bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Investment Model of Socio-Economic Partnership in the Field of Housing and Communal Services of Municipalities
Authors:   Murom Institute (Branch) of Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs, Svistunov A. V. , Terentieva I. V. ,   Murom Institute (Branch) of Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs
Published: June 2023

In the context of high depreciation of operating facilities (more than 70 %) and insufficient investment in maintenance and repair in the form of concessions, Russian regions do not attract investment necessary for a comprehensive resource-saving modernisation. Thus, most municipalities are characterised by low quality of public utility services and high tariffs. The article substantiates a scientific approach to the establishment and implementation of an investment model of socio-economic partnership between regional and municipal governments, resource providers and population aimed at the comprehensive modernisation of facilities benefitting socio-economic development of municipalities and regions. An investment fund at the expense of public investment payments and budget financing is necessary for ensuring this modernisation. The population will simultaneously become a participant in facility management, customer and active investor interested in its development. Investment aimed at achieving target indicators of utility competitiveness should be calculated for a specific period in accordance with the tariff setting system. The model’s universal principles can be applied in various public utility fields (water supply, sewerage, heat supply). Water supply and sewerage facilities of Murom okrug of Vladimir oblast were analysed to reveal that the introduction of the investment model and its organisational and economic mechanism will contribute to the comprehensive modernisation in the planning period (approximately 15 years). It will lead to an increase in the quality of service and decrease in the loss of water resources, service cost, tariffs and inflation rate, subsequently improving the welfare and quality of living standards in municipalities. As a result, modernisation will reduce regional and local budget expenditures, currently increased due to high depreciation and losses, financing and subsidies for increased payments of the population and budgetary organisations for utilities.
The Nexus between Economic Growth, Natural Resource Depletion and Foreign Direct Investment
Authors:   Tarbiat Modares University, Agheli L.
Published: June 2023

The overall economic performance is summarised in the economic growth. It occurs when resources are combined technically in an effective way. While advanced countries have no reliance on natural resources, they experience steady growth compared to natural resource-abundant countries. The Caspian Sea basin countries (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan) and Central Asia states (Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) own considerable mineral and ecological resources. This paper aims to examine the relationship between economic growth and natural resource depletion in the region during 1997–2019. Due to abundance of natural resources, this region trades fossil fuels and minerals with other economic blocs. Hence, foreign direct investment is added into the regression model in order to account for economic openness. In addition, the share of industry value added in gross domestic product is included to embody the industrialisation impact on economic growth. Finally, the tertiary enrolment is entered into the regression to measure the effect of human capital on economic growth. After specifying the econometric model, variables under study were tested for unit root. Due to difference in order of integration among variables, panel fully modified least squares method was used to estimate the model. The estimation results indicate the significant and positive effects of natural resource depletion, foreign direct investment, the share of industry value added and tertiary enrolment on economic growth. These findings imply that natural resource depletion contributes to economic growth much greater than foreign direct investment and tertiary enrolment. Thus, the resource curse is not confirmed across the examined countries.
Participation of Vietnam in Global Value Chains in the Context of Their Regionalisation
Authors:   Institute of Economics of RAS, Korgun I. A.
Published: June 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and US-China confrontation caused a reconfiguration of global value chains. Since multinational companies choose the China Plus One strategy and seek to diversify their production, Southeast Asian economies and particularly Vietnam have been gaining importance. The present paper aims to analyse the participation of Vietnam in global value chains in terms of its relations with the Republic of Korea. It is hypothesised that as a major trade and investment partner, Korea provides significant value added of Vietnamese exports, contributing to the integration of Vietnam into value chains. Using formulas for assessing a country’s participation in global value chains, the study examined statistics from the international Trade in Value Added (TiVA) database, UNCTAD trade data, and national investment statistics of Korea. Regression analysis was performed to confirm the influence of Korea on Vietnamese exports. The conducted research revealed the growing importance of Vietnam in global value chains. Since 2016, Korean foreign direct investment has been affecting the diversification of Vietnam’s participation in industry value chains, demonstrating the importance of Korea in the development of national manufacturing capabilities. The emerging relationship between these two economies indicates a redistribution of industrial capital in East Asia that contributes to the regionalisation of value chains. The obtained findings can be used for further analysis of global value chains, as well as for studying economic development and transformations, shifts in the balance of economic power due to increasing competition between East Asian countries.
Tax System Reform as a Challenge to Economic Reform: A Case Study of Jordan
Authors:   Jadara University, Maswadeh S.
Published: June 2023

Governments care about the tax system and pay attention to it not as a tool for collecting money, but rather as a tool of economic reform, so that taxes achieve their financial, economic and social goals, and then achieve tax justice and protect the poor and middle class. Thus, this study came to investigate the effect of the tax revenue structure in Jordan on economics reform indicators (per individual income growth rate, public debt, openness trade, and inflation) as a challenge to the economic reform. The study population consists of the public sector of the ministries and public sector departments responsible for preparing the general budget and the Jordanian Department of Statistics, with the aim of relying on data issued by them during the time period 1990-2019. Multiple regression models were used to study hypotheses. The research results showed that direct tax (income and profits tax) in Jordan did not significantly affect the economic reform indicators, while there was a negative significant impact at a significance level (á ≤ 0.05) of sales tax on the economic reform indicators. Additionally, the study found that there is no significant effect of indirect taxes (property tax and foreign trade) on economic indicators relative to GDP represented in per individual income growth rate, public debt, and inflation. Among the recommendations of the study is that Jordan must develop the country’s public revenues from its own resources in order to reduce dependence on foreign debt.
Solidarity Tax as an Instrument of Interregional Redistribution of Rent Income in Russia
Authors:   Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Koroleva L. P.
Published: June 2023

Increase in rent relations contributes to the strengthening of interregional income inequality, since business entities appropriate the territorial rent in economically developed regions. Traditional income taxation instruments do not deal with the redistribution of territorial rent. On the contrary, such instruments, as the progressive personal income tax in Russia, can increase interregional inequality. Therefore, the presents study aims to substantiate the possibility of using a solidarity tax for interregional redistribution of rent income and develop the optimal tax model for current conditions. The article describes the solidarity tax from the perspective of rent taxation, determines its key features and methods of levying. To examine interregional income inequality, constituent entities of the Russian Federation were clustered using Ward’s method according to average monthly wages and the share of personal income tax in the regional budget. Each cluster is characterised by similar personal income and tax revenue. The solidarity tax burden will be on the regions of the first four clusters. It is proposed to levy the solidarity tax as a personal income surtax on a progressive scale, depending on the ratio of accrued wage of a taxpayer and the average monthly wage in Russia for the previous year. This approach will contribute to a smooth change in the effective personal income tax rate, as well as to at least 74% increase in subsidies to budgets to compensate for raising the wages of public sector employees. The developed proposals can be applied to improve the tax mechanism of redistribution of rent income. Future research may focus on developing alternative models of solidarity taxes, including for entrepreneurial and corporate income, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Stelis breviloba (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae), a new species from Mexico
Authors: Solano Rodolfo , Salazar Gerardo A.
Published: June 2023

Background: Stelis subgen. Physosiphon is basically a Meso-American group, and its best-known species is Stelis emarginata, characterized by its reddish orange flowers and distribution along the Gulf of Mexico slope in Mexico and Guatemala. Morphologically similar specimens from the Sierra Madre del Sur, on the Pacific slope of Guerrero and Oaxaca could represent a different and undescribed taxon.

Question: Are the Sierra Madre del Sur populations similar to Stelis emarginata a different species?

Study site: Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Methods: The description of the new species was based on live and pressed specimens; a line drawing and photographs were made from fresh material; its known localities were georeferenced and displayed on a map of Mexico. A morphological comparison of the new taxon with similar species was done based on specialized literature.

Results: Stelis breviloba is described and illustrated as a new species from southern Guerrero and Oaxaca. It differs from S. emarginata by its shorter plants, less floriferous racemes, smaller flowers, oblong petals, and its allopatric distribution, restricted to the Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre del Sur. A key for the identification of the Mesoamerican species of Stelis subgen. Physosiphon is provided.

Conclusion: Stelis breviloba is an endemic of the Sierra Madre del Sur and probable vicariant species of S. emarginata. Most species of Stelis subgen. Physosiphon (six out of eight) are present in the Mexican flora.
Exercise intervention for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome – do FITT-VP principles apply? A case study
Authors: Torres Georgia , Rains Nicola , Gradidge Philippe , Constantinou Demitri
Published: June 2023

The lack of standardisation of reporting exercise interventions hampers the development of best practice guidelines for long COVID patients. This case study on the effect of an exercise intervention in a long COVID patient applied the Consensus on Exercise Reporting Template (CERT) for reporting interventions. FITT-VP exercise prescription principles for long COVID rehabilitation are also suggested. A 58-year-old male, previously hospitalised for 14 days in the ward for the intensive care for the management of severe COVID-19 infection, joined an exercise rehabilitation programme. A medical history, anthropometric, biochemical, lung function, blood pressure, cardiorespiratory fitness and strength measures were all assessed before and after the eight week exercise intervention programme. Positive changes were found in all lung function test measures. Cardiorespiratory fitness, endurance capacity and muscle strength improved. However, the greatest improvements occurred in functional status, fatigue, dyspnoea and the state of depression levels. This case study suggested that in the absence of other instruments, the FITTVP principles may be used for long COVID patients, and CERT for reporting interventions, but these should be further researched.
İskit kültür tarihinde Arzhan 2 kurganının yeri ve önemi
Authors: NARŞAP Mazhar
Published: June 2023

Her millet yaşadığı bölgenin coğrafi şartları neticesinde kendine has bir kültür oluşturmuştur. Bozkır coğrafyasında yaşayan kavimlerde, kendilerine has olan konar-göçebe kültürünü meydana getirmişlerdir. Bu bozkır kavimlerinden birisi de İskitlerdir. M.Ö. VIII. ve M.S. II. yüzyıllar arasında Orta Asya başta olmak üzere Karadeniz’in kuzeyi ve Anadolu içlerinde faaliyetlerde bulunan İskitlerin tarih ve kültürüne dair yazılı ve arkeolojik kaynaklarda bilgiler bulunmaktadır. Yazılı kaynakların başında Grek kaynakları gelmektedir. Arkeolojik kaynaklarda ise İskitlerin konar-göçebe yaşam tarzını benimsemiş olmaları sebebiyle yerleşim yerleri değil, mezarlar ilk sırada yer almaktadır. İskitlere ait mezarlara “kurgan” adı verilmektedir. Kurgan; korugan anlamında olup mezara defnedilen kişiyi koruyan anlamına gelmektedir. İskit kültür ve tarihinde, kalıntı ve buluntu elde edilen birçok kurgan vardır. Bu kurganlar arasında ise Arzhan 2 kurganı ön plana çıkmaktadır. Tuva bölgesinde yer alan Arzhan 2 kurganı bozkır insanının gündelik yaşamında kullandığı çadır tarzında döşenmiştir. Özellikle 5 numaralı mezar odasında bulunan kadın ve erkeğin kıyafetleri, onları süsleyen altın figürler, silahlar, tabak, kap gibi gündelik eşyaların hepsi İskit kültür ve tarihinin araştırılmasında önem arz etmektedir.
Exploring the relationship between musical engagement, intelligence and academic achievement among students with different professional skills
Authors:   Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Knyazeva T.S.
Published: June 2023

We investigated the relationship between music engagement, academic success and intelligence in non-musical students (N = 136). Currently, there is a lack of understanding to the extent in which individual leisure interests and extracurricular engagement influence academic success in different subject areas, as well as the relationship between fluid intelligence and crystallized experience. Clarifying these questions we formed the aim of this study. To diagnose musical engagement and intelligence we used the approved psychometric techniques - Gold-MSI v1.0 “Active engagement” scale, Raven's test, Amthauer's test. We checked the assumptions that musical engagement influences the strength of the correlation between fluid and crystallized intelligence and that the relationship between musical engagement and academic success is determined by the level of fluid intelligence on the one hand, and the degree of homogeneity of the subject areas of engagement on the other. The results of the study showed that musical engagement may play a significant role in predicting the academic performance of non-musicians as well as in the development of crystallized experience. The hypothesis that musical engagement, being a non-relevant behavioral activity in relation to general educational experience and competence, contributes to a decrease in the strength of the link between fluid and crystallized intelligence was confirmed. The other hypothesis was partially confirmed, as it was found that the relationship between musical engagement and academic success is mediated by the fluid intelligence factor, but this mediation is specific to groups with different professional skills. There is a non-linear relationship in the humanities group: the best learning performance is achieved by students with intermediate levels of engagement. In the group of "precise" occupations, the relationship between the variables is linear and negative. The findings are interpreted in terms of modern models of intelligence and subjectoriented knowledge models. The results contribute to improving the quality of prediction of learning success and professional realization, and contribute to elucidating the psychological mechanisms of engagement.
Socio-psychological determinants of the use of luxury loanwords in the Russian language
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Technical University, Pomuran N.N.
Published: June 2023

The article discusses the sociopsychological determinants of the use of luxury loanwords in Russian, in particular the ethnic identity of the individual, the content and focus of heterostereotypes, and the frequency of excessive loanwords in speech practices recorded in the national corpus of the Russian language. The study involved 22 translation and translation studies final year students aged 20-21. The ethnic identity of a person is investigated by comparing auto- and heterostereotypes of three stimuli objects, “a typical representative of Russian, English nationality” and “American people” with the self-image. Next, a comparative analysis of the use of excessive loanwords when translating the text from English into Russian is performed. The discrepancy between declared and actual ethnic identity was revealed for the majority of informants. Three groups of respondents were distinguished: the first group identified with Russian nationality, the second with English, and the third group's self-image corresponded to none of the presented stimulus objects. Judgments about the “typical representative of English and American nationality” are more consistent compared to the representation of the “typical representative of Russian nationality”. According to the research data, informants with uncertain ethnic identity and representatives of English national identity have a positive image of “a representative of English nationality”. Those with Russian national identity have a shift towards positive social desirability in their perceptions of “a typical representative of the American people”. The use of luxury loanwords is equally characteristic of all respondents. Thus, the use of foreign words and word combinations in speech is associated with a shift in perceptions of native speakers (English or American) towards positive social desirability, as well as identification with native speakers of the language from which the vocabulary is borrowed. The author concludes that social psychological factors should be taken into account when developing measures to protect the mother tongue from excessive borrowing.
On law enforcement discretion in the court's assessment of evidence in a legal case
Authors:   Ural State Law University, Onosov Yuri V.
Published: June 2023

In this article, a detailed analysis of the term "judicial discretion" has been carried out. From the totality of the positions of legal scholars studied, a narrow conclusion was made that judicial discretion is a subjective right to a limited variability of actions. Regarding the differentiation of the terms "judicial discretion" and "judicial discretion", the conclusion was formulated that the authorized subject of judicial discretion, as well as judicial, will always be a court represented by a judge. Consequently, for the purposes of this article, these concepts were used as synonyms, since, according to the authors, there are no reasonable grounds for their differentiation. Investigating the issue of judicial discretion when assessing evidence by the court in civil cases, an argument was formulated that in law enforcement practice it is traced that the specifics of each civil case are individual and it is impossible to provide all the details of any particular case in the legal norms. It is at this stage that the limited freedom of the court opens up when forming internal attitudes in a particular legal case, and, in particular, for the application of judicial discretion. Studying the problem of judicial discretion in the process of evaluating evidence by the court, it was impossible not to see its connection with the judge's inner conviction. The authors concluded that it is the judge's inner conviction that will play a primary role in the court's assessment of evidence. The article formulated the position that in terms of the court's assessment of evidence, a certain "limit" of judicial discretion is the requirement of procedural codes that the motivational part of the court's decision should indicate the reasons for which the court rejected certain evidence. Thus, applying judicial discretion, the judge is in any case obliged to motivate the adoption of such a decision and justify the choice of this option, in no way going beyond the scope of a specific legal case in his conclusions. According to the results of the study of specific examples from judicial practice, it became clear that the ambiguity in determining the motives for which the court made a particular decision entails an appeal of judicial acts, and, subsequently, their cancellation, which negatively affects statistics and belittles the authority of the judicial system. It follows from this that the gaps in legislative regulation in terms of the categories studied in this article have long been in need of filling. The diversity of the interpretation of concepts leads to a kind of "thinking out" and the lack of unity in the application of these categories in practice. In the absence of achieving legal consolidation of the content of these concepts and their boundaries, there will always be a risk of going beyond their limits, which each specific subject will determine independently.
Defects in the implementation of the protection of rights violated in the information space
Authors:   South Ural State University, Portyanova Polina D.
Published: June 2023

The article is devoted to the identification and search for ways to resolve the discreteness of the law governing relations in the information space, and its implementation. System-structural analysis, the logical method made it possible to identify ways to resolve such discreteness. It can be overcome by using the analogy of law, which makes it possible to ensure the functioning of the legal system in the absence of the necessary norm-regulator. The elimination of discreteness involves making the necessary changes to the current legislation. As examples of the analyzed discreteness of law, defects in legislation and the implementation of the following rights in the information space are considered: the right to protect honor, dignity and business reputation and the right to be forgotten. In the first case, we are talking about the impossibility of initiating the restriction of access to the source in which the information recognized by the court as discrediting and unreliable was placed, if such a decision was made in the manner of a special proceeding. It is concluded that overcoming this defect is possible in two ways: the first is the application of the right to be forgotten, the second is the statement of the requirement to recognize the source that disseminated false defamatory information to be included in a single automated information system. It is concluded that overcoming a defect is a temporary and forced measure, and the ultimate goal of the legislator is to eliminate the defect. Two ways to eliminate the described defect are proposed. First: the introduction of mandatory registration of an information source, if we are talking about a resource on the Internet, then - its national domain, in domestic specialized systems. Second: elimination of the defect by amending article 152 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and clause 5 of article 15.1 of the Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection". Namely, the inclusion in these articles of a new basis for restricting access to an information source: the entry into force of a judicial act issued in a special proceeding on recognizing the disseminated information as unreliable and discrediting. It was proposed to secure the right to refute widespread information if the court determines that the information gives the reader the impression that the circumstances described in the disputed material actually took place. The second considered defect in the implementation of the right is the lack of uniformity in the interpretation of the “public interest” and, as a result, the lack of uniformity in the practice of applying the right to be forgotten. It is proposed to legislatively formulate the definition of the criterion of "public interest" for the purposes of exercising the right to be forgotten in relation to irrelevant information and information that has lost its significance for the applicant.
Problems of realization of the right to remuneration for work
Authors:   Sevastopol State University, Protsevskiy Victor A. , Horlov Yevhenii V. ,   Sevastopol State University
Published: June 2023

In accordance with the right to remuneration for work, the problems of legal regulation of wages in Russia are analyzed. The relevance of the study of this problem is explained by the insufficient effectiveness of incentives that, in conditions of the spread of mainly intellectual, informational work, will encourage a certain professional group to perform its characteristic labor functions with the highest efficiency to increase public welfare. The goal of solidary participation in the fair distribution of labor results, as well as in its payment, is determined by the direction of development of the state that it elects. The highest social value in the Russian Federation is a person, his life and health, honor and dignity, inviolability and security. The so-called labor theory of value, expressed by A. Smith, developed by D. Ricardo and K. Marx, according to which the value of goods and services depends on the labor invested in them, has been studied. This idea was transformed by E. Durkheim into the characteristics of an employment contract, indicating that it is only considered concluded when the mutual services of the parties have an equivalent value. It is the employment contract, according to the authors, that acts as the main legal form of realization of the constitutional right to work and its remuneration. The state and contractual regulation of labor, the ratio of public and private methods of regulation in the field of remuneration are considered. Attention is paid to the problem of further improvement of the financial situation of the employee on the basis of social partnership. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ILO Conventions, standards in the field of remuneration are analyzed. The authors emphasize that remuneration needs state regulatory and legal regulation, first of all, in the revision of existing standards of remuneration. The progressive experience of legal regulation of remuneration for work in national and international legislation is investigated. Modern science considers one of the determining factors of the well-being of society to be the ability of the distribution mechanism to approach the correspondence between a person's contribution to the increase of well-being and his remuneration. In order to solve the problem posed in this study, the authors propose the need for a harmonious combination of innovative reform and the introduction of elements of world models of various employee remuneration systems, which will ensure the adaptation of domestic labor legislation and the achievement of modern world standards in the legal regulation of remuneration for work.
Legal regulation of independent activity of individuals: socio-economic aspects
Authors:   South Ural State University, Savenko Natalya E.
Published: June 2023

The article examines the axiological, socio-economic value of law in regulating the independent activity of individuals on the basis of legislation and doctrine. Attention is focused on the fact that law is a social regulator. The relevance of the study is dictated by the fact that at the legislative level, ensuring the growth of incomes of the population, increasing the number of employed people through the development of entrepreneurship and self-employment is ranked as national goals and strategic objectives for the development of Russia. Based on an interdisciplinary approach (using categories and tools from the field of sociology, philosophy, economics and law), a historical and dogmatic approach, the essence and significance of the independent activity of individuals in its various forms is investigated. It is shown that at present there is an urgent need to use sociological, philosophical approaches in the study of certain socio-legal phenomena. This will in a certain way contribute to the effectiveness of legal regulation of independent activity of individuals. The article proves that the legislator, when establishing legal regimes for certain forms of independent activity of citizens, does not take into account the essence and significance of this activity in the universal (philosophical, psychological) and social aspects, as well as the postulates of justice and morality. In this connection, the classification of forms of independent activity of individuals is proposed. Taking into account the national priorities and strategic objectives of Russia, the author divides the independent activity of individuals into individual entrepreneurial activity, professional activity and self-employment (in a narrow sense) according to the criteria: socio-psychological characteristics of subjects, economic prerequisites and legal conditions of activity in a specific form; conditions of responsibility of subjects for obligations in civil turnover. The conclusions formulated in this study are aimed at expanding the understanding of the independent activity of individuals from the perspective of law and society in the context of the legal modernization of the forms of activity of the Russian population.
Criminal procedure as a form of social conflict resolution
Authors:   Kuban State University, Lozovsky Denis N. , Alekseev Igor M. ,   North-Western Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Russian State University of Justice», Alekseeva Elena E. ,   Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Published: June 2023

The purpose of the research is an attempt to prove the independence of criminal procedure law in relation to criminal law. However, in the course of research, the authors were confronted with the fact that the traditional approach based on legal positivism does not allow one to distinguish other criminal procedural law, except for criminal law. However, a similar understanding of law and process does not allow to reveal their ability to resolve conflicts. In this regard, in the study, the authors turned to the methodology developed by modern hermeneutics, using the communicative theory of law as the main method for studying criminal procedure law, where law acts as a means of interaction between people, which sets the boundaries for such interaction, which made it possible to look at the criminal process as a way communications. In the process of such communication, conflicts arising in society that are basically criminal in nature are resolved. In the field of criminal proceedings, this allowed to say, if the case concerns a criminal law conflict, then we should not talk about the emergence of criminal law relations. Based on that, the authors conclude that the criminal procedure law is independent. This follows, first of all, from the fact that the process does not boil down to the application of criminal law, but performs the function of resolving conflicts and can well do without applying a specific norm of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, for example, in case of reconciliation of the parties (Article 25 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation) or in connection with compensation for damage (Article 28.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure). The authors conclude that criminal law is the legal means of institutionalizing possible social conflicts, and the criminal process is a form of resolution. Thus, the fact of committing a crime is losing its significance; instead, the conflict that has come to the fore is highlighted. Moreover, the process serves only as a form of conflict resolution, which translates it into a legal channel. Without criminal law, procedural procedures lose all meaning, which, however, does not put the process in a subordinate position with respect to law. Based on the functional load of law as a form of resolving social conflicts, the authors conclude that the process is functionally designed to resolve them. At the same time, the application of the criminal law norm as a result of procedural activity loses all meaning. Instead, the fact of resolving the conflict, which may occur, for example, in reconciliation of the parties, is of importance. Thus, the criminal procedure form is functionally designed to resolve criminal law conflicts arising in society.
La autodestrucción de Madame Bovary: hacia una economía política del goce
Authors: Garrido Violeta
Published: June 2023

El presente artículo razona sobre la construcción de la subjetividad de Emma Bovary, situando en el discurso amoroso enunciado por ella los fundamentos de su individualidad, que son profundamente modernos. En paralelo, se efectúa asimismo una lectura social de la insatisfacción permanente que caracteriza al personaje, analizando los aspectos de su sensibilidad que coinciden con la lógica de acumulación perpetua instaurada, también en el plano de la subjetividad, por el sistema de producción capitalista. El objetivo principal es contextualizar  sociohistóricamente las problemáticas planteadas en la obra de Flaubert y estimular la reflexión sobre el papel ambivalente de su protagonista.
Comentarios al margen a la tragedia Axel del conde Villiers de L’isle-Adam
Authors: Volkening Ernesto
Published: June 2023

Volkening escribió para su amigo Nicolás Gómez Dávila,  "Comentarios al margen a la tragedia Axel del conde Villiers de L’isle-Adam”, traducido por David Alvarado-Archila, una muestra de un contacto epistolar en el que se pueden ver algunas de las perspectivas críticas características de quien fue uno de nuestros principales críticos literarios.
Diálogo en el margen Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Hernando Téllez, la revista Mito y las formas argumentativas breves en la literatura colombiana
Authors: Giraldo Efrén
Published: June 2023

Este artículo se ocupa de la primera recepción de la obra de Nicolás Gómez Dávila, que se encuentra en la presentación que de él hizo Hernando Téllez en la revista Mito. El artículo analiza la aparición de las formas argumentativas breves en la revista colombiana Mito y, en particular, el uso que le dieron allí Hernando Téllez y Nicolás Gómez Dávila. En primer término, se discuten las relaciones de ambos autores con formas como el escolio, el aforismo, la entrada de diario y el ensayo. Luego, se examina el uso de formas marginales en la revista Mito por autores como Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Gaitán Durán y Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot. Por último, se analiza la aparición de textos argumentativos de Téllez y Gómez Dávila en la revista para establecer un diálogo entre los dos principales cultivadores de la forma argumentativa breve en la literatura colombiana de los años cincuenta.
Tipos de lector y tipos de persona presentes en el Diario de lectura de los Escolios de Ernesto Volkening
Authors: Alvarado-Archila David
Published: June 2023

En este texto realizo un análisis del Diario de lectura de los Escolios de Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Cuadernos I y II, escrito por Ernesto Volkening. Lo anterior con el fin de establecer qué significa que este texto sea un diario de lectura o, dicho de otro modo, qué implica calificar este texto como un diario de lectura. En segundo lugar, indico los tipos de lector que se presentan en este diario y, por último, caracterizo el tipo de “yo” narrativo, esto es, el tipo de persona que Volkening presenta a lo largo de su escrito. Esto permite evidenciar que Volkening se caracteriza a sí mismo como un nostálgico y un pesimista que asume la filosofía como una herramienta para proteger el “espíritu” de lo que considera un “tiempo desbocado y enajenante”. Finalmente, hago algunos cuestionamientos con respecto a la ausencia de crítica al Frente Nacional, período en el que Volkening redactó este diario de lectura.
Urbanismo e historia. Dos claves interpretativas de la recepción de Ernesto Volkening a Gómez Dávila
Authors: Abad Alfredo
Published: June 2023

Este artículo analiza en primera instancia la lectura y consideración hermenéutica que Ernesto Volkening realiza de la obra de Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Tras una presentación de las pautas interpretativas que se dan en el Diario de lectura de Volkening, se considera luego el interés de losautores por la arquitectura y el urbanismo modernos, como claves para la crítica del modo de vida reificante del hombre actual. Posteriormente, se ilustran las pautas que abordan la historia y la historicidad, bajo la idea de una comprensión hermenéutica gestada en los contextos, opuesta a cualquier determinismo y puesta en marcha bajo la impronta de la singularidad e individualidad.
Heráclito y la vía de la interioridad
Authors: Neuman Lorenzini Rosario , Torrijos Castrillejo David
Published: June 2023

En Heráclito se encuentran algunos elementos atrayentes para los lectores modernos por cuanto apuntan a cierta intimidad de la conciencia. Proponemos una lectura de los fragmentos de este filósofo armonizando sus afirmaciones sobre la universalidad con sus palabras sobre el conocimiento de sí mismo, en el cual creemos ver un descubrimiento de la autoconciencia. Para Heráclito, el serhumano posee un alma de ilimitado horizonte y en condiciones de acceder al logos que guía toda la realidad: debe recorrer la vía de la interioridad, prestar oído al logos y hallar en él la unidad de sí mismo y de las demás cosas. Podría revelarse aquí una comprensión de la interioridad de la autoconciencia sin detrimento de su acceso a lo universal. Asimismo, el hombre debe decirse a sí mismo el logos para obrar conforme a él. Comportarse de otra manera significaría actuar en contra de la propia  interioridad.
Maturity Status and Fat-Free Masses as Determinants of Physical Fitness Among Macedonian Schoolchildren aged 6 to 14
Authors: Kusari Nertila , Metaj Zenel , Myrtaj Nazim , Georgiev Georgi , Gontarev Seryozha
Published: June 2023

Study purpose. The research goal was to establish if the fat-free mass, chronological age and maturity status are determinants of physical ﬁtness, and to analyze the development changes of fat-free mass and physical fitness in concordance with chronological age and maturity status in schoolchildren aged 6 to 14.
Materials and methods. The research was conducted on a sample of 9106 students aged 6 to 14 years. In order to reach the research goals, the following variables were measured: height, weight, sitting height, fat mass, fat-free mass and various components of the physical fitness (lower limbs explosive strength, handgrip strength, abdominal muscle repetitive strength, speed and agility). The values of body mass and biological maturation indexes (APHV) were obtained by using formulas.
Results. The boys’ age at peak height velocity was estimated at 13.00±0.82, and the girls’ one at 11.57±0.68. The relationships between chronological age and age at peak height velocity with fat-free mass was r=0.82 to 0.94 in the boys and r=0.83 to 0.92 in the girls. The relationships between fat-free mass and physical fitness tests in the boys were: standing long jump (r=0.55), 30 sec sit-ups (r=0.37), handgrip strength (r=0.75) and shuttle run 4 х 10 meters (r=-0.40); and in the girls – standing long jump (r= 0.45), 30 sec sit-ups (r= 0.36), handgrip strength (r= 0.74) and shuttle run 4 х 10 meters (r= -0.43). The differences in fat-free mass and physical fitness tests were more prominent when the comparison was done with relation to the biological maturation (APHV) and chronologic age.
Conclusions. On the basis of the obtained results, it can be concluded that maturity status and fat-free mass determinate the physical fitness performances in the schoolchildren of both genders. Also, the age at peak height velocity should be used in Physical Education as a tool of monitoring, ranging and classification of physical performances in children and adolescents.
Acute Effects of Dry Needling on Lower Limb Muscle Strength in CrossFit Athletes with Latent Trigger Points: A Randomized Triple-Blinded Pilot Clinical Trial
Authors: Rojas-Jaramillo Andres , Quintero-Lotero Daniel , Garcia-Torres Camilo , Petro Jorge L. , Bonilla Diego A.
Published: June 2023

Study purpose. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acute effect of deep dry needling (DP) on lower-limb muscle strength-related variables in CrossTraining recreational athletes with latent trigger point (TrP).
Materials and methods. A total of 19 healthy CrossFit®-trained males (27.8 [4.7] years; 79.8 [10.4] kg; 1.76 [0.07] cm) with myofascial TrP in quadriceps, gluteus or gastrocnemius muscles completed this repeated-measures triple-blind pilot clinical trial. Participants were randomly allocated into either experimental (EG, n = 10) or Sham (SG, n = 9) groups. After allocation, the assessment of lower-limb muscle power (squat jump [SJ] and countermovement jump [CMJ]) and maximal isometric hip abduction and quadriceps strength were measured at baseline and after 48 hours of the intervention.
Results. The results are expressed as Δ (SD) [95% CI]; unbiased Cohen’s d [dunb, 95% CI]). DN has been shown to reduce the presence of muscle TrP. The maximal isometric hip abduction strength had a moderate-to-high significant increase in the EG (left: 21.5 (16.9) [9.42, 33.57]; 0.55 [0.19, 0.99], right: 20.3 (16.2) [8.70, 31.89]; 0.74 [0.25, 1.35]); however, the Sham group only showed significant improvement in the left hip abductor muscles 15.77 (15.37) [3.96, 27.59]; 0.57 [0.11, 1.12]) with no significant changes in the right side.
Conclusions. The acute reduction of myofascial TrP was observed with the application of DN but had no significant effect on maximal isometric strength or jump height compared to the Sham group. Results of this pilot clinical trial can be used to commission future research.
Effects of Post-Activation Performance Enhancement on Competitive Swimmers’ Performance: A Systematic Review
Authors: Mendoza-Sagardía Edgardo , Bezerra Andrea , Correia de Freitas Laura , Gómez-Álvarez Nicolás , Hurtado-Almonacid Juan , Paez-Herrera Jacqueline , Sepulveda-Figueroa Felipe , Ibarra-Mora Jessica , Yañez Sepulveda Rodrigo , Reyes-Amigo Tomás
Published: June 2023

Study purpose. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of post-activation potentiation/post-activation performance enhancement (PAP/PAPE) warm-up protocols on swimmers’ performance.
Materials and methods.  The searches were carried out on the electronic database PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and EBSCO platforms. Studies from 2010 to May 2022 related to PAP/PAPE and its effect on swimming performance in swimmers aged between 18 and 35 were included.
Results. Nine of 333 studies were included in this review. In two studies, peak thrust improved by 13% to 19% for PAP vs non-PAP and by 3% on performance. One study showed improvements by 10% on speed and speed fluctuation in 25 m all-out PAP vs non-PAP. Rate of force development (RFD) 15 m maximum effort was higher for dry land warm up (DLWU) than swimming warm up (SWU). One study had higher velocity in 5 m for repetition maximum warm-up (RMWU) and eccentric fly-wheel warm-up (EWU) vs SWU. One study demonstrated enhancements for upper-body PAP (UBPAP), low-body PAP (LBPAP) and MIX (UBPAP/LBPAP) vs warm up based on general exercises (GEN) in time to 25 m freestyle (T25FS). Two studies found improvements for band squats PAP compared to swimming specific warm up (SSWU) in time to 15 m. One study demonstrated that PAP trial (PAPT) was faster than control time trial (CTT) in 50 m and 100 m freestyle trial. Dive velocity (DV) was faster for RMWU/EWU vs SWU. One study showed significant increase in power vertical force (PVF) and power horizontal force (PHF) after the PAP vs SSWU.
Conclusions. PAP/PAPE is one more tool that can be beneficial if adapted to the conditions of swimmers, controlling fatigue levels, where it is performed (land or water), and most importantly, described by many coaches, the specificity of movement.
Production, Optimization and Partial Characterization of Alkaline Protease from Bacillus subtilis spp. subtilis NRRL B-3384 and B-3387
Authors: AKKALE Cengiz
Published: June 2023

Bacillus subtilis has been a reliable platform for the expression of extracellular proteases for several decades. Although a majority of Bacillus subtilis subspecies express proteases, the amount of secreted enzyme varies depending on the strain and environmental conditions used. Here, two Bacillus subtilis spp. subtilis strains, NRRL B-3384 and NRRL B-3387, from the ARS Culture collection (NRRL), were compared for secreted protease activity. The highest activity was found in strain NRRL B-3384, and proteolysis occurred at temperatures as high as 80°C and across a broad range of pH, with maximum activity at pH 9.0 and 60°C indicating the presence of a thermostable alkaline protease. To our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate protease production in Bacillus subtilis spp. subtilis strains NRRL B-3384 and B3387 and suggests that NRRL B-3384 may have utility in the production of enzymes for industrial use.
Adsorption and Kinetic Studies of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solution Using Modified Spent Tea Leaves
Authors: ÖZYAMAN Mine Nur , ÇAĞŞIRLI Sena , ÖZÜDOĞRU Yeliz
Published: June 2023

In this study, methylene blue was removed from an aqueous solution using modified waste tea leaves. Temperature, pH, contact time, methylene blue concentration, and other adsorption mechanisms were studied. The characterization of the samples was performed using the FTIR and SEM analyses. The isotherm models were carrying out to analyzed the adsorption mechanisms and for representing data, the Freundlich isotherm model seemed more appropriate. The findings exhibited the highest adsorption capacity was 3.66 mg/g for the untreated biomass at 298 K, 5.46 mg/g for the 0.1 M HCl group at 318 K, and 5.98 mg/g for the 0.05 M NaOH group at 298 K. The adsorption kinetics were used and the pseudo-second-order model performed well for each group. As a natural substitute biomass for methylene blue adsorption from aqueous solution, used tea leaf residue may be employed.
Synthesis of Pyridine-Based Imine Compounds and Molecular Docking Studies Against Dopamine D2 Receptors
Authors: AYTAÇ Sertan
Published: June 2023

In this study, new pyridine-based imine compounds (8-10) were synthesized and docking studies of these compounds against D2 Dopamine receptor (6CM4) were performed. The structures of these compounds, which were synthesized using the microwave method, were determined by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and elemental analysis techniques. The binding energy values vary range from -6.79 to -7.07 kcal/mol with D2 Dopamine Receptor/PDB: 6MC4. Compound 10 (-7.07 kcal mol-1) showed better binding energy than 9 (-6.95 kcal mol-1) and 8 (-6.79 kcal/mol).