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Katalin Incze G.: Portrait af a Composer
Authors:   PhD Student, ‟Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy, Kálló Krisztián ,   Associate Lecturer, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Reformed Theology and Music,   Conductor of the Hungarian Children’s Choir, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: krisztian_kallo@yahoo.com.
Published: July 2022

"The aim of our study is to examine a complex issue, namely, the scarcity of female composers as a phenomenon, highlighting several historical and social factors that have led to the peculiar situation of our present time: women’s social role has been discriminated against, and they have been excluded from the artistic world. For the longest time in history, art was the privilege of men. This situation has in some ways improved and changed, but to this day, when we talk about composers, we almost certainly think of men. This study analyses the biography and work of Katalin Incze Gergely, a prominent figure in Cluj’s musical life, a composer, conductor, and music director, while also highlighting the fate and role of contemporary women composers in the musical field. The important stages and milestones of her career are mentioned; her relationship with music gives us an insight into what it means to be a woman composer today in a world that once prevented women from pursuing their creative aspirations. Keywords: Katalin Gergely Incze, female composer, composing, contemporary music "
Converting Nationalism Into Socialism Through Folk Music in Stalinist Romania
Authors:   PhD student, “Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: otilia.constantiniu@yahoo.com., Badea Otilia-Maria
Published: July 2022

"When a political change occurs, either in democratic or under authoritarian circumstances, the institutional dimension is the first that manifests the control exerted by the new power. We know that the socialist realism was imposed by politicians but in the end, it was created by the composers. Either convinced or not by the communist beliefs, they were faced with providing content for a doctrine that had clear contours and sharp direction, but with technical dimensions impossible to pinpoint. My intention is to shed light not on the politically active composers (whose works explicitly conveyed the propaganda messages of the regime), but rather on those that were trying to find a middle ground between the requirements of the socialist realism canon and their own ideals and aesthetic preferences. One of the most common solutions used by these composers, and one of the most polyvalent, was the appeal to folklore. It conveniently satisfied both the nationalism and the artistic aspirations of the interwar school of composition as well as the requirements of the communist present. Keywords: Nationalism, socialist realism, Stalinist Romania, Soviet model, Romanian Composers Union. "
The Assessment of Originality in Academic Research
Authors:   Assistant Lecturer PhD, “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: suteu.cristina@amgd.ro., Șuteu Cristina
Published: July 2022

"Nowadays, for those working in the academic field, the list of publications has become an essential condition in justifying the research activity. “To be or not to be” published in high-ranking journals and indexed in databases is a criterion in the evaluation of any researcher. In some cases, originality is a sine qua non condition for acceptance or publication. And yet sometimes the definition of the concept of “originality” is confusing in some cases. The novice researcher (and not only) needs some terminological clarifications and contextualization in the daily practice. In this sense, this paper offers possible answers to the questions: what is considered to be research? what is originality in research and why is it important? who and how evaluates originality in research? This last interrogation is the key question of the article, and the answer is presented on two main coordinates: the pre-publication evaluation (performed by the author himself followed by the peer-reviewer) and the post-publication evaluation (performed by Altmetrics and again by the author). Therefore, the whole process of evaluation is viewed from the perspective of a cycle that begins and ends with the author. Keywords: research, originality, peer-review, databases, Altmetrics, databases, citations "
Music Transfer and Cultural Contact: Romanian Popular Songs in the Repertoire of the Saxons From the Secașe Valley
Authors:   Researcher, The Folk Archive of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: theodor.constantiniu@academia-cj.ro., Constantiniu Theodor
Published: July 2022

"The Secașe Valley is an ethnographic area populated by different ethnic groups, the most numerous being the Romanians, Saxons, Hungarians, and Roma. Starting from field recordings of Romanian music performed by Saxon peasants from this region, we aim to contribute to the topic of inter-ethnic musical exchange in Transylvania. The songs borrowed by the Saxons from their Romanian neighbors are diverse, ranging from ritual songs, ballads, lyric songs representative for the area, to dance songs, romances, and other modern creations. We concluded that the Saxons thoroughly absorbed the style of traditional Romanian music not only from their own villages, but also from a wider area that goes past the Secașe Valley and into the neighboring regions. This allows us to claim that, as an ethnic minority, the Saxons were involved in a process of acculturation. The cultural strategy adopted by the Saxon community was the integration within the dominant culture, but without abandoning its own musical patrimony. Keywords: Transylvanian Saxons, Secașe Valley, cultural exchange, inter-ethnic relations, acculturation, Romanian folk songs, Southern Transylvania "
Vocal Depersonalization in Scat Singing
Authors:   PhD Student, Faculty of Music, Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania. Email: maria.zan@unitbv.ro., Zan Luiza , Drăgulin Stela ,   University Professor PhD Habil, Faculty of Music, Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania. Email: steladragulin@yahoo.com.
Published: July 2022

"The purpose of this paper is to question the amount of personal investment in exploring the voice as an impersonal sound, in scat singing. Jazz singers and jazz voice teachers follow vocal practices that aim to control and distort the vocal timbre, to master microtonal intervals, to push and eventually overcome the voice’s limits. In scat singing, the boundaries of gender are subdued to the impulse of improvisation, thus, even though the timbre is a biological and a physical memory, influenced by the singer’s culture and experiences, the gender encoding can be reshaped inside the licks and patterns of the improvisation section. The current paper aims to prove that scat singing is the neutral ground where aspects of the voice can blend and disappear into one another: voice gender, vocal timber, technique, individual materiality, experimentation. Keywords: scat, improvisation, jazz, vocalists "
Expression of the Romanian Folk Style in Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1
Authors:   Lecturer PhD, “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: andra.patras@amgd.ro., Pătraş Andra Daniela
Published: July 2022

"Bartók’s string quartets play an important role in his overall output, as they represent a stylistic universe encompassing almost his entire oeuvre. In his String Quartet No. 1, Bartók aimed at reworking and expanding the folk elements as well as at developing his own personal expression. Despite being deeply rooted in folklore, this is not a folkloric work, but an expression that goes beyond folklore, which the composer placed in a new relationship to art-music. The aim of this research paper is to explore the aspects of language, the content conforming to the preoccupations of the modern era and the types of writing used, with a focus on the use of the melodic and rhythmic elements of folk music. The musical stylistics of this work is based precisely on the intertwinement and fusion of the two great creative principles: folk and art. Keywords: Béla Bartók, string quartet, folk elements. "
The Hypnotic Garden: Repetition and Trance in Salvatore Sciarrino’s Works for Flute
Authors:   Lecturer PhD, Department of Composition, National University of Music, Bucharest, Romania. Email: rotaru.diana@unmb.ro., Rotaru Diana
Published: July 2022

"Salvatore Sciarrino creates what could be described as an isolated, mysterious “sonic garden”: a ghostly world of sounds where the archetypal corporal processes, such as breathing or heartbeat, are transformed into music. His conceptual thinking – refreshing the musical perception, the ecological hearing, the persistence of repetition, the figures of music (formal archetypes that can be adapted to any kind of art) – as well as his very particular, non-traditional sound make Sciarrino’s music an incredibly rich world to explore. The flute seems to be his favourite instrument, due to its ability to incorporate so many corporeal noises of the performer (from voice to fingertips), becoming almost an extension of his body. The many and ingenious ways of applying repetition in his work, as well as the play with time length – taken to almost unbearable boundaries – make Salvatore Sciarrino one of the true explorers of musical trance today. Keywords: Sciarrino, flute, contemporary music, repetition, persistence, musical figures "
Penggunaan Lidokain Intravena untuk Adjuvan Obat Analgesik pada Operasi Bedah Saraf
Authors:   Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital Bandung, Firdhaus Riyadh , Rosita Tantri Aida , Kurniawan Teddy , Senja Agusta Laksmi , Fadhila Fulki , Sukoco Gunawan , Putra Reza Harris
Published: July 2022

Pain is a subjective feeling or experience involving sensory, emotional, and unpleasant behavior caused by tissue damage. Postoperative management is considered essential because it will provide excellent results for patients and improve postoperative quality of life. Opioids are intravenous analgesic drugs that are most often used as perioperative pain therapy but have unpleasant side effects. Developments in using more effective analgesic drugs are needed, one of which is intravenous lidocaine which has fewer side effects than opioids. Several studies have shown that lidocaine as an intraoperative analgesic drug has minimal side effects and faster recovery. Other studies have also shown lidocaine as an analgesic in neurosurgery surgery to have a fairly good effect. Therefore, this literature will discuss lidocaine as an adjuvant therapy, especially in neurosurgery operations.
Relative Resistance of Ulmaceae for Host Susceptibility, Feeding Preference, and Suitability for the Adult Japanese Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Authors: Miller Fredric , Ware George
Published: July 2022

Laboratory feeding and fecundity bioassays, and field defoliation surveys were conducted on 73 Ulmus and eight Zelkova taxa to determine their relative susceptibility, preference, and suitability for the adult Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica Newman). Ulmus alata Michx., U. crassifolia Nutt., U. davidiana Planch., U. elliptica K. Koch, , U. glabra Hudson, U. laevis Pall., U. microcarpa, L.K. Fu, U. multinervis (syn. U. castaneifolia) Hemsl., U. parvifolia Jacq., U. propinqua Koidz., U. prunifolia Cheug and L.K. Fu,, U. rubra Muhlenb., U. suberosa Henry, U. sukaczevii Andr., U. .szechuanica Fang., U. taihangshensis S.Y. Wang, U. thomasii Sarg, U. wilsoniana Schneid., ‘Frontier', ‘Homestead', ‘New Horizon', ‘Pioneer', ‘Patriot', U. ‘Morton' Accolade, and U. ‘Morton' Triumph, and Zelkova serrata (Thunb.) Mak. cultivars ‘Green Valley' and ‘Village Green', and Z. schneideriana Hand.-Mazz were the least susceptible to feeding and/or the least suitable for reproduction. Percent leaf tissue removed was highly correlated with field defoliation ratings, but was not a good predictor of fecundity. Asian and European elm leaves were thicker compared with North American elms, and Asian elm leaves were tougher compared with European and North American elm leaves. Host susceptibility and suitability were not related to leaf thickness or toughness. Adult female beetles laid significantly more eggs when feeding on Asian elm taxa compared with European, Eurasian, and North American elm taxa. Hybridization appears to affect host susceptibility. Results reported here provide new insight for the use of Ulmaceae taxa for future reforestation and tree breeding programs.

Species used in this study: Ulmus alata Michx., U. americana L., U. bergmaniana var. lasiophylla Schneid., U. canascens Melville, U. carpinifolia Gled.., U. castaneifolia Hemsl., U. changii Hangchow, U. chenmoui Cheng, U. crassifolia Nutt., U. davidiana Planch., U. elliptica K.Koch., U. foliaceae Gilbert, U. gaussenii Cheng,, U. glabra Hudson, U. glaucescens Franch., U. glaucescens Franch. var. lasiocarpa Rehd., U. japonica Sarg., U. laevis Pall., U. lanceaefolia Roxb., U. lamellosa C. Wang et S.L. Chang et L.K. Fu, U. macrocarpa Hance, U. microcarpa L.K. Fu, U. multinervis (syn.U. castaneifolia) Cheng, U. parvifolia Jacq., U. procera Salisb, U. propinqua Koidz., U. propinqua var. suberosa Henry , U. prunifolia Cheng et L.K. Fu , U. pseudopropinqua Wang et Li, U. pumila L., U. rubra Muehl., U. serotina Sarg., U. suberosa Henry, U. sukaczevii Andr., U. szechuanica Fang, U. taihangshanensis S.Y. Wang , U. thomasii, U. wallichiana Planch., U. wilsoniana Schneid., Zelkova serrata (Thunb.) Mak., Z. carpinifolia (Pall.) K. Koch., Z. schneideriana Hand.-Mazz,. Z. sinica C.K. Schneid, Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees.
Efectos de un programa de judo utilitario adaptado sobre un adulto de 54 años. Estudio de caso
Authors: Campos Mesa María del Carmen , Prieto Alegre Nerea , Toronjo Hornillo Luis , Del Castillo Andrés Óscar
Published: July 2022

El envejecimiento activo de la población es uno de los principales retos a los que las administraciones deben responder. Dimensiones como la fragilidad y el miedo a caer, se asocian a limitaciones físicas, psicológicas y sociales de los adultos mayores. Se plantea el objetivo de conocer si la aplicación del programa JUA, aumenta la calidad de vida, al incidir positivamente en el miedo a caer y la percepción de salud, en base a la mejora su condición física y el control de las caídas. Se propone un estudio de caso dirigido a un sujeto varón de 54 años. Se analizó el miedo a caer, calidad de vida, percepción de salud y condición física del sujeto. Los resultados mostraron una mejoría en todas las dimensiones estudiadas. Concluimos que el programa JUA, aporta beneficios sobre el desempeño físico y psicológico en el sujeto de estudio.
Low – Permeability Ecological Concrete Mix, By Means of Employing Several Active Admixtures
Authors: Babor Dănuţ-Traian , Isopescu Dorina-Nicolina , Petrescu Tudor-Cristian , Covatariu Daniel
Published: July 2022

There exists an interest to realize impermeable concrete, which would have many applications in bridges and water transport / storage structures, such as tanks, reservoirs, gutters and pipes. Furthermore, it would be possible to use such a type of concrete in other structures where the water pressure represents an exterior action, such as basement walls, caissons and slab foundations. However, absolutely impermeable concrete is almost impossible to be obtained, hence low – permeability concrete could be the correct technical term. In the current article, several samples of such concrete (containing active admixtures) are detailed and relevant conclusions are drawn.
Issues Regarding the Appropriateness of Using Precast Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures Compared to Monolithic Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures, in Office Buildings and Residential Buildings
Authors: Bogdan Hauşi Sorin
Published: July 2022

Given the current context at national and European level in terms of reducing skilled labour force in constructions, as well as the high level of density and traffic in large cities, there is an increasing emphasis on the possibility of shortening the duration of building the structural frames on site, reducing the number of workers or even reducing the level of noise pollution. Thus, the introduction of precast technologies in the case of office buildings and residential buildings, with multi-storey frame structure, is becoming an increasingly pressing and topical issue.

The purpose of this paper is to enable structural engineers, architects and potential investors to consciously choose the type of optimal structure, taking into account a number of technical and economic aspects.

In this sense, in order to highlight the main advantages and disadvantages of using multi-storey precast reinforced concrete frame structures, a comparative case study will be carried out between a precast frame structure and a monolithic frame structure, respectively.
The Permeability Analysis in Case of Tuff and Limestone Addition in the Concrete Composition
Authors: Babor Dănuţ-Traian , Butnariu Marius George , Isopescu Dorina Nicolina
Published: July 2022

This research aimed to analyze the effects of using tuff and limestone as supplementary pozzolanic materials on the permeability of a classic C12/15 concrete composition. There were designed two types of concrete compositions with different degrees of permeability, namely P8
10 and P12
10 as reference concrete compositions and eight experimental concrete compositions with tuff in 6% and 10% of the cement quantity and with limestone in the same proportions. According to results, the tuff and limestone led to the decrease of concrete permeability, the best values being registered in the case of using 10% tuff in the concrete composition with P8
10 class of permeability.
Corchorus olitorius L. (Jute) leaf and seed extracts exerted high antibacterial activity against food and plant pathogenic bacteria
Authors: İşeri Özlem Darcansoy , Körpe Didem Aksoy , Sahin Feride Iffet , Cabi Evren , Haberal Mehmet
Published: July 2022

Aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate antibacterial activities of methanol (MetOH), acetone (Ace), petroleum ether (PE) and aqueous (dw) leaf (L), root (R), and seed (S) extracts of Corchorus olitorius L. on both food- and plant-borne pathogens, with DPPH radical scavenging activities (DRSA), and quantitative and qualitative constituent analysis. Leaf PE has the highest strain susceptibility on both food- and plant-borne pathogens. Clavibacter michiganensis, Pseudomonas tomato, and Erwinia caratovora were susceptible to nearly all the leaf and seed extracts. Very low minimum inhibitory concentration (8-128 μg mL−1) and minimum bactericidal concentration (32-2048 μg mL−1) were determined for both leaf and seed extracts against C. michiganensis. Total phenolic contents were correlated to DRSA. The phenolic compounds tested were higher in the leaf MetOH, cholorogenic acid being the most abundant one. Palmitic acid was determined in leaf PE and seed PE extracts. Results presented here demonstrate high antibacterial activity of C. olitorius leaf seed extracts against phytopathogens for the first time, and provide the most comprehensive data on the antibacterial activity screening against food-borne pathogens. Considering limitations in plant disease control, antibacterial activities of these extracts would be important in plant disease control.
Development of a database of RNA helicase inhibitors (VHIMDB) of pathogenic viruses and in silico screening for the potential drug molecules
Authors: Satpathy R , Acharya S
Published: July 2022

The pathogenic RNA virus that infects human beings contains the RNA helicase enzyme, responsible for the replication of the viral genome. The enzyme is used as a suitable target against which the drug molecule acts. Therefore, the identification and proposal the novel compounds that can be targeted toward the helicase enzymes to stop the functioning of the enzyme is desirable. Although many viral helicase inhibitor molecules have been identified, still yet no unique database is available for these compounds. This research work envisages developing a curated database of RNA helicase inhibitors. The database contains in total of 353 entries that are computationally predicted and experimentally verified RNA helicase inhibitors. The database contains information like compound name, chemical properties, chemical format, and name of the target virus to which it acts against it with a user-friendly menu-driven search engine. Presently, the database is freely available at:https://vhimdb.rsatpathy.in/. Further, in silico screening of the whole database by drug-likeness and toxicity resulted in 14 potential drug molecules. The selected molecules were analyzed for their effectiveness in binding by using molecular docking score and interaction with the helicase enzymes of three categories of pathogenic viruses (SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV).
Impact of tracheostomy in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome due to coronavirus infection
Authors: Lugo-Machado Juan Antonio , Guerrero-Paz Jose Alberto , Fuentes Nohemí Sainz , Emiliana Patricia , Ramírez García , Valenton Elizabeth Medina
Published: July 2022

OBJECTIVE. To estimate the effect of tracheostomy on ventilation in patients with COVID-19.

MATERIAL AND METHODS. An observational, retrospective, analytical, longitudinal study of a consecutive series of cases was carried out between April 2020 and March 2021. The study included data about different variables, such as age, sex, comorbidities, time of orotracheal intubation, place of surgery, complications and death, ventilatory parameters, blood gas and time of the weaning after tracheostomy. Descriptive statistics were used with measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and the Wilcoxon test to see differences in the ventilatory parameters.

RESULTS. The study was performed on 130 patients admitted to the ICU with intubation to manage their critical condition. From these patients, the study group included 31 who underwent tracheostomy, 25 males (80.64%) with a mean age of 57.1±13.395 years and with 20.52±6.722 days in orotracheal intubation. Among the most frequent comorbidities, we encountered: arterial hypertension (51.6%), obesity (35.4%), diabetes mellitus (22.5%), hypothyroidism (6.4%), asthma (3.2%), pregnancy (3.2%), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3.2%) and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (3.2%). The main complications were bleeding (12.9%) and decannulation (3.2%). The survival rate was 90.32%. Comparing the pre-surgical and postoperative outcomes of the ventilatory parameters and blood gas, statistically significant differences were found only in case of PEEP (p = 0.033), FiO2 (p = 0.001) and O2 saturation (p = 0.001). The average removal of the ventilator was 4.3±2.437 days.

CONCLUSION. There were no significant changes in the ventilatory parameters, however, they were sufficient to wean the patients from the ventilation team and discharge them to the internal medicine department to continue their management outside the intensive care unit.
Expressions of TGF-β1 and VEGF in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and associations with prognosis
Authors: Xu Yan , Yu Xianqiu , Zhang Xinlong
Published: July 2022

Background: To study the expressions of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and their values for prognosis.

Methods: A total of 120 AML patients treated from January 2015 to December 2018 were selected. Bone marrow mononuclear cells were isolated. The expressions of TGF-β1 and VEGF were detected by RT-PCR, and their associations with clinical characteristics were analyzed. The overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) were assessed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The risk factors for prognosis were analyzed through the Cox proportional hazards model.

Results: The AML group had significantly lower relative expression of TGF-β1 and higher relative expression of VEGF than those of the control group (P<0.05). TGF-β1 and VEGF levels were significantly correlated with white blood cell count, hemoglobin, platelets, and peripheral blood juvenile cells (P<0.05). TGF-β1 level was higher and VEGF level was lower in the patients with complete response than those in the patients with partial response and no response (P<0.05). Both OS and DFS of the patients with high TGF-β1 expression were better than those of the patients with low TGF-β1 expression, while they were also superior among the patients with low VEGF expression (P<0.05). Platelets, TGF-β1 and VEGF were independent influencing factors for OS, and white blood cells, TGF-β1 and VEGF were independent influencing factors for DFS (P<0.05).

Conclusions: AML patients have decreased expression of TGF-β1 and increased expression of VEGF, and such changes are closely associated with the prognosis of AML.
Культурно-ориентированная стратегия перевода стихотворения Такамура Котаро
Authors: БРЕСЛАВЕЦ Татьяна Иосифовна , КРАСЮЧЕНКО Илья Александрович
Published: July 2022

Культурно-ориентированная стратегия определяет язык и стиль перевода на основе доместикации и форенизации. В статье дан анализ переводов на русский и английский языки стихотворения японского поэта-символиста Такамура Котаро (1883–1956), выделены приёмы трансформаций. Иноязычный текст адаптируется с учётом языковой контрастивности и этнокультурной информации. Обнаружена градация уровней доместикации. Предлагается использовать дуализм переводческих стратегий. Ключевые слова: японская поэзия, стратегия перевода, доместикация, форенизация
Comprehensive assessment of the speech development of children conceived by IVF
Authors: Surkova K. L. , Zvereva N. V. , Sergienko A. A. , Strogova S. E. , Zvereva M. V.
Published: July 2022

Introduction. The high frequency of the use of assisted reproductive technologies and the inconsistency of information about the parameters of the cognitive development of IVF children determined the formulation of the research problem.

The purpose of the work is to assess the originality of the speech development of children and adolescents conceived using the IVF procedure. The age of the children at the time of the survey was from 5 to 15 years.

Methods and materials. A sample of 51 children (29 boys), mean age (7.9±2.8) years, 14 children had psychiatric diagnoses (ASD, mental retardation, etc.). Research methods: speech therapy assessment of speech development, neuropsychological diagnostics according to L.S. Tsvetkova, WICS, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis.

Results. 41% of children had mild variants of speech development delay under 3 years old, 59 % of children had normal speech development. With age, the frequency of detected deviations in speech development decreases, so that in older age group (from 11 to 15 years old), 85 % have normotypical development of speech. Correlation analysis showed the originality of the correlations of the parameters of speech development, neuropsychological assessment, and scores on Wechsler subtests.

Conclusions. An unambiguous conclusion about the violation of speech development in children conceived by IVF cannot be drawn, however, in the presence of mental pathology and taking into account the age of the mother and the number of ART procedures, attention should be paid to the provision of speech therapy and neuropsychological correction from an early age.
Development of molecular genetic technologies in Pavlov University: 20 years history and achievements
Authors: Pchelina S. N.
Published: July 2022

21 years have passed since the signing of the order on the establishment of the Department of Molecular Genetic Technologies of the Scientific Research Center (order № 118 was signed by Academic N. A. Yaitsky on June 5, 2001) and 20 years have passed since the beginning of the Department's activities. The leading scientist in the field of molecular medicine, Professor Evgeny Iosifovich Schwartz, not only headed the Department, but also brought there his team — the team of the Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B. P. Konstantinov of National Research Centre «Kurchatov Institute». The team was the first in the country to use the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to diagnose human hereditary diseases, and at that time had experience both in mapping mutational damage in monogenic human diseases and in its research in the field of multifactorial pathology. The department creation marked the beginning of molecular genetic technologies at the University and became the basis for fundamental scientific researches and the development of modern methods of molecular genetics. The review describes the history of Department and its main achievements.
Development of the methodology of departmental control of financial and economic activities
Authors: GOLOVIN Sergei V.
Published: July 2022

Subject. This article discusses the issues of development of the methodology for the implementation of departmental control of business and financial activities of government (municipal) institutions.
Objectives. The article aims to define a set of principles, forms and methods of departmental control of business and financial activities on the basis of their comparison with the principles and methods of State financial control, State control (supervision) and other types of control carried out in relation to the activities of government (municipal) institutions.
Methods. For the study, I used the methods of analysis, grouping, comparison, and generalization.
Results. The article identifies the basic principles for departmental control of business and financial activities and formulates five specialized principles for this type of control based on the analysis of the principles of State financial control, State control (supervision) and other types of control. The article also offers a model of departmental control of business and financial activities through a combination of control measures, actions and methods based on a critical assessment of classifications of forms and methods of financial control approved by regulatory enactments and developed by domestic scientists.
An analysis of the impact of human capital development on the regional economy's efficiency through the spatial correlation approach
Authors: AKBERDINA Viktoriya V. , GROSHEVA Polina Yu. , SMIRNOVA Ol'ga P. , PONOMAREVA Alena O.
Published: July 2022

Subject. This article examines the factors that determine the level of human capital in the regions of Russia. Objectives. The article aims to analyze the differentiation of the regions of Russia by level of human capital development. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of horizontal statistical analysis, nonlinear regression modeling, and spatial econometrics based on Moran's I measure. Results. The article confirms the opinion of some authors about the significant differentiation of the regions of Russia in terms of the level of human capital development and reveals a positive nonlinear relationship between the indicators of the gross regional product and the level of human capital of the region. Conclusions. Improving the quality of human capital in the region has a direct strong impact on the level of its economic development. A nonlinear form of the simulated dependence shows that there will come a time of marginal return on the use of human capital.
The SME sector of the Russian Federation: Current status, development problems, and State support measures
Authors: YAKIMCHUK Natal'ya N. , IVANOV Maksim D. , OREL Aleksandr A.
Published: July 2022

Subject. This article analyzes the functioning of the small and medium-sized business sector in Russia and the SME support programmes implemented in Germany, the USA, and the UK. Objectives. The article aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the development indicators of small and medium-sized businesses in Russia and some foreign countries, and develop recommendations for improving State support for this business in Russia. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of comparative and content analyses. Results. The article identifies and describes the main negative factors affecting the development of small and medium-sized businesses in Russia. Conclusions. The article concludes that it is necessary to develop strategic measures aimed at increasing the investment activities in the small and medium-sized business sector.
TGNN: A Joint Semi-supervised Framework for Graph-level Classification
Authors: Ju Wei , Luo Xiao , Qu Meng , Wang Yifan , Chen Chong , Deng Minghua , Hua Xian-Sheng , Zhang Ming
Published: July 2022

This paper studies semi-supervised graph classification, a crucial task with a wide range of applications in social network analysis and bioinformatics. Recent works typically adopt graph neural networks to learn graph-level representations for classification, failing to explicitly leverage features derived from graph topology (e.g., paths). Moreover, when labeled data is scarce, these methods are far from satisfactory due to their insufficient topology exploration of unlabeled data. We address the challenge by proposing a novel semi-supervised framework called Twin Graph Neural Network (TGNN). To explore graph structural information from complementary views, our TGNN has a message passing module and a graph kernel module. To fully utilize unlabeled data, for each module, we calculate the similarity of each unlabeled graph to other labeled graphs in the memory bank and our consistency loss encourages consistency between two similarity distributions in different embedding spaces. The two twin modules collaborate with each other by exchanging instance similarity knowledge to fully explore the structure information of both labeled and unlabeled data. We evaluate our TGNN on various public datasets and show that it achieves strong performance.
Teaching LTLf Satisfiability Checking to Neural Networks
Authors: Luo Weilin , Wan Hai , Du Jianfeng , Li Xiaoda , Fu Yuze , Ye Rongzhen , Zhang Delong
Published: July 2022

Linear temporal logic over finite traces (LTLf) satisfiability checking is a fundamental and hard (PSPACE-complete) problem in the artificial intelligence community. We explore teaching end-to-end neural networks to check satisfiability in polynomial time. It is a challenge to characterize the syntactic and semantic features of LTLf via neural networks. To tackle this challenge, we propose LTLfNet, a recursive neural network that captures syntactic features of LTLf by recursively combining the embeddings of sub-formulae. LTLfNet models permutation invariance and sequentiality in the semantics of LTLf through different aggregation mechanisms of sub-formulae. Experimental results demonstrate that LTLfNet achieves good performance in synthetic datasets and generalizes across large-scale datasets. They also show that LTLfNet is competitive with state-of-the-art symbolic approaches such as nuXmv and CDLSC.
Inheriting the Wisdom of Predecessors: A Multiplex Cascade Framework for Unified Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Fei Hao , Li Fei , Li Chenliang , Wu Shengqiong , Li Jingye , Ji Donghong
Published: July 2022

So far, aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has involved with total seven subtasks, in which, however the interactions among them have been left unexplored sufficiently. This work presents a novel multiplex cascade framework for unified ABSA and maintaining such interactions. First, we model total seven subtasks as a hierarchical dependency in the easy-to-hard order, based on which we then propose a multiplex decoding mechanism, transferring the sentiment layouts and clues in lower tasks to upper ones. The multiplex strategy enables highly-efficient subtask interflows and avoids repetitive training; meanwhile it sufficiently utilizes the existing data without requiring any further annotation. Further, based on the characteristics of aspect-opinion term extraction and pairing, we enhance our multiplex framework by integrating POS tag and syntactic dependency information for term boundary and pairing identification. The proposed Syntax-aware Multiplex (SyMux) framework enhances the ABSA performances on 28 subtasks (7×4 datasets) with big margins.
Fine-tuning Deep Neural Networks by Interactively Refining the 2D Latent Space of Ambiguous Images
Authors: Wei Jiafu , Xie Haoran , Chang Chia-Ming , Yang Xi
Published: July 2022

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved excellent results currently in classification, while they may still suffer from ambiguous images which are similar across classes. By contrast, humans have a relatively good ability to distinguish these categories of images. Therefore, we propose a human-in-the-loop solution to assist the network to better classify the images by leveraging human knowledge. To achieve this, we project the high-dimensional latent space trained by the network onto a two-dimensional workspace. The users can interactively modify the projected coordinates of inputs on the workspace using our designed tools, then the modified information will be fed back to the network to fine-tune it, which in turn affects the network's classification results, thereby improving the accuracy of network classification.
Transformación de la humanidad: rasgos para una práctica docente innovadora
Authors: Lara Domínguez Roberto , Hernández Méndez Griselda
Published: July 2022

El presente documento tiene por objetivo principal analizar los rasgos de una práctica docente, basada en la innovación educativa, para la transformación de la humanidad. Para ello, se realizó un estudio con base en análisis documental y la reflexión de distintas fuentes primarias y secundarias. Estableciendo que, ante las transformaciones de lo global y lo local, bajo las condiciones y exigencias actuales, la innovación educativa se presenta como una estrategia idónea para dar respuesta, de lo singular y particular; a las situaciones y problemáticas que emergen en el aula y fuera de ésta.
El presente documento tiene por objetivo principal analizar los rasgos de una práctica docente, basada en la innovación educativa, para la transformación de la humanidad. Para ello, se realizó un estudio con base en análisis documental y la reflexión de distintas fuentes primarias y secundarias. Estableciendo que, ante las transformaciones de lo global y lo local, bajo las condiciones y exigencias actuales, la innovación educativa se presenta como una estrategia idónea para dar respuesta, de lo singular y particular; a las situaciones y problemáticas que emergen en el aula y fuera de ésta.
Online education: Educational innovation the Integrative Project Educational Experience during the COVID-19 pandemic using the Eminus and Zoom platforms (Universidad Veracruzana)
Authors: Reyes Sánchez Carlos , Canal Martínez Margarita Edith , Del Callejo Canal Diana Donají , Hákim Krayem Mónica Rubiette
Published: July 2022

We present the educational innovation and the results of a new exercise in the teaching practice of the Educational Experience (EE) of the Integrative Project, which belongs to the Educational Program of Computer Technologies (Faculty of Statistics and Informatics, University of Veracruz), in the school period February-July 2020. The purpose of this educational innovation is to achieve significant learning of students through an online education environment. We describe the strategies, the planned and organized activities, and the implemented skills and actions to change the teaching practice and student function during the new reality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We integrated the Eminus and Zoom to change from face-to-face to an online education environment. The results were significant; eighty percent of the students achieved the planned competencies necessary to accredit the EE and recognized the importance of ethics in their academic and professional performances.
Desastre compuesto: sequía y Covid-19 en Veracruz, México
Authors: Valdés-Rodríguez Ofelia Andrea
Published: July 2022

La sequía puede afectar la producción agropecuaria y la salud humana cuando existen crisis sanitarias. El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar las implicaciones de la sequía en el estado de Veracruz, México, sobre el sector agropecuario y la pandemia del COVID-19. Para ello se consideraron los registros históricos sobre sequía y sus declaratorias de emergencia del 2003 al 2021, mismos que se complementaron con datos oficiales agropecuarios y sobre los efectos del COVID-19 en la población veracruzana. Los resultados indican que la sequía se incrementó en la entidad del 2003 al 2019, generando pérdidas de productividad y 214 declaratorias de emergencia. Los municipios más densamente poblados tuvieron las tasas más altas de contagios y fallecimientos por COVID-19, con niveles de sequía de moderados a anormales durante el 2020 y 2021. Por lo que se concluye que un desastre compuesto sequía-COVID-19 incrementa los riesgos por déficit productivo y sanitario.
Sistem Informasi Diagnosis Ikterus Neonatorum Menggunakan Logika Fuzzy
Authors: Ramadhanty Jazil , Puspitasari Trismayanti Dwi
Published: July 2022

Angka Kematian Bayi (AKB) di Indonesia masih tergolong cukup tinggi dibandingkan negara – negara Asia Tenggara. Hal tersebut perlu mendapatkan perhatian karena suatu negara dapat dinilai tingkat kesehatannya dari AKB. Salah satu penyebab AKB yang masih tinggi yaitu penyakit kuning pada bayi (Ikterus Neonatorum). Bayi dapat mengalami ikterus fisiologis (normal) maupun patologis (parah) bergantung dari gejala yang ditimbulkan. Dari kedua jenis ikterus tersebut sulit membedakan antara ikterus normal dan parah tanpa melakukan pemeriksaan lebih lanjut sehingga sebagian besar masyarakat salah dalam melakukan penanganan awal. Berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut, penulis akan membuat sistem informasi untuk diagnosis Ikterus Neonatorum. Dengan sistem tersebut, masyarakat mendapatkan edukasi mengenai ikterus neonatorum dan dapat mengetahui tingkat keparahan yang diderita oleh bayi. Sistem juga memberikan alternatif solusi yang dapat dilakukan saat bayi mengalami ikterus sesuai dengan tingkat keparahan. Penulis menggunakan logika fuzzy dengan metode sugeno untuk membantu melakukan diagnosis. Hasil yang ditampilkan yaitu berupa prosentase tingkat keparahan ikterus neonatorum. Setelah melakukan pengujian blackbox didapatkan hasil bahwa sistem sudah dapat bejalan sesuai dengan skenario yang diharapkan. Untuk pengujian UAT (User Acceptance Testing) didapatkan hasil sebesar 77,86 % yang dapat diartikan bahwa sistem sudah bisa diterima dengan baik oleh pengguna.
Studi Kualitas Website Ahligizi.id dan Dampaknya Terhadap Continuance Intention Pengguna
Authors: Husin Husin , Iqbal Muhammad , Balafif Sabri
Published: July 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti kualitas website ahligizi.id dan dampaknya terhadap continuance intention pengguna. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui survei online terhadap 74 pengguna ahligizi.id dan pengolahan data dengan menggunakan structural equation modeling dengan bantuan SmartPLS3. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dimensi webqual 4.0 yang terdiri atas usability quality, information quality, dan service quality tidak ada yang mempengaruhi continuance intention terhadap penggunaan website secara langsung. Kepuasan pengguna memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap continuance intention. Di antara dimensi webqual 4.0 yang diamati dalam penelitian ini maka dimensi usability quality dan service quality memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan pengguna website ahligizi.id. Sedangkan information quality tidak mempengaruhi kepuasan pengguna secara signifikan.
Marine plastic pollution in kindergarten as a means of engaging toddlers with STEM education and educational robotics
Authors:   7th Kindergarten of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, Tallou Konstantina
Published: July 2022

In recent years, education has increasingly focused on children's acquisition of digital skills and abilities, which leads to the need to create new educational methodologies capable of engaging students in computational thinking activities. The research interest of this paper focuses on how preschool children can be more involved in STEM and educational robotics through authentically experiential learning on the topic of marine plastic pollution. It examines toddler engagement through an integrated STEM scenario using the programmable robot Bee-Bot and encourages children to solve problems in many possible ways, assessing the strengthening of their necessary skills. The teaching intervention took place during the 2021-22 school year in a Kindergarten in the city of Ioannina. During the planning and implementation phase of the program, action research and field study are applied, while the sociocultural approach to teaching natural sciences, educational robotics, new technologies, engineering, the arts and mathematics. The research framework is completed with the evaluation process and the students disseminating the project learning outcomes.
Güvence Denetiminin Unsurları Bağlamında Uluslararası Güvence Denetimi Standardı 3410’a Göre Sera Gazı Beyanlarına İlişkin Güvence Oluşturulması
Authors: KARDEŞ SELİMOĞLU Seval , POROY ARSOY Aylin , BORA KILINÇARSLAN Tuba
Published: July 2022

İşletmelerin çevresel göstergelerinden biri olan sera gazı beyanları tek başına bir rapor halinde ya da sürdürülebilirlik raporlarının/entegre faaliyet raporlarının bir parçası olarak hedef kullanıcılara sunulabilmektedir. İşletmelerin hazırladıkları sera gazı beyanlarının doğruluğunun bağımsız bir kuruluş tarafından denetlenmesi hedef kullanıcıların bu bilgilere olan güvenini artırmaktadır. Sera gazı beyanları gibi finansal olmayan bilgilerin denetimi güvence denetimleriyle sağlanabilmektedir. Bu çalışmada, güvence denetiminin unsurlarına ve bu bağlamda ülkemizde henüz yayımlanmayan ve pek fazla bilinmeyen Uluslararası Güvence Denetimi Standardı 3410’a (GDS 3410) göre sera gazı beyanlarına ilişkin güvence oluşturulmasına yönelik hususlara yer verilmiştir.
Covid-19’un Sektörlerin Finansal Performansına Etkisinin Oran Analizi Yöntemi ile İncelenmesi
Authors: KILIÇ KARAMAHMUTOĞLU Merve
Published: July 2022

Bu çalışma, Türkiye’de Covid-19’un sektörlerin finansal performansına etkisini oran analizi yöntemi ile incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu bağlamda çalışmada, sektörlerin likidite, finansal yapı, faaliyet ve kârlılık oranları Covid-19 öncesi 2015 ve 2019 arasındaki yıllar ve Covid-19 sonrası 2020 yılı için incelenmiş ve Covid-19’un sektörlerin finansal performansına anlamlı bir etkisinin olup olmadığı Wilcoxon İşaretli Sıralar Testi kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Araştırma bulgularına göre, pandemi gayrimenkul, mesleki, bilimsel ve teknik faaliyetler, ulaştırma ve depolama, konaklama ve yiyecek hizmeti faaliyetleri ve kültür, sanat, eğlence ve spor sektörlerinin finansal yapı, faaliyet ve kârlılık oranlarını olumsuz etkilerken, ana metal sanayi, deri, eczacılık ürünleri, eğitim, inşaat, kâğıt ve kâğıt ürünleri, madencilik, metal ürünler, sağlık ve ticaret sektörlerini olumlu etkilemiştir. Ayrıca çalışma sonuçları, pandemi sürecinin likidite oranları üzerinde anlamlı pozitif bir etki, borçlanma (finansal kaldıraç) oranı ve faaliyet oranları üzerinde anlamlı negatif bir etki oluşturduğunu, kârlılık oranları üzerinde ise anlamlı bir etki oluşturmadığını ortaya koymuştur.
Kurumsal Yönetim Uygulamalarının Ar-Ge Yoğunluğu Üzerine Etkisi: BİST İmalat Sektörü Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Authors: SÖNMEZ Adem Ruhan
Published: July 2022

Bu çalışma, kurumsal yönetim uygulamalarının Araştırma ve Geliştirme (Ar-Ge) yatırımları üzerindeki etkilerini ortaya koymayı amaç edinmiştir. Hisse senetleri Borsa İstanbul’da 2016 -2020 yılları arasında işlem gören imalat şirketlerinin yıllık verileri kullanılarak doğrusal panel regresyon analizi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonucunda Ar- Ge yoğunluğu ile yönetim kurulu üye sayısı, kadın üye oranı ve en büyük hissedar oranı arasında herhangi bir ilişki olmadığı ancak bağımsız üye oranı ile negatif bir ilişkiye sahip olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu sonuçlara göre; yönetim kurulu üye sayısı, kadın üye oranı ve en büyük hissedarın oranında meydana gelen değişim Ar- Ge yoğunluğuna etki etmezken, bağımsız üye oranında meydana gelen değişim Ar-Ge yoğunluğunun azalmasına neden olmaktadır.