bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Pearl Harbor in Context
Authors: O’Neil William D.
Published: April 2022

Why did Japan choose to attack the United States, and why at Pearl Harbor? The story has ancient roots, starting with the parallels and antiparallels in the geostrategic positions and long-run economic development of Britain and Japan. Japan’s recognition of its economic inferiority and strategic vulnerability in the mid-nineteenth century prompted strikingly rapid modernization. The nation quickly became highly competitive at the Western imperialist game but struggled to adapt as the rules changed after 1917, just as China fell into chaos and the Soviet Union began its rapid rise. While profiting greatly from joining the Allies in World War I, Japan was buffeted severely by the economic turmoil of the postwar era. Together with unresolved social and political tensions from rapid modernization, this led to serious unrest. This extended to the military, which had been given disproportionate political power. Army adventurers sought to continue expansionism, ultimately miring Japan in an altogether unwinnable struggle in China and provoking serious tensions with the Soviets. The rise of Nazism in Germany was seen as providential by militarists, who pushed Japan into alliance with the Axis powers. But the alliance made war inevitable with the United States determined to stop Hitler at all cost.
Probiotic effects on anxiety-like behavior in animal models
Authors: Lalonde Robert , Strazielle Catherine
Published: April 2022

Gut microbiota have been shown to be useful in treating gastrointestinal diseases, cancer, obesity, infections, and, more recently, neuropsychiatric conditions such as degenerative diseases and depression. There has also been recent expansion in testing probiotics and prebiotics on anxiety-like behaviors in animals. Current results indicate that probiotic substances of the Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium type are effective in reducing anxiety-like behaviors in mice or rats evaluated in the elevated plus-maze, the open-field, the light-dark box, and conditioned defensive burying. Probiotics are also effective in reducing serum or plasma corticosterone levels after acute stress. It is hypothesized that probiotics cause anxiolytic-like effects via vagal influences on caudal solitary nucleus, periaqueductal gray, central nucleus of the amygdala, and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Further experimentation is needed to trace the neurochemical anatomy underlying anxiolytic-like behaviors of gut microbiata exerting effects via vagal or nonvagal pathways.
Stationary density function for a random evolution driven by a Markov-switching Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process with finite velocity
Authors: Pogorui Anatoliy A. , Rodríguez-Dagnino Ramón M.
Published: April 2022

In this paper, we consider a new telegraph process of Ornstein–Uhlenbeck type. The process is
obtained by generalizing the telegraph process in a similar manner to how the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process
was obtained from the Wiener process, namely by adding a drift coefficient proportional to a
displacement from the origin. This process was first introduced by Ratanov in
[N. Ratanov,
Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process of bounded variation,
Methodol. Comput. Appl. Probab. 23 2021, 925–946].
We obtain the infinitesimal operator of this process and we present formulas for finding its stationary
probability density. We consider both the symmetric and asymmetric cases.
Estrategias comunicativas de los anunciantes españoles frente a la covid-19
Authors: Torres-Romay Emma
Published: April 2022

La crisis provocada por la COVID-19 parece haber provocado grandes cambios en lo relativo a la publicidad en nuestro país. En este trabajo intentamos identificar dónde se han producido esos supuestos cambios y cómo han afectado a las estrategias de los principales anunciantes. Debemos tener en cuenta que nuestra propuesta parte de un seguimiento continúo de la actividad de los anunciantes españoles, lo que permite determinar si los cambios que se han producido son verdaderamente importantes o si, simplemente, esta crisis (como las anteriores) ha consolidado modificaciones o evoluciones que ya se gestaban tiempo atrás. Para hacer frente a este objetivo abordamos tres líneas de trabajo: el análisis bibliográfico, el análisis de fuentes primarias y el trabajo de campo aplicado sobre las campañas de los principales anunciantes, en términos de inversión, de España. Con todo ello podremos aportar unas conclusiones iniciales sobre la respuesta de los anunciantes creando incluso un modelo estratégico específico para poder analizar las campañas difundidas en este periodo y, sobre todo, determinar a qué estrategia responden.
Race Matters in Assessment of Familial Criticism
Authors: Chambless Dianne L. , Allred Kelly M. , Nakash Ortal , Porter Eliora , Schwartz Rachel A. , Brier Moriah J.
Published: April 2022

Introduction: Two findings in the Expressed Emotion (EE) literature fail to hold for Black psychiatric patients: EE (predominantly criticism) fails to predict treatment outcome, and measures of EE fail to correlate with patients' perceptions of relatives' criticism. To understand these findings, we tested whether non-Black coders of observable criticism (a) rate Black relatives higher in criticism than White relatives, or (b) are generally less accurate when rating Black relatives. Method: Familial dyads [31 Black; 87 White] participated in video recorded problem-solving interactions. Each interaction was reliably coded for observed criticism by two-four non-Black coders; participants rated perceived criticism (the criterion measure) post-interaction. Results: Coders were less accurate in rating criticism from Black than White relatives. Discussion: These data suggest patients' ratings of perceived criticism might be the measure of choice for identification of Black families who should be engaged in the treatment process to help reduce criticism-associated treatment failure
The Longue Durée of the Borgo Fortifications
Authors: Verstegen Ian
Published: April 2022

The dominance of civil architectural paradigms in the analysis of the design of the Vatican Borgo fortifications, including the Castel Sant’Angelo, has generated a scholarly narrative that focuses on the design decisions of individual architects. However, such an approach cannot adequately address the complexity of a large-scale military project with unique site-based limitations. In The Longue Durée of the Borgo Fortifications, Ian Verstegen presents the fortification of the Borgo as a collective, military problem, where the site dictated the solution. Through a review of payments and drawings, this essay reveals that the majority of work occurred under Paul III and his engineers, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and Giacomo Fusti Castriotto, who not only determined most of the Borgo’s design but also concluded trenchwork much earlier than previously supposed. Moreover, rather than focusing on individual designers, the article underscores the importance of military engineering site requirements and the contributions of anonymous soldiers to this project.
Chimbote, Projected: Urbanity from Up Above and from Down Below
Authors: Gyger Helen
Published: April 2022

In the late 1940s, the U.S. architectural firm Town Planning Associates produced a master plan for Chimbote in Peru as part of a regional development scheme centered on a new steel mill. The plan included designs for housing for the city’s workforce of rural–urban migrants, with proposals ranging from patio houses to provisional dwellings based on the vernacular self-built housing prevalent in Chimbote’s barriadas (squatter settlements). However, the influx of migrants vastly exceeded estimates, resulting in extensive unregulated urban growth. In an effort to remediate this problem, the Peruvian government selected the city as a key site for aided self-help housing projects beginning in the late 1950s. In Chimbote, Projected: Urbanity from Up Above and from Down Below, Helen Gyger explores the intertwined nature of authorized and unauthorized urbanisms in postwar Chimbote and employs a close reading of visual and textual sources to advance a comparative analysis of contrasting proposals that architectural history has previously separated into distinct categories.
Various Aspects of the Application for a Trademark Made in Bad Faith in the Light of EU Case Law
Authors: Sitko Joanna
Published: April 2022

European Union case law has in recent years brought to the surface numerous decisions that shed new light on the interpretation of bad faith in trademark law. The aim of this article is to present and discuss the premises that, pursuant to the judgments of the European Courts and decisions of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), are perceived as circumstances that may deem an application for a trademark as one made in bad faith. A close examination of the judicial decisions aims at determining how the approach to the concept of bad faith has been shaped in EU case law over the years since the preliminary ruling on the trademark application concerning the Easter bunny (Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli). Initially, bad faith was identified with those unfair applications for trademarks aiming at harming a third-party interest that had used a given mark before. The rulings issued in subsequent years clearly indicate that the application for a trademark made in bad faith does not have to be connected with a similar designation used by a third party beforehand. Such an application may derive from an unfair strategy of protecting the applicant’s own designations. What is unfair here is an attempted use of the system of protection of trademarks for purposes other than those for which it serves, through making an application for a trademark for purposes other than the functioning of that trademark.
Dilemmas of Trademark Protection and the Need for the Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Social and Economic Life
Authors: Sztobryn Karolina
Published: April 2022

This article answers the question of whether trademark regulations and case law promote the aims of international and EU law regarding the inclusion of persons with disabilities in social and economic life, which includes the involvement of persons with disabilities as consumers of goods and services, or whether they generate a conflict between the principles of trademark protection and the accessibility of trademarks for persons with disabilities. Trademark law and its interpretation is developing in parallel with the development of the concept of access and the inclusion of people with disabilities in every sphere of life. Both the content of the legislation and, in particular, trademark decisions fail to take into account the disability perspective, thus the law perpetuates an approach that denies people with disabilities the possibility to be consumers and to distinguish the origin of products to the same extent as non-disabled people. It is possible to introduce changes through minor steps in order not to revolutionise but only to complement the trademark system with a disability perspective, and thus meet the requirements of including people with disabilities in social and economic life.
ENDOCRINOLOGY IN PREGNANCY: Targeting metabolic health promotion to optimise maternal and offspring health
Authors: McLennan Niamh-Maire , Hazlehurst Jonathan , Thangaratinam Shakila , Reynolds Rebecca M
Published: April 2022

There is an increase in maternal metabolic burden due to the rise in pregnancies complicated by obesity, gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome. Metabolic dysfunction during pregnancy is associated with increased risks of long-term morbidity and mortality for women and their offspring. Lifestyle interventions in pregnancy in women at risk of metabolic dysfunction have demonstrated short-term improvements such as reduced gestational weight gain and lowered risk of gestational diabetes. It is not known whether these interventions lead to sustained improvements in the metabolic health of the mother and baby. Pharmacological interventions have also shown benefits for the mother and baby in pregnancy, including improvements in glycaemic control, reduction in gestational weight gain and reduction in large for gestational age infants; however, there remains uncertainty over long-term outcomes for mother and child. Existing studies on interventions targeting metabolic health are limited to selected populations in the preconception and postpartum periods and lack follow-up beyond delivery of the intervention. The COVID-19 pandemic has refocused our attention on the effects of maternal metabolic ill-health that play a role in contributing to premature morbidity and mortality. There is an urgent need for strategies to accurately identify the growing number of women and offspring at risk of long-term adverse metabolic health. Strategies which focus on early identification and risk stratification using individualised risk scores in the pre and inter-conception periods must take priority if we are to target and improve the metabolic health of women and their offspring who are at highest risk.
Commentary on Adrenal wash-out CT: moderate diagnostic value in distinguishing benign from malignant masses
Authors: Sundin Anders
Published: April 2022

The increasing use of cross-sectional imaging, mainly CT, results in an accelerating number of incidental findings, for instance of adrenal tumours. Although most ‘adrenal incidentalomas’ are benign, it is important to identify the malignant and the hormone producing (functional) tumours. For a small fraction of adrenal incidentalomas, the diagnosis is apparent on imaging, but the large majority requires radiological characterisation. To this end, a previous joint European Society of Endocrinology and European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours publication in this jounal, recommends CT measurements of the native (non-contrast) tumour attenuation ≤10 Hounsfield units, consistent with a lipid-rich benign adrenocortical adenoma, and imaging at least 6 months apart, on which unchanged tumour size implies a benign tumour. Because of weak evidence, calculation of CT contrast medium washout was not recommended as a means for tumour characterisation, but this technique has nevertheless still been applied in several countries. The recent article by Schloetelburg et al. in this journal is important because, in the largest study to date, the authors confirm that calculation of CT contrast medium washout with established thresholds is insufficient to reliably characterise adrenal tumours. Their results are therefore expected to impact the management of these patients.
Effects of combined aerobic-strength training and yoga on quality of life and related parameters in women with pituitary adenoma after surgery: a randomized crossover study
Authors: Dülger Esra , Mut Melike , Erbas Tomris , Sahiner Levent , Vardar Yağlı Naciye , Bilgin Sevil
Published: April 2022

Objective

The pituitary gland is responsible for hormonal balance in the body, and disruption of hormonal balance in patients with pituitary adenoma (PA) indirectly affects the quality of life. This study aimed to examine the effects of yoga and combined aerobic and strength training (A+ST) on quality of life and related parameters such as sleep, fatigue, emotional state, sexual function, and cognitive status in women with PA.

Design

Ten women with PA were included in this randomized crossover study. Group 1 (n = 5, mean age: 52 ± 13.5 years) received A+ST for the first 6 weeks, a 2-week washout period, and yoga for the second 6 weeks. Group 2 (n = 5, mean age: 41.8 ± 14 years) received the yoga program first, followed by the A+ST program.

Methods

Participants were assessed using the following tools before and after each exercise intervention: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Brain (FACT-Br) (quality of life), Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale (MOCA).

Results

FACT-Br scores were higher after the yoga program, HADS anxiety score was lower after the A+ST program, and MOCA scores increased after both exercise programs (P  < 0.05). FSS score decreased after both exercise programs, but not significantly. In addition, nonsignificant decreases in HADS anxiety and depression scores and increased FSFI scores were observed after the yoga program.

Conclusion

A+ST and yoga have positive effects on the quality of life in PA. We recommend yoga and A+ST as a supportive therapy for this population that may face comorbidities after surgical and medical treatment. Our results indicate these patients may benefit from physiotherapist-guided exercise programs.
Leptin modulates oocyte maturation by a central and a direct pathway in zebrafish
Authors: Bagivalu Lakshminarasimha Amrutha , Puvvada Madhuri , Hammerschmidt Matthias , Michel Maximilian
Published: April 2022

Loss of LEPR function (LOF) in mammals leads to diverse phenotypes including morbid obesity and infertility while zebrafish show relatively minor phenotypes. This however allows the study of LEPR LOF in the absence of the detrimental effects of hyperglycemia or obesity. Here, we show evidence that leptin plays a role in the central as well as peripheral regulation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis in zebrafish. Animals with a Lepr LOF show dysregulated pituitary HPG genes as well as evidence that oocytes mature slower and/or exhibit an increased rate of atresia. In culture, Lepr LOF attenuates the effect of 17α-20β-dihydroxy-4 pregnen-3-one in promoting germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) and increases the rate of GVBD as well as attenuates the rate of oocyte atresia.
Stereocontrolled intramolecular transformations of
(-)-α santonin
Authors: Iskanderov Amantay , Vojtisek Pavel , Zhokizhanova Saltanat , Jadenova Aktoty , Merkhatuly Nurlan
Published: April 2022

Chemical transformations of eudesmane sesquiterpene γ-lactones, leading to new biologically active compounds, have become an important direction in medicinal chemistry. This article discusses the stereoscopic intramolecular transformations of the sesquiterpene γ-lactone of the eudesmanic structure (-)-α santonin, a perspective natural compound characterized by a wide spectrum of biological activity.Stereoselective synthesis of new practically significant cis-condensed keto-eudesmane esters and ethylated santonin derivatives was carried out at room temperature in an argon atmosphere by the reaction of α-santonin with methyl and ethyl alcohols and alkyl halides in the presence of the Me3CONa-DMF base. It was revealed that, under the reaction conditions, the initial stage of santonin carbanion formation initiates subsequent stages of intramolecular electrophilic rearrangements with the formation of anenolate ion, which futhur interacts stereoselectively with nucleophilic and electrophilic reagents.It was shown that the synthesis of C4-α-ethyl-santonin with a six-membered ring configuration in the form of a distorted chair-chair can serve as a confirmation of the proposed mechanism of formation of practically valuable 6-keto-eudesmane ethers. In this article, the structure and spatial structure of the synthesized compounds is established using modern physicochemical and spectroscopic (1H NMR, 2D COZY NMR, NOESY, mass-spectrometry and X-ray structural analysis) research methods.
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “I am more than all” and Its Implications for the Political
Authors: Bielskis Andrius
Published: April 2022

The paper examines Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ethical views – especially as exemplified in the dictum “each of us is guilty of everything against all, and I am more than all” – in light of their political implications. It focuses on two related issues. First, Emma­nuel Levinas’s philosophical interpretation of Dostoevsky’s “I am more than the others” is contrasted with its interpretation by Sigmund Freud, who famously argued that Dostoevsky’s fixation on guilt was the consequence of his neurotic intention to murder his father. Freud’s claim has been refuted by Dostoevsky’s bibliographers. To understand the meaning of “I am more than all,” its semantic-narrative context in The Brothers Karamazov is therefore discussed. Second, the paper then examines the political implications of Dostoevsky’s ethics of redemption. Given that there are at least three traditions of theorizing the political – classical-Aristotelian, Schmittian, and liberal – the paper examines how Dostoevsky’s ethics of redemption can be positioned vis-à-vis these conceptualizations and which of them it can enrich the most.
Pengaruh Intervensi terhadap Kepatuhan Penggunaan Analgesik Opioid dan Skala Nyeri Pasien Kanker
Authors: Shavira Rurynta Ferly , Andrajati Retnosari , Putri Risani Andalasia
Published: April 2022

Cancer pain patients who receive opioid analgesics need to be given educational interventions to increase patient knowledge that can have a positive impact on patient adherence, especially in outpatients who will take opioid analgesics without being accompanied by professional. To maximize the effectiveness of the intervention, it is necessary to know the relationship between the intervention to adherence and the intervention to the pain scale. This study aimed to analyze the effect of the intervention and other factors on patient adherence in using opioid analgesics and the cancer pain scale. This study was conducted at Dharmais Cancer Hospital from March-April 2021 using a quasi-experimental design in the form of nonequivalent control group. In this study, the method used are pill count to measure adherence and NRS (Numerical Rating Scale) to measure the pain scale. Measurement of adherence using pill count was conducted after the intervention, but the measurement of the pain scale was conducted before and after the intervention. A total of 134 respondents were divided into 2 intervention groups, namely the counseling group and the digital booklet group. The results of the multivariate analysis showed that there was no variable that interfered with the relationship between the intervention and respondent's adherence. The adherence of respondents who received counseling was 4 times higher than the respondents who received digital booklet. From the results of this study, it can also be concluded that the more obedient the respondent is, the lower the pain scale.
Kajian Repurposing Drug sebagai Prioritas Metode Pengembangan Obat
Authors: Adelina Rosa
Published: April 2022

COVID-19 pandemic happened 100 years after Spanish Flu which caused high mortality in the world. It raised awareness about the importance to have drug development strategy acceleration. One of the drug development methods is drug repurposing. The urge for a deeper review of this method will be discussed in this article. The research method was reviewer literature that describes the terminology, the use of drug repurposing in cancer, COVID-19 and other diseases therapies and also the advantages to using drug repurposing method in drug development. The results showed some similar terms in drug repurposings such as drug repositioning, drug reprofiling, and drug rediscovery that makes drug repurposing preferred for old drug in new indication. Drug repurposing for anticancer are thiotepa, doxorubicine, gemcitabine, and raloxifene. Drug repurposing for COVID-19 are dexamethasone, methylprednisolone, sarilumab, heparine, enoxasaparine, rivaroxabane, and fondaparinux. The other uses are zidovudine, minoxidil, sildenafile, rituximab, and ketoconazole. The advantages from this method are higher time and cost-efficiency. Hesitance, drug therapy with drug repurposing method should be a priority for drug development nowadays.
Safety and Efficacy of Nafcillin for Empiric Therapy of Late-Onset Sepsis in the NICU
Authors: Magers Jacqueline , Prusakov Pavel , Speaks Sunday , Conroy Sara , Sánchez Pablo J.
Published: April 2022

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE

In 2014 at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the Neonatal Antimicrobial Stewardship Program recommended nafcillin over vancomycin for empirical therapy of possible late-onset sepsis (LOS) in infants without a history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization or infection. We report our experience with this guideline and assess its safety.

METHODS

We retrospectively reviewed all infants who received nafcillin or vancomycin for empirical treatment of possible LOS at 3 NICUs before (January 2013–May 2014) and after (January 2017–March 2019) implementation of a vancomycin reduction guideline. Safety measures included duration of blood culture positivity, recurrence of infection with the same previously identified pathogen in the 14 days after discontinuation of antibiotic therapy, and mortality.

RESULTS

Among 366 infants who received a first antibiotic course for possible LOS, 84% (95 of 113) and 25% (62 of 253) received empirical therapy with vancomycin before and after the guideline implementation, respectively, representing a 70% reduction. Nafcillin use increased by 368%. Duration of blood culture positivity did not differ before and after the guidance. In 2 infants, antibiotic therapy was restarted within 14 days of discontinuation of the initial therapy for recurrence of the same infection; both had received empirical vancomycin. Overall in-hospital mortality was 10%, and there was no difference before (9%) and after (10%) implementation of the vancomycin reduction guidance (odds ratio, 0.97).

CONCLUSIONS

Nafcillin can be a safe alternative to vancomycin for empirical therapy of LOS among NICU infants who do not have a history of methicillin-resistant S aureus infection or colonization.
Nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic
Authors: Harley Matthew
Published: April 2022

This paper contrasts the strategies for marking nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic, and offers some thoughts on their possible origin and development. The Mandara subgroup generally uses an /-a-/ infix for verbs, and the suffix /-ak/-ax/-ah/ for nouns. The Ɓata subgroup uses an /-ə-/ infix for both nouns and verbs, as well as a suffix /-j/ (or /-n/) for nouns. In both groups, the strategies used also depend upon the structure of the verb root. Data is provided for several languages, including little-documented languages such as Nzanyi, Bacama and Glavda. The data suggests that vowel infixes may originally have been used for both nominal and verbal plurals throughout Chadic, but the development of specific nominal plural suffixes gradually made the use of vowel infix plurals redundant in nouns. The nominal suffix /-ak/-ax/-ah/ would then have been a subsequent innovation in the verbal system for verb roots in the Mandara whose structure was incompatible with an infix strategy.
Initial findings on the Boor language
Authors: Roberts James
Published: April 2022

This article provides the first published information on Boor, an Eastern Chadic language spoken in a single village in the Moyen Chari Region of Chad. First, the sociolinguistic situation of the language and its speakers is presented, along with the conditions under which the present data was collected. Then follows a very provisional statement about the consonant and vowel systems of the language, along with some remarks about nominal and verbal morphology. The article finishes by presenting several tables of lexical data, comparing Boor words with those of several nearby languages, in the interest of better understanding the place of Boor within the Eastern Chadic family.
Agriculture farming extension model for analysing climate change adaptation: A case study of Sri Lankan farmers
Authors: Mustafa M. M. , Baig M.B. , Marikar F. M.M.T.
Published: April 2022

Abstract. Climate change and variability threaten the sustainability of agricultural and food production, especially in agrarian communities. In Sri Lanka, rainfall is expected to decline by almost 10% by the year 2050 and the largest increase in temperature can be experienced. Despite the potential risks of climate change on agricultural productivity, Sri Lanka does not have a dedicated policy to respond to climate change. Furthermore, there is a dearth of research done in Sri Lanka to provide an understanding of factors that shape farmers’ adaptation to climate change and institutional link to the adaptive capacity of farming households. In this study we have taken secondary data from the World Bank and Central Bank of Sri Lanka to show how the farming population decreased and deforesting occurred due to the urbanization as well as to low education of the farming community. The results show that the majority of farmers who have climate variability adaptation strategies in place are largely influenced by indigenous knowledge. Women and low-income earners are less likely to employ climate change adaptation strategies in order to improve their agricultural productivity. The results have implications that agricultural extension officers service is needed to keep them in the industry and introduce new foresting schemes to carbon deposit and finally reduce the urbanization process.
Lesbophobia in the family: techniques to produce and regulate heterocentric femininities
Authors: Braga Keith Daiani da Silva , Ribeiro Arilda Ines Miranda , Caetano Marcio Rodrigo Vale
Published: April 2022

Resumo Este texto tem como objetivo compreender, a partir de narrativas de mulheres lésbicas do interior do estado de São Paulo, os modos como se articulam as performatividades de gênero e as trajetórias educacionais. Para tanto, realizaram-se sete entrevistas abertas de caráter narrativo que foram problematizadas a partir das contribuições dos Estudos de Gênero com Perspectiva Feminista. Com os dados construídos no decorrer deste estudo, chegou-se à conclusão de que a visibilidade e a hipervisibilidade estavam condicionadas às performatividades de gênero das participantes e que suas corporalidades foram observadas, controladas, negociadas, refutadas e educadas de tal modo que a lesbofobia atuou como recurso educativo.
Development of sustainable prefabricated housing system by small-scale experimental model
Authors: Chippagiri Ravijanya , Bras Ana , Ralegaonkar Rahul V
Published: April 2022

Utilisation of unused industrial wastes and the need for rapid volumetric construction led to the evolution of sustainable prefabricated housing elements, particularly for urban slums. An agro-industrial by-product as raw material and waste expanded polystyrene beads as the insulation material are chosen to develop a lightweight prefabricated construction element. This bio-ash is used as a partial replacement, 20 and 10%, for fine aggregates to prepare concrete and a lightweight mix, respectively. A small-scale model of one-third scale is conceptualised according to standards. This model includes precast columns and beams as framed structure and prefab panels as walling and roofing elements. These elements are developed according to the desired mix proportions of the identified raw materials. The respective laboratory specimens are evaluated for physico-mechanical, durability and thermal properties. The developed walling end product is found to be 27% lighter, 8% stronger, 24% less water absorbent and 62% less conductive when compared with the properties of commercially available fly-ash brick. A solar photovoltaic panel embedded into the pitch roof of the model can provide 71% of its generated energy to necessary electrical appliances. The material properties are found to be satisfactory for its on-site application. Also, the model’s erection is 20% faster than the conventional method.
Influence of cigarette filter quantity on asphalt mixture: thermal and ageing performance
Authors: Khabaz Meherjardi Mehdi , Khabiri Mohammad Mehdi , Khani Sanij Hamed
Published: April 2022

Disposing of cigarette butts in the environment is considered one of the environmental problems caused by smoking, including cigarettes, which leads to soil pollution and adverse effects on the growth of plants, animals, and birds. This study has evaluated the use of cigarette filters as an additive in asphalt. To use the cigarette filter in asphalt, the surface of the filters was first well covered with bitumen to prevent the spread of contaminants in the filter and also the adsorption of bitumen by the filter, and then asphalt samples were prepared with different percentages of cigarette filter (10, 15 and 25 kg/m3). In this study, tests of moisture sensitivity, resilient modulus, heat capacity, ageing and lateral deformation were conducted to evaluate the performance of samples made with different percentages of cigarette filters. According to the results, as the percentage of cigarette filters increases, the resilient modulus and the rate of temperature absorption decrease, and the lateral deformation increases within the asphalt mixture. Also, it was concluded that increasing the proportion of cigarette filters reduces the tensile strength ratio. Therefore, the use of cigarette filters should be controlled as ageing increases the indirect tensile strength.
El Pacto Mundial sobre los Refugiados y el Nuevo Pacto de la Unión Europea sobre Migración y Asilo: derecho informal y jurisprudencia internacional en materia de acceso a la protección
Authors: Morgades Gil Silvia
Published: April 2022

Desde 2016 el régimen internacional y europeo de las migraciones forzosas se encuentra inmerso en procesos de renovación normativa con la Declaración de Nueva York para los Refugiados y los Migrantes; el Pacto Mundial sobre los Refugiados, y el Nuevo Pacto de la Unión Europea sobre Migración y Asilo. Este trabajo examina en la primera parte si y en qué modo estos procesos permiten vislumbrar avances en relación con el acceso al asilo, y el reparto equitativo de las responsabilidades de los Estados y la solidaridad en la protección. En la segunda parte se examina la jurisprudencia del TEDH y del TJUE en relación con distintas situaciones relacionadas con el acceso a la protección comparando los planteamientos y resultados de ambos tribunales. El trabajo concluye con unas reflexiones finales sobre: 1) los resultados matizados de los dos procesos de renovación del régimen normativo de las migraciones forzosas a través de normas de Derecho internacional informal y de propuestas de Derecho institucional europeo, y 2) el balance más positivo de la jurisprudencia reciente del TJUE en relación con la del TEDH, desde la perspectiva del acceso a la protección de los demandantes de asilo en Europa.
La Unión Europea, ¿un gendarme en el Mediterráneo central?: Las operaciones EUNAVFOR MED Sofia e Irini
Authors: Soler García Carolina
Published: April 2022

En marzo de 2015 la Unión Europea puso en marcha la operación Sophia, en el marco de la Política Común de Seguridad y Defensa, con el fin de contribuir a desarticular el modelo de negocio de las redes de tráfico ilícito y la trata de personas que operan en Libia. Además de ofrecer formación a la guardia costera y la armada libia, y hacer efectivo el embargo de armas a Libia decidido por el Consejo de Seguridad. En marzo de 2020, se pone fin a Sophia y nace la operación Irini. Su objetivo principal es aplicar el embargo de armas a Libia y, de forma secundaria, luchar contra las redes de tráfico y trata de migrantes, y formar a los guardacostas libios. La actuación de estas dos operaciones ha estado muy condicionada, en primer lugar, por la falta de autorización tanto del Consejo de Seguridad como de las autoridades libias para desarrollar sus respectivos mandatos en Libia, un Estado fracasado. En segundo lugar, por la ausencia de acuerdo entre los Estados miembros sobre el lugar de desembarco de los inmigrantes rescatados en el mar. Además, en el contexto de la actuación de estas operaciones se han planteado críticas relativas al respeto de los derechos humanos. No obstante estas evidentes limitaciones, con estas dos operaciones la Unión Europea ha asumido un protagonismo de cierta relevancia en la ejecución de las resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad en el Mediterráneo central.
Variación fenológica y morfométrica de Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabaceae) de cinco poblaciones silvestres de Durango, México
Authors: Wallander-Compean Liliana , Almaraz-Abarca Norma , Alejandre-Iturbide Gabriel , Uribe-Soto José Natividad , Ávila-Reyes José Antonio , Torres-Ricario Rene , Herrera-Arrieta Yolanda , Delgado-Alvarado Eli Amanda
Published: April 2022

Antecedentes: El frijol común silvestre de Durango, México ha sido poco estudiado. Se determinó ex situ , la variación fenológica, morfométrica, de germinación y de rendimiento entre frijol común de cinco poblaciones silvestres de Durango, México. También se compararon in situ y ex situ caracteres morfométricos de las mismas poblaciones.
Hipótesis: Factores genéticos y ambientales han contribuido de manera variable a la diferenciación fenotípica de frijol común silvestre.
Especies de estudio: Phaseolus vulgaris L.
Sitio y años de estudio: Cinco localidades de Durango, México. Septiembre de 2018 a noviembre de 2019.
Métodos: Se registraron datos fenológicos, morfométricos, de germinación y de rendimiento ex situ . Se compararon in situ y ex situ caracteres morfométricos. Los datos se sometieron a análisis de varianza, componentes principales, de agrupamiento y de correspondencia canónica.
Resultados: La mayoría de las características morfométricas de las vainas y semillas tuvieron un determinismo genético. La altitud determinó patrones de interacción con la procedencia. La escarificación favoreció mayores potenciales de germinación en los frijoles silvestres que una variedad cultivada analizada como referencia. Las condiciones ex situ estimularon en general el desarrollo de vainas, semillas y hojas más grandes, y mayor cantidad de semillas que las condiciones in situ .
Conclusiones: Diferentes atributos de las poblaciones silvestres de P. vulgaris analizadas han respondido de manera variable a cambios ambientales, principalmente en la altitud, a través de interacciones genotipo-ambiente. Esa variación brinda una base para entender el potencial adaptativo y sustentar programas de conservación de la especie y el desarrollo de variedades.

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İş Yerinde Dışlanmanın Psikolojik Performans Üzerindeki Etkisi
Authors: ÖZCAN Hamid Murad
Published: April 2022

Bu araştırma iş yerinde dışlanma ve psikolojik performans arasındaki ilişkiyi Kaynakların Korunması Teorisi (KKT) çerçevesinde incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Verilerin 238 beyaz yakalı çalışandan kolayda örnekleme yöntemi ile elde edildiği araştırmada iş yerinde dışlanma ölçeği ve psikolojik performans ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular iş yerinde dışlanmanın, psikolojik performans boyutlarından negatif enerjiyi olumlu yönde etkilediğini gösterirken pozitif enerji, kendini kontrol etme ve zihinsel durumu olumsuz etkilediğini ortaya koymuştur. Bu bulgular, KKT’nin öne sürdüğü çerçeve ile uyumludur ve iş yerinde dışlanmanın önemli bir kaynak kaybı nedeni olduğunu ortaya koyması nedeni ile önem arz etmektedir.
Paper Patients: When Documents Stand in for Patients
Authors: Ansari David
Published: April 2022

This article analyses a seemingly mundane feature of a mental health centre for immigrants and refugees in Paris: the documents used by budding therapists undertaking their apprenticeships. Supervisors developed these documents in order to train therapist apprentices to learn the explanatory models of patients, identify the voice of patients, and incorporate medical anthropology into their therapeutic practice. The documents were central to the experiences of therapist apprentices because they occupied most of their time and were a substitute for supervision and patient contact. Documents disciplined the speech of therapist apprentices and focused their attention on specific aspects of patients’ histories. Therapist apprentices found these documents and documentary practices to be problematic because they reduced patients’ complex migration and medical histories to a series of tick boxes and short answers. These documents generated new forms of uncertainty among therapist apprentices about how to present clinical information about patients to their supervisors. This article is part of a larger study that considers mental health services for immigrants and refugees as communities of practice in which therapist apprentices learned to develop clinical and caring skills for vulnerable patient populations. By drawing on and contributing to scholarship on apprenticeship, uncertainty, documents, and bureaucracy, this article demonstrates how bureaucratic processes and documentary artefacts may generate unnecessary forms of uncertainty and hinder participation in communities of practice.
[RETRACTED] Mother Nature CBD Gummies Reviews Natural Health Today! | Special Offer! Update 2022 v1
Authors: CBD Gummies Uly
Published: April 2022

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Mother Nature CBD Gummies:- Cannabis, otherwise called weed, has filled in notoriety because of its indicated medical advantages. CBD is one of those advantages that is notable for its therapeutic properties. While certain individuals accept that CBD is the extraordinary solution for all afflictions, others dread that marijuana is excessively strong for them. Earth's life giving force's CBD chewy candies can assist with that.
[RETRACTED] Kwazi Keto Gummies Reviews - Where To Buy? v1
Authors: not provided kwaziketokwazireviews
Published: April 2022

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Safety and efficacy, exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation therapy: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. v1
Authors: KURASAWA Yasuyuki , Maeda Hirotada , Tamaru Tetsuro , Sasaki Yukihiro , Matsumori Keishi , Yokokawa Yoshiharu , Kitagawa Takashi
Published: April 2022

This review aimed to assess whether exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation can be safely implemented and contribute to maintaining sinus rhythm, patient exercise function, and quality of life. We plan to include all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of cardiac rehabilitation designed to improve motor function in patients with post-catheter ablation AF patients. (P: AF patient after catheter ablation therapy (Adult patients 40 years and older), I: Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation, C: usual care, O: Serious adverse events (recurrence of AF, death, rehospitalization), Quality of life, exercise capacity, cardiac function . In this review, we plan to use five databases. Two reviewers will screen articles to identify studies for inclusion. We will use the Risk of Bias 2 tool for risk of bias assessment.
[RETRACTED] K2 Tropfen - K2 Keto Drops Supports Healthy Living By Burning More And More Calories Instantly. v1
Authors: Tropfen Keto
Published: April 2022

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[RETRACTED] QSAR Prediction v1
Authors: Sciences BOC
Published: April 2022

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The early linear free-energy approaches developed by Hansch and Free-Wilson have provided a fundamental scientific framework for the quantitative correlation of chemical structure with biological activity and spurred many developments in the field of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). QSAR prediction methods are attempting to predict the toxicological endpoint and breadth of mechanisms which are complicated. The quality and quantity of the available biological toxicology data could be another obstacle in the modeling process.
[RETRACTED] Supersonic Keto Pills Reviews - Does SuperSonic Keto Works? v1
Authors: not provided supersonicketopillsreviews
Published: April 2022

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[RETRACTED] Virtual Screening v1
Authors: Sciences BOC
Published: April 2022

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Virtual screening has been widely applied in early-stage drug discovery. As an alternative or complementary approach to high-throughput screening (HTS) assays with high cost and low hit rate, virtual screeningis an efficient computational method to identify drug candidates in silico from large chemical compound databases. Its usefulness has been verified by current applications that successfully retrieved hit and lead identifications against various disease targets.
Testing 1, 2 v1
Authors: not provided shanley
Published: April 2022

Testing, testing.
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis
Authors: Esteve-Del-Valle Marc
Published: April 2022

Homophily, the tendency of people to have ties with those who are similar, is a fundamental pattern to understand human relations. As such, the study of homophily can provide key insights into the flow of information and behaviors within political contexts. Indeed, some degree of polarization is necessary for the functioning of liberal democracies, but too much polarization can increase the adoption of extreme political positions and create democratic gridlock. The relationship between homophilous communication ties and political polarization is thus fundamental because it affects a pillar of democratic regimes: the need for public debate where divergent ideas and interests can be confronted. This research compares the degree of homophily and political polarization in Catalan MPs’ Twitter mentions network to Dutch MPs’ Twitter mentions network. Exponential random graph models were employed on a one-year sample of mentions among Dutch MPs (N = 7,356) and on a one-year, three-month sample of mentions among Catalan MPs (N = 19,507). Party polarization was measured by calculating the external–internal index of both Twitter mentions networks. Results reveal that the mentions among Catalan MPs are much more homophilous than those among the Dutch MPs. Indeed, there is a positive relationship between the degree of MPs’ homophilous communication ties and the degree of political polarization observed in each network.
Reconsideration of the So-Called “Diana’s Temple” in Ancient Doclea
Authors: Turković Tin , Maraković Nikolina
Published: April 2022

The paper represents the first attempt of interpretation and contextualization of Diana’s sanctuary in late antique Doclea, through re-examination of its particular architectural features, which have been documented by archaeologists through the past 131 years. We offer an integral picture of the temple and its temenos, thus once again confirming that the sanctuary was actually a part of large-scale imperial interventions into the urban fabric of the town — those of Emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus. We substantiate the hypothesis that the temple was a creation of distinctive, highly innovative and original, Diocletian’s “architectural school” of planners, builders and stonemasons.
O Petru Bogdaniju, don Luki Jeliću i hrvatsko-albanskim kulturnim kontaktima
Authors: Lupis Vinicije B. , Shala Elvis
Published: April 2022

U radu su autori obradili nekoliko dosad nedovoljno poznatih hrvatsko-albanskih kulturnih odnosa, sagledanih ponajviše kroz prizmu odnosa Dubrovnika s albanskim područjima i Kosovom. Kroz osobnost nadbiskupa Petra Bogdanija iz 17. stoljeća ukazalo se na kulturološki okvir bilježenja prvih rimskih natpisa u Skadru, ali i na novovjekovne i srednjovjekovne epigrafike na području Albanije i Kosova, s iznimno važnim natpisima iz crkve sv. Srđa i Bakha na Bojani.
Insignia of Honour
on Three 19th-Century Portraits
of Croatian Bans
Authors: Bregovac Pisk Marina , Brstilo Rešetar Matea
Published: April 2022

During the 19th century, Croatia saw a succession of nineteen bans (viceroys) and banal deputies, and the likeness of most of them has been
preserved in portraits. They were not often depicted with state insignia
and dignity symbols; therefore, the three representative portraits to be
presented in this paper, those of Ignjat Gyulay, Josip Jelačić and Ladislav
Pejačević, are the more interesting. In their own way, these portraits
are a testimony of the political position of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia,
Dalmatia and Slavonia within the Habsburg and, later on, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy as well as the role and authority of the Croatian ban. They are works by prominent painters and are kept in the holdings of the
Croatian History Museum in Zagreb.