bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Epilogue: What We Have Learned
Authors: Day Abby , Lee Lois , Thomas Dave S.P. , Spickard James
Published: January 2023

The editors reflect on both the volume and the extraordinary times in which it was finalised, with the project beginning about a year before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, and completing just as the wealthy democracies began to reap the benefit of the vaccines that they had both developed and hoarded. COVID highlighted the same lines of inequality that afflict higher education: elites benefit while others fall behind. The virus hit working class and minority communities harder as it spread along the same globally connected trade routes that once brought sugar, spices, and slaves to benefit European and American upper classes. The editors argue that decolonisation is important on two levels: the level of justice and of knowledge. Change there needs to happen at three levels: to universities and their curricula, to scholarship, and to the institutions that both support and structure academic life. The issue, the editors conclude, is not the programmes themselves; but the extent to which they are consciously or unconsciously put.
Introduction
Authors: Anderl Felix
Published: January 2023

Starting from the puzzlement of activists faced with the fragmentation of their social movement, the introduction situates their struggle in a changing hierarchical environment of global governance starting from the 1990s. During that time, the ‘opening-up’ of international organizations (IOs) took place and has been theorized accordingly. At the same time, International Relations (IR) has moved away from anarchy towards hierarchy, authority, governmentality, and rule. The introduction brings these discussions together, arguing for a theoretical approach that captures these concepts in a constellational and historical way. It introduces the concept of complex rule, a constellation in which social movements can become divided and ruled even in the absence of a ruler, when governing institutions make offers of participation to their critics.
Conclusion
Authors: Skotnicki Andrew
Published: January 2023

The voluntary and involuntary prophets who crowd our jails and prisons have been chosen to make us in the normal majority uncomfortable. That, however, does not fulfil their primary task which is to “save the world.” Their enforced exile will only come to an end via a cognitive, moral, psychological, and spiritual transformation among those who seek their demotion and disposal. That transformation must include the realization that those who make us uncomfortable and insecure must be given the opportunity to speak so their world-saving mission can be accomplished.
Identification of the interference spectra of edible oil samples based on neighborhood rough set attribute reduction
Authors: Xu Shijun , Wu Wenbo , Gong Chuanxing , Dong Jinjian , Qiao Caifei
Published: January 2023

Due to numerous edible oil safety problems in
China, an automatic oil quality detection technique is urgently
needed. In this study, rough set theory and Fourier transform spectrum
are combined for proposing a digital identification method for edible
oil. First, the Fourier transform spectra of three different types of
edible oil samples, including colza oil, waste oil, and peanut oil,
are measured. After the input spectra are differentially and smoothly
processed, the characteristic wavelength bands are selected with
neighborhood rough set attribution reduction (NRSAR). Moreover, the
classification models are established based on random forest (RF) and
extreme learning machine (ELM) algorithms. Finally, confusion matrix,
classification accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and the
distribution of judgment are calculated for evaluating the
classification performances of different models and determining the
optimal oil identification model. The results show that by using the
third-order difference pre-processing method, 193 wavelength bands in
the visible range can be reduced to 10 characteristic wavelengths,
with a compression ratio of over 88.61%. Using the established NRS-RF
and NRS-ELM models, the total identification accuracies are 91.67% and
93.33%, respectively. In particular, the identification accuracy of
peanut oil using the NRS-ELM model reaches up to 100%, whereas the
identification accuracies obtained using the principal component
analysis (PCA)-based models that are commonly used in information
processing (PCA-RF and PCA-ELM) are 81.67% and 90.00%, respectively.
As compared with feature extraction methods, the proposed NRSAR shows
directive advantages in terms of precision, sensitivity, specificity,
and the distribution of judgment. In addition, the execution time is
also reduced by approximately 1/3. Conclusively, the NRSAR method and
NRS-ELM the model in the spectral identification of edible oil show
favorable performance. They are expected to bring forth insightful oil
identification techniques.
In silico investigation of cytochrome bc1 molecular inhibition mechanism against Trypanosoma cruzi
Authors: Muscat Stefano , Grasso Gianvito , Scapozza Leonardo , Danani Andrea
Published: January 2023

Chagas’ disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by the kinetoplastid protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. The only therapies are the nitroheterocyclic chemicals nifurtimox and benznidazole that cause various adverse effects. The need to create safe and effective medications to improve medical care remains critical. The lack of verified T. cruzi therapeutic targets hinders medication research for Chagas’ disease. In this respect, cytochrome bc1 has been identified as a promising therapeutic target candidate for antibacterial medicines of medical and agricultural interest. Cytochrome bc1 belongs to the mitochondrial electron transport chain and transfers electrons from ubiquinol to cytochrome c1 by the action of two catalytic sites named Qi and Qo. The two binding sites are highly selective, and specific inhibitors exist for each site. Recent studies identified the Qi site of the cytochrome bc1 as a promising drug target against T. cruzi. However, a lack of knowledge of the drug mechanism of action unfortunately hinders the development of new therapies. In this context, knowing the cause of binding site selectivity and the mechanism of action of inhibitors and substrates is crucial for drug discovery and optimization processes. In this paper, we provide a detailed computational investigation of the Qi site of T. cruzi cytochrome b to shed light on the molecular mechanism of action of known inhibitors and substrates. Our study emphasizes the action of inhibitors at the Qi site on a highly unstructured portion of cytochrome b that could be related to the biological function of the electron transport chain complex.
In-depth genetic and molecular characterization of diaphanous related formin 2 (DIAPH2) and its role in the inner ear
Authors: Chiereghin Chiara , Robusto Michela , Lewis Morag A. , Caetano Susana , Massa Valentina , Castorina Pierangela , Ambrosetti Umberto , Steel Karen P. , Duga Stefano , Asselta Rosanna , Soldà Giulia
Published: January 2023

Diaphanous related formins are regulatory cytoskeletal protein involved in actin elongation and microtubule stabilization. In humans, defects in two of the three diaphanous genes (DIAPH1andDIAPH3) have been associated with different types of hearing loss. Here, we investigate the role of the third member of the family,DIAPH2, in nonsyndromic hearing loss, prompted by the identification, by exome sequencing, of a predicted pathogenic missense variant inDIAPH2. This variant occurs at a conserved site and segregated with nonsyndromic X-linked hearing loss in an Italian family. Our immunohistochemical studies indicated that the mouse ortholog protein Diaph2 is expressed during development in the cochlea, specifically in the actin-rich stereocilia of the sensory outer hair cells.In-vitrostudies showed a functional impairment of the mutant DIAPH2 protein upon RhoA-dependent activation. Finally,Diaph2knock-out and knock-in mice were generated by CRISPR/Cas9 technology and auditory brainstem response measurements performed at 4, 8 and 14 weeks. However, no hearing impairment was detected. Our findings indicate thatDIAPH2may play a role in the inner ear; further studies are however needed to clarify the contribution ofDIAPH2to deafness.
Study on prediction of blasting cracking radius of liquid CO2 in coal
Authors: Jia Jinzhang , Wu Yumo , Zhao Dan , Li Bin , Wang Dongming
Published: January 2023

In this study, we sought to improve the efficiency of coal seam gas extraction, master the characteristics of different factors on the liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) phase change blasting cracking radius, and effectively predict the hole spacing. In this study, we used ANSYS/LS-DYNA numerical simulation software to predict the crack radius of liquid CO2 phase change blasting combined with orthogonal design scheme. The results showed that the primary and secondary factors affecting the fracture radius of liquid CO2 phase change blasting were in ground stress, gas pressure, coal firmness coefficient, and gas content. The fracture radius decreased with the increase of in ground stress and decreased with the increase of gas pressure, coal firmness coefficient, and gas content, which was linear. A prediction model for predicting the cracking radius of liquid CO2 phase change blasting based on four groups of different factors was established. Through the double verification of numerical simulation and field industrial test, the cracking radius of liquid CO2 phase change blasting ranged from 2 m to 2.5 m. The maximum error of numerical simulation was 2.8%, and the maximum error of field industrial test was 5.93%.
Influenza surveillance with Baidu index and attention-based long short-term memory model
Authors: Dai Shangfang , Han Litao
Published: January 2023

Background

The prediction and prevention of influenza is a public health issue of great concern, and the study of timely acquisition of influenza transmission trend has become an important research topic. For achieving more quicker and accurate detection and prediction, the data recorded on the Internet, especially on the search engine from Google or Baidu are widely introduced into this field. Moreover, with the development of intelligent technology and machine learning algorithm, many updated and advanced trend tracking and forecasting methods are also being used in this research problem.

Methods

In this paper, a new recurrent neural network architecture, attention-based long short-term memory model is proposed for influenza surveillance. This is a kind of deep learning model which is trained by processing from Baidu Index series so as to fit the real influenza survey time series. Previous studies on influenza surveillance by Baidu Index mostly used traditional autoregressive moving average model or classical machine learning models such as logarithmic linear regression, support vector regression or multi-layer perception model to fit influenza like illness data, which less considered the deep learning structure. Meanwhile, some new model that considered the deep learning structure did not take into account the application of Baidu index data. This study considers introducing the recurrent neural network with long short-term memory combined with attention mechanism into the influenza surveillance research model, which not only fits the research problems well in model structure, but also provides research methods based on Baidu index.

Results

The actual survey data and Baidu Index data are used to train and test the proposed attention-based long short-term memory model and the other comparison models, so as to iterate the value of the model parameters, and to describe and predict the influenza epidemic situation. The experimental results show that our proposed model has better performance in the mean absolute error, mean absolute percentage error, index of agreement and other indicators than the other comparison models.

Conclusion

Our proposed attention-based long short-term memory model vividly verifies the ability of this attention-based long short-term memory structure for better surveillance and prediction the trend of influenza. In comparison with some of the latest models and methods in this research field, the model we proposed is also excellent in effect, even more lightweight and robust. Future research direction can consider fusing multimodal data based on this model and developing more application scenarios.
Exploring the role of financial empowerment in mitigating the gender differentials in subjective and objective health outcomes among the older population in India
Authors: Banerjee Shreya , Gogoi Pallabi
Published: January 2023

Background

Despite the progress in achieving gender equality to a certain extent, women are found to be more susceptible to health disadvantages compared to men in the older ages. However, research in the Indian context has mainly remained restricted to subjective health that heavily depends on the individual’s perception, which may affect the validity of results. This study addresses this gap by complementing the investigation of the gender differentials in self-reported health outcomes (mobility and functional limitations) with that of objectively measured health status (hand-grip strength and static balance) among the older population of India. Besides, there is a dearth of literature that considers financial empowerment in explaining the gender differentials in health. Women’s ability to participate in household decision-making, especially for important matters like major purchases, including property, indicates their empowerment status. Furthermore, the ability to extend financial support can be considered an important ‘non-altruistic’ driver for kins to care for older adults, indirectly affecting their health and well-being. Thus, the present paper explores the influence of financial empowerment on gender differentials in poor health outcomes.

Methods

Using the Longitudinal Aging Study in India, Wave-1 (2017–18), six logistic regression models have been specified to capture the adjusted association between gender and poor health outcomes. The first three models successively control for the demographic and social support factors; socioeconomic factors and pre-existing health conditions; and financial empowerment indicators. The last three models investigate the interactions between gender and marital status, living arrangement and involvement in financial decisions, respectively.

Results

The findings reveal that women tend to be more perceptive about their physical discomfort than men and reported a higher prevalence of poor subjective health. In terms of objectively measured health status, older men had a higher prevalence of low hand-grip strength but a lower prevalence of poor balance. Gender demonstrated a strong, adjusted association with poor health outcomes among older adults. However, the magnitude of gender difference either shrunk considerably or became statistically insignificant for all the poor health outcomes after controlling the effect of indicators of financial empowerment. Further, the interaction between gender and involvement in financial matters demonstrated a stronger effect for men in reversing poor subjective health.

Conclusion

The study reinforced the positive effect of financial empowerment in mitigating gender disparity in health among older adults.
Scoping review protocol of multicomponent interventions to address cardiometabolic disease risk among Pacific Islander children
Authors: Choy Courtney C. , Nyhan Kate , Savusa Kima , Soti-Ulberg Christina , Rosen Rochelle K. , Naseri Take , Hawley Nicola L. , Sharifi Mona
Published: January 2023

Introduction

Multicomponent interventions can reduce cardiometabolic disease (CMD) risk factors in childhood; however, little synthesis of the literature has taken place in the Pacific region. Pacific Islanders experience a disproportionately high prevalence of CMD risk factors, yet interventions have been slow to reach many communities. We present this protocol for a scoping review to identify and summarize existing multicomponent interventions to address CMD risk in Pacific Islander children.

Materials and methods

Eligible interventions will (1) address CMD risk factors (including but not limited to obesity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure, and/or health behaviors) in 2-to-12-year-old Pacific Islander children, and (2) be multi-component (including at least two lifestyle/behavior change strategies to address CMD risk factors). To investigate existing interventions for adaptation and potential use in Pacific Islander communities, we will search Scopus, MEDLINE ALL (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), Yale-licensed Web of Science Core Collection, Cochrane Library, CINAHL (EBSCOhost), ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Global Health (EBSCO), non-indexed Pacific journals, grey literature, government reports, and clinical trial registrations. The Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis and the Preferred Reporting Items for Scoping Reviews will guide data extraction, evidence mapping, synthesis, and reporting of information including study population, intervention components, behavioral changes, health and implementation outcomes, theoretical frameworks, and evaluation measures.

Ethics and dissemination

Formal ethical approval is not required. The dissemination strategy will include peer-reviewed journal publications and presentations. Synthesis of existing multicomponent interventions for Pacific Islander children will help to identify best practices that could be replicated, adapted, or combined.
The promise of photography: Scale, measure and proportion in a conflicted visual milieu
Authors: Fisher Andrew , Hennig Anke , Behr Bernd , Rubinstein Daniel , Charvát Martin , Szendy Peter , Dvořák Tomáš
Published: January 2023

This roundtable discussion is based on an online symposium – The Promise of Photography: Scale, Measure and Proportion in a Conflicted Visual Milieu – which took place on 17 September 2021. Since its inception, photography has promised to set things to scale, to grant them measure and proportion, a series of promises that have also entailed moments of irrationality or conflict that persist in and continue to shape the era of global networked digital imaging technologies. The symposium started out from the diagnosis that, whilst photography continues to promise an ordered, proportionate and measured world in which things can be set to their proper scale, it also acts in many ways as an agent of dismeasure, disproportion and the unscalable. In light of this, the roundtable discussion presented here examines a range of different meanings that scale, measure and proportion have accrued in the photographic context and sets out to explore conceptual frameworks and research methodologies through which the current situation might be understood.
Object-oriented photography: A speculative essay on the photography of essence
Authors: Ryan Bob , Price Alison
Published: January 2023

In this article, we discuss the insights object-oriented ontology (OOO) offers in understanding the photographic process. Following Kant’s distinction between noumena and phenomena and Heidegger’sGeviert, Harman’s OOO focuses on the real versus sensory aspects of all objects of experience. In our analysis, we explore its implications for intentionality, signification and revelation in photography. OOO locates being within all objects and stands in opposition to the post-Cartesian correlationism influential in the continental tradition. In Heidegger’s terms, the still camera exhibits both presence and readiness at hand. However, this readiness at hand is so ubiquitous that it is easy to overlook what makes it unique amongst the tools at our disposal. We argue that in the field of visual experience, the camera does what Kant believed impossible. It has the potential to reduce epistemic loss and transform the phenomenology of conscious experience into the noumenology of non-conscious awareness of the real object.
ОБЗОР КЛИНИЧЕСКИХ РЕКОМЕНДАЦИЙ МИНИСТЕРСТВА ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ, ПРИМЕНЯЕМЫХ В ВЕДЕНИИ ПАЦИЕНТОВ С ОСТЕОПОРОЗОМ
Authors: Евстигнеева Л. П.
Published: January 2023

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Strategic Communication and Artificial Intelligence: Reviewing Emerging Innovations and Future Directions
Authors: Osei-Mensah Belinda
Published: January 2023

This review examines the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) as a novel technology for strategic communication. This study includes a survey of pertinent literature that highlights innovative communication linked to AI applications in public relations, marketing and branding, political communication, and customer relations with the goal of enlightening both research and practice. Emerald Insight and Google Scholar, two essential online databases, were used to retrieve and analyse information from peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters (n = 17) published between 2017 and 2022. Based on the main inquiries raised by the research, significant themes were discovered and critically explored. Political communication with AI, AI-focused public relations and marketing approach, and conversational AI assistants were the major themes in the research on strategic communication and AI integration. These studies were primarily the outcome of quantitative and mixed-method techniques used in a western environment. This review satisfies the need for research on AI and strategic communication that makes inferences applicable to the context in Ghana. The study's conclusion outlines a research agenda for the future, emphasising the need for research on particular topics like integration of AI voice assistants in relationship marketing domains, adoption of wearable technology and its relevance to customers' health consciousness as well as privacy concerns of emerging innovation. Future studies should also focus on developing more evidence-based AI suggestions for strategic communication practitioners, as well as a thorough methodological and theoretical discussion of how to further close the gap between research and practice in the African setting.
Computing Rule-Based Explanations by Leveraging Counterfactuals
Authors: Geng Zixuan , Schleich Maximilian , Suciu Dan
Published: January 2023

Sophisticated machine models are increasingly used for high-stakes decisions in everyday life. There is an urgent need to develop effective explanation techniques for such automated decisions. Rule-Based Explanations have been proposed for high-stake decisions like loan applications, because they increase the users' trust in the decision. However, rule-based explanations are very inefficient to compute, and existing systems sacrifice their quality in order to achieve reasonable performance. We propose a novel approach to compute rule-based explanations, by using a different type of explanation, Counterfactual Explanations, for which several efficient systems have already been developed. We prove a Duality Theorem, showing that rule-based and counterfactual-based explanations are dual to each other, then use this observation to develop an efficient algorithm for computing rule-based explanations, which uses the counterfactual-based explanation as an oracle. We conduct extensive experiments showing that our system computes rule-based explanations of higher quality, and with the same or better performance, than two previous systems, MinSetCover and Anchor.
Can Learned Models Replace Hash Functions?
Authors: Sabek Ibrahim , Vaidya Kapil , Horn Dominik , Kipf Andreas , Mitzenmacher Michael , Kraska Tim
Published: January 2023

Hashing is a fundamental operation in database management, playing a key role in the implementation of numerous core database data structures and algorithms. Traditional hash functions aim to mimic a function that maps a key to a random value, which can result in collisions, where multiple keys are mapped to the same value. There are many well-known schemes like chaining, probing, and cuckoo hashing to handle collisions. In this work, we aim to study if using learned models instead of traditional hash functions can reduce collisions and whether such a reduction translates to improved performance, particularly for indexing and joins. We show that learned models reduce collisions in some cases, which depend on how the data is distributed. To evaluate the effectiveness of learned models as hash function, we test them with bucket chaining, linear probing, and cuckoo hash tables. We find that learned models can (1) yield a 1.4x lower probe latency, and (2) reduce the non-partitioned hash join runtime with 28% over the next best baseline for certain datasets. On the other hand, if the data distribution is not suitable, we either do not see gains or see worse performance. In summary, we find that learned models can indeed outperform hash functions, but only for certain data distributions.
FILM
Authors: Ma Chaohong , Yu Xiaohui , Li Yifan , Meng Xiaofeng , Maoliniyazi Aishan
Published: January 2023

As modern applications generate data at an unprecedented speed and often require the querying/analysis of data spanning a large duration, it is crucial to develop indexing techniques that cater to larger-than-memory databases, where data reside on heterogeneous storage devices (such as memory and disk), and support fast data insertion and query processing. In this paper, we propose FILM, a
F
ully learned
I
ndex for
L
arger-than-
M
emory databases. FILM is a learned tree structure that uses simple approximation models to index data spanning different storage devices. Compared with existing techniques for larger-than-memory databases, such as anti-caching, FILM allows for more efficient query processing at significantly lower main-memory overhead. FILM is also designed to effectively address one of the bottlenecks in existing methods for indexing larger-than-memory databases that is caused by data swapping between memory and disk. More specifically, updating the LRU (for Least Recently Used) structure employed by existing methods for cold data identification (determining the data to be evicted to disk when the available memory runs out) often incurs significant delay to query processing. FILM takes a drastically different approach by proposing an adaptive LRU structure and piggybacking its update onto query processing with minimal overhead. We thoroughly study the performance of FILM and its components on a variety of datasets and workloads, and the experimental results demonstrate its superiority in improving query processing performance and reducing index storage overhead (by orders of magnitudes) compared with applicable baselines.
Investigation of differential shrinkage stresses in a revolution shell structure due to the evolving parameters of concrete
Authors: Merlin Bodol Momha , Landry Djopkop Kouanang , Chills Amba Jean , Joseph Nkongho Anyi , Ambassa Zoa , Robert Nzengwa
Published: January 2023

The article focuses on the influence of differential shrinkage linked by drying at the early-age displacements and strain distribution of a concrete ring specimen. Depending on the gradient of dimension changes through the thickness, tensile stress occurs near the exposed surface where drying is greater and thus results in strain gradients development. An experimental design was carried out on a concrete ring cast in laboratory conditions in order to monitor strains and displacements. Subsequently, a finite element method was used to simulate the ring’s behaviour in drying conditions. The gradient development linked by a non-uniform moisture distribution in the thickness is established by solving the non-linear partial differential drying equation with Mensi’s diffusion law. The stress and displacement analysis was modeled by three nodes curved shell FEM (CSFE-sh) based on strain approximation with the shell theory. Finally, the ring’s behaviour includes both differential shrinkage resulting in the mechanical and physical properties of gradients development in the thickness and the influence of prestressing, in which the tensile creep effects have a great influence. The comparison of experimental results with numerical simulation shows that drying and tensile creep phenomena have the most important influence on the early-age stress development in the walled ring.
Cultural cognition, effective communication, and security: Insights from intercultural trainings for law enforcement officers in Poland
Authors: Kopytowska Monika , Woźniak Julita , Kurteš Svetlana
Published: January 2023

Economic migration, international mobility and refugee crises have brought about both risks and opportunities. Alongside the socio-economic and cultural potential to capitalize on they have generated challenges that need to be addressed. In such an increasingly globalized and diverse world, intercultural competences have become strategic resources underpinning the concept of democratic citizenship and social integration. The objectives of the present article are thus two-fold: firstly we want to explore the concept of cultural cognition and highlight the importance of intercultural and diversity awareness, and, secondly, we intend to present and discuss the results of intercultural training sessions for uniformed services conducted within the “Open Lodz” project (Otwarta Łódź POWR.03.01.00-IP.08-00-3MU/18) (2019-2022) coordinated by the University of Lodz in collaboration with the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź, the Municipal Police, the City of Lodz Office and the City Guard in Łódź. The project was aimed at enhancing foreigners’ quality of life and functioning in Poland. With this goal in view project activities, addressed at two groups of beneficiaries, namely foreign nationals and frontline workers (police, city guard officers, and municipal clerks) focused on improving communication skills (linguistic and cultural competences)
Crystal structure of (S,E)-3-((pyridin-2-ylmethylene)amino)-2-(pyridin-4-yl)-2,3- dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one monohydrate, C19H15N5O⋅H2O
Authors: Xiong Ying , Chuan Gao , An Ya
Published: January 2023

C19H15N5O·H2O, triclinic,

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(no. 2), a = 9.1132(7) Å, b = 9.6788(9) Å, c = 11.0964(10) Å, α = 65.796(3)°, β = 79.406(3)°, γ = 87.484(3)°, V = 876.96(13) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0482, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1405, T = 273(2) K.
Hypervelocity launchers for satellite structures orbital debris characterization
Authors: Saboktakin Abbasali , Spitas Christos
Published: January 2023

Orbital debris poses increasing threats to the space environment because of increasing space activities, therefore on-orbit hypervelocity impact should be simulated using the experiment by launch projectile into the target. Generally, ground-based experiments include three major sectors: projectile launch, impact monitoring including shock wave and debris cloud formation imaging, and finally result processing. For ground-based hypervelocity impact tests, various acceleration techniques such as light two and three-stage gas guns, plasma accelerators, electrostatic accelerators, and shaped charge accelerators have been used. This paper will primarily focus on those that are most relevant to current research on hypervelocity tests and would improve current research in the field of hypervelocity impact tests on composite material for primary satellite structures.
Africa in the politics, ethics and justice system of an open borders world
Authors: Lajul Wilfred
Published: January 2023

Politics of globalization demands that all countries of the world should open their borders for free movement of goods and services in a competitive market economy. The emerging anti-migration laws in Europe, America, and Australia, portrays another picture. Proponents think, borders should be open because of the equal liberty of all,1 and the universality of human dignity and rights.2 Opponents argue for border restrictions on the basis of national sovereignty, national interests, and the right to self-determination of sovereign communities.3 The two camps believe that the subject of migration, the human person, is an individual, who is rational, autonomous, self-conscious and a self-propelling being. What divides them is the view that human beings have the right to exclude others from their properties and territories, hence supporting border restrictions. On the other hand, human beings have the social responsibilities to include others to share the properties and territories belonging to them, thus supporting open border policies. This paper hypothesizes that, for a better understanding of international relations, we must go beyond the individualistic understanding of the human person and the open borders discourse. African philosophy, which seems to offer a better alternative, opines that the human person is an individual and a socially corporate being that is intrinsically different from others, yet essentially related to others. This individual needs a conducive social and personal atmosphere to prosper, which can only be created in their own countries.
The difficulty of understanding the meaning of words in sacred texts by the individual and the dangers induced in the social field
Authors: Abdellaoui Abdelkader 
Published: January 2023

This article starts from the observation of contradiction between a religious conviction and its practice in social life. To try to understand this contradiction, he introduces the concepts of social influences, then the ability to interpret words and expressions in texts and in their socio-cultural, political and economic context. The notion of interpretation is not limited to words, but extends more generally to the ways of thinking and culture of the time when the text was written. The question is how would be written today what was written in a given historical period, in a given socio-cultural, political, economic, scientific knowledge context. The notion of appropriation of authority is also briefly reviewed to show how the individual (the believer in this case) transforms himself into a kind of defender of his belief and to this end states postulates or attitudes, instead of texts, on what should or should not be done. We wonder whether the cause is ignorance or unconsciousness or any desire to impose oneself
The sociology of emotions in the psychiatric practice: how residents in psychiatry learn to dislike patients with borderline personality disorder
Authors: Papathanasiou Chrysovalantis
Published: January 2023

According to the literature, the most disliked patient subgroup is the one diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). The current study aimed to explore how psychiatry residents’ emotions toward patients with BPD are learned during biomedical training and how their emotional socialization within an inpatient psychiatric ward contributes to the formation of a professional, authoritative identity, while also strengthening ingroup members’ bonds and reinforcing the asymmetric relationship in terms of power between psychiatrists and hospitalized patients. This article reports on the findings coming from a combination of ethnographic field research in a psychiatric ward of a general hospital and in-depth interviews with eight residents in psychiatry, regarding their emotions toward patients with BPD. The transcriptions of the interviews and the descriptions from field notes were analyzed by thematic analysis. One of the main themes revealed during the analysis of the data is called ‘socialized emotions’ and consisted of three subthemes: a) representational emotions, b) experienced emotions, and c) performed emotions. The three subthemes could correspond to three phases of the process of emotional socialization of the residents in psychiatry regarding patients with BPD: a) formation of emotionalized schemes, b) lived experiences, and c) clinical practices. The sociological understanding of how emotional aspects of the professional identity of the doctor are taught during the residencies is of particular interest. Both clinical and research implications are discussed.
Both Directions at Once
Authors: Banker Bryan
Published: January 2023

In Both Directions at Once, an album lost for almost 40 years, John Coltrane presents a constellation of musical tradition, themes, composition and improvisation, in dialectical opposition. This article imagines Coltrane as a sonic philosopher of oppositions and the album—named after Coltrane’s quote in which he attempts ‘starting a sentence in the middle, and then going to the beginning and the end of it at the same time… both directions at once’—as his philosophical treatise. Borrowing from biographers, musicologists and jazz critics, this contribution argues that in the album, the music engages with itself rather than seeking resolution or finality. In other words, Coltrane’s dialectical aesthetic drives the aesthetic. Both Directions at Once is sound focused on sonically opposing forces. It is an attempt by a deep thinker to present contradictions and oppositions between musical polarities that may create new potentialities. What listeners hear is Coltrane, the philosopher, striving toward a multidirectional aesthetic that furnishes music unshackled from the conditions of possibility.
Protocol for investigating neuroprotective effect of the methanol leaf extract of Mallotus oppositifolius in lipopolysaccharide neuro-inflammation-associated depression in mice. v1
Authors: KWAMI EDEM KUKUIA KENNEDY
Published: January 2023

Despite the availability of effective antidepressants, more than a third of patients with depression do not benefit for current medications which mainly act by altering monoaminergic systems in the brain. Furthermore, the current medications are associated with intolerable side effects that further aggravate the patients’ condition. Neuro-inflammation contributes to depression pathogenesis and markers of neuro-inflammation could be putative targets for treatment-resistant depression is an indication. Mallotus oppositifolius is used to treat convulsions, epilepsy, pain, infections, etc. Our works have confirmed the anticonvulsant, acute antidepressant-like, rapid onset antidepressant and anti-aggressive effects of the leaves of Mallotus oppositifolius. Aside these, anti-inflammatory effects of the leaves of Mallotus oppositifolius have been reported. Collectively, these effects seem to suggest that the plant may possess neuroprotective effect. However, no study has been conducted to assess the neuroprotective effect of the leaves of Mallotus oppositifolius. The present work therefore provides a protocol for investigating possible neuroprotective effects of Mallotus oppositifolius in neuro-inflammation models of depression in mice.
Expression and purification of recombinant gp32 protein v1
Authors: not provided lucero.mascaro.r
Published: January 2023

The gp32 is a single strand binding protein (SSB) that plays a role in genetic recombination, replication and repair from the bacteriophage T4. The gp32 is used as part of an isothermal DNA amplification based on the recombination process, the RPA reaction. RPA uses 4 enzymes: UvsX, UvsY, Bsu and Gp32. It's an isothermal amplification technique that can run at 37°C. In this protocol we are producing a recombinant gp32 that has a 6xHIS-tag using a E. coli expression system. The protocols for the production of the other proteins are also available in protocols.io.
A DRM FOR HOMOGENEOUS HELMHOLTZ EQUATIONS IN ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS
Authors: Hilmi Damarjati Maulana , Solekhudin Imam
Published: January 2023

We consider the problems involving homogeneous Helmholtz equations in anisotropic materials. The problems considered are solved numerically using a dual reciprocity method (DRM). To test the accuracy of the method, the method is tested using problems with analytic solutions. Numerical solutions obtained by the DRM and the corresponding analytical solutions are compared and discussed.
Psychological Features of the Relationship Between Hardiness and Coping Behavior of the Individual
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv, Predko Viktoriia
Published: January 2023

The article reveals the concept of coping behavior, its features, and its main functions in the life of a person. It is presented as a special type of social behavior that ensures the preservation of the mental health and well-being of the individual and helps to cope with stressful events and difficult life situations with the help of conscious actions. The main ways of coping behavior are characterized. It is emphasized that an important factor in the formation of coping behavior is the adaptive potential of the individual, namely the level of its hardiness. It is emphasized that it is the hardiness of the individual that is the leading factor in the effective life of the individual, which provides the ability to productively overcome difficulties, using constructive behavioral strategies, to cope with difficult life situations and psychological stress. It helps to minimize the negative consequences, turning them into new opportunities for one's development, and most importantly, to maintain harmonious communication with the environment. The article also presents the results of a study of the features of the relationship between hardiness and the coping behavior of an individual. Among the features of the manifestation of methods of coping behavior in the subjects, a high level was found among such indicators as self-control, flight avoidance, and positive reassessment. The study established a relationship between coping behavior and personality resilience. In particular, the presence of a direct statistically significant correlation of medium strength (r=0.390, sig=0.012) between the "Problem Solving Planning" strategy and hardiness was revealed; the presence of a direct statistically significant relationship of average-strength (r=0.388, sig=0.013) between the "Self-control" strategy and hardiness; the presence of a direct statistically significant relationship of medium strength (r=0.463, sig=0.000) between the "Taking responsibility" strategy and hardiness; the presence of an inverse statistically significant relationship of average-strength (r=-0.429, sig=0.000) between the "Escape-avoidance" strategy and hardiness. Peculiarities of expressiveness of ways of coping behavior in the subjects with high and low hardiness were determined. Thus, a group of people with a high level of hardiness is characterized by the manifestation of constructive skills to resist difficulties, energy, and the ability to defend their interests, minimize their anxiety and positively reassess the current situation. At the same time, individuals with low levels of hardiness are more inclined to be attracted by the support of others than to solve problems on their own, they tend to use an escape-avoidance strategy, often distance themselves, and show low self-control and low ability to solve problems.
A Comparison of Practice Guidelines for Yoga Breathing from the Traditional Texts and PubMed-Indexed Research
Authors: Chetry Dipak , Telles Shirley , Mahadevan Jayaraman , Prasoon Kumari , Gandharva Kumar , Agrawal Mahavir , Balkrishna Acharya
Published: January 2023

Volitional yoga breathing techniques influence several physiological functions depending on the changes made in depth of breathing, relative duration of exhalation to inhalation, and breath frequency. The practice guidelines for three routinely practiced and researched yoga breathing practices (bhastrika pranayama [bellows breath], bhramari pranayama [bee breath], and kapalabhati pranayama [breath of fire]) were compared between the traditional written texts (i.e., Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita) and published research indexed in PubMed (a total of 73 studies; 25 on bhastrika pranayama, 17 on bhramari pranayama, and 31 on kapalabhati pranayama). We compared the specifications for posture, time of day, location, and duration of practice; frequency, depth, and holding (kumbhaka) of the breath; speed and/or force and right or left nostril use for inhalation and exhalation; duration of inhalation relative to exhalation; thoracic or diaphragmatic breathing (or comparable terms in the traditional texts); mental state; physiological locks (bandhas) ; and hand gestures (mudras). Differences between the practice guidelines in the traditional texts and published research with respect to the depth of b reathing (bhastrika pranayama), relative breath phase duration (bhramari pranayama), and breath frequency (kapalabhati pranayama) are presented despite the findings being restricted to published studies from a single bibliographic database. Differences in the way yoga breathing is practiced could influence the physiological effects obtained, and differences between methods reported in published studies could make it difficult to summarize the effects of yoga breathing practice across studies.
A Potential New Alzheimer’s Treatment That May Function by Modulating the Gut Microbiota
Authors: Wakelin Stuart ,   Touch Medical Communications, Ltd., UK
Published: January 2023

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and causes a progressive decline in memory, language, executive and visuospatial function, personality, and behaviour. For many years, there have been only four approved medications to help improve cognition in patients with AD, but these only address the symptoms, and do not affect the course of the underlying disease. Here we discuss information presented at the 13th and 14th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conferences about the GREEN MEMORY trial (NCT04520412) of GV-971® (sodium oligomannate). This treatment, as well as the recently approved aducanumab, provides hope that new therapeutics with novel mechanisms of action may provide disease-modifying effects and help slow disease progression in people with AD.
Resource transfers and their relationship with territorial development in Colombia
Authors: Nader Orfale Linda Elena
Published: January 2023

With the Political Constitution of 1991, progress has been made in the administrative decentralization of the country, avoiding more and more the centralization that governed us with the Magna Carta of 1886. However, in fiscal matters, with the transfers, it is aimed more at a centralized system than a decentralized one. Likewise, the development of the regions in Colombia is inseparably tied to the economic policy of the Colombian State to stimulate their development. From this perspective, it is intended to show the reader, within the various factors that affect regional development in Colombia, the impact of the legal evolution, through legislative acts, that the transfers have had on the territorial development of the different regions of the country.
Medicolegal aspects and anesthesiologists- aware and beware
Authors: Shetti Akshaya Narayan , Abhishek H.N.  , Goel Shrey , Ashwin A.B.  , Safdhar Hasmi R.  , Gupta Khooshaboo , Mustilwar Rachita G
Published: January 2023

For all practical purposes the actual meaning of medico legal term is medical treatment and its legal association to it. One should be aware of all possible medico legal aspects when dealing with patients. Since the government of India labels the practice of medical profession as business one should be aware of consumer protection acts. Day by day the medicolegal cases are increasing and one should have adequate knowledge to take care of themselves. It is not uncommon that the doctors are sued for the sake of money and well-targeted as the profession is legally bound. This article highlights the concerns about medicolegal aspects in relation to anesthesiologists.