bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Role of Communication Management Within the Virtual Team in an International Projects-Based Organisation
Authors: Abdul Omolara , Kozlovski Eugene
Published: September 2023

This paper examines the practice of communication management within the different geographically spread virtual teams in the attainment of project goals in a cost-effective manner. The panel research has been carried out in UK companies working in collaboration with virtual teams from Africa. Data for the research was collected through a face-to-face interview with 6 participants from a different organisation that has an internationally spread workforce; this research concentrates on examining how the practice of communication management can lead to a successful project, this study adds together different approaches to a joint strategy. The aim of this research is to examine the practice of communication management within virtual teams and by looking at how communication is managed within projects. Then, this can help to deduce the best practice of communication that convey success to projects within virtual teams.  The finding from the participants confirmed that communication management is vital to achieving timely successful results within a project. However, they identified some communication challenges, but it is clear that a plan for managing communication is missing. Additionally, virtual communication is more effective when there is occasional face-to-face communication.
Community-government, and private partnership (CGPP): revisiting the concept of community-based forest management
Authors: Komalawati K. , Hidayat S. , Praptana R.H. , Pertiwi M.D. , Romdon A.S. , Hidayat Y. , Yuniati D. , Syahyuti S. , Ramadhan R.P. , Saptana S. , Indrawanto C.
Published: September 2023

The Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) model has been seen as a potential solution to solve various problems related to forest degradation and the creation of inclusive forest governance. However, in practice, CBFM does not always implement smoothly, with some studies highlighting the weaknesses of CBFM in term of accountability, transparency, efficiency, effectiveness, empowerment, monitoring, law enforcement, and dependency on external actors. Accordingly, this paper revisits the concept of CBFM from the perspective of New Institutional Economics and the proper governance concept. The data collection process was conducted through literature studies using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) methodology. It may be argued that the implementation of CBFM has weaknesses in terms of, amongst other things, business and organizational activities, inclusivity, community empowerment, community income, and sustainability. In reference to the various flaws encountered in the implementation of CBFM, and to put in place proper governance in forest business activities, this paper proposes a new model – the so-called Community-Government and Private Partnership model (CGPP). This developed model has positioned the cooperative as "core institutions" whose role is to orchestrate five main governance functions, namely: organizational, business activities, human resource development, and corporate and environmental sustainability. This CGPP model is expected to contribute to the existing literature of institutional analysis and forest management with a different approach, as well providing concrete recommendations for the implementation of the CGPP model in CBFM.
Study of fracturing fluid re-discharge based on percolation experiments and sampling tests – An example of Fuling shale gas Jiangdong block, China
Authors: Yang Ye , Agbodjan Yawovi Souley , Liang Bo
Published: September 2023

Shale gas development requires the use of hydraulic fracturing, and the relationship between fracturing fluid drainage and production is not clear. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt the method of core experiment combined with engineering validation to achieve the description of the seepage-absorption-return mechanism of shale and to optimize the selection of fracturing fluids and the testing work system in engineering. In this study, a “seepage experiment → sampling test → engineering validation” working procedure is proposed, and it is found that seepage occurs only on the surface of the fracture where the liquid medium intrudes into the fracture and that the amount of water absorbed is directly proportional to the area of seepage; the rate of return is inversely proportional to the production rate in the same secondary tectonic unit; and the absorption rate per unit area of four types of cores with the same surface area is directly proportional to the yield of the fractured shale in the same medium. Under the premise of the same medium, the water absorption per unit area of the four types of cores varies with the rate of change with time, but the general trend is the same. Under the premise of different secondary tectonic units, when the time of good closure is similar, the correlation between the return rate and the test production is weak.
Funds of knowledge for synchronous online language teaching: a translanguaging view on an ESL teacher’s pedagogical practices
Authors: Tai Kevin W. H.
Published: September 2023

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the integration of synchronous online teaching tools in language teaching. Recent research has explored how second language (L2) teachers utilise available resources to engage students’ learning within the virtual learning space. Nevertheless, there has been a lack of research exploring how L2 teachers bring in different funds of knowledge to connect the teaching of specific aspects of the L2 with some broader social-cultural issues and/or values. Further research is necessary to explore how the teaching of specific sociocultural values and beliefs is achieved through translanguaging, with the aim of enriching students’ L2 learning experiences. This study adopts translanguaging as an analytical perspective and investigates how different funds of knowledge are being incorporated into the online teaching processes in order to mediate the student’s L2 English learning and promote specific sociocultural values and beliefs to the student. Multimodal Conversation Analysis is used to analyse the online classroom data and the analysis is triangulated with the video-stimulated-recall-interview that is analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The findings demonstrate that the online language classroom is a virtual translanguaging space which affords classroom participants to bring with them diverse funds of knowledge for constructing new knowledge in online classrooms, bridging the gap between L2 learning and everyday life experience and promoting certain values and beliefs, as well as facts and practices, in the online classroom.
Ordinary Situations and Artworld Declarations
Authors: Muller Otto
Published: September 2023

Socially engaged art presents social situations to be understood, experienced, and evaluated as works of art while they simultaneously retain everyday non-art functionality. This article begins with an account of the definitional and evaluative concerns that socially engaged art engenders, outlining the debates around the relative importance of ethical and aesthetic values that result from this unsettled relationship between art and non-art. Based on this account, I argue that all socially engaged art requires successful performative bids that declare the work to be art and that it is possible to identify the felicity conditions in which these bids are likely to be successful, as well as the perlocutionary effects that occur when a situation is categorized as art. I apply this analytic framework in a discussion and comparison of pieces by Santiago Sierra and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, demonstrating how this framework facilitates assessments that account for the works as art, while interrogating and evaluating the ethics of their categorization as art.
Endwall heat transfer in wedge channel with teardrop pin fins, circular fins and oblong pin fins
Authors: Venkatesh Goveraiahgari , Meenakshi Reddy Reddygari , Mallikarjuna Rao Pabbisetty
Published: September 2023

The turbine inlet air temperatures exhibit a significant degree of elevation, hence leading to potential adverse consequences such as the degradation of blade material integrity. Consequently, the necessity to cool the turbine blades has arisen, leading to the implementation of various cooling systems. This study aims to conduct a comparative analysis of three different types of pin fins, namely oblong, circular, and teardrop, in a wedge duct. The range of Reynolds number considered for the analysis is between 10,000 and 70,000, whereas the pin fins and endwalls are subjected to a uniform heat flux of 3280 W/m2. The findings suggest that the friction factor associated with teardrop pin fins is 28.4 % lesser than circular pin fins and when compared to oblong pin fins; it is reduced by 34.5 %. The findings suggest that the friction factor associated with teardrop pin fins is 14 % lower compared to oblong and circular pin fins. The TPF improves with Re, and it is 24.5 % higher than oblong pin fin geometry and 39.2 % higher than circular shaped pin fins.
The Difficulties of Transitioning Control Layers from the Roof to the Wall
Authors: Saldana John J.
Published: September 2023

Connecting the control layers from the roof to the wall has long troubled architects and contractors. The old school thought of designers and architects was that existing means and methods could rely on the many materials in the assembly to separate the interior from the exterior. In walls, for example, old school methods assumed that the cladding, exterior gypsum, building wrap, insulation, and interior gypsum could create an airtight building. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has researched this construction philosophy and found that the vast majority of existing commercial buildings could be classified as “very leaky.” The old school philosophy fell short by often not having an actual air barrier material in the assembly and not focusing on the transition details. Testing a whole building for air leakage is costly and rarely done for commercial construction, so designers and architects also didn't have the best understanding of how poorly the buildings were performing. Roof-to-wall connections are critically fragile locations in terms of the performance of the building's water, air, and vapor control layers, and often there aren't system tests for these details. Even when details show control layers connecting the roof to the wall, it may not be possible to construct them as drawn because of construction sequencing or warranties that prevent modification to the work of other trades. This paper discusses these issues along with the complexities of the various roof-to-wall configurations.
Final Report: Does the Underlayment Matter?
Authors: Roodvoets David
Published: September 2023

This paper is the final report of over four years of data acquisition and five years of summer weather in a study of the performance of cedar shingles over various underlayments. The preliminary report, “Does the Underlayment Matter?,” was presented at an ASTM symposium in December 2019. Although this research did not provide definitive answers to all the questions initially proposed, much was learned, including that the original hypothesis was wrong. Major issues involved the calibration of the wood moisture data, the corrosion of moisture pins, and confusion about the location of repaired moisture pins and thermocouples. Techniques were developed to solve all these issues. An advanced corrosion-resistant moisture pin was developed and installed and proved effective in providing optimal data. The conclusions of the study are based on over 8.5 million moisture and thermocouple data points and over 200 charts and tables.
Advancing the Thermal Design of Commercial Roofs: Impact of Mean Operating Temperature, Thermal Bypass, and Thermal Bridging
Authors: Molleti Sudhakar , Van Reenen David , Carrigan Logan
Published: September 2023

Thermal impact factors—namely, temperature-dependent R-value (TDRV), thermal bypass, and thermal bridging—are currently not addressed in the thermal design of commercial roofs. Therefore, the National Research Council of Canada has been generating data on these influencing factors for improving the thermal design of roofs. The mean operating temperature (MOT) of the roof assembly directly affects the thermal performance of the insulation. Through an in situ field study, test data were collected on the MOT of the roof assemblies and its relation to the insulation's TDRV. A comparison of two energy transfer theoretical models with the measured data indicated that the conventional approach to roof thermal design underestimates the energy expenditure of the roof assembly. The impact of thermal bypass due to air gaps formed at the insulation joints and fastener thermal bridging was also investigated through various experiments. The effect of gap width, height, and stagger was investigated for thermal bypass. For thermal bridging, experiments were conducted that examined the effect of fastener density, location, diameter, and penetration depth on the thermal performance of the roofing assembly. From the experimental data, psi factors and chi factors were developed to support the calculation of linear thermal bridging and point thermal bridging effects and to fill in the missing gaps in the energy codes for the thermal design of roofs. Because the thermal bridging from rooftop solar mounts is also a concern in the thermal design of roofing assemblies, experiments were conducted on several common solar mounts. The measured data indicated a decrease in the effective thermal resistance of the photovoltaic roofing assembly (PVRA), ranging from 3.3% to 50.0%. This paper summarizes these research findings and demonstrates the effect of these thermal impact factors on roof thermal design through two examples.
A Versatile Strategy for Genetic Manipulation of Cajal–Retzius Cells in the Adult Mouse Hippocampus
Authors: van Bruggen Rebekah , Patel Zain H. , Wang Mi , Suk Terry R. , Rousseaux Maxime W. C. , Tan Qiumin
Published: September 2023

Cajal–Retzius (CR) cells are transient neurons with long-lasting effects on the architecture and circuitry of the neocortex and hippocampus. Contrary to the prevailing assumption that CR cells completely disappear in rodents shortly after birth, a substantial portion of these cells persist in the hippocampus throughout adulthood. The role of these surviving CR cells in the adult hippocampus is largely unknown, partly because of the paucity of suitable tools to dissect their functions in the adult versus the embryonic brain. Here, we show that genetic crosses of the ΔNp73-Cremouse line, widely used to target CR cells, to reporter mice induce reporter expression not only in CR cells, but also progressively in postnatal dentate gyrus granule neurons. Such a lack of specificity may confound studies of CR cell function in the adult hippocampus. To overcome this, we devise a method that not only leverages the temporary CR cell-targeting specificity of the ΔNp73-Cremice before the first postnatal week, but also capitalizes on the simplicity and effectiveness of freehand neonatal intracerebroventricular injection of adeno-associated virus. We achieve robust Cre-mediated recombination that remains largely restricted to hippocampal CR cells from early postnatal age to adulthood. We further demonstrate the utility of this method to manipulate neuronal activity of CR cells in the adult hippocampus. This versatile and scalable strategy will facilitate experiments of CR cell-specific gene knockdown and/or overexpression, lineage tracing, and neural activity modulation in the postnatal and adult brain.
Anatomical Connectivity of the Intercalated Cells of the Amygdala
Authors: Stern Daniel B. , Wilke Anna , Root Cory M.
Published: September 2023

The intercalated cells of the amygdala (ITCs) are a fundamental processing structure in the amygdala that remain relatively understudied. They are phylogenetically conserved from insectivores through primates, inhibitory, and project to several of the main processing and output stations of the amygdala and basal forebrain. Through these connections, the ITCs are best known for their role in conditioned fear, where they are required for fear extinction learning and recall. Prior work on ITC connectivity is limited, and thus holistic characterization of their afferent and efferent connectivity in a genetically defined manner is incomplete. The ITCs express theFoxP2transcription factor, affording genetic access to these neurons for viral input-output mapping. To fully characterize the anatomic connectivity of the ITCs, we used cre-dependent viral strategies in FoxP2-cre mice to reveal the projections of the main (mITC), caudal (cITC), and lateral (lITC) clusters along with their presynaptic sources of innervation. Broadly, the results confirm many known pathways, reveal previously unknown ones, and demonstrate important novel insights about each nucleus’s unique connectivity profile and relative distributions. We show that the ITCs receive information from a wide range of cortical, subcortical, basal, amygdalar, hippocampal, and thalamic structures, and project broadly to areas of the basal forebrain, hypothalamus, and entire extent of the amygdala. The results provide a comprehensive map of their connectivity and suggest that the ITCs could potentially influence a broad range of behaviors by integrating information from a wide array of sources throughout the brain.
La restitución de tierras el nuevo rostro de la disputa por la tierra en Colombia
Authors: Villamizar Juan Carlos
Published: September 2023

Objetivo: discutir históricamente cómo la restitución de tierras y su débil aplicación expresan, por un lado, la continuidad en la disputa por la tierra entre campesinos y élites agrarias en la historia de Colombia y, por otro, la ambigüedad y debilidad de las políticas estatales sobre el modelo agrario a seguir. Metodología: considerando como fuentes primarias una muestra de las sentencias de 2012 a 2020 sobre restitución de tierras, se privilegió la proporción de la tierra restituida en forma colectiva en la costa Caribe, epicentro del paramilitarismo de finales de los años noventa, en casos que revelan elementos estructurales de una narrativa regresiva. Originalidad: es un tema de reciente aparición en la historiografía, que arroja nuevas interpretaciones acerca de la restitución de tierras, vista como parte de un continuo en la historia de la propiedad agraria en Colombia, desde la creación de los resguardos en la Colonia hasta el presente, donde la guerra, el oportunismo terrateniente y una débil acción del Estado aparecen como factores causantes del despojo y de la contrarreforma agraria. Con ello, se resalta la actualidad de la propiedad colectiva para comunidades étnicas y se abordan los riesgos presentes y futuros de la restitución, de cara al modelo extractivista y agroexportador. Conclusiones: considerando que la restitución de tierras revivió nociones como la función social de la propiedad, la unidad agrícola familiar y los baldíos, como recurso exclusivo para campesinos sin tierra, su estudio a partir de las sentencias muestra la configuración de un proceso de contrarreforma agraria sobre predios que anteriormente habían sido entregados por el Instituto Colombiano de la Reforma Agraria. Ello resalta la importancia de la propiedad colectiva y su estrecha relación con los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes, y, finalmente, la colisión entre la política agraria de tierras y la política minera, priorizada en los planes de desarrollo del periodo.
Silvano G.A Benito Moya. “Agradable a Dios y útil a los hombres”. El universo cultural en las bibliotecas de los franciscanos de Córdoba del Tucumán (1575-1850). San Antonio de Padua: Ediciones Castañeda, 2019. 467 páginas.
Authors: Vega Fabián R.
Published: September 2023

En los últimos veinte años, la investigación de Silvano G. A. Benito Moya y de su equipo —nucleado en el Instituto de Estudios Históricos y el Centro de Estudios Históricos “Prof. Carlos S. A. Segreti” (Córdoba, Argentina)— se ha concentrado en el análisis de la cultura escrita colonial, en la historia de las universidades y en la exploración de los archivos de Córdoba y sus alrededores. Actualmente, Benito Moya es investigador adjunto del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y profesor en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y en la Universidad Católica de Córdoba. “Agradable a Dios y útil a los hombres”. El universo cultural en las bibliotecas de los franciscanos de Córdoba del Tucumán (1575-1850) es un nuevo producto de sus indagaciones en torno a la historia del libro y la cultura intelectual en la época colonial, redactado a partir de la colaboración con Karina Clissa, Eduardo Benítez Cardozo, María Luciana Llapur, Juan Thomas, María del Pilar Torreblanca y Enzo Cabrera. Sobre estos temas, Benito Moya había publicado anteriormente dos monografías, centradas en la universidad de Córdoba en el siglo XVIII y que se destacaron por la atención prestada, por un lado, a la escritura y la lectura, y, por el otro, a las órdenes religiosas que gestionaron la universidad en el período. En este sentido, “Agradable a Dios…” constituye una prolongación de esta veta de trabajo, concentrada en este caso en los libros que formaron parte de las bibliotecas del convento franciscano de San Jorge, en Córdoba, durante la época colonial y la primera mitad del siglo XIX. No es de extrañar, entonces, que el libro se haya publicado en el marco de la editorial de la orden franciscana en Argentina, Ediciones Castañeda (San Antonio de Padua, provincia de Buenos Aires), dirigida por Fray Jorge David Catalán.
Álvaro Acevedo Tarazona, Angie Daniela Ortega Rey y Andrés Correa Lugos. Una crónica noticiosa de 1968 en Colombia. Bucaramanga: Universidad Industrial de Santander, 2021. 384 páginas.
Authors: Gil Pérez Anderson Paul
Published: September 2023

En la obra se profundiza en 1968 como un año central de los global sixties para rastrear el día a día noticio a partir de la revisión de diarios como El Tiempo, El Espectador, El Heraldo, El Colombiano, El País, El Espacio y Vanguardia Liberal. Para los autores, el sentido de la reconstrucción histórica reside en la posibilidad de “constatar que en 1968 principalmente en las ciudades, se sienten los efectos de la revolución cultural planetaria del 68” (p. 41); al mismo tiempo, ello permite registrar los procesos endógenos de un país que avanza dos pasos hacia la modernidad, pero retrocede uno por cuenta de sus problemas sociales, políticos y de violencia. Como correlato de esta preocupación por los detalles noticiosos de 1968 se encuentra una investigación que pretende indagar por las características y los significados de lo que los autores denominan la “utopía antisistémica de los años sesenta”, con “sus discontinuidades en las siguientes décadas y los procesos de represión estatal que se derivan de la movilización social, especialmente, la estudiantil universitaria” (p. 43).
Rodrigo Ospina Ortiz. Mal que sí dura cien años. Jorge Bejarano y la higienización de Colombia durante el siglo XX. Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2022. 298 páginas.
Authors: Solodkow David M.
Published: September 2023

El libro de Rodrigo Ospina Ortiz puede ser enmarcado como una “biografía política” (p. 3). El volumen es el resultado, elaborado con posterioridad, de una tesis de maestría dirigida por el profesor Cesar Augusto Ayala Diago del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2012). A través de sus cuatro capítulos, el libro presenta una biografía intelectual del médico vallecaucano que abarca “su formación académica” y su “trayectoria profesional” (p. 3). No obstante, el libro es más que una biografía personal, dado que esa vida transcurre en un contexto histórico que involucra la creación de un ministerio (el de Higiene en 1946), las discusiones de la ciudad científica y letrada en torno a ciertos temas candentes de la época: la salud de la población, el problema de la pobreza, la raza y la alimentación, el alcoholismo, los lineamientos sanitarios del Estado, las discusiones ideológicas de la clase gobernante y el rol político de los intelectuales en el desarrollo sanitario y tecnológico del país.
Chinese terms of address in apology and request
Authors: Ning Puyu
Published: September 2023

The aim of the present study is to explore how Chinese terms of address are conventionally used in the speech acts of apology and request from a contrastive pragmatic angle. The study fills an important knowledge gap, considering that little attention has been paid to the use of address terms in the performance of speech acts. The research presented has the following bipartite structure. First, a multiple-choice Discourse Completion Tests (DCT) was administered to a group of young learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFLLs) and a comparable group of Chinese native speakers (NSs). The DCT results reveal that Chinese NSs use address terms significantly more frequently in realising apologies and requests compared to the Hungarian CFLLs. Following the DCT, an online survey was conducted with Chinese linguacultural insiders on the use of address terms in apologies and requests. The findings from the online survey affirm that Chinese address terms serve pragmatic functions beyond mere attention-getters in the performance of speech acts. These findings not only identify the use of address terms as a prominent pragmatic feature in the speech acts performance in Chinese, but also hold strong implications for CFL education in fostering learners’ pragmatic competence.
Terms of address in Chinese
Authors: Kádár Dániel Z. , Liu Fengguang
Published: September 2023

In this paper, we first present the rationale behind editing the present Special Issue dedicated to Chinese terms of address. We argue that conventionally speakers of Chinese prefer using terms of address in many interactional contexts, while personal pronouns – in particular the standard second person ni used without an accompanying term of address – are often perceived as face-threatening. We also argue that, while historical Chinese terms of address are very important to study because they influenced the development of honorifics in other East Asian linguacultures, present-day terms of address are of as much academic interest as their historical counterparts. At the end of this paper, we overview the contents of the Special Issue.
Metacognition and Self-Awareness
Authors: Stewart Glen , Reinders Hayo
Published: September 2023

This article reports on the lead author’s reflection about the role of his personality in a tertiary-level English-language course that he taught in Japan in 2019, and the impact of that reflection on his self-awareness. Other participants of this self-study included the learners in the course (46 in total, nine male and 37 female), and other teachers in the same faculty. Data collection methods included a teaching log/journal, a focus group meeting with fellow part-time teachers, semi-structured interviews with learners and a full-time teacher, observations of several of his own classes, and questionnaires completed by learners. A recent systematic literature review of the definition of self-awareness (Carden et al., 2022) informed the study, with the teacher reflecting on the following components of self-awareness: his beliefs, internal mental state, physiological responses, personality traits, motivations, behaviors, and others’ perceptions. To inform his reflection about the above components, he drew on literature related to second language teacher cognition and second language teacher development. The findings of the study indicate that the teacher’s self-awareness has developed in a number of ways. Overall, he has become more aware of his personality and the potential for it to have a negative impact on his teaching practice. His reflection indicates that it is beginning to have a positive impact on his language-teaching-focused metacognition.
Becoming a French Second Language Teacher
Authors: Le Bouthillier Josée , Kristmanson Paula
Published: September 2023

This study explores the development of linguistic competence and confidence of pre-service French as a second language (FSL) teachers enrolled in a teacher education program in New Brunswick, Canada. In addition to their regular program requirements, participants in the study engaged in a series of language support sessions. We collected French oral proficiency assessment results pre- and post-session, as well as focus group interview data. The analysis shows that participants’ language proficiency increased over the course of the sessions and the program. Interview data reveal professional identity-related themes such as confidence, and the importance of safe spaces for interaction and mediation. Implications for FSL teacher recruitment and retention are given, specifically with regard to teacher candidates’ need for certain types of support.
Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Primary School English Teaching Reform in Japan
Authors: Matikainen Tiina , Ng Patrick C. L. , Glasgow Gregory Paul
Published: September 2023

In Japan, following several other English language education policy reforms, English language instruction was formally introduced to the elementary school curriculum as a subject in 2020. This change affects not only elementary school pupils but, perhaps more drastically, elementary school teachers, who are now required to teach English as a subject in their role as homeroom teachers. This paper reports on a study of Japanese teachers of English enrolled in in-service training workshops, and examines the degree to which the teachers feel prepared to implement the new curriculum, the challenges they may face in their classrooms, and the degree to which they feel these workshops help prepare them to implement the curriculum changes. The findings suggest that while many of the participants perceived that there was a necessity for the policy changes, they recognized how their agency may be constrained due to a variety of factors at the micro- and macro-level. A concerted effort at the level of policy planning, teacher training, and curriculum design is needed to help teachers develop their professional identities to enable the necessary changes.
Evaluation of nonpharmacological nursing practices related to thirst and the thirst of patients in the intensive care unit
Authors:   Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bartin University, Bartin, Turkey, Çelik Sevim , Şengül Münevver ,   Department of Nursing, Graduate Education Institute, Bartin University, Bartin, Turkey, Karahan Elif ,   Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bartin University, Bartin, Turkey
Published: September 2023

Introduction and aim. Thirst is a significant symptom and stressor among patients in the intensive care unit. The aim of this study is to assess the severity of thirst and associated symptoms experienced by patients in the intensive care unit, and to evaluate the nursing practices related to addressing thirst. Material and methods. This descriptive and correlational study involved a total of 66 patients in the intensive care unit. Severity of thirst experienced by these patients was assessed using a numeric rating scale. The nursing practices related to assessing thirst severity on admission to the unit, on the third day, and on the seventh day were also recorded. Results. Our findings showed a statistically significant increase in the levels of thirst, dry mouth, bad taste and odor in the mouth, as well as sensitivity and dryness in the throat among patients on the seventh day of hospitalization (p<0.05).Among nursing interventions, communication with the patient was the most frequently applied intervention during the seven-day period, with a range of 98.5% to 100%. biochemical control (100%), ventilation of the unit (100%), and temperature regulation (100%) were also frequently applied. Conclusion. The patients had all the symptoms of thirst.The frequency of nursing interventions increased in parallel with the severity of thirst.
Chronic viral hepatitis B and C in pediatric patients: possibilities of ultrasound techniques for patients’ management
Authors: Demchyshyn Yaroslav , Nezgoda Iryna
Published: September 2023

Chronic viral hepatitis B and C have already become one of the medical and social problems of modern hepatology and paediatrics due to their high prevalence and ability to transform liver parenchyma and form additional complications. Nowadays, it is important to assess and examine patients by ultrasound techniques to estimate changes in morphometric, hemodynamic, and echoacoustic characteristics of the liver in patients with viral hepatitis B and C.

The aim: to estimate ultrasound morphometric parameters and hemodynamic indexes, morphological deviations of the liver and spleen in pediatric patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C by implementing of the system as Y. Davoudi diagnostic scale (2015) and analysis of echo-acoustic patterns.

Materials and methods. 34 children were examined. 19 children with chronic viral hepatitis B and C formed group I, while 15 almost healthy children formed group II. All examined patients underwent collecting of anamnesis, general clinical examination, determination of the degree of liver fibrosis by non-invasive method (Fibrotest or fibroelastometry) and ultrasound examination of the abdominal cavity organs with the possibility of Doppler scanning. Differences at p<0.05 were considered statistically significant.

Results. Obtained data showed that in patients of group, I index of Y. Davoudi grayscale was higher (2,6±0,26 U) compared with patients of group II (1,4±0,32 U) (p<0,01). Systolic blood flow velocities in the portal vein and the splenic vein were decreased in patients of group I (15,59±0,4 cm/s; 15,7±0,8 cm/s) compared with group II (17,68±0,8 cm/s; 17,54±0,42 cm/s) (p<0,05), resistance index in the hepatic artery was increased in patients of group I (0,78±0,02 IU) compared with patients of II group (0,68±0,04 IU) (p<0,05). Histogram indexes of the liver and liver-kidney region were higher in patients of group I (p<0,001).

Сonclusions. Y.Davoudi diagnostic scale, hemodynamics parameters of the portal, splenic and hepatic vessels, echoacoustic patterns and other indexes could be prognostic factors which will indicate liver fibrosis progression in patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C. The analysis of the obtained data showed that deviations in morphometric, echoacoustic and Doppler indexes of liver and spleen in paediatric patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C were more clinically significant compared with almost healthy children and could be taken into account as liver fibrosis predictors
The Perspective of Archival Discoveries in the Study of Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy
Authors: Petryszak Karol
Published: September 2023

The aim of this paper is to present archival discoveries made, among others, by the author in the Archives of the Metropolitan Curia in Cracow. The discoveries concern the manuscript of Karol Wojtyła, and are connected to his work on the postdoctoral thesis. This discovery was also presented in the context of its possible influence on the study of Wojtyła’s philosophy, based on Etienne Gilson’s conception of the method of studying the history of philosophy (the necessity of considering the whole of thought in the context of its individual elements, the context of impersonal necessity, etc.).
Anthropology of Everyday: Transformation of Human Behavior under Technological and Social Change
Authors: Asmolov Alexander
Published: September 2023

The article uses an approach of romantic psychology developed by Alexander Luria to reflect on the changes in education and everyday consciousness as a result of technological and social-historical transformations of the way of life. It focuses on the fact that the pandemic has become a catalyst for the emergence of blended education. The article discusses the role of cultural-historical psychology in the elaboration of variable education as an expansion of opportunities for personality development. Reasons for repressions of psychological science in totalitarian systems that suppress various manifestations of social and psychological diversity are interpreted.
Brain Plasticity and the Idea of the Functional System
Authors: Kaczmarek Bożydar , Markiewicz Katarzyna
Published: September 2023

The paper shows that the idea of brain plasticity underpins Luria’s theory of the functional system and his approach to diagnosis and rehabilitation of brain-damaged patients. Although the functional system is frequently quoted in neuropsychological literature its important facets are as a rule overlooked or misunderstood. First of all, the functional system is not only composed of various often quite distant brain structures but it undergoes changes in accord with the arriving circumstances including chances and difficulties encountered by a given person. Accordingly, these alternations may be positive or may be enforced by brain diseases, which results in performing a particular function in different ways.

The notion of neuroplasticity was also incorporated in the works of Luria on development and culture. It should be noted that he stressed the role of social factors in the evolvement of cognitive processes with special emphasis put on social means of which he considered language to play the most important role. Luria argued that the use of these tools results in alternations in the structure and flow of mental functions both in children and in adults. It was exemplified in his experiments with twins and with inhabitants of remote villages in Central Asia. All his ideas have found confirmation in contemporary studies. First, all mental processes depend upon the interconnections between neural clusters of changing patterns depending upon the nature of the task performed and the life experience of an individual. Second, the brain works depend to a considerable degree upon the organism as a whole a well as a social environment, which many authors link with the emergence and functioning of the mind. Third, the approach to diagnosis and remediation techniques that takes into account the feelings and life story of the patient is nowadays accepted not only in dealing with brain-damaged patients but also in the case of other disorders. Also, those traditionally labeled as somatic. In addition, we observe the revival of case studies in the scientific literature.
Cognitive Neuroscience of Neuroinfectious Diseases
Authors: Lazarus Theophilus , Reardon Katherine , Lazarus Gershom
Published: September 2023

Infectious diseases, particularly those involving viral pathogens, involve infiltration of CNS structures. Increasing suspicion of hypoxic-related neuronal infiltration has been documented in COVID-19. Increasingly effective treatments for hypoxia and prophylactic vaccinations with improved efficacy will result in greater survival rates of COVID-19 patients. The burden of COVID-19 disease impacts the employed adult population with the likelihood that lingering cognitive sequelae requires investigation and redress as the world assumes normality in the various work arenas. Whilst the effects of COVID-19 on cognitive functions and hence employability are strongly suspected, no systematic theoretical framework of the underlying neuropathological processes and pathways and approaches to assessment have been offered. This abstract proposes Luria’s Model of Neuropsychological Functioning (Luria, 1980) as a broad framework to investigate and document the neurocognitive effects of neuroinfectious diseases such as COVID-19. The authors acknowledge that, with increasing knowledge of the diverse symptom patterns associated with disease process underlying COVID-19, the framework of neurocognitive assessment will need to undergo refinement to provide a succinct synopsis of the cognitive capacity of survivors of this disease to inform best medical practices and the decisions facing other sectors such as employers.
The Impact of Emergency Remote Teaching on Teachers’ Perceptions of Learning Difficulties in the Context of Neuropsychopedagogics
Authors: Loureiro Vitor da Silva , Cardoso Fabrício Bruno
Published: September 2023

This study aimed to analyze the possible impacts of the emergency remote teaching model on the perceptions of teachers working in basic education on indicators of students’ learning difficulties. 190 teachers from public and private schools participated, between March and August 2021, in different locations across the country Brazil.
In the analysis of results, emphasis was given to the tensions of this new teaching modality imposed by the health and social crisis. Relevant values were found, which, evaluated on a Likert scale, measured the respondents’ opinions on the topic. The results showed that, given the context of teaching in the pandemic, about the impossibility of perceiving the difficulties of their students in the remote teaching model, 44.27 % of the teachers partially agreed and 29.68 % indicated total agreement. In the items that questioned how well they felt prepared in remote teaching, to work with students in situations of learning difficulties, 16.1% considered themselves totally unprepared, followed by 18.75 % who indicated that they were partially unprepared. Therefore, assuming the obstacles of Brazilian education, the relevance of the teacher in the teaching and learning process, the possibility of contributions from neuropsychopedagogy as a science of learning and the emergency educational scenario, the study integrates, in its intention and results, significance for an analysis current and apodictic data for other studies and conjectures.
Digital Communication in Neuropsychology
Authors: Glozman Janna M.
Published: September 2023

Situation of pandemic is a challenge for specialists. The paper shares the experience of the Research Center of Developmental Neuropsychology named after A. R. Luria in meeting this challenge and organizing specific forms of digital neuropsychological assessment and remediation of learning disable children. Positive and negative aspects of this form of neuropsychological work are analyzed.
Scientific Report: Features of the Neuropsychologist Remote Work
Authors: Zinnatova Mariya V.
Published: September 2023

The article presents a scientific report Features of the Neuropsychologist Remote Work, which was delivered on November 17, 2022 at the round-table discussion Neuropsychology’s Responses to the Challenges of Digital Transformation organized by the Lurian Journal staff within the framework of the International Congress L. S. Vygotsky and A. R. Luria: Cultural-Historical Psychology and Issues of Digitalization of Social Practices (Novosibirsk). It was dedicated to the memory of Doctor of Psychology, Professor Janna Markovna Glozman.
Influence of Prenatal Maternity Anxiety and Stress on the Development of Children’s Brain and Psychopathologies
Authors: Bogdanova Margarita A. , Tomenko Tatiana R.
Published: September 2023

Prenatal maternal stress is widespread and is a predictor of many childhood psychopathologies. This article presents an analysis of scientific publications devoted to the study of the ontogenetic effect of prenatal maternal stress on child brain maturation. A systematic review was conducted of available direct measures of brain development under stress, including structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion-weighted MRI. Directions for future research in this topic are also proposed.
Neuropsychological and Psychophysiological Studies in Logopsychotherapy: In Memory of J.M. Glozman
Authors: Karpova Natalia L. , Nikolaeva Elena I. , Dobrin Alexander V. , Poprik Yulia B.
Published: September 2023

The article is devoted to research in logopsychotherapy related to J.M. Glozman. Logoneurosis is a disease that affects 1–2.5 % of the population according to various sources, which is why effective methods of rehabilitation are so important. One of the effective methods is group logopsychotherapy, a technique developed for adults and adolescents by Yu.B. Nekrasova in the 1960s and subsequently monogamously improved. A special stage in scientific research in the system of family group speech therapy began with the arrival of J.M. Glozman. In the groups of family logopsychotherapy, A.A. Kiselnikov conducted a systematic inter- and multidisciplinary study of the brain mechanisms of stuttering under the guidance of J.M. Glozman and V.A. Vartanov in 2004–2006, showing the determinacy of this speech disorder by many psychological variables. It has been shown that the disintegration of left-right hemisphere interactions in the realization of mental activity can be one of the mechanisms of stuttering. It was revealed that stuttering is not an isolated (purely peripheral) speech disorder, but occurs in a syndrome of specific mnestic, neurodynamic and motor defects reflecting dysfunction of the posterior and median structures of the brain (functional blocks I and III, according to A.R. Luria (1973)), and the symptoms of dysfunction decrease during complex speech therapy. In the course of 2015–2020 studies supported by the RGNF and RFBR, which were conducted with groups of stuttering people, as well as at the Neurocorrection Center with children with learning difficulties (Glozman, Karpova, Cheburashkin-Antipov, 2018b), it was also shown that inadequate methods of psychological protection in case of violations or lack of communication skills may be associated with defects the image of verbal communication. It has been shown that the appearance of stuttering is facilitated if the child has the phenomenon of crosslaterality. Psychophysiological studies have also shown the role of functional asymmetry of the brain in the formation of the disease, and the effectiveness of logopsychotherapy for the correction of logoneurosis has also been confirmed.
The effect of seed priming with UV and gamma rays on the growth, production, and storage ability of cauliflower heads
Authors: EL-BELTAGI Hossam S. , TAWFIC Ghada A. , SHEHATA Said A. , ALI Shaimaa R. , ABDEL HAMID Osama A. , AHMED Abd El-Rahman A. , EL-MOGY Mohamed M.
Published: September 2023

The goal of the current study was to evaluate the effects of gamma ray, UV-C, UV-A (ultraviolet) treatments as seed priming on the growth, yield, quality, and the storage ability of cauliflower heads. The seeds were exposed to the following treatments: 50 and 75 kGy (gamma ray), UV-C for 15, 30, 45 minutes, and UV-A for 15, 30, 45 minutes. Plant growth and yield parameters were evaluated at the harvest time. The cauliflower heads from previous treatments were stored at 5° C for 16 days to evaluate their shelf-life traits. The results indicated that gamma ray, UV-C, and UV-A treatments enhanced the plant growth characteristics including plant height, leaf length, number of leaves, plant fresh weight, SPAD reading, and plant dry weight. Additionally, the cauliflower seeds treated with different treatments showed higher total yield, head diameter, and head weight than the control plants. The storage ability including weight loss, total soluble solids, and antioxidant capacity during refrigerated storage of cauliflower heads was not affected by the different treatments, however UVA treatment enhanced vitamin C and phenolic compounds compared to the control.