bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of Thyroid Dysfunction in Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Authors: Priyanka Jaiswal  , Kalpana Verma  , Sukla Debbarma
Published: October 2021

Objective: To study the prevalence of thyroid disorders and its correlation with menstrual disorders.Methods: 100 women aged between 15 and 45 years who attended gyne OPD in Sraswathi medical college, U.P, were included for this cross-sectional study. The study group comprised 50 patients presented with menstrual complaints. The control group consisted of 50 women of same age group with complaints other than menstrual disorders. Thyroid function tests, anti-TPO antibody estimation, and endometrial sampling were done in all patients.Results: In patients with menstrual disorders, 44 % had thyroid disorders in which subclinical hypothyroidism was prevalent in 20 %, overt hypothyroidism in 14 %, and overt hyperthyroidism in 8 % of the women. Autoimmune thyroid antibodies were present in 30 % patients of women with menstrual disorders. On endometrial sampling, hypothyroid patients mainly had proliferative endometrium (42.85 %) whereas hyperthyroid had atrophic endometrium (60 %).Conclusions: Thyroid dysfunction is an important causative etiology of menstrual abnormalities. Assessment of thyroid function should be done in all patients with menstrual disorders to avoid unnecessary interventions like curettage and hysterectomy.
Restorative justice as a new response to crime - the modern vision and Bulgarian dreamers and opponents
Authors: Chankova Dobrinka
Published: October 2021

The concept of restorative justice as a type of alternative justice that focuses on the recovery of harm from crime, the victim, the perpetrator and the status quo in general, rather than on repression, is no longer new. It has long had its international legal basis – acts of the UN, EU, Council of Europe and others. Its main tools – victim-offender mediation, family conferences, problem-solving circles and more, are already established and widely used in most European countries and America, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Although marked in some strategic documents in our country recently, restorative justice is not a legal fact yet. However, in the global criminal crisis, deficits of the criminal justice system's functioning could be successfully, if not completely eliminated, then at least mitigated through its mechanisms. Individual scientists and representatives of non-governmental organizations have not only dreamed since the beginning of this century but are working hard to introduce its models. Politicians and decision-makers and part of the legal community show stubborn rigidity and resistance, refusing to put this issue on the current agenda of society, under various pretexts, but primarily defending their "preserved interests and monopoly" in criminal justice. At the same time, the crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic raises the issue again with particular urgency. That is why it is high time to abandon the unproductive "penal populism", to revitalize the debate for the mentioned novelty and achieve synchronicity between visionaries, dreamers, practitioners and users.
The Postcolonial Nature of the Post-Soviet Space: a reading of the cultural condition of Albania
Authors: Mukherjee Soham , Roy Madhumita
Published: October 2021

Postcolonialism has always concerned itself with the conditions in former colonies of European maritime empires. However, based on current frameworks defining imperialism and the post-colonial condition, the erstwhile Soviet Union could be classified as a colonial power. Its aggressive annexation of nations and paranoid control of information and education systems are reflective of colonial practices. Nevertheless, the Eurocentrism inherent in the culture of its former members prevents them from acknowledging their postcoloniality. Albania is one such nation. Not only was it a province of the Ottoman Empire for centuries but also a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Although Albania broke away from the USSR in the 1960s, it remained under the aegis of Soviet ideology as its nationalist dictator Enver Hoxha was a staunch Stalinist. This created unique cultural conditions which eminent Albanian writers like Ismail Kadare could not help but represent in their works. The post-Soviet space, including Albania, shows a number of symptoms of postcoloniality which are a direct consequence of Soviet imperialism. This paper will explore the postcoloniality of the post-Soviet space and analyse its symptoms in Stalinist Albania. In this context, it will also briefly examine the orientalist frameworks often employed by the West in its dealings with the ambiguous Europeanness of East and Central European nations.
First Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921), a Result of the Changes in the International System
Authors: Shubitidze Konstantine
Published: October 2021

The independence of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia was announced on May 26, 1918 by the Georgian Social-Democrats, who were preaching against nationalism and the creation of a Georgian state years prior, therefore, it is evident at first sight, that major international events of the 1910s played a crucial role in the establishing of an independent Georgia. This research paper aims to examine the foreign factors that made the Georgian political elite change their minds and resulted in the creation of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia. First, the paper will analyze the internal political situation in Georgia and the attitudes of the Georgian political elite, then the policies and attitudes of three major powers – Russia, Turkey and Germany, towards Georgia will be examined. The author has presented the reflections of famous Georgian researches on the topic and some archive sources as well.
Visionarity and Health: The Semashko Model and the Sovietization of Public Health in Bulgaria (1944–1951)
Authors: Angelova Milena
Published: October 2021

After the Second World War and until 1990, Bulgaria, as most of the former communist countries from the Eastern Europe, implemented a Semashko healthcare system developed in the USSR. Named after the First People’s Commissar of Health of the Soviet Russia, Nikolai Semashko, Soviet health care was developed as “social health care”, trying also to eliminate the social reasons for illness, thus transforming society and economy as a whole. This type of system was based on the centrally planned principles, on rigid management and on the state monopoly. Consequently, the healthcare system created by the Ministry of Health was integrated and centralized, completely controlled by the state. The system of health services in Bulgara from 1944 to 1990 was inspired by the Soviet model Semashko, a centralized state system, which seemed to guarantee “free access to health services for the entire population”. In the research the author focuses on the policies in the field of public health in Bulgaria between 1944 and 1951, when the "Sovietization" in this field took place.
War Song in a Service of Ideology. Comparative Essay on the Example of Yugoslav and Ukrainian-Russian Conflicts
Authors: Melichárek Maroš
Published: October 2021

Both the official army music and combatants’ informal folk songs have always played a noteworthy role in their respective societies regardless whether this music was created as means of actual propaganda or subsequently as part of reinvented commemorative culture. This article focuses on comparison of the two most recent European armed conflicts, namely 1) the ethnically motivated conflicts in former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1995/1999, and 2) the interethnic violence followed by Russian military intervention in Ukraine in 2014; the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has not yet been settled and still threatens to escalate. Building on wide range of primary and secondary sources (mainly of Western, Central and South-Eastern European provenience) that has been ignored by a regional scholarship, the paper seeks to provide a contextual background behind the war songs and to compare their prevalent patterns and typology of their inner dynamics and transformations. This paper will not inquire into international, economical or military implications of the aforementioned armed conflicts; it will focus specifically on textual and contextual analysis of those songs. Study brings completely new insights on phenomenon of war songs in East European and former Yugoslav environment and brings much-needed light on the intertwined social, cultural and identity relations that can be established between the former Yugoslav and post-Soviet countries. This topic is very important since state doctrine, national narratives, historical memory affect current and also future development of both regions what is clearly visible on elaborated material.
READING AS A MEANS OF ACTIVATING THE PUPILS
Authors: LAGEROVÁ Viera
Published: October 2021

Activation of pupils is an essential part of the teaching process within our schools. In this endeavour, teachers are not always successful, but in prevalent cases they are able to support students and pupils to read the offered work, which might not correspond with their area of interests by using various methods and approaches, and thus gradually broaden their horizons of their perception of the world around. To support the reading during the tuition, we may use variety of activation and motivation methods that shift teaching into the phase of an active engagement of pupils into the class work and
beyond. Through a discussion, establishing of a problem or a possibility of alternating a literary work, or maybe other forms of work, a pupil moves from a role of a passive recipient of a piece of information to an active participant in the teachinglearning process. By this approach, not only the reading literacy is developed, but the communication and cooperation skills as well. Gestion to reading should be a priority especially for primary school teachers at the first degree. By their work (especially by an active differentiation) and their overview in the field of children´s literature, they can positively align their pupils in choosing a suitable book. Reading is the best way how to non-violently shape and positively influence the psychological and aesthetical development of children and young people.
THIRTY-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF OPERA SLAVICA (CZECHIA) – SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION, FUTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
Authors: KREYTCHOVA Elena
Published: October 2021

The text presents the journal Opera Slavica published by the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, which is a specialized philological journal that publishes articles, reviews and academic materials in the field of linguistics and literary Slavonic studies. The article also deals with the issue of the academic philological journals, their current state and the challenges they may face in the future
emphasizing that the further development of information exchange in the field of digitized periodicals will focus on the provision of a wider range of services for the end user. The modern opportunities and further development of the Internet are a prerequisite for reassessment of the ideas of communication in the academic community, for the dissemination of scientific knowledge and for the place of specialized journals in the context of this academic communication. In this context of virtual scientific communication the presence of academic periodicals in the digital libraries will be of great importance. In the future academic communication, in particular in the field of philology, significant specialization of electronic archives with a focus on a particular scientific field is expected.
The text also outlines some problems in contemporary academic exchange, especially peer reviewing, predatory journals, online communication, etc.
EXPRESSION OF INDUCEMENT IN KOREAN AND BULGARIAN
Authors: CHO Eunnarae
Published: October 2021

This article attempts to present some means of expressing inducement in Korean and Bulgarian and to suggest some features discovered in the translation corpus, composed of five original Korean novels and their translations in Bulgarian. Unlike imperative mood, which is a grammatically concretized notion of deontic modality, inducement is a complex unity formed by various elements such as morphological, syntactic and lexical elements. Therefore, it can be realized both directly and indirectly through the means, which express / do not express inducement in its own form. As for the direct way, Bulgarian has a synthetic and an analytic form. Korean has only a synthetic form, but it has six imperative endings, differing in terms of formality and politeness. Regarding the indirect way, some means like interrogative sentences with the verb in indicative mood and declarative sentences with modal verb are actively used in both languages, while others are used only in Bulgarian. For example, the use of a declarative sentence with a future tense verb in the indicative mood for the purpose
of expressing inducement is clearly confirmed in Bulgarian, but in Korean this kind of sentence does not perform the same function at all. From the studied translation materials five main asymmetric features have been found – in the person of the
addressee, the voice of the sentence, the way of expressing the inducement, the sentence structure and the way of strengthening the persistence.
Relawan Abdimas STIKES Pemkab Jombang Dalam Percepatan Vaksinasi Covid-19 di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Cukir Kabupaten Jombang
Authors: Prihartanti Niken , Yujiani Rani , Pritviatana Kusuma Wardani Cintana , Muniroh Siti , Reza Marcelina Aulia , Lailatul Arifah Putri , Roro Retno Ayu Ericha Kurniawati Rara
Published: October 2021

Kondisi pandemi covid-19 yang belum berakhir dan pesatnya penyebarannya perlu melakukan upaya-upaya dalam menanganinya. Selain menerapkan protokol kesehatan yang ketat, salah satu cara lain yang sangat mungkin untuk mencegah penyebaran virus ini adalah dengan melakukan vaksinasi. Sehubungan itu maka pengabdian kepada masyarakat digerakkan dosen pada mahasiswa Kebidanan STIKES PEMKAB JOMBANG yang bersedia untuk membantu petugas vaksinator Covid19. Pengabdian masyarakat bertujuan agar mahasiswa ikut terlibat sebagai vaksinator dan berkontribusi secara langsung dalam upaya percepatan vaksinasi Covid19. Subjek kegiatan ini yaitu semua masyarakat dengan kriteria usia lebih dari 18 tahun dan tidak memiliki riwayat penyakit penyerta. Kegiatan vaksinasi bertempat di balai desa wilayah Puskesmas Cukir. Diantaranya di balai desa Grogol, Puton, dan Bandung. Setiap harinya sebelum kegiatan dimulai mahasiswa akan mendapat pengarahan dulu kemudian ditugaskan untuk membantu vaksinator di meja skrining untuk melakukan pengecekan tekanan darah dan suhu tubuh serta bertindak sebagai tenaga vaksinator. Diharapakan pengabdian masyarakat serupa dapat dijalankan di berbagai wilayah sehingga kontribusi mahasiswa kesehatan dalam masa pandemi dapat diimplementasikan. Sinergi antara mahasiswa, masyarakat, akademisi, dan pemerintah sangat diperlukan agar pandemi covid-19 ini segera berakhir.
Pelaksanaan Kegiatan iTalk (Innovation Talk) untuk Pengembangan Pemikiran Kritis Pada Anak Usia Dini Melalui Budaya Lliterasi Membaca
Authors: Nadia Essy Marischa , Pango Christye Dato
Published: October 2021

Kegiatan iTalk (Innovation Talk) ini diadakan oleh Perpustakaan Universitas Ciputra Surabaya sebagai bagian dari pendukung Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (PKM) yang merupakan salah satu dari tiga pilar tridharma dalam perguruan tinggi. Program studi Psikologi dipilih berdasarkan observasi perpustakaan sebagai pelaksanaan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat dari kelompok Keilmuan Psikologi Pendidikan sekaligus menggandeng serta Wahana Visi Indonesia sebagai mitra dalam pelaksanaan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat (PKM). Membaca merupakan hal yang mendasar di tahun pertama sekolah dasar untuk daya ingat dan kesuksesan di tahap selanjutnya. Dengan budaya literasi membaca kita dapat melakukan pengukuran bahwa sejauh mana anak-anak ini tidak bisa membaca apakah ditingkat pemula, bisa membaca tetapi tidak memahami, bisa membaca dan bisa memahami yang dibaca. Pojok baca dapat dibuat di salah satu sudut rumah maupun sekolah dimana merupakan tempat kreatif untuk anak-anak bermain dan belajar dengan berbagai macam kegiatan literasi dan juga membaca. Membaca buku juga dapat mengajarkan anak-anak untuk berpikir kritis selain memberikan kesempatan kepada anak-anak untuk secara aktif terlibat dalam bacaan juga mendorong anak-anak untuk bertanya dan berdiskusi selama membaca. Adapun kegiatan-kegiatan yang dapat dilakukan sehari-hari bersama orang tua dalam meningkatkan minat literasi membaca sang anak yaitu membacakan buku cerita bergambar, mengajak anak berhitung, menggambar, dan membacakan dongeng untuk anak sebelum tidur.
Schatten des Lichts
Authors: Kodera Sergius
Published: October 2021

Shadows of Light. Giordano Bruno’s Promethean Dialectic This article examines the status of shadows, in particular in Giordano Bruno’s ars memorativa. As ›traces of light‹, shadows not only embody the universal substrate of an infinitely extended material universe, but human action, thought and communication also necessarily depend on the medium of the shadow. Bruno’s mnemonics teaches the targeted, deliberately steered – if not even deceitful – handling of the shadows. In contrast to the Platonic tradition, he ascribes shadows a status that is independent of Platonic ideas. This article argues that Bruno thus develops out of a Platonic dialectic a specifically Promethean poetics, a universal art of the shadow. This, in turn, enables the embodied individual to shift the boundaries of knowledge and to arrange the things of this world.
Mandel’štam. Rom. Pasolini
Authors: Caradonna Chiara
Published: October 2021

Mandel’štam. Rome. Pasolini In 1972 a small volume presented for the first time a varied choice of poems by the Russian poet Osip Mandel’štam to the Italian public, translated by Serena Vitale. One of the book’s first and most enthusiastic readers was the poet, film director and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini, who immediately reviewed it for the Italian newspaper Il Tempo. This review shows the great significance that Mandel’štam’s poetry acquired for Pasolini in the very last years of his life. So much so, that the first verse of Mandel’štam’s late poem, With the world of the powerful …, became the motto of Pasolini’s last, unfinished novel Petrolio. While offering a reading of this poem by Mandel’štam, the present article investigates the reasons for Pasolini’s passionate interest in the Russian poet, and sheds light on the political dimension of both Mandel’štam’s and Pasolini’s œuvre.
Vom Problem einer demokratischen Ästhetik zur Ästhetik einer problematischen Demokratie
Authors: Franke Astrid
Published: October 2021

From the Problems of a Democratic Aesthetic to the Aesthetics of a Problematic Democracy
In analyses of poems from the 18th, 20th and 21st century, this article juxtaposes different degrees of trust in a democratic political order and the role of poetry in it. Philip Freneau, who supported a radical interpretation of the American Revolution as initiating a new and better social order, searched for a democratic poetics commensurate with the value placed on common people. For Muriel Rukeyser and even more so, Langston Hughes in the 1930s, democracy felt threatened not only by fascism abroad but by racism and exploitation at home. In 2014, Claudia Rankines Citizen: An American Lyric registers, like Rukeyser and Hughes, the difficulties in constructing a consensual reality and pushes this notion much further; surprisingly, perhaps, her work continues to see art as important to alert us to this difficulty of modern democracies and divers societies.
Neue Blicke auf einen ›alten Dichter‹
Authors: Sasse Barbara
Published: October 2021

»Old Poet«, New Readings: Recent Work on Hans Sachs and Perspectives for Future Research Stimulated by the flourishing of research on literature and culture of the early modern period in recent decades across the disciplines, interest in the body of literary works by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is also on the rise again. This paper offers a report on scholarship devoted to his wide-ranging creative output and published between the re-emergence of Sachs studies in the mid-1970s up until the present day. Beginning with a retrospective that is primarily thematic in structure, it then turns to a discussion (in terms both of methodology and of content) of the focus and findings of studies to date, including the consideration of continuing gaps and desiderata. The latter are in the main related to textual problems, but also touch on many other aspects (literary, historical etc.) yet to be properly examined. There follows, finally, a delineation, based on the status quo as presented, of four highly relevant fields of study: the report thus provides a thematic and methodological framework of potential use for future research.
Resultados en el manejo quirúrgico del cáncer colorrectal en el Hospital Santo Tomás
Authors: Correoso Guevara José Daniel , Yard Foster Yamilka Yoani , Arcia Guerra Edgardo Guillermo
Published: October 2021

Introducción. El cáncer colorrectal (CCR) es la tercera causa de muerte a nivel mundial, constituyendo la cirugía la piedra angular de tratamiento. El abordaje abierto inicialmente era el más utilizado, situación que ha cambiado en los últimos años con el avance de las técnicas laparoscópicas. En nuestra población no encontramos estudios que comparen los resultados del abordaje laparoscópico versus abierto. Objetivo. Mostrar los resultados de los pacientes con CCR primario intervenidos quirúrgicamente con intención curativa según el abordaje laparoscópico versus abierto. Metodología. Se analizaron los datos recogidos de forma retrospectiva de 159 pacientes sometidos a cirugía programada por CCR en el servicio de coloproctología del Hospital Santo Tomás del 2014 al 2017. Resultados. En las variables preoperatorias, solamente el antígeno carcinoembrionario mostró diferencia significativa (p<0.001) con mediana de 2.37 en laparoscopia versus 4.9 con abordaje abierto. Las variables operatorias tiempo y sangrado quirúrgico resultaron menores por laparoscópica ambas con (p<0.001). No se encontraron diferencias en: número de ganglios resecados (p=0.366), márgenes distales (p=0.786). En el postoperatorio la estancia hospitalaria fue menor por laparoscopía (p<0.001); complicaciones (p=0.425) e intervalo libre de enfermedad (p=0.575) fueron similares en ambos grupos. Conclusiones. Este estudio muestra resultados equiparables de la técnica laparoscópica vs la técnica abierta en cuanto a estándares de calidad intraoperatorios como la cosecha ganglionar y márgenes libres, sin diferencia en el grado de complicaciones en el postoperatorio inmediato.
COVİD-19 PANDEMİSİ DÖNEMİNDE HASTA GÜÇLENDİRMENİN MENTAL İYİ OLUŞA ETKİSİNİN İNCELENMESİ
Authors: TAN Muhsin , PATIR Sait
Published: October 2021

Dünya nüfusunun giderek yaşlanması göz önüne alındığında doğal bir sonuç olan kronik rahatsızlıkların artışından dolayı sağlık sistemi üzerindeki baskı giderek artacaktır. Fakat bireylerin sağlıklarını yönetmek için ilgili paydaşlarla işbirliği içerisinde olmaları sağlık sisteminin yükünü azaltabilir. Bu sebeple son yıllarda sağlığın teşviki, insanların sağlıkları üzerindeki kontrollerini artırmalarını ve iyileştirmelerini sağlama süreci olarak tanımlanan hasta güçlendirme kavramı sağlık sektöründeki önemini iyice hissettirmeye başlamıştır. Ayrıca kronik rahatsızlığı olanların mevcut pandemide daha fazla risk altında olduğu için fiziksel ve mental olarak olumsuz etkilendikleri göz önüne alındığında hasta güçlendirmenin önemi ve hasta merkezli bir yaklaşımın gerekliliği ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı kronik rahatsızlığı bulunan Covid-19 hastalığına yakalanmış olan hastaların hasta güçlendirmelerinin mental iyi oluşlarına etkisi incelenmiştir. Araştırmanın örneklemi için seçilen TRB1 bölgesindeki illerde ikamet eden 110 Covid-19 hastasına anket uygulanarak veriler toplanmıştır. Yapılan analizler neticesinde hasta güçlendirme ile mental iyi oluş arasında pozitif yönlü bir ilişki tespit edilmiştir.
KATILIM BANKACILIĞINDA RİSK ALGISI VE FON YÖNETİMİ
Authors: PEKÖZ Mustafa , EKİM DERTLİ Samiye
Published: October 2021

Bu çalışmada Katılım Bankacılığındaki risk algısı ve fon yönetimi üzerine araştırmalar yapılmış olup ülkemizdeki ve dünyadaki İslami Finans ürünlerinin işleyiş şekilleri ve bu ürünlerin piyasayı fonlama yöntemlerinin bankalarda nasıl bir risk algısı ışığında oluşturulduğu ve bunlar gerçekleşirken fonlama için gerek olan mevduat yönetiminin nasıl yapıldığı konusunda inceleme ve araştırmalara yer verilmiştir.Konvansiyonel Finans sistemi ile İslami Finans sistemi günümüzde bir çok ülkede aynı bankacılık mevzuatına tabi olsalar da aslında işin gerçek tarafı tamamen farklı bir finans modelidir. İslami Finans sistemin temelinde murabaha sözleşmesi üzerine kurulu yani mal ve hizmet ticaretini içinde barındıran reel piyasayı fonlama üzerine kurulu bir yapıya sahip olan geleneksel bankacılık anlayışından farklı bir finansal sistemdir. Bu yapının İslam Ticaret Hukuk’undaki temel kaideler üzerinde inşa edilmiş tamamen gerçek ticaretin geliştirilmesi mantığı ile hareket eden ve sistemin işlerliği için aynı zamanda kişilerin mevduatları üzerinden fon havuzu oluşturulması bu fonların mal alım satım ticaretinde kullanılarak ticaretten elde edilen kar payından fon müşterilerine verilmesi katılma hesabı dediğimiz ürünlerde muhafaza edilmesi işlemi ise reel piyasayı fonlama işlemlerinin desteklenmesi noktasının merkezi diyebiliriz. Araştırmalara göre öz kaynak kârlılığının katılım bankalarının likidite yeterliliğini en fazla etkileyen faktör olduğu ve artan öz kaynak kârlılığının likidite yeterliliğini de artırdığı tespit edilmiştir. Katılım Bankalarının kaynaklarını kârlılık oranı yüksek ve sürdürülebilir büyüme imkânı sunan sektörlere yönlendirmesinin faizsiz finans sektörünün gelişimini destekleyeceği değerlendirilmektedir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre kredilerin mevduat oranındaki yükselişin likidite yeterliliğini azalttığı, reel efektif döviz kurundaki ve bilanço dışı işlemlerdeki yükselişin ise likidite yeterliliğini artırdığı tespit edilmiştir.Bu çalışmamızda araştırma yöntemleri olarak betimsel,bağıntısal ve nedensel karşılaştırmalı modellere başvurulmuştur.
TOPICAL ISSUES OF ECONOMIC SECURITY
Authors: Galaktionova N. V.
Published: October 2021

This paper will consider certain aspects of unfair competition and the economic security of an organization. For greater clarity and clarity, the threats of unfair competition were considered in two categories: industrial espionage and unfair advertising.
OPTIMIZATION OF THE LOGISTICS PROCESSES OF TRADING ENTERPRISES DURING THE POST-PANDEMIC PERIOD
Authors: Golovina D. A. , Stepanova E. N.
Published: October 2021

Abstract: Companies are chasing the most efficient and modern logistics processes, constantly developing in improving both goods and services to win in the fight for attention and loyalty of customers. Logistics processes have a significant impact on the economy of the enterprise, form its financial indicators, affect the market position of the economic entity. Procurement, warehousing, distribution, transportation should be analyzed and evaluated for efficiency.
ANALYTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPERT ASSESSMENTS OF INTERETHNIC AND INTERCONFESSIONAL RELATIONS IN KHABAROVSK KRAI
Authors: Kim A. S. , Krylova K. A.
Published: October 2021

The article provides an analytical description of the assessments of the state of ethno-confessional and ethno-political relations in the Khabarovsk Territory, obtained during an expert survey within the monitoring of ethno-confessional relations in Khabarovsk Krai at the end of 2019 and 2020. The authors define the peculiarities of expert approaches and common features of expert assessments. This contributes to the overall picture of the state of interethnic and interconfessional relations in the region.
RETAIL SALES ORGANIZATION: MODERN TRENDS
Authors: Stepanova E. N.
Published: October 2021

Sales organization is the main goal of any business, regardless of its size and objectives. After all, any business should earn money, and it is impossible to do it without the sale of its goods or services. However, not all business managers and owners are well aware of what a sales organization really is. The article examines some modern approaches to building organizational structures in trade.
Shock Properties and Associated Characteristics of Solar Energetic Particles in the 2017 September 10 Ground-level Enhancement Event
Authors: Zhu Bei , Liu Ying D. , Kwon Ryun-Young , Jin Meng , Lee L. C. , Xu Xiaojun
Published: October 2021

The solar eruption on 2017 September 10 was accompanied by a fast coronal mass ejection (∼3000 km s−1) and produced a ground-level enhancement (GLE) event at Earth. Multiple-viewpoint remote sensing observations are used to find the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the shock. We determine the shock parameters by combining the 3D shock kinematics and the solar wind properties obtained from a global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation, in order to compare them with the characteristics of the solar energetic particles (SEPs). We extract the magnetic connectivities of the observers from the MHD simulation and find that L1 was magnetically connected to the shock flank (rather than the nose). Further analysis shows that this shock flank propagates through the heliospheric current sheet (HCS). The weak magnetic field and relatively dense plasma around the HCS result in a large Mach number of the shock, which leads to efficient particle acceleration even at the shock flank. We conclude that the interaction between the shock and HCS provides a potential mechanism for production of the GLE event. The comparison between the shock properties and the characteristics of SEPs suggests an efficient particle acceleration in a wide spatial range by the shock propagating through the highly inhomogeneous coronal medium.
State of the Field: Binary Black Hole Natal Kicks and Prospects for Isolated Field Formation after GWTC-2
Authors: Callister Thomas A. , Farr Will M. , Renzo Mathieu
Published: October 2021

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s newly released GWTC-2 catalog of gravitational-wave detections offers unprecedented information about the spin magnitudes and orientations of merging binary black holes (BBHs). Notably, analysis of the BBH population suggests the presence of binaries whose component spins are significantly misaligned with respect to their orbital angular momenta. Significantly misaligned spins are typically predicted to be at odds with isolated field formation via standard common envelope (CE) evolution, and hence a “smoking gun” signature of dynamical binary formation inside dense stellar clusters. Here, we explore whether the LIGO/Virgo observation of spin–orbit misalignment indeed rules out the possibility that BBHs are formed entirely in the field via standard CE evolution. In particular, we seek to understand whether, by varying the natal kicks black holes receive upon formation, we can invoke the CE scenario to self-consistently explain both the observed spin distribution and merger rate of BBHs. We find that, if isolated black holes are born with small natal spins, then BBHs formed through CE require extreme natal kicks to match the observed BBH population, with a velocity dispersion

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and σ > 260 km s−1 at 99% credibility. To avoid the need for extreme kicks, we argue that it is necessary to assume that isolated black holes are born with nonvanishing natal spins, that one or more alternative channels contribute to the observed BBH population, and/or that other unforeseen mechanisms serve to yield large spin–orbit misalignment in the field.
Oscillation Mode Variability in Evolved Compact Pulsators from Kepler Photometry. II. Comparison of Modulation Patterns between Raw and Corrected Flux
Authors: Zong Weikai , Charpinet Stéphane , Vauclair Gérard
Published: October 2021

We present the second results of an ensemble and systematic survey of oscillation mode variability in compact pulsators observed with the original Kepler mission. Two types of flux calibrations, raw and corrected, collected on two hot B subdwarf stars, KIC 2438324 and KIC 11179657, are thoroughly examined with the goal of evaluating the difference in patterns when oscillation modes modulate in amplitude (AM) and frequency (FM). We concentrate on AMs and FMs occurring in seven multiplet components in each star as representative frequencies. The analysis shows that FM measurements are independent of the flux calibration we choose. However, if flux contamination by nearby stars is large, AMs may be significantly different between raw and corrected flux. In addition, AMs suffer, to some extent, from a systematic modulation pattern, which is most likely induced by instrumental effects and differs from one star to another. Our results indicate that stars with no contamination are better candidates to quantitatively compare modulation patterns with theory and should be given a higher priority for such studies, since light contamination will destroy real AM patterns.
Three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of Convective Nuclear Burning in Massive Stars Near Iron Core Collapse
Authors: Fields C. E. , Couch Sean M.
Published: October 2021

Nonspherical structure in massive stars at the point of iron core collapse can have a qualitative impact on the properties of the ensuing core-collapse supernova explosions and the multimessenger signals they produce. Strong perturbations can aid successful explosions by strengthening turbulence in the postshock region. Here we report on a set of 4π 3D hydrodynamic simulations of O- and Si-shell burning in massive star models of varied initial masses using MESA and the FLASH simulation framework. We evolve four separate 3D models for roughly the final 10 minutes prior to and including iron core collapse. We consider initial 1D MESA models with masses of 14, 20, and 25 M
⊙ to survey a range of O/Si-shell density and compositional configurations. We characterize the convective shells in our 3D models and compare them to the corresponding 1D models. In general, we find that the angle-average convective speeds in our 3D simulations near collapse are three to four times larger than the convective speeds predicted by MESA at the same epoch for our chosen mixing length parameter of α
MLT = 1.5. In three of our simulations, we observe significant power in the spherical harmonic decomposition of the radial velocity field at harmonic indices of ℓ = 1–3 near collapse. Our results suggest that large-scale modes are common in massive stars near collapse and should be considered a key aspect of presupernova progenitor models.
Antioxidant and Hypolipidemic Effects of Ipomoea batatas L and Pandanus conoideus Lam Combination on Rats Fed with High Cholesterol Diet
Authors: Subawa A. A. Ngurah , Yasa I Wayan Putu Sutirta , Jawi I Made , Mahendra Agung Nova
Published: October 2021

BACKGROUND: Chronic hypercholesterolemia is an important predisposing factor of cardiovascular diseases. The underlying process is commonly associated with oxidative stress.
AIM: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of Ipomoea batatas (IB) L tablet and Pandanus conoideus (PC) Lam extract against oxidative stress and lipid profile in rats.
METHODS: This study used a pre- and post-test control group design. Wistar male rats were randomized into four groups consisting of seven rats each. The groups were control group, PC Lam extract 0.4 cc/rat/day (PC group), IB L tablet 200 mg/rat/day (IB group), and PC 0.2 cc+IB 200 mg/rat/day (PC+IB group). All groups were received high cholesterol diet for 4 weeks. The blood samples at baseline and the end of this study were used for the lipid profile, superoxide dismutase (SOD), and malondialdehyde (MDA) examination. The result was then analyzed with an Analysis of Variance test.
RESULTS: There were significant differences in changes of total cholesterol, Low-density lipoprotein, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, MDA, and SOD in the treatment group (PC, IB, PC+IB) compared to the control (p < 0.001). The decrease of MDA and increase of SOD were mainly found in the PC+IB group compared to the PC group and IB group (p < 0.05). The changes in lipid profiles were mainly found in the PC+IB group and PC group compared to the IB group (p < 0.05).
CONCLUSION: Administration of PC and IB combination is an effective hypolipidemic agent. This combination has superior antioxidant activity compared to the single-agent (PC or IB) and control.
Development of Propolis (Apis trigona)-loaded Nanoemulgel for Improved Skin Penetration of Caffeic Acid: The Effect of Variation of Oleic Acid Concentration
Authors: Viqhi Afdil Viqar , Manggau Marianti A. , Sartini Sartini , Wahyudin Elly , Rahman Latifah , Yulianti Risfah , Permana Andi Dian , Awal Satria Aztasaury
Published: October 2021

BACKGROUND: Propolis contains caffeic acid compounds, which are proven to have pharmacological effects as an anti-inflammatory. However, its effectiveness is hampered by the poor solubility of caffeic acid. Here, we report developing the nanoemulgel approach containing propolis extract as an active ingredient and oleic acid as a permeation enhancer for transdermal delivery of caffeic acid. AIM: This study aims to determine the effect of oleic acid concentration on increasing caffeic acid permeation in the skin and obtain a nanoemulgel formula with desired physical characteristics and stability. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Propolis was macerated with 70% ethanol; the total phenolic content was measured by ultraviolet–visible spectrophotometer, and the levels of caffeic acid in the extracts and nanoemulgel preparations were finally determined using ultra-fast liquid chromatography. Formulas were made using various concentrations of oleic acid, namely, 1.25%w/w (Formula F1); 2.5%w/w (Formula F2); 5%w/w (Formula F3), respectively; and 1.25%w/w without propolis extract (Formula F4) as a comparison. RESULTS: The results obtained from analysis of variance statistical exhibited that the difference in oleic acid concentrations in four formulas significantly affected (p < 0.05) particle size, polydispersity index, spreadability, adhesion, freeze-thaw, permeation, and retention test. However, there was no significant difference (p > 0.05) on pH and viscosity before and after 4 weeks of storage and zeta potential test. The highest amount of permeation and retention was found in F3 and F2, respectively, and all formulas tended to follow zero-order drug release kinetics. Furthermore, the results showed that the number of percent’s permeated in a row was 3.74% (F1); 5.58% (F2); 11.67% (F3), and F2 was the formula with the most optimal retention amount with a percentage of 43.13% at 24 h. CONCLUSION: This study shows a promising delivery system for increasing the effectiveness of natural lipophilic compounds to treat inflammation in the skin.
Implementation of a Participant-Centered Weight Management Program for Older Nurses: A Feasibility Study
Authors: Nahm Eun-Shim , Warren Joan , Friedmann Erika , Brown Jeanine , Rouse Debbie , Park Bu , Quigley Kyle
Published: October 2021

American nurses (3.06 million) are at high risk for being overweight, as the majority are post-menopausal women (93.3% female; mean age 47). Studies have indicated that more than half of all nurses are either overweight or obese. This fact is of concern because nurses often lead major health promotion efforts. The aim of this study was to examine the feasibility of a novel participant-centered weight management program (PCWM) among nurses. The participant-centered (P-C) theoretical framework used originated from the field of usability engineering (i.e., user-centered design). Study methods included a single group pre-test/post-test design (baseline, eight weeks, three months) and an intervention consisting of face-to-face education sessions, technology-augmented exercise programs, and an eHealth portal. The results demonstrated a significant decrease in body weight, increased fruit and vegetable consumption, and increased exercise at eight weeks. In our discussion of this study, we note that although the intervention effects decreased at three months, these results are promising, considering that the intervention used was not regimented and relied only on nurses’ activation of their planned health behaviors. The major limitation of the study was the small sample size recruited from one large community hospital. Further research is needed to improve the sustainability of the program.
Rahile Dawut et les études folkloristes ouïghoures : traduction inédite en français
Authors: Dawut Rahile , Frangville Vanessa , B. H.
Published: October 2021

Rahile Dawut (ou Rahilä Dawut) est une chercheuse de l’Université du Xinjiang dont la disparition depuis 2017, dans le cadre des campagnes d’arrestation et de détention massive des intellectuels en région ouïghoure, laisse un grand vide dans la recherche sur les pratiques folkloriques ouïghoures, un domaine d’étude désormais mis au ban par les autorités chinoises. Après une courte introduction sur le parcours et les travaux de Rahile Dawut, la traduction française (inédite) de l’une de ses publications majeures est proposée aux lecteurs. Il s’agit, à notre connaissance, de la première traduction en français d’un texte académique de Rahile Dawut. Son article, publié en anglais en 2009, traite des pratiques populaires de pèlerinage aux mazars, ces sanctuaires ou mausolées qui ponctuent la région ouïghoure, y compris dans les zones les plus reculées en bordure de désert. Il s’agit de l’un des sujets de prédilection de Rahile Dawut, représentatif de ses recherches les plus porteuses et les plus reconnues internationalement.
L’assurance maladie complémentaire des salariés au prisme du fiscal welfare… what’s going wrong in France ?
Authors: Del Sol Marion , Turquet Pascale
Published: October 2021

Cet article interroge à la fois la rationalité, la légitimité et l’équité des dépenses sociofiscales conditionnées à la mise en œuvre de dispositifs collectifs d’assurance maladie complémentaire en entreprise. Ces dépenses sont relativement anciennes mais ont changé de nature au 1er janvier 2016, date depuis laquelle les entreprises ont l’obligation de financer au moins à 50 % une couverture complémentaire maladie au bénéfice de leurs salariés. La logique d’incitation qui prévalait jusqu’alors a par conséquent fait place à celle du subventionnement à l’achat d’une assurance privée. Si le caractère incohérent et inégalitaire d’un tel subventionnement ainsi que l’inefficience de la juxtaposition assurance maladie obligatoire (AMO)-assurance maladie complémentaire (AMC) font l’objet de nombreux questionnements et critiques, l’assurance privée semble cependant toujours constituer l’horizon indépassable des réformes dans le champ de l’assurance maladie.
Les assureurs privés au service d’un meilleur accès à certains biens de santé ?
Authors: Gay Renaud
Published: October 2021

Les réseaux de soins initiés par des organismes complémentaires d’assurance maladie correspondent à des dispositifs de contractualisation avec des professionnels de santé qui visent à réguler le prix de certains actes et équipements peu couverts par la Sécurité sociale et à réduire le reste à charge des assurés. L’article analyse leur formation et leur développement depuis la fin des années 1990 en s’intéressant au système de relations entre organisations dans lequel leur production s’inscrit. De cette manière, il rend compte de l’hétérogénéité des formats et des pratiques associés à ces dispositifs, des contestations dont ils font l’objet et de leur partielle démonétisation à la fin des années 2010 sous l’effet d’interventions étatiques recodifiant les règles d’échange de certains biens de santé. L’article donne ainsi à voir plusieurs modalités d’investissement des opérateurs privés d’assurance dans la réalisation d’un objectif civique d’amélioration de l’accès aux soins des individus.
Global dynamics in a competitive two-species and two-stimuli chemotaxis system with chemical signalling loop
Authors: Zhang Rong , Wang Liangchen
Published: October 2021

This paper deals with the following competitive two-species and two-stimuli chemotaxis system with chemical signalling loop

   $ \begin{eqnarray*} \left\{ \begin{array}{llll} u_t = \Delta u-\chi_1\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v)+\mu_1 u(1-u-a_1w),\, x\in \Omega,\, t>0,\\ 0 = \Delta v-v+w,\,x\in\Omega,\, t>0,\\ w_t = \Delta w-\chi_2\nabla\cdot(w\nabla z)-\chi_3\nabla\cdot(w\nabla v)+\mu_2 w(1-w-a_2u), \,x\in \Omega,\,t>0,\\ 0 = \Delta z-z+u, \,x\in\Omega,\, t>0, \end{array} \right. \end{eqnarray*} $

under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain $ \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n $ with $ n\geq1 $, where the parameters $ a_1,a_2 $, $ \chi_1, \chi_2, \chi_3 $, $ \mu_1, \mu_2 $ are positive constants. We first showed some conditions between $ \frac{\chi_1}{\mu_1} $, $ \frac{\chi_2}{\mu_2} $, $ \frac{\chi_3}{\mu_2} $ and other ingredients to guarantee boundedness. Moreover, the large time behavior and rates of convergence have also been investigated under some explicit conditions.
On the relationship between the aa index and tidal forces
Authors: Kovalyov Mikhail ,   Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Published: October 2021

A previously unknown relationship between the tidal forces and aa index is shown and used to discuss when the next maximum of the annual aa index is expected to occur.
Joint reconstruction and low-rank decomposition for dynamic inverse problems
Authors: Arridge Simon , Fernsel Pascal , Hauptmann Andreas
Published: October 2021

A primary interest in dynamic inverse problems is to identify the underlying temporal behaviour of the system from outside measurements. In this work, we consider the case, where the target can be represented by a decomposition of spatial and temporal basis functions and hence can be efficiently represented by a low-rank decomposition. We then propose a joint reconstruction and low-rank decomposition method based on the Nonnegative Matrix Factorisation to obtain the unknown from highly undersampled dynamic measurement data. The proposed framework allows for flexible incorporation of separate regularisers for spatial and temporal features. For the special case of a stationary operator, we can effectively use the decomposition to reduce the computational complexity and obtain a substantial speed-up. The proposed methods are evaluated for three simulated phantoms and we compare the obtained results to a separate low-rank reconstruction and subsequent decomposition approach based on the widely used principal component analysis.
Hertia cheirifolia y H. maroccana (Asteraceae), dos especies endémicas para áfrica del norte: notas nomenclaturales, morfología, distribución y evaluación de la lista roja según la UICN
Authors: Iamonico Duilio , El Mokni Ridha
Published: October 2021

Hertia cheirifolia y H. maroccana (Asteraceae) son dos endemismos norteafricanos que crecen, respectivamente, en Argelia y Túnez, y en Marruecos. Presentamos en este trabajo descripciones morfológicas, distribución y categorización en la lista roja de la UICN. Además, se lleva a cabo un estudio nomenclatural de Hertia maroccana de Battandier and Othonna cheirifolia de Linneo y se tipifican ambos nombres sobre especímenes conservados, respectivamente, en MPU y LINN.
La storiografia del teatro in Italia e il concetto di “performance”
Authors: Roma Aldo
Published: October 2021

Questo contributo ripercorre una breve storia della storiografia dello spettacolo in Italia dagli ultimi decenni del sec. XIX a oggi, attraverso i principali snodi che hanno segnato la progressiva definizione della disciplina e delle sue metodologie: dal graduale superamento della centralità del testo drammatico a favore dello studio delle condizioni materiali del teatro e della sua collocazione nella storia, dall’attenzione cioè verso i processi più che ai prodotti, fino alla ricezione del concetto di “performance”. Riguardo a quest’ultimo aspetto, il contributo offre una panoramica delle differenti posizioni assunte dai maggiori studiosi italiani in merito ai performance studies di matrice statunitense e riflette sulle specificità della teatrologia europea, fortemente orientata alla comprensione degli artefatti culturali alla luce del loro contesto e della loro dimensione storica.