bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Long-term forecast of changes in soil erosion losses during spring snowmelt caused by climate within the plain part of Ukraine
Authors: Svetlitchnyi Oleksandr A.
Published: October 2020

The paper deals with the forecast of changes in erosion soil losses during the spring snowmelt due to climate change in the regions of Ukraine in the middle of the 21st century (during 2031–2050) and at its end (during 2081–2100) compared with the values of the baseline period (1961–1990). The forecast is based on the use of the so-called “hydrometeorological factor of spring soil loss”. This factor is a part of the physical-statistical mathematical model of soil erosion lossduring spring snowmelt, developed at the Department of Physical Geography of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov State (since 2000 — National) University during the 1980s – 1990s. The long-term average value of the hydrometeorological factor is linearly related to the long-term average value of spring erosion soil loss. Therefore, the relative change in the hydrometeorological factor corresponds to the relative change in soil erosion losses. The developed methodology for assessing climate-induced changes in soil erosion losses in five regions of Ukraine (North, West, Center, East and South) takes into account the change in water equivalent of snow cover at the beginning of snow melting, the change in surface runoff and its turbidity, and changes in soil erodibility. The forecast of changes in erosion soil loss was carried out using projections of annual and monthly average air temperatures and precipitation for 2031–2050 and 2081–2100 in accordance with scenario A1B from AR4 of the IPCC. As a result of the research, it was found that both in the middle and at the end of the 21st century a decrease in the rate of soil erosion during the period of spring snowmelt is expected. During 2031–2050, the expected soil losses will be less than corresponding baseline period values within the West region by 79%, within the North and East regions by 81%, and within the Center region by 85%. In the South region, the spring soil losses will be zero due to the lack of snow cover. During 2081–2100 snow cover will be absent not only in the South region, but also in the Center and East regions. In the regions North and West snow cover will remain, but the spring soil erosion losses will decrease by dozens of times and will be so small that they can also be ignored.
Changes in the growth and antioxidant enzyme activity of seedlings originating from wheat seeds subjected to accelerated ageing test
Authors: Chipilski R. , Kyosev B. , Cholakova R.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. The objective of this study was to investigate the reaction processes of seedlings originating from wheat seeds after they were subjected to accelerated ageing, which imitated low-temperature storage. Germination, vigor, morphological characteristics, relative chlorophyll content and antioxidant enzyme activity were measured in seedlings and young plants of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) after processes of accelerated ageing of the seeds. The ageing procedures of the seeds were done according to the standard conditions (40±0.5°C and 100% air relative humidity) of the International Seed Testing Association for 72 and 120 hours of treatments of the Bulgarian varieties Geya-1 and Sadovo 772. For the control were used seeds, which were not subjected to the accelerated ageing conditions. The coleoptile of 5 days seedlings and second leaf of 10 and 15 days plants in seedling stage, following the seed accelerated ageing procedure, was measured in the laboratory and the greenhouse. The seed germination rate and vigor, fresh and dry weight of growing coleoptiles were inhibited after different periods of ageing exposure and well correlated with increased accumulation of total hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde content, guaiacol peroxidase activity and rate of cells membrane stability index. The negative changes of chlorophyll content index, fresh and dry weight and leaf area of the leaves of young plants descending from aged seeds sowed in pots were found. It was established that the modern variety Geya-1 was more tolerant to the applied ageing condition than the older Sadovo 772. In conclusion, we considered that accelerated ageing could be used as a model for estimation of seed deterioration in wheat after long-term storage.
Effect of multienzymes + probiotic supplementation in fermented shea butter cake based diets on the carcass traits and the biochemistry of broiler chickens
Authors: Aguihe P.C. , Kehinde A.S. , Halidu S.K. , Sulyman A. , Chikezie J. , Joshua D.A. , Ilaboya I.I. , Samuel K.U.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of multienzyme+probiotic (MEP) supplementation on carcass characteristics and serum biochemistry of broiler chickens fed fermented shea butter cake meal (FSBCM) based diets. A total of two hundred and sixty (260), 28-day-old broiler chicks were distributed into four treatments, with five replicates of 13 birds each using a completely randomized design and reared on deep litter system from 28 to 56 days of age. The four treatments were: positive control – T1 (corn-soybean based diet); negative control – T2 (20% FSBCM replacement for corn in T1); diet 3 – T3 (T2 diet + 0.05% MEP) and diet 4 – T4 (T2 diet + 0.10% MEP). On day 56, two birds per each pen were selected for carcass and organ evaluation and other two birds per replicate were selected for serum biochemical analysis. The results indicated that addition of MEP to FSBCM diet caused a significant (p<0.05) increase in live weight, dressing percentage and breast meat yield than FSBCM diet without MEP and did not differ from the T1 diet. The abdominal fat in birds fed MEP treated diets were significantly (p<0.05) lower than those groups fed PC and FSBCM diets. Serum glucose was similar (p>0.05) between birds fed PC and MEP treated diets but significantly (p<0.05) higher than those on FSBCM diet, whereas serum cholesterol, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase concentrations reduced significantly (p<0.05) in groups fed MEP supplemented FSBCM diets. All other parameters were not significantly (p>0.05) affected by the MEP supplementation. Therefore, MEP supplementation in FSBCM based diet improved live weights and carcass attributes without any detrimental effect on blood composition of the broiler chickens.
Study on the biology of groundnut bruchid, Caryedon serratus Olivier [Coleoptera: Bruchidae] on stored groundnut in Ganye area, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Authors: Oaya C.S.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. Study on the biology of groundnut bruchid, Caryedon serratus Olivier was carried out in the Laboratory of the Department of Agricultural Technology, Adamawa State College of Agriculture, Ganye, Adamawa State from June to September, 2015. The sex of the bruchid (male and female) was assigned the sub-treatment while the period of development was the main treatment and was replicated three times. The work considered the pre-oviposition stage, incubation stage, larval stage, pupal stage, adult stage and the total life cycle of the bruchid (male and female). The experiment was carried out under Laboratory conditions at 30-35°C temperature and 70-90% relative humidity. After the experiment was established, weekly counting of the total number of eggs laid was carried out at intervals. The results showed that, the mean developmental stages in both female and male bruchids were: 6.50 and 6.00 days; 17.00 and 18.00 days; 13.50 and 13.50 days; 12.00 and 13.50 days; 48.00 and 50.00 days for incubation stage, larval stage, pupal stage, adult stage and total life cycle of the bruchids, respectively. Moreover, the mean pre-oviposition and oviposition stages in female adult bruchid were 1.50 and 5.50 days, respectively.
Preliminary assessment of selected sweet cherry hybrids regarding their resistance to black cherry aphid (Myzus cerasi Fabr.) in Bulgaria
Authors: Stefanova D. , Malchev S.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. One of the main insect pests of the cherry trees in Bulgaria is Myzus cerasi (Homoptera, Aphididae). The black cherry aphids occur annually in orchards and cause yield loss or degraded quality. In 2018 and 2019, resistance to Myzus cerasi was assessed on 11 selected sweet cherry genotypes in a breeding orchard at the Fruit Growing Institute – Plovdiv. Susceptibility to aphid infestation was assessed through inspection of 100 leaf rosettes from individual tree hybrids. Some of the studied genotypes 6-132, 6-132 (1), 6-131, and 6-131 (1) were not infested by black cherry aphids in the two years of this research. Aphid colonies were observed on all other studied trees from the selected hybrids. The study is still ongoing.
Virtual Reality of Modern Socio-Economic Transformations: Conceptual Bases and Theoretical Foundations
Authors: Brizhak Olga , Novikov Vladimir
Published: October 2020

Dynamic and deep socio-economic transformations at the present stage of the development of social and economic life even more accentuate the attention of researchers and practitioners on the concentration of reflected forms that characterize their virtual nature. The superstructure of virtual forms, complementing the real basis of the economic system, transforms it in a similar way. Virtual signs, products, images form many-sided images, reproducing the mental activity of a person endlessly. Rapid flows of information are increasing, financial derivatives and currency transactions are multiplying, specific services are carried out that do not have a subjectobject basis and form virtual reality, reflecting and multiplying. The article shows that behind the movement of reflected forms there is a certain essence containing past and future scenarios of the formation of a new way of organizing economic activity of people, designated in a number of works as “knowledge economy”. For effective management of such economy the system quality of communications in all spheres of social and economic processes and the phenomena at the present stage is important. The authors investigate the structural elements of virtual reality and their characteristics; consider synonymous categories denoting the interaction of socio-economic systems in the network space. The article demonstrates theoretical and methodological approaches that reveal the essence, nature and content of the “virtual economy” and “virtual reality” in the conditions of modern socioeconomic transformations. The article uses the resources of knowledge economy, political economy, evolutionary and post-industrial methodology.
Role of Relationship Marketing in Promoting Smart Technologies in the Housing and Utilities Market
Authors: Fedorova Svetlana
Published: October 2020

The purpose of the study is to determine the criteria for segmentation of consumers of housing and communal services and build a model of their needs as a basis for the formation of marketing relationships for the management organization in order to increase the effectiveness of the introduction of smart technologies in the housing and communal services market. The introduction of smart technologies in the sphere of housing and communal services directly depends on the development of the relationship marketing as a technology for coordinating interests of all stakeholders in the market under consideration. In relation to the market of housing and communal services (HCS), the relationship marketing has been studied very little, which is due to the weak development of the categorical and methodological apparatus of the concept itself, as well as the complexity and multidimensionality of the subject-object structure of the housing and communal services market as an object of research. The housing and utilities market is a complex system that includes two clusters: the utility and housing segments which differ in service parameters, market types, and the composition of market entities. The article analyzes key barriers to the introduction of smart technologies in the market of housing and communal services. Besides, the segmentation of consumers is carried out; a model of the hierarchy of needs of consumers of housing and communal services is proposed; the relationship between the needs and the selection of specific smart technologies for managing an apartment building is revealed.
Directions of the Reproduction Process Transformation in Modern Russian Economy
Authors: Tsikin Alexey
Published: October 2020

The article is devoted to the analysis of the modern aspects of the reproduction process transformation in the context of the development of Russian economy. To achieve this goal, the work analyzes the transformation of the stages of social reproduction, as well as evaluates its impact on the relevant process scheme. It has been established that today each stage is undergoing significant changes, in particular, production methods and manufactured products are improved, the distribution of resources between sectors of economy is changing, exchange processes are expanding, and goals and methods of consumption are transformed. Among the features of modern reproduction models, the growth of the non-material sphere due to the development of the service market and their integration with material production, the implementation of the reproduction of a social product based on innovative production and Schumpeter competition, the establishment of human capital being a source of innovation as the basis of the reproduction process, should be noted. The current level of the development of Russian economy and promising requirements for the reproduction process in the neo-industrial model lead to the need to separate the stage of institutional and technological design of the product life cycle and to include a separate phase of scientific training in the traditional chain of stages of the social reproduction process. The results of the work can be used as a supplement to modern neoclassical theories and re-actualized political and economic methodologies.
Evolution of the Development of the Public Sector of Economy: Domestic and Foreign Experience
Authors: Kurchenkov Vladimir , Makarenko Olga
Published: October 2020

The article examines the process of the formation and development of the public sector of Russian economy in the historical retrospective. The main stages of the systemic transformation of the elements of the public sector in certain historical conditions are highlighted. The features of the formation of a corporate model of the public sector at the present stage of the evolution of Russian economy are determined in the article. The authors pay attention to the substantiation of the growing role of state corporations in the structure of the state sector. Along with the study of evolutionary processes in the public sector of Russian economy, the article examines the foreign experience of leading countries in this aspect. Specifically, the features of the evolutionary transformation of the public sector in countries such as Austria, France, Germany, Greece, etc. are considered by the authors. In the recent history of Russia, three main stages of the systemic evolution of the public sector are identified: formation (1991–2007), transformation into a corporate structure (2007–2014), stabilization (2014–2019). The article explores the characteristics of each stage. The research results can be used in the development of the theory of the public sector, determination of the features of its evolutionary transformation, as well as in practical sense, in the development of concepts and strategies for the growth of public corporations in the long term, increasing the efficiency of leading public sector enterprises, as well as their competitiveness in global competition.
Methodological Tools for Assessing the Level of Stability of the Regions of the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts of Russia
Authors: Arzumanyan Misak
Published: October 2020

Thanks to the main political documents adopted at the UN world summit on the environment and development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the development of the sustainable development system in Russia has been intensified. In the Russian Federation, the transition to sustainable development continues through the logical transformation of traditional systems into capitalist ones. In view of the variety of differences in the socio-economic development of regions differentiated by federal districts, it becomes relevant to develop methods for determining (evaluating) the levels of stability of territorial entities. Many researchers usually group sustainability criteria (indicators) in the context of economic, social and environmental components. The purpose of the article is to determine the level of stability of the regions of the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts of Russia by quantifying their potential. The article uses mathematical methods to quantify the components of regional stability (potential) based on five factors of stability: economic, political, environmental, social and institutional. The criteria for determining the levels of regional stability are established. The most stable regions (subjects) of the Southern and North Caucasus Federal districts of Russia – Rostov and Volgograd regions, Krasnodar and Stavropol krais – have been identified. The results of the study contribute to the development of methods for assessing the sustainable development of a region.
Targeting the TGFβ pathway in uterine carcinosarcoma
Authors: Dwivedi Shailendra Kumar Dhar , Rao Geeta , Dey Anindya , Buechel Megan , Zhang Yushan , Zhang Min , Yang Da , Mukherjee Priyabrata , Bhattacharya Resham
Published: October 2020

Uterine carcinosarcoma (UCS) is a relatively infrequent, but extremely aggressive endometrial malignancy. Although surgery and chemotherapy have improved outcomes, overall survival (OS) remains dismal due to the lack of targeted therapy and biphasic (epithelial and mesenchymal) nature that renders the tumor aggressive and difficult to manage. Here we report a role of transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) in maintaining epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) phenotype and aggressiveness in UCS. Using a 3D-culture system, we evaluated the efficacy of the transforming growth factor-β receptor-I (TGFβR1) kinase inhibitor Galunisertib (GLT), alone and in combination with standard chemotherapeutic drugs used for the management of UCS. We demonstrate that GLT by inhibiting canonical and non-canonical signaling emanating from transforming growth factor-β1 (TGFβ1) reduces cellular viability, invasion, clonal growth and differentiation. Interestingly, GLT sensitizes UCS cells to chemotherapy both in vitro and in in vivo preclinical tumor model. Hence, targeting TGFβ signaling, in combination with standard chemotherapy, may be exploited as an important strategy to manage the clinically challenging UCS.
New pathways for the synthesis of indolyl-containing quinazoline trifluoroacetohydrazides
Authors: Azev Yu. A. , Koptyaeva O. S. , Eltsov O. S. , Yakovleva Yu. A. , Pospelova T. A.
Published: October 2020

The reactions of indole-3-carbaldehyde arylhydrazones with quinazoline in TFA proceed at the 7' position of the aryl part of the hydrazone molecule to form σ-adducts of quinazoline trifluoroacetohydrazides.
Creating learning problems in subjects and modules of the Psychology Course: A methodological proposal
Authors: Maximino Caio
Published: October 2020

A utilização de problemas de aprendizagem é uma estratégia de ensino-aprendizagem ativa largamente utilizada em métodos e currículos diversos, do estudo de caso à aprendizagem baseada em problemas. Ao usar problemas como estímulo à atividade, o/a professor/a incentiva a aprendizagem autodirigida, o desenvolvimento de aspectos metacognitivos fundamentais, a aquisição de habilidades de resolução de problemas, e o interesse intrínseco. Descrevo um método para criar problemas em cursos de graduação em Psicologia, com base em experiências prévias em disciplinas de caráter biomédico (p. ex., Anatomofisiologia Aplicada à Psicologia) e de caráter mais crítico (p. ex., disciplinas relacionadas à saúde mental e à psicopatologia). O método parte da integração dos elementos da ementa da disciplina para movimentar perguntas geradoras de uma árvore temática. Proponho ainda a aplicação de métodos baseados na teoria da atividade para avaliar e calibrar o problema. O método proposto pode beneficiar tanto currículos integrados quanto disciplinas mais isoladas.
Words Stare like a Glass Eye: From Literary to Visual to Disability Studies and Back Again
Authors: Siebers Tobin
Published: October 2020

The students of the present generation are the first in a long time who will not take their cultural identities from books. Statistics reveal that film, museum, concert, and sports attendances are up but that fewer and fewer people are reading books. Those strange moments in nineteenth-century novels when young heroes strike poses, dress, coif, and woo by the book are gone, perhaps forever. Our students are more likely to take their models from television, films, glossy magazines, video games, or the Abercrombie and Fitch catalog. My colleagues in the profession report that, thanks to the expansion of visual culture, students now possess an enviable talent for decoding images, often to the detriment of reading ability. To be frank, I am not so convinced: in my experience, the most literate students continue to be the best readers of images. But I agree that we are in the midst of an unprecedented explosion of visuality. A new era has dawned, and we are not prepared for it. We need to change our teaching and scholarship to keep up with our students.
Boccaccio: The Genealogies of Myth
Authors: Hyde Thomas
Published: October 2020

Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum has endured for reasons quite apart from its usefulness as a reference book. Its genealogies dismember myths as narratives and do little to facilitate reference, but they enact the mingled senses of hope, frustration, and bad faith that characterize early humanist efforts. The extinction of myth both justifies and blocks Boccaccio's quest to restore the genealogy of the old gods in order to revive and legitimize the line of poets. He can safely undertake this quest only if assured of failure. Even then it may not be safe to play Aesculapius to the dismembered corpus of ancient myth. Similar paradoxes emerge from analogies with the Bible and its genealogical mode of history. Finally, the Genealogy's structure imitates the dilemma of the modern poet who, inheriting no authority for his fictions from great antique originals, must press his claim to legitimacy, make it good, perhaps make it up.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Authors: Clegg Cyndia Susan
Published: October 2020

The association's ninety-seventh convention will he held 5–7 November 1999 at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, under the sponsorship of the dean of Letters and Sciences and the Departments of English and Languages and Literatures. Inger Olsen is serving as local chair. The program will represent the association members' diverse interests in all matters of language and literature in classical, Western, and non-Western languages. The thirty-one general sessions will include papers on classical, Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian, English, American, and Asian literatures, as well as on linguistics, rhetoric, gay and lesbian literature, film, matrilineal culture, autobiography, poetry and poetics, and critical theory. Among the thirty special sessions are sessions on picaresque literature, Shakespeare and popular literature, Native American literature, Russian literature, Slavic literature, Toni Morrison in the 1990s, Caribbean literature, and cybertextbooks in foreign language education. Several special sessions have been organized by Portland State University and PAMLA affiliate organizations Women in French, MELUS, and the Milton Society of America. Registration at the conference will be $35 and $25. All paper sessions are scheduled for classrooms at Portland State University and will begin Friday at 1:00 p.m. and end Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Selected Papers from the MLA Convention: Early American Cinema and Politics
Authors: Auerbach Jonathan
Published: October 2020

Abstract of “McKinley at Home” This paper examined early American cinema's role as a “visual newspaper” to assess the emerging medium's influence on the formation of a national public sphere. Focusing on early moving images of William McKinley, particularly a brief 1896 “front porch” campaign film showing the presidential candidate on his front lawn reading a telegram, I demonstrated how this recently introduced visual technology could be deployed to dislocate time and space for pointed political effect. This effect depended on how McKinley was depicted on-screen “at home” (simultaneously in Canton, Ohio, and in front of vaudeville houses across the country) and on how these images were initially exhibited and received (by cheering audiences packed with high-ranking Republican dignitaries). In both formal composition and reception, early cinema was instrumental in helping to blur traditional distinctions between personal presence and mass media representation, as well as between domestic life and public spectacle.
Crip Eye for the Normate Guy: Queer Theory and the Disciplining of Disability Studies
Authors: McRuer Robert
Published: October 2020

In “seeing the disabled: visual rhetorics of disability in Popular Photography,” Rose-marie Garland-Thomson argues that representations of disability in photography, over more than a century, have generally fallen into four broad categories: the wondrous, which places the disabled subject on high and elicits awe from viewers because of the supposedly amazing achievement represented; the sentimental, which places the disabled subject in a diminished, childlike, or custodial position, evoking pity; the exotic, which makes disability strange and distant—a freakish or perhaps transgressive spectacle; and the realistic, which brings disability close, potentially minimizing the difference between viewer and viewed. In the essay, which first appeared in print in the important disability studies anthologyThe New Disability History, Garland-Thomson reiterates some of the central disability studies insights that have transformed scholarship in the humanities over the past decade. Simultaneously, she takes disability studies in new directions, providing a critical taxonomy that those of us in the field can use as a foundation for countless other projects.
Disease versus Disability: The Medical Humanities and Disability Studies
Authors: Herndl Diane Price
Published: October 2020

One of the consistent problems i find in the work I do—which is focused on women and the cultural representations of illness—is classification. There was not really a category of “disability studies” when I started this work in the 1980s, and I would have resisted that label even if there had been. Since embracing the field of disability studies, I have wondered about my early resistance to it. At first, I attributed it to my own ableism (and I don't think I am necessarily wrong about this), but as I have continued to work on the issues, I am coming to see it more as a result of a disciplinary divide between the medical humanities and disability studies. My first job teaching literature was in a medical school, and I was early on immersed in the idea of the medical humanities, an idea I am beginning to think is antithetical to disability studies (though not to disability itself). My talk today discusses the source of that divide, the problems I see with it, and suggestions for what we can do about it. I want to examine the two interdisciplinary fields in terms of their disciplinarity, and in the interest of time, I'll use a shortcut to do this; I will compare two relatively recent MLA publications,Teaching Literature and Medicine(2000) andDisability Studies: Enabling the Humanities(2002).
Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability (in the) Arts
Authors: Davidson Michael
Published: October 2020

In its short existence as an academic discipline, disability studies has devoted significant attention to the representation of disabled persons in the visual arts, literature, theater, and public life. Disability scholars have studied the ways that cultural forms depend on a putatively normal body to reinforce regimes of national, racial, and sexual normalcy while using the person with a cognitive or physical impairment as a metaphor for the queer, subaltern, or marginal. A common recent criticism among disability scholars is that metaphoric treatments of impairment seldom confront the material conditions of actual disabled persons, permitting dominant social structures to be written on the body of a person who is politely asked to step offstage once the metaphoric exchange is made. Disabled artists and activists have attempted to reverse this pattern, turning their cameo appearances in such theaters back on the audience, refusing the crippling gaze of an ableist society and reassigning the meanings of disability in their own terms. As Carrie Sandahl says, people with disabilities are “not only staring back, but also talking back, insisting that ‘this body has a mouth‘” (13).
Critical Fictions
Authors: Davidson Cathy N.
Published: October 2020

Throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, Ethan Allen Greenwood, a rather pedantic young diarist, each day recorded the weather and the title of the book he was reading. He sometimes observed that a particular work was “instructive” or “entertaining” and occasionally noted the library from which the volume was borrowed–the Adelphi Fraternity Library, the Social Friends Library, or the unnamed circulating library he joined in 1806. His meticulous account of his activities and expenses–whether he was living at home in Worcester County, Massachusetts, or at Dartmouth College or later in Boston or traveling around the countryside as an itinerant painter–provides posterity with an unusually comprehensive portrait of “Ethan Allen Greenwood, his life and times.” Looking over the record that he left, we can well imagine that we know this serious and sober, parsimonious and abstemious young man Franklinesquely working his way toward fame and fortune. But then we encounter a curious diary entry: “Rode out with the ladies. Returned and spent the evening agreeably. What I do not write here will not be forgotten.”
Correlations between TDS and electrical conductivity for high-salinity formation brines characteristic of South Atlantic pre-salt basins
Authors: Lucas Rego Barros Rebello  , Thauara Siepman  , Santiago Drexler
Published: October 2020

Total dissolved solids (TDS) is an important property in the characterization of natural waters for diversified applications, such as in geochemistry and the petroleum industry. Under appropriate circumstances, the determination of this parameter through correlations with the electrical conductivity (EC) of aqueous systems yields considerable advantages over the gravimetric method. However, the development of empirical equations correlating TDS and EC is still required due to the physical-chemical complexity of charge transport in multicomponent natural waters. Most existing correlations were built considering systems in the lower or medium salinity range. In this context, this research aims to provide experimental correlations between TDS and EC in a broad concentration range for high salinity formation brines characteristic of the pre-salt reservoirs. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature for geochemical systems of this nature. Moreover, correlations were also obtained for a concentrated desulphated seawater and an aqueous sodium chloride solution in the same salinity range. For all aqueous solutions, the polynomial fittings of degree greater than one fit the experimental data better compared to both linear and exponential equations. In addition, the solutions with higher concentration of divalent ions had lower EC than the solutions dominated by monovalent ions with the same ionic strength. This evidences the effect of ion pairing on the EC, particularly in solutions of high ionic strength. Therefore, the use of a general correlation to represent solutions with dramatic variations in chemical composition carries substantial error, particularly in the high salinity range. Thus, a specific correlation must be developed to represent brines with similar composition.
Türkiye’de Finansal İstikrarın Reel Ekonomiye Etkisi: Doğrusal ve Doğrusal Olmayan ARDL Modellemelerine Dayalı Olarak
Authors: GEZER Mesut Alper , KILIÇ Ramazan
Published: October 2020

Finansal sistemin istikrar durumu ve reel ekonomiye olan etkisi bir tartışma konusudur. Çalışmanın amacı finansal sistemin istikrar durumunun reel ekonomi üzerindeki etkisini araştırmak ve karşılıklı asimetrik etkileri ortaya koymaktır. Bu doğrultuda, Türkiye’de finansal sistemin istikrar durumunun ölçümlenmesi için toplu finansal istikrar endeksi 2004-2017 çeyreklik dönemine yönelik geliştirilmiştir. İlgili endeks hem küresel hem de yerel ekonomik hâdiseleri yansıtması bakımından dönemin iyi bir temsilcisidir. Değişkenlerin birim kök özelliklerinden kaynaklı olarak doğrusal ARDL modelinin kullanılmasına karar verilmiştir. Finansal sistemin istikrar ve istikrarsızlık durumlarının ayrı ayrı analiz edilmesi amacıyla doğrusal olmayan ARDL modeli ve Hatemi-J asimetrik nedensellik testi kullanılmıştır. İlgili dönemde finansal istikrar reel ekonomiyi istikrarsızlıktan daha çok etkilemektedir.
Yapay Sinir Ağları Kullanılarak Konutlarda Elektrik Tüketimi Düzeylerinin Tahmin Edilmesi
Authors: ERCAN Uğur , IRMAK Sezgin , ÇEVİK Kerim Kürşat , CANBAZOĞLU Erokan
Published: October 2020

Elektrik tüketimine yönelik gerçekleştirilen çalışmaların büyük çoğunluğu ekonometrik modeller ve istatistiksel yöntemler kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Literatürde elektrik tüketim düzeylerini, hanehalkı karakteristiklerini kullanarak makine öğrenmesi yöntemleri ile tahmin eden modeller bulunmamaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı, konutlardaki elektrik tüketimi düzeylerini, düşük tüketim ve yüksek tüketim olmak üzere hanehalkı ve konut özelliklerini kullanarak tahmin eden bir model önerisi sunmaktır. Modelleme aşamasında makine öğrenmesi yöntemlerinden Yapay Sinir Ağları kullanılmıştır. Çalışmada, TÜİK tarafından derlenen hanehalkı bütçe anketi verilerinden elektrik tüketim harcaması olmayan kayıtlar çıkarılarak geriye kalan 32.765 hanenin ortalama elektrik tüketimi belirlenmiş, ortalamanın altında kalan kayıtlar düşük, ortalamanın üstünde kalan kayıtlar ise yüksek tüketim olarak etiketlenmiştir. Yapay Sinir Ağları ile 24.574 (%75) hanenin verisi kullanılarak modelin eğitimi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Geriye kalan 8.191 (%25) hanenin verisi ise eğitilmiş modelin test edilmesi için ayrılmıştır. Eğitim aşamasında modelin başarımı %75,11, test aşamasında ise %65,56 olarak gerçekleşmiştir. Sonuç olarak hanehalkı ve konut özellikleri kullanılarak elektrik üretimi ve dağıtımı planlamasına katkı verebilecek bir elektrik tüketim düzeyi tahmin modellemesi önerisi sunulmaktadır.
Klasik Dönem Osmanlı Devlet Bütçelerinin Karakteristik Özellikleri: Tarhuncu Ahmed Paşa Bütçesi
Authors: ÇİÇEK Hüseyin Güçlü , DİKMEN Süleyman
Published: October 2020

Osmanlı Devleti, kaynaklarının kullanım etkinliğini sorgulayabilmek, üretim performansını kontrol edebilmek, hafızasını diri tutabilmek ve başta savaşların finansmanı olmak üzere olası olumsuzluklar karşısında hızlı ve etkin politikalar geliştirebilmek için bütçeleri bir araç olarak kullanmıştır. Çalışma Tarhuncu Ahmed Paşa bütçesi (lâyihası) örneği çerçevesinde klasik dönem Osmanlı devlet bütçelerinin karakteristik özelliklerini tespit etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda oluşturulan ve modern tarihçilerin bütçe olarak adlandırdığı hesap cetvelleri (icmâller, özetler) incelenmiştir. Modern literatürün tespit ve tetkik edilmesi ile konuya ilişkin yeni değerlendirmelerde bulunulmuştur. Çalışma sonucunda klasik dönem Osmanlı devlet bütçelerinin günümüz bütçeleme ilkelerine sahip olmamalarına rağmen; sıradan gelir ve gider rakamlarının çok ötesinde anlamlar taşıdığı, zaman içerisinde kendisini yenilediği, özgün ve dinamik karaktere sahip olduğu ve çağının özelliklerini yansıttığı tespit edilmiştir. Ancak bu bütçelerin bağlayıcılığının olmadığı, bütün gelir ve giderleri içermediği, tek tip düzenlenmediği ve geleceğe dönük olmadığı görülmüştür.
A relação entre saberes e práticas espirituais e o processo saúde-doença: revisão integrativa
Authors: Rodrigues de Lima Filho Francisco Jaime , De Lima Nalva Kelly Gomes , Vieira Natália Rodrigues
Published: October 2020

OBJETIVO: identificar como os saberes e as práticas espirituais se relacionam com o processo saúde-doença dos sujeitos. MÉTODOS E MATERIAIS: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, desenvolvida nas bases de dados SCIELO, LILACS, BDENF, CINAHL e MEDLINE, com os descritores “espiritualidade”, “Cura pela fé” e “Processo saúde-doença”, associados com o operador booleano “and”. Como critérios de inclusão adotaram-se: pesquisas originais, nos idiomas inglês, português e espanhol, entre os anos de 2008 e 2018, disponíveis na íntegra de forma gratuita. RESULTADOS: Identificaram-se 16 trabalhos científicos nas bases de dados. A análise dos achados originou três categorias temáticas: A influência da religiosidade em situações específicas de adoecimento; Os profissionais de saúde e a espiritualidade; Saberes e práticas espirituais e a sua relação com o processo saúde-doença. CONSIDERAÇÕES FINAIS: Observou-se que a espiritualidade é visualizada como uma importante forma de enfrentamento pessoal para as pessoas que passam por processos de adoecimento crônicos, além de servir como meio para o apoio social desses indivíduos. As principais práticas de cura relatadas na literatura foram os banhos, as rezas e benzimentos e as oferendas. Os profissionais enxergam essa temática como algo necessário no processo de cuidar, muito embora não acreditem terem passado por um processo de formação que levasse essas questões em consideração.
Duration of the growth phase in cases of ice deposits of category SHP (spontaneous) in the territory of Ukraine in the months of the cold period of the year during 1991–2016
Authors: Pyasetska Svitlana
Published: October 2020

The data on the duration of the growth phase of cases of ice storms of the category of SHР in the territory of Ukraine for certain periods of time during 1991–2016 in the month of the cold period of the year and the separate months of the transitional seasons are considered. It has been established that the duration of the growth phase varies from a few hours to several dozen and sometimes hundreds of hours in a row. It was found that, for the most part, slight duration of the growth phase of icing of the category of SHP is predominant. They are usually calculated several dozens of hours, but there are longer ones. The most prolonged were the growth phases in the cases of ice deposits in the category of SHP in the winter months. You can make a number of conclusions from the conducted research, such as: – The duration of the growth phase of ice-oily deposits in the category of SHP is within a fairly wide time range from several hours to tens or hundreds of hours, depending on the current conditions. – It has been established that for the most part, the duration of the growth phase of ice deposits is insignificant and lasts from several hours to several dozens of hours, regardless of the place where the sediment was formed. - Most often, longer phases of growth are observed in the months of the winter season, especially in January and December, as well as in November. This refers to the 1991–2000 and 2001–2010 periods. - The most prolonged phases of the accumulation of ice deposits of the CSF category, which exceeded 48 hours in a row, were observed during 1991-2000 in February 1995 at MS Play, November 1991 and 2000 in Lyubashivka, 1999 in Mariupol, November 2000, in Razdelna and Nova Ushytsia, December 1992 in Lyubashitsa, December 1997 in Pomechna, Kryvyi Rih and Loshkarovka. During 2001–2010, the longest phases of the increase in ice deposits of the CSF category were observed in January and December 2007 at MS Play, December 2007 in Debaltseve, 2008 in Ovruch, Vinnytsia. During 2011-2016, cases of ice deposition with such prolonged phases of an increase in ice of the SНР category were observed in Poltava in January 2013. – For cases where the duration of the growth phase of ice deposits was negligible, it would have a long duration of the preservation and destruction phase. Because due to the considerable duration of this phase, the danger of emergency situations in the ice-and-frost deposits depending on the sectors of the economy will increase.
Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele: The Brain and Neuropsychological Outcomes
Authors: Fletcher J.M. , Juranek J.
Published: October 2020

This paper reviews the physical, neural, and cognitive phenotypes of spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM), a non-lethal neural tube defect that is the most common congenital birth defect affecting the central nervous system. After reviewing the physical and neural phenotypes, we explain how these variations affect in a principled manner variation in the cognitive phenotype of SBM. The cognitive phenotype represents a modal profile with strengths in associative, rule-based learning and weaknesses in assembled, integrative processes. This phenotype is related to core deficits in timing, attention, and movement that arise early in development because of brain malformations involving the cerebellum, midbrain, and corpus callosum. The variability of outcomes in SBM is also related to the level of spinal cord lesion, secondary effects of hydrocephalus and its treatment, and the psychosocial environment. Early interventions and comprehensive interventions that take advantage of our understanding of the modal cognitive phenotype modal profile and the variations that occur are important in helping people with SBM maximize their cognitive development, adaptive functions, and quality of life.
Rumination Versus Distraction: Dyadic Implementation Eliminates the Response Manipulation Emotion Regulation Effect
Authors: Egan R.P. , Smith D.A.
Published: October 2020

The Response Manipulation Task (RMT) is a popular laboratory protocol for inducing rumination and distraction. Across published studies of dysphoric participants who undergo negative mood inductions when no other people are present, only once has the RMT induction failed in its purpose. The present experiment tested the robustness of the RMT under dyadic conditions (N = 135 pairs of same sex friends). When administered in the presence of another person, the RMT showed no differential effects on subsequent negative mood or state rumination. The negative mood induction successfully induced negative mood; the effect of the manipulation did not depend on depressive symptoms; and the state rumination measure was reliable and valid. In light of this pattern of effects, nonsignificant findings on manipulation checks and substantive hypothesis tests are attributed to failure of the RMT to produce rumination and distraction under these specific study conditions. The Discussion explores constraints on the generalizability of the RMT effect due to the presence of others, including the influence of dyadic emotion regulation, interpersonal distress avoidance, and secure attachment relationships.
Analytical Method of Assessing Psycho-Emotional State
Authors: Volov V.V. , Zalevsky H.V.
Published: October 2020

The article presents the results of series of myographic studies. On the basis of diagnostics of mimic reactions and use of matrix method the analytical method of research of the psycho-emotional state was developed. The basic emotions are considered as connected matrix elements of the psychic self-organization, determining the necessary state. Specially organized monitoring of the facial reaction when expression and perception of an emotion revealed the work of the afferent and efferent synthesis of the mimic apparatus as an effector of the emotional regulation. As the result of the probe’s comparison of healthy and epileptics the signs of excessive stability, the chiral effects, blocks and emotions imposition were revealed. As shown the ones connected with the self-regulation mechanisms in the different conditions of brain’s functioning.
Coping-Strategies of the Subject Related to Images of a Difficult Life Situation in Metaphors and to Social Frustration
Authors: Alperovich V.D.
Published: October 2020

The study presented in this article is devoted to the problem of the influence of adults’ perceptions and interpretations of difficult life situations on their coping behavior, which is relevant in conditions of social instability and forced population migration. The study goal is determination of relationship of the social frustration and metaphorical images of difficult life situations with subjects’ coping-strategies. Hypotheses about differences in coping-strategies of individuals, which differ in the severity of social frustration and metaphors of difficult life situations, are formulated and confirmed. Metaphors content analysis and testing are applied. In the study, 101 respondents aged 18—25 (students and employees of enterprises in Rostov-on-Don) took place. The obtained data confirm the existence of interconnections between pronounced social frustration and a decrease in the rationality and adaptability of coping-strategies of the subject. It was established for the first time that the stereotypy-differentiation of metaphorical assessments of difficult life situations by subjects, «distancing» from the situation and its participants, attributing negative qualities to «aliens» and «enemies»/positive properties to «own» people and «friends» are also associated with these parameters of coping-strategies.
Connection Between the Subjective Assessment of Women’s Self-Realization and Attitudes to Different Sides of Reality in the Period of Parental Leave
Authors: Moreva G.I. , Sanochkina A.V.
Published: October 2020

The article presents the studies of the influence of self-realization on her attitude to different sides of reality (to her husband, to her child, ideal self, real self to her work, to the education, to her mother, etc.). The study involved 110 mothers. In this study, we have used combination of three methods: essay, questioning, method of color metaphors. The results were processed by sign test, cluster and content analyses. Based on these results we made a conclusion that mothers during maternity leave understand the phenomena of selfrealization differently. Consequently, they differently define the essence of self-realization and define different types of self-realization. Content analysis showed that women who value self-realization are focused primarily on the internal condition and being in harmony and not on external factors. Unrealized women are influenced by external factors: lack of work or conflicts with her husband.
The Effect of the Alert Signal in Changing the Operability and Productivity of the Activity
Authors: Smirnova Y.K. , Kashirskiy D.V.
Published: October 2020

The article is devoted to the investigation of the consequences of “warning signals” on performance results. The role of the time for signaling the beginning of activity in the formation of the initial readiness and the transition from the phase of the state of rest to the working state is analyzed, namely, the issue of changing the productivity of the activity when manipulating the “warning effect” is studied. Based on the results of the survey, 108 people in 5 experimental groups with manipulation of the signaling timing of the beginning of the solution of motor and sensory tasks can conclude that the localization of signals at different intervals of preparation for activity determines changes the efficiency of the transition from phase of operational rest to the phase of the working state. Intermediate warning signal at different stages of activity, heterochronically affects the performance and its stability. This trend is reflected in the accelerating and retarding effect of the alert signal.