bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
TreeBASE II RDF
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

One of the potentially powerful features of TreeBASE II is availability of a RDF version of a study. This means that, in principle, one could take the RDF for a TreeBASE study, combine it with RDF from other sources, and generate a richer view of a particular study.
Day 2 on Uncommon Descent: waiting for the axe to fall
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

My comment on Uncommon Descent yielded a single response, from one StephenB, who had two things to say.
Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: the PLoS Reader
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Continuing on from my previous post Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: towards a universal article reader, here are some brief notes on the PLoS iPad app that I've previously been critical of.There are two key things to note about this app. The first is that it uses the page turning metaphor. The article is displayed as a PDF, a page at a time, and the user swipes the page to turn it over.
Wikipedia manuscript
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

I've written up some thoughts on Wikipedia for a short invited review to appear (pending review) in  Organisms, Environment, and Diversity  (ISSN 1439-6092). The manuscript, entitled "Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia of life" is available as a preprint from Nature Precedings (hdl:10101/npre.2010.4242.1). The opening paragraph is:The content will be familiar to readers of this blog, although the essay is perhaps a slightly more sober assessment
Next steps for BioStor: citation matching
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Thinking about next steps for my BioStor project, one thing I keep coming back to is the problem of how to dramatically scale up the task of finding taxonomic literature online.
Weekly sampler 16
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Well, no sampler last week, so here are the answers to the last DNA content quiz.Top row: the beluga whale has a slightly larger genome than the brine shrimp (3.29 vs. 2.91).Second row: the damselfly, in all its beauty and intricacy, sports a genome half the size of that of the woodlouse hunter (1.50 vs. 3.00).Third row: the aardvark needs more than twice as much DNA as the American cockroach (5.87 vs. 2.72). Ah, now that must be due to "degree
Improving the Science blog – The Rogue Scholar service.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: September 2023

Some 13 years ago, I speculated about the longevity of the type of science communication then (and still now) represented by Blogs. I noted one new project called ArchivePress that was looking into providing solutions equivalent to what scientific journals have done for some 350 years of science communication. The link to ArchivePress no longer works, but details of the project can still be found here.
Flipboard and BHL
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Flipboard is a new application for the iPad that is pitching itself as a personalised social magazine. It's launch created a lot of buzz, so much so that many users were unable to add their Facebook and Twitter accounts to it, much to their chagrin.
Linking taxonomic databases to the primary literature: BHL and the Australian Faunal Directory
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Continuing my hobby horse of linking taxonomic databases to digitised literature, I've been working for the last couple of weeks on linking names in the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) to articles in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). AFD is a list of all animals known to occur in Australia, and it provides much of the data for the recently released Atlas of Living Australia.
Web Hooks and OpenURL: the screencast
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Yesterday I posted notes on Web Hooks and OpenURL. That post was written when I was already late (you know, when you say to yourself "yeah, I've got time, it'll just take 5 minutes to finish this..."). The Web Hooks + OpenURL project is still very much a work in progress, but I thought a screen cast would help explain why I think this is going to make my life a lot easier.
Evolution and creation at Calvin College
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Go to An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution to see a two-part series I contributed, on evolution and creation at Calvin.
TreeView and Windows Vista
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Continuing the theme of ancient programs of mine still being used, I've been getting reports that the Windows version of TreeView won't install on Windows Vista and Windows 7. As with NDE, it's the installer that seems to be causing the problem.
Signature in the Cell: Chapter 8
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

It's been a month and a half since my last post in this series, and recently a friend asked me why I stopped.
Weekly sampler 20
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Wow, lots going on lately.1. So, what is a species? The concept is much abused by creationists, so that an already-challenging topic is turned into an abyss of confusion and obfuscation. John Wilkins is a philosopher of science who runs a superb blog over at ScienceBlogs, Evolving Thoughts.
Wiki frustration
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Yesterday I fired off a stream of tweets, starting with:Various people commented on this, either on twitter or in emails, e.g.:So, to clarify, I'm not abandoning wikis. I'm just frustrated with the limitations of Semantic Mediawiki (SMW). Now, SMW is a great piece of software with some cool features.
How the bat got its wing
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting work on the 'Nature of Limbs.' On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is;—that it has so pleased the Creator to construct each animal and plant.
OpenDOI
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Brian de Alwis has written a cool Apple Script called OpenDOI that adds support for resolving doi: and hdl: URLs using Safari on a Mac. With it installed, links such as hdl:10101/npre.2008.1760.1 and doi:10.1093/bib/bbn022 become clickable, without having to stick a HTTP proxy in front of them. Seems that an obvious extension to this would be to add support for LSIDs.
Weekly sampler 18
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

1. A nice new Tangled Bank went up yesterday at The Beagle Project Blog, which is a cool site worth visiting at other times, too.2. Last week saw the unveiling of the Evangelical Manifesto, "an open declaration of who Evangelicals are and what they stand for," which seeks "to rally and to call for reform." The document has sparked some pretty intense discussion among Christians I know.
Mutations, selection, and bacteria
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Several weeks ago, a commenter (Donald) asked an interesting question about natural selection and genetic variation, and I promised to address it because I want the issue to be a theme on QoD in the coming months. Here's Donald:The link below is to a NYT blog where it says that E coli studies have found that there are 100,000 harmful mutations for each single beneficial one.
Hugh Ross' shocking fairy tale
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

“I was to some degree trusting that the vetting process of a reputable book publisher was going to catch this level of duplicity.” But, he added: “Do I wish in retrospect that we had called L.A. child services and tried to run down the history of this person? I certainly do.”That's Tom de Kay, editor of the Home & Garden section of the New York Times.
Why I'm not a Behe fan, Part IIA: the malaria scam
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

In my previous post, I started to explain a fact that some people (who don't know me) seem to find surprising or noteworthy. Michael Behe is a Christian who accepts common ancestry and an ancient cosmos, so you'd think I would be excited about the work of a fellow "theistic evolutionist." But I'm not. Two overall problems come to mind.
Podiumsdiskussion „Wo stehen Verlage sowie Intermediäre auf dem Weg der Open-Access-Transformation?“ (Hybrid)
Authors: Kindling Maxi
Published: September 2023

Wie sich das Gefüge zwischen Verlagen und Bibliotheken durch Open Access verändert
Wait...did you say "eldritch?"
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

It's exciting to live in the era of evolutionary genomics, when new genomes are being published approximately once a week, and the light of genomic analysis is being trained on more and more branches of the tree of life.
Evolution 2010 talk schedule for iCal
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

In a moment of madness brought on by trying to make sense of 10 Mb of conference schedule for Evolution 2010, I extracted the text from the schedule and created a series of crude iCal files that I can add to my iCal calendar on my Mac (and hence sync to my iPhone). This way I can set reminders of specific talks I want to see.I'm making these ical files available here, on the understanding that you can use them entirely at your own risk (some
Linking biodiversity data
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Time for a Friday folly. I've made a clunky screencast showing an example of linking biodiversity data together, using bioGUID as the universal wrapper around various data sources.
Signature in the Cell: Chapter 6
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

The chapter is called "The Origin of Science and the Possibility of Design." It's short, unimportant and uninteresting.
More on the Mendeley API
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

After playing with the public API for Mendeley over the weekend (see Social citations: using Mendeley API to measure citation readership) I've had a quick play with the user specific part of the API.
Why metadata matters
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Quick note to express the frustration I experience sometimes when dealing with taxonomic literature.
TreeBASE II has been released
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

The TreeBASE team have announced that TreeBASE II has been released. I've put part of the announcement on the SSB web site. Given that TreeBASE and I have history, I think it best to keep quiet and see what others think before blogging about it in detail. Plus, there's a lot of new features to explore. Take it for a spin and see what you think.
Uncommon Descent conversation, part 7: the question
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Below is another installment of my comments from two weeks ago on a thread at Uncommon Descent, which I've been re-posting here.As the conversation wound down, I patiently endured the silly suggestion that my expressions of frustration amounted to my "reverting to a culture war mode" (huh??), then asked a question that summarizes one of my main objections to the ID movement: the arguments, all too often, add up to a debasing of "natural" processe
Agenames
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Stumbled across the cool AgeNames service, described on the stratigraphy.net blog. Agenames takes some text and extracts stratigraphic terms from text. For example, it will extract geological time periods from text. It's a geological equivalent of uBio's taxonomic name extraction services. It would be fun to play with this as part of the iPhylo project.
How bad genes can escape the Grim Reaper (and why this is good)
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Last month, PZ Myers wrote an interesting piece at the Panda's Thumb in which he discussed some problems with very simple models of evolutionary genetics.
The Plant List: nice data, shame it's not open
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org/) has been released today, complete with glowing press releases. The list includes some 1,040,426 names. I eagerly looked for the  Download  button, but none is to be found.
Linnaeus meets the Internet: PLoS + Botany = #fail
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

To much fanfare (e.g.,  Nature News  , "Linnaeus meets the Internet" doi:10.1038/news.2010.221), on May 5th  PLoS ONE  published Sandy Knapp's "Four New Vining Species of  Solanum  (Dulcamaroid Clade) from Montane Habitats in Tropical America" doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010502.
Introns. Let's think about this, people. Part I.
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

It's time to talk about introns and function, so at least the ID people and I can agree on what we're disagreeing about. First, though, a little housecleaning. When confronting the avalanche of misinformation on so-called "junk DNA" from intelligent design creationists, it can be hard to know where to start.
Nexus Data Editor running on Mac OS X
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

In an earlier post I expressed my amazement that my venerable Nexus Data Editor (NDE) still had users, meaning I had to rebuild the installer so users could install NDE on Windows Vista. Now, Thomas Hauser has gone one better and created an installer for Mac OS X. Given that NDE is a Windows-only program, this is quite a feat. Thomas uses Mike Kroenenberg's (@k3erg) WineBottler to create a version of NDE that can be run on a Mac.
TreeBASE meets NCBI, again
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Déjà vu is a scary thing. Four years ago I released a mapping between names in TreeBASE and other databases called TBMap (described here: doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-158). Today I find myself releasing yet another mapping, as part of my NCBI to Wikipedia project. By embedding the mapping in a wiki, it can be edited, so the kinds of problems I encountered with TbMap, recounted here, here, and here.
BioLogos and Christian unity. Part I: The cost of artificial unity
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Christian unity is not something to take lightly. Famous biblical proof texts urge us to pursue it. Basic theological commitments establish it as a primary goal of believers. Basic human nature would seem to drive us to seek solidarity with those who share fundamental beliefs.
Of course there's a double standard!
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Bilbo has become a regular commenter here, and he is a very welcome addition. He is a semi-regular contributor to the ID blog Telic Thoughts, and I've had the pleasure of meeting him in person. A layman who is willing to acknowledge his limited understanding of evolutionary science, he's thoughtful and direct.I'll address his comments and questions regarding Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution in a separate post.
Why one should wash thoroughly after visiting Uncommon Descent
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

My foray into the land of Intelligent Design partisans last month was both interesting and frustrating. I was able to explain a little of why I will never embrace the sad, sick movement, and I learned a little more about what's under the hood of that wrecked vehicle.
In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

No one should take advice from this character, I'll grant you. But even King Richard II could see the obvious: Then call them to our presence: face to face, And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear The accuser and the accused freely speak: High-stomach’d are they both, and full of ire, In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.
Bread and circus: Signature in the Cell at Biola (Part III)
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Here I'm continuing my discussion of the

Signature in the Cell

book-signing event at Biola University on 14 May. You'll want to read Parts I and II before reading on. My second question to Steve Meyer was the one question I most wanted to ask him, both out of personal curiosity and because I thought the answer would help demystify many of his claims. The exchange that resulted was memorable – on that, everyone seems to agree.
BioStor one year on: has it been a success?
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

One year ago I released BioStor, which scratched my itch regarding finding articles in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. This anniversary seems to be a good time to think about where next with this project, but also to ask whether it's been successful.
Signature in the Cell: Chapters 4 and 5 - errors and problems
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Meyer's basic idea in chapters 4 and 5 is reasonably coherent. But I find further evidence in both chapters that Meyer is careless and underinformed on the subjects he addresses. (I explained before why I think this matters.
I love that dirty water...
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

...oh, Boston you're my home. Well, it was for five years, if Woburn counts as "Boston." And the lab was at least half my life, so sure, Boston was my home. But anyway, Wednesday through Saturday I'll be at Gordon College, on the North Shore, about 40 minutes from where we used to live, at this Biologos conference. And the point of all this?
Now this is a documentary you don't want to miss!
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

Via John Farrell.
Weekly sampler 10
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: September 2023

The sun came out this week and the temperature soared to almost 50. In Phoenix, such a temperature is called 'cold'; here, it inspired us to have a cookout, though it didn't happen because the snow and ice on the deck precluded access to the blessed Weber kettle. But tomorrow, we're there.And I've been back on my bike this week, dodging cell-phone-wielding buffoons driving alone in SUVs.
JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

I've just discovered Nicolas Garcia Belmonte's JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT). Wow! This is very cool stuff (and no Flash). To quote from the web site:Nicolas also links to a talk by Tamara Munzner, which I've embedded below to remind myself to watch it.
iEvoBio: where to find out what went on
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Now that I'm back in Glasgow, albeit rather jet-lagged, time for a quick summary of the first iEvoBio meeting, held at the Evolution meetings. I thought the meeting went very well, but perhaps I should leave that judgement to others.
TAXACOM indexed by MarkMail
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

MarkMail is a great tool for searching mail archives. Although focussing on software development projects, they are open to requests, so last week I asked if they could index TAXACOM.
Mendeley and Web Hooks
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Quick, poorly thought out idea. I've argued before that Mendeley seems the obvious tool to build a "bibliography of life." It has pretty much all the features we need: nice editing tools, support for DOIs, PubMed identifiers, social networking, etc.But there's one thing it lacks. There's not an easy way to transmit updates from Mendeley to another database.
Show me the trees! Playing with the TreeBASE API
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Being in an unusually constructive mood, I've spent the last couple of days playing with the TreeBASE II API, in an effort to find out how hard it would be to replace TreeBASE's frankly ghastly interface.After some hair pulling and bad language I've got something to work. It's very crude, but gives a glimpse at what can be done.
Mashing up NCBI and Wikipedia using treemaps
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Having made a first stab at mapping NCBI taxa to Wikipedia, I thought it might be fun to see what could be done with it. I've always wanted to get quantum treemaps working (quantum treemaps ensure that the cells in the treemap are all the same size, see my 2006[!] blog post for further description and links). After some fussing I have some code that seems to do the trick.
Zitgist
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Stumbled across Zitgist (via UMBEL), and thought the diagram above was so cool I'd have to blog about it. Zitgist is one of a growing number of Semantic Web companies, specialising in Linked Data. This topic is dear to my heart, so I'll need to keep an eye on what Zitgist and others are up to.
CrossRef adds more information to OpenURL resolver
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Tom Pasley recently drew my attention to CrossRef's addition of a XML format parameter to their OpenURL resolver.
Linked data part 2
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Continuing the Friday folly theme, below is a screencast of a linked data browser that uses the same ideas as last week's screencast, but uses a custom browser I've written to display the results in a more user-friendly way. Linking the data together from Roderic Page on Vimeo.The demo is live, you can view it at http://iphylo.org/~rpage/browser/www/uri/http://bioguid.info/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001787.
BHL and the iPad
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

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Mendeley API PHP client
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

Following on from my earlier post about the Mendeley API, I've bundled up my code for OAuth access to the Mendeley API for anyone who's interested in playing with the API using PHP. You can browse the code on Google Code, or grab a tarball here.
TreeBASE II makes me pull my hair out
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

I've been playing a little with TreeBASE II, and the more I do the more I want to pull my hair out.  Broken URLs  The old TreeBASE had a URL API, which databases such as NCBI made use of. For example, the NCBI page for  Amphibolurus nobbi  has a link to this taxon in TreeBASE.
CouchDB, Mendeley, and what I really want in an iPad article viewer
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

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iEvoBio launches
Authors: Page Roderic
Published: September 2023

This year's Evolution meetings will feature a new satellite conference called iEvoBio.To quote from the website:I'm really excited about this conference, especially the visualisation challenge and the keynote speakers:Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomicsRob Guralnick @robguralThe conference is all about participation, so there is ample opportunity for people to get involved, whether giving contributed talks, lightning talks, software demos, or entering
Алғашқы жазу мәдениеті мен діни ағымдардың пайда болу кезеңдері
Authors: ABZHET Bakyt
Published: September 2023

Автор өз мақаласында ерте дәуірлерде солтүстіктен оңтүстікке қарай көшкен арий, сақ секілді көшпелі тайпалардың тұрмыс-тіршілігі, наным-сенімі мен діни түсініктері және үдере көшу себептеріне талдау жасайды. Жазба мәдениеті мен қала мәдениеті жақсы дамыған көне дәуірлердегі Мысыр, шумер, аккад, бабыл, парсы секілді халықтардың жазба әдебиеті мен діни сенімдерінің ерекшеліктеріне тоқталады. Таяу Шығыстағы диқаншылық пен мал шаруашылығының дамуы мен қала мәдениетінің өркендеуі сол кезеңде көптеген халықтардың бір-бірімен тығыз араласуына, өзара ұғыныса алатын ортақ тілдің келіп шығуына әсер еткендігін, түрлі халықтардың мифтік түсініктері мен діни ұғымдарының араласуы салдарынан көптеген ұқсас персонаждардың пайда болуының сырына үңіле қарайды. Зороастризм секілді алғашқы діннің дүниеге келу себептерін де жазу мәдениеті мен түрлі діни сенімдердің бір орталыққа тоғысуы салдарынан іздейді. Зерттеу барысында антика дәуіріндегі грек ғұламаларының еңбектері мен шығыстану саласында арнайы зерттеулер жүргізген ғалымдардың, сонымен қатар тіл тарихына қатысты шетелдік ғалымдардың еңбектері негізге алынды. Фольклордағы мифтік ұғымдардың шығу төркінін анықтауда теология, тарих, әдебиет, антропология секілді гуманитарлық бағыттағы қолданылатын тарихилық, ұлттық танымдық логикаға қатысты методологиялық зерттеу тәсілдері қолданылды.
Aprovechamiento de plantaciones forestales en Imbabura, Ecuador
Authors: Tituaña Armas Magaly Lisseth , Nicolalde Paredes Leonidas Ulpiano
Published: September 2023

El análisis del aprovechamiento forestal de bosques cultivados (plantaciones forestales) en la provincia de Imbabura consistió en determinar las especies más aprovechadas en función del volumen de madera extraído, los cantones con mayor concentración de plantaciones y la dinámica de aprovechamiento por especie, lo cual permitirá el planteamiento de políticas locales para impulsar la sostenibilidad de la producción forestal en Imbabura, actividad que constituye un importante aporte a la microeconomía de la provincia porque involucra a varios actores dentro de su cadena productiva, directa e indirectamente. El estudio se realizó en la provincia de Imbabura, ubicada al norte de Ecuador. Se analizó información en programas de aprovechamiento forestal entre el año 2015 y 2018, usando datos proporcionados por la Oficina Técnica de Producción Forestal de la Dirección Distrital de Imbabura del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería. Anualmente desde el año 2015 se han aprovechado un promedio de 547 hectáreas, principalmente en los cantones Otavalo e Ibarra. Las especies más demandadas son Eucalipto y Pino. En Imbabura para el aprovechamiento forestal intervienen siete tipos de actores, el 84% de los productores que aprovecharon bosques cultivados, poseen un área de plantación menor a cinco hectáreas. El aprovechamiento forestal desde el año 2010 se ha triplicado en Imbabura, y desde el 2015 a 2018 ha generado aproximadamente tres millones de dólares por concepto de comercialización de madera en pie lo cual indica su aporte e importancia socio económico.
Evaluación de Servicios Ambientales de un Bosque de ceja Andina para la Gestión del Recurso Forestal en Zonas alto Andinas
Authors: Cargua Catagña Franklin , Bonilla Vega Carlos , Beltrán Dávalos Andrés , Lara Vascones Norma , Carrión D Damián
Published: September 2023

El aumento a nivel mundial de programas para compensación de servicios ambientales, son el objetivo del estudio, la presente investigación se enfoca a elaborar una herramienta de gestión para la evaluación intrínseca de los servicios ecosistémicos del bosque (SEB) de ceja andina, en la zona de amortiguamiento del Parque Nacional Sangay; se evaluaron servicios de aprovisionamiento (SA); biomasa (COT), carbono orgánico del suelo (COS), biodiversidad y de regulación(SR) caudal de uso y ecológico; mediante unidades de monitoreo denominado conglomerados(CC), de la zona baja del bosque en el límite de la frontera agrícola; dentro del CC se establecieron parcelas permanentes de monitoreo de (60x60)m, para COT se establecieron subparcelas, mientras que el SR consideró medidas de caudal en reservorios, el aforo en cauces principales y uso agropecuario. SA se obtuvieron valores de COT-140,66 Mg ha-1; el COS se evaluó en áreas intervenidas y no intervenidas a (0-30, 30-60, 60-90) cm de profundidad; mostró la conversión de bosque a pasto, el COS disminuyó y presentó diferencias altamente significativa de 784 (Mg*ha-1) a 556 (Mg ha-1), la biodiversidad establece la dominancia de Miconia sp, Miconia pseudocentrophora y Myrsine andina; los índices de Simpson 0.75; Shannon 1,53 y Margaleff 5.67, determinan una alta diversidad de especies; el SR mostró valores de 0,47m3/s para caudal agropecuario, 0,78m3/s para caudal ecológico y 0.003m3/s para caudal de consumo humano del cual se abastecen 165 usuarios; la relación SA/SR indica procesos de degradación en los SEB, que resulta como indicador para la implementación de políticas de gestión del bosque de ceja andina.
El pensamiento crítico de Sócrates y su vigencia en la filosofía y la pedagogía contemporánea
Authors: Cabezas Quispe Miguel Ángel
Published: September 2023

La presente investigación ttuvo como objetivo analizar el pensamiento crítico de Sócrates para el desarrollo de competencias filosóficas. Plantea abordar el pensamiento crítico de Sócrates y sus aportes a la pedagogía y filosofía contemporánea a partir de una revisión bibliográfica exhaustiva y selección metódica de diversos artículos filosóficos publicados en las bases de científicos Scopus, Dialnet, Scielo, indexados en bases de datos de prestigio mundial. Luego de la revisión bibliográfica y las investigaciones respectivas se concluye que el pensamiento crítico del filósofo y educador de la antigüedad Sócrates están relacionadas con tres ejes principales: el método socrático, las técnicas del método socrático, y los aportes de Sócrates al pensamiento filosófico y pedagógico contemporáneo.
Tendencias de participación ciudadana en los últimos 5 años. Una revisión sistemática.
Authors: Rojas Camacho Jeny Judith , Rodríguez Cruzado Benyta Ivonne , Torres Saravia Jorge Luís
Published: September 2023

Esta revisión sistemática tiene como objetivo analizar las tendencias de participación ciudadana en los últimos 5 años, para comprender cómo las personas se involucran en la toma de decisiones y la vida política de sus comunidades. Se empleó una metodología de revisión sistemática, seleccionando estudios publicados en el período mencionado, provenientes de Scopus (5), Scielo (12), Redalyc (6) y Dialnet (12). Los resultados subrayan la importancia de promover y fortalecer la participación ciudadana en distintos ámbitos de la sociedad y en la toma de decisiones públicas. Se concluye que en la región existe un creciente interés en este tema, especialmente en Ecuador y Perú, donde la sociedad civil está adquiriendo un papel más relevante en el desarrollo democrático. Por otro lado, se identificó que Venezuela y Cuba enfrentan desafíos para fomentar la participación ciudadana debido a restricciones gubernamentales y limitaciones en la libertad de expresión. En conclusión, esta revisión sistemática destaca la importancia de seguir impulsando la participación ciudadana como un pilar fundamental para el fortalecimiento democrático, mientras se señala la necesidad de superar obstáculos en algunos países de la región para lograr una mayor involucración de la ciudadanía en la toma de decisiones políticas.
Participación ciudadana en la gestión pública: Una revisión de la literatura científica
Authors: Guerra Zambrano Yahandra T. , Cruzalegui Guadianos Jorge I. , León Ramírez Segundo V. , García Altamirano Luis A.
Published: September 2023

La participación ciudadana es una de las herramientas más útiles para promover el cambio y el acceso a las decisiones políticas. El objetivo de esta investigación fue realizar una revisión de la literatura publicada en el período 2019-2022 sobre la participación ciudadana en los asuntos públicos. La metodología empleada fue la revisión sistemática de la literatura científica relacionada con la participación ciudadana en los asuntos públicos en las bases de datos Scopus, Web of Sciences, Scielo y Google Scholar. Se aplicó la guía Prisma para la selección de estudios y Strobe para evaluar la calidad editorial y metodológica. En la búsqueda inicial se identificaron 15526 artículos científicos de los cuales se tamizaron 4283 que incluyeron la variable PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA en título o resumen, con base en la aplicación de criterios de inclusión y exclusión se meta-analizaron 24 publicaciones científicas. La mayoría de estudios (87,5%) se publicaron entre los años 2020-2022, principalmente en revistas indexadas en la base de datos Scielo (41,67%), Scopus (33,33%), el 16,67% en Web of Sciences y una menor proporción (12,50%) en Google Scholar. Los resultados de la revisión sistemática permiten concluir que, los orígenes conceptuales de la participación ciudadana se encuentran en el debate más amplio de la teoría democrática. Su conexión práctica con el sistema político surge precisamente de la limitación de la democracia representativa en sus relaciones con los ciudadanos.
ANALISIS PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN PROBLEM POSING DALAM PEMBELAJARAN DI SEKOLAH
Authors: Nuridayanti Nuridayanti , Vitalocca Dyah , Labusab Labusab
Published: September 2023

Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan untuk mengkaji penerapan model Pembelajaran Berbasis Problem Posing dalam konteks pembelajaran di sekolah. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode studi literatur dengan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif untuk menganalisis implementasi model Problem Posing dalam pembelajaran di sekolah. Data dikumpulkan melalui dokumen, dengan pencarian jurnal yang relevan mengenai Problem Posing melalui platform Sinta dan Google Scholar (Google Cendekia) dalam rentang tahun 2018-2022. Kata kunci yang digunakan adalah "model Problem Posing". Berdasarkan pencarian ini, ditemukan 100 jurnal, yang kemudian diseleksi menjadi 22 jurnal sesuai kriteria untuk analisis lebih lanjut. Berdasarkan analisis terhadap 22 jurnal tersebut, diperoleh informasi sebagai berikut: 1) Model Problem Posing umumnya ditemukan dalam bidang ilmu sains dengan persentase penerapan di sekolah sebesar 64%. Sementara itu, dalam bidang ilmu teknik atau kompetensi keahlian, persentase penerapan model ini adalah 18%. Bidang ilmu bahasa memiliki persentase 9%, sementara ilmu sosial dan ilmu agama masing-masing memiliki persentase 5%. Dalam konteks bidang studi yang lebih spesifik, model pembelajaran Problem Posing paling sering diterapkan dalam bidang matematika, dengan persentase sebesar 36% dari total jurnal yang dianalisis. 2) Implementasi model problem posing memberikan dampak positif terhadap peserta didik; 3) Dampak dari penggunaan model pembelajaran Problem Posing positif yaitu dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar peserta didik, mengembangkan kemampuan dalam memecahkan masalah, meningkatkan minat belajar, mendorong motivasi belajar serta mengembangkan kemampuan berpikir kritis peserta didik.
Retail Business Model Change in Digital Transformation: A Case Study of Retail Supermarkets in Vietnam
Authors: Dang Van My
Published: September 2023

With an increasing level of digitalization in the retail sector, retail businesses are in the process of adapting their business models to the new digital era. E-commerce and other digital tools have transformed the retail industry. The study aims to investigate the impact of digital transformation on the business model of retail supermarkets. Based on approaching business model theories and applying them to the actual analysis of retail supermarkets, through investigating the impact of digital transformation on the business model of retail supermarkets available on the Vietnamese market, future business models are proposed for retail supermarkets. The study results improve the understanding of retail business model transformation following digital transformation, presenting new research related to the impact of digital transformation on retail businesses or companies’ business models. This study also contributes to how business models can be used as a unit of analysis when investigating changing business models.
Prediction of Uric Acid on Renal Function among Adolescents: A Ten-Year Analysis
Authors: Lin Li-Chiu , Lee Huan-Fang , Liu Nai-Ying , Hung Hsuan-Man
Published: September 2023

Aims: The prevalence of hyperuricemia in adolescents is increasing with each passing year. During adolescence, hyperuricemia tends to develop into adult hyperuricemia and affects renal function. The study aims to explore the relationship between hyperuricemia values and renal function and examine predictors affecting renal function risk factors among senior high school students.

Methods: The retrospective study adopted 2011–2019 health examination database of 6597 male freshmen. The Chi-squared test, t-test, ROC curve, and logistic regression were used for analysis to find out the best cut-off points of hyperuricemia for male adolescents.

Results: The best cut-off values of uric acid were 6.5 mg/dL among male adolescents and the prevalence of hyperuricemia is 55.2% in male adolescents. Uric acid was the critical predictor of renal function and the risk of a worse eGFR (<90) in the uric acid >6.5 group was increased by 2.51 times compared with the < 6.5 group.

Conclusions: The school administrators should pay attention to the diet and body size of male adolescents and prevent obesity and diets that lead to hyperuricemia to promote health in adolescents. Adolescents with uric acid >6.5 mg/mL can be followed up if uric acid has different effects on renal function.
Abnormal ECG Findings of Known Type 2 Diabetics Attending the Endocrinology Clinic at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa
Authors: Edward R.B. , Ojeka S.O. , Zabbey V.Z. , Adjugah J.U.
Published: September 2023

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease with life-threatening micro- and macro-vascular complications with cardiovascular complications being the major cause of death among those with type 2 diabetes. The study was aimed at evaluating the abnormal electrocardiographic changes associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus among diabetic patients attending the endocrinology clinic in FMC Yenagoa during the study period. The study made use of 162 apparently healthy individuals and 300 diabetic patients. Interviewer-administered questionnaire, 12-lead ECG and fasting blood sugar were the study tools. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired sample T-test and Pearson Product Moment correlation. The results revealed that the ECG abnormalities associated with type 2-DM were abnormal axis, widened QRS duration, elevated and depressed ST-segment and LVH. Again, age, gender, BMI, smoking and FSB were the risk factors found to be associated with cardiac abnormalities. A close and regular monitoring of the FBS, BP and ECG were therefore recommended for diabetic patients.
The Effectiveness of Multiple Representation Electronic Book Design in Improving Critical Thinking Skills and Creative Thinking Skills of High School Students
Authors: Awaly Muhammad Azka , Sinaga Parlindungan , Hasanah Lilik
Published: September 2023

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of multiple representation electronic books developed in improving critical and creative thinking skills of high school students. The research method is development research (R&D) with the ADDIE model, effectiveness testing is carried out at the implementation stage with a pretest-posttest control group design. The critical thinking skills test instrument is in the form of multiple-choice questions and creative in the form of essay questions. The data analysis technique uses descriptive statistics. The test sample consisted of 60 students of class XI divided into the experimental group and the control group. The results showed that the N-gain value for the critical thinking skills of the experimental group was 0.62 and the control group was 0.35, the experimental group's creative thinking skills were 0.66 and the control group was 0.33. The statistical test results obtained that there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group. The effectiveness of the e-book is categorized as having a large effect, the effect size of critical thinking skills is 1.438 and creative is 2.219. Student responses to the developed e-book were positive, where almost all students agreed with the statements presented.
Enhanced Oil Recovery in a Selected UAE’s Tight Carbonate Reservoir by Flooding of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and High Saline Water
Authors: Lwisa Essa Georges
Published: September 2023

Enhanced oil recovery has become an essential process in oil production due to the large amount of oil that could not be produced by the primary and secondary oil recovery techniques and the increasing demand for oil. The main purpose of the enhanced oil recovery process is to transfer oil in the production wells by the flooding of different fluids to increase the natural energy present in the reservoir and alter the properties of reservoir’s properties such as interfacial tension, rock wettability, oil and water viscosity, pH.

Enhanced oil recovery may be divided into the following categories: Thermal methods, Miscible flooding, Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR), Foam flooding, Gas injection, Plasma-pulse, and Chemical enhanced oil recovery.

A process in which one or more pre-selected chemicals are mixed with water or brine and then flooded into the reservoir to increase the oil recovery factor further than water flooding levels is called chemical enhanced oil recovery (Chemical EOR).

In this research the usage of sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) had been studied as a surfactant to enhance the oil recovery in one of the United Arab Emirates tight carbonate reservoirs. SLS was mixed with various brines to optimize the brine concentration and SLS concentration in brine. Core rock samples were taken from a tight carbonate reservoir in United Arab Emirates, whereas Bu Hassa crude oil used to perform the flooding, IFT, and AMOTT experiments.

It was found that (SLS) has a significant effect on the interfacial tension between crude oil and all types of brine used in this research, especially on the high saline formation brines, where the residual oil saturation was at the minimum. Hence using the proposed technique will save time, money, and the environment.
Corporate Governance Characteristics and Financial Reporting Disclosures of Listed Industrial Goods Firms in Nigeria
Authors: Suleiman Mamman , Usman Musa Musa
Published: September 2023

This study examined the impact of corporate governance attributes on financial reporting disclosure in listed industrial goods firms operating in Nigeria. The study spanned nine years, from 2013 to 2021, and utilized data extracted from the firms' annual reports and accounts. Generalized Method of Moment was employed, which has a technique of data analysis. The study revealed that board non-executive directors had a positive but insignificant effect on financial reporting disclosure, while board remuneration had a negative and significant effect. The study further revealed that audit committee expertise and institutional ownership have a positive and significant effect on financial reporting disclosure. However, audit tenure had a negative significant effect on financial reporting disclosure. The study's findings suggest that corporate governance attributes have a significant impact on financial reporting disclosure and that policymakers, regulatory bodies, and companies should prioritize certain attributes towards improving financial reporting practices. In particular, the study recommended that the industrial goods firms in Nigeria should ensure that they have audit committees comprising members with relevant financial expertise. By doing so, companies can improve the accuracy of their financial reporting and improve transparency, which in turn can increase investor confidence and support decision-making.
Ethnic Related Challenges and Coping Strategies of Couples in Intercultural Marriages in Elmina
Authors: Sappor Cynthia Sena Abena , Affum Prince Kwame
Published: September 2023

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to identify potential ethnic-related challenges in intercultural marriages and uncover some of the coping strategies applied by couples to cope with these challenges and it was based on the double ABCX model of stress and coping. Twenty (20) intercultural couples were interviewed individually and data was analyzed using the QSRNVIVO 9 computer software. Results revealed that the intercultural couples studied had common ethnic-related challenges such as: family disapproval, language and communication barriers, cultural norms, raising children and cultural traditions. Coping strategies included humor, seeking professional help, social support networks, supportive communication, binding daily chores and care and loving actions. It was revealed that these couples were committed to their marriage and each other and they believed that they could overcome whatever challenge that may come their way. This study recommends among other things that counselors should use culture as a lens to explore the differences and opportunities in intercultural marriages needed to create stability and balance in their homes.
Exploring Bali, China, and India Culture as a Model of Triadic Cultural Acculturation Tourism Product in Bali
Authors: Sendra I Made , Widyatmaja I Gusti Ngurah , Kristianto Yohanes
Published: September 2023

The characteristic of cultural landscape of Bali has acculturation elements coming from three great cultural roots, such as India culture, Chinese culture and Java Hindu-Buddhism culture. This acculturation element has become a tourist attraction at some tourism villages in Bali, such as the Pinge village in Tabanan regency, Catur village and Bayung Gede village in Bangli regency. These tourism attractions will become the model of triadic tourism based on the philosophy of cultural tourism in Bali. This article explores the acculturation of cultural genetical elements which become soft power diplomacy tourism.

This research uses the theory of Commodification of the Past from G.J. Asworth supported by the concept of semiotic from Pierce. The research method is descriptive qualitative. The technique of data collection is observation, documentation, in-depth interview with tourism stakeholder consisting of the local community in the three villages, the government, the academicians, media, and businessman as well.

The finding of this research is a model of Triadic Tourism which is based on the acculturation of cultural genetical elements among Bali-India, Bali-China, and India-China. The similarities of cultural genetical elements can produce diplomacy tourism product which can create emotional attachment, place attachment, and social bond between tourist generating region (TGR) and tourist destination region (TDR). Diplomacy tourism can be used as a tourist attraction to capture the market share for special interest tourism (SIT) in Bali.
Automanejo del paciente diabético que acude al consultorio de endocrinología de la Clínica Versalles Comas octubre 2019
Authors:   , Rodriguez Mattos Leslie Esthefany
Published: September 2023

Introducción: el automanejo adecuado del paciente diabético evita las complicaciones, les permite ser autónomos con sus decisiones sobre el manejo de sus síntomas, adherencia al tratamiento y cambios de estilos de vida. Objetivo: Determinar el automanejo del paciente diabético que acude al consultorio de endocrinología Comas, octubre 2019. Metodología: estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo, de corte transversal, muestra censal 50 participantes. Resultados: La presente investigación se realizó en los consultorios de endocrinología de la Clínica Versalles obteniendo como resultado en 48% tienen entre 41 a 50 años de edad, 64% son de sexo femenino, 50% estado civil casados, 48% tiempo de enfermedad entre 6 a 10 años. Los pacientes que acuden al consultorio de endocrinología en 70% realizan un automanejo medio, 20% malo, 10% alto. El 50% de los pacientes que acuden al consultorio tienen un automanejo medio en la dimensión conocimiento, 30% es alto, 20% bajo. En la dimensión adherencia al tratamiento el 80% tienen un automanejo medio, 10% es alto,10% es bajo.