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Течение пуазейлевского типа в канале с проницаемыми стенками
Authors: Сизых Григорий Борисович , Sizykh Grigory Borisovich
Published: April 2022

В рамках уравнений Навье-Стокса рассматривается течение вязкой несжимаемой жидкости между неподвижными параллельными проницаемыми стенками, на которых выставляется условие равенства нулю только продольной компоненты скорости. Ищутся решения, в которых поперечная к плоскости пластин компонента скорости постоянна. Получены как стационарные, так и нестационарные решения, среди которых есть нетривиальное решение с постоянным давлением и экспоненциально затухающей со временем продольной скоростью. Устанавливается, что для стационарных течений вынос погранслоя в глубь течения от одной пластины при одновременном всасывании погранслоя на другой пластине приводит к росту сопротивления по сравнению с классическим течением Пуазейля. В случае непроницаемых стенок получено точное нестационарное решение, профиль скорости которого в фиксированные моменты времени отличается от профиля в классическом течении Пуазейля и в пределе (при стремлении времени к бесконечности) соответствует покою.
A clinical audit snapshot of Prostate Serum Antigen (PSA) test results for Pacific men from two Primary Health Care Clinics in the Auckland region, New Zealand
Authors: Nosa Vili , Paynter Janine , Heather Maryann , Gentles Dudley
Published: April 2022

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy registered in New Zealand and is the third most common cause of cancer death in men after lung cancer and bowel cancer. Prostate Serum Antigen (PSA) testing has been used to screen for prostate cancer. The following paper provides a clinical audit snapshot of Prostate Serum Antigen (PSA) test results for Pacific men from two Primary Health Care Clinics in the Auckland region, New Zealand. Two Auckland primary health care clinics provided anonymised data on prostate serum test results for their male patients along with ethnicity, age, and birthplace. Descriptive summaries of the data are presented as frequencies and percentages of positive test by age and by ethnic group. Logistic regression analysis was used to test for significant differences by ethnic group, age group and birthplace (NZ born versus overseas born). Two clinics which have predominately Pacific patients provided anonymised results of prostate serum antigen test results from 2009 – 2018. There were 5,787 prostate serum antigen level tests available from clinic 1 and clinic 2 had 493 patients. Most of the clinic patients tested were New Zealand born (5655, 90%) compared to overseas born (625, 10%). Samoans compared to Europeans were significantly more likely to have a positive test compared to Europeans & other ethnicities. Cook Island Maori men were significantly less likely to have a positive test result compared to European and other ethnicities. Older individuals are more likely to have positive PSA results which shows that this is very similar and consistent with the current literature. Those being born overseas compared to being New Zealand born were significantly less likely to have positive serum antigen results.
Climate Justice: Whose Justice?
Authors: Ikporukpo Chris
Published: April 2022

The increasing literature on climate justice is indicative of the increasing severity and public awareness of the challenge of climate change and the need for action.  Generally speaking, the extant literature emphasises climate justice activism during COPs, climate justice movements and their activities, and climate justice activism in specific geographical regions.  A case study approach is typical and neglects the actions of non-climate justice movement actors.  This approach does not make for generalization on climate justice action.  This article analyses the emergence and propagation of climate justice from a global perspective taking into consideration state actors and non-state actors, including non-movement groups and individuals.  Varied sources of data are used and the analysis is descriptive and perspective.  Rawls’ theory of justice and the resource mobilisation theory provide the theoretical underpinning.  State actors, which are commonly analysed as antithetically related to the climate justice movements, play sensitisation and awareness-creation roles through IPCC.  Furthermore, State-actors through COP play critical roles negotiating for polluters pay and emission mitigation (net-zero) systems.  Non-State actors, including non-formal groups and individuals, have been particularly critical in the fight for climate justice.  Their actions have been through songs and poems, pressured mobilisation through protests, strikes and sloganeering, and litigation.  Several challenges hinder the enthronement of climate justice.  A successful enthronement of climate justice necessitates cooperation between State and non-State actors; which is the basis of the Marrakech Initiative of 2016.
Resistance of Local Actors to the Leasing of Water Supply in the Village of Atchannou in South-West Benin
Authors: TOGBE Codjo Timothée , KOUKPOSSI Albert Omolegbé
Published: April 2022

Leasing as an innovation in the governance of the Village Water Supply System (VWSS) should, a priori, allow local authorities to manage the delivery of drinking water to rural populations in Benin rationally and transparently. However, instead of being favourably welcomed, this system has met with resistance from local actors. Based on the premise that leasing involves issues that are insufficiently elucidated by its innovators, this article analyses the causes of the resistance observed in its implementation. To achieve this goal, a qualitative social science research method was used, favouring discussion with 18 participants. The data were analysed in the backdrop of the market mode of local governance and fuzzy set theory. The results of this research show that the populations of Atchannou Village do not fully accept the leasing of water, or at least they set out the preconditions to be met by the local government authorities before this innovative approach to governance of the water point can become operational: guaranteeing the management of the funds from the sale of water (1), and repaying the debts related to the community management of the water supply (2). The local actors are therefore in a logic of preserving the interests that will be generated by the sale of water, which is now retroceded to the Municipality; this further increase their resistance to the leasing of the water supply system.
Xi Jinping and Contemporary China
Authors: Tian Robert Guang
Published: April 2022

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The Queen Caroline Affair in Radical Periodicals
Authors: Abreu Georgina
Published: April 2022

The rendering of the Queen Caroline affair by the radical periodical press constitutes a case study of the intersection of the press, propaganda, gender, class, politics, and, ultimately, a metaphor of political and cultural change. Rooted in this assertion, the present essay examines and interprets the version of the Queen Caroline affair in the three radical periodicals that resisted the passing of the Six Acts in 1819. These wereThe Republican, edited by Richard Carlile;Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, edited by William Cobbett; and theBlack Dwarf, edited by Thomas Jonathan Wooler. The Conclusion determines the extent to which early nineteenth-century radical journalism contributed to political and cultural progress. The protagonists of the Queen Caroline affair in the radical periodicals were timeless: they were corruption, injustice, lack of freedom, and the public as the motors of change – a political struggle with deep cultural undertones.
Optimization of biochar preparation process and carbon sequestration effect of pruned wolfberry branches
Authors: Yu Jiawen , Song Mingdan , Li Zhengpeng
Published: April 2022

Pruned wolfberry branches are abundant and ideal raw material for biomass carbonization. It would provide valuable guidance for optimizing the preparation conditions of biochar of pruned wolfberry branches for carbon sequestration and emission reduction. This study adopted a single-factor experiment and response surface method (RSM) using reaction temperature and holding time as factors, and systematically investigated the effects of carbonization conditions on yield and fixed carbon content. Based on the results, the effects of temperature on yield and fixed carbon content were greater than those of holding time. Both temperature and holding time had extremely significant effects on yield, and the interaction had significant effects. Temperature had an extremely significant effect on fixed carbon content, while holding time and the interaction had no significant effect. Through the RSM, the optimized pyrolysis temperature was 530°C and the holding time was 2 h. The potential for carbon sequestration of biochar generated by wolfberry branches and returned to the soil was evaluated. Biochar was believed to contribute to carbon sequestration and emission reduction in Qinghai province; 68.56 × 103 t of carbon emissions could be reduced annually from combustion in the atmosphere and 34.42 × 103 t of carbon could be fixed if all biochar were applied to soil.
Cu-Catalysed tandem reactions for building poly hetero atom heterocycles-green chemistry tool
Authors: Reddy Sabbasani Rajasekhara , Jayakumar Jyothylakshmi
Published: April 2022

Of late, regio-selective tandem reactions are given much attention due to the formation of several multiple bonds in a single synthetic operation, avoids altering the reaction conditions, isolation of the intermediates during the reaction, reduces the production of toxic waste to the environment and can produce highly complex organic molecules with desired selectivity. Though, it requires the well-built knowledge for optimization of the process, it permits to make the complex organic molecules with least number of steps, and it has eventually made great interest and inspiration to the upcoming organic chemists. Presentation of current book chapter presents the Cu-Catalysed tandem reactions for building poly hetero atom heterocyclic compounds via green approach.
Use of heterogeneous catalysis in sustainable biofuel production
Authors: Saleh Hosam M. , Hassan Amal I.
Published: April 2022

Biofuel is a sustainable energy source that may use to replace fossil-based carbon dioxide and mitigate the adverse effects of exhaust emissions. Nowadays, we need to replace petroleum fuels with alternatives from environmentally sustainable sources of increasing importance. Biofuels derived from biomass have gained considerable attention, and thus most of the traditional methods that harm the environment and humans have retreated. Developing an active and stable heterogeneous catalyst is a step of utmost importance in the renewable liquid fuel technology. Thus, there is a great interest in developing methods for producing liquid fuels from non-edible sources. It may also be from dry plant tissues such as agricultural waste. Lignocellulosic biomass can be a sustainable source for producing renewable fuels and chemicals, as well as the replacement of petroleum products. Hence, the researchers aspired to synthesize new catalysts using a cheap technology developed to hydrolyze cellulose and then produce bioethanol without needing expensive enzymes, which may ultimately lead to a lower fuel price. In this paper, we will focus on the recent technologies used to produce sustainable biofuels through inexpensive incentives and innocuous to the environment.
China’s radiopharmaceuticals on expressway: 2014–2021
Authors: Cui Xi-Yang , Liu Yu , Wang Changlun , Wen Zihao , Li Yichen , Tang Haocheng , Diwu Juan , Yang Yuchuan , Cui Mengchao , Liu Zhibo
Published: April 2022

This review provides an essential overview on the progress of rapidly-developing China’s radiopharmaceuticals in recent years (2014–2021). Our discussion reflects on efforts to develop potential, preclinical, and in-clinical radiopharmaceuticals including the following areas: (1) brain imaging agents, (2) cardiovascular imaging agents, (3) infection and inflammation imaging agents, (4) tumor radiopharmaceuticals, and (5) boron delivery agents (a class of radiopharmaceutical prodrug) for neutron capture therapy. Especially, the progress in basic research, including new radiolabeling methodology, is highlighted from a standpoint of radiopharmaceutical chemistry. Meanwhile, we briefly reflect on the recent major events related to radiopharmaceuticals along with the distribution of major R&D forces (universities, institutions, facilities, and companies), clinical study status, and national regulatory supports. We conclude with a brief commentary on remaining limitations and emerging opportunities for China’s radiopharmaceuticals.
Cold allodynia is correlated to paroxysmal and evoked mechanical pain in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
Authors: Lunden Lars Kristian , Kleggetveit Inge Petter , Schmelz Martin , Jorum Ellen
Published: April 2022

Objectives

Mechanisms of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) are still debated. Identifying subgroups of patients have been attempted in the hope of linking clinical findings to possible mechanisms. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether subgroups of CRPS (based on quantitative sensory testing (QST)-results) differed with respect to different characteristics of pain like spontaneous ongoing or paroxysmal pain and mechanical dynamic allodynia.

Methods

61 CRPS-patients (type 1 and 2) were examined clinically and with QST, in affected and contralateral extremity, with assessment of thresholds for warmth, cold and heat-and cold pain.

Results

43 patients (20 men, 23 men) were diagnosed with CRPS 1 (70.5%) and 18 patients (8 women and 10 men) with CRPS 2 (29.5%). Three subgroups were defined based on thermal thresholds; A (thermal allodynia 22.9%), B (thermal hyposensitivity 37.3%), C (thermal allodynia and hyposensitivity 39.3%). Paroxysmal pain was more prevalent in patients with thermal allodynia (merging group A + C, 25/38–65.8%) compared to patients without thermal allodynia (group B, 5/23–21.7%) (p-value=0.00085).

Conclusions

We suggest that cold allodynia is based on hyper-excitability of very superficial skin nociceptors. The correlation between paroxysmal pain, allodynia to light touch and cold allodynia suggests that activity in those peripheral nociceptors can drive both, paroxysmal pain and spinal sensitization leading to stroke evoked allodynia. Mechanistically, the physical cold stimulus can unmask disease-related hyperexcitability by closure of temperature-sensitive potassium channels or induction of resurgent currents. Small fiber degeneration alone may not be the crucial mechanism in CRPS, nor explain pain.
The Effects of Heat Treatment on Residual Stresses of the Welded Aluminum Hand-Hole Details
Authors: Daneshkhah Ali Reza , Menzemer Craig C.
Published: April 2022

Welded aluminum light poles are slender structures subjected to cyclic loading due to the response to wind. Fatigue behavior of welded details is dependent upon local stresses influenced by loading, geometric features of connections, and residual stresses. Residual stresses may be tensile or compressive, which may develop in the component because of plastic deformation, application of a temperature gradient, structural transformations, or a combination thereof. Welding during assembly and manufacture results in residual stresses due to localized heating and shrinkage restraint during cooling. In the majority of cases, residual stresses are tensile adjacent to welds and influence crack growth kinetics. Fatigue tests of two different sets of light pole specimens were conducted within the Structures Laboratory of the University of Akron: postweld heat-treated (PWHT) and non–postweld heat-treated (NPWHT). Different fatigue resistance was observed between the two specimens. The steeper gradient was observed for the provided design S–N for the NPWHT, which means the NPWHT specimens failed in the shorter lifetime in comparison with PWHT. Heat treatment is a method for increasing the fatigue resistance of the welded aluminum hand-hole details. A complete residual stress measurement was conducted on both PWHT and NPWHT specimens to understand the influence of heat treatment on the residual stresses and on the fatigue resistance. Residual stress measurements around welded reinforced hand-holes using the incremental hole-drilling approach were reduced using power series and integral methods. Tikhonov regularization was employed to improve results. Larger tensile residual stresses were measured in position 3:00 or 9:00 o’clock reference. Compressive and tensile residual stresses usually appear together in residual stress test results. PWHT procedure increased the compressive residual stresses and does not have a significant effect on the tensile residual stresses locked in welded aluminum details. Therefore, PWHT is useful for increasing the fatigue resistance of welded aluminum details.
Seed Science and Technology. Volume 50 Issue 1 (2022)
Authors: Loeffler Tim
Published: April 2022

This issue of Seed Science and Technology includes several papers in which the authors have conducted seed vigour research on species where little to no previous research has been reported. Seed vigour is an important attribute of seed quality and the ISTA Vigour Committee encourages
research in seed vigour on a wide range of species. It is important within seed laboratories and the seed industry to have validated vigour tests that are simple, easy and practical, and are correlated to field performance or seed longevity. A range of seed vigour tests were explored in the
papers of this issue of SST with a focus on the single count radicle emergence (RE) test and / or mean germination time (MGT) for Chinese milk vetch, Festuca sinensis, cucurbit rootstocks and dill, with practical application for each specific crop. A paper using MGT and RE to evaluate
emerging technologies using plasma seed priming treatments for maize is also discussed.
Metodički pristup predikatu u osnovnoj i srednjoj školi
Authors: Gospodnetić Daria
Published: April 2022

Ovaj rad bavi se metodičkim pristupom predikatu. U uvodnom dijelu rada daje se kratki pregled sintakse i gramatičkoga ustrojstva rečenice, no naglasak je na osnovnim gramatičkim obilježjima predikata koji je temeljni rečenični dio. Navode se predikatne kategorije, definiraju se glagolski i imenski predikat te predikatna rečenica. Središnji dio rada bavi se zastupljenošću navedenih sadržaja o predikatu u Kurikulumu za nastavni predmet Hrvatski jezik za osnovnu i srednju školu te u osnovnoškolskim i srednjoškolskim udžbenicima. Uspoređuju se sadržaji Kurikuluma i udžbenika za 7. i 8. razred osnovne škole te 1. i 2. razred srednje škole odnosno gimnazije. Također, daje se kratki pregled sadržaja koji se obrađuju već od 3. razreda osnovne škole do 6. razreda osnovne škole, a ključni su za usvajanje obilježja predikata s obzirom na to da se odnose na glagol koji je nositelj predikata, morfološke kategorije te imenske riječi koje su ključne za razumijevanje strukture imenskoga predikata. Završni dio rada daje prijedlog metodičke obrade predikata u 1. razredu gimnazije. Predikat i vrste predikata potrebno je izvježbati na zanimljivom tekstu koji je zasićen radnjom, stoga se predlaže vic kao tekst lingvometodičkoga predloška, a s obzirom na to da su učenici većinu sadržaja obradili u osnovnoj školi, no ipak se predviđa sat obrade sadržaja, nastavnik se koristi analitičko-eksplikativnim sustavom, stoga heurističkim razgovorom usmjerava učenika da analitički otkriva gramatičke pojave i samostalno izvodi definicije i pravila. Ističe se važnost usvajanja sadržaja o predikatu za razumijevanje gramatičkoga ustrojstva rečenice jer gramatička znanja o rečenici su temelj za razvoj komunikacijskih vještina općenito, ali i sadržaji potrebni za polaganje državnoga ispita iz Hrvatskoga jezika koji označava završetak srednjoškolskoga obrazovanja.
Practice of Phototherapy Application in Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theoretical Excursus
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Tishkova Аlbina S.
Published: April 2022

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the problem of using phototherapy in psychological counselling and psychotherapy. It is noted that in domestic researches, phototherapy is currently one of the most effective and innovative types of art therapy and is widely used in medical, pedagogical, therapeutic and consulting practice of working with clients. The article reveals the goals, types of stages and the functional purpose of phototherapy in psychological counselling. Furthermore, the special place of the psychologist and therapist in working with the client in the practice of phototherapy is noted. A particular place in the article is occupied by the characteristics of fundamental phototherapy techniques used by various foreign and national authors in their work with customers. In conclusion, we presented the main conclusions about the effectiveness of the use of phototherapy in the work of a psychologist and outlined the prospects for further work, which consists in the need to create author's techniques of phototherapy.
Microbial Isolates and their Resistance Patterns at an Indian Teaching Hosptial - A Retrospective Study
Authors: A Poojitha , Gouhar Sultana , Madhavi V Bindu , Gupta N.Hanisha , Siddiqui Qamar U.B , Afzal Mustafa , Ghufran Mohammed A.
Published: April 2022

Rapidly rising antibiotic resistance is a challenge to comprehensive patient care in all branches of medical science. A retrospective observational study was conducted to determine the antimicrobial resistance patterns in a tertiary care hospital for six months. The data was collected from laboratory test reports and patient case files using a structured data collection form. A total of 200 cases having a positive culture report were included in the study.  Of these, 186 cases were identified to have gram-negative infections, and 14 had gram-positive infections. Escherichia coli (E. Coli) (47%) was the predominant isolate among gram-negative organisms, followed by Klebsiella (24.5%), Pseudomonas (7.55%), Enterobacter (6.5%), and Citrobacter (4.5%). All Gram-positive organisms E.coli, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Enterobacter have shown maximum resistance of 92.55%, 95.91%, 93.33%, and 76.92%, respectively, Ampicillin. E.coli has shown the least resistance to carbapenems (7.44%). Klebsiella demonstrated minimum reistance of 10.2% to cefotaxime, cefazolin and levofloxacin. Pseudomonas was completely sensitive to piperacillin-tazobactam. Enterobacter showed least resistance to gentamicin (3.07%) and piperacillin-tazobactam (3.07%). The primary gram-positive isolate, Enterococcus spp. (5.5%) mainly was resistant to ciprofloxacin (90.90%), followed by levofloxacin (81.81%), tetracycline (81.81%), and gentamicin (72.72%). E. coli was the most resistant organism in the present study. The study results would contribute to the development of an antibiogram at the study site.
L’accentuazione e la ri-accentuazione nella lingua, nella scrittura letteraria e nella traduzione
Authors: Petrilli Susan , Ponzio Augusto
Published: April 2022

Intonacija, akcentuacija sono termini ricorrenti nei testi di Michail Bachtin e Valentin N. Vološinov. Ogni enunciazione, ogni testo, ha la sua intonazione e la sua specifica accentuazione. La comprensione non è solo comprensione del contenuto, del significato, ma anche e soprattutto comprensione del testo comprensione del senso, e il senso è dato proprio dalla particolare, specifica intonazione, dalla singolare accentuazione. Ciò non vale soltanto nel parlato, ma anche nella scrittura, dunque nella lettura e anche nella traduzione interlinguistica. È compito del traduttore saper riaccentuare il testo nella lingua d’arrivo così come “risuona” nella lingua di partenza
Role of phytotherapy in the restoration of menstrual function in young women
Authors:   Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine, Skuriatyna N.G.
Published: April 2022

The objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of the algorithm for the treatment of oligomenorrhea at the background of functional hyperprolactinemia in young women. Materials and methods. A comprehensive survey of 45 young women aged 19 to 23 years with menstrual irregularities was conducted. Provoking factors of menstrual function disorders in all women were different psycho-emotional states. Twenty somatically and gynecologically healthy women were entered the control group. Results. The patients received complex non-hormonal therapy, which included sedatives, cyclic vitamin therapy and herbal preparations with dopaminergic effect (Cyclodinone), which suppresses the secretion of prolactin and improves the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian function. The efficacy of the treatment was monitored after 3 and 6 months. Conclusion. As a result of the therapy, the psycho-emotional state of young women stabilized, and the hormonal profile improved, which contributed to the restoration of the menstrual cycle in 75.0% of women. Key words: menstrual dysfunction, functional hyperprolactinemia, phytotherapy.
Remote technology in postgraduate education – an alternative towards reform
Authors:   Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ukraine, Rimarchuk M.I. , Makarchuk O.M. ,   Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ukraine
Published: April 2022

The purpose of the work is to analyze the practical, theoretical and methodical bases of training students for the distant form in the context of reforming the health care system in modern Ukraine. Distance learning as a component of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires a qualitative transformation of the learning environment for learners and other learners in order to achieve their autonomy and ability to critical clinical thinking based on a productive approach that is essential for the formation of professional readiness specialists. By joining the Bologna process, Ukraine has embarked on a global reform of its higher education system, which should raise the status of holders of national diplomas on higher education in the European labor market. To achieve the best results in this direction, based on classical teaching methods, it is necessary to develop new ones – based on the Internet technologies of the XXI century, which are already successfully applied in a number of leading universities of Ukraine. The distance learning form is also called «life-long education» because most of the learners are adults. Have higher education, but because of the need to improve their skills or expand the scope of many, there is a need to quickly and qualitatively acquire new knowledge and skills. Due to the fact that distance technologies in the system of post-graduate education provide the status of listeners as important, democratic, active participants in their own potential, the importance of their internal motivation to improve personal and professional qualities is substantially increased. Internal motivation becomes the basis for the implementation of the professional profile of continuing education of doctors with the aim of correcting their personality-value, professional qualities. Conclusions Because of the need for advanced training or expansion of the field, many need to quickly and qualitatively acquire new knowledge and acquire professional skills. The distance learning form is very popular among the audience because of its economic performance and educational efficiency. The social function of professional mobility is a fundamental factor in ensuring the effectiveness of educational and cognitive activities of health professionals. Key words: distance learning; professional improvement; reforming; health care.
Clinic-anamnestic factors of the risk of hyperplastic diseases an endometrium, mammary glands and their combination at women of perimenopause age
Authors:   I. Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University, Kruk O.Yu.
Published: April 2022

The objective: to improve well-timed diagnostics of hyperplastic diseases the endometrium and mammary glands at women of perimenopause age on the basis of studying of the main clinical risk factors. Materials and methods. Were surveyed 145 patients of perimenopause age, 15 from which (group of control) the women who didn’t have hyperplastic diseases of organs of genesial system (made of the contingent gynecological and mammology healthy). Results. Clinical-anamnestic risk factors of the isolated hyperplastic process an endometrium are: early menarche, long and plentiful menses, inflammatory diseases of genitalias and use of endometrial methods of contraception. Probability of development of the isolated hyperplasia of mammary glands define: the burdened family anamnesis on a cancer of a mammary gland, the menarche, lack of a lactemia or its duration less than 6 months, pyoinflammatory diseases of mammary glands is later. By risk factors of the combined hyperplastic process in mammary glands and an endometrium are defined: the burdened family anamnesis on a cancer of a mammary gland, the menarche, a long becoming of a menstrual cycle (over a year) is later, than a disease of a thyroid gland and cardiac vascular system, numerous abortions. All taped clinical-anamnestic data indicate disturbance of endocrine balance at patients, both with isolated, and with the combined hyperplastic diseases an endometrium and mammary glands. Conclusion. The received results needs to be considered when developing tactics of forecasting and early diagnostics of the combined pathology of uterus and mammary glands at women of perimenopause age. Key words: hyperplastic processes of uterus and mammary glands, risk factors, perimenopause age.
Menopause hormone therapy (Literature review)
Authors:   Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kiev, Romanenko T.H. , Zhaloba G.M. ,   Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kуiv, Ukraine, Yesyp N.V. ,   Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kiev
Published: April 2022

Practitioners in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology get used to look at the women’s health from the point of view of maintaining her reproductive potential and assistance in its fulfillment. Less attention is paid to the problem of reproductive function`s descent. Common changes during the menopausal transition were out of specialists` focus and women were left with no choice but to deal with those problems on their own. Nevertheless, global tendency of population ageing and growing awareness about the importance of professional and cultural activities of these women makes it important to deepen the knowledge of this subject and find out effective therapeutical methods for the liquidation of pathological manifestations of menopausal transition and improving life quality. Menopause hormone therapy received strong evidence to prove its effectiveness. However, specialists often underestimate or overestimate its potential in several clinical cases. Consequently, information about this method, precautions and contraindications should be well known for doctors and explained to their patients. Key words: perimenopause, climacteric syndrome, menopause hormone therapy, urogenital atrophy, osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, venous thromboembolism.
Study to Assess the Variables that Influence the Degree of Mummification and Skeletonization in a modern USA Population
Authors: Jackson-Mitchell C. , Giles S.
Published: April 2022

Taphonomic studies through experimental research at Forensic Anthropological Research Facilities are continuously developing our understanding of soft tissue decomposition in controlled environments. Photographic archives provide an alternative means to study decomposition using associated detailed case notes, environmental variables surrounding the death and (if known) post-mortem interval (PMI). Leccia, Alunni and Quatrehomme (2018) utilized this resource to calculate the total body surface area (TBSA) in bodies with extensive and complete mummification using “the rule of nines,” a method where the body is sectioned into nine anatomical sections to assess TBSA burnt however they did not test this statistically. This article aims to revise their study by implementing the more representative Lund and Browder chart (Yasti et al. 2015) to visually assess all degree of mummification and skeletonization, through a secondary data analysis study using autopsy photographs of 17 cases from Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office, Pittsburgh, between 2007–2016. Principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted on the body section scores to reveal high correlation co-efficients (>0.95) between anatomical sections indicating a high confidence, mummification and/or skeletonization on multiple body parts will co-exist on a decomposed body. PCA of recorded variables revealed that after body position was removed from analysis, the majority of variables had strong values. i.e., those with a numerically large magnitude (.750 to .850, -.767 to -.840). Multiple regression analysis and ANOVA revealed age to be the significant independent variable at 10% significance level. The results of this study have forensic application for crime scene investigators, mummification and skeletonization percentages can be effectively recorded upon examination of a body, whilst also demonstrating variables that have a significant effect on presentation of these two post-mortem changes. Further examination of globally dependant variables affecting modern mummification is encouraged.
New Patterns for Comparative Religion: Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective, by William E. Paden.
Authors: Andrews Corey
Published: April 2022

New Patterns for Comparative Religion: Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective, by William E. Paden. Bloomsbury Academicc, 2017. 264pp., Hb. 135.00. ISBN-13: 9781474252102. Pb. $40.45. ISBN-13: 9781350057890. ePDF 32.36. ISBN-13: 9781474252119.
Violence and New Religious Movements
Authors: Connah Leoni
Published: April 2022

This article revisits the controversies sparked by two new religious movements (NRMs) in the run up to the millennium–?the tragedies that unfolded in Jonestown and Tokyo–?which have forever altered discussions on new religions and violence. This paper explores the impact of pressures both external and internal on The Peoples Temple and Aum Shinrikyo and suggests two new points of focus: perceived pressure and cognitive dissonance. As time progressed, both movements experienced rejection from wider society, leading them to become increasingly world-rejecting (Wallis 1984) and causing dissonance between the teachings of their prophetic leaders and their uncomfortable reality. Actual external pressures such as persecution by social and governmental agencies, as well as the perception of external pressure (the feeling of rejection), strengthened the internal pressures of cognitive dissonance and ultimately to self-destructive violence in such groups. For decades scholars have investigated the impacts of endogenous and exogenous pressures on NRMs, and while this article focuses on events that occurred over twenty years ago, there is still room to explore the dynamic relationship between the perception of pressure and catastrophic violence.
New Thought and the “none-ing” Phenomenon
Authors: Murillo Philippe
Published: April 2022

The concept of secularization, coined in the 1960s, is at the heart of the debate as to whether new religious movements (NRMs), such as New Thought, are part of a possible re-enchantment or re-sacralization process where the “no religion” or “nones” category plays a significant role. In the studies of scholars such as Bryan Wilson, David Martin, Steve Bruce, Rodney Stark or Peter Berger, the theory of secularization has long been disputed to prove either the decline of religion or the extinction of it. Nevertheless, in the last three decades these scholars have agreed on the fact that secularization is no longer an appropriate concept to describe the evolution of religious beliefs within society. According to all specialists and research studies, “nones” are everywhere in the religious landscape (Pew Research Centre 2012), but has this always been the case? To consider this perspective, I will use the example of the New Thought movement, the American metaphysical new religious movement dating back to the early nineteenth century, which has been part of the shaping of national identity, both as a model of pluralism and a part of spiritual and political dynamism. Are New Thought members the archetypes of the “none” population and of the “none-ing” process phenomenon? This question raises the problem of the religious identification process and its importance in the spiritual and religious landscape of the United States and elsewhere across the world. It directly impacts the debate on the sacralization/secularization process by inviting a novel approach to the explanation of the “none” cohort by querying its role and whether we should look to its “liminal” aspect.
Sufism Meets the New Age Discourse Part 2
Authors: Piraino Francesco
Published: April 2022

In the first part of this two-part article it was argued that the New Age could be understood as a discourse instead of a movement, a modality of belief, or a set of doctrines. It identified the key elements of this discourse, stressing the differences from other religious discourses, such as esotericism. In the second part of this article, the conceptualization of the New Age as discourse will be applied to the Sufi order Naqshbandiyya-Haqqaniyya in the Italian context. The main aim is to understand how this Sufi order has been influenced by the New Age, shaping its doctrines, rituals, practices and organizational structures. This article will show that the coexistence between the Islamic tradition and the New Age discourse entails internal tensions and ambivalences, coexistence and tensions that are justified and mitigated by the Naqshbandi millennialism. This article challenges the dichotomous conceptualizations of Islamic/non-Islamic contemporary Sufism influenced by the New Age, stressing both its continuities and discontinuities.
Rick Kilby, Florida’s Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas
Authors: Machado Victoria
Published: April 2022

Rick Kilby, Florida’s Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas (University Press of Florida, 2020,) 227pp., $29.95, ISBN: 9780813066530.
What do students think about their own writing? Insights for teaching new college writers
Authors: Eckstein Grant , Ferris Dana , Sibbald Katherina
Published: April 2022

Students face multiple challenges when transitioning from high school to college writing, with new content, audiences, genres, and task expectations. Psychometric researchers have shown that self-efficacy, competency, and affective factors can help or hinder students during this transition, but little previous research examines what students themselves say about their writing and writing experiences. This study analyses the content of 248 essays from first-year composition writers who discussed their writing identities, processes, products, and journeys. Our findings show differences between writers who view themselves positively and negatively. Instructors can use this information to design meaningful prompts, utilize process writing activities, and engage students in meaningful reflection.
Research conceptualization in doctoral and master’s research writing
Authors: Badenhorst Cecile
Published: April 2022

Research conceptualization is challenging for doctoral and master’s writers, particularly multilingual students engaging in thesis writing or writing for publication. In doctoral and master’s student writing, research conceptualization appears in three genres: problem statements, research proposals and introduction sections or chapters. Swale’s (1990; Feak and Swales, 2011) CARS model is most often used to analyze conceptualization in these genres. While very useful as an analytical tool, the CARS model does not translate well to pedagogy. I argue that Merriam’s (2009) problem/purpose statement and questions (PPS&Q) format provides a flexible and accessible technique to make the process of research conceptualization visible and to help students focus their research throughout the writing process. Navigating problem formulation and gap spotting requires highly complex literacies and Merriam’s method allows students to begin simply and build complexity. While genre visibility provides a way for doctoral and master’s students to access high-level literacies demands, it can also be formulaic and constraining and needs to be taught with critical awareness.
Some Curvature Properties of Normal Paracontact Metric Manifolds
Authors: Yıldırım Ümit , Yıldırım Uygar
Published: April 2022

The object of the present paper is to study curvature properties of a normal paracontact metric manifold with constant sectional curvature satisfying the conditions Z(ξ, X)R = 0, Z(ξ, X)P = 0, Z(ξ, X)Z = 0, Z(ξ,
X)S = 0 and Z(ξ, X)C = 0. According to these cases, we classified normal paracontact metric manifolds, where R is the Riemanniann curvature tensor, C is the quasi-conformal curvature tensor, P is the projective curvature tensor, Z
is the concircular curvature tensor and is the Ricci tensor.
Modelling the Trend of Heart Diseases in Nigeria: Approach of Regression Model
Authors: Nkpordee Lekia , Ibinabo Magnus Ogolo , Lawal Oluwafemi Oluwasegun
Published: April 2022

This study examined modelling the trend of heart diseases in Nigeria using regression model a case study of incidence of Tuberculosis (TB). The accumulated data used for this study was a secondary statistical data extracted from survey information performed in Nigeria on incidence of
Tuberculosis (TB) from the World Development Indicators- World Bank from 2000 to 2021. It was found out that based on p-value and Pearson (rho), there was a strong and positive relationship. The logistic regression model was best fit and was used to make forecast of the trend of the incidence
of tuberculosis in Nigeria. It clearly showed that incidence of tuberculosis cases will be on the decreased within the next 12 months starting from January, 2022 to December, 2022.
A “Construção de Instituições” no Brasil: uma proposta
Authors: GIAMBIAGI FABIO
Published: April 2022

RESUMO Este artigo desenvolve a ideia de “construção institucional”, no caso do Brasil. Demonstra-se a conveniência de ter conselhos com prazos fixos e alternativos, como forma de dar continuidade à administração em alguns segmentos do setor público. Após a privatização de várias empresas, é importante pensar na modernização e fortalecimento das outras empresas que permanecem sob o controle do governo. Com base nesse princípio e nos problemas relacionados à descontinuidade administrativa, são sugeridas algumas propostas de mudanças institucionais.
O quadrante geométrico na situação desencadeadora de aprendizagem sob uma interface entre história e ensino
Authors: Dias Marisa da Silva , Silva Ana Paula Minhano da
Published: April 2022

Resumo: O objetivo da pesquisa a que se refere este artigo é investigar o movimento de conceitos na aprendizagem da matemática, durante uma atividade didática, elaborada com base no contexto histórico do instrumento de medida quadrante geométrico. Fundamentada em uma interface entre a história e ensino de matemática e a Atividade Orientadora de Ensino, o resultado constituiu-se de determinada situação desencadeadora de aprendizagem, como forma de organizar o ensino e a aprendizagem de uma turma de 9o ano do ensino fundamental, capaz de explicitar o processo de significação dos conceitos matemáticos contextualizados no ofício do praticante de matemática do século XVI e outros aspectos da época, como as grandes navegações, os modos de produção material e intelectual, a prática militar e os instrumentos de medida. As ações desenvolvidas permitiram um diálogo entre história e ensino, no movimento dos conceitos matemáticos, como razão, proporção, semelhança de figuras planas, reta oblíqua, figuras geométricas e medida.
IMPORTANCIA DAS PERDIZES (RHYNCHOTUS RUFESCENS) COMO FONTE POTENCIAL DE VÍRUS PATOGÊNICO DA DOENÇA DE NEWCASTLE PARA AVES DOMÉSTICAS
Authors: Paulillo A.C. , Silva G.S. da , Doretto Junior L. , Gama N.M.S.Q. , Nishizawa M. , Schocken-Iturrino F.
Published: April 2022

RESUMO Foram realizados estudos para esclarecimento do real papel exercido pela perdiz (Rhynchotus rufescens), no plano epidemiológico, dentro da perspectiva de fonte de infecção do vírus da doença de Newcastle (VDN). Para tanto, foram empregadas aves SPF ("specificpathogen free") conviventes com perdizes inoculadas com uma estirpe patogênica (velogênica viscerotrópica) do VDN ( DIE50 = 108,15/ 0,1 mL), pela via óculo-nasal. Cada grupo foi constituído por 6 aves SPF e 6 perdizes. Decorridos cinco (grupo 1), 15 (grupo 2) e 30 dias (grupo 3) após inoculação das perdizes com VDN, 6 aves SPF foram alojadas junto a cada grupo de perdizes, havendo contato direto entre as espécies. Decorridos também 5, 15 e 30 dias após o desafio das perdizes com o VDN, foram colhidos suabes de cloaca das perdizes, para o isolamento viral (vírus patogênico) em embriões de galinhas SPF. As perdizes apresentaram-se refratárias à doença clínica com o VDN. Nestas, o isolamento viral ocorreu de 5 até 15 dias após o desafio com o VDN, demonstrando-se assim o estado de portador do VDN da perdiz, passados até 15 dias da infecção experimental com este patógeno. Já 100% das aves SPF conviventes com perdizes infectadas com o VDN, passados agora 5 (grupo 1) e 15 dias (grupo 2), morreram de 4 a 8 dias após o contato direto entre as espécies. Nestas, os sintomas clínicos e lesões sugestivos da enfermidade de Newcastle foram confirmados pelo reisolamento e identificação do VDN, a partir de suabes de traquéia e cloaca. Desse modo, ficou evidente a transmissão de vírus patogênico (VDN) da perdiz, decorridos até 15 dias da infecção experimental com este patógeno, para aves SPF conviventes, o que vem realçar a importância da perdiz (Rhynchotus rufescens), do ponto de vista epidemiológico, como fonte potencial de infecção do VDN para aves domésticas em convívio ou próximas a sua criação.
TAXA DE OVIPOSIÇÃO DOS PREDADORES AMBLYSEIUS ACALYPHUS E AMBLYSEIUS NEOCHIAPENSIS (ACARI: PHYTOSEIIDAE) COM DIFERENTES TIPOS DE ALIMENTO
Authors: Lofego A.C. , Moraes G.J. de
Published: April 2022

RESUMO Visando avaliar o potencial de predação dos ácaros Amblyseius acalyphus Denmark & Muma e Amblyseius neochiapensis Lofego, Moraes & McMurtry como predadores de 2 ácaros fitófagos encontrados em goiabeira, Brevipalpus phoenicis (Geijskes) e Oligonychus psidii Flechtmann, conduziu-se o presente estudo para avaliar os níveis de oviposição daqueles predadores quando alimentados com aqueles ácaros, assim como, para comparação, quando alimentados com Tetranychus urticae Kock e pólen de Typha angustifolia L. Os testes foram realizados em unidades experimentais preparadas com folhas de Psidium guajava L. no caso de A. neochiapensis e folhas de P. guajava e Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck no caso de A. acalyphus. Nos testes sobre folhas de P. guajava, as oviposições médias obtidas para A. acalyphus foram sempre menores que 0,7 ovo por fêmea por dia. Para A. neochiapensis foi obtida a média diária de 1,1 ovo por fêmea alimentada com pólen e 0,7 ovo por fêmea alimentada com B. phoenicis, T. urticae ou O. psidii. Mesmo quando utilizando folhas de C. sinensis, a oviposição de A. acalyphus foi baixa, atingindo no máximo 0,8 ovo por fêmea por dia, quando as fêmeas foram alimentadas com uma combinação pólen + B. phoenicis.
OCORRÊNCIA DE TACHINOBIA SP. (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE) EM PUPAS CHRYSOMYA ALBICEPS (WIEDEMANN) (DIPTERA: CALLIPHORIDAE) NO BRASIL
Authors: Marchiori C.H. , Silva C.G. da
Published: April 2022

RESUMO O objetivo do presente estudo é relatar a primeira ocorrência do parasitóide Tachinobia sp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) em pupas Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Para coleta dos insetos foi utilizado peixe como isca. Obtiveram-se 43 pupas de C. albiceps, sendo que de uma pupa emergiram 30 parasitóides pertencentes à Tachinobia sp. A porcentagem de parasitismo foi de 2,3%.