bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Beyond Discrete Genres: Mapping News Items onto a Multidimensional Framework of Genre Cues
Authors: Lin Zilin , Welbers Kasper , Vermeer Susan , Trilling Damian
Published: June 2023

In the contemporary media landscape, with the vast and diverse supply of news, it is increasingly challenging to study such an enormous amount of items without a standardized framework. Although attempts have been made to organize and compare news items on the basis of news values, news genres receive little attention, especially the genres in a news consumer’s perception. Yet, perceived news genres serve as an essential component in exploring how news has developed, as well as a precondition for understanding media effects. We approach this concept by conceptualizing and operationalizing a non-discrete framework for mapping news items in terms of genre cues. As a starting point, we propose a preliminary set of dimensions consisting of “factuality” and “formality”. To automatically analyze a large amount of news items, we deliver two computational models for predicting news sentences in terms of the said two dimensions. Such predictions could then be used for locating news items within our framework. This proposed approach that positions news items upon a multidimensional grid helps deepening our insight into the evolving nature of news genres.
This Sample Seems to Be Good Enough! Assessing Coverage and Temporal Reliability of Twitter’s Academic API
Authors: Pfeffer Jürgen , Mooseder Angelina , Lasser Jana , Hammer Luca , Stritzel Oliver , Garcia David
Published: June 2023

Because of its willingness to share data with academia and industry, Twitter has been the primary social media platform for scientific research as well as for consulting businesses and governments in the last decade. In recent years, a series of publications have studied and criticized Twitter's APIs and Twitter has partially adapted its existing data streams. The newest Twitter API for Academic Research allows to "access Twitter's real-time and historical public data with additional features and functionality that support collecting more precise, complete, and unbiased datasets. The main new feature of this API is the possibility of accessing the full archive of all historic Tweets. In this article, we will take a closer look at the Academic API and will try to answer two questions. First, are the datasets collected with the Academic API complete? Secondly, since Twitter's Academic API delivers historic Tweets as represented on Twitter at the time of data collection, we need to understand how much data is lost over time due to Tweet and account removal from the platform. Our work shows evidence that Twitter's Academic API can indeed create (almost) complete samples of Twitter data based on a wide variety of search terms. We also provide evidence that Twitter's data endpoint v2 delivers better samples than the previously used endpoint v1.1. Furthermore, collecting Tweets with the Academic API at the time of studying a phenomenon rather than creating local archives of stored Tweets, allows for a straightforward way of following Twitter's developer agreement. Finally, we will also discuss technical artifacts and implications of the Academic API. We hope that our work can add another layer of understanding of Twitter data collections leading to more reliable studies of human behavior via social media data.
AnnoBERT: Effectively Representing Multiple Annotators’ Label Choices to Improve Hate Speech Detection
Authors: Yin Wenjie , Agarwal Vibhor , Jiang Aiqi , Zubiaga Arkaitz , Sastry Nishanth
Published: June 2023

Supervised machine learning approaches often rely on a "ground truth" label. However, obtaining one label through majority voting ignores the important subjectivity information in tasks such hate speech detection. Existing neural network models principally regard labels as categorical variables, while ignoring the semantic information in diverse label texts. In this paper, we propose AnnoBERT, a first-of-its-kind architecture integrating annotator characteristics and label text with a transformer-based model to detect hate speech, with unique representations based on each annotator's characteristics via Collaborative Topic Regression (CTR) and integrate label text to enrich textual representations. During training, the model associates annotators with their label choices given a piece of text; during evaluation, when label information is not available, the model predicts the aggregated label given by the participating annotators by utilising the learnt association. The proposed approach displayed an advantage in detecting hate speech, especially in the minority class and edge cases with annotator disagreement. Improvement in the overall performance is the largest when the dataset is more label-imbalanced, suggesting its practical value in identifying real-world hate speech, as the volume of hate speech in-the-wild is extremely small on social media, when compared with normal (non-hate) speech. Through ablation studies, we show the relative contributions of annotator embeddings and label text to the model performance, and tested a range of alternative annotator embeddings and label text combinations.
#RoeOverturned: Twitter Dataset on the Abortion Rights Controversy
Authors: Chang Rong-Ching , Rao Ashwin , Zhong Qiankun , Wojcieszak Magdalena , Lerman Kristina
Published: June 2023

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned landmark rulings made in its 1973 verdict in Roe v. Wade. The justices by way of a majority vote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, decided that abortion wasn't a constitutional right and returned the issue of abortion to the elected representatives. This decision triggered multiple protests and debates across the US, especially in the context of the midterm elections in November 2022. Given that many citizens use social media platforms to express their views and mobilize for collective action, and given that online debate provides tangible effects on public opinion, political participation, news media coverage, and the political decision-making, it is crucial to understand online discussions surrounding this topic. Toward this end, we present the first large-scale Twitter dataset collected on the abortion rights debate in the United States. We present a set of 74M tweets systematically collected over the course of one year from January 1, 2022 to January 6, 2023.
Tweets in Time of Conflict: A Public Dataset Tracking the Twitter Discourse on the War between Ukraine and Russia
Authors: Chen Emily , Ferrara Emilio
Published: June 2023

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the days that followed, reports kept flooding in from laymen to news anchors of a conflict quickly escalating into war. Russia faced immediate backlash and condemnation from the world at large. While the war continues to contribute to an ongoing humanitarian and refugee crisis in Ukraine, a second battlefield has emerged in the online space, both in the use of social media to garner support for both sides of the conflict and also in the context of information warfare. In this paper, we present a collection of nearly half a billion tweets, from February 22, 2022, through January 8, 2023, that we are publishing for the wider research community to use. This dataset can be found at https://github.com/echen102/ukraine-russia. Our preliminary analysis on a subset of our dataset already shows evidence of public engagement with Russian state-sponsored media and other domains that are known to push unreliable information towards the beginning of the war; the former saw a spike in activity on the day of the Russian invasion, while the other saw spikes in engagement within the first month of the war. Our hope is that this public dataset can help the research community to further understand the ever-evolving role that social media plays in information dissemination, influence campaigns, grassroots mobilization, and much more, during a time of conflict.
Firearms on Twitter: A Novel Object Detection Pipeline
Authors: Harvey Ryan , Lebret Rémi , Massonnet Stéphane , Aberer Karl , Demartini Gianluca
Published: June 2023

Social media is an important source of real-time imagery concerning world events. One subset of social media posts which may be of particular interest are those featuring firearms. These posts can give insight into weapon movements, troop activity and civilian safety. Object detection tools offer important opportunities for insight into these images. Unfortunately, these images can be visually complex, poorly lit and generally challenging for object detection models. We present an analysis of existing gun detection datasets, and find that these datasets to not effectively address the challenge of gun detection on real-life images. Following this, we present a novel object detection pipeline. We train our pipeline on a number of datasets including one created for this investigation made up of Twitter images of the Russo-Ukrainian War. We compare the performance of our model as trained on the different datasets to baseline numbers provided by original authors as well as a YOLO v5 benchmark. We find that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art benchmarks on contextually rich, real-life-derived imagery of firearms.
NUMERICAL MODELING OF HEAT TRANSFER PROCESSES IN A COAL-FIRED VORTEX FURNACE WITH BOTTOM-PORT SECONDARY BLOWING: ECOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF TWO TYPES OF COAL FUEL
Authors: Krasinsky Denis V.
Published: June 2023

The work was devoted to numerical three-dimensional modeling of aerodynamics and pulverized-coal combustion
processes in a novel vortex furnace of a boiler unit for thermal power stations. A prospective retrofitting design of this furnace, featuring additional tangential blowing at the bottom part of the vortex combustion chamber, was studied.
Two types of Siberian coal at air excess coefficient 1.15 were used in the firing regimes: black coal (case K) and brown coal (case B). Numerical simulation of case K was performed at the Kuznetsk black coal feeding rate of 3.5 kg/s and the obtained aero-thermo-chemical structure in the novel vortex furnace was analyzed, its thermal-engineering parameters were calculated, including the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission value of 851 mg/m3. These results were compared to the previously obtained numerical predictions for brown coal combustion (case B) at a feeding rate of 3.75 kg/s, where the NOx emission was 465 mg/m3. This comparison demonstrated larger levels of the temperature and nitric oxide (NO) concentration inside the combustion chamber in case K. Next, the contributions of the thermal mechanism of NO formation and the fuel-nitrogen mechanism were separately assessed in the NOx post-processing simulations, and these results obtained for cases K and B were compared. From this analysis it was concluded that, compared to black coal, the properties of brown coal (larger wet content and smaller amount of free nitrogen) help to diminish NO formation; therefore, the use of brown coal is preferable as a solid fuel choice in novel vortex furnaces.
DYNAMIC POWER ALLOCATED SWIPT NOMA OVER RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNEL
Authors: Chaudhary Bhanu Pratap , Mishra Ritesh Kumar
Published: June 2023

Cooperative NOMA with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer is one possible method for enhancing the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) of fifth generation (5G) networks. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) offers superior spectrum efficiency than the traditional OMA method providing huge connectivity for machine-to-machine communication and enormous machine-type communication. In this paper, we first present a comparative study of dynamic power allocation method over fixed power allocation method to find the better schemes among them. Later, we use a dynamic power allocation scheme with cooperative communication (Cooperative NOMA) to find the performance of the far user with other transmission methods. Finally, we use the dynamic power allocation method for the far end user with SWIPT NOMA for the transmission and compare it with fixed power allocated SWIPT NOMA.
Challenges of implementing a land cadastre in Rio de Janeiro: the Bangu case study
Authors: Barbalho Leonardo Vieira , Lima Fernando Rodrigues , Coelho Filho Luiz Carlos Teixeira
Published: June 2023

The urban environment of Rio de Janeiro has its own complexities when compared with other large cities in Brazil and around the world. In addition to its peculiar topographic structure, the history of the city – from its foundation to the present day – has led to unique and contradictory characteristics. A multipurpose land cadastre (MLC, in Portuguese: Cadastro Técnico Multifinalitário), since its inception in Brazil, promises to adapt urban environments to a new reality, facilitating the management of their entire territories by using tools such as geographic information systems. This study intends to identify and analyse the main issues that prevent Rio de Janeiro from establishing an effective MLC, most notably the existence of a variety of land-use bases with legal value, but which are contradictory if examined cartographically. This study was carried out by examining a subset of Rio de Janeiro: the Bangu neighbourhood. Bangu was chosen for being a considerably complex neighbourhood, with a variety of land uses that reflects the urban fabric of Rio de Janeiro as a whole. The analysis not only points out inconsistencies in current cadastral bases, but also suggests tasks and policies to help overcome them and provide the city with appropriate cadastral bases that reflect the reality of its urban soil.
Actores del ecosistema de emprendimiento social del estado de Guanajuato, México
Authors: Espínola Verdín Vicente , Torres González Luis Adolfo , González Valdez Christhian Adonai
Published: June 2023

Las políticas para incentivar el emprendimiento en el estado de Guanajuato, México, se han dirigido principalmente hacia el emprendimiento tradicional, mientras que, en su variante social, este ha sido fomentado por universidades e instituciones gubernamentales locales desde acciones aisladas. Ha emergido así un ecosistema informal para la generación y desarrollo del segundo tipo. En este artículo se clasifican los principales actores, así como las preferencias de vinculación por parte de emprendedores sociales. Mediante el análisis de redes sociales –sus principales métricas, posición y morfología– se establece un marco de referencia para estudiar ecosistemas de emprendimiento con el fin de implementar acciones estratégicas que fortalezcan y produzcan actores clave que podrían llevarlo a cabo. Se discuten las funciones estratégicas de los actores en el ecosistema de emprendimiento social en Guanajuato, y se identifican áreas de oportunidad en cuanto a financiamiento e innovación para su generación y desarrollo.
Libre determinación y representación política indígena en el Área Metropolitana de Monterrey
Authors: Rodríguez Alejandro Kate del Rosario , Aguirre Sotelo Víctor Néstor , Mendoza Ibarra José Fredman
Published: June 2023

En el presente artículo se analiza el ejercicio de la libre determinación y la representación política indígena durante las administraciones municipales del Área Metropolitana de Monterrey (AMM) entre 2018 y 2021. El estudio se realiza desde una perspectiva cualitativa, se aplicaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a representantes de organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) en materia indígena y se enviaron solicitudes de información para conocer las acciones gubernamentales de seis de los municipios con mayor cantidad de habitantes de esa etnia. También se identifica la discriminación institucional y la brecha de implementación como variables que influyen en la representación política y la libre determinación de las poblaciones originarias en los distintos ayuntamientos del AMM. Se concluye que el desconocimiento de la ley de derechos indígenas dentro de las administraciones municipales en el AMM implica la obstaculización de la representación política y del ejercicio de la libre determinación, además, aumenta la discriminación institucional y se amplía la brecha de implementación de derechos.
Voces sobre la salud en Twitter: Un análisis de los sentimientos acerca de los hospitales públicos en Quito
Authors: Cabrera-Barona Pablo , Recalde Lorena
Published: June 2023

En el presente artículo se calculan y evalúan sentimientos positivos y negativos sobre los hospitales públicos de Quito, Ecuador, a partir de información recopilada en Twitter. Para ello se realizó una recolección de tweets y retweets (observaciones) sobre hospitales vía API de Twitter. Durante la investigación se clasificaron estos datos en puntajes de sentimientos positivos (de 1 a 5) y negativos (de -1 a -5), usando el algoritmo SentiStrength. También se hallaron las divergencias emocionales de los sentimientos de cada observación y se encontró que las modas de los puntajes positivos y negativos fueron 1 y -1 respectivamente. En el estudio no se obtuvieron diferencias marcadas entre promedios de divergencias emocionales. Se identificó un sesgo de lenguaje positivo en los tweets y retweets que se refieren a los hospitales. Los resultados también sugieren que Twitter es utilizada generalmente para comunicar diversos temas y no para incentivar una retroalimentación con pacientes de los hospitales.
Cass R. Sunstein. 2020. Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Authors: Romero Guiselle Marlene
Published: June 2023

El texto es una reseña del libro de Cass Sunstein (2020) sobre ciencias del comportamiento y políticas públicas.
Jun-APOE-LRP1 axis promotes tumor metastasis in colorectal cancer
Authors: He Lingyuan , Shi Mengchen , Ren Shuwei , Zhang Jingdan , Tian Yu , Yang Xiangling , Liu Huanliang
Published: June 2023

Apolipoprotein E (apoE) has previously been reported to play vital roles in tumor progression. However, the impact of apoE on colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis remains largely unexplored. This study aimed to investigate the role of apoE in CRC metastasis and to identify the transcription factor and receptor of apoE involved in regulation of CRC metastasis. Bioinformatic analyses were conducted to examine the expression pattern and prognosis of apolipoproteins. APOE-overexpressing cell lines were utilized to explore the effects of apoE on proliferation, migration and invasion of CRC cells. Additionally, the transcription factor and receptor of apoE were screened via bioinformatics, and further validated through knockdown experiments. We discovered that the levels of apoC1, apoC2, apoD and apoE were higher in lymphatic invasion group, and a higher apoE level indicated poorer overall survival and progression-free interval. In vitro studies demonstrated that APOE-overexpression did not affect proliferation but promoted the migration and invasion of CRC cells. We also reported that APOE-expression was modulated by the transcription factor Jun by activating the proximal promoter region of APOE, and APOE-overexpression reversed the metastasis suppression of JUN knockdown. Furthermore, bioinformatics analysis suggested an interaction between apoE and low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1). LRP1 was highly expressed in both the lymphatic invasion group and the APOEHigh group. Additionally, we found that APOE-overexpression upregulated LRP1 protein levels, and LRP1 knockdown attenuated the metastasis-promoting function of APOE. Overall, our study suggests that the Jun-APOE-LRP1 axis contributes to tumor metastasis in CRC.
MEDYA VE İLETİŞİM BAĞLAMINDA YAPAY ZEKÂ TARİHİ VE TEKNOLOJİSİ: CHATGPT VE DEEPFAKE İLE GELEN DİJİTAL DÖNÜŞÜM
Authors: KIRIK Ali Murat , ÖZKOÇAK Vahdet
Published: June 2023

Gelişen medya ve iletişim teknolojilerine yapay zekânın entegre olmasıyla birlikte gerek Türkiye’de, gerekse de dünyada dijital dönüşüm daha net bir şekilde yaşanmaya başlamıştır. Yapay zekâ tarihsel süreç boyunca ciddi bir değişim sürecine girmiş ve insanlığı derinden etkileyebilecek potansiyele ulaşmıştır. Dolayısıyla bu çalışma, medya ve iletişim alanında yapay zekâ teknolojisinin kullanım pratiklerinin ne olacağını tespit etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. ChatGPT sohbet robotu ve deepfake teknolojisi gibi örnekler üzerinden yapay zekânın medya sektöründeki dönüşümü irdelenecektir. Zira bu dönüşüm, iletişim süreçlerini etkilemekle birlikte, aynı zamanda güvenilirlik ve etik sorunlarını da beraberinde getirmektedir.

ChatGPT, doğal dil işleme yeteneklerine sahip bir sohbet robotu olarak, çeşitli alanlarda kullanılmaktadır. Özellikle müşteri hizmetleri, içerik oluşturma ve iletişim süreçlerinde ChatGPT'nin kullanımı hızla artmaktadır. Yapay zekânın gelişimiyle birlikte, ChatGPT'nin insan benzeri performans sergileme yeteneği iyileşmiş ve kullanım alanları genişlemiştir. Bununla birlikte, ChatGPT'nin doğru ve güvenilir bilgi sağlama konusundaki sınırlamaları ve yanıltma riskleri de göz ardı edilmemelidir. ChatGPT’nin gerek sosyal medyada gerekse de habercilikte etkilerinin olacağını söyleyebilmek mümkündür. Öte yandan, deepfake teknolojisi, gerçekçi sahte görüntüler oluşturarak medya manipülasyonu potansiyeline sahiptir. Bu teknoloji, fotoğraf ve videolarda yüz değiştirme veya ses dublajı gibi manipülasyonları mümkün kılarak güvenilirlik sorunlarını beraberinde getirir. Deepfake, medya sektöründe güvenilirlik, sahtecilik tespiti ve önleme konularında ciddi endişelere yol açmaktadır.

Sonuç olarak, yapay zekâ teknolojileri, medya ve iletişim alanında önemli bir dönüşüm yaratmaktadır. ChatGPT gibi sohbet robotları, iletişim süreçlerini geliştirerek müşteri deneyimini artırma potansiyeline sahiptir. Ancak, doğru ve güvenilir bilgi sağlama konusundaki sınırlamaları göz önünde bulundurulmalıdır. Deepfake teknolojisi ise medya manipülasyonu ve sahtecilik risklerini beraberinde getirmektedir. Bu nedenle, etik kullanım, güvenilirlik sağlama ve manipülasyonun tespit edilmesi için gelişmiş önlemler alınması büyük önem taşımaktadır.
O [não] atendimento dos Institutos Federais com legislação relativa à mitigação dos impactos socioambientais negativos
Authors: Oliveira Byron Mariano de , Marciano Gabriela Casagrande , Silva Emerson Marques da , Jesus-Lopes José Carlos de
Published: June 2023

A Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica compreende os Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, a Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, os Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica, as Escolas Técnicas vinculadas às Universidades Federais e o Colégio Pedro II. Sua missão social é qualificar profissionais para os diversos setores da economia brasileira, realizar pesquisa e desenvolver novos processos, produtos e serviços em colaboração com o setor produtivo. A Rede Federal é reconhecida por integrar instituições privilegiadas que promovem e socializam os conhecimentos, através dos processos de ensino, pesquisa, extensão e inovação, bem como a educação ambiental, à luz das dimensões da sustentabilidade. Suas atividades administrativas e de ensino produzem impactos socioambientais negativos, como quaisquer outros tipos de organizações. Para mitigar os impactos socioambientais produzidos, a Instrução Normativa 10/2012 obriga a elaboração do Plano de Gestão de Logística Sustentável pelos órgãos públicos federais diretos e indiretos, como é o caso da Rede Federal. Diante do exposto, questiona-se: Como as gestões dos Institutos Federais lidam com a obrigatoriedade do cumprimento da Instrução Normativa relativa à mitigação dos impactos socioambientais produzidos? Assim, o objetivo geral deste estudo é analisar o cumprimento desta ordem legal, por parte da gestão dos Institutos Federais, quanto à mitigação dos impactos socioambientais negativos causados em suas sedes e campi. O estudo traz uma pesquisa exploratória, descritiva-reflexiva. A coleta dos dados secundários ocorreu nas páginas eletrônicas dos IF. Resultados preliminares mostram baixo índice de cumprimento da IN 10/2012, por parte dos gestores dos Institutos Federais.
Produção científica (2011-2021) sobre políticas públicas voltadas ao Semiárido por meio de tecnologias sociais
Authors: Monturil de Morais Fabrício Higo , Guimarães Jairo De Carvalho , Reis Lopes Wilza Gomes
Published: June 2023

Em nível mundial, diversos estudos científicos vêm sendo publicados envolvendo políticas públicas, tecnologias para a convivência com o semiárido voltadas para a agricultura familiar, em várias áreas do conhecimento.  Neste estudo tem-se como objetivo fazer uma análise cienciométrica da produção científica do período de 2011 a 2021, relacionada às políticas públicas de difusão de tecnologias de convivência com o semiárido voltadas para a agricultura familiar. A pesquisa se deu através de uma busca no Portal de Periódicos da CAPES, onde foram analisadas as principais bases de dados, periódicos, idiomas de publicação, palavras-chave e principais autores. Foram considerados apenas artigos publicados em periódicos revisados por pares, utilizando-se como palavras-chave, “agricultura familiar”, “políticas públicas” e “semiárido”, separadas pelo operador booleano AND. Foi constatado que as pesquisas são poucas, ocorrendo decréscimo a partir de 2018. Além disso, a grande maioria das pequisas realizadas concentra-se em uma única universidade do Nordeste, pelo fato de a temática ser de grande interesse para essa região. Percebe-se a necessidade de incremento na colaboração entre grupos e centros de pesquisa das diversas regiões brasileiras, e até mesmo em pesquisas e colaborações internacionais, o que pode fortalecer as políticas públicas para a Ciência, a Tecnolgia e a Inovação brasileiras.
A banalização do mal na Gestão: o caso da mineriodependência da Vale S/A em Brumadinho/MG
Authors: Alves Elizeu Barroso
Published: June 2023

Este estudo analisa a produção da versão do crime corporativo relacionado ao rompimento da barragem da Vale S/A em Brumadinho/MG. Sobre o crime corporativo, este estudo traz uma particular contribuição ao apresentá-lo como legitimado pelo Management, no qual a dinâmica das organizações operadas sob sua lógica influencia as práticas criminosas. Assim, o estudo teve por objetivo analisar quais as circunstâncias que favorecem ao crime corporativo sob o prisma da minério-depêndencia. Partimos da premissa de que dentro das práticas corporativas manifestas com a ausência de uma reflexão ética, as corporações agem também dentro de um lado sombrio. Metodologicamente, buscamos nos orientar pela pesquisa documental no processo investigativo e relatório final da CPI, aplicando uma análise de discurso de perspectiva habermasiana, visando demonstrar que as práticas comunicativas podem ser distorcidas intencionalmente em benefício de um grupo e em detrimento de outro. Apontamos indícios do Relatório da CPI Bruma que apontam que o rompimento da Barragem B1 da Mina Córrego do Feijão não foi um acidente. Ocorreu por conta da negligência da Vale S/A, que visou ao seu êxito financeiro, optando por priorizar os resultados econômicos e ignorar o perigo iminente do rompimento, enfim, um crime corporativo que banaliza o mal na gestão.
Anti-Caucasian folding of the Kura-South Caspian Hollow (by the example of South Caspian Basin and Cis-Lesser Caucasian trough)
Authors:   Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Baku, Azerbaijan, Pogorelova E. , Abdulla-zada M. ,   Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Published: June 2023

The South Caspian Basin (SCB) is the deepest submerged sedimentary basin in the World and occupies the entire southern
deep-water part of the Caspian Sea and the Kura and West Turkmenian lowlands adjacent to it from the west and east. The SCB
has the thinnest (6...8 km) consolidated oceanic-type crust and the thickest sedimentary cover (25...30 km). The thickness of the
Pliocene-Quaternary deposits is 10...12 km. The thickness of the main oil and gas complex – Productive-Red-Colored Strata of the Lower Pliocene is 7 ... 8 km. More than 6 km of volcanic-sedimentary deposits accumulated within the Lesser Caucasian trough at the Mesozoic stage of development. However, in the western part of the trough the translucent pre-Jurassic basement which has a northeastern orientation formed a similar orientation of the overlying deposits. All of the above mentioned events took place under conditions of compression in the north of SCB which were realized at the level of the consolidated crust by subduction, and at the level of the sedimentary cover by structure forming processes. Primary migration passes into the lateral from the submerged zones to the uplifted ones. Deep faults that have formed transverse folding can also serve as migration routes. The submerged predominantly gas-bearing depositional zone of the Productive Strata is represented by folding of both Caucasian and anti-Caucasian strike. Despite the fact that the Kura-South-Caspian depression at the present stage covers the territory from the Dziruly massif in the west to the West Turkmenian depression in the east inclusive as a single negative structural element, in the Mesozoic time as follows from the above it represented two independent areas of subsidence and sediments accumulation in the Transcaucasian microcontinent (western part) and the Greater Caucasian-South Caspian rift basin (eastern part). Therefore, the anti-Caucasian folding of the Kura-South Caspian depression has a different genesis and naturally a different oil and gas potential.
History, current status and future prospets of geoelectromagnetic research in Ukraine
Authors:   Institute of Geophysics NAS of Ukrane, Kiev, Ukraine, Burakhovich Т. , Kushnir А. ,   Institute of Geophysics NAS of Ukrane, Kiev, Ukraine
Published: June 2023

The current state and prospects for the development of geoelectromagnetic methods are considered. Problems and ways to solve them, new ideas and new tasks are discussed. Modern experimental methods of observations, universal software complexes for their processing, methods of three-dimensional model building of various geological and tectonic units of Ukraine are analyzed. The geological and geophysical interpretation results of regional and local three-dimensional models are shown. Geoelectrical inhomogeneities in the earth's crust and upper mantle of Ukraine, which are characterized by abnormally low and abnormally high values of resistivity, have been revealed. Zones of high conductivity that reach the surface are defined by subvertical heterogeneity and form a galvanically connected system. It spatially correlates with deep faults of various ranks, identified by geological data. The nature of conductivity anomalies at the depth of up to 2.5 km is due to the presence of conductive mineral associations (sulfides, graphite) in the zones of metasomatic processing rocks that lead to the formation of ore mineralization (uranium, gold, rare metals). In the earth's crust at the depths of 5–30 km and the upper mantle of 50–120 km, most likely, traces of the influence of modern mantle fluids are reflected. More and more often, according to the latest data, the nature of anomalies is considered as the result of the joint activity of electronic and ionic conductivity. Conductivity anomalies of the earth's crust and upper mantle indicate possible zones of geodynamic activation, and deep faults are defined by zones of increased permeability through which mantle fluids are unloaded through the lithosphere. In particular, the connection of conductivity anomalies on the territory of Ukraine with the processes of petroleum and ore deposit formation is demonstrated.
To the Sounds of a Siren. Review of Arsen Shpak's “Drawing” Exhibition In Lviv
Authors:   Balkan History Association (Lviv, Voloshchenko Stanislav ,   Ukraine)
Published: June 2023

This review is dedicated to the debut exhibition of Lviv artist Arsen Shpak. The exhibition called "Drawing" opened in Lviv, at the Vinyl Club music space, on June 25, 2022. For connoisseurs of the art of drawing, the artist offered thirteen of his own graphic works. The exhibited objects are an exclusively new series of the author's works and were shown for the first time. The work on their creation is largely due to the beginning of the full-scale open invasion of the Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In my review, the first thing I talk about is the identity of the author, which includes short biographical notes, the stages of his formation, first of all, as an artist, as well as a restorer, which contributes to a better understanding the peculiarities of his work. The proposed text presents the first description of Arsen Shpak's drawings. Attention is focused on the material of his works, performance technique, and analysis of plots. The exhibited objects were created by the author with a graphite pencil on drawing paper, formats A3 and B2. The author demonstrated drawings in passe-partout and anti-frames. His works are characterized by conciseness and simplicity of forms, which are realized through the use of geometric structures. Geometry permeates all drawings, even in the case of anthropological subjects. Eleven works are devoted to female subjects and two to exclusively geometric figures. Female images are characterized by clearly expressed gestural aspects, which are manifested in the cheekbones, features of the gaze of the depicted, as well as masculine features. The works, primarily anthropological, are characterized by sacred interspersions, which are transmitted through the halos above the heads of his characters. Analysis of Arsen Shpak's works proved that the presented graphics were significantly influenced by the tragedy of war, as it was embodied in the emotionality of his heroes, in part, their sadness, pain, and longing, but at the same time with a sense of victory in the fight against evil. Publishing his work to the general public opened up prospects for the artist's further searches and their embodiment in new works.
The Curious Case of Carson McCullers: Appropriation, Allyship, and the Problem of Speaking for Others
Authors: Steele Alexander
Published: June 2023

In this article, I situate the life and work of Carson McCullers within the larger disability studies debate over the problem of speaking for others. The essay makes two arguments that build on one another. The first is for including McCullers more fully in the disabled community and in studies of literary disability, despite her having expressed a small number of ableist comments. The article suggests that McCullers’s experience as a queer disabled woman became a key lens that animated much of her writing. The essay then turns to its second and larger goal, which is to consider how the complicated case of McCullers can help the field distinguish allyship from appropriation and unethical identification. Turning to feminist theorists of communicative ethics Iris Marion Young and Linda Alcoff, as well as Deaf and disability scholars like Rebecca Sanchez, the article ultimately argues that McCullers’s “use” of deafness in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, though undeniably flawed, is not an act of appropriation but an early historical attempt at allyship from a differently disabled perspective. Her commitment to deafness is driven by a sustained critique informed by the shared afflictions of injustice, but one that also overall refuses to dissolve human difference or speak for deafness.
Challenging and Reinforcing the Ability/Disability System through Advocacy for Disabled Dogs
Authors: Guenther Katja M.
Published: June 2023

This paper illuminates how volunteers and animal rescuers who assist dogs from a high-intake public shelter in the Los Angeles metropolitan area simultaneously resist the devaluation of the lives of disabled dogs while sensationalizing and fetishizing disability through their discursive and representational practices. Drawing on observations from three years of ethnographic fieldwork in an animal shelter and with animal rescues, as well as from public media volunteers and rescuers post online, I adopt an intersectional analysis that attends to inequalities of species, ability/disability, and gender in the context of contemporary American capitalism. I show how members of the animal rescue community—who are all women, almost all white, and none of whom identified themselves as disabled—reject the shelter's practice of fast-tracking some types of disabled dogs for shelter killing and assert instead the right of disabled dogs to live. At the same time, rescuers talk about and represent disabled dogs as infantile, remarkable, and in need of saviors to help them. Ultimately, rescuers' representations of disabled dogs work to expand capitalist beliefs of companion animals as lively capital by showing that disabled dogs have value as companions, in large part through an assertion of dogs as family members.
A Conceptual Framework for 3D Hologram Talking-Head Character Design
Authors:   Digital and Imaging Arts, College of Creative Arts, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak Branch, Seri Iskandar Campus, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia, Ramlie Mohd Khairulnizam , Ali Ahmad Zamzuri Mohamad , Aziz Mohd Nasiruddin Abd , Ibrahim Nur Hisham
Published: June 2023

In a previous study, we made some new discoveries regarding the use of holograms, particularly as a substitute for classroom instructors. The appropriate hologram tutor character is an important topic to study, considering that the character design as a hologram can significantly influence student learning emotions. In addition, the character design of the hologram tutor is believed to influence the student’s learning experience (LX). Since hologram tutors can have a positive impact on learning sessions, their use should be maintained. However, one of the issues that will hamper the use of hologram tutors in the future is the size of the platform, which is big and challenging to handle. In fact, hologram technology can also utilize the Talking-Head application. This 3D Hologram Talking-head is more manageable due to its smaller size. However, since the 3D Hologram Talking-head only displays the character’s head, the effect of using it on students’ learning emotions remained unclear. Therefore, in the context of this study, we will determine the emotional responses of students to the use of 3D Hologram Talking-Heads with different levels of realism of various characters.
The Metaphor Construction of China’s National Image by the Mainstream Media in English-speaking Countries: A Case Study on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
Authors: Liao Jiayi , Dong Junhong
Published: June 2023

According to the theories of Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Constructivism, a country’s image is constructed. As a crucial channel to construct and spread national images, media frequently adopt metaphor as a discourse strategy to construct national images. Based on a corpus of 147 reports on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by the mainstream media in Englishspeaking countries, such as the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Malaysia, this study is guided by the framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis to extract metaphors in the corpus. On this basis, this study discusses the metaphorical construction of China’s national image by the mainstream media in English-speaking countries, and their attitudes towards China behind their use of metaphors.
Asian Expatriation, to Balance in Mobility: The Construction of Asian Americans’ Multiple Identities in Shawn Wong’s American Knees
Authors: Wang Yuanjiang
Published: June 2023

American Knees is a novel that delves into the complex and diverse identities of Asian Americans in modern society, through the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese American. Raymond is deeply invested in preserving the history of Asian Americans, and strives to connect with his community and immigrant past in order to shape his own identity. However, Aurora Crane and Brenda pursue their identities through integration into American society, believing that ethnicity is not necessary for self-understanding. The clash of these contrasting perspectives, and the contrast between the cultural interpretations of San Francisco and Hawaii, lead to a realization that Asian American identity is pluralist and constantly evolving. In the novel, there are the juxtaposition of a heavy historical tone and rigid family stereotypes in the first half, and a lighter, more open plot in the second half. This duality highlights the complex nature of identity formation, with the two techniques complementing and supporting each other. Through the interweaving of history, reality, self, and other, the novel portrays the many attempts at self-realization and multiple identities of Asian Americans, which do not necessarily conflict, but rather offer infinite possibilities for the shape of ethnic identity. American Knees is not just a lighthearted portrayal, but a nuanced attempt to decode the complexities of Asian American identities.
A Study of Avoidance Phenomenon in College Oral English Course for Non-English Majors
Authors: Song Yike , Wang Lin
Published: June 2023

In the process of second language acquisition, the learners often deal with language difficulties negatively when they have trouble with target language, that is, by avoiding obstacles to promote the smooth progress of communication. Thus, avoidance phenomenon appears and runs through the entire process of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). However, although the avoidance is essentially a kind of communication strategies, excessively inclined to take it will also lead to stagnation of learner’s foreign language proficiency, which is also an important reason for the formation of fossilization. Based on the relevant theoretical results of scholars at home and abroad, this paper is designed to analyze avoidance behaviors of non-English-major freshmen in oral English class, and discuss the coping strategies for this phenomenon. In addition, some suggestions will be also put forward for shaping a dynamic classroom atmosphere that can effectively improve students’ oral English level.
Airing Invisible Stories: Lively Storytelling in Early Childhood Education
Authors: Ibanez Veronica , Morrow Ali , Lackner Astrid
Published: June 2023

This paper is an attempt to approach the complexities of interdependent lifeworlds through an engagement with the multiple appearances and becomings of Air. Air’s mysterious unknowability calls forth a sense of deep listening and attunement, including the ways in which elemental and more-than-human communities communicate or encounter one another. Seeking to practice ethical and political pedagogies within contemporary early childhood care and education, the authors orient this paper within a posthumanist theoretical framework while engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations with environmental humanities and postpositivist, poststructural, feminist writings. This paper employs lively storytelling in an attempt to decenter humancentric views and to create the possibility for others to be heard.
Overexpression of long non-coding RNA GASL1 induces apoptosis and G0/G1 cell cycle arrest in human oral cancer cells
Authors: Zhang Rui , Tao Wanjun , Yu Lei
Published: June 2023

Oral cancer is one of the commonly reported malignancies of the human oral cavity and pharynx. It accounts for a significant level of cancer-based mortality across the globe. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as important study targets in cancer therapy. The present study aimed to characterize the role of lncRNA GASL1 in regulating the growth, migration, and invasion of human oral cancer cells. The qRT-PCR showed significant (P<0.05) upregulation of GASL1 in oral cancer cells. Overexpression of GASL1 led to the loss of viability of HN6 oral cancer cells by inducing apoptosis which was associated with upregulation of Bax and downregulation of Bcl-2. The apoptotic cell percentage increased from 2. 81% in control to 25.89% upon GASL1 overexpression. Cell cycle analysis showed that overexpression of GASL1 increased the G1 cells from 35.19% in control to 84.52% upon GASL1 overexpression indicative of G0/G1 cell cycle arrest. Cell cycle arrest was also accompanied by inhibition of cyclin D1 and CDK4 protein expression. Wound healing and transwell assays showed that overexpression of GASL1 significantly (P<0.05) inhibited the migration and invasion of HN6 oral cancer cells. The invasion of the HN6 oral cancer cells was found to be decreased by more than 70%. Finally, the results of in vivo study revealed that GASL1 overexpression inhibits the xenografted tumor growth in vivo. Thus, the results are thus suggestive of the tumor-suppressive molecular role of GASL1 in oral cancer cells.
WIF1 was downregulated in cervical cancer due to promoter methylation
Authors: Wang Ying , Yuan Shifa , Ma Jing , Liu Hong , Huang Lizhen , Zhang Fengzhen , Wang Xiaomei
Published: June 2023

Wnt inhibitory factor 1 (WIF1) is frequently downregulated in a variety of cancer due to promoter methylation. However, the methylation status of the WIF1 promoter in cervical cancer remains unclear. This study aimed to elucidate the mechanism by which WIF1 promoter methylation contributes to cervical cancer development. The expression of WIF1 in cervical cancer tissues was examined by immunohistochemistry. The methylation status of the WIF1 promoter in cervical cancer cells was detected by methylation specific PCR. WIF1 mRNA levels and protein levels were detected by PCR and Western blot analysis. We found that WIF1 expression was low in cervical cancer tissues compared to adjacent normal cervical tissues. The WIF1 promoter was methylated in the cervical cancer SiHa cell line but not in the normal cervical epithelial cell line Ect1. Correspondingly, WIF1 mRNA levels and protein levels were significantly lower in SiHa cells than in Ect1 cells. Treatment with 5-aza-2-deoxycytidine (AZA) led to the upregulation of WIF1 mRNA and protein levels in SiHa cells, but the effects were abrogated by treatment with WIF1 siRNA. In addition, AZA treatment induced apoptosis and inhibited the invasion of SiHa cells, and the effects were abrogated by WIF1 siRNA. The protein levels of survivin, c-myc and cyclinD1 were significantly lower in SiHa cells treated with AZA, but their levels were upregulated after treatment with WIF1 siRNA. In conclusion, the methylation of the WIF1 promoter leads to the downregulation of WIF1 and the activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cervical cancer cells. WIF1 is a tumor suppressor that is inactivated in cervical cancer.
ANTONIUS HYBRIDA AND CATILINARIAN CONSPIRACY
Authors:   Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dymskaya D.D.
Published: June 2023

the paper analyzes the role of Caius Antonius in the events of 63 BC. The author comes to the following conclusions: despite the agreement with Cicero, which assumed the transfer the rich province of Macedonia to him after the consulship, Antonius considered other ways to get out of debts. Intrigued by Catiline’s promises and being under the influence of his relative Lentulus Sura, he could have taken part in the meetings of the Catilinarii, but retreated from them as soon as he saw that the matter was becoming futile. Since Catiline was popular among debtors, including Antonius, and also because of their electoral alliance concluded on the eve of the elections for 63 BC, Hybrida was considered a friend of Catiline and therefore was under suspicion. Unwilling to risk, he privately made it clear to Cicero that his connections with the Catilinarii were a thing of the past. The orator convinced the senate of Antonius’ loyalty and subsequently eulogized his colleague as a hero. His harsh assessment of Hybrida’s activities in a speech on behalf of P. Sestius was not due to the events of 63 BC but to the political struggle that unfolded in the 50s BC, when Cicero’s conduct during the consulate met sharp criticism and he was forced to defend his own decisions and the actions of his assistants, one of whom was P. Sestius, quaestor of Antonius. It is also possible that the perception of the latter’s role in the events of 63 BC could also have been influenced be the subsequent enmity between Cicero and Hybrida’s nephew Mark Antony.