bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Premiers Abroad
Authors: Elliott Tyler
Published: May 2022

International affairs has typically been seen as the sole domain of the central government in a Federal state, however there has been a rise in subnational actors involving themselves in international affairs. The object of this paper is to analyze the place of Regional Paradiplomacy within the Canada-US context, and to determine the necessity and purpose of these kinds of relationships in the context of state-based international relations. This analysis is done through the review of previous research on the topic as well as looking to primary resources concerning subnational governments involved in international affairs. The result of this paper is the discovery that Regional Paradiplomacy provides a more direct tool for substate governments to enact policy and represent their jurisdiction without the need to submit to the central government. The results indicate a greater decentralization of sovereignty at least in the Canadian context, with tacit permission given by the Federal government to allow provinces the ability to exercise agency over issues pertaining to their own jurisdiction within a shared region.
Shakespeare's The Bachelorette
Authors: Forgacs Haley , Cunningham Patrick
Published: May 2022

Our joint presentation combines performance and parody to create a playful and accessible approach to understanding Shakespearean texts and the power of adaptation. We intend to populate the TV show “The Bachelorette” with Shakespeare’s characters, thus using popular culture to reveal the problematic aspects of Shakespeare’s plays. We want to appeal to up and coming generations and include those who may not have the background or elite education to understand Shakespeare on their own. One possibility we hope to explore is Ophelia choosing among several Shakespearean tragic heroes vying for her hand. Additionally, we will deconstruct Shakespearean gender norms and notions of sexuality, and probe the queer experience, or the lack thereof, in Shakespearean adaptations. Many Shakespearean popular media adaptations skirt around the queer undertones of the texts from which they derive their material. Our exploration is facilitated by the critical and parodic nature of our presentation, drawing on influences from Shakespeare’s own works and popular adaptations like Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet and Iqbal Khan’s 2015 theatrical production of Othello to challenge and subvert Shakespearean conventions. While many Shakespearean adaptations exalt and revere Shakespeare, our experiment hopes to discover what a queer and irreverent eye might make of Shakespeare.

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Presentation

Mini essay
Locating Studentification in Kingston, Ontario
Authors: Whitfield Kennedy
Published: May 2022

This study will determine how the student population living off campus in Kingston has expanded from 2006 to 2016 by examining census data. Census data shows us the number of unoccupied dwellings which can represent where students are living in cities because full-time students living away from home are attached to their parents’ residence in the census. A larger scale study has been conducted for unoccupied dwellings in Ontario mid-sized cities with Universities’, Kingston being one subject. This previous study shows a disproportionate increase in student population at Queen’s to the increase in on campus housing, resulting in more students living off campus in Kingston (Lauzon 2021). This research project will examine how the areas where students are living in Kingston has expanded and changed by analyzing the dissemination areas in the census tracts around Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College. This expansion represents a process known as “Studentification” which refers to the increase of higher education students occupying neighbourhoods, and the affect it has socially and economically on communities (Smith 2005). The outcome of this research project will be a report summarizing findings from the data analysis, limitations of the research method and a digital atlas mapped using a Geographic Information System (ArcMap v10.5) showing the physical change to the University district and surrounding areas in Kingston.
 
References
Lauzon, M. 2021. “Where did the Neighbourhood Go? A Look into The Spatial Distributions of Student              Housing Across Ontario Mid-Sized Cities”. Master’s Report, Queen’s University School of      Urban and Regional Planning. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/28835
Smith, D. P. 2005. “‘Studentification’: the gentrification factory.”  Atkinson, R. Bridge, G. (eds.)            Gentrification in a global context: the new urban colonialism. Housing and Society Series,   Routledge, UK, 72-89. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203392089
Forgetting How to Think: On the Effects of Settler Colonialism in Crow Winter
Authors: Tavares-Pitts Andrew
Published: May 2022

This presentation examines the influence of settler colonialism on the Anishinaabe community depicted in the novel Crow Winter by Karen McBride, looking at interactions between the Anishinaabeg characters, including the protagonist Hazel Ellis and her spirit guide Nanabush, and how settler colonialism is affecting the community.  In my studies of other Indigenous texts, it has become clear that drifting away from traditional culture, teachings, and ways of living are seen to be the primary effects of ongoing settler colonialism on Indigenous peoples.  The focus of this presentation is specifically on the effects of settler colonialism that brush aside traditional Indigenous ways of thinking and living, treating them as irrelevant to the modern Western settler world of Canada and at times replacing them with “more appropriate” or “more reasonable” Western ways of thinking and living.  The loss of knowledge in this way is shown by Hazel’s reactions to traditional teachings, either not realizing their importance or attempting rationalize them in a Western mindset, as well as by the musings of Nanabush on the state of the Spirit Bear Point Anishinaabeg and the conversations between Hazel’s father Abraham and the Quebecois land developer Thomas Gagnon about the necessity of the silver mine for the community.
Grief, Tradition, and Settler Colonialism: Recommending Karen McBride’s Crow Winter
Authors: Green Daniel
Published: May 2022

Presenter: Daniel Green, English Language and Literature

Faculty Supporter: Professor Petra Fachinger.

Students reading Indigenous texts is (or should be) of increasing priority in schools across Canada. As we look for Indigenous narratives to assign, “accessibility” for young, non-Indigenous students, should be considered, as well as what will allow for a non-didactic learning experience. My presentation focuses on why Karen McBride’s Crow Winter would be the optimal text to recommend to a teenage relative or friend. While plenty of other texts explore certain aspects of Indigenous lived experience from a more explicitly anti-racist perspective, Crow Winter will teach students about Algonquin Anishinaabe culture as well as life in general. Overall, McBride’s linguistic talent and her engagement with grief, loss, and death is riveting and universally comprehensible, thereby making it most accessible largely because of its focus on said universal themes. The novel does not aim to push an agenda, or explicitly educate about Indigenous Peoples—the learning experience and educational aspects of Crow Winter are seamless. By the end of the novel, I found that I had learned more about Anishinaabe tradition and ceremony from Crow Winter than from any other text. I would recommend Karen McBride’s Crow Winter to a teenager because of her use of Nanabush, the compelling portrayal of the effects of settler colonialism, and her powerful expression of grief.
Shakespeare's Shadow: Reaching Beyond Psychological Limitations
Authors: McDonnell Julia
Published: May 2022

Shakespeare's Shadow: Reaching Beyond Psychological Limitations
The legacy of William Shakespeare is both awesome and imposing. It is a daunting task to be vulnerable and creative in writing when the success of figures like Shakespeare hangs over you like a cloud; shrouding you in the shadows of the literary world. The "anxiety of influence" is a literary-critical concept that was introduced by Harold Bloom, and it encapsulates the struggle to overcome the legacy of figures like Shakespeare, which is a battle that many writers and creatives endure. I will perform an original musical and lyrical composition as an accompaniment to my presentation on The Anxiety of Influence. I wrote a song that embodies the feeling of living in Shakespeare’s shadow as a way to draw emphasis to the need to overcome the anxiety of influence. My lyrics are designed to draw pity and a sense of helplessness in the face of an iconic legend and his literary footprint. I envision a world where writers are free from this anxiety and can create without psychological limitations, which will help people reach beyond in their everyday lives as they shirk the boundaries of self-imposed and societal limitations. The Anxiety of Influence interferes with a writer's ability to be bold and aspirational, which negatively impacts both creatives and consumers alike. In order to elevate our way of life and the way we think, we need people to dare to push boundaries and limitations. There cannot be groundbreaking new artists if our society's creatives are too intimidated to try, which is why I believe that understanding and overcoming the anxiety of influence is imperative to our ability to engage with and explore the world around us.
Works Cited
Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Beauty, Blackness and Humanity: The Hyperreal Operation of Beauty Standards in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Authors: Wagner Rose
Published: May 2022

It remains impossible to produce an analysis of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye that ignores her treatment of beauty. Morrison conceives physical beauty as a form of racial reification which drastically informs the social and personal development of the novel’s Black characters. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison likens the standards of physical beauty to whiteness and in turn, virtue: “beauty” becomes an objective term, one entirely defined in relation to whiteness despite its projection onto African American characters. This paper thus explores the effects of the pernicious application of White beauty standards onto Morrison’s African American characters. As a character encounters a representation of such standards, they either mold themselves through actions to approach this ideal, or harshly realize the impossibility of succeeding to the standard of physical beauty. In their rigid adoption of traits, virtues, or actions to approach themselves to Whiteness and in turn beauty, these characters neglect their own identity in favor of this ideal. The result is a stripping of one’s individual identity, culture, and personal value; the very traits which make them human. This approach is fundamental, as it examines the effects that social beauty standards have on the self. Morrison’s work remains a powerful artefact of the cultural and social treatment of African Americans which still exist today: Black Americans are denied their cultural status and humanity. Instead, Morrison’s work showcases how they are instead perceived as something to be molded and altered into something that may attempt to absorb into whiteness yet remain entirely different and ultimately subaltern.
Why Theatre? Examining Transferable Skills from Theatre Degrees to Non-Creative Professions
Authors: Jadd Leah
Published: May 2022

There is stigma surrounding those who choose to obtain drama degrees at the undergraduate level, especially if they have no interest in pursuing a theatre-related career. The goal of this study was to determine if there are skills obtained from theatre training at the undergraduate level that are advantageous in non-creative professions. I sent out a survey to drama alumni in non-theatre-related professions to determine if they believed they gained transferable skills from their theatre degree at Queen’s University that have been helpful in their current careers. I then interviewed five drama alumni to get a more in-depth understanding of how drama has been helpful in their professions. Their careers were in the areas of law, sales management, public relations, global development, and politics, giving a diverse range of perspectives on the usefulness of their drama degrees. Finally, I analyzed both the survey responses and interviews and discovered that there were several skills the drama alumni attributed to their theatre training at Queen’s University. My study provided evidence that graduates of our drama program brought skills in public presentation, teamwork, empathy, organization, and adaptability to their careers outside the arts.
Black Girlhood in The Bluest Eye
Authors: Waters Lauren
Published: May 2022

For many Black girls, the realization that the world was not designed for them to flourish mars their childhood. 

My presentation discusses how society fails Black girls, and how Morrison’s fictional writing mirrors how unforgiving life is to real Black children. Throughout the novel, the narrator Claudia uses “magical thinking” to explain the world’s cruelty. This manifests when she plants marigolds, childishly hoping their flourishing will simultaneously save Pecola and her baby (Morrison). Claudia believes in magic because the reality is incomprehensible for a child: that ​the idealization of whiteness ingrained in society created ​a soil in which neither marigolds nor Pecola could thrive. Similarly, she naively ​dismembers ​her "Shirley Temple" doll ​to discover the source of the “magic” that whiteness casts over her world (Morrison). Her belief in magic is easier than accepting the world values white plastic faces over living blackness. 

​I hope to demonstrate that Morrison’s novel goes beyond fiction: it encapsulates children’s perspectives and how they mature. Children live in fiction, an imaginary world of their creation, and childhood is the moment before they realize the weight of society. For Claudia​, Pecola, and many Black girls, the heaviness of realizing their world will ostracize and hurt them is growing up, there is nothing magical about adulthood. For a novel from 1970, The Bluest Eye is ​still relevant ​because we continuously rob Black girls’ innocence. Morrison presents an unconventional depiction of childhood, and my presentation reaches above to discuss how fiction reflects the real ways society disrupts Black girlhood.
The Wardrobe of Cinema
Authors: Zhang Zhanwen
Published: May 2022

The Wardrobe of Cinema
Costume is an essential element in cinema. It has been used widely as a storytelling device to distinguish characters, time, geographical location and cultural background of the story. This video essay examines the role of costume in films by using Qipao, particularly in the film In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000). In the film In the Mood for Love , the art director William Cheung has put a great effort into using costume as a storytelling device by designing over 20 different types of qipao for the protagonist Su Lizhen. Qipao, a type of traditional Chinese fitting dress, peaked its popularity in Hongkong during the 1960s. Therefore, Qipao as a costume that has a representative time period is helpful for spectators to distinguish the era and location that the story took place. The video essay has catalogued the 20 different types of Qipao into three major categories depending on the colour, pattern, frequency of appearing and the interaction with the mise-en-scene. Then, it interprets the role of Qipao by breaking down the central relationship into three phases based on the categories. The differentiation of colours and patterns of the protagonist’s Qipao has reflected the complex inner world of the protagonist Su Lizhen in each stage. Su Lizhen’s delicate costume is an efficient cinema language to enrich the personality of the character and complement the storyline.
The Racialization of the Oedipal Process
Authors: Pao Cassandra
Published: May 2022

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a heartbreaking depiction of the racialization of the oedipal process, which encapsulates the development of the psyche and self-concepts. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison aspires to an honest exploration (rather than sensationalization) of blackness and black girlhood. My paper analyzes: the limitation of power afforded to black persons in white-dominated societies; the balancing of gendered and racialized norms; and, the impact of these disadvantages on personal and social development. My paper conducts this analysis through the comparison of: the protagonist’s father, Cholly Breedlove’s sexual trauma; the symbolism of white baby dolls; the protagonist’s mother, Pauline Breedlove’s rejection of her own blackness and family; and, finally, Cholly Breedlove’s rape of his daughter, Pecola Breedlove, to Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan’s theories of childhood psychological development. 

My favourite literature always challenges me. I was moved by The Bluest Eye because of how it challenges and expands the boundaries of my empathy and my understanding of circumstances other than my own. My goal in writing this paper was to attain a greater understanding of its characters, their behaviour, and the real-life circumstances they parallel. Thus, rather than limiting myself to making a claim, then seeking support for it, I begin with the passages that most sparked my academic and human curiosity, then methodically explore the literary nuances and social implications of each of them. In diverging from traditional essay structure, I am able to reach beyond superficial compassion and engage deeply with the text’s characters and themes.
Cultural perspectives on the Hopewell Rocks: Investigating community values in a geotourism context
Authors: Yates Téa
Published: May 2022

Our research explores human connections to shoreline rock formations at Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park, New Brunswick, and the ways in which people experience the site. The Hopewell Rocks are a group of sea stacks and arches on the shore of the Bay of Fundy that are visited by more than 250,000 geotourists annually. One of these formations, Elephant Rock, is well known in the province as it is featured on the New Brunswick health card.

Sea stacks are freestanding columns of rock created by shoreline erosion. These striking formations are dramatic and mysterious; many are consequently popular tourist destinations worldwide. Sea stacks are unstable by nature and visiting them poses some risk. This research represents an initial attempt to formally characterize the perceptions, beliefs, and connections that humans hold to these rock formations.

This study involves a publicly advertised research survey and interview series to collect quantitative and qualitative data, reaching beyond a single research method to capture a comprehensive result. The survey is a multiple-choice and short answer questionnaire administered through Qualtrics, an online survey platform, which covers topics of connection to the land, safety, aesthetics, and education. We received 248 survey responses that present diverse perspectives ranging from the pragmatic to the spiritual. Preliminary data analysis shows support for the idea that New Brunswickers have a strong positive connection to the Hopewell Rocks. The results of this study will inform future related research on evaluating the risk to public safety posed by geotourism at this and similar sites.
Preoperative embolization of hypervascular spinal tumors: Two case reports
Authors: Binh Nguyen Thai , Hoa Tran Quoc , Linh Le Tuan , My Thieu-Thi Tra , Anh Pham Quynh , Duc Nguyen Minh
Published: May 2022

The performance of preoperative embolization on a spinal tumor can be a useful adjunctive procedure that minimizes blood loss and complications, particularly for both metastatic and non-metastatic hypervascular tumors. We discuss two cases of hypervascular spinal tumors that were successfully treated with preoperative embolization and surgery. The first patient was an 18-year-old man who presented with cervical and shoulder pain for two months without paralysis or weakness. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a tumor located in the D2 posterior vertebral arch that extended into the spinal canal and compressed the spinal cord. The second patient was a 68-year-old man with back pain that radiated to the legs for ten days. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass in the L4 vertebral body. Both patients received tumor embolization and surgery. After surgery, neither patient experienced any major complications. Histological examination revealed osteoblastoma in the first patient and plasmacytoma in the second patient.
Reasoning about Entity Relationship Diagrams with Complex Attribute Dependencies
Authors:   LuFG Theoretical Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Lutz Carsten
Published: May 2022

Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams are among the most popular formalisms for the support of database design [7, 12, 17, 6]. Their classical use in the (usually computer aided) database design process can roughly be described as follows: after evaluating the requirements of the application, the database designer constructs an ER schema, which represents the conceptual model of the new database. CASE tools can be used to automatically transform the ER schema into a relational database schema, which is then manually fine-tuned. During the last years, the initially rather simple ER formalisms has been extended by various means of expressivity to account for new, more complex application areas such as schema integration for data warehouses [12, 3, 13]. Designing a conceptual model with such enriched ER diagrams is a nontrivial task: there exist complex interactions between the various means of expressivity, which quite often result in unnoticed inconsistencies in the ER schemas and in implicit ramifications of the modeling that have not been intended by the designer. To address this problem, Description Logics (DLs) have been proposed and succesfully used as a tool for reasoning about ER diagrams and thereby detecting the aforementioned anomalies [5, 6, 8].
Terminological cycles in a description logic with existential restrictions
Authors:   Theoretical Computer Science Dresden University of Technology, Baader Franz
Published: May 2022

Cyclic definitions in description logics have until now been investigated only for description logics allowing for value restrictions. Even for the most basic language FL₀, which allows for conjunction and value restrictions only, deciding subsumption in the presence of terminological cycles is a PSPACE-complete problem. This report investigates subsumption in the presence of terminological cycles for the language EL, which allows for conjunction and existential restrictions. In contrast to the results for FL₀, subsumption in EL remains polynomial, independent of wether we use least fixpoint semantics, greatest fixpoint semantics, or descriptive semantics. These results are shown via a characterization of subsumption through the existence of certain simulation relations between nodes of the description graph associated with a given cyclic terminology.
An Approach for Optimizing ALE-Approximation of ALC-Concepts
Authors:   Theoretical Computer Science, TU Dresden, Brandt Sebastian , Turhan Anni-Yasmin ,   Theoretical Computer Science, TU Dresden
Published: May 2022

An approximation of an ALC-concept by an ALE-concept can be computed in double exponential time [4]. Consequently, one needs powerful optimization techniques for approximating an entire unfoldable TBox. Addressing this issue we identify a special form of ALC-concepts, which can be divided into parts s.t. each part can be approximated independently. This independent approximation in turn facilitates caching during the computation of approximation.
Educación interprofesional en salud en la Región de las Américas desde la perspectiva de la enfermería
Authors: Fortuna Cinira Magali , Dias Bruna Moreno , Laus Ana Maria , Mishima Silvana Martins , Cassiani Silvia Helena De Bortoli
Published: May 2022

En este estudio se realiza un análisis reflexivo sobre la implantación de la educación interprofesional en cursos de pregrado de enfermería, considerando como ejemplo los planes de estudio de las carreras de pregrado en enfermería de Brasil. A pesar de las inversiones para avanzar en la educación interprofesional, su práctica no está institucionalizada en los planes de estudio de las carreras de pregrado. Estos hallazgos representan una limitación para la implementación de la educación interprofesional en los cursos de enfermería, y el caso de Brasil permite extraer enseñanzas de cara a la formación de profesionales de enfermería en otros países de la Región de las Américas. Se recomiendan medidas para la formación, la gestión y la articulación intersectorial de los servicios de salud y educación, con énfasis en la atención primaria de salud y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, a las instituciones educativas que deseen implementar la educación interprofesional.
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) specialized pollination is isolated from neighboring plants and pollinators
Authors: Gabriela Rijo , Diego Alameda , Alejandro Barro
Published: May 2022

Tomato is one of the crops that require buzz pollination, for which a pollinator vibrates the tubular anthers for pollen to be released. This process is efficiently carried out by wild bees, whose distribution varies according to the geographical location and the particular characteristics of the different agroecosystems. The pollination network associated with tomato fields located in an agricultural area of ​​ Cuba was determined by field observations. In addition, it was studied whether pollination influences tomato yield, through exclusion experiments and comparing the characteristics of the fruits obtained in the presence or absence of pollinators. The pollination network consisted of 241 interactions between 12 plants, including tomato, adjacent crops such as papaya and pumpkin, and ruderal species, and 11 floral visitors, fundamentally bees, with 5 species involved. Tomato flowers were almost exclusively visited by the bee species Exomalopsis pulchella, capable of buzz pollination. Species of the genus Exomalopsis are frequent pollinators of tomato in the Neotropic. This denotes a temporary specialization in the use of tomato´s floral resources by Exomalopsis pulchella. Apis mellifera was not detected visiting tomato flowers, despite being present in the pollination network associated with the studied agroecosystem. Pollination significantly increased the dimensions of tomato fruits. Exomalopsis pulchella also visited the ruderal plants Asteraceae sp., Commelinaceae sp. and Milleria quinqueflora. This should be taken into account in the management of the ruderal plant communities that surround the tomato fields, in order to promote and guarantee the presence of the main pollinator of this crop.
MIDI SEBAGAI INOVASI DAN ALTERNATIF MUSIK IRINGAN TARI DI MASA PANDEMI
Authors: Fitriani Tri Sat , Saepudin Asep
Published: May 2022

This paper discusses MIDI innovation for dance accompaniment needs. MIDI or Musical Instrument (with) Digital Interface, is a revolution in the development of music. Presentation of dance accompaniment using MIDI has several advantages in a technological update. MIDI innovations in this study are discussed using descriptive analysis methods. The dance accompaniment in question is a dance accompaniment that usually uses gamelan devices can be denoted in software in a system called MIDI. This topic is taken from the phenomenon that occurs in the Yogyakarta ISI Dance Department. With MIDI, a composer can relatively simple listen to his work that has been written using music notation software on his computer. The large number of choreographers who need accompaniment during the Final Project (TA), allows the availability of insufficient human resources. Therefore, MIDI can be an alternative innovation to fill or correct these deficiencies.AbstrakTulisan ini membahas tentang inovasi MIDI untuk kebutuhan iringan tari. MIDI atau Musical Instrument (with) Digital Interface, merupakan revolusi dalam perkembangan musik. Penyajian iringan tari menggunakan MIDI memiliki beberapa kelebihan dalam sebuah pembaharuan teknologi. Inovasi MIDI dalam kajian ini dibahas menggunakan metode deskriptif analisis. Iringan tari yang dimaksud adalah iringan tari yang biasanya menggunakan perangkat gamelan dapat dinotasikan pada software dalam sebuah sistem yang disebut MIDI. Topik ini diambil dari fenomena yang terjadi di Jurusan Tari ISI Yogyakarta. Dengan MIDI, seorang komposer bisa secara relatif sederhana mendengarkan hasil karyanya yang sudah ditulis memakai software music notation di komputernya. Banyaknya koreografer yang membutuhkan pengiring saat Tugas Akhir (TA), memungkinkan ketersediaan sumber daya manusia yang tidak mencukupi. Oleh karena itu, MIDI dapat menjadi sebuah inovasi alternatif untuk mengisi atau memperbaiki kekurangan tersebut.Kata Kunci: MIDI; gamelan, software music notation; musik iringan; seni tari.
Balance y perspectivas para la comprensión de la obesidad en México en el siglo XXI
Authors: Castro Sánchez Ana Elisa , Meléndez Torres Juana María
Published: May 2022

Son diversas las perspectivas que deben ser tomadas en cuenta para la comprensión de la obesidad en el siglo XXI. En este libro se analiza la obesidad desde perspectivas sociales, construccionistas y fenomenológicas. Las políticas de salud enfocadas a las personas y poblaciones con exceso de peso se han ido construyendo en las décadas recientes y han establecido pautas para percibir y atender la salud del cuerpo de los sujetos sociales. Es destacable el bajo impacto que han tenido los programas antiobesidad sobre todo en la última década, evidenciado por los resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición 2018 que ha mostrado el aumento y gravedad alcanzada por la obesidad en los distintos sectores. Las investigaciones que sustentan el trabajo del presente libro fueron realizadas, por un lado, mediante análisis documental de datos oficiales tanto numéricos y estadísticos como discursivos, textuales y de contenido. Pero también, se muestran datos empíricos sustentados en el discurso y experiencia de personas pertenecientes a distintos sectores que han vivido la ejecución de los programas de salud y la presión social por la delgadez. Esta obra es una invitación a pensar y re pensar las políticas de salud para una nueva época en México, esto no podría ocurrir sin evaluar lo que hasta ahora se ha hecho y sin diseñar políticas esencialmente novedosas.
Impacto del riesgo-país en la inversión extranjera directa en México
Authors: Elizalde Guzmán Héctor Paulino , Martinez Damian Miguel Angel , Arana Coronado Jose de Jesus , Ramirez Guzman Martha Elva
Published: May 2022

Un mayor flujo de inversión extranjera directa (IED) en México puede servir de financiamiento para la fabricación de bienes y servicios que contribuyan al crecimiento económico; sin embargo, los inversionistas enfrentan riesgos que pueden llevarlos a bajos niveles de ganancias o incluso pérdidas. A través de un modelo de transferencia, este documento tiene como objetivo revelar la relación entre el Índice de Riesgo-País (IRP) y la IED en México, y con ello contribuir al conocimiento sobre el comportamiento de los capitales extranjeros. Los resultados confirmaron la relación inversa entre estas variables; así mismo, la función de correlación cruzada indica que el IRP tiene un efecto retardado cuatro trimestres sobre la IED.
Por tanto, si este país quiere colocarse como una alternativa viable para los capitales extranjeros y beneficiarse de las inversiones a largo plazo, se deberán implementar políticas que lo coloquen como una economía de bajos índices de riesgo.
 
Abstract
 

A greater flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico can serve as financing for the manufacture of goods and services that contribute to economic growth; however, investors face risks that can lead to low levels of profits or even losses. Through a transfer model, this document aims to reveal the relationship between the Country Risk Index (IRP) and FDI in Mexico, and thereby contribute to knowledge about the behavior of foreign capital. The results confirmed the inverse relationship between these variables; Likewise, the cross-correlation function indicates that the IRP has a lagged effect of four quarters on FDI. Therefore, if this country wants to position itself as a viable alternative for foreign capital and benefit from long-term investments, policies that place it as a low-risk economy should be implemented.
IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS ON BREAST CANCER CELL LINES UNDER THE TREATMENT OF WORTMANNIN AND THALIDOMIDE IN VITRO
Authors: Ozgul Onal Melike , TURKOZ ULUER Elgin , TANRIOVER Gamze , İnan Vissun Sevinç
Published: May 2022

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the PI3K inhibitor Wortmannin and the angiogenesis inhibitor Thalidomide on Toll-Like Receptors (TLR) on breast cancer cell lines which have non (67NR) and high (4T1) metastatic potential using immunocytochemical technique.

Material and Method: The cells were evaluated using avidin-biotin-peroxidase indirect immunocytochemistry method. Anti-TLR2, anti-TLR4, anti-MyD88, anti-PI3K and anti-NFκB primary antibodies were performed after 24h and 48h administrations of Wortmannin and Thalidomide. The distribution of immunocytochemical intensities of primary antibodies were graded semi-quantitatively as mild (1), moderate (2), strong (3) and very strong (4). The mean values of the staining intensities and the percentage of positively stained cells were calculated using the H-Score. Statistics were comparatively evaluated by using the One-way ANOVA test. Significance was defined as p<0.05.

Results: On the control group of 67NR breast cancer cell line, immunoreactivity of TLR2 was seen as very strong. While immunoreactivity of MyD88 was seen as strong, immunoreactivities of TLR4, NFκB and PI3K were observed as moderate in this group. On the control group of 4T1 breast cancer cell line, immunoreactivities of MyD88 and NFκB were seen as strong, while immunoreactivities of TLR2, TLR4 and PI3K were observed as moderate/strong in this group.

Conclusion: It was demonstrated by this study, that the effects on the 24th and 48th hour of the Wortmannin acts as an inhibitor of PI3K and Thalidomide acts as an inhibitor of NFκB were effective on TLR signaling pathway and related molecules on 67NR and 4T1 breast cancer cell lines which have different metastatic properties. It was concluded that these drugs have an important role as inhibitors in cancer signaling pathways included invasion and metastasis. As future expectation, they might be used therapeutically in addition to classical treatments on cancer treatment.
Learning from the process evaluation of a complex, pre-conception randomised controlled trial in Malaysia: the Jom Mama project
Authors: Sharif Shakirah Md. , Hanson Mark , Chong Diane W. , Hanafiah Ainul Nadziha M. , Zulkepli Mohamad Z. , Zulbahari Syatirah F. , Skau Jutta , Ho Julius Cheah C. , Matzen Priya , Biesma Regien , Norris Shane A. , Aagaard-Hansen Jens
Published: May 2022

Background

Seen from a life-course perspective, pre-conception interventions are essential to reduce transmission to the next generation of obesity as a risk factor for later non-communicable diseases. The Malaysian Jom Mama project investigated the effectiveness of a combined behaviour change communication and e-health intervention in young married couples prior to first pregnancy. This paper reports on the extensive process evaluation (PE) that accompanied the Jom Mama trial.

Methods

In accordance with the realistic evaluation approach, a programme theory was developed for the Jom Mama project, based on key functions selected for six PE sub-studies, namely: recruitment; attrition; behaviour change communication (BCC); e-health (the Jom app); peer-support for community health promoters (CHPs); and contextual factors. The results of the first four sub-studies are reported here. Three cycles of data collection were conducted based on triangulation and a mixed-methods approach.

Results

The findings permitted distinguishing between theory and implementation challenges in interpreting the outcome of the Jom Mama trial.1 Recruitment and attrition proved to be challenges, and although the PE allowed Jom Mama investigators to improve procedures in order to achieve a sufficient sample size, it also has implications for engaging this age group in future pre-conception interventions. PE sub-studies showed that there were challenges in applying the BCC, and that the uptake of the Jom app varied. In one way this can be seen as an indication of limited fidelity, but it also leads to questions about how best to change the communication culture within the Malaysian health care system.

Conclusions

The Jom Mama PE highlighted the challenges of recruiting newly-wed couples for a pre-conception intervention. Despite thorough intervention development preparations, the PE revealed the difficulty of lifestyle behaviour change through Malaysian community health wokers who were trained on new communication strategies combined with e-health solutions, and that six intervention sessions of eight months do not constitute a sufficient dose to affect change.
Analisis Pemilihan Teknologi Hidroponik Berdasarkan Proses Bisnis, Produktivitas dan Finansial
Authors: Fauzan M. Afiq , Chumaidiyah Endang , Suryana Nanang
Published: May 2022

Teknologi hidroponik merupakan salah satu teknologi yang berguna untuk penunjang budidaya sayuran yang berkembang pada masa ini. Ada beberapa metode teknologi hidroponik yang dapat dilakukan, seperti metode NFT dan metode DFT. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memilih teknologi hidroponik yang optimal antara metode NFT dan metode DFT berdasarkan 3 aspek yaitu proses bisnis, produktivitas, dan finansial. Penelitian dilakukan dengan membandingkan antara kedua metode tersebut berdasarkan beberapa aspek dan kriteria. Pemilihan teknologi yang paling optimal antara kedua metode tersebut menggunakan teknik pemilihan alternatif yaitu metode zero one. Hasil akhir dari aspek proses bisnis dilihat dari efisiensi dari kedua metode teknologi hidroponik. Kemudian dari aspek produktivitas dilihat dari produktivitas kg/m², tingkat kehidupan, dan tingkat penggunaan nutrisi dari kedua metode teknologi hidroponik. Aspek yang terakhir yaitu dari finansial didapatkan dari NPV metode NFT sebesar Rp130.988.554 dan metode DFT sebesar Rp106.600.290. PBP metode NFT sebesar 2,27 tahun dan metode DFT sebesar 2,30 tahun, IRR metode NFT sebesar 35,82% dan metode DFT sebesar 33,70%, BCR metode NFT sebesar 1,053 dan metode DFT sebesar 1,047. Berdasarkan perbandingan proses bisnis, produktivitas dan finansial, teknologi hidroponik yang unggul adalah teknologi hidroponik metode NFT dan dapat dikatakan bahwa Metode NFT lebih optimal dalam budidaya sayuran hidroponik.
INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT FOR USER SOCIALIZATION SUPPORT BY INTERESTS SIMILARITY
Authors: Batiuk Taras , Vysotska Victoria
Published: May 2022

The object of research is the process of socialization of individuals, because nowadays the task of socialization is very important and all modern social networks try to optimize and automate the socialization of various users using all popular modern technologies such as neural networks and user text analysis algorithms. The subject matter of the study is the methods and technologies for the search and formation of a list of relevant users by similarity of interests for socialization. Accordingly, the system user profile analysis is studied, namely the identification of the user by searching the human face in user photos using neural networks and analysing user information using fuzzy search algorithms and the Noisy Channel model. The goal of the work is to create an intelligent system for socialization of individuals based on fuzzy word search using the Noisy Channel model with algorithms for efficient distribution of textual information, and a convolutional neural network to identify users of the system. The following tasks were solved in the article: 1. Analyse modern and most well-known approaches, methods, tools and algorithms for solving problems of socialization of individuals by similar interests. 2. To development the general structure of a typical intellectual system of socialization of individuals by common interests. 3. To form functional requirements to the basic modules of structure of typical intellectual system of socialization of persons on common interests. 4. Develop an intelligent system of support for user socialization by similarity of interests based on neural networks, fuzzy search and Noisy Channel model and conduct experimental testing. The following methods are used: Levenstein's method; Noisy Channel model; N-gram algorithm; fuzzy search. The following results were obtained: the general structure of a typical intellectual system of socialization of individuals by common interests was built and described. The main purpose of the system is to create a new algorithm for analysing user information and finding the most suitable users, according to the analysed text based on existing algorithms such as Levenstein's algorithm, sampling algorithm, N-gram algorithm and Noisy Channel model. The template of asynchronous creation of a software product which will allow to create almost completely dynamic system also underwent further development. It is necessary to improve the convolutional neural network, which will allow efficient and dynamic search of human faces in the photo, and check the presence of existing people in the database of the system. Сonclusions: It was found that the implemented algorithm performs sampling approximately 10 times faster than the usual Levenstein algorithm. Also, the implemented in the system algorithm for forming a sample of users is more efficient and accurate by about 25-30% compared to the usual Levenstein algorithm.
APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE FOR MULTI-CRETIRIAL ASSESSMENT OF LABOR SAFETY AS AN OBJECT OF QUALIMETRY
Authors: Cherniak Olena , Sorocolat Nataliia , Bahaiev Ihor , Fatieieva Lina
Published: May 2022

The subject matter of the article is the method of multi-criteria assessment of the indicator of labor safety in production. The goal of the work is to develop a methodology for applying functional dependence for multi-criteria assessment of labor safety in production, taking into account the characteristics of the system of harmful and dangerous production factors. The following task is solved in the article: to explore the possibility of using a functional dependence to obtain estimates of different-dimensional labor safety indicators on a dimensionless scale, while taking into account its unevenness and coordinating it with the characteristics of hazardous factors in production. Methods are used: qualimetry and mathematical statistics; expert. The following results were obtained: the existing functional dependencies between the measured values of quality indicators and their assessment on a dimensionless scale, which were used to evaluate qualimetry objects of various natures, were analyzed. It is shown that for an objective assessment of qualimetry objects, as a rule, nonlinear dependencies should be used. The main task of the researcher is to choose the type of nonlinear dependence; this requires additional scientific research. The tool for choosing one or another non-linear relationship is the understanding of the physical essence of the qualimetry object, that is, the understanding of the patterns of the relationship between the measured value of the qualimetry indicators and their assessment. For this, it is important to use the methods of expert assessments, because usually such patterns are unknown. The functional dependence used to obtain estimates of labor safety indicators in production is stepwise and includes a form parameter. By changing the shape parameter, the curvature of the dependence changes, thereby changing the estimate on the dimensionless scale. This feature of the applied dependence allows us to develop a universal methodology, that is, by changing the shape parameter, this dependence can be applied to various indicators of labor safety in any production. As an example, the article considers metallurgical production, while assessing the most dangerous factors. A step-by-step methodology for determining a generalized indicator of labor safety in production and an example of measured numerical values of hazardous factors has been developed, its effectiveness and versatility have been shown. Conclusions: to determine the generalized indicator of occupational safety at work, it is proposed to use the functional relationship between individual indicators of harmful production factors and their values on a dimensionless scale, which gives a quantitative assessment of occupational safety at work. With the help of the proposed method, you can make management decisions, which minimizes the deviation of the actual values of harmful factors from the optimal ones.
METHODS AND TOOLS FOR ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF NOISE IMMUNITY OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
Authors: Knyazev Vladimir , Lazurenko Bogdan , Serkov Aleksandr
Published: May 2022

The subject of this article is the process of increasing the noise immunityof wireless channels in the construction or operation of modern digital communication systems (DCS), when the transmission of digital information significantly complicates the presence of interference and distortion in the communication channel. The aim is analysis and development of methods for ensuring stable and reliable operation of ultra-wideband wireless communication system in the conditions of interference and distortion of information in wireless communication channels. The task is creation and implementation of practical recommendations for improving the level of secrecy and quality of information circulating in the communication channel; development of criteria for quality, information efficiency and noise immunityof DCS wireless communication channels in the conditions of interference of natural and artificial origin. The methods used: methods of analytical modeling and the theory of potential noise immunity. The following results were obtained. The feasibility of assessing the DCS efficiency by two indicators - energy and frequency efficiency, which are the components that make up the overall integral indicator of informational efficiency was shown. It was proposed to evaluate the DCS efficiency by comparing the indicators of informational efficiency of the inverse and reference systems, using the Shannon limit as an ideal ratio of energy and frequency efficiency. On the basis of the theory of potential noise immunity it was shown that it is possible to operate wireless communication channels in conditions when the level of information signal and noise have the same value. Conclusions. It is shown that the use of the technology of supersmooth signals allows to carry out wireless redundant transmission of information with low impromptu capacity. Moreover, the efficiency of digital communication systems significantly increases due to the creation of an ensemble of complex signals through one-time encoding and modulation, which expands its information base, ensuring coverage and energy efficiency in a double symmetric channel. This enables the fullest possible utilization of the channel's Shannon capacity with high integrity of information transfer without a significant increase in the signal-to-noise ratio at the receiver's input. An integral indicator of informational efficiency of the wireless DCS communication channel is provided. It enables real-time integral assessment of link quality and optimal routing in a mobile peer-to-peer network – MANET.