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Sacred Chronotope and Mediative Actions of Participants of the Ukrainian Funeral Rites
Authors:   Kharkiv State  Academy of Culture, Kukharenko Oleksandr
Published: May 2022

The study of change of chronotope and identification of mediators among participants and mediative groups is carried out using the constructed structure of the cycle of funeral rites, which includes prologue, preparation for burial, funeral at home, burial in the cemetery and funeral repast. When entering the ceremony, access to the afterlife is opened, as a result of which conditions are created for the expansion of sacralization, the development of the chronotope and the involvement of more and more participants in the ritual action. This continues until the culmination rite of the burial in the cemetery, when the sacralization reaches the ultimate level, all possible participants will be involved, and the chronotope will include in the ritual all the potentially possible territory for a certain time unit. This is followed by the reverse process – the collapse of the chronotope and the liquidation of the sacred center, and the treating of elders in the courtyard of the deceased is a kind of message that the buried went to the afterlife and changed his status to the deceased. Mediative episodes in the structure of the cycle perform the function of pre-culmination and provoke the performance of the necessary ritual actions. Mediation requires that at least one character takes responsibility for provoking further action, in which all participants involved in the expansion of the chronotope will take part. Having studied the episodes of mediation and identifying the mediating characters of rites of the funeral cycle, we found that the number of mediators is always less than the total number of participants in a particular rite. This means that the mediation process and the process of expanding the chronotope, although related processes, are still separate and different in nature. Since the chronotope, expanding from the beginning to the end of the ritual action, is not always, and even sometimes never, reflected in the number of persons of the mediative group in the rites of the funeral cycle.
Volodymyr Shemet and his activity in the Ukrainian Duma community of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire in 1906
Authors:   Uman national university of horticulture, Domoroslyi Valentyn
Published: May 2022

Based on various sources, the article analyzes the activity of Volodymyr Mykhailovych Shemet as a member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire and member of Ukrainian community in it. The research is based on the principle of historicism, scientific approach and author’s objectivity. Contribution of V. Shemet in the process of establishment of the Ukrainian Duma community in the Russian State Duma was analyzed. Volodymyr Mykhailovych understood that successful work of Ukrainian duma community is impossible without clear organization, and based on his insistence 44 members of the Duma from Ukraine that were members of different political parties established community that became the real legal representative of the Ukrainian society at that time. Despite of his extensive work in the Duma, V. Shemet always found time for «Ukrainian bulletin» magazine. During his work in the Duma he was published in the magazine twice. He was a supporter of the independence of Ukraine, however he also understood that the issue of independence is out of line, he positioned himself as an autonomist, supported the right for all nations of tsarist Russia to become equal and have a right to talk and get an education using their native tongue, manage their own national culture. Shemet also demonstrated his autonomist views in the resolution of a land issue. He envisaged that it shall be resolved not by a state legislative body, but by local bodies. He also supported wide range of rights and freedoms of the population.
Low-Light Face Recognition and Identity Verification Based on Image Enhancement
Authors: Lu Qiuju , Gan Peipei
Published: May 2022

After years of development, face recognition is now a relatively perfect technology. It is non-contact, intuitive, simple, accurate, and applicable to complex practical environments. To a certain extent, the application of deep learning has enhanced the accuracy of face recognition. But there are some defects with deep learning in detecting face objects of different types in different environments, calling for further explorations. Therefore, this paper explores the low-light face recognition and identity verification based on image enhancement. Specifically, light processing and Gaussian filtering were adopted to suppress and eliminate the low-light effect of low-light face images. The basic framework and objective function of the existing generative adversarial network (GAN) were modified. By learning the mapping of side and front faces in multi-pose face images in the image space, a cross-pose GAN was established to turn faces of different poses into front faces. The proposed model was proved effective through experiments.
Role of Deep Learning in Improving the Performance of Driver Fatigue Alert System
Authors: Fouad Islam A. , Labib Fatma El-Zahraa M.
Published: May 2022

Driver fatigue detection system aims to monitor the driver state. When detecting a fatigue caused by different attitudes other than normal driving habit, the system warns the driver that traveling should be interrupted. In this way, it helps the driver to make the right decision. The aim of this study is to prevent traffic accidents. The system analyzes any changes in the driver's eyes and mouth features in real time and warns the driver when necessary. The proposed system contains several stages to detect the driver's fatigue. First, the preprocessing stage; enhancement of the frames, determining the face, and cropping eyes and mouth of the driver was done. Then, dealing with feature extraction stage; the features concerning each frame was processed. Finally, two classification approaches were presented and a comparison between them was addressed. In the first approach, four traditional classifiers were applied; Diagonal Linear Discriminant Analysis (DiagLDA), Linear Support Vector Machine (LSVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Random Forest Classifier (RFC). The results show that two classifiers; KNN and RFC yield the highest average accuracy of 91.94% for all subjects presented in this paper. In the second approach, one model of deep learning neural network (CNN) was applied; "Resnet-50" model. The results also show that the proposed deep learning model yields a high average accuracy of 96.3889% for the same data. In general, the drowsiness and lost focus of drivers with high accuracy have been detected with the developed image processing based system, which makes it practicable and reliable for real-time applications.
Investigation of the Effect of eSport on HRV Signal by Using Poincaré Plot Analysis
Authors: Gündoğdu Serdar , Çolak Ömer Halil , Polat Övünç
Published: May 2022

In this work, in order to determination of effect of a puzzle video game on HRV (Heart rate variability) signal, Poincare plot analysis is used. The linear and nonlinear dynamics of HRV were evaluated using HRV recordings obtained from each player at the time of play and rest. For this purpose, we have correlated the Poincaré plot descriptors with standard HRV measures derived from time- and frequency-domain methods. In addition, the correlations between the descriptors of the Poincaré plot along with the frequency and time domain measures of HRV have evaluated for the game stage. Statistically significant values were observed in eSport players in gaming and during resting. The obtained results show that play and rest can be separated by using the features obtained from the Poincare plot.
Speech Enhancement for Robust Speech Recognition Using Weighted Low Rank and Sparse Decomposition Models under Low SNR Conditions
Authors: K Venkata Sridhar , T Kishore Kumar
Published: May 2022

Noise estimation is a crucial stage in speech enhancement (SE), and it commonly necessitates the use of prior models for speech, noise, or both. Prior models, on the other hand, can be ineffective in dealing with unseen nonstationary noise, especially at low signal to noise (SNR) levels. This paper proposes to assess the efficacy of an unsupervised SE approach based on weighted low rank and sparse matrix factorization to estimate noise and speech when neither is available beforehand by decomposing the input noisy spectrum into a low-rank noise component and a sparse speech component. Due to the approximation of the actual rank of noise, these techniques are constrained, and they do not directly exploit the low-rank property in optimization. Nuclear norm minimization (NNM) is the most well-known approach, as it can precisely recover the matrix's rank under certain restricted and theoretical guarantee conditions. NNM, on the other hand, is unable to reliably estimate the matrix rank in many situations. Significant advancements in computer vision and machine learning applications have demonstrated that a weighted nuclear norm minimization (WNNM), overcomes NNM shortcomings, and achieves a superior matrix rank approximation than NNM. Consequently, in this study, we present alternate SE algorithms that make use of weighted low rank and sparsity constraints to separate speech and noise spectrograms. Following that, they were trained and evaluated on a standard Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine to lower the Word Error Rate (WER). Extensive investigations on the impact of real-world noise on speech signals show that the proposed model outperforms the existing state of art models in terms of objective measures like SDR, PESQ, SIG, BAK, OVL, and STOI values in varied noise circumstances under low SNR environments.
Automatic Classification and Identification of Road Garbage Images and Evaluation of Environmental Health Based on UNet++
Authors: Chen Wei , Zheng Xuan , Zhou Haijun , Li Zhe
Published: May 2022

As Covid-19 plagues the world, a clean environment helps to control the factors and risks that threaten health, and curb the spread of the epidemic. However, the quality evaluation of environmental health faces some problems and challenges in actual management and practice. Firstly, the classification, identification, and quantification of road garbage are mainly done manually, because of the diversity of road garbage, as well as their sharp differences in geometry, color, and texture. Secondly, it is labor-intensive to manually manage the large operation areas on the wide urban roads. Thirdly, the accuracy of statistical indices is affected by the time-varying road environment, making the quality evaluation of environmental health untimely and inaccurate. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an intelligent image classification and evaluation method for urban environmental health. Specifically, an environmental garbage recognition and semantic segmentation approach was designed based on UNet++, and combined with the vehicle-mounted machine vision system to automatically identify the typical targets among the road waste control indices. Next, an image attention quantitative evaluation method was developed based on the eye tracking analyzer, and the quantified attention was fused with the statistical features for road garbage classification, forming an attention-based evaluation method for environmental quality. The proposed approach supports the automatic recognition and semantic segmentation of the garbage on urban roads, and realizes the identification of complex targets in different scenes through transfer learning. In addition, the attention-based evaluation method for environmental quality provides environmental management departments with visual basis for quantitative decision-making.
Abrir gavetas, tramar redes: dos impactos ressonantes da educação pelo trabalho na saúde
Authors: Gusmao Renata Castro , Ceccim Ricardo Burg , Drachler Maria de Lourdes
Published: May 2022

Objetivo: Este artigo objetiva trazer à cena uma pesquisa relativa ao impacto do Programa de Educação pelo Trabalho na Saúde, o qual estabelece uma trama entre ensino universitário, política pública e demandas sociais em saúde. Método: O tema do impacto, tão frequente nas discussões envolvendo avaliação e monitoramento em políticas e ações em educação e saúde, foi tomado em consideração, não apenas como uma pergunta a responder, mas como uma construção de pensamento sobre o que uma política pública “faz” na realidade (como uma política pública “impacta” uma realidade) e como uma prática de ensino e aprendizagem é afetada por esta. Antes de avaliá-lo, medi-lo, primeiramente, foi necessário tematizá-lo, em diálogo aberto com quem participou do Programa. Resultados: o impacto que ressoou tem a ver com a convocação ao movimento; o borramento de fronteiras disciplinares; a produção de outras possibilidades aos saberes e fazeres, e no deslocamentos nos modos de ser profissional, docente e discente. O impacto se mostrou no entre, nos novos pactos postos a funcionar. Nesta perspectiva, foi necessário apurar os sentidos para encontrá-lo, para perceber o que ressoa como efeito do encontro. Conclusões: Uma vez assim, uma “pesquisa de impacto” não atesta este ou qualquer programa ou política, ela cartografa movimentos. Oimpacto seria relativo àquilo que resta inacabado: não o que aconteceu, mas aquilo que entrou em acontecimento, em construção de realidades possíveis, imprevisíveis, invisíveis e inaudíveis, que ao entrarem em movimento produzem realidades, im.pactos.
Aprendizados a partir de experiências turísticas memoráveis com vistas ao turismo sustentável
Authors: Garlet Valéria , Grellmann Camila Pascotini , Madruga Lúcia Rejane da Rosa Gama
Published: May 2022

Ao praticar o turismo, as pessoas têm a oportunidade de garantir experiências valiosas e transformadoras: as experiências turísticas memoráveis. Além disso, o turismo também é ocasião para a prática da sustentabilidade e respeito ao meio ambiente e todos os seres vivos. Esta pesquisa visa identificar aprendizados a partir das experiências turísticas memoráveis com vistas ao turismo sustentável, e se baseia nas dimensões da experiência turística memorável de Kim (2009). O estudo tem abordagem qualitativa, analisada por meio das respostas de duas perguntas abertas sobre aprendizados, a partir das experiências dos turistas e mudanças no comportamento após a viagem. Em uma amostra de 421 participantes, sendo que 271 respondentes, eles indicaram mudança no comportamento e, destes, 241 descreveram aprendizados. Os aprendizados mais significativos envolveram o autoconhecimento, o interesse por novas culturas, a preocupação com o meio ambiente, a valorização das diferenças socioculturais, as mudanças de comportamento após a experiência turística, o apreço pela novidade e a relevância às pessoas que fazem parte da viagem. A sustentabilidade esteve presente nos depoimentos de muitos respondentes, especialmente com relação ao cuidado com o meio ambiente, preservação da natureza e respeito às diferenças. Palavras-chave: viagens turísticas memoráveis, aprendizados, turismo sustentável.
Percursos no Afuá
Authors: Mesquita Fernando
Published: May 2022

As fotografias a seguir, foram produzidas no âmbito de pesquisa realizada nos anos de 2015 e 2016 na qual abordei a temática da identificação e valoração do patrimônio cultural edificado e tive Afuá, cidade do Pará, localizada ao norte do arquipélago do Marajó, como exemplo de reflexões sobre bens passíveis de reconhecimento, para além das características presentes nos sítios já protegidos no Norte do Brasil.
An Alternate Technique for Goniotomy: Description of Procedure and Preliminary Results
Authors: Shute Thomas , Green Wesley , Liu James , Sheybani Arsham
Published: May 2022

Purpose: Multiple glaucoma treatment modalities seek to lower IOP by bypassing or removing a portion of the juxtacanalicular trabecular meshwork. These procedures often require expensive implants or specialized surgical instruments. The authors developed a technique for ab interno goniectomy utilizing a standard disposable 25-gauge hypodermic needle. The surgical procedure—termed bent ab interno needle goniectomy (BANG)—and preliminary results are presented here.
Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed for all patients who underwent goniotomy using a modified hypodermic needle by one of the three authors between July 2017 and June 2018. The mean and standard deviation pre- and postoperative IOP and the number of glaucoma medications were calculated. The student paired t-test was used to compare pre- and postoperative data. A P-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: At postoperative month six, the mean IOP was 13.3 ± 2.5 mmHg (P = 3.6 × 10−7) on 0.5 ± 0.8 topical glaucoma medications (P = 0.01). A ≥20% reduction in IOP was achieved in 73% of patients. Seventy-three percent of patients required ≥1 fewer medication, while 73% of patients required no medications for IOP control. Forty-one percent of those treated achieved IOP ≤12 mmHg.
Conclusion: The BANG procedure is a low-cost MIGS technique available to surgeons around the world with preliminary outcomes similar to more expensive alternatives.
Biogas Production from Wheat Straw using Textile Industrial Wastewater by Co-digestion Process: Experimental and Kinetic Study
Authors: RANİ Punam , BANSAL Megha , PATHAK Vinayak Vandan
Published: May 2022

In the present experimental study, anaerobic co-digestion of wheat straw with textile industry wastewater (TIWW) was evaluated for biogas production. Anaerobic digestion systems were operated at ambient temperature (28-30 ºC) for 20 days. Five different ratios of wastewater with distilled water were added to wheat straw inoculated with cow dung operating in five digesters. Time-rate derivative models, including Gompertz’s model and its related extensions, were used to represent yields. It has been found that the slurry containing wheat straw and cow dung digested with 75% diluted wastewater has the maximum production, while the slurry digested with only wastewater (not diluted with distilled water) has minimum production.
An approach to the assessment of carbon reservesin KHMAO-Yugra using carbon maps
Authors: Bredihin Arsenty I.
Published: May 2022

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra has a large area of forest territories. And forest vegetation, like any vegetation, naturally dies sooner or later, as a result of which carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere from organic matter. This fact leads to an increase in the greenhouse effect and an increase in global warming.

In order to prevent an increase in global temperature, it is necessary to estimate the carbon stock in the form of the amount of plant biomass, since more than 90% of the territory of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra (KhMAO-Yugra) is covered with forests.

One of the ways to assess plant biomass is to create so-called carbon maps using remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing) and machine learning methods.

This paper provides an overview of existing solutions in the field of remote sensing and machine learning aimed at creating carbon maps. Based on this review, a research program has been proposed that will allow us to develop an approach that allows us to obtain a digital carbon map of the KhMAO with a given accuracy.
Reflexive essay about a piece of music as a way to develop the creative potential of students
Authors: Gilmanov Sergey A. , Zelenaya Alina V.
Published: May 2022

The subject of the study is the influence of writing a reflexive essay about a listened piece of music on the development of a person's creative potential. The purpose is a theoretical substantiation of the possibility of developing the creative potential of a person when writing reflexive essays and empirical confirmation of the proposed approach based on data from a pilot study conducted at the Children's art school in Khanty-Mansiysk (n=22). The theoretical methods of research were analysis, generalization, systematization. Empirical methods: experiment, testing, qualitative analysis of the texts of the essays of the investigated.

The authors conduct a brief analysis of methods for determining the level of creative potential and justify the possibility of using the survey method. The conditions that must be observed when selecting works and writing essays are described. Arguments are given in favor of the fact that writing an essay is not an interpretation of a musical work, and listening to the work itself is not part of psychotherapeutic methods. The results of the pilot study are presented, which with a certain probability indicate that the writing of the essay had an impact on the development of the creative potential of the person.
Factores que influyeron en las exportaciones de la leche evaporada con partida arancelaria 0402911000 hacia el mercado de los Estados Unidos durante el periodo 2008-2018
Authors:   , Rojas Lizana Claudia Nicol , Collins Salazar Christopher Alvaro
Published: May 2022

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo principal determinar los factores que influyeron en las exportaciones de la leche evaporada con partida arancelaria 0402911000 hacia el mercado de los Estados Unidos durante el periodo 2008-2018. La metodología que se usó para el estudio fue de tipo descriptiva, con diseño no experimental, con un corte longitudinal y con un enfoque mixto al intervenir variables cualitativas y cuantitativas, tales como las medidas sanitarias y fitosanitarias, el valor FOB y la producción. El principal resultado en el enfoque cualitativo fue el grado de influencia de las exigentes medidas sanitarias que impactó en el desempeño de las exportaciones al mercado estadounidense, debido a que, las normas norteamericanas difieren de las normas internacionales. Por otro lado, en el enfoque cuantitativo, el hallazgo en la competitividad del valor FOB ha favorecido las exportaciones hacia el mercado estadounidense. Sin embargo, en la producción, pese a que se cuenta con la materia prima necesaria para abastecer mercados internacionales, la falta de apoyo por parte del Estado para orientar a los productores es la causa de fondo del porque no se ha llegado a la competitividad esperada. La población de estudio está conformada por 16 gerentes y jefes de las empresas Gloria y Nestlé; En donde se aplicó entrevistas semiestructuradas a expertos como instrumento de recolección de datos. El estudio pretende responder si las normas de etiquetado son una barrera al comercio, y si la competitividad del valor FOB y la producción contribuye a las exportaciones.
Experiencias de sentido de vida en el ingreso al movimiento Hare Krishna
Authors:   , Jordan Villena Alexandra
Published: May 2022

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo comprender las experiencias de sentido de vida de los ingresantes al movimiento Hare Krishna. El enfoque empleado para esta investigación fue de tipo cualitativo con un diseño fenomenológico Se entrevistó a 5 ingresantes a la comunidad, tres varones y dos mujeres entre 26 y 36 años. Así mismo, se optó por un análisis de contenido, que dio a vislumbrar cuatro categorías; crisis existencial, valores creativos, actitudinales y vivenciales. Los resultados mostraron que los participantes expresaron que experimentaron el sentido de vida cuando ingresaron a la comunidad. Describen situaciones que ellos afirman como reveladoras y de respuestas a sus inquietudes e insatisfacciones.
Yachatsikuqkuna niyashkan: creencias y atribuciones causales de docentes de escuelas rurales de Áncash (Perú) sobre la Evaluación de Desempeño Docente
Authors:   , Mamani Diaz Yenifer Yeritza , Vasquez Palero Waldir Francheshcoly
Published: May 2022

En Latinoamérica, en los últimos años, se han aplicado evaluaciones de desempeño docente. Dado ese contexto, en algunos países como Chile y México, se ha evidenciado una actitud negativa de los docentes y de incertidumbre frente a esta evaluación (Schulmeyer, 2002). En el caso peruano, por ejemplo, en el 2017, aproximadamente 238 mil docentes realizaron una de las huelgas magisteriales más grandes, donde reclamaron la derogatoria de la EDD (Fowks, 2017). Esta situación internacional evidencia la importancia de investigar las diversas aristas de esta problemática. En ese marco, se realizó esta investigación con el objetivo de explorar las creencias y las atribuciones causales que los docentes de escuelas bilingües rurales-multigrado de Nivel Primaria de la región Áncash manejan sobre esta evaluación. Se eligieron las creencias y las atribuciones causales como elementos teóricos, porque ambos son constructos que son complmentarias y que permiten estudiar las percepciones acerca de un fenómeno. A partir de ello, se realizó este estudio cualitativo con una aproximación fenomenológica y se utilizaron algunas herramientas de la teoría fundamentada. Luego de definir este presupuesto metodológico, se llevaron a cabo cinco entrevistas semiestructuradas a docentes de este tipo de escuelas. Después del análisis, se evidenció que los participantes asumen que su experiencia en aula, su preparación y su formación inicial constituyen causales de éxito o fracaso al momento de afrontar la EDD. Asimismo, se identificó cierto nivel de desconfianza en cuanto a la finalidad de la evaluación, ya que se halló que algunos docentes creen que esta evaluación probablemente busque el despido de los docentes. Por último, se encontró que algunos docentes creen que algunas características de sus estudiantes de las escuelas en las que trabajan y el tiempo asignado a la evaluación influirían en su desempeño al momento de afrontar la EDD.
Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Relations and Women Empowerment in Smallholder Farm Households: Evidence from Zimbabwe
Authors: Mahofa Godfrey , Sukume Chrispen , Mutyasira Vine
Published: May 2022

Agricultural commercialisation has been identified as an important part of the structural transformation process, as the economy grows from subsistence to highly commercialised entities that rely on the market for both inputs and for the sale of crops. However, this process is likely to leave some sections of society behind, particularly women. Little empirical evidence is available in sub-Saharan Africa that examines the relationship between commercialisation and women’s empowerment. This paper fills this gap and uses data from two rounds of surveys of smallholder farmers conducted in Zimbabwe to show that agricultural commercialisation reduces women’s empowerment, while crop diversification improves women’s empowerment.
Lina Kostenko jako scenarzystka „Sprawdźcie swoje zegarki — kto powróci, pokocha do końca”. Scenariusz i film
Authors: Briukhovetska Larysa
Published: May 2022

Why did Arkady Dobrovolsky and Lina Kostenko, the talented authors of the critically-acclaimed screenplay Check Your Watches, take their names out from the credits of Leonid Osyka’s film Who Return, Will Love to the End based on their screenplay? Using archival materials analysis, this article shows collisions that revolved around Kostenko’s notorious work between 1964–1966 at the Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv.
New challenges to online learning: Ethical aspect
Authors:   Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University n.a. V.P. Astafiev, Lobanova Nina I. , Logunova Larisa V.
Published: May 2022

The article is devoted to the study of ethical challenges arising in the field of higher education, due to a shift of education to distance learning. This task is carried out based on a study of the results of the survey of students of the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafiev and analysis of educational practices used by teachers in distance learning and analysis of students’ behaviors in the situation of total e-learning. The study addresses two sets of problems: 1) ethical problems of teaching staff caused by their work in an electronic university environment, 2) ethical problems of the student audience in the context of distance learning. The analysis identifies some issues that need to be addressed, namely: 1) a new value and normative environment need to be created, taking into account the changes brought about by the transformations of the education system in the digitization process, increasing attention not only to the ethical, but also to the etiquette aspect of personal behavior in virtual space; 2) there is a need to investigate the transformations of pedagogical communication in a shift from offline to online format and related ethical issues.
Phenomenon of “soft power” and some of its aspects in the foreign policy of Uzbekistan
Authors:   zbek State University of World Languages, Saidov Sanjar Sh.
Published: May 2022

The scientific article examines the factor of “soft power” and its features in the modern system of international relations. Based on scientific analysis, it is noted that “soft power” is associated with a number of regulatory, institutional, information and human resources. The study also focused on the use of “soft power” in Uzbekistan’s foreign policy. It was noted that the full implementation of “soft power” meets the geopolitical interests of not only Uzbekistan, but the entire region.
Diseño de marca respaldo de calidad para empoderar a madres de familia de 25 a 30 años de edad para combatir las limitaciones en el desarrollo personal a causa del abandono de estudios escolares secundarios
Authors: Loconi Stefany
Published: May 2022

La participación de la mujer forma parte importante para el desarrollo de las sociedades y sistemas. A través del tiempo, ellas han luchado por sus derechos en la sociedad, desde la economía, la educación, entre otros sectores.
En ese sentido, ¿cómo generar una mayor participación y mejores oportunidades para las mujeres en nuestra sociedad? Habría que pensar en empoderar a las mujeres, sobre todo en los ámbitos más vulnerables, y brindarles herramientas que les permitan alcanzar mayores niveles de desarrollo personal. De esta manera, las actividades que realizan incrementarán su valor, y ellas se sentirán capaces de avanzar y enfrentar las adversidades.
Programas de capacitación, formativos, de inserción laboral, de salud, son algunos de los mecanismos que incentivan a más mujeres a alcanzar sus metas, y demostrar lo que pueden lograr cuando se sienten empoderadas y libres.
Para contribuir con este gran objetivo, Mujer Talento es un proyecto que ayuda a mujeres con pocas oportunidades laborales, sociales, educativas y económicas a desarrollar sus habilidades e incrementar el alcance y productividad de sus pequeñas empresas. A través de asesorías y capacitaciones, las mujeres beneficiadas por Mujer Talento reciben un nuevo enfoque para potenciar sus habilidades y generar nuevas y mejores fuentes de ingreso para ellas y sus familias. Mujer Talento es una nueva alternativa de educación no convencional que les permitirá adquirir los conocimientos necesarios para emprender y hacer crecer su propio negocio.
Publication of scientific journals in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2001–2010
Authors: Panchenko A. M. , Timofeeva Yu. V.
Published: May 2022

The publication of scientific journals performs a number of functions, including that of state importance, which, in turn, embrace the country image formation and determination of its place on the international arena by demonstrating the level of scientific and economic potential development of the State. Therefore, the process of publishing and studying scientific journals is an actual task. This article considers the publication of scientific journals in SB RAS in the period of 2001–2010 thereby clarifying and complementing to the picture of the regional and all-Russian scientific book publishing. The source base is representative as, based on the current archives of the Siberian enterprise “Science” RAS (printing house No. 4) and the Siberian publishing company “Nauka” of RAS, the analysis of normative-legislative documents, prepared by the Presidium of SB RAS and the Scientific-Publishing Council of SB RAS, regulating organizational and financial aspects of the Branch activities for the publication of scientific journals in the period under study, has been made. Besides, all issues of the weekly newspaper SB RAS “Science in Siberia” for the period of 2001– 2010, 24 scientific journals published by the Publishing House of SB RAS (ISO RAS), which founder was SB RAS together with institutes, as well as scientific journals published in scientific institutes and institutions of SB RAS, universities, private publishing houses have been viewed. The role of the Scientific-Publishing Council of SB RAS (INSO SB RAS) as a permanent advisory body of SB RAS Presidium, which formed and implemented into practice the strategic tasks of publishing, is presented. The discrepant role of English-language versions of journals, which, on the one hand, contribute to the entry of Russian science on the international arena and its integration into the global science, present its results to the world community, forming a positive image of the country, on the other hand, demand considerable labor and financial expenses, is disclosed. The obtained data allow revealing and characterizing the basic structural divisions of SB RAS publishing and printing base for issuing scientific journals (Publishing House of SB RAS, publishing houses of scientific centers, institutes and institutions of SB RAS, universities), and composing the list of private publishing houses, attracted by the Branch for these objectives.
Actuality and significance of translated literature for children
Authors: Turdieva K. S.
Published: May 2022

There exist many problems challenging the translator of literature for children. On the one hand, the obligatory condition is an exact transformation of the sense and idea of the work of literature. On the other hand, the translator should avoid “formal word-for-word”. Besides, it is impossible to “take liberties” with the text of the original. The translation must be sated with the national colour of the original, which could permit any speaking another language reader to conceive style peculiarities of the author being translated. This article is about the relevance and importance of translated foreign literature for children in Uzbekistan in the period of 1991–2021. The author has chosen for the analysis books for children, issued at the initiative of the center of Asian culture with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republics of Central Asia. The article also analyzes the translated fiction for children, published on the pages of the journal “Jahon adabiyoti” (The World Literature). The author focuses attention on works which: are original in content, have a communicative effect, contribute to broadening horizons of young readers and enrich their spiritual world. Using the example of translated into Uzbek foreign literature for children, the author tries to find an answer to the question: what is remarkable and actual in translated literature for children in the space of intercultural interaction. Problems of the relevance and importance of translated literature for children, were discussed at the International Scientific Conference “The 12th Makushin Readings” (Tyumen, May 25-27, 2021).
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Authors:   University of Dundee, Jindal-Snape Divya , Murray Chris , Keiller Andrew , Kelly Lynn , Langlands-Scott Judith , Snape Anj , Snape Jonathan B. , Snape Nik , Warden Freddie , Whittingham Bryan , Herd Damon , Balson Elliot , Dominiak Zu , Horner Rebecca , Larkin Ashling , Millar Norrie , Robinson Helen , Wilson Letty , Baldacchino John , Mintoff Marilyn
Published: May 2022

Milux, psikologu li jispeċjalizza fl-uġigħ qalli li għandu jsir ħafna aktar sabiex iktar professjonisti li jaħdmu fis-saħħa jsiru konxji dwar il-fibromijalġja. Meta tqabbel ma’ dak li konna nafu saħansitra sentejn ilu, bil-progress li sar fir-riċerka, issa nistgħu nifhmu aħjar x’inhi l-fibromijalġja. Madankollu, m’hemmx ċertezza sakemm it-tabib, il-fiżjoterapista, jew professjonisti oħra jkollhom għarfien sħiħ ta’ din il-kundizzjoni kumplessa. Kultant qisha lotterija. Darba kont fis-sodda nsofri bl-uġigħ u bdejt naħseb kif nista’ noħloq komik dwar din il-kundizzjoni. Bgħatt emails lil xi wħud li kont naf, u dawn kitbuli lura, jgħiduli li jridu jaħdmu miegħi fuq dan il-proġett. Dan il-komik huwa miktub u ddisinjat bl-għan li jqajjem kuxjenza dwar il-fibromijalġja fost professjonisti, familji, u komunitajiet. Jagħtina stampa tal-bidliet kontinwi fil-ħajja ta’ dawk li għandhom il-fibromijalġja u kif ukoll dwar l-impatt li dan iħalli fuq dawk qrib tagħhom. Jitfa’ dawl u jenfasizza l-importanza ta’ gruppi u netwerks ta’ appoġġ li jgħinu n-nies jadattaw għal ħafna bidliet li ġġib il-fibromijalġja, u sabiex dawn xorta jkomplu jiffjorixxu minkejja l-isfidi u l-konsegwenzi sostanzjali li jaffaċċjaw.
Breeding biology of the White-winged Robin Peneothello sigillata, endemic to montane New Guinea
Authors:   Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia, Donaghey Richard
Published: May 2022

I studied the breeding biology of the high-elevation montane White-winged Robin Peneothello sigillata (Petroicidae) at Kumul Lodge, southern slope of Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea, from 2 October to 17 November 2011. Three nests were watched for 18 hours during incubation; each had one egg. Female daylight incubation constancy (percentage of daylight hours spent in incubation) was 73%, the mean duration of incubation sessions was 3.35 minutes and mean absence from the nest was 1.33 minutes, the daily number of incubation sessions was 150 (12.5 per hour), feeding of the incubating female by the male at the nest was 4.6 times/hour, and the total number of nest visits by both male and female during incubation was 17.1/hour. The 100% egg-success in this species suggests that these incubation reproductive traits evolved more in response to food availability and perhaps food limitation than a high risk of nest predation. Nestling care by the female included brooding and the feeding of the young. Nestling care by males included delivering food to the female and feeding the nestling. Both the male and the female removed faecal sacs. Mean brooding constancy (percentage of time spent brooding) was 43.3% for the entire 17–21-day nestling period. Mean number of food-delivery trips by both the male and the female over the entire nestling period was 7.2/hour/nestling and the total number of nest visits by both the male and the female was 17.6/hour. Two nests were attended solely by the breeding pairs, and cooperative breeding, with one immature helper, occurred at one other nest. During the nestling stage, the high nest success, coupled with high nest visitation, suggests that the risk of nest predation is low. Peak nestling growth (to >90% of adult weight) occurred at 10–13 days of age. To elucidate the breeding strategy of the White-winged Robin, its reproductive traits are discussed and compared with those of other robins of New Guinea, tropical northern Australia, and temperate Australia and New Zealand.
Towards Efficient and Deposit-Free Blockchain-Based Spatial Crowdsourcing
Authors: Li Mingzhe , Wang Wei , Zhang Jin
Published: May 2022

Spatial crowdsourcing emerges as a new computing paradigm that enables mobile users to accomplish spatio- temporal tasks in order to solve human-intrinsic problems. Existing crowdsourcing systems critically use centralized servers for interacting with workers and making task assignment decisions. These systems are hence susceptible to issues such as the single point of failure and the lack of operational transparency. Prior work, therefore, turns to blockchain-based decentralized crowdsourcing systems, yet still suffers from problems of lacking efficient task assignment scheme, requiring a deposit to an untrusted system, low block generation speed, and high transaction fees. To address these issues, we design a blockchain-based decentralized framework for spatial crowdsourcing, which we call SC-EOS. Our system does not rely on any trusted servers, while providing efficient and user-customizable task assignment, low monetary cost, and fast block generation. More importantly, it frees users from making a deposit into an untrusted system. Our framework can also be extended and applied to generic crowdsourcing systems. We implemented the proposed system on the EOS blockchain. Trace-driven evaluations involving real users show that our system attains the comparable task assignment performance against a clairvoyant scheme. It also achieves 10× cost savings than an Ethereum-based implementation.
Transposable Elements in Human Diseases: Evolutionary and Therapeutic Perspectives
Authors: Shah Kavi , Berkyurek Ahmet C.
Published: May 2022

Transposable elements (TEs) ubiquitously exist in the human genome, and some have the ability to copy and paste themselves to other locations, resulting in new insertions. Organisms have evolved with mechanisms and machineries to repress such activity. TEs are also co-opted for beneficial functions by the host and are thus maintained in the genome. During the lifetime of humans, aberrant TE activity might cause or contribute towards diseases including neurological conditions such as Alzheimers Disease (AD) and cancer. While inflammatory pathways linked to TEs may be a part of the disease pathology, on the other hand altered TE activity involving inflammatory pathways could be recognised by disease suppression mechanisms. For this reason, TEs could be targeted for therapeutic applications aiming to prevent TE activity or reduce initial inflammatory pathways as well as to activate disease suppression mechanisms. In this review, we describe the contributory and potential preventative roles of TEs in neurological conditions and cancer from a molecular and evolutionary perspective. Evolutionary paradigms both at the unicellular and organismal level aid understanding the role of TEs in disease. These observations could pave the way for the development of novel therapeutic approaches targeting TEs.
Evolution of Brains and Computers: The Roads not Taken
Authors: Sole Ricard , Seoane Luis
Published: May 2022

When computers start to become a dominant part of technology around the 1950s, fundamental questions about reliable designs and robustness were of great relevance. Their development gave rise to the exploration of new questions such as what made brains reliable (since neurons can die) and how computers could get inspiration from neural systems. In parallel, the first Artificial Neural Networks came to life. Since then, the comparative view between brains and computers has been developed in new, sometimes unsuspected directions. With the rise of deep learning and the development of connectomics, an evolutionary look at how both hardware and neural complexity have evolved or designed is required. In this paper, we argue that important similarities have resulted both from convergent evolution (the inevitable outcome of architectural constraints) and inspiration of hardware and software principles guided by toy pictures of neurobiology. Moreover, dissimilarities and gaps originate from the lack of major innovations that have paved the way to biological computing (including brains) that are completely absent within the artificial domain. As it occurs within synthetic biocomputation, we can also ask whether alternative minds can emerge from A.I.\ designs. Here we take an evolutionary view of the problem and discuss the remarkable convergences between living and artificial designs and what are the pre-conditions to achieve artificial intelligence.
Gal-3BP in Viral Infections: An Emerging Role in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
Authors: Gallo Valentina , Arienzo Alyexandra , Iacobelli Stefano , Iacobelli Valentina , Antonini Giovanni
Published: May 2022

Gal-3BP is a multifunctional glycoprotein involved in cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions known to be upregulated in cancer and various viral infections, including HIV-1, HCV and SARS-CoV-2, with a key role in regulating the antiviral immune response. Studies have identified a direct correlation between circulating levels of Gal-3BP and the severity of disease and/or disease progression for some viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2, suggesting a role of Gal-3BP in these processes. Due to Gal-3BP’s complex biology, the molecular mechanisms underlying its role in viral diseases have been only partially clarified. Gal-3BP induces the expression of IFN and pro-inflammatory cytokines, including interleukin-6, mainly interacting with galectin-3, targeting TRAF-6 and TRAF-3 complex, thus having a putative role in the modulation of TGF-β signaling. In addition, an antiviral activity of Gal-3BP has been ascribed to a direct interaction of the protein with virus components. In this review, we explored the role of Gal-3BP in viral infections and the relationship between Gal-3BP upregulation and disease severity and progression, mainly focusing on SARS-CoV-2. Augmented knowledge of Gal-3BP role in virus infections can be useful to evaluate its possible use as a prognostic biomarker and as a putative target to block or attenuate severe disease.
Medical Education: Patients‘ Perspectives on Clinical Training and Informed Consent
Authors: Santos Inês Gil , Santos Cristina Costa , Duarte Ivone
Published: May 2022

There are complex ethical dilemmas inherent in medicine teaching, particularly in clinical prac-tice involving actual patients. Questions must be raised on fulfilling medical students' training needs while still respecting patients' fundamental rights to autonomy and privacy. We aimed to assess patients' perspectives regarding medical students' involvement in their medical care. An observational, cross-sectional study was developed, and an interview-like questionnaire was ap-plied randomly to patients waiting for a consult/admitted to three distinct departments: General Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, and Infectious Diseases. Of the 77% interviewed patients who reported previous experiences with medical students, only 59% stated that they were asked for consent for their participation and 28% that students had adequately introduced themselves. Pa-tients from Gynaecology/Obstetrics were the ones who reported lower rates of these practices and were also the ones who were most bothered by students' presence, stating that they would refuse students' participation in the future. Male patients received more explanations than female pa-tients regarding the same matters. 35% of patients stated they would feel more comfortable without the medical students' presence. The study shows a need to pay closer attention to ful-filling patients' fundamental rights.