bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, Single Sign-On
Authors: Mir Omid , Roland Michael , Mayrhofer René
Published: January 2022

In current single sign-on authentication schemes on the web, users are required to interact with identity providers securely to set up authentication data during a registration phase and receive a token (credential) for future access to services and applications. This type of interaction can make authentication schemes challenging in terms of security and availability. From a security perspective, a main threat is theft of authentication reference data stored with identity providers. An adversary could easily abuse such data to mount an offline dictionary attack for obtaining the underlying password or biometric. From a privacy perspective, identity providers are able to track user activity and control sensitive user data. In terms of availability, users rely on trusted third-party servers that need to be available during authentication. We propose a novel decentralized privacy-preserving single sign-on scheme through the Decentralized Anonymous Multi-Factor Authentication (DAMFA), a new authentication scheme where identity providers no longer require sensitive user data and can no longer track individual user activity. Moreover, our protocol eliminates dependence on an always-on identity provider during user authentication, allowing service providers to authenticate users at any time without interacting with the identity provider. Our approach builds on threshold oblivious pseudorandom functions (TOPRF) to improve resistance against offline attacks and uses a distributed transaction ledger to improve availability. We prove the security of DAMFA in the universal composibility (UC) model by defining a UC definition (ideal functionality) for DAMFA and formally proving the security of our scheme via ideal-real simulation. Finally, we demonstrate the practicability of our proposed scheme through a prototype implementation.
Cristianismo no Congo
Authors: Almeida Carlos
Published: January 2022

Na costa atlântica do continente africano, a formação política Kongo, situada em torno do rio Congo para sul, constitui um caso singular de relação secular e duradoura com o cristianismo. Em 1491, na sequência das viagens do Diogo Cão, o Mwene Kongo Nzinga Nkuwu aceitou o baptismo que lhe foi proposto pelos religiosos portugueses. Desde então, iniciou-se um processo complexo de integração e apropriação de formas rituais e Simbólicas do cristianismo, acelerado, em particular, durante o período de Afonso Mvemba Nzinga (1504-1542). Desde o início, a incorporação do cristianismo no Kongo resultou de uma decisão autónoma das lideranças políticas locais. O processo complexo de tradução cultural entre io mundo teológico cristão e a cosmologia kongo, heterogéneo e descontínuo, pleno de ambiguidades e mal-entendidos, contou com a activa participação de membros da aristocracia kongo enviados para Portugal para estudar ou formados localmente nos preceitos da fé. Diferentes ordens religiosas desenvolveram actividade na região, entre os sécs. XV e XIX, com destaque para os jesuítas e os capuchinhos. Dessa presença resultou, além de inúmeros relatos e descrições sobre a realidade social na região, alguns impressos à época, um conjunto de instrumentos linguísticos, entre cartilhas, catecismos e vocabulários, que fixam o modo como diferentes conceitos e práticas rituais foram traduzidos para o sistema de referências kongo. O cristianismo e o processo correlato de apropriação da escrita reforçaram a tendência de aglutinação do espaço político em torno do centro Mbanza Kongo. Abriram, ao mesmo tempo, um canal de comunicação diplomática que o Kongo manipulou de forma a contrariar a pressão política, económica e religiosa da Coroa portuguesa e da sua colónia em Luanda, e defender a sua própria esfera de interesses à escala do Atlântico. Depois da fragmentação do Kongo que sobrevém à batalha de Mbwila, em 1665, o cristianismo, ou pelo menos, as formas consolidadas da sua apropriação e os agentes locais desse processo continuaram a jogar um papel político e social relevante, mesmo quando a presença das ordens religiosas europeias era já escassa ou virtualmente inexistente. Esse enraizamento está bem reflectido nos sucessivos movimentos proféticos que eclodiram ao longo do séc. XVII e cujos ecos serão ainda visíveis na viragem para o século XX, quando novos protagonistas religiosos ali chegarem. O volumoso e diversificado arquivo documental continua a suscitar debates teóricos e metodológicos importantes sobre a natureza dos processos de apropriação, resignificação e hibridismo cultural gerados no contexto desta relação histórica.
L’afrique dont on ne parle pas
Authors: Yai Olabiyi Babalola Joseph
Published: January 2022

Le theme de ce colloque est très important et original. Mais avant toute chose et par fidélité à l’Afrique il me semble qu’outre thème devrait nous inciter à commencer par nous poser des questions sur la philosophie et l’éthique de la parole en Afrique Et c’est cette éthique africaine millénaire qu’il s’agit, aujourd’hui, de réhabiliter et de rétablir dans tout discours sur l’Afrique
Rewriting the Arthurian Romance
Authors: Bertagnolli Davide
Published: January 2022

From verse 2593 to the end, the Middle Dutch Ferguut becomes a more independent adaptation of its model, the Old French Fergus: the author starts to operate on a deeper level, namely giving more space and importance to the main female character and, for instance, humanizing the hero’s figure. This article investigates the rewriting strategy adopted in the second part of the romance in order to understand what could have motivated the choices of the unknown poet.
Not So Foreign
Authors: Mevis Alice
Published: January 2022

The Norman Conquest and its tremendous linguistic impact on the English language is widely acknowledged among scholars and triggered a substantial body of literature. The great influx of French loanwords into the lexis of Middle English not only led to a profound restructuring of the lexicon, but also deeply affected the English morphology and patterns of derivation (Kastovsky 1994), as well as the English syntax to some extent (Smith 2012; Haeberli 2010). However, few studies have focused on a detailed analysis of these loans. Most researchers chose to focus on the quantitative aspects of the period of extensive lexical borrowing in Middle English, without dedicating much attention to the way and the extent to which French loanwords actually integrated and interacted with native vocabulary. This study thus sought to examine some excerpts of Middle English texts in more detail with the aim of getting closer to understanding whether these borrowings were already fully integrated in Middle English by the time these texts were written, whether this integration was determined by internal or external factors, and whether the process itself was abrupt or rather continuous.
Nematode-induced demasculinization of Nearctic Dolichopodidae (Diptera) with five new synonyms
Authors: RUNYON JUSTIN B.
Published: January 2022

Demasculinization, the reduction of male sexual characters due to parasitic nematode infection, is described in Nearctic Dolichopodidae. Five species are confirmed to be demasculinized (3 species of Dolichopus Latreille and 1 species each of Rhaphium Meigen and Tachytrechus Haliday) by nematodes in two families (apparent Mermithidae and Parasitylenchidae). The following nematode-infected males were inadvertently described as new species and are here proposed as synonyms: Dolichopus hurleyi Runyon, 2008 = D. dorycerus Loew, 1864, syn. nov.; Dolichopus frosti Runyon, 2008 = D. sincerus Melander, 1900, syn. nov.; Tachytrechus boharti Harmston, 1968 = T. sanus Osten Sacken, 1877, syn. nov.; Tachytrechus duplicatus Harmston, 1972 = T. sanus Osten Sacken, 1877, syn. nov.; Tachytrechus mchughi Harmston, 1972 = T. sanus Osten Sacken, 1877, syn. nov. A conspectus is presented of the scope of taxonomic problems caused by nematodes in Nearctic Dolichopus and Tachytrechus, which suggests that ten additional names in Dolichopus could be based on infected specimens. Guidelines are provided for recognizing nematode infection to avoid erroneous species descriptions.
Comparing genetic markers’ efficiencies for discrimination between two commercially important holothuroids in the Mediterranean Sea, Holothuria polii and Holothuria sanctori
Authors: MOHAMMED-GEBA KHALED , ABBAS EMAN M. , AHMED HAMDY O. , SHALABI MOHAMMED A. , HAMED EL SAYED A. E. , RAZEK FATMA A. ABDEL , SOLIMAN TAHA
Published: January 2022

Sea cucumber (bêche-de-mer, Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) is one of the top internationally traded seafood varieties. Besides its direct nutritional benefits, it is continuously used in the traditional medicine in different areas and cultures in the world. This world-wide interest triggered various issues related to stocks´ declining and risks of species extinction. For these reasons, the current study was designed to provide molecular tools for accurate discrimination between two sea cucumber species that prevail the Mediterranean of these echinoderms in Egypt, that are Holothuria polii and H. sanctori. The power of three gene markers, i.e., 16S rDNA, 28S rDNA, and Histone H3 in achieving accurate DNA-based identification, as well as elucidating clear phylogenetic and genetic diversity differences between those two species was assessed. Among the three genes, 16S rDNA showed the highest potentials as genetic and phylogenetic species discrimination marker. Both 28S rDNA and H3 exhibited the least number of holothuroid reference sequences in the GenBank database. For genetic diversity within each species population, 16S rDNA exhibited the best potentials, followed by H3. 28S rDNA showed no genetic polymorphism at all. Moreover, the collective data of both H3 and 16S rDNA suggested a possible role of asexual reproduction behavior in H. sanctori in the reduction of genetic diversity, as a possible response to overfishing. Hence, the current research can recommend the simultaneous application of both 16S rDNA and H3 as accurate markers for genetic discrimination among H. polii, H. sanctori and other different holothuroid species.
A new species of the genus Gortyna Ochsenheimer, 1816 from China, with notes on the larval feeding habits (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae: Apameini)
Authors: WU JUN , YANG MAO-FA , HAN HUI-LIN
Published: January 2022

A new species of the genus Gortyna Ochsenheimer, 1816, G. guizhouensis sp. n., is described from Guizhou Province, China. Adults and genitalic structures of the new species and related species are illustrated. Observations of feeding habits and host plant of the larva are also provided.
Lessons Learnt from Teaching Finance During COVID-19 Pandemic: My Two Cents
Authors: Padmakumari Lakshmi
Published: January 2022

This article aims to provide a descriptive account of the pros and cons of teaching finance online during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the insights gained from the author’s experience as an educator.

JEL Code: I2
Teaching Finance in a Virtual Set-up During COVID-19
Authors: Prasad Punam
Published: January 2022

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a stress test for the finance educators around the world. With students forced to stay home, finance educators are constantly on their toes to ensure that classes continue and that even the most vulnerable one is not left behind. As the cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in India rose in early March 2020, more and more management institutes adopted to a virtual setting of teaching. This shift from traditional to online mode was sudden. Many different approaches are being taken by different institutes both domestically and internationally to learn from each other and make online teaching more engaging and effective for the students. The pandemic has brought all the finance educators together in sharing their experiences with virtual teaching and trying to adopt what suits them best given the infrastructure at their disposal. All finance educators are in their own way trying to mitigate the effect of the pandemic and giving their best in these challenging times. This short article illustrates my experiences of teaching finance and accounting in the virtual setting at the B-School I teach.

JEL Codes: Y30; I21
Book review: Anjali Gera Roy, Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India
Authors: Ranjan Amit
Published: January 2022

Anjali Gera Roy, Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020), ix + 251 pp.
Book review: Jason Cons, Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Authors: Nandy Ritapriya
Published: January 2022

Jason Cons, Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016), xv + 200 pp.
Book review: Shinjini Das, Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy
Authors: Rai Saurav Kumar
Published: January 2022

Shinjini Das, Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), xiv + 292 pp.
Book review: Mohammad A. Quayum (Ed.), Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance
Authors: Dalal Sanghamitra
Published: January 2022

Mohammad A. Quayum (Ed.), Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), xi + 288 pp.
Team Building and Appreciative Inquiry in Research and Development Teams
Authors: Mandal Mitu
Published: January 2022

The changing nature of work has given rise to team-based organization structures. For making teams effective, organizations should train their employees in teamwork skills regularly. Team building is one of the training interventions often used by practitioners. The present study aims to assess the impact of team-building and appreciative inquiry training interventions in a controlled experimental setting. The impact of the interventions was assessed on the following dependent variables: group communication, group decision making, group performance, and group membership satisfaction. The sample comprised of 90 scientists of a Research & Development organization, randomly allocated to experimental conditions. The results revealed a significant impact of both the interventions. The Mean scores of participants exposed to either of the interventions were more than control group except in group membership satisfaction, where mean scores of only the appreciative inquiry group participants were higher than the control group. The results highlight the importance of both interventions in organizations. The study has wide implications for organization development theory and practice.
Studies on Sexual Behavior During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis
Authors: Arafat S. M. Yasir , Menon Vikas , Vinnakota Divya , Saroj Ankita , Kar Sujita Kumar , Kabir Russell
Published: January 2022

Sexual relations suffered from a drastic change because of the pandemic of the COVID-19 and its controlling measures. We performed a bibliometric review of articles conducted on sexual behavior through this COVID-19 pandemic. We performed a search in the Scopus database on August 14, 2021. The search was carried out by the mentioned search terms: “sex* act*” OR “Sex* Behav*” AND “COVID-19.” A total of 230 published articles was identified in the Scopus database, out of which 130 research works were funded and 23.91% (n = 55) articles had international collaborations. R Stephenson published the highest number of papers (n = 4) whilst SK Kar had the maximum number of citations (n = 39) and the highest number of citations per article (13). Universidade de São Paulo and the University of California were the most productive organizations whilst the USA outnumbered the other countries. Sexually Transmitted Infections (n = 13) and Elsevier (61) published the highest number of papers as a journal and publisher, respectively. It is the first bibliometric review on studies that assessed impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human sexual activities during which identified that more than half of the articles were funded which is a promising sign for the researchers from this field and for those who are keen to work in this field.
Genome-wide association study of beef bull semen attributes
Authors: Butler M. L. , Hartman A. R. , Bormann J. M. , Weaber R. L. , Grieger D. M. , Rolf M. M.
Published: January 2022

Background

Cattle production is dependent upon fertility because it results in producing offspring to offset production costs. A number of semen attributes are believed to affect fertility and are frequently measured as part of routine breeding soundness exams or semen collection procedures. The objective of this study was to perform a single-step genome-wide association study (ssGWAS) for beef bull semen attributes. Beef bull fertility phenotypes including volume (VOL), concentration (CONC), number of spermatozoa (NSP), initial motility (IMot), post-thaw motility (PTMot), three-hour post-thaw motility (3HRPTMot), percentage of normal spermatozoa (%NORM), primary abnormalities (PRIM), and secondary abnormalities (SEC) were obtained from two artificial insemination (AI) centers. A total of 1819 Angus bulls with 50,624 collection records were used for ssGWAS. A five-generation pedigree was obtained from the American Angus Association and consisted of 6521 sires and 17,136 dams. Genotypes on 1163 bulls were also obtained from the American Angus Association and utilized in ssGWAS.

Results

A multi-trait animal model was used for the estimation of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) effects. Significant SNP were those with a -log10P-value threshold greater than 4.0. Volume, CONC, NSP, IMot, PTMot, 3HRPTMot, %NORM, PRIM, and SEC have five, three, six, seven, two, six, six, and two genome-wide significant SNP, respectively.

Conclusions

Several significant SNP were determined to be near or within quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with beef bull semen attributes. In addition, genes associated with fertility were found to contain or be near the significant SNP found in the study. The results indicate there are regions of the genome that impact fertility, proving inclusion of genomic information into genetic evaluation should be advantageous for genetic improvement of male fertility traits.
Initial risk perception and feeling of preparedness of primary care physicians regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, France and Spain in February 2020
Authors: Guerrisi C , Thomas B , Ordax Diez A , Van Cauteren D , Lozano Alonso J E , Moreels S , Falchi A , Vega Alonso T , Bonmarin I , Raude J , Vilcu A M , Hanslik T , Debin M , Rossignol L , Colizza V , Souty C , Blanchon T
Published: January 2022

Background

The knowledge of risk perceptions in primary care could help health authorities to manage epidemics.

Methods

A European multi-center cross-sectional study was conducted in France, Belgium and Spain to describe the perceptions, the level of anxiety and the feeling of preparedness of primary healthcare physicians towards the COVID-19 infection at the beginning of the pandemic. The factors associated with the feeling of preparedness were studied using multivariate logistic regressions.

Results

A total of 511 physicians participated to the study (response rate: 35.2%). Among them, only 16.3% (n=82) were highly anxious about the pandemic, 50.6% (n=254) had the feeling to have a high level of information, 80.5% (n=409) found the measures taken by the health authorities suitable to limit the spread of COVID-19, and 45.2% (n=229) felt prepared to face the epidemic. Factors associated with feeling prepared were: being a Spanish practitioner (adjusted OR=4.34; 95%CI [2.47; 7.80]), being a man (aOR=2.57, 95%CI [1.69; 3.96]), finding the measures taken by authorities appropriate (aOR=1.72, 95%CI [1.01; 3.00]) and being highly informed (aOR=4.82, 95%CI [2.62; 9.19]).

Conclusions

Regarding the dramatic evolution of the pandemic in Europe in the weeks following the study, it appears that information available at this time and transmitted to the physicians could have given a wrong assessment of the spread and the severity of the disease. It seems essential to better integrate the primary care physicians into the information, training and protection channels. A comparison between countries could help to select the most effective measures in terms of information and communication.
Ginseng alleviates folliculogenesis disorders via induction of cell proliferation and downregulation of apoptotic markers in nicotine-treated mice
Authors: Faghani Masoumeh , Saedi Sahar , Khanaki Korosh , Mohammadghasemi Fahimeh
Published: January 2022

Background

Ginseng is a powerful phytoestrogen with high antioxidant properties.

Objective

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of Panax Ginseng (PG) on folliculogenesis, proliferation, and apoptosis in the ovary impaired by nicotine.

Methods

Forty adult mice were divided into five groups. Control, sham, and nicotine groups, and co-treated groups of nicotine and ginseng in doses of 0.5 and 1 g/kg. Folliculogenesis was assessed via histopathology and serum evaluation of estradiol, progesterone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH) by ELISA. Lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzyme activities both in homogenate tissue and serum were assayed by colorimetric analysis. Apoptotic markers of cytochrome c (Cyt c), Bax, and Bcl-2 were evaluated by RT-PCR. Proliferative index was studied by the Ki-67 immunostaining procedure.

Results

In comparison to the control or sham groups, nicotine significantly reduced the levels of FSH, LH, and estradiol hormones. An insignificant reduction was observed in the progesterone hormone. Nicotine reduced all healthy follicle numbers, except primordial (P = 0.001). Malondialdehyde (MDA) was increased in tissue and serum in the nicotine group (P = 0.01). Serum catalase (CAT) and enzymatic activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) both were reduced in tissue and the serum, in the nicotine group. Nicotine induced a reduction in the proliferative indexes of granulosa and theca cells in pre-antral and antral follicles (P = 0.001). However, its effect on the proliferative index of stroma cells was not significant. Apoptotic markers were elevated in the nicotine group (P = 0.001). Co-treatment with ginseng elevated all sex hormones, increased healthy follicles, and reduced tissue or serum lipid peroxidation, compared with the nicotine group (p < 0.05). Co-Treatment with ginseng also reduced the expression of apoptotic markers and increased the proliferative indexes in granulosa and theca cells in pre-antral and antral follicles and also in stroma cells, in comparison to the nicotine group (P = 0.001). All above-mentioned alterations following treatment with ginseng were remarkable, especially in the dose of 1 g/kg.

Conclusion

This study showed ginseng protects folliculogenesis via alteration of hypothalamic- pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis, induction of proliferation in ovarian somatic cells, reduction of lipid peroxidation, and downregulation of apoptotic markers in the mouse ovary, treated with nicotine.
СУБЪЕКТНОСТЬ И ИНТЕЛЛИГЕНТНОСТЬ: ОТ ПОНЯТИЯ К ИЗОМОРФИЗМУ
Authors: Naumov Petr Yu. , Dyachkov Aleksey A.
Published: January 2022

Актуальность. Исследование сущности и структуры интеллигентности является современным и актуальным, а также особенностей ее функционирования в психике, предполагает установление соотношения субъектности и интеллигентности как общего и особенного. Изучение системного отношения между субъектностью и интеллигентностью предполагает изучение их структур, изоморфизма между ними, сравнения компонентов и характерных качественных свойств. Субъектность как свойство самости личности, способность принимать решения и нести за них ответственность, проявлять самостоятельность и нравственность в поступках, близка по своим качественным и структурным характеристикам к интеллигентности, которая и проявляется в ценностно-смысловом (экзистенциальном) отношении к фактам и явлениям окружающей действительности, уровне интеллектуальности личности как производной от образованности, эмоционально-волевой устойчивости в нравственном поведении и готовности к самопожертвованию. Следовательно, имеются основания указать на изоморфизм субъектности и интеллигентности в их соотношении общего и особенного.

Материалы и методы. Работа основывалась на применении методологических принципов системного, комплексного и субъектного подхода. Указанные подходы выполняют методолого-ориентационные, когнитивно-творческие и прогностические функции. Исходя из научных подходов, которые выступили основанием и платформой работы, нами были применены системный и функциональный, понятийный и структурно-компонентный анализы, сравнение, абстрагирование и дедукция.

Результаты исследования. К научным результатам работы относится выявленное соотношение субъектности и интеллигентности как общего и особенного и их изоморфизма. Данные результаты можно использовать для проведения научных исследований в философских, педагогических и психологических науках, а также развития интеллигентности будущих офицеров в педагогическом процессе военного вуза.
РОЛЬ ПСИХИЧЕСКИХ СОСТОЯНИЙ В ПСИХОСЕМАНТИЧЕСКОЙ ОЦЕНКЕ ВИЗУАЛЬНЫХ СТИМУЛОВ
Authors: Kiseleva Nadezhda A. , Galyapina Viktoria N.
Published: January 2022

Цель. В век компьютерных технологий и массового перехода на онлайн взаимодействие при обучении и удаленной работе актуальной темой является изучение психологических особенностей обработки визуальной информации. Целью данной работы является изучение взаимосвязи психических состояний респондентов с психосемантическими оценками визуального стимула. Новизна исследования заключается в установлении взаимосвязи особенностей психических познавательных процессов и эмоциональных состояний респондентов с качеством и выраженностью психосемантической оценки визуального изображения.

Метод или методология проведения работы. В исследовании, проведенном онлайн на платформе 1ка с участием 737 человек, использовались методика А.О. Прохорова «Рельеф психического состояния», адаптированный авторами психосемантический дифференциал для оценки визуального стимула, корреляционный и факторный анализ.

Результаты. Обнаружена взаимосвязь особенностей протекания психических процессов и эмоциональных состояний респондентов с характером оценки ими визуального стимула. А именно: чем выше показатели ощущения, восприятия, воображения и уровня представлений у реципиентов и чем более позитивные эмоциональные состояния они испытывали, тем более положительные психосемантические характеристики они приписывали визуальному стимулу. И, наоборот, чем ниже показатели психических состояний у респондентов, тем более негативными характеристиками наделялся визуальный стимул.

Область применения результатов. Теоретическая значимость исследования заключается во вкладе в психологию психических состояний, психосемантику, психологию искусства. Практическая значимость будет состоять в использовании результатов в сферах образования, в том числе онлайн-обучения, дизайна, рекламы.
КУЛЬТУРНО-ЭТНИЧЕСКИЙ ФАКТОР ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ЛИЧНОСТНОЙ БЕСПОМОЩНОСТИ: ЭМПИРИЧЕСКОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ МИГРАНТОВ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОЙ АЗИИ
Authors: Ponomareva Irina V. , Pakhomova Yana N. , Vinkova Galina A.
Published: January 2022

Введение. Неконтролируемые социальные, экономические и политические события, являющиеся травмирующими для субъекта, могут выступать предиктором формирования личностной беспомощности. В статье рассматриваются культурно-этнические факторы формирования личностной беспомощности и самостоятельности на материале исследования мигрантов из Центральной Азии. В качестве факторов выступают показатели этнической идентичности и культурных ценностей мигрантов.
Цель: выявить культурно-этнические факторы формирования личностной беспомощности на материале мигрантов Центральной Азии.
Методы и методология проведения работы. В соответствии с целью исследования выборку составили мигранты Центральной Азии (N=222, средний возраст 20,84, медиана 20). Для изучения культурно-этнических особенностей личностной беспомощности и самостоятельности были сформированы две группы респондентов: испытуемые с личностной беспомощностью и испытуемые с самостоятельностью. В качестве методик исследования использовались: опросник личностной беспомощности (М.О. Климова, Д.А. Циринг), опросник «Типы этнической идентичности» (Г.У. Солдатова, С.В. Рыжова), методика Г. Хофстеда «Модуль исследования ценностей», методика изучения культурных ценностей Ш. Шварца.
Результаты. В ходе проведённого исследования было обнаружено, что особенности культурных ценностей и этнической идентичности выступают в роли фактора риска формирования личностной беспомощности. Показатели этноизоляционизма, этнофанатизма и мужественности, которые вносят вклад в дифференциацию респондентов – мигрантов стран Центральной Азии – на личностно беспомощных и самостоятельных. Выраженность перечисленных показателей способствует формированию самостоятельности. При низком уровне выраженности данные показатели выступают факторами формирования личностной беспомощности.
Область применения результатов. Полученные данные составляют базу для разработки и апробации программ психопрофилактики и психологической коррекции личностной беспомощности, программ сопровождения процесса адаптации у мигрантов.
Are Emotion-Expressing Messages More Shared on Social Media? A Meta-Analytic Review
Authors: Chen Junhan ,   University of Maryland, College Park, Yan Yumin ,   University of Maryland, College Park, Leach John ,   University of Maryland, College Park
Published: January 2022

Given that social media has brought significant change to the communication landscape, researchers have explored factors that can influence audiences’ information-sharing on social media such as a message feature like emotion-expressing. The present study meta-analytically summarized 19 studies to advance the understanding of the associations between emotion-expressing messages and information-sharing on social media in health and crisis communication contexts. Additional moderator analyses considered social media platform, sampling method, coding method, and emotion valence. Our study showed support for the social sharing of emotion hypothesis on social media; the findings showed that emotion-expressing messages are more likely to motivate audiences’ sharing behavior on social media in health and crisis contexts (r = .09, k = 19, N = 4,582,823). Moreover, we found that studies focusing on non-Twitter platforms (vs. Twitter), using nonrandom sampling (vs. using random sampling or all samples), using human coding (vs. machine coding), and focusing on messages expressing positive emotions (vs. negative emotions or both positive and negative emotions) had larger effect sizes. The study suggested implications for the future development of a theoretical framework on emotion-expressing messages and information-sharing. It also informed communication practices of broadening the reach of health and crisis information.
Computational Study of Garlic Compounds as Potential Anti-Cancer Agents for the Inhibition of CCR5 and CXCR4
Authors:   Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, 65145, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Balqis Balqis , Lukiati Betty ,   Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, 65145, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Amin Mohamad ,   Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, 65145, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Arifah Siti Nur ,   Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, 65145, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Atho’illah Mochammad Fitri ,   Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Brawijaya University, 65145, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Widodo Nashi ,   Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Brawijaya University, 65145, Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Published: January 2022

Abstract Current cancer treatment methods are still inadequate due to the complexity of the cancer progression mechanism, which involves multiple genes, proteins, and signaling pathways. The discovery and validation of novel anticancer compounds remains challenging. Garlic has many medicinal properties that can combat various diseases. Organosulfur present in garlic has been shown to induce apoptosis in cancer cells; however, the underlying mechanism of action of non-organosulfur compounds from garlic in controlling cancer cells remains unclear. The present study aimed to analyze the efficacy of organosulfur and non-organosulfur compounds, including the flavonoid, terpenoid, and saponin groups, as inhibitors of C-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5) and C-X-C chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4), which play significant roles in the progression of cancer. To determine the interactions between the active compounds of garlic and these receptors (CCR5 and CXCR4), molecular docking was performed using the PyRx v.0.8 software. Amino acid residues were analyzed and visualized using Biovia Discovery Studio and PyMol, respectively. Non-organosulfur compounds exhibited better results than the organosulfur compounds in binding affinity analysis. Tigogenin (from the saponin group) is considered to be a CCR5 inhibitor, while lupeol (from the terpenoid group) is considered to be a CXCR4 inhibitor. In conclusion, our results suggest that garlic compounds could be promising inhibitors of CCR5 and CXCR4, which are highly expressed in cancer. However, further research is needed to validate the in vitro and in vivo activities of garlic compounds for the inhibition of cancer progression. Keywords: Anticancer agents, CCR5, CXCR4, Garlic, Organosulfur compounds, Non-Organosulfur compounds]
Rice Plant Disease Detection Using Sensing Recognition Strategy Based on Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Daniya T. , Vidyadhari Ch. , Aluri Srilakshmi
Published: January 2022

In current history rice infections have often appeared, causing severe destruction of rice cultivation. As one of the top ten countries that creates and destroys the world, India relies heavily on rice for its economy and to meet its food needs. To ensure the sound and legal growth of rice crops it is important to identify any diseases in the schedule and to pre-apply the expected treatment to the affected plants. Since the detection of disease is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is certainly wise to have a system with robots. Infection of rice crops is considered to be a growing factor behind the horticultural, financial and general situation in the future development of the rural field. However, leaf scald and eyespot are the pivotal trouble in paddy fields. Hence, to conquer these issues a novel Sensing Recognition Strategy has been proposed. In Proposed method, optical sensors identify identification of disease and Enhanced Grasshopper Detection Algorithm utilizing the grasshoppers’ forces, path and position carries out detection. The accuracy of the suggested framework is to attain 97.94% with healthy rice crops.
Phenotype Based Smart Mobile Application for Crop Yield Prediction and Forecasting Using Machine Learning and Time Series Models
Authors: Iniyan S. , Jebakumar R.
Published: January 2022

Prediction and forecasting of crop yield recently plays a vital role in the field of Agriculture. Drastic changes in climatic conditions, changes in rainfall season, and lack of nutrients content in the soil etc., due to major factors such as rapid industrialisation, global warming and pollution. This leads to the farmers’ predictions based on their own agricultural experiences on various crop yields based on external factors gone wrong. This results in farmers not getting adequate yield and suffering from financial loss. Machine learning and time series models are involved in this research work to carry out prediction and forecast of corn and soybean crop production over time through mobile application and it consist of various regression algorithms of machine learning such as multiple linear regression (MLR), decision tree regression (DTR), random forest tree regression (RFTR), k-nearest neighbour (KNN) and gradient boosting regression (GBR) are used for crop yield prediction. Time series models such as auto regression (AR), moving average (MA), auto regression integrated moving average (ARIMA) and vector auto regression (VAR) used for forecast of crop production. Comparative analysis also made between machine learning and time series models, in which GBR of machine learning outperformed other machine learning models with 92.648% predicted yield accuracy and VAR of time series model outperformed other time series models with 94.367% forecasted yield accuracy. Regression metrics such as mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) are also involved in predicting crop yields.
An Analysis on Semantic Interpretation of Tamil Literary Texts
Authors: Ramalingam Anita , Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan Subalalitha
Published: January 2022

The interaction between a computer and a human or natural language is known as Natural Language Processing (NLP). The ultimate goal is to make the natural language text understandable, which in turn, requires its meaning to be captured. Text can be analyzed on several levels, such as lexical, syntax, semantics, discourse, and pragmatics. These NLP tasks deal with text at different levels, such as word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, and document. Discourse analysis is a type of text analysis that goes beyond the sentence level. The discourse analysis is currently performed on expository (essay) type of texts. There are currently no state-of-the-art NLP applications that handle Tamil literary texts at a discourse level. Tamil classical literature is rich with ethical, moral, and philosophical values that should be explored for the benefit of society. This paper proposes an automatic semantic interpretation framework for Tamil literary texts using discourse parsing by giving works on discourse parsing, text classification, discourse-based clustering and information retrieval, and Tamil language and Tamil literatures. This semantic interpretation can be developed as a smart mobile application using multimedia components. This paper also discusses how the Tamil literary text processing differs from the essay type of text.
Convolutional Neural Networks Using Log Mel-Spectrogram Separation for Audio Event Classification with Unknown Devices
Authors: Seo Soonshin , Kim Changmin , Kim Ji-Hwan
Published: January 2022

Audio event classification refers to the detection and classification of non-verbal signals, such as dog and horn sounds included in audio data, by a computer. Recently, deep neural network technology has been applied to audio event classification, exhibiting higher performance when compared to existing models. Among them, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based training method that receives audio in the form of a spectrogram, which is a two-dimensional image, has been widely used. However, audio event classification has poor performance on test data when it is recorded by a device (unknown device) different from that used to record training data (known device). This is because the frequency range emphasized is different for each device used during recording, and the shapes of the resulting spectrograms generated by known devices and those generated by unknown devices differ. In this study, to improve the performance of the event classification system, a CNN based on the log mel-spectrogram separation technique was applied to the event classification system, and the performance of unknown devices was evaluated. The system can classify 16 types of audio signals. It receives audio data at 0.4-s length, and measures the accuracy of test data generated from unknown devices with a model trained via training data generated from known devices. The experiment showed that the performance compared to the baseline exhibited a relative improvement of up to 37.33%, from 63.63% to 73.33% based on Google Pixel, and from 47.42% to 65.12% based on the LG V50.
Time-Sensitive Satellite Internet Based on Uniform Content Labels
Authors: Shen Jie , Dong Wenqi , Wang Jing , Zang Peng , Shi Xuewei , Wang Yang
Published: January 2022

For satellite Internet the content was examined by location and time of day, as well as within the context of online social networks. The ground Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a paradigm shift from host-to-host Internet Protocol (IP)-based communication to content-based communication. With the development and universal application of satellite technology, an important way to expand the function of satellites is setting up inter-satellite networks to make them work together. The Internet and the Global Positioning System are based on the dual structure network and the Uniform Content Label UCL national standard. Through the integration of these two inventions, the integration of time and space is realized, creating an endogenous security environment of both mathematics and physics that is self-consistent in cyberspace, is expected to bring a breakthrough in principle for cracking network security challenges.
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and associated alterations in hematology and serum biochemistry of one-humped camels (Camelus dromedarius) in Pakistan
Authors: Shehzad Aamir , Masud Awais , Fatima Tabassam , Khan Fraz Munir , Rehman Saifur , Effendi Mustofa Helmi , Suwanti Lucia Tri , Khan Iahtasham , Tyasningsih Wiwiek , Faisal Shah , Abadeen Zain Ul , Bibi Samreen
Published: January 2022

Background and Aim: Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan that infects humans and animals. This study aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of T. gondii and the associated alterations in hematology and serum biochemistry of one-humped camels (Camelus dromedarius) in Mianwali district, Pakistan. Materials and Methods: A total of 350 blood samples were obtained from male and female camels of different ages (≤3 years old, 4-6 years old, and ≥7 years old). To validate T. gondii antibodies, the collected samples were subjected to indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using purified recombinant micronemal protein 3 as an antibody catching antigen. Results: The prevalence of T. gondii was 50.2% higher in male camels than in female camels (16.5%) (p<0.001). Furthermore, the prevalence of T. gondii in camels was directly proportional to age (p<0.001). It was 63.33% (57/90) in camels of ≥7 years of age, 32.54% in 4-6 years old age group, and 23.08% in ≤3 years old age group. The hematological analysis of infected camels revealed a significant increase in the values of glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism, lymphocyte percentage, monocyte percentage (MONO%), corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), and procalcitonin. Furthermore, substantially higher levels of liver enzymes alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, and the macro-mineral potassium were found in the serum of T. gondii-infected camels. Conclusion: The seropositivity of T. gondii is directly associated with the age and sex of camels, which may be considered as potential risk factors. Furthermore, T. gondii infection directly impacts the hemato-biochemistry of infected camels.
The Dominan Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility Projects Based on Bibliometric Analysis: Improving Quality or Stagnation?
Authors: Rahmah Laily Ainur , Salahudin Salahudin
Published: January 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has an important role in improving the company's existence. CSR was formed to implement empowerment to society, attract the attention of surrounding society and build the company's image. This paper aims to examine implementation of society empowerment through the CSR program. This study uses the method of study literature and bibliometric analysis by collecting previous research articles that are indexed in Scopus database and have correlation with CSR programs, which are then carried out using bibliometric analysis using the VOS viewer. This analysis makes it easier for the author to make a common thread about dominant concepts studied. This study reveals that society empowerment in an effort to improve economic level and welfare of society through CSR programs is able to increase the responsibility and quality of companies in Indonesia. Besides that, it also has an impact on the quality of the economy and helps society to face the dynamic economy, social and culture in the future. For further research, it is expected to pay attention to dominant concepts contained in CSR programs, especially in implementation of society development around the company as consideration for improvement and refinement of research to be carried out.
Concert and Charity: Operating Da’wah Activism through Maher Zain’s Pop Culture Industry
Authors: Fairuz Rifqi
Published: January 2022

Maher Zain is an icon of Islamic pop culture with the largest market share in the world. Indonesia constitutes the largest Maher Zain's fan base with multiple platinum awards and recorded million copies of album sale. Maher Zain's rise to fame coincided with the shifting of conventional Islamic authority, which turned from Kiai or Ulama to popular Muslim preachers. These preachers seek aspirations of Islamism in social and political movements through the da’wah institutions they lead. This article is aimed to examine the intersection between the Islamic pop culture industry, Maher Zain as a leading Muslim singer icon, and the strategies of Islamic activism of da’wah in Indonesia. This research found that popular preachers utilize their charitable activities, philanthropy and Islamic da'wah to legitimize and capitalize on Maher Zain's popularity in Indonesia, by playing role in the capitalistic mechanism of the Islamic music industry. These da'wah institutions operate through industrial mechanisms for the benefit of Islamic da'wah activism in Indonesia and even become an advantage in the midst of the struggle for political Islam in Indonesia.
Evolutionary-Synergetic Approach to Assessing the Impact of State Regulation on the Development of Spatial-Economic Formations
Authors:   Economic Research Institute FEB RAS, Krasnopolski Boris
Published: January 2022

The article deals with evolutionary-synergistic approach and its tools, which can be used in assessing the systemic-emergent efficiency of state regulation of the creation of spatial-economic formations. The general methodological issues of the spatial economy and the subject area of this discipline are analyzed, the structure of typical spatial-economic formation is determined, the role of internal and external elements of infrastructure in improving the efficiency of the spatial organization of the economy is revealed
Iris Features Extraction and Recognition based on the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)
Authors: Taha Mohammed A. , Ahmed Hanaa M. , Husain Saif O.
Published: January 2022

Iris Biometric authentication is considered to be one of the most dependable biometric characteristics for identifying persons. In actuality, iris patterns have invariant, stable, and distinguishing properties for personal identification. Due to its excellent dependability in personal identification, iris recognition has received more attention. Current iris recognition methods give good results especially when NIR and specific capture conditions are used in collaboration with the user. On the other hand, values related to images captured using VW are affected by noise such as blurry images, eye skin, occlusion, and reflection, which negatively affects the overall performance of the recognition systems. In both NIR and visible spectrum iris images, this article presents an effective iris feature extraction strategy based on the scale-invariant feature transform algorithm (SIFT). The proposed method was tested on different databases such as CASIA v1 and ITTD v1, as NIR images, as well as UBIRIS v1 as visible-light color images. The proposed system gave good accuracy rates compared to existing systems, as it gave an accuracy rate of (96.2%) when using CASIA v1 and (96.4%) in ITTD v1, while the system accuracy dropped to (84.0 %) when using UBIRIS v1.