bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Postdocs Galore [Jobs]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Advertisements for three exciting postdoctoral positions came out in the last week.  Interface between ecology, evolution and mathematics  The first is with Hélène Morlon’s group in Paris. Hélène and I were postdocs in Jessica Green’s lab at the same time. She is both very smart and extremely nice, oh, and did I mention, her lab is in PARIS. Here’s the ad. If it’s a good fit then you couldn’t go wrong with this postdoc.
Only Mostly Dead: Grants for Software Maintenance Only
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

In a recent meeting, there was some discussion about a potential workshop recommendation that funding agencies should offer relatively small grants that would just be used for maintaining existing software, but not doing any new development. I had very mixed feelings when I heard this, and decided I would write up my thoughts and see what others felt too.
Two years of achievements within the ‘SCOSS family’ (and it’s not over yet!)
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

Posted on August 10th 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista ← Previous post: The OpenCitations Roadmap is now publicly available on Trello → Next post: New documents that present OpenCitations’ mission, unique benefits, present status and future plans In March, The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) celebrated, together with the generous funders and the projects involved (including OpenCitations), the achievement of an amazing milestone: a total of 4 million Euros raised so far for supporting the growth and development of Open Science Infrastructures.
Defining Software Sustainability
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

While at WSSSPE4 discussing possible WSSSPE mission statements, the question of what software sustainability is has been raised.
Crowdfunding for Science 101 [guest post]
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

 Ethan and I have been watching the emergence of crowdfunding in science with great interest. We meant to blog about it, but our rate of blog idea generation is >> our rate of blog writing. 
Introducing Fellow Lars Willighagen: Constructing and visualising a network-based conifer database
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

Originally posted on the ContentMine blog I am Lars, and I am from the Netherlands, where I currently live. I applied to this fellowship to learn new things and combine the ContentMine with two previous projects I never got to finish, and I got really excited by the idea and the ContentMine at large. A part of the project is a modification of a project I started a while ago, for visualising tweets with certain hashtags, and extracting data like links and ORCID‘s with JavaScript to display in feeds. It was a side project, so it died out after a while.
Citation.js on the Command Line
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

Last week I made Citation.js usable for the command line, with Node.js. First of all, the main file determines if it is being run with Node.js or in the browser, and switches to Browser or Nodejs mode based on that. This way, it knows when to use methods like document.createElement('p') and XMLHttpRequest and when not to. Secondly, I created node.Citation.js. It is a file specialised for Node.js that loads Citation.js as a package and feeds it command line arguments. It, of course, also saves the output to some specified file.
Citation.js
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

Today I updated my GitHub repository of Citation.js. The main difference in the source files was the correction of a typo, but I updated the docs and restructured the directories as well. Not really important, but it is a nice opportunity to talk about it on my new blog (this one). So, Citation.js is a JavaScript library to convert things like BibTeX, Wikidata JSON, and ContentMine JSON to a standardised format, and converting that standardised format to citations as in style guides like APA and Vancouver, and to BibTeX.
Weekly Report 1: Start of my ContentMine fellowship
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

Start of the project. What I am going to do: update Citation.js to accept quickscrape's results.json look into quickscrape and the other programs, mainly to see how I can make a similar command for my own project perhaps add/improve some scrapers try to make a card prototype for the database No real work yet, but some orientation and preparing until I have some more information. Citation.js
An open letter to Ecology Letters and the British Ecological Society about preprints
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

UPDATE: Both Ecology Letters and the British Ecological Society journals now allow preprints. Thanks to both groups for listening to the community and supporting the rapid and open exchange of scientific ideas. Dear Ecology Letters and the British Ecological Society , I am writing to ask that you support the scientific good by allowing the submission of papers that have been posted as preprints.
On the value of fundamental scientific research
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Jeremy Fox over at the Oikos Blog has written an excellent piece explaining why fundamental, basic science, research is worth investing in, even when time and resources are limited. His central points include: Fundamental research is where a lot of our methodological advances come from. Fundamental research provides generally-applicable insights. Current applied research often relies on past fundamental research.
The best way to not get a job: don’t apply
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

It’s job season. It’s that time of year again when our young scientists pour over a wide variety of job ads and ask themselves that critically important question: do I apply? In some ways, this is the most critical step in the entire job application process. Yes, your job packet is important. There’s the goldilocks problem of conveying your awesome in the cover letter but worrying about sounding conceited. There’s writing your CV. There’s thinking about the institution your application is going to and what it values. Yadda yadda yadda.
Research project proposals
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

 Extended proposal ( 3 June 2016, GitHub, with comments ): Analyzer and data visualizer for papers about conifers   Description  A program visualizing and listing data extracted with ContentMine software from a list of papers resulting from a query. Different types of data (authors, genes, molecules etc.) will be listed in different columns.  My proposal  My proposal is to collect data about conifers and visualize it in a dynamic HTML page. It consists of three parts.
How far we have come in communicating and discussing science
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

When I started graduate school (a little over a decade ago): Online literature searching was just becoming common You had to mail your manuscripts to the journals in triplicate Responses to published articles (when they happened) took a year or more. Mostly people just talked about problems they saw (or thought they saw) with people in neighboring offices.
Navigating ESA
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

Next week is the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. If you’ve ever been to ESA, then you know it’s….big, often between 3000-5000 ecologists (which I thought was big until I heard about some of the biomedical conferences which have the attendance of a small city). It seems like most of those people are giving talks or posters.
Three ways to improve impact factors
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

It’s that time of year again when the new Impact Factor values are released. This is such a big deal to a lot of folks that it’s pretty hard to avoid hearing about it. We’re not the sort of folks that object to the use of impact factors in general – we are scientists after all and part of being a scientist is quantifying things.
Weekly Report 8: Visualising Zika articles
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

Last week I wanted to look into extracting more facts, and the relation between found species and compounds. This would be done by extending ami. However, it became clear there will be big improvements to ami in the future, and things like ChemicalTagger and OSCAR are planned to be implemented anyway. It's better to wait for those things to complete before extending it for my own purposes. Instead I improved the card page for future use. I didn't have too much time to do stuff this week, so I mainly wanted to demonstrate how you could use it with other data.
One year to go at NSF
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

The end of last week (26 March) marked the start of my fourth and final year as a rotator at NSF.  It’s been a really good experience so far, and I’m a bit sad to see the end coming. I’ve really enjoyed being able to work with a wonderful set of people in the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and across NSF.
Why your science blog should provide full feeds
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

People find blog posts in different ways. Some visit the website regularly, some subscribe to email updates, and some subscribe using the blog’s feed. Feeds can be a huge time saver for processing the ever increasing amount of information that science generates, by placing much of that information in a single place in a simple, standardized, format.
Why I will no longer review for your journal
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I have, for a while, been frustrated and annoyed by the behavior of several of the large for-profit publishers.
About engagement and evanescence: OpenCitations at the Open Science Fair 2021
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

Community, governance, and shared goals: these are the key concepts that you would have heard discussed, had you listened in on September 21 at the Open Science Fair 2021 to the sessions entitled “ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations as the new frontier of open citation indexing” and “The perils of being invisible. Collective funding models for Open Science infrastructure”, in which OpenCitations’ director Silvio Peroni discussed with other expert speakers the various goals and challenges of Open Science Infrastructures.
A new database for mammalian community ecology and macroecology
Authors: Ethan Morgan &
Published: August 2023

There are a number of great datasets available for doing macroecology and community ecology at broad spatial scales. These include data on birds (Breeding Bird Survey, Christmas Bird Count), plants (Forest Inventory &
The Ecological Data Wiki
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Here at Weecology we’re really into open science and that’s why we’re excited to announce our first serious attempt to facilitate open science beyond the confines of our own research – The Ecological Data Wiki. The idea behind this project is simple.
Interesting Replicable “Badge” for journal articles
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

I am writing to point out an interesting experiment that’s started up in the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) computational journal.  There’s an editorial by Mike Heroux that explains the process. In brief, TOMS has created a “Replicated Computational Results (RCR)” review process, which is really a designation saying that the computational results published in an article are replicable.
Reflections on the global citation graph
Authors: Shotton David M.
Published: August 2023

In his call for open citations, Dario Taraborelli hailed the scholarly citation graph (in which the nodes (vertices) are individual academic publications and the links (edges) represent bibliographic citations from one publication to another) as one of humankind’s most important intellectual achievements.
Science 2.0 [Things you should read]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I’ve read two great posts in the last couple of days that highlight what the recent debate over the the possibility of ‘arsenic based life’ has shown about how scientists are leveraging the modern web to quickly evaluate, discuss and improve science. Marc Cadotte, Nicholas Mirotchnick and Caroline Tucker have a great post over at EEB & flow that will fill in the background for you.
Using Google Scholar to keep up with the literature
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

We have all bemoaned the increasing difficulty of keeping up with the growing body of literature. Many of us, me included, have been relying increasingly on following only a subset of journals, but with the growing popularity of the large open-access journals I know I for one am increasingly likely to miss papers.
Summary of “Our Scholarly Recognition System Doesn’t Still Work” panel
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

This post is meant to summarize the  “Our Scholarly Recognition System Doesn’t Still Work” p  anel, held at the Science of Team Science Conference (SciTS), Friday, June 5, 2015, Bethesda, Maryland, USA The panel organizers were Daniel S. Katz (U. of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory), Amy Brand (Digital Science), Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health &
Thinking about Open Peer Reviews
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

Over the holidays, I saw an interesting article on F1000Research Soergel DAW.
CProject to JSON
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

I changed the "JSON maker" I used to convert CProjects to JSON last week to be useful for a more general use case, being more user-friendly and having more options, like grouping by species and minifying. It's now called ctj (CProject to JSON), although that name may be changed to something more clear or appropriate. The GitHub repository can be found here. ctj CProjects are the output of the ContentMine tools. The output is a directory of directories with XML files, JSON files, and a directory with more XML files, some of which may be empty.
A list of publicly available grant proposals in the biological sciences
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

UPDATE: If you’re looking for publicly available grants go check out our new Open Grants website at https://www.ogrants.org/. It has way more grants and is searchable so that you can quickly find the grants most useful to you. Recently a bunch of folks in the biological sciences have started sharing their grant proposals openly.
OpenCitations and EC funding: OpenAIRE Nexus and RISIS2
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

The incentives for new OpenCitations innovative solutions Two years ago, in their canonical 2020 QSS paper on OpenCitations, Silvio Peroni and David Shotton anticipated the creation of the new database, OpenCitations Meta, able to “offer a faster and richer service” by storing bibliographic metadata “in house”. Meta would “avoid duplication of data by efficiently permitting us to keep […] a single copy of the metadata for each of the bibliographic entities involved as citing or cited entities in the different OpenCitations’ citation indexes”, would remove the req
Weekly Report 11: Making Object-Property-Value triples
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

In Weekly Report 10 I talked about searching for answers to the question "What height does a grown Pinus sylvestris normally have?". In the post, I looked at some of the articles returned by the query "Pinus sylvestris"[Abstract] AND height, and found interesting information in the tables. The next step was to extract this information. So that's what I did. The first step was downloading fulltext XML files from the articles with getpapers.
Open Access Tage 2021: valuable insights from the libraries in the German-speaking region
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

On September 27, OpenCitations’ director Silvio Peroni, together with Niels Stern (DOAB/OAPEN) and James MacGregor (PKP), held the online workshop “How Open Infrastructure Benefits Libraries” during the Open Access Tage 2021. Open-Access-Tage (Open Access Days) are the annual central platform for the steadily growing Open Access and Open Science community from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and are aimed at all those involved with the possibilities, conditions and perspectives of scientific publishing.
The future of Ecosphere the journal: a suggestion
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

As some may be aware, ESA has launched a new journal: Ecosphere. ESA describes Ecosphere as “… the newest addition to the ESA family of journals, is an online-only, open-access alternative with a scope as broad as the science of ecology itself. ” The description is vague  – is it a new incarnation of  Ecology  ? Or is it an ecologically focused equivalent of PLoS One?
Sometimes it’s important to ignore the details [Things you should read]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Joan Strassman has a very nice post about why it is sometimes useful to step back from the intricate details of biological systems in order to understand the general processes that are operating. Here’s a little taste of the general message The whole post is definitely worth a read.
Thoughts on developing a digital presence
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

A while ago there was a bit of discussion around the academic blogosphere recently regarding the importance of developing a digital presence and what the best form of that presence might be. Recently as I’ve been looking around at academics’ websites as part of faculty, postdoc and graduate student searchers going on in my department/lab I’ve been reminded of the importance of having a digital presence.
Four basic skill areas for a macroecologist [Guest post]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

 This is a guest post by Elita Baldridge (@elitabaldridge), a graduate student in Ethan White’s lab in the Ecology Center at Utah State University.  As a budding macroecologist, I have thought a lot about what skills I need to acquire during my Ph.D. This is my model of the four basic attributes for a macroecologist, although I think it is more generally applicable to many ecologists as well:  Data   Statistics   Math   
Weekly Report 3: Playing with NodeJS
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

I made a test JavaScript file for NodeJS to practice working with it, and prepare more for the project. The result (code here) is a small program with some options: Options: -h, --help output usage information -V, --version output the version number -o File to write data to -c File to print -t Text to print -d Data to write to file -v Verbosity: DEBUG, INFO, LOG, WARN or ERROR I made a custom logger and a program to parse passed arguments.
Software can be a primary product of scientific research
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

Once again, I’m writing in response to Titus Brown, who answered Is software a primary product of science? with “no” in his blog and on Twitter: Note that Titus cleverly changed the question from asking about research to asking about science. Perhaps we can combine these and think about scientific research. So, what are primary products of scientific research?
What I learned about me when I started reading novels again
Authors: Matheson Stephen
Published: August 2023

A few years ago, I somehow realized that I wanted to read more stories.My work as a journal editor involved hours of intense scientific reading every day, and my insatiable interest in biology meant that my recreational reading was almost exclusively about science. But I could remember how much I loved stories as a kid: Tom Sawyer, The Black Stallion, all the Roald Dahl things.
Is software reproducibility possible and practical?
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

This blog is based on part of a talk I gave in January 2017, and the thinking behind it, in turn, is based on my view of a series of recent talks and blogs, and how they might be fit together. The short summary is that general software reproducibly is hard at best, and may not be practical except in special cases.
Postdoctoral position in macroecology, quantitative ecology, and ecoinformatics
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

We have a postdoc position available for someone interested in the general areas of macroecology, quantitative ecology, and ecoinformatics. Here’s the short ad with links to the full job description: If you’re interested in the position and are planning to be at ESA please leave a comment or drop me an email (ethan.white@usu.edu) and we can try to set up a time to talk while we’re in Pittsburgh.
Weekly Report 6: ContentMine output to JSON to HTML
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

The "small program" proved more of a challenge than it seemed. Making a program to generate the JSON (link) was fairly easy. Loop through directories, find files, loop through files, collect XML data, save all collected data as JSON in a file. It took a while, but I think I spent the most time of it setting up the logistics, i.e. a nice logger, a file system reader and an argument processor. The generated JSON was around 11 MB for 250 papers, so I didn't put it on GitHub, but it's fairly ease to reproduce. Here's a step-by-step guide.
Adding citations as part of the software publication process
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

The new international initiative, Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), that started this week with the aim of promoting the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data, is a wonderful idea.
California Digital Library invests in OpenCitations
Authors: Di Giambattista Chiara
Published: August 2023

OpenCitations is excited to announce that the California Digital Library (CDL) has joined our growing list of contributors. CDL’s commitment to sustainable open scholarship has great value for the global scholarly community.
Hardening software vs making it sustainable
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

This post is inspired by a post from C. Titus Brown, where Titus asked “What do you think about the term & practice of ‘hardening software’?” and a few of us used comments to discuss the concept.
Stay Classy Wiley
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

I logged into one of my reviewer accounts at a Wiley journal this morning and was greeted by a redirect that took me to a page with the following message: Asking someone who is already working for you for free if it’s OK to also try to sell them stuff while they’re doing it seems like a pretty good definition of classless to me.
Going big with data in ecology
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

A friend of mine once joked that doing ecological informatics meant working with data that was big enough that you couldn’t open it in an Excel spreadsheet.
Conifer taxonomy - Part 2
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

Continuation of this post. I got an answer quite quickly (but after posting the previous post): @larswillighagen @Wikipedia try The Plant List. That's widely accepted: https://t.co/5J0AKPsCzD— R⓪ss Mounce (@rmounce) 20 augustus 2016 The Plant List marks what species are in what genus and family, and groups families in Major Groups, e.g. gymnosperms. It also marks synonyms. With a list of conifer species and the ContentMine output, I can determine which species are not conifers, and find how they interact with each other.
Why computer labs should never be controlled by individual colleges/departments
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

Some time ago in academia we realized that it didn’t make sense for individual scientists or even entire departments to maintain their own high performance computing resources.
Weecology at ESA
Authors: Ethan Morgan &
Published: August 2023

If folks are interested in seeing what Weecology has been up to lately we have a bunch of posters and talks at ESA this year. In order of appearance: Tuesday at 2:30 pm in Room 9AB our new postdoctoral researcher Dan McGlinn will be giving a talk on looking at community assembly using patterns of with- and between-species spatial variation.
Parsing invalid JSON
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

When developing Citation.js, I needed to get a JavaScript Object from a string representing one. There are several methods for this, and the one that comes to mind first is JSON.parse(). However, this didn't work.
EcoBloggers: The ecology blog aggregator
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

EcoBloggers is a relatively new blog aggregator started by the awesome International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists (INNGE). Blog aggregators pull together posts from a number of related blogs to provide a one stop shop for folks interested in that topic. The most famous example of a blog aggregator in science is probably Research Blogging. I’m a big fan of EcoBloggers for three related reasons.
Some meandering thoughts on the difference between EcologicalData.org and DataONE
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

In the comments of my post on the Ecological Data Wiki Jarrett Byrnes asked an excellent question: As I started to answer it I realized that my thoughts on the matter were better served by a full post, both because they are a bit lengthy and because I don’t actually know much about DataONE and would love to have some of their folks come by, correct my mistaken impressions, and just chat about this stuff in general.
Eric Lander’s argument for public funding of basic research
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

Eric Lander, who co-chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) for the White House, gave a great talk at the 2015 National Math Festival in Washington, DC on April 16th, called “The Miracle Machine.”  The full talk is available from this page, specifically as a Word document.  Eric’s abstract was: Many governments are currently redirecting money for basic research into more applied areas.
A Plea for Pluralism
Authors: Ernest Morgan
Published: August 2023

As you may have seen earlier either on Jabberwocky, EEB and Flow, or over at Oikos‘ new blog, the most recent piece about how some branch of ecology is ruining ecology has caused some discussion in the blogosphere.
Software metrics – what to count and how
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

Measuring software impact is important, for a variety of reasons, and a variety of people, including software creators, their employers, their funders, potential users of the software, and academics studying software and science.  This topic has been studied by many, including some nice work by Thain, Tannenbaum, and Livny about 10 years ago.
Weekly Report 12: Including table facts in Wikidata
Authors: Willighagen Lars
Published: August 2023

This week, the big achievement is the addition of a multi-step form to add the semantic triples from last week to Wikidata with QuickStatements, which we talked about before too. The new '+' icon in table rows now links to a page where you can curate the statement and add Wikidata IDs where necessary. At the last step, you get a table of the existing data, the added identifiers and soon their Wikidata label. There, you can open the statement in QuickStatements, where it will be added to Wikidata. This is a delicate procedure; it's important to keep an eye on the validity of the statement.
Software sustainability research with rOpenSci
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

I’m happy to announce that I’ve started a project with rOpenSci under their recent award from the Helmsley Foundation. My work with rOpenSci will focus on sustainability of the project itself. Sustainability can be defined as having the resources to do the necessary work to continue and grow rOpenSci. This is one of the most difficult challenges for rOpenSci and for many other research software projects.
Postdoc in Evolutionary Bioinformatics [Jobs]
Authors: White Ethan
Published: August 2023

There is an exciting postdoc opportunity for folks interested in quantitative approaches to studying evolution in Michael Gilchrist’s lab at the University of Tennessee. I knew Mike when we were both in New Mexico. He’s really sharp, a nice guy, and a very patient teacher. He taught me all about likelihood and numerical maximization and opened my mind to a whole new way of modeling biological systems.
The Need for Notebooks
Authors: Katz Daniel S.
Published: August 2023

In response to Doug Thain’s question: I think the most important thing we need is an electronic lab notebook that really allows us to go back and understand exactly what we did, repeat it, modify it, record it, etc.  If you accept this, it leads to a number of points: Why don’t more people (including me) do this now? What tool(s) should we use?
Retrograde Talon intramedullary nails versus distal locking plates in the management of extra-articular distal femoral shaft fractures
Authors: Dundar Abdulrahim , Ipek Deniz , Şehmuz Kaya
Published: August 2023

Introduction: Distal femoral shaft fractures are characterized by their increasing incidence and complexity, presenting a significant challenge in management. The objective of this retrospective study was to compare the clinical and radiological results of patients with extra-articular distal third femoral shaft fractures treated using either retrograde Talon Distal Fix nail or a distal femur locking plate. Material and Method: The study comprised 40 patients aged > 18 years who presented at our hospital with a distal third femoral shaft fracture between January 2017 and January 2023. The patients were divided into two groups: Group TDN, treated with retrograde Talon Distal Fix nailing (n = 18), and Group DLP, treated with a distal locking plate (n = 22). Demographic data, follow-up period, operating time, time to union, range of motion (ROM), mechanism of injury (traffic accident, fall from height, workplace accident, gunshot injury), fracture type, complications, and surgical method were retrospectively recorded. Clinical evaluation included deformity, knee ROM, pain, and the knee total score (KSS) for walking and knee stability. Results: The mean age of the patients was 48.03 ± 12.31 (min-max: 23-69) years, and the mean follow up time for all patients was 15.88 ± 2.32 (12-21) months. The mean time to union was 25.55 ± 1.86 (22-30) weeks. Delayed union and non-union rates were similar between the research groups (P = 1.000, P = 0.673, respectively). Union time (weeks) and mean ROM were not significantly different between the groups (P = 0.881, P = 0.892, respectively). The mean operation time of the TDF group (48.78 ± 3.94 minutes) was significantly lower than that of the DLP group (62.45 ± 3.33 minutes) (P < 0.001). The mean blood loss values of the TDF group (267.5 ± 32.4) were significantly lower than those of the DLP group (324.1 ± 20.2) (P < 0.001). Conclusion: This study demonstrated that both retrograde talon nails and locking plates provided satisfactory clinical and radiological results in the management of distal third femoral shaft fractures. Moreover, the retrograde talon nail offered the advantages of a shorter operating time and less intraoperative blood loss.
Power loom weaving factory "Čukarica" 1935-1946 (Ivković and comp., textile industry Parezanović and comp, textile industry Jovanović and Jorgaćević)
Authors: Lukić Nenad
Published: August 2023

The textile industry in the territory of Belgrade today, but also in Serbia, which was an integral part of the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia, experienced a growth during the interwar period and became one of the busiest industrial branches. In this paper, for the fi rst time, a textile factory with a small capacity will be present-ed, which in the period between 1935-1946. worked in Čukarica, industrial suburb of Belgrade. The paper was written on the basis of original archival materials and relevant literature dealing with the industrialization of Belgrade in the period between the two world wars. It is limited to the year 1946, when the company became social ownership, and the emphasis in it is placed on the presentation of the factory, its facilities, as well as its operations.
Influence of architecture in clothing design
Authors: Jankoska Maja , Stevkovska-Stojanovska Ruzica
Published: August 2023

This paper describes and state the relationship between architecture and fashion, as both disciplines respond to the culture and environment of individuals and societies. Very often fashion designers were inspired by architecture, but also architects were inspired from the fashion creations. Very often, designers in their fashion pieces reflect the architectural constructions. The aim of this work is architecture, an art that, like fashion, is the fruit of creativity. More precise, the architecture is used as inspiration for creating two fashion models. The basic construction of a dress is used and then with use of modeling, the pattern pieces are created. With these models women's fashion is bring closer to and shows the connection with architecture. At the end we get the conclusion that both, the fashion and architecture, in the past and in the future, remain two arts that are connected through creativity, inspiration, technology and human imagination.
Structural characteristics, compression and strength properties of plain weft-knitted fabrics before and after washing
Authors: Asanović Koviljka , Bukhonka Nadiia , Mihailović Tatjana , Kostić Mirjana
Published: August 2023

The structural characteristics, compression, and strength properties of knitted fabrics, before and after washing, were investigated in this paper. The experimental material consisted of three plain weft-knitted fabrics produced of cotton, wool, and organic wool. The structural characteristics of the knitted fabrics were analyzed by measuring the number of courses and Wales per centimeter, stitch density, yarn loop length, weight, and thickness. The compression properties were determined by measuring compressibility, thickness loss, and compressive resilience. The strength properties were investigated by measuring the bursting strength and ball traverse elongation. The results showed that stitch density and raw material composition affect compression properties, raw material composition affects strength properties, and washing affects structural characteristics, compression, and strength properties of knitted fabrics. After washing, all knitted fabrics increased in the number of courses and Wales per centimeter, stitch density, weight, thick-ness, compressibility, thickness loss, and ball traverse elongation, and decreased in compressive resilience and bursting strength. Additionally, shrinkage of the knitted fabrics was observed after washing. Also, cotton and organic wool knit-ted fabrics decreased in yarn loop length, while wool knitted fabric increased in yarn loop length after washing.
A comparative study on dyeing capability of conventional and organic cotton fabrics
Authors: Kadınkız Naz , Asma Ayçin , Demirel Gizem , Kabir Humayun , Uzun Muhammet
Published: August 2023

Cotton fiber, which is the most widely used natural fiber in the textile and paper industries, has a crucial environmental impact. Cultivation of conventional cotton consumes a lot of water and requires the usage of a higher amount of pesticides. Organic cotton is a more environmentally friendly alternative to its growing conditions. The characteristics of cotton change with the differences in growing conditions. In this study, the properties of yarns obtained from both conventionally and organically grown cotton were tested and analyzed. The properties of these yarns in the fabric structure were compared in terms of fabric performance. The produced fabrics were dyed in the cold-pad batch method with 5 different colors of reactive dyes, which are the most demanding colors in the ready-made garment industry. The physical properties and the fastness test results of the dyed organic and conventional cotton fabrics were investigated in detail to highlight the plant growing effects on the fabric behavior. Comparative color analysis and evaluation of the fabrics were made to discuss the performance of the fabrics. It is found that organically grown cotton is not only superior in quality but also has no negative eff ECT on fabric properties.
Investigation of Secondary School Students' Processes of Constructing Area and Volume Relations of Rectangular Prisms
Authors: YENİLMEZ Kürşat , OKUYUCU İlhan
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study is to examine the knowledge construction processes of 5th grade students, who do not have any knowledge about the surface area and volume of the rectangular prism, within the framework of the observable epistemic actions of the RBC (Recognizing, Building-with, Constructing) abstraction model. This study was carried out according to the case study pattern, which is one of the qualitative research types. The study was carried out in the 2021-2022 academic year. For the research, six students were selected by the maximum diversity sampling method. Three homogeneous groups were formed and semi-structured interviews were conducted. An activity paper consisting of eight problems was used to obtain data. The obtained data were evaluated in the context of observable epistemic actions of RBC. Only a student with a low level of mathematics achievement couldn’t construct knowledge of the surface area of the prism. All students have found the number of unit cubes that can fit inside the rectangular prism. But three students with a high level of success were able to construct and use volume formulas. In the research, it has been seen that recognition and building-with actions are easier to perform than construction action. As the level of mathematics achievement decreased, the speed and success of abstraction decreased.
Comportamiento de parámetros productivos en conejos (Oryctolagus cuniculus) alimentados con diferentes balanceados peletizados comerciales en el cantón Quevedo provincia de los Rios
Authors: Sánchez Laiño Adolfo , Espinoza Guerra Ítalo , Torres Navarrete Emma Danielly , Montenegro Vivas León , Sánchez Torres Jeniffer , García Martinez Antón
Published: August 2023

La investigación se realizó en la Facultad de Ciencias Pecuarias (FCP), de la Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo (UTEQ), ubicada en el km. 71/2 de la vía Quevedo-El Empalme, provincia de Los Ríos - Ecuador; a 01°06 de latitud Sur, 79°29 de latitud Oeste y a una altura de 73 msnm. Se evaluó el comportamiento productivo y la rentabilidad, en conejos alimentados con balanceados peletizados comerciales y la inclusión de pasto saboya (Panicum máximum. J.). El estudio tuvo una duración de 42 días, se utilizaron 64 conejos machos de raza Nueva Zelanda, de 35 días de edad con un peso promedio de 770,10 g. Se aplicó un diseño completamente al azar (DCA) con cuatro tratamientos y ocho repeticiones. Para establecer las diferencias entre medias se aplicó Tukey (P≤0,05). Las variables evaluadas fueron: consumo de balanceado (CB), consumo de forraje verde (CFV), consumo de alimento (CA), ganancia de peso (GP), índice de conversión alimenticia (ICA), peso a la canal (PC) y el rendimiento a la canal (RC). El mayor CB (93,66 g MS animal-1 día-1); CA (110,09 g MS animal-1 día-1); GP (29,65 g animal-1 día-1), lo registro el tratamiento T3, sin embargo, el rendimiento a la canal y la rentabilidad más eficiente lo obtuvo el tratamiento T4 (56,09 y 41,37 %, respectivamente). El suministro de alimento peletizado en el engorde de conejos, durante el periodo de julio-diciembre (época seca en la zona de estudio), permite alcanzar pesos promedios de 2017,75 g a los 77 días de edad.
Agro-ecosistemas tradicionales con cacao: Análisis de casos de pequeños productores en Los Ríos, Ecuador
Authors: Torres Navarrete Emma Danielly , Torres Navarrete Alexandra Elizabeth , Sánchez Laíño Adolfo Rodolfo
Published: August 2023

Se describieron ocho agroecosistemas tradicionales en los cantones Mocache y Palenque de la provincia de Los Ríos, Ecuador, con la finalidad de detallar el manejo de los componentes desde el punto de vista de los pequeños productores. Para la selección de los informantes se consideró que el agroecosistema tenga dentro de sus componentes el cultivo de cacao y que el sistema de producción sea representativo de la zona. La metodología consistió en la aplicación de encuestas (datos agronómicos, económicos y sociales) de interés en un mismo caso realizado durante un año. Los resultados demuestran que todos los productores tienen como componente importante en su sistema de producción además del cacao: maíz, arroz, maracuyá, frutales, especies forestales, plátano, café y hortalizas y en el componente pecuario gallinas, pollos y porcinos, siendo manejados en forma tradicional. Los componentes que generan ingresos durante todo el año son cacao + plátano y maracuyá. Los Beneficios netos por hectárea-1 estuvieron en el orden de $ 2617 y la rentabilidad promedio 113.93 %. El beneficio Neto por consumo familiar promedio fue de 1576,99 USD., generándose un ingreso anual total de 4 194USD, lo que indica un ingreso promedio mensual de 349,50. Se concluye que los agroecosistemas tradicionales generan ingresos mensuales inferiores al costo de la canasta básica y del salario básico unificado de Ecuador que para el año 2016 fue de 506,90. USD y 366,00 respectivamente.
Evaluación físico-mecánicas de tableros a base del Aserrín de Pigüe (Piptocoma discolor) y bagazo de caña de azúcar en Pastaza
Authors: Gonzalez Rivera Juan Elias , Jaramillo Ponce Jenny Paola , Pérez Quintana Manuel Lázaro , Sablón Cossio Neyfe , Oliva-Merencio Deny
Published: August 2023

En este estudio se presenta la evaluación de las propiedades físico-mecánicas de tableros a base de las fibras vegetales aserrín de Pigüe (Piptocoma discolor) y bagazo de caña de azúcar (Saccharum officinarum) fabricados como aglomerados tipo MDF, con dos tipos de adhesivo, blancola y engrudo. Se realizó un diseño completamente al azar, con seis tratamientos y cinco repeticiones en un total de 30 unidades experimentales. Los resultados demostraron que el mejor tratamiento fue AE2 (50% aserrín, 50% bagazo de caña y engrudo) con un contenido de humedad de 9,36%, hinchazón 15,17%, absorción de humedad 22,34%, esfuerzo máximo de tensión 9,7 MPa, módulo de elasticidad 19,2 MPa y carga máxima 1836 N, que cumple los estándares establecido en las Normas Internacionales UNE-EN 322:1994, UNE-EN 317:1994, COVENIN 847-91 y ASTM D 1037-1 2.
EUFEMISMOS Y NEOLOGISMOS EN EL CONTEXTO DE LA GUERRA EN UCRANIA
Authors: Spišiaková Mária
Published: August 2023

En el artículo se presentan y analizan los eufemismos, neologismos y otros recursos estilísticos y léxicos (metáforas, colocaciones, frases hechas) relacionados con la guerra en Ucrania usados en los medios de comunicación en español. Se ofrece una breve visión general del uso de los recursos especiales en los medios en español, se proporcionan ejemplos aparecidos en los textos informativos de los medios de comunicación después del 24 de febrero de 2022 hasta marzo de 2023. A partir del análisis cualitativo del texto intentamos demostrar el uso abusivo e innecesario de los eufemismos y su influencia en el receptor. También analizamos otros recursos especiales (neológicos) que han aparecido en relación con la guerra en Ucrania. El presente estudio facilitará el uso de los resultados de la investigación para ampliar el ámbito temático de los programas de formación de los estudiantes universitarios del español en Eslovaquia.
TIPOS DE INTERFERENCIA LÉXICO-SEMÁNTICA ENTRE EL ESLOVACO Y EL ESPAÑOL
Authors: Ulašin Bohdan
Published: August 2023

El artículo presenta una clasificación de los tipos de interferencia léxico-semántica basada en un análisis contrastivo. La clasificación pretende tener una validez más amplia, aunque se base en los ejemplos de interferencia solamente entre el eslovaco y el español. Aparte de los casos prototípicos de los llamados falsos amigos consistentes en las diferencias semánticas, presentamos otras posibles fuentes de interferencia, como por ejemplo distintos valores de parámetros estilísticos, cronológicos, de frecuencia, etc. Finalmente, la falsa analogía se da también en casos de los equivalentes heteronímicos, dado que los hablantes presuponen a menudo, por analogía, parámetros idénticos en el equivalente de la L2.
Chapter 1 – Exploring the Advancements, Benefits and Challenges of Emerging Technologies
Authors:   Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Gladson Robin Lalu
Published: August 2023

The rapid pace of technological advancements has had a profound impact on our lives and the world around us, transforming the way in which we live and work through advancements such as the rise of 5G technology, the growth of cloud computing, the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), and the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article provides a comprehensive overview of these recent advances, exploring their benefits and drawbacks, as well as their impact on various industries and our daily lives. The benefits of these advancements include improved efficiency, cost savings, and improved decision-making, along with new opportunities for innovation and progress, however, potential drawbacks and challenges must also be considered, such as ethical and societal risks, cybersecurity risks, and dependence on technology. This article concludes by considering the overall impact of technological advancements and highlights the importance of monitoring and addressing their potential drawbacks and challenges in a responsible and sustainable manner, to ensure their positive impact on our lives and communities.
Chapter 2 – A Review of Usage of Artificial Intelligence in Construction Industries
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Stella Mary’s College of Engineering, Aruthenganvilai, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India., P. Sony , S. Indira ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Stella Mary’s College of Engineering, Aruthenganvilai, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India., P. Rama ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Stella Mary’s College of Engineering, Aruthenganvilai, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India., T. Regin ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Stella Mary’s College of Engineering, Aruthenganvilai, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.
Published: August 2023

The numerous complicated issues the construction sector faces, such as cost and time overruns, health and safety concerns, productivity issues, and labour shortages, significantly restrict its ability to grow. Additionally, the construction industry is one of the least digitally advanced in the world, which makes it challenging for it to address the issues it is currently facing. Artificial intelligence (AI), a cutting-edge digital technology, is currently revolutionizing sectors like manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications. Machine learning, knowledge-based systems, computer vision, robotics, and optimization are examples of AI subfields that have been effectively implemented in different industries to boost profitability, efficiency, safety, and security. Despite the advantages of AI applications, the construction industry nevertheless faces a number of AI-related problems. The goal of this study is to decipher AI applications, look at AI methods in use, and pinpoint opportunities and difficulties for AI applications in the construction sector. A rigorous analysis of the body of research on AI’s uses in the construction sector, including activity monitoring, risk management, resource and waste optimization, was carried out. This study also highlighted and discussed the prospects and difficulties associated with AI applications in the construction industry. This study offers insights into important AI applications as they relate to difficulties unique to the construction industry, as well as the approach to realize the attainable benefits of AI in the sector.
Review of the monograph by G.S. Malyshkin and V.S. Melkanovich “Classical and fast projection adaptive algorithms in hydroacoustics”
Authors: Mashoshin A. I.
Published: August 2023

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