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Creating collaborative capacity in early career research writers
Authors: Gasson Susan , Bruce Christine , Maybee Clarence
Published: May 2021

Given evidence of enhanced productivity and citations achieved by collaborative writers, it is important for researchers to develop collaborative capacity (Abramo, D’Angelo & Di Costa 2009; McCarty, Jawitz, Hopkins & Goldman 2013). Our theoretical paper defines the concepts of Collaborative Capacity and Informed Research and incorporates them within a Collaborative Research Culture Framework. We also present five stories that illustrate how elements of the Framework, including Collaborative Capacity, can help the collaborative research writer to overcome challenges and engage successfully in collaborative opportunities. One story focuses on a student and supervisor collaboration to highlight the role of trust and respect; another describes how student collaborations can enrich and enable informal, formal and sanctioned networks; a third describes the innovation, inclusion and initiative achieved through writing collaboratively; a fourth demonstrates how leadership capacity facilitates the creation of a successful edited book, and the last examines how writers as informed researchers can engage with critical communities and resources.

All the stories occur in global and cross-disciplinary contexts and exemplify the potential for developing new collaborative writing approaches. While the stories are generic they are loosely based on collegially shared or reported experiences. The power of adopting a narrative approach in this paper is that it allows the exploration of the particular in ordinary, everyday instances (Clandinin 2013; Donnelly, Gabriel, Özkazanç‐Pan & Kara 2013). The stories demonstrate how a writer can develop Collaborative Capacity, by showing leadership and being an informed researcher, supporting access to different networks, genres and media that progress their research endeavours within and across disciplines and sectors (e.g., government, industry, community and the non-profit). We conclude that the Framework enables strategic reflection by those seeking to successfully collaborate through development of Collaborative Capacity.
Gagging the writer: The implicit censorship of non-fiction trade book publishing in Australia
Authors: Day Katherine
Published: May 2021

Australian readers have a thirst for non-fiction books. A growing preference for autobiographies and biographies, true stories and criticism, investigative journalism and narrative journalism (Thompson, 2017, p. 204) showcases a trend towards “real” content that piques readers’ curiosity and offers deeper insight into the lives of public persons, and sometimes a perspective that might otherwise be considered private. But writing the tell-all or exposé is not without consequences, particularly with Australia’s defamation laws notorious for casting a “chilling effect” on freedom of speech (Dent and Kenyon, 2004, p. 3; Amponsah, 2005, p. 1) by regarding reputation above publications with a public interest element. This paper explores non-fiction trade book publishing alongside a contemporary construction of reputation and argues that in Australia “reputational interests” (Partlett, 2016, p. 67) in defamation law have created a practice of implicit censorship through legalling manuscripts, avoiding publication entirely, or even intercepting book distribution. In comparing the Australian legal framework with recent UK developments, this paper also asks if law reform can correct the balance between reputation and freedom of speech, thereby allowing authors more autonomy and allowing literary culture to thrive in the contemporary Australian publishing landscape.
Introducing Showpony: an inclusive space for cross-arts performance and connection
Authors: McGinn Heather , Cannell Choe , Musera Pablo , Blackwell Lachlan , Walker Amelia
Published: May 2021

This collaborative paper argues that on-campus open mic events enrich university culture, which in turn enriches holistic learning and wellbeing. To demonstrate, we present four accounts of Showpony, our university’s monthly creative performance and pop up bar night. Originally held in a pub near campus, Showpony shifted into a student lounge space in early 2018. The move followed queerphobic and ableist discrimination against Showpony participants making continued use of the public venue untenable. Initially, we went to campus out of necessity: there is no other nearby venue with a suitably-sized, fully-accessible performance space. However, since moving, we recognise that operating on campus provides other benefits. Showpony nights intervene in and to degrees, cuts through the institutional space. Or, in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms, Showpony introduces something smooth into an otherwise striated territory. This prompts different ways of being in and working through the space, fostering styles of learning and interaction that don’t necessarily occur in lectures or tutorials. Our paper’s four accounts of Showpony encompass staff and student perspectives, including participant as well as organiser viewpoints. We aim to elucidate how Showpony has enriched our university culture, and to provide insights for those interested in running similar events.
The Writing Collective: a cross-university collaboration between undergraduate creative writing students
Authors: Philp Alex , Doolan Emma , Wilson Rohan
Published: May 2021

Online publishing platforms present opportunities for emerging writers to both share their work with an audience and to engage in a critical dialogue with peers. However, the potential of these platforms remains largely untapped in a tertiary education environment, even with the increasing focus on online learning. This paper presents the results of a pilot project that matched undergraduate students at a metropolitan university with students at a regionally based university to use the digital platform Wattpad as a site for creative writing peer critique. We found that while Wattpad presents a number of benefits for students engaging both across universities and online, digital spaces present unique challenges for the critique process. Critiquing often relies on trust and personal bonds in order to be effective, and these can be harder to establish in a digital environment. Wattpad also presents barriers to ease of use and ease of communication. From our perspective as facilitators of the Writing Collective, we examine the successes produced by the collaboration, as well as the drawbacks, and suggest further avenues for research.
Behaviours in a peer-only creative writing HDR support group: the experiences of two students of colour
Authors: Saward Melanie , El Sayad Sara
Published: May 2021

The experience of the creative writing higher degree research student is unique. The practice-led methodology many candidates apply to their research differs significantly to that of other disciplines, even those arts disciplines where practice is the focus of the research. Student life is further complicated by the need not only to be working towards research publication, but creative publication too. In some instances, feelings of isolation can contribute to HDR students failing to complete their studies. For women of colour, the need for counterspaces in the academy is also apparent. This reflective paper examines and discusses how a peer-only, diverse, horizontalised group facilitates the development of a sense of belonging and critical ‘disappearing’ relational behaviours that sit outside formal, academic supervisory interaction. Of particular importance in this reflection comes from the perspective of two students of colour. Through conversation with these two current members of the group, this paper discusses the behaviours and outcomes of peer-only support groups for HDR students in creative writing. It examines why HDR students of colour may prefer to seek support outside of the predominantly white formal structures that characterise the academy in Australia, and how such groups could potentially create effective counterspaces for students of colour.
Not ‘all writing is creative writing’ and that’s OK: inter/disciplinary collaboration in writing and writing studies
Authors: Wise Beck , van Luyn Ariella
Published: May 2021

In the discipline of creative writing in Australia, questions of disciplinary identity have previously focused on distinguishing creative writing from literary studies. Fewer have questioned exactly what academics mean when they talk about ‘writing’ as a discipline. When the term ‘writing’ is used synecdochally to mean ‘creative writing’ or ‘writing in a general sense’, other kinds of writing risk becoming invisible or undervalued. This often results in writing programs targeted at fiction and creative nonfiction writers aspiring to publication. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this, our collaboration, which we label ‘horizontal mentoring’, across sub-disciplines in writing – creative writing and technical communication – has resulted in fruitful investigations into disciplinary identity. We draw on a reflective practice methodology to answer the questions: how has our collaboration helped us develop a more nuanced understanding of writing? How might this collaboration help advocate for writing in the Australian context? How can our collaboration help develop diverse students as writers? We conclude with a vision for an inclusive and welcoming disciplinary identity and pedagogical practices that engage diverse student cohorts.
All things degrade: an autoethnographic study of memory and postcards
Authors: Ellersdorfer Johanna
Published: May 2021

Autobiographical narratives can embed in ‘things’, and the way objects degrade can be used as a way to conceptualise an understanding of the role of memory in storytelling. This piece is an auto-ethnographic essay that hinges around a series of blank art postcards collected by my mother in the early 1980s. These objects provide a way of engaging with the mechanisms of memory through considering the various narratives attached to them, and as material manifestations of the ways we record, remember and forget experiences. This is explored through considering the postcards as a reproduction of the original artworks they depict, as a souvenir of a particular experience, and also as physical objects in their own right. It draws on Walter Benjamin’s writings on materiality and storytelling, Susan Stewart’s writings on nostalgia and the souvenir, as well as anthropological and art historical understandings of materials and their processes of degradation
A wall of stuff: object itinerary as a framework for writing the souvenir
Authors: Nisbet Gemma
Published: May 2021

Both creative writers and scholars of material culture have recognised the power of objects; the way they can transcend their intended functions and exhibit a quality that is lively and even agential. In my previous career as a travel journalist, I amassed an extensive collection of souvenirs that are now making such claims on my creative writing practice. This article seeks to conceptualise the active quality of those souvenirs in relation to processes of autobiographical memory – that is, how they shape and mediate the ways we remember and forget our lives – and considers how creative writers might best respond to and represent this attribute. It proposes that the object itinerary, an iteration of the object biography concept, is a useful framework for the creative writer seeking to engage with not only the character and origins of the power of souvenirs and other objects, but also the ways they work in relation to memory.
A day with things: using object encounters to write the present and the daily
Authors: Berry Vanessa
Published: May 2021

In literary works and creative writing practice objects are often connected with memory, triggering narratives of past times and experiences, but they can also operate as powerful expressions of the present moment, through object encounters. In this fictocritical essay I enact methods and processes by which object encounters can be written and consider how the relationship between writer and objects can be co-constitutive. Focussing on materiality, resonance and chance, and object encounters from the informal archives of the home, suburban street and op shop, the essay takes the form of a daily-life chronicle. As an experiment in autobiography and attention the essay draws on the agency of objects, as expressed in vital materialism and postphenomenology, to represent the ‘material everyday’ and the process of writing with things.
Environmental crises in Kerala, Adelaide, and beyond: a collaborative poetic inquiry
Authors: Dominic KV , Walker Amelia
Published: May 2021

The earth presently suffers multiple anthropogenic (human-affected) environmental crises. Broad scale global issues like climate change now receive relatively high public attention, but need remains to look closely at localised problems and to enact dialogues about how environmental crisis manifests across differing geographical sites. Fusing the creative and collaborative techniques of research methodologies including duoethnography, poetic inquiry, and writing-as-research, this article stages an exchange through which two poets, one based in Kerala, India, the other in Adelaide, Australia, respond to one another’s writings about local environmental issues. In drawing on feminist and ecofeminist theories in connection with Félix Guatari’s work on the ‘three ecologies’, the article probes interconnections between environmental and social issues including but exceeding the ongoing effects of invasion or colonisation in both our countries; the insufficiencies of official responses to catastrophes; oppression and privilege based on gender and intersecting factors; the globalised capitalist economy; and more.
Beyond the bend
Authors: Uniyal Ranu
Published: May 2021

This single-authored contribution to the special issue on ‘Indian-Australian Exchanges’ reflects the power of poetry to connect us and provide us with strength through challenging times. The article arises from a correspondence that arose then was cut short due to intervening circumstances. That correspondence occurred between myself, Ranu Uniyal, and Australian poet Quinn Eades, who was initially selected for the project but had to withdraw when conflicting responsibilities arose. There was nonetheless an initial exchange of poems between us. We read and appreciated each other’s writings, but due to upheavals including but exceeding challenges associated with the Victorian Bushfires and then the COVID-19 pandemic, our conversation was less extensive than initially planned. Nonetheless, the work presented in this article reflects how poetry can still happen when everything else fails. In times of crisis, poetry becomes an ally and a possible confidante. 2020 has been, for many people around the world, a year of excruciating pain, of loss of life and dignity. Living is uncertain and the future dark; the present has little to offer, swamped by distrust, difference and disillusionment. Humankind has been humbled by the virus. Where does poetry lead us in these moments of anxiety and fear? This article traces one pathway.
A new suite: The process of knowing through poetry
Authors: Bullock Owen
Published: May 2021

This critical/creative work responds to a call from Krauth and Watkins for amore radical form of the scholarly paper. Its hybrid form presents poems written in response to events at the second Poetry on the Move festival at the University of Canberra in 2016. Key ideas about the intersections betweenpoetry and knowledge from David McCooey and William Carlos Williams areconsidered together with readings and discussions by poets Tusiata Avia and Simon Armitage. The article charts writing experiences, tracking the drafts andthe editing process for ways in which my festival-inspired poems reflect on the intersections between poetry and knowledge, knowing and unknowing. Specifically, the poems concern the topics of knowing and observing the world; knowing memory and integrating the past with the present; and knowing the body. They embrace embodiment, imagination and biography, conscious of antagonisms between memory and the present. In this article, I problematise the use of the noun knowledge as opposed to the verb knowing and demonstrate that the former is unnecessarily privileged. I argue that articulating the full scope of poetry composition from inspiration to the final stages of editing demonstrates that artistic knowledge is best defined as a process of knowing. It is my contention that poets do demonstrate the knowledge of how to make things, as identified by Aristotle (1954); and alsothat we show ‘knowing as a process of inquiry’ (Johnson 2010). In doing so, we offer readers ’new ways of knowing

and doing’ (Webb 2012, my emphasis). At the same time, our own new work, as I demonstrate here, responds to knowledge as ‘a living current’ (Williams 1923), an active state characterised by the verb ‘to know’.
Narrative and the unthought known: The immaterial intelligence of form
Authors: Prendergast Julia
Published: May 2021

Reflecting upon the evolution of my fractured novel The Earth Does Not Get Fat (2018), this article asks how narrative form represents underlying ideas. This inquiry reflects an abiding interest in the concept of ideasthesia, or ‘sensing concepts’ (Nikolić 2016). Ideasthesia is a means for deconstructing the ways in which writers sense concepts or ideas in metaphorical or associative ways. As I investigate the development of the fractured form and polyphonic voice in my novel, I take an interest in form as a metaphorical map, a ‘linguistic bridge’ (Cacciari 2008) between the brain and the mind. With reference to Christopher Bollas’ concept of the unthought known (Bollas 2014; 2017), I probe the relationship between narrative structure and latent themes. This extends contemporary debates about form and theme, investigating how fiction writers use cross-sensory modalities and experiential knowledge to plot concepts or ideas. Further, this analysis invites discussion about how ideasthetic practices in narrative represent creative problem-solving. This article focuses on the realist text as a sensory narrative image, a form of abstracted realism.
Contemplating language as ‘an edge that never arrives’ in Emily Dickinson’s poetry
Authors: Webster Mags
Published: May 2021

The experience of being in the world, of trying to make sense of it, and of interacting meaningfully with others has always challenged us to find better ways of expressing ourselvesthrough language, and more original ways of articulating ideas. This is why the literary arts, especially poetry, have traditionally been so important to so many cultures. Now, as our world increases in verbosity, if not articulacy, the imperative for meaningful verbal expression and exchange grows ever more pressing. Yet even the most skilled writers cannot take it for granted that they will always find ‘the right words.’With the work of Emily Dickinson as its focus, this paper argues that it may be better not to try. For if we consider writing solely to be a question of ‘finding the right words,’not only do we limit language’s power and possibility, we also limit ourselves. Using Dickinson’s poetic example, this papercontemplates language as ‘anedge that never arrives’, and suggests that the more we strive for, and fail, to reach the limits of language, the closer we may come to accessing, not only the originality and expressiveness we crave, but also the means to engage with a deeply enriching literacy of uncertainty
'A body in time’: reading and writing Australian literature
Authors: Castles Belinda
Published: May 2021

In the press, a lament for the study of Australian literature is often coupled with mistrust

at the popularity of creative programs. It can be disconcerting for writers and teachers

of writing in Australia, who work in a practical as well as pedagogical sense in the field

of Australian literature, to be placed in an antithetical position to it. One response to

the narrative of the decline of Australian literature in universities has been an assertion

of its ‘embeddedness’ across the curriculum. The creative writing classroom is one

place in which it can reliably be found, and the act of reading for the purpose of writing

brings a distinctive charge to the study of Australian literature, produced by a

movement across modal peripheries. This essay argues, via a ‘body in time’ (Jose 2011)

model of Australian literature, and a reading of the novella Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey

(2009), that the key elements of process and proximity in this mode of reading make a

distinctive contribution to the study of Australian literature.
Creative duoethnography: a collaborative methodology for arts research
Authors: Walker Amelia , Di Niro Corinna
Published: May 2021

Duoethnography is a dialogic methodology originally developed for social,

health, and educational research (Sawyer & Norris 2015). In duoethnography,

co-researchers actively question both their collaborator(s) and themselves,

seeking to reperceive issues from different angles, thereby looking to and beyond

the peripheries of what is known and how. Our essay argues the benefits of

duoethnography for creative arts research. Drawing on our reading of relevant

scholarly literature, and on learning gleaned through past and ongoing

duoethnographic collaborations, we begin by considering collaborative research

writing broadly, including related and alternative approaches. Then we outline

duoethnography’s history and defining features, before relating our use of

duoethnography in our collaborative research. A key feature of our approach is

that we weave scenes with fictionalised characters into our main

duoethnographic dialogue. In this article, we share our process, intending to

provide insights relevant to creative arts academics also interested in

collaborative research approaches.
Peripheries and praxis: the effect of rubric co-construction on student perceptions of their learning
Authors: Rickett Carolyn , Joseph Sue , Northcote Maria , Christian Beverley J , Seddon John
Published: May 2021

If we could do this with every subject, open it up to a wider swathe of students having an

input would be revolutionary in their learning.

(UTS writing lecturer, Owning the Rubric project)

The construction of assessment rubrics is often educator-centric as lecturers work in

isolation to compose grading tools. While there is a pedagogical goal to construct

instruments that align with learning outcomes and guide the assessment of students’

learning, students are often at the periphery of this process. In many higher education

institutions, students are accustomed to receiving assessment feedback but they are not,

typically, active participants in the feedback cycle. Increasingly, institutions are seeking

evidence of greater student engagement in their tertiary learning experience. Accordingly,

academics seek to innovate practice and enhance curricula by creating more opportunities

for student involvement, thus creating a shared understanding of it and associated

assessment tasks. Responding to a gap in rubric construction practice, this paper discusses

an Office for Learning and Teaching Innovation and Development Grant research project

where students moved from being rubric users to being central participants in collaborative

design. Drawing on data collected from a team of rubric co-constructors from one Sydney

university campus – first year students and an academic in a creative non-fiction writing

subject – we set out to answer the following question: What effect does the co-construction

and use of rubrics have on students’ perceptions of their learning?
Using Fund Transfer Pricing as a Performance Measurement System in the Financial Service Industry
Authors:   Deakin Business School, Bicudo de Castro Vincent , Leote Tiago ,   IBMEC Business School, Safari Maryam ,   RMIT University
Published: May 2021

As a response to the financial crisis of 2007-2008, financial service industry regulators have commonly requested financial service industry to implement fund transfer pricing (FTP) mechanisms. Despite the importance of the topic as highlighted in the practitioners’ literature since the 2000s, the use of FTP as a performance measurement system has been understudied. To add to our understanding of such mechanisms in the financial service industry, this paper demonstrates, through an analytical model, how FTP can be used as a performance measurement system in financial institutions. More importantly, this paper illustrates how FTP can be used for overcoming the distortions caused due to the transfer of funds between the business units.
Carbonvestments: Appraising Investments in a Carbonomics Environment
Authors:   Calwest University, Ratnatunga Janek , D’Souza Chris ,   Institute of Certified Management Accountants
Published: May 2021

In 2011, Australia introduced a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (or CPRS) that was a cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme for anthropogenic greenhouse gases. It clearly indicated to companies that polluting the environment with carbon emissions will no longer be free. Companies subject to carbon caps under a carbon trading scheme can either invests in carbon sequestration project and or buy carbon credits to offset their carbon liabilities. While Net Present Value (NPV) has been recorded as the most popular appraisal technique used across the globe for project valuation purposes, finance theorist suggests that using real options (RO) analysis is a more superior techniques to value investment opportunities. Using case study data of an early mover in a CPRS scheme, this paper reveals how RO approach provides more strategic insights than traditional NPV in valuing carbon sequestration investments (termed carbonvestments).
The use of the forest management database in the process of primary selection of stands within forest genetic resources
Authors:   ", Talmaci Ludmila ,   Alexandru Ciubotaru",   National Botanical Garden (Institute), Mardari Ala ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute), Talmaci Ion ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute)
Published: May 2021

The forest management database is used for the primary selection of the candidate stands for inclusion in forest genetic resources (FGR). The management and primary processing of the forest management database was performed with the support of standard functions of commonly used software (Microsoft Excel). In 2020, the primary identification area of FGR was 75.7 thousand ha of land covered with forests in the central area of the Republic of Moldova. As a result of the data processing, 12.7 thousand ha, or 16.8% of the study area, of candidate stands were selected for inclusion in the FGR.
Particularitățile înmulțirii vegetative ale unor specii de Sempervivum L.
Authors:   ", Sfecla Irina ,   Alexandru Ciubotaru",   National Botanical Garden (Institute)
Published: May 2021

This article includes results of the research on the peculiarities of the vegetative propagation of five species of Sempervivum L., namely: Sempervivum arenarium W. D. J. Koeh.; S. arachnoideum L.; S. grandiflorum Haw.; S. montanum L. and S. tectorum L. The period during which the species begins to develop stolons has been determined. The data on the vegetative propagation coefficient, obtained and calculated statistically, are given below. S. arachnoideum has proven to be the most prolific species.
Colecţia de cactuşi (Cactaceae Juss.) în Grădina Botanică Naţională (Institut) „Alexandru Ciubotaru”
Authors:   ", Timbali Valentina ,   Alexandru Ciubotaru",   National Botanical Garden (Institute), Rogacico Sergiu ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute)
Published: May 2021

During about 50 years, at the “Al. Ciubotaru” NBGI, the collection of plants of the Cactaceae family has been created and enriched, thus, now, at the end of 2020, it includes 985 taxa, in 141 genera. More than 50 % of the total number of taxa are able to reach the generative phase (flowering), and about 3540% produce fruits with seeds. The basic method of propagating cacti is by seeds. Freshly collected seeds germinate over 3 to 11 days, but the seedlings grow and develop very slowly
探索古雷石化基地的闽台承接及国际投资
Authors: 廖 汶钊 , 卢 孔亮
Published: May 2021

本研究探讨福建省漳州市的古雷石化基地，在石油价格下跌与新冠疫情发生的背景下，其近期间台湾相关投资案的政治经济发展，以及国际厂商沙特阿美在古雷与中国东南沿海布局。古雷石化基地承接闽台，希冀善用海西的优势来发展石化聚落；然而两岸关系在疫情后更形复杂，而国际大厂看重中国与东南沿海的发展，其中沙特阿美（与SABIC）视古雷为重要发展据点，古雷扮演国际石化工业布局的一环。本研究提供近期的视角来看古雷与漳州石化业的发展。
国地税合并后企业所得税征管问题研究
Authors: 危 素玉 , 林 锦湧
Published: May 2021

随着信息技术和互联网的快速发展，为了降低征管成本、优化纳税服务，我国于2018年实施了国地税合并，对税种征管范围进行了重大的调整改革，这有效地避免了重复交叉征税的可能，也大大降低了纳税人的纳税时间和成本。但在企业所得税征管方面，国地税合并后还存在政策理解不统一、征管出现偏差、征管人员素质与征管要求不匹配、信息化征管水平不高等问题。建议统一征税标准和工作职责、建立税源和业务衔接机制、培育新型专业税务人才、逐步提高信息化征收，以加强国地税合并后的企业所得税征收管理。
中小型电商营销策略与顾客满意度
Authors: 张 有中
Published: May 2021

本文针对中小型电商营销策略与顾客满意度进行研究，以人格特质和生活型态为控制变项，进行相关分析和因果关系验证。透过结构方程模式发现人格特质对顾客满意度存在显着的正向影响，生活型态对不同营销策略的接受程度存在显着的正向影响，不同营销策略对顾客满意度存在显着的正向影响。开放性、严谨性、外向性、友善性和情绪稳定性五种人格特质的顾客中，对中小型电商所提供的平台购物环境重视程度显着高于对产品质量和服务质量的重视程度。潮流新贵、外向领袖和理智持家三种生活型态的顾客中，对非促销的营销策略的重视程度明显高于促销型的营销策略，因此在宣传上应侧重产品质量、价格较低、更优质的配送与售后服务的宣传，而非着重经常发送商品广告、邀请当红的明星为代言人、特卖专场活动、限时抢购活动及各种节假日相应的主题促销活动等促销策略的宣传。
The ecology and blood clinical indexes of ordinary rascals (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1757) inhabiting in the mining village of Kashen of the Artsakh Martakert region
Authors: Ayrapetyan V.T. , Minasyan A.Dzh.
Published: May 2021

In the present work the data received in the territory nearby the Kashen mining centre in the period up to 2018 are discussed. The choice of the locality was not by chance, since, in terms of shelter and food, there have always been concomitant conditions for the stable development of rascals. However, as a result of mining activities, the habitat of these animals has gradually reduced. Our investigations in this sphere can be divided into two stages: Stage 1 –before the start of mining activities in the given terrain, i.e. before 2009, and Stage 2-with the beginning of mining activities, i.e. since 2014. The object of our study were ambient radiation level conditioned changes in blood clinical indexes of ordinary rascals found in Artsakh’s fauna. Researches have been conducted in different seasons across the year. The received data were then compared with the ones obtained before the start of mining activities in the locality. This was done to reveal the consequences of ambient nuclear pollution on blood clinical indexes of animals under study. Rascals’ natural habitat, their preferred territories, the density of population in those territories and other issues related with their mode of living are also discussed in the work.
METHODS OF STUDYING STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF LIVING ORGANISMS AND USING THEM IN BIOLOGY CLASSES
Authors: Krykbayeva A.N.
Published: May 2021

Knowledge and use of advanced techniques in biology lessons is very effective. By combining updated and analyzed technologies for conducting various lessons, you can achieve better results in learning the material. In the course of research, it has been proven that it helps students easily master the curriculum and shows good results in the process of learning in biology lessons. To do this, it is necessary to apply effective methods used in other developed countries, since today the priority in the classroom belongs to the student, not the teacher. Also, modern teaching methods, such as: communicative, project-based, intensive, activity-based, distance learning technologies are very effective and in the process of use allow you to quickly learn the lesson material, which is important for both teachers and students.
Edible wild and acclimatized plants of Pavlodar region
Authors: Khasanova L.A.
Published: May 2021

In Pavlodar region and neighbouring northern regions of Kazakhstan the authors revealed more than 1,5 hundreds wild plants (aboriginal and acclimatized) which may be used as the surrogates of traditional food-stuffs. All the plants recommended for the cooking of food or drinks were distributed among the next groups. 1. Plants with edible green parts and organs as the substitutes of salad green vegetables. 2. Plants with starch and protein parts as the basic source of nutritiousness. 3. Fruit and berry wild plants, origins of dessert courses and potential sugar surrogates. 4. Herbal raw materials for the drinks (fruits, overhead and underground vegetative plants). 5. Spicy wild plants (including new plant species proposed by the authors for this purpose firstly, which earlier didn’t used by this way). Using of weed plant Erigeron Canadensis as the surrogate of pepper and using of linden flower for the coagulation of milk casein and preparing of fermented milk drinks were elaborated by authors and defended by invention patents of Kazakhstan Republic.
Pengenalan SIERAS pada Civitas Academica Program Studi Teknologi Informasi Universitas Amikom Purwokerto
Authors: Hartato Bambang Pilu , Prakoso Agung , Rozaq Hasri Akbar Awal
Published: May 2021

Jumlah kasus COVID-19 belum menunjukkan trend penurunan. Hal tersebut mempengaruhi sektor pendidikan. Salah satu kebijakan yang diambil untuk menanggulangi dampak tersebut adalah diadakannya pembelajaran daring. Kebijakan tersebut memberikan tantangan tersendiri bagi civitas academica, tak terkecuali bagi Prodi Teknologi Informasi, Universitas Amikom Purwokerto. Salah satu perubahan yang terjadi pada proses pembelajaran yang dilakukan adalah kegiatan ujian yang harus dilakukan secara daring. Hal ini membuat pengelola prodi mencoba menggunakan beberapa teknologi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan tersebut, seperti E-Learning bernama ILIAS dan Google Form. Namun, keduanya masih memberikan kesulitan tersendiri dalam melakukan tata kelola ujian, termasuk proses penilaian yang harus dilakukan oleh dosen. Melalui kegiatan pengabdian ini, kami mencoba memperkenalkan sistem bernama SIERAS sebagai salah satu alternatif sistem tata kelola ujian. Kegiatan diikuti oleh 5 Dosen dan 20 mahasiswa. 60% dosen menyatakan “sangat terbantu” sementara sisanya menyatakan “terbantu”. Dari sisi mahasiswa, 80%-nya menyatakan SIERAS “mudah digunakan”, 15% menyatakan “sangat mudah digunakan”, dan sisanya menyatakan “cukup mudah digunakan”. Dengan demikian, kegiatan pengabdian ini dinyatakan efektif dan memberikan dampak positif bagi peserta.
Pengenalan Alternatif Usaha Bagi Santri Pondok Pesantren Salaf Al Anwar Bogangin Melalui Pelatihan Teknologi Pengolahan Hasil Ternak
Authors: Syamsi Afduha Nurus , Safitri Lis , Widodo Hermawan Setyo , Candrasari Dewi Puspita
Published: May 2021

Pondok Pesantren Al Anwar Bogangin merupakan pondok pesantren salaf yang masih menerapkan model pembelajaran tradisional. Santri tidak mendapatkan pendidikan formal, sehingga perlu diberikan pelatihan keterampilan. Tujuan kegiatan ini adalah untuk memberikan pelatihan keterampilan teknologi pengolahan hasil ternak sebagai alternatif usaha santri dimasa mendatang. Metode yang digunakan yaitu sosialisasi, penyuluhan dan pelatihan, serta praktek, diakhiri dengan evaluasi. Hasil kegiatan menunjukkan bahwa santri sebagai kelompok sasaran mampu membuat produk yang serupa dengan model percontohan yang diberikan tim penyuluh. Hasil evaluasi menunjukkan bahwa kegiatan pelatihan mampu meningkatkan pengetahuan dan keterampilan peserta dengan hasil peningkatan nilai sebesar 57.43% pada kelompok santri putra dan peningkatan sebesar 60% pada santri putri pada nilai post test dibandingkan nilai pre test. Sebanyak 100% peserta menyatakan kegiatan menarik dan 68% menyatakan berminat untuk membuat usaha dengan bahan serupa materi pelatihan. Berdasarkan hasil kegiatan dapat disimpulkan bahwa pengenalan teknologi pengolahan hasil ternak sebagai alternatif usaha Santri Pondok Pesantern Salaf Al Anwar berhasil dilaksanakan dengan menarik, meningkatkan pengetahuan dan keterampilan, serta menimbulkan minat sebagian besar santri untuk berwirausaha pada bidang serupa.
Energy Consumption, Trade Openness and Economic Development of Some Major Oil-Producing Countries in Africa
Authors: O. Samuel , O. Peter
Published: May 2021

To investigate the nexus between energy consumption, trade openness and economic development for seven oil-producing countries in Africa, this study employs the panel Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) techniques on data from 1971 to 2017. The Levin-Lin-Chiu, Pesaran-Shin and Breitung tests were used to ascertain the stationarity of the variables. The Hausman test showed that the mean group heterogeneous ARDL is the best technique to estimate the short and long-run relationship of the model. The result revealed that trade openness and the nature of energy consumed have significant impacts on economic development in the selected oil-producing countries. A percentage increase in trade openness decreases economic development by about seven precent but boosts development by twenty-eight percent. From the findings, it is recommended that policies be channelled to favour enabling environment, African free trade zone, economic freedom, private financial growth, ease of doing business, energy efficiency, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage, private property rights and security in Africa.
Fiber Wars: Are mixed soluble and insoluble fibers the answer for irritable bowel syndrome?
Authors: Damianos John , Nguyen Linda , Pimentel Mark
Published: May 2021

Fiber is known to exert various favorable effects on the gastrointestinal tract via modulation of the microbiota, formation of metabolites (such as short chain fatty acids), altered motility, and manipulation of stool form. While there has been tremendous interest in utilizing fiber in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, results have been conflicting, with some studies finding benefit and others finding no effect or even worsening of symptoms. Nopal is a fiber derived from a cactus plant which is predominantly composed of soluble fiber. 

 

We summarize the @GIJournal discussion held on April 21, 2021 during which Remes-Troche et al. “Nopal fiber (Opuntia ficus?indica) improves symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome in the short term: a randomized controlled trial” was critically reviewed by our expert Dr. Mark Pimentel (MP), and moderated by Dr. Linda Nguyen (LN).
Evolution and effectiveness of HPLC Technique for rapid estimation of an Antiallergenic agent Bilastine
Authors: Beltagi A. M. , Lashin I. A. , Essa W. A. , Hathoot A. A. , Azzem M. Abdel
Published: May 2021

A new, simple, accurate, and specific RP-HPLC stability method for determining bilastine was developed and validated. The proposed method was administered using C18 BDS Hypersil thermo column (4.6 × 250mm i.d), 5 µm particle size with a combination of potassium dihydrogen phosphate buffer pH 6.0: acetonitrile: methanol (50:25:25) as the mobile phase at a wavelength of 220nm. The retention time was 3.9 min for bilastine. The calibration plot was linear over the concentration range of 14.4–33.6µg/ml bilastine with LOD and LOQ of 0.04 and 0.11µg/ml, respectively. The technique was validated for linearity, sensitivity, accuracy, precision, and robustness. Percent recoveries were observed to be nearly 100%. The validated method was used for determining bilastine in Pharmabilast(R) tablets. The technique could be appropriate for routine evaluation at laboratories.
Liquid Chromatographic Method for Simultaneous estimation of Thiocolchicoside and Etoricoxib from Tablet formulation
Authors: Gulhane Chaitanya A. , Panchale Wrushali A. , Manwar Jagdish V. , Bakal Ravindra L.
Published: May 2021

A new simple, reproducible and efficient liquid chromatographic method (RP-HPLC) was developed for simultaneous estimation of thiocolchicoside and etoricoxib for tablet formulation. Formulation containing thiocolchicoside and etoricoxib is used as analgesic. Separation was achieved by Nucleosil (4.6mm I.D × 250 mm) C18 column with mobile phase consist of Acetonitrile: water (0.05% Orthophosphoric acid V/V) in the ratio 25:75 at flow rate 0.7ml . The detection was carried out at 220nm. The retention time of thiocolchicoside and etoricoxib was found to be 3.75 min and 6.13 min respectively. Linearity of THC and ETR was found to be in the range of 2-10µg/mL and 30-150µg/mL. Percent recovery obtained for THC and ETR were 99.98% and 99.69% respectively. The method was validated as per ICH guidelines.
Simultaneous determination of Sulphadoxine and Pyrimethamine by taking Tolterodine as an internal standard in Pharmaceutical dosage form by RP-HPLC
Authors: Patil Sushil D. , Shelke Pravin B. , Aher Priti , Hafizur Rahman Maswood Ahmed
Published: May 2021

A simple, rapid, economic, sensitive and precise HPLC method has been developed for the simultaneous determination of Sulphadoxine and Pyrimethamine in pharmaceutical dosage form by taking Tolterodine as an internal standard. The method was carried out using Phenomenex C18 (4.6ID × 250mm; 5µm) column and mobile phase comprised of methanol and Phosphate Buffer in proportion of ratio 60:40 v/v. The flow rate was 1.0mL/min and detection was carried out at 276nm. The retention time of Sulphadoxine, Pyrimethamine and Tolterodine were found to be 2.967, 4.058 and 6.908 respectively. Linearity of Sulphadoxine and Pyrimethamine in the range of 2 to 12μg/mL and 4 to 24μg/mL respectively. The % recoveries of Sulphadoxine and Pyrimethamine were found to be in between 99.93% to 99. 96 % respectively. The proposed method is suitable for the routine quality control analysis for simultaneous determination of Sulphadoxine and Pyrimethamine was in bulk and pharmaceutical dosage form.
Reasons for discontinuing the use of Hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of the Novel Coronavirus
Authors: Dawood Ali Adel
Published: May 2021

In March 2020 the world officially released its first approach to the coronaviral pandemic to explain the rationale for using hydroxychloroquine. It was also believed to calm down the immune system during viral infections. The FDA warned using hydroxychloroquien for SARS-CoV-2. In this short letter we address why the FDA discontinued the treatment of the novel coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine.
ZnO Nanostructures Synthesized by Vapor Transport and Liquid Phase Synthesis Techniques: Growth and Properties
Authors: Marin Oscar , Real Silvina , Vega Nadia Celeste , Tirado Mónica , Comedi David
Published: May 2021

In this review, we briefly describe work devoted in recent years towards the effective control of morphology, structure and optical properties of ZnO nanostructures, with particular focus on cost effective and simple methods for ZnO nanowires (NWs) fabrication. For the vapor transport technique, we describe in detail mechanisms for growth precursors generation, their transport in inert and forming gas, as well as their reactions on different pretreated substrates and corresponding growth mechanisms. As for low temperature synthesis methods, three techniques are outlined: sol-gel, solvothermal and electrophoretic deposition, with emphasis on effective morphology, structure and optical properties control. In this context, we discuss recent attempts to understand the role of solvent and alkaline agents used during solvothermal synthesis of ZnO nanostructures on their morphology and photoluminescence properties. Recent success of electrophoretic deposition of ZnO nanoparticles on pre-patterned silicon substrates in the form of NWs and NW bunches is highlighted over many previous attempts to fabricate ZnO NWs with inconvenient sacrificial templates. Finally, we present a critical discussion on the current understanding of passivation mechanisms of ZnO NW surfaces by MgO shells.
The ANDES Deep Underground Laboratory
Authors: Bertou Xavier
Published: May 2021

Deep Underground Laboratories (DUL) provide a unique environment to address some key questions in basic and applied science. A penetrating radiation due to cosmic rays is present at ground level at a rate of a few hundred particles per square meter per second. Moving deep underground with more than 1000m of overburden allows a reduction of this flux by 5 to 8 orders of magnitude. Frontier experiments in search for dark matter or neutrino properties can be designed and operated in DUL thanks to this background reduction. The ANDES DUL is foreseen to be built at the same time as the Agua Negra tunnel planned between the Argentine province of San Juan and the Chilean region of Coquimbo. It is designed to be a world class deep and large laboratory, operated by an international consortium.
The Temple on the Coins of Bar Kokhba –
a Manifestation of Longing or a Political
Programme? A Few Remarks
Authors: Ciecieląg Jerzy
Published: May 2021

The article is an attempt to answer the question of whether
the building on coins issued during the Bar Kokhba revolt, usually interpreted as
the Temple in Jerusalem, was a testimony of the control of Jerusalem by the rebels
or a manifestation of the political programme of the revolt. This meant that perhaps
also worship on the Temple Mount was resumed. The image of the building itself
is analysed against a comparative background composed of other sacred buildings
shown on earlier Jewish coins, in particular those coming from the period of
the First Jewish War with Rome. Coins from other areas where similar buildings
are represented were also used as comparative material. Consequently, the answer
to the basic question of whether the possible Temple on Bar Kokhba coins was
a confirmation of the historical fact of taking power over the Jewish capital or
was it only a manifestation of longing – firstly after the loss of the Temple in 70,
and secondly after the restoration of Jerusalem as the spiritual and political centre
of the Chosen Nation – clearly leads to the second conclusion.
Some Remarks on Eraviscan Coinage
Authors: Torbágyi Melinda , Vida István A.
Published: May 2021

In the Carpathian Basin, the only coinage made by purely following Roman designs and based on their monetary standards is related to the Eravisci. The exact date of the coinage is still a matter of discussion, but the Eraviscan coins may have begun during the last decades of the 1st century BC at the earliest. The Eraviscan coinage was more probably politically motivated than economically, with their purpose perhaps to finance Eraviscan troops allied with the Romans, for instance in the war planned against Maroboduus. The coinage may perhaps have had a later phase after the abandonment of the oppidum on Gellért Hill. In this phase, very “odd” coins were minted somewhere in the edge of the Eraviscan territory. Recently, some imitations of Eraviscan denarii came to light north of the Danube, e.g. the Czechy hoard. They are thin, poorly minted coins of half weight and strongly stylized imagery.
New Finds of Roman Republican Period Denarii in the Territory of Belarus
Authors: Sidarovich Vital'
Published: May 2021

The article examines data on new finds of the coins of Roman Republic in western Belarus. A hoard found in the vicinity of the village of Luckaŭliany occupies a special place among them. It contained 11 Roman Republican denarii and a Numidian denarius. These data suggest that the distribution of silver coins of the 2nd to the 1st centuries BC in this part of Barbaricum was associated with the expansion of the Przeworsk culture, the bearers of which were quite familiar with Roman silver coins. At the same time, most of the finds under consideration should not be associated with the Przeworsk culture itself, but with population of neighboring cultures that had intensive contacts with the latter.