of the situation in Ukraine. Knowing that the definition of the term “war crimes” does not exist in the current legislation of Ukraine, this study attempts a correlative analysis of the term “war crimes” in the context of international law and finds that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and institutions are capable of documenting war crimes committed in Ukraine by the Russian Federation. This suggests that the ICC, in comparison to its previous international investigations, definitively has a wide range of support resources to hold accountable “those most responsible“ for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, as emphasized in its prosecutorial policy documents.
Legal and social foundations of the resocialization institute: The experience of Ukraine and foreign countries
Authors: Ivchuk Yuliia Yu. , Pavlichenko Volodymir , Zhuravel Valentyna I. , Kovalenko Kostiantyn V. , Havrylyuk Volodymyr O.
Published: December 2023

The correction and resocialization of the convicted person are considered processes of positive changes that occur in his most personality and create readiness for self-directed obedient behavior, as well as the return of the convicted person to an independent and generally accepted social and normative life in society, that is, the successful reintegration into society after release and deprivation of a criminal worldview. This remains one of the most important issues debated by scholars to determine the best way to achieve the goals of corrections and rehabilitation of ex-offenders. In addition, resocialization is of fundamental importance for solving a wide range of social and socio-practical problems, not only for the prevention and eradication of crime but also for the prevention of social deviance in general. Since the reintegration of criminals into society is an urgent social problem, a detailed analysis of the process of resocialization of criminals is of practical importance. The methodological basis of the research was the dialectical, historical, analysis and synthesis, structural-functional, classification and grouping, logical-semantic, comparative-legal, and hermeneutic methods. The purpose of this article is the study of the concept and essence of the legal concept of resocialization, the study of the means of correction and resocialization of convicted persons, the analysis of the experience of foreign countries in the field of resocialization of convicts, the analysis of the priority directions of the Ukrainian social policy on resocialization of persons, and the outline of the ways to improve the state of resocialization of convicted persons in Ukraine.
Justicias propias desde las comunidades afro: una propuesta decolonial, racial e intercultural
Authors: Pérez Bermúdez Hingrid Camila , Bustamante Rúa Mónica María , Pozzolo Susanna
Published: December 2023

El presente artículo apunta a reconocer los procesos de justicias propias, construidas a partir de la raza, la interculturalidad y el pensamiento decolonial, desde las comunidades afro, como garantía para la reconstrucción de las formas autónomas, interculturales y de gobernanza, que resuelven conflictos. El diseño metodológicose fundamentó en una revisión sociológica y jurídica que permitió dar alcance a las formas otras de justicias, a partir de expresiones colectivas y representaciones sociales como parte del proceso histórico en el que se tejen el saber ancestral y la cosmovisión. Una lectura que, fortalecida en el pluralismo jurídico, apropianarrativas que dialogan con las culturas e identidades de los territorios.
El ascenso de los movimientos minoritarios de resistencia desde una perspectiva académica
Authors: Gamarra-Amaya Laura Cecilia
Published: December 2023

En la revista Novum Jus estamos orgullosos de presentar investigaciones de vanguardia con impacto mundial. En este número, destacamos cómo los movimientos de resistencia minoritarios han surgido como una fuerza poderosa en la configuración del panorama sociopolítico mundial. Estos movimientos, a menudo arraigados en comunidades marginadas, han sido fundamentales en la defensa de los derechos humanos, la justicia social y la igualdad
La paradoja de la racionalidad lingüística: el lenguaje jurídico claro desde una variación de la teoría matemática de la comunicación
Authors: Agudelo Giraldo Oscar Alexis
Published: December 2023

El artículo pretende demostrar que una de las apuestas del lenguaje jurídico claro —el desuso del tecnolecto jurídico— ocasiona, a manera de problema, una irracionalidad legislativa y de carácter lingüístico en los sistemas jurídicos. Para ello, haciendo una correlación de conceptos, y extrapolando el modelo matemático de teoría de la comunicación, desarrolla cuatro ejes temáticos: i) La posibilidad de realizar cálculos de consecuencias a partir del lenguaje de las disposiciones legales; ii) La manera en la que la especialización del lenguaje jurídico perfila la dimensión pragmática del proceso semiótico; iii) El modelo de racionalidad legislativa desarrollado por Manuel Atienza; iv) El análisis de la racionalidad legislativa lingüística a partir de una variación de la teoría matemática de la comunicación. Los resultados de la investigación permiten generar un nuevo problema, a partir del derecho a comprender, para los sistemas jurídicos: la paradoja de la racionalidad lingüística.
El derecho al territorio indígena: protección internacional y las reivindicaciones locales
Authors: Llano Franco Jairo Vladimir , Velazco Cano Nicole
Published: December 2023

Desde el ámbito internacional en el siglo XX se ha promovido la protección de los derechos de las comunidades indígenas, entre ellos, el derecho al territorio. Este discurso de protección al territorio indígena también ha contribuido a la conservación de otros derechos como lo es el de la diversidad biológica, problemática que afecta a toda la humanidad. Sin embargo, el discurso de protección de este derecho se ha visto en contradicción con los intereses de desarrollo de los Estados que promueven practicas neoliberales, que favorecen a las empresas o particulares que conciben el territorio como un negocio. En este sentido, la protección del derecho internacional a los territorios indígenas ha servido como carta de orientación para la consolidación de estrategias de control y defensa de los territorios. Estas estrategias gestadas en un entorno de diálogo intercultural con otras poblaciones como afrodescendientes y campesinas, se ven en la conformación de las guardias indígenas, cimarronas y campesinas, las cuales han se han convertido en un referente internacional de defensa de los derechos humanos.
Prohibition in the USA, the USSR, and the UAE: Ideological and Procedural Differences, Causes of Failures or Successes
Authors: Spytska Liana
Published: December 2023

This study is relevant in light of a thorough investigation of alcohol control and prohibition in the United States of America, the United Arab Emirates, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In order to establish the causes of their successes or failures on the matter it is necessary to analize experiences in the regulation of alcohol abuse and consumption in the modern world, as well as ideological and procedural differences in alcohol control campaigns. The purpose of this study is to investigate the features of the introduction of prohibition in the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Arab Emirates, looking to establish and interpret the results of their anti-alcohol campaigns. A wide array of methods were used to carry out the investigation, such as: dialectical method; formalisation; cognitive method; formal-legal method; hermeneutical method; logical-legal method; systemic method; structural-functional method; axiomatic method; method of induction and deduction; and method of analysis and synthesis. The study analysed various anti-alcohol campaigns; established the background to the introduction of Prohibition in the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Arab Emirates; assessed the main successes and failures of Prohibition; identified reasons for the repeal of alcohol bans; and highlighted differences between the various anti-alcohol campaigns in the United States of America,the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Arab Emirates. The findings include: a definition ofthe phenomenon of “prohibition” itself, and what preceded it; a study of the anti-alcohol campaign in the United States and the consequences arising from the introduction of Prohibition; an examination of thenature of alcohol restrictions and bans in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the many failures ofGorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign; and a study of the reasons for keeping alcohol restrictions in the United Arab Emirates. The provisions enshrined in this article are of practical value primarily to government officials whose responsibilities include campaigning against alcohol and its effects on law enforcement, economic policy, regulatory entities and other spheres of public life.
El testigo experto: efectos de convicción para la decisión judicial en procesos de responsabilidad civil por error médico
Authors: Toro Garzón Luis Orlando , Ocampo Henao Lucero , Tobón Mejía Daniel Estiven
Published: December 2023

Un testigo es un tercero ajeno a la controversia de partes que aporta información específica como prueba testimonial. En esta expresión polisémica, con naturaleza compartida y efectos probatorios complementarios, por un lado, aparece el denominado testigo técnico conectado al caso, relevante por su presencia fáctica y su conocimiento o dominio del saber relacionado con los hechos ex ante al evento; por otro lado, se identifica al testigo perito sin naturaleza testimonial propia, pero que adquiere esta denominación al intervenir para dar explicaciones del dictamen a través de interrogatorio cruzado. En otro ámbito particular, se evidencia la participación del experto, pero sin la calidad de testigo técnico ni perito testigo, quien aporta su experticia en auxilio a la valoración de la prueba. Este experto fue denominado nuevo medio de prueba por la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia. En este artículo se caracteriza por aporte probatorio a cada uno de estos expertos en su intervención procesal, desde el modelo de responsabilidad civil extracontractual por error médico; luego, se esquematizan y analizan los niveles de convicción, en las variables de plus, superior y medio o inferior, sobre los que puede ubicarse el juez para justificar argumentativamente la decisión a partir de la aportación de información experta al proceso.
Puntos de acción desde la migración en el marco de la seguridad y defensa nacional
Authors: Navas Camargo Fernanda Johanna , Bermúdez Guerrero Jeisson Andrés , Garay Acevedo Claudia Patricia
Published: December 2023

La migración en cualquier parte del mundo genera un riesgo para la seguridad y defensa nacional. Esta situación no debe confundirse con el discurso xenófobo y malicioso; más bien, debe verse como una oportunidad para identificar áreas problemáticas que han de abordar. El objetivo de este artículo es argumentar porqué los factores de riesgo traídos por la inmigración deben ser considerados en la agenda nacional, con la intención de permitir una transformación hacia mecanismos seguros para la neutralización de tales riesgos. Para ello, se realiza un análisis cualitativo de las fuentes documentales. Se concluye que las migracionesdeben abordarse desde una perspectiva diferencial de inclusión, como impulso para el desarrollo, como contribuyente al crecimiento económico y como mecanismo de apalancamiento para el país receptor, de modo que contribuya tanto a los inmigrantes como a los anfitriones.
Unraveling the therapeutic potential ofBombax ceibaroots: A comprehensive study of chemical composition, heavy metal content, antibacterial activity, andin silicoanalysis
Authors: Alrabie Ali , ALSaeedy Mohammed , Al-Adhreai Arwa , Al-Qadsy Inas , Al-Odayni Abdel-Basit , Saeed Waseem Sharaf , Hasan Ahmed , Farooqui Mazahar
Published: December 2023

This study sought to assess the heavy metal content, phytochemical composition, antibacterial activity, and absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) properties ofBombax ceibaL. tree. The heavy metal content of the plant roots was determined using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry technique, and it was found that only Cr, Mn, Fe, and Ni concentrations were above the permissible limits for edible plants. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis identified 11 phytochemicals in the aqueous extract of the plant. Bothin vitroandin silicoconfirmed the extract’s antibacterial efficacy. The aqueous extract showed significant antibacterial activity, with minimal inhibition concentration values of 125 µg/mL againstEscherichia coli,Staphylococcus aureus, andStreptococcus pyogenes. Among the 11 identified compounds, 1,8-Dioxa-5-thiaoctane,8-(9-borabicyclo[3,3,1]non-9-yl)-3-(9 borabicyclo[3,3,1]non-9-yloxy)-1-phenyl- showed the highest docking score (−8.31 kcal/mol) when docked into the active site ofE. coliMenB protein (PDB id: 3t88). It formed four hydrogen bonds with GLY86, GLY85, GLY132, and GLY133. Furthermore, the identified compounds were analyzed for ADME properties, most of them showed very good pharmacokinetic properties and did not violate Lipinski’s Rule of Five. Additional research is required to determine the medicinal potential of the compounds that have antibacterial activity.
Effects of pioglitazone and linagliptin on glycemic control, lipid profile and hs-CRP in metformin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes: a comparative study
Authors: Zamani Batool , Tabatabizadeh Seyyed Mashaalah , Gilasi Hamidreza , Yazdani Shadi
Published: December 2023

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of pioglitazone and linagliptin on glycemic control, lipid profile and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with metformin.

Methods

The present randomized clinical trial was conducted on 60 patients with type 2 diabetes treated with metformin in the age range of 30–60 years. The participants with informed consent were randomly assigned to receive pioglitazone or linagliptin. The first intervention group (n=30) received 30 mg of pioglitazone daily and the second intervention group (n=30) received 5 mg of linagliptin daily for 12 weeks. Fasting blood samples were taken from patients at the baseline and after 12 weeks to measure related variables. The current study was approved in Kashan University of Medical Sciences (with the code of ethics of IR.KAUMS.MEDNT.REC.1398.016), and the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (with the registration number of IRCT20170513033941N66).

Results

The linagliptin administration significantly reduced serum levels of fasting blood sugar (p=0.03), blood sugar 2 h after a meal (p=0.02), glycosylated hemoglobin (p=0.02) and hs-CRP (p=0.005) after 12 weeks compared with pioglitazone. In contrast, the pioglitazone administration significantly decreased triglyceride levels (p=0.01) and increased HDL-cholesterol (p=0.002) compared to linagliptin. In addition, the administration of both linagliptin and pioglitazone drugs had no significant effect on LDL-cholesterol, total cholesterol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, creatinine and blood urea.

Conclusions

The present study demonstrated the superiority of linagliptin over pioglitazone for glycemic control, although pioglitazone compared to linagliptin showed greater efficacy in reducing triglycerides and raising HDL-cholesterol.
High performance efficiency of optical networking infrastructure characteristics with maximum speed of commercial fiber optic line cables employment
Authors: Gopalan Anitha , Arjunsingh Kishore Kumar , Ramya Mohanraj , Thangaraj Jayakumar , Venkatanaresh Mandyam , Rajendran Kanchana , Omran Omar Karem , Hossain Md. Amzad
Published: December 2023

Fiber optic communications have made great strides, and it is now the foundation of our telecommunications and data networking infrastructures. Due to its beneficial characteristics, including low attenuation, a large bandwidth, and immunity to electromagnetic interference, optical fiber is frequently acknowledged as a superior transmission medium. Optical fibers have been widely used to create high speed lines that can transmit either a single wavelength channel or many wavelength channels using wavelength division multiplexing due to their special features (WDM). The maximum speed of commercial fiber-optic cables was only 2.5 Gb/s and can be extended to 1 Tb/s for short and medium distance. The study clarifies the possible transmission distance for different transmission media silica/plastic optical fibers with various optical fiber window transmissions versus environmental ambient temperature variations. The study demonstrated the bad effects of the temperature effects on the optical fiber transmission media (silica/plastic fibers) for various transmission windows.
The Role and Value of Happiness in the Work of Paul Ricoeur
Authors: Verhoef Anné Hendrik
Published: December 2023

The role and value of happiness in the work of Paul Ricoeur remains an understudied theme. It is especially Ricoeur’s unique dialectical understanding of happiness, unhappiness, and chance which brings a crucial and much-needed insight and correction with regard to the understanding of happiness in our contemporary culture. For Ricoeur, happiness is always in relation to unhappiness, and it appreciates chance within the striving–receiving tension that remains characteristic of happiness. This understanding of happiness provides an alternative to the destructive notions of happiness that leave us trapped in the hedonistic treadmill, the endless unsatiable desires of our existence, the narcistic satisfaction of our needs, and the infinite unhappy pursuit of happiness.
The role of competitive intelligence in achieving participatory management within sports organizations
Authors: Guedri Abdennaceur
Published: December 2023

Competitive intelligence is a process carried out by the institution to acquire, process, and distribute information related to competition and market. Its importance lies in the information and the knowledge collected by the organisation about its competitors. 
 This study aims to determine the nature of the relationship between competitive intelligence and participatory management. We used a random sample of employees in the Directorate of Youth and Sports Foundation - Tebessa, Estimated at 40 employees, and to collect data, we used the questionnaire and analyzed it through the statistical program SPSS. We found that competitive intelligence provides information and data about the organisation's external environment and keeps it abreast of development, prosperity, and growth. It has an effective role in the process of evaluating competitors and thus reduces competitive surprises. The importance of participatory management lies in allowing employees to develop their skills and talents by facing the management's problems.
Repercusión de la preceptiva en el teatro musical español de principios del XVIII
Authors: Salmerón Infante Miguel
Published: December 2023

¿La preceptiva o tratadística teatral solo recoge ex post facto aquellas conclusiones derivadas de la evolución del teatro y no va más allá del punto al que el teatro llegó? O, por el contrario, ¿la preceptiva anticipa y avizora aquellos pasos que el teatro dará, siguiendo las directrices de aquella? El artículo pretende hacerse estas preguntas al hilo del teatro musical español de principios del siglo XVIII. Para ello se llevará a cabo una revisión previa de la preceptiva teatral del siglo XVII, centrándonos en el dominador de los corrales de comedias, Lope de Vega, así como del XVIII, teniendo en cuenta al dramaturgo palaciego Bances Candamo y el ilustrado Luzán.
El sabio impasible
Authors: Ledesma de la Fuente Álvaro
Published: December 2023

Este artículo ofrece una exposición de la filosofía de Spinoza, en especial acerca de las consecuencias de su propuesta ética, en la que se recomienda prescindir de las afecciones del miedo y la esperanza. Vamos a comentar este modelo analizando dos personajes de ficción literaria que cumplen con esta condición: Bran Stark, de la saga de fantasía Canción de hielo y fuego y el Dr. Manhattan, del cómic Watchmen. Tras una introducción a la filosofía de Spinoza, justificaremos la elección de estos personajes, para desarrollar después el resultado de esta postura ética. Por último, esbozaremos algunos problemas que surgen al poner en práctica esta actitud sin miedo ni esperanza que caracteriza al sabio spinoziano.
Mujer ante el espejo de la ginoide: paratextos para el análisis de la literatura italiana emergente.
Authors: Gorgojo Iglesias Raisa
Published: December 2023

Este trabajo explorará las implicaciones de la inteligencia artificial en la configuración de la identidad humana a través del análisis de la novela L’amore è un atto senza importanza (Lavinia Mannelli, 2023), analizando cómo la ficción y las tecnopromesas se entrelazan, para plantear una nueva definición de inteligencia humana basada en la capacidad de generar pensamiento simbólico. Asimismo, partiendo de premisas ginocríticas, se examinará la posible continuidad de la novela maximalista (Ercolino, 2012) y el realismo histérico (Wood, 2019) en nuevos formatos más breves y tramas que se desmarcan de la limitación tradicional de los géneros. En definitiva, se propone aquí un estudio inicial sobre los vínculos entre tecnologíam crítica feminista y un humanismo desencarnado, posible símbolo de la edad contemporánea.
Asymptotic expansions in the large deviation zones for the distribution function of sums of random variables in the series scheme
Authors: Deltuvienė Dovilė , Saulis Leonas
Published: December 2023

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THE VNPT-IT EMOTION TRANSPLANTATION APPROACH FOR VLSP 2022
Authors: Nguyen Van Thang , Luong Thanh Long , Vu Huan
Published: December 2023

Emotional speech synthesis is a challenging task in speech processing. To build an emotional Text-to-speech (TTS) system, one would need to have a quality emotional dataset of the target speaker. However, collecting such data is difficult, sometimes even impossible. This paper presents our approach that addresses the problem of transplanting a source speaker's emotional expression to a target speaker, one of the Vietnamese Language and Speech Processsing (VLSP) 2022 TTS tasks. Our approach includes a complete data pre-processing pipeline and two training algorithms. We first train a source speaker's expressive TTS model, then adapt the voice characteristics for the target speaker. Empirical results have shown the efficacy of our method in generating the expressive speech of a speaker under a limited training data regime.
AN IMPROVED INDEXING METHOD FOR QUERYING BIG XML FILES
Authors: Duc Luong Dinh , Quang Phuong Vuong , Tung Hoang Do Thanh
Published: December 2023

The exponential growth of bioinformatics in the healthcare domain has revolutionized our understanding of DNA, proteins, and other biomolecular entities. This remarkable progress has generated an overwhelming volume of data, necessitating big data technologies for efficient storage and indexing. While big data technologies like Hadoop offer substantial support for big XML file storage, the challenges of indexing data sizes and XPath query performance persist. To enhance the efficiency of XPath queries and address the data size problem, a novel approach that is derived from the spatial indexing method of the R-tre family. The proposed method is to modify the structure of leaf nodes in the indexing tree to preserve XML-sibling connections. Then, new algorithms for constructing the new tree structure and processing sibling queries better are introduced. Experimental results demonstrate the superior efficiency of sibling XPath queries with reduced data sizes for indexing, while other XPath queries exhibit notable performance improvements. This research contributes to the development of more effective indexing methods for managing and querying large XML datasets in bioinformatics applications, ultimately advancing biomedical research and healthcare initiatives.
Place of the “Account of the Huns” in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae
Authors:   Ural Federal University, Kozlov Aleksandr Sergeevich
Published: December 2023

The analysis of the so-called “account of the Huns” in the late-fourth-century fundamental history Res Gestae should start from the understanding of the entirety of the source, permeated with the single historiographic concept, where the author’s excursuses form a loose composition, simultaneously playing a role for the author’s goals. The article’s author considers that Ammianus Marcellinus’ goal when describing the nomads in book XXXI of the Res Gestae was to present them as the peoples totally alien to the ancient civilization and as a cause in the chain of events leading to the Roman Empire’s catastrophe at Adrianople in 378 AD. In this regard, the historian did not feel that reliable account of the nomads was necessary. This approach to the account of the Huns was characteristic in this or that way to other late antique writers from Claudius Claudianus and Jerome of Stridon to Zosimus and Jordanes. However, Ammianus was the only one to use a complex of interrelated literary and historical methods to solve the said problem. This complex comprises of hyperbolizing the alienness of the nomads to emphasize the anomaly of their way of life and customs (continuing until they do not have religion nor moral), dehumanizing their physical appearance, and the emphasis on their geographical uncertainty and spatial remoteness from the borders of the Roman Empire. The aim of structure of the “account of the Huns” is to overestimate their wilderness by contrasting them to the Alans, and simultaneously adding to the Hunnic-Alanic alliance the semi-legendary peoples of Scythia, the patterns of which description went back to the age of Herodotus. This technique allows Ammianus to strengthen the impression of the strangeness and danger of the nomadic alliance.
First Contacts of the Danubian Slavs and Avars: The Evidences from the Byzantine Writers and Archaeology
Authors:   Collège de France, Kazanski Michel
Published: December 2023

This article addresses the question of the archaeological sites relating to the Danube Slavs (Sclavi), who first came into contact with the Avars in the sixth century. The isolated groups of the people of the Prague culture penetrated into the area in between of the Danube and the Adriatic, Pannonia to the south-west of Lake Balaton and the Eastern Alps in particular, from the first third of the sixth century onwards. These settlements possess some features similar to the Slavic sites of the Prague culture. No doubts, this area ap- peared under the rule of the Avars when the Pannonian Lombards migrated to Italy in 568 AD and left their lands for the Avars. The cemetery of Regensburg-Grossprüfening in Bavaria is of particular importance for the correct understanding of the situation in the region under study. The site contained 22 Slavic cremation graves, where Merovingian goods appeared. There were a few graves featuring prestigious artefacts. It has been assumed that there was the resettlement of the Slavs, most likely being an elite military grouping, ca 568 AD, under the pressure of the Avar expansion. If this interpretation is correct, there was a departure of the elites of the Middle Danubian Slavs from the Avar power zone. Perhaps it resulted in a change of the social structure of the Pannonian Slavs, which explained their more dependent place in the Avar Khanate, in contrast to those of the Lower Danubian and Balkan Slavs, who also found themselves in the sphere of the Avar power.
To the Discussion on the Time When the Byzantine Castle Was Built a Top of Mangup
Authors:   V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Naumenko Valerii Evgen’evich
Published: December 2023

The current hypothesis states that the large Byzantine castle was constructed at Mangup-Doros in the last years of Emperor Justinian I (527–565). It was put up by A. G. Gertsen as early as 1990. The reason was the results of archaeological researches conducted at the site. The accounts of written and epigraphic sources form chronological markers: the absence of data on this castle in Procopius of Caesarea’s treatise De aedificiis, and a slab fragment featuring a building inscription of Justinian I. However, recently A. I. Aibabin proposed a different chronology of the construction of the castle atop of the Mangup plateau, in the last quarter of the sixth century, or under Emperor Maurice (582–602), after 590. The main arguments for the re-dating of fortification buildings atop of Mangup were the same account of Procopius of Caesarea and the absence among the excavated materials of archaeological complexes narrowly dated to the age of Justinian I and related to the construction of fortress walls. If it was the case, one has to admit the accidental nature of the building inscription of Justinian I in the territory of the castle. As the said interpretation is certainly disputable and at the same time extraordinary importance for the current stage of research of the history of the South-Western Crimea in the Early Middle Ages, the given article re-examines in detail the main arguments of the traditional interpretation of the chronology of the buildings of the Mangup castle, supplemented with the results of its most recent excavations. From the analysis of the sources undertaken there are reasons to date the construction of the Byzantine castle atop of Mangup to 550–565. Moreover, of particular importance for these conclusions are the materials of many-year-long archaeological researches on the site. Generally, they indicate that the building of strong fortifications around the plateau of Mangup in the middle and the early second half of the sixth century was accompanied with no less large-scale development of the space inside the castle walls.
To the Cursus Honorum of Philaretos Brachamios
Authors:   Ural Federal University, Stepanenko Valerii Pavlovich
Published: December 2023

Philaretos Brachamios was a well-known personality who found himself at the center of Byzantine Middle Eastern politics after 1071. His anme appeared in the works of Armenian (Matt‘eos Urhayets‘i) and Syrian (Michael the Syrian) writers. Anna Komnena’s work preserved vague echoes of him. Philaretos’ cursus honorum is known primarily according to sigillography. This, however, concerns the last period of his activity from 1071 to 1093. When the Byzantine troops were crashed at Mantzikert, Emperor Romanos Diogenes lost the civil ware, he was taken captive and blinded in Adana, and a coup d’etat took place in Constantinople. The territories of the eastern themes of Byzantium were cut off from Constantinople by the Seljuks and acquired temporary autonomy. The contacts with Constantinople, which had lost control over these territories, were restored under Nikephoros Botaneiates (1077–1081) and were maintained under Alexios Komnenos, who overthrew the former. Philaretos became an autonomous, actually an independent ruler of the eastern themes, and the central government had to recognise it. This development reflected in the growth of the title. Philaretos’ cursus honorum prior to 1071 is known much worser, as only a small number of seals related to him survived. Recent publications of new seals allow the one to reconstruct his career more or less completely, with many of its periods still remaining poorly studied.
Interconfessional Contacts and Conflicts in the Peloponnesos (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century)
Authors:   Ural Federal University, Belorussova Tatiana Evgenievna
Published: December 2023

The purpose of this article is to analyze the features of interconfessional interaction of the Romaioi, Franks, and Venetians in the Peloponnesos in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, from the Latin invasion to the period when certain traditions of interconfessional communication between the conquerors and the Romaioi developed. Using the accounts of the Chronicle of the Moraia, resolutions of the Venetian Senate, Venetian private-law documents, as well as Byzantine historical (George Akropolites, George Pachymeres, John VI Kantakouzenos), polemical (John VI Kan- takouzenos), and epistolary (Gregory Akindynos) writings, the article has analyzed the features of Greek-Latin contacts in the religious sphere, the nature of the contra- dictions between the Orthodox and the Catholics, the cases of change of confession and combined worship, considering the incidence of the said phenomena. The con- clusion is that the gateway to the long-term and relatively peaceful coexistence of the Greeks and Latins in the Peloponnesos was the Latins’ loyal policy towards the other-believers performed from the moment they initially appeared on the peninsula. In case of the biggest part of the Greek-Latin population of the Moraia, their relations with neighbours were most often of a compromise nature. Peaceful forms of inter- confessional contacts between the Latins and the Romaioi were more common than open conflicts on religious grounds. The arousing conflicts were generally associated with the actions of specific figures of strangers who represented the central government, and often had a pronounced political colouring.
Ancient Salutation Formula in the Greek Letters from the Palaiologan Period
Authors:   Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernoglazov Dmitrii Aleksandrovich
Published: December 2023

“So-and-so to so-and-so [wishes] to rejoice” (Ὁ δεῖνα τῷ δεῖνι χαίρειν) is an epistolary salutation formula (hereinafter: infinitive formula), which emerged as early as the fourth century BC and was used throughout the Byzantine millennium. The formula is known in a large number of variants. This paper analyzes the use of the infinitive formula in the Greek letters from the Palaiologan period (second half of the thirteenth to fifteenth century). First, the evolution of the formula from antiquity to the thirteenth century is briefly characterized. Second, it has been investigated how often this formula was used, by which authors, and in what versions. Third, a typology of varieties of the infinitive formula has been proposed: two main types, “ancient” and “Byzantine,” have been distinguished, with variations possible within each one. Fourth, it is considered what reasons could have caused the choice between different variants of the formula, for example, when the verb χαίρειν (“to rejoice”) was replaced by the phrase εὖ πράττειν (“to fare well”) or when the name of the author is put in the first place, and when in the second place. It has been shown that this choice depended on various factors, including author’s belonging to a certain social group, his philosophical views, and aesthetic preferences.
From the Contemplation of the One to the Ontology of Politics: The Doctrine of Unanimity in Theodore Metochites’ Sententious Notes, Ch. 67–72
Authors:   Ural Federal University, Makarov Dmitrii Igorevich
Published: December 2023

In Ch. 67–72 of his Sententious Notes, Byzantine fourteenth-century scholar Theodore Metochites developed a rather traditional Neoplatonic doctrine on the ascension towards the contemplation of the One Beginning of all the beings as the aim of that contemplative life which had to be led by philosophers and scientists (geometers, mechanics, and architects featuring among the latter). The naming of the One, i. e. the Single in its kind, goes back to Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, while revealing also some parallels with Plotinus’ Enneads (6. 9. 5). According to Metochites, philosophers and scientists were those leading the highest (according to Aristotle), i. e. contemplative way of life, who present themselves as a paragon for politicians, the goal of the latter being by having acquired themselves the contemplation of the One to lead their subjects to the same “place,” through summoning them to virtue and unanimity. As for politicians, they live a middle, “moderately passionate” life, as Georges Pachymeres had underlined a bit earlier than Metochites. However, the Megas Logothete’s ontology of politics in general is rather unambiguously antique in its character, whereas he specially underlines that political as such is a part and parcel of being as a fundamental and all-embracing whole. This antique character of Metochites’ doctrine makes itself manifest in a rather untypical for a Byzantine thinker lack of Christocentrism as well as of any attention at the theological component of Byzantine world outlook.