bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
nalysis of Government Measures for Economic Support in the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis: The Case of Northern Macedonia
Authors: Azizi Abdula , Shala Sabiha , Leka Dukagjin
Published: November 2023

The beginning of 2020 brought a new and surprising direction for countries all over the world, especially for their economies. This is a result of the declaration of a state of emergency or civil emergency by governments to deal with pandemics caused by Covid19. As a result, governments passed decisions restricting the free movement of citizens and their rights, particularly disabling the right to work. These austerity measures attacked workers and businesses, resulting in large-scale layoffs, staggering unemployment, business closures, and so on. Restrictive measures that had the logic of preserving public health, but attacked the country's economy, forced governments to seek solutions to the consequences of this situation, especially measures to mitigate the negative effect on the country's economy. The paper aims to analyze the measures of economic support of the Government of the Republic of Northern Macedonia (RNM), which it has approved in several cycles to deal with the crisis caused by the state of emergency. Exactly how did these measures affect the mitigation of the negative effect on the country's economy, how effective and appropriate were they, and did they serve to mitigate the consequences of anti-covid measures? However, in the framework of this paper, we will not analyze the political effect of decisions about the protection of public health. Specifically, government economic packages for financial support of workers will be analyzed, which were conceived to mitigate the negative effects caused by the implementation of measures for the protection of harsh public health. Anti-Covid19 measures, with serious consequences on the business sector and the socio-economic status of citizens. The paper has its limitations in time and territory, so it focuses on the analysis of government measures as long as the state of emergency lasted. This paper will use descriptive, historical, analytical, comparative, and empirical methods (citizen surveys). The paper concludes the effect of economic measures in conditions of civil emergency and the level of their implementation in practice. As a result of the analysis of measures for economic support, it results that the government was late in implementing them in practice, while the same is considered insufficient to deal with the crisis. Delayed political decisions on economic measures, non-immediate inclusion of all categories in need of financial support, their delayed implementation, and the political effect of some decisions by the President and the Government in certain cases were not within the framework of socioeconomic support and public health. Finally, the paper brings as a novelty the conclusion that government measures in such cases should be used correctly without distorting them, respecting deadlines, and finding the right institutional path to their users.
aštita ljudskih prava pod krivičnim procesnim pravom u Bosni i Hercegovini, sa posebnim osvrtom na pravo na pravično suđenje
Authors: Trlin Davor , Beslija Emina
Published: November 2023

Ovaj rad ispituje uticaj jedinstvenih standarda ljudskih prava u međunarodnim konvencijama na krivične procese u Bosni i Hercegovini identifikuje faktore svojstvene bosanskohercegovačkom sistemu koji utiču na obim međunarodnih standarda i način na koji se oni primjenjuju u bosanskohercegovačkom kontekstu. Na prihvatanje međunarodnih osnovnih prava i sloboda u krivičnom procesu utiču tri sveobuhvatna pitanja: ustavna uređenja, pravna tradicija i kultura i praktične okolnosti. Ne postoji jednoobrazna implementacija konvencijskih standarda; čak i u Evropi u kojoj Evropska konvencija o ljudskim pravima i osnovnim slobodama i sudska praksa Evropskog suda igraju značajnu ulogu, još uvijek postoji mnogo različitosti u stvarnoj primjeni međunarodnih normi zbog uticaja pravnih tradicija. U ovom radu će se analizirati koji je domašaj pravila iz Evropske konvencije za zaštitu ljudskih prava i osnovnih sloboda u krivičnom procesnom pravu u BiH, te da li su domaće sudije i tužioci naučili da ispravo primjenjuju Konvenciju. Istražiće se i najkrupniji nedostaci u postupanju pravosudnih organa, a koji su, po mišljenu autora, suprotni sa praksom Ustavnog suda BiH i Evropskog suda za ljudska prava. Cilj rada je istražiti koji je domašaj i opseg člana 6. Evropske konvencije za zaštitu ljudskih prava i osnovnih sloboda u pravnom sistemu BiH. S tim u vezi, koristiće se normativni metoda kao osnovni, ali i komparativni, kao pomoćmi, posebno u smislu stavova koje je kreirao (u odnosu na druge države) Evropski sud za ljudska prava.
A Chronological Perspective on the Studies of Turkisms Conducted in Balkan Languages
Authors: YÜCEL Doğan
Published: November 2023

Turkisms in the Balkan languages continue to be an essential research subject since Karadzic published the first Serbian Dictionary in 1818. Turkisms studies have been compared to countries where the studies were published, the researchers' nationalities, and the studies' languages in tables. We have evaluated total of 1392 research in this study. Turkism researchers published the highest number of studies in the Turkish and Bulgarian languages. Turkisms in six Balkan languages were published in 17 languages by researchers from 21 nationalities in 35 different countries. While evaluating the studies, they have been handled in five different periods according to the Balkans' significant political events during the last two centuries. We have classified studies according to 33 subtitles under four categories. These four categories are detection and collecting, classification, evaluation and analysis, and current frequency measurement and revitalization of Turkisms. The method used in this study is the same as the method used by Yücel in his six published bibliography studies. Turkism studies classified are based in this study on Yücel's six studies given in the bibliography.
Seed Vigor of Soybean Treated by Corona Discharge Plasma
Authors: Lin Lianfeng , Liang Runing , Liu Xin , Zhang Dan , Wang Mingzhe , Zhao Wenhao , Tang Xiaojiang , Li Baoxia , Shi Guannan , Chen Wenzhuo , Guo Junwei , Robert Eric , Huang Feng
Published: November 2023

There is a huge gap between the output and demand of soybean in China. How to improve the seed vigor of soybean has always been a research focus. Low temperature plasma (LTP) is a new green technology, which is widely used in crop seed treatment. Corona plasma is a typical discharge mode of plasma, which can affect the vigor of seeds. The effect of different discharge power on the soybean seed vigor by plasma treatment was experimentally investigated. Plasma discharge characteristic wavelength and spatial distribution were analysed. It shows that the corona discharge spectrum mainly exhibits the strong ultraviolet radiation and 90% of the spectral intensity focused in the center of discharge region. Water absorption and germination index of seeds and the fresh weight of seedlings were used to characterize the specific effects caused by different plasma powers. The results show that plasma treatment has a significant effect on the early stage of germination and can significantly affect the soybean seed vigor and growth. Overdose treatment will cause inhibiting effect. This study provides an experimental basis for the practical agriculture application of corona plasma seed treatment.
Znaczenie ojca w wychowaniu dziecka w młodszym wieku szkolnym
Authors: Reczek-Zymróz Łucja
Published: November 2023

The text addresses the relevance of fathers in the upbringing of children at an early age in an era of cultural and social change linked to globalization, medialization and technicization. The aim is to show what values modern fathers subscribe to, what role they play in the family and which areas of activity with children are their favorite. A total of 200 fathers of early school-age children participated in the survey (interview, conducted in Poland between 2018 and 2020.
Kryzys nieletniego i rodziny w kontekście umieszczenia w zakładzie poprawczym
Authors: Perska-Gradowska Paulina
Published: November 2023

A juvenile’s punishable act may be perceived as a source of crisis and a consequence of remaining in a crisis, and the adjudication of a corrective measure against a minor and placement in a correctional facility is a critical life event, with consequences for both the minor and his family. The consequences include, for example, the disorganization of the current way of functioning of the family, a change in the educational environment, a sense of threat to the juvenile’s identity, and the loosening of family ties. From this perspective, an important task is to provide the juvenile and his family with appropriate support (institutional, information, psychological) to solve the crisis positively. One of the possibilities is to take action in the field of crisis intervention and specialist counseling. The crisis related to being placed in a correctional facility may be an opportunity for the juvenile and his family, especially in a situation where they want to receive help, and the functioning of the system and institutions will enable them to receive the necessary support.
Caracterização fenotípica e parâmetros genéticos de mirtáceas nativas da Floresta Atlântica
Authors: Ola Moreira Sarah , Zucoloto Moises , Alvarenga Barros Bruna Lara , De Oliveira Godinho Tiago , Garcia Malikouski Renan , Bravo Buffon Stanley
Published: November 2023

A avaliação de recursos genéticos de espécies frutíferas nativas da Floresta Atlântica é fundamental para a sua introdução em programas de conservação e de melhoramento genético. O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar a caracterização fenotípica e a avaliação de parâmetros genéticos e de correlações de frutos de acessos de araçaúna, cabeludinha, jabuticabeira e uvaieira, coletados em diferentes locais da Região Serrana do Estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil. Frutos de 44 matrizes das quatro espécies foram coletados em sete municípios e avaliados quanto ao tamanho e massa fresca dos frutos e rendimento em polpa, sementes e casca. Foi realizado o agrupamento das médias e obtidas as correlações fenotípicas, a herdabilidade, o coeficiente de variação genético e o índice de variação. Todas as espécies têm ampla variabilidade em tamanho de frutos e rendimento de polpa. Os parâmetros genéticos confirmam que a maior parte dessa variação é de natureza genética, indicando potencial para ganho genético por meio da seleção. As correlações entre tamanho e massa de frutos foram altas, por isso, o diâmetro pode ser utilizado para a seleção dos frutos mais pesados. A Região Serrana do Espírito Santo possui diversidade de acessos de Myrtaceae nativas da Floresta Atlântica que podem ser usados em trabalhos de pré-melhoramento.
Tribocorrosion in biomaterials and control techniques: a review
Authors: Puthillam Umanath , Selvam Renold Elsen
Published: November 2023

Tribocorrosion is getting more and more popular in biomaterials research. The synergism between wear and corrosion is creating deviations from the expected real-world results from individual corrosion or wear studies. The host body consisting of immune system and dissolved proteins makes them highly corrosive which makes the material selection a unique and challenging process for implant materials. The synergism between corrosion and wear leads to shorter implant life. The research on tribocorrosion has bought an insight into this phenomenon and presented ideas to arrest the premature failure of implants. This review focuses on the recent developments in tribocorrosion research and the effectiveness of remedial actions suggested by them. The influence of materials, processing methods and post-processing treatments are also reviewed in detail.
Cation-doping effects on the conductivities of the mayenite Ca12Al14O33
Authors: Song Xingping , Guo Yaqiong , Chen Wenzhuo , Hou Keke , Duan Xiaoxu , Xu Jungu
Published: November 2023

The mayenite Ca12Al14O33 material, owing to its oxide ion conducting behavior and the low cost of raw materials, has the potential of being applied in solid oxide fuel cells as an electrolyte. However, suffering from the relatively low oxide ion conductivity, there is still a long way to go for its practical application. To enhance the oxide ion conduction in Ca12Al14O33, many efforts have been endowed to this from different research groups but hardly succeeded. In this work, the Ca12Al14O33-based materials with Y, In, and Cu-doping on the Ca or Al sites were fabricated through a traditional solid-state reaction method (for Y-doping on Ca and Cu-doping on Al) or a glass-crystallization method (for In-doping on Al), with their electrical conductivities being studied. The results revealed that the solid solution regions of Ca12−x
Y
x
Al14O33+δ
, Ca12Al14−x
In
x
O33, and Ca12Al14−x
Cu
x
O33−δ
were 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15, 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.1, and 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.3, respectively. The electrical conductivities of all these doped materials were investigated.
“God Has Commanded Me”: A Spiritual Code of a Traditional Birth Attendance (TBA)
Authors: Zaluchu Sonny , Zaluchu Fotarisman
Published: November 2023

Many studies have demonstrated the significant involvement of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) during pregnancy and delivery. In several countries, including Indonesia, the role of the TBA cannot be easily replaced by Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs), reducing the capacity of the health sector to reduce the maternal mortality rate. The TBA has a religious and social connection with the community in her area which is often undervalued by the medically-trained SBA; this disconnect interferes with the provision of quality care. In this paper, with the use of a narrative approach, a TBA reveals her reflection and perspective as rooted in the community where she lives. This ethnography provides living evidence that the point of view of modern health professionals often fails when faced with the world view of the community. TBAs have social power that cannot be separated from the social context where they live. Therefore, an analysis of the religious aspects of a TBA’s practice should enrich the effort to decrease the maternal mortality rate. The religiosity of a community is closely connected with the community’s perspective on health.
A Pilgrim’s Performance: Practical Theology as Convening
Authors: Benac Dustin D.
Published: November 2023

Convening is a mode of practical theology inquiry that stages a counter-performance to the spectacle of prominent logics that order ecclesial life: brand Christianity, silos, and competition. Three parts organize this argument: Part I sets the stage with a preliminary portrait of convening, noting the contextual features of this inquiry. Part II introduces Augustine’s City of God as an interpretive lens to understand convening as a counter-performance to prominent spectacles on display. Part III redescribes convening by combining Augustine’s theological vision of spectacle, performance, latreia, and pilgrimage with the introductory portrait in order to perform what is possible when people of faith gather for collective inquiry.
A New-Old Spirituality: How Spirituality has Softened and Revitalized Religion
Authors: Kaufman Tone Stangeland
Published: November 2023

This article seeks to continue the unfolding of the tangled relationship of spirituality and religion but from the vantage point of Christianity (religion), and more specifically, from Christian practice and from the perspective of representatives of institutionalized religion (clergy) and rather unchurched participants in organized religious practice. While first-wave scholars argued that religion and spirituality are at odds with each other, second-wave scholars rather consider the relationship between the two more blurred and hybrid. Following the lead of this latter group of scholarship, I make the case that contemporary spirituality at the intersection of “individualized spirituality” and “institutionalized religion” can be understood as a new-old spirituality and that religion is being changed by spirituality. This entails that people are approaching old Christian practices in new ways and new places often urged by a new kind of motivation. By attending to issues of subjectivity and regarding experience as a significant source of authority without leaving the theistic framework of religion altogether, this new-old spirituality is available and attractive to constituencies as varied as clergy, children, incarcerated, and young people. Hence, it can be argued that religion is not only giving way to spirituality. Religion is also softened and revitalized by spirituality, as empirical studies in the Scandinavian countries show a resurgence and revitalization of religious practice, both inside and at the margins of institutionalized religion, and, thus, a sacralization of the congregational domain.
Die Qualifizierung zum „Wissenschaftlichen Dokumentar“ am Lehrinstitut für Dokumentation 1966 bis 1991 – berufsbegleitende Weiterbildung der DGD als Strukturmodell
Authors: Oßwald Achim
Published: November 2023

Die Konzeption und Entwicklung der Jahreslehrgänge für Wissenschaftliche Dokumentare am Lehrinstitut für Dokumentation (LID) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Dokumentation (DGD) im Zeitraum 1966–1991 wird dargestellt und analysiert. Strukturelle und statistische Aspekte sowie die Bedeutung dieser Weiterbildung für den Dokumentationsbereich in Deutschland und als Strukturmodell für berufsbegleitende Weiterbildungen werden angesprochen.
Fault diagnosis of electrical equipment based on virtual simulation technology
Authors: Chang Jing , Li Huiqin , Xiao Na , Singh Pavitar Parkash , Vats Prashant , Reddy Chinthalacheruvu Venkata Krishna
Published: November 2023

In order to efficiently and accurately diagnose train electrical faults, we propose a fault diagnosis method for electrical equipment based on virtual simulation technology. First, Creo software was used to build a subway train model. Then, 3DMAX software was used to make animation and demonstrate the working principle and action process of the train electrical system. Finally, using Unity 3D software, a human–computer interaction mechanism was established, achieving presence and realism. This system realizes the functions of knowledge learning, student assessment, principal display, and troubleshooting of the electrical system of subway trains and is compared with the method of manual diagnosis. Experimental results show that in the designed fault diagnosis system, the detection time for various types of faults is shorter than 30 s, whereas the diagnosis time of the manual diagnosis method is 30–52 s. It shows that the electrical equipment fault diagnosis system based on virtual simulation has the advantages such as short fault diagnosis time and high efficiency. In addition, the highest diagnostic accuracy of the manual diagnosis method is 75.48%, which is far lower than the accuracy of the diagnostic system. Conclusion: It is proved that the designed fault diagnosis system has the advantages such as short detection time and high accuracy and can meet the safety requirements of industrial production.
Global patterns and temporal trends in ovarian cancer morbidity, mortality, and burden from 1990 to 2019
Authors: Mazidimoradi Afrooz , Momenimovahed Zohre , Khani Yousef , Rezaei Shahrabi Armin , Allahqoli Leila , Salehiniya Hamid
Published: November 2023

Objectives

Ovarian cancer (OC) is the deadliest gynecological cancer in the world. Deeper knowledge over time is the basis for global studies to design and implement effective measures to reduce inequalities; this study was conducted to investigate the trend of OC incidence and management in the world from 1990 to 2019.

Methods

We obtained crude numbers and age-standardized rate (ASRs) of OC annually from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study to examine OC’s morbidity, mortality rates, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) based on age group, sociodemographic index (SDI), WHO regions, continents, World Bank regions, and GBD regions from 1990 to 2019 in 204 countries and territories. The relative change (%) and average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) were used to display the epidemiological trend.

Results

Globally, the number of OC incidents increased from 141,706 in 1990 to 294,422 in 2019. Despite the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) in regions with high SDI having a downward trend, these areas recorded the highest incidence cases and ASIR in 2019. Although the World Bank high-income level had the most frequent incidence cases and ASIR, the ASIR in these regions decreased from 1990 to 2019. Among the continents, Europe and America have the highest ASIR but experienced a decreasing trend from 1990 until 2019 in ASIR. The age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) in the World Bank high-income level experienced a decreasing trend in 1990–2019. In contrast, in the middle, low-middle, and low SDI regions, the death number increased approximately 3.5–4.1 times, and the ASMR had a significant increase from 0.5 in the middle to 0.75 in the low-middle SDI. Globally, the DALY cases of OC rose from 2,732,666 in 1990 to 5,359,737 in 2019; almost doubling. A significant decrease in the DALYs ASR was observed in seven GBD regions. The most pronounced decrease was found in Australia.

Conclusions

The trend of OC incidence and burden and approximate mortality were stable from 1990 to 2019; especially in lower socioeconomic areas and low-income countries; while the incidence ASR of this cancer in the high SDI regions decreased from 1990 to 2019. The key to reducing OC remains in primary prevention. Approaches such as weight loss, a healthy lifestyle and diet, promoting childbearing and breastfeeding, and recommending the use of oral contraceptives in eligible individuals can have a protective effect against this silent killer.
Integrative machine learning algorithms for developing a consensus RNA modification-based signature for guiding clinical decision-making in bladder cancer
Authors: Jia Shijun , Zhai Linhan , Wu Feng , Lv Wenzhi , Min Xiangde , Zhang Shuang , Li Feng
Published: November 2023

Objectives

Dysregulation of RNA modifications has emerged as a contributor to cancer, but the clinical implication of RNA modification-related genes remains largely unclear. The study focused on well-studied RNA modification modalities (m6A, m1A, m5C and m7G) in bladder cancer, and proposed a machine learning-based integrative approach for establishing a consensus RNA modification-based signature.

Methods

Multiple publicly available bladder cancer cohorts were enrolled. A novel RNA modification-based classification was proposed via consensus clustering analysis. RNA modification-related genes were subsequently selected through WGCNA. A machine learning-based integrative framework was implemented for constructing a consensus RNA modification-based signature.

Results

Most RNA modifiers were dysregulated in bladder tumours at the multi-omics levels. Two RNA modification clusters were identified, with diverse prognostic outcomes. A consensus RNA modification-based signature was established, which displayed stable and powerful efficacy in prognosis estimation. Notably, the signature was superior to conventional clinical indicators. High-risk tumours presented the activation of tumourigenic pathways, with the activation of metabolism pathways in low-risk tumours. The low-risk group was more sensitive to immune-checkpoint blockade, with the higher sensitivity of the high-risk group to cisplatin and paclitaxel. Genes in the signature: AKR1B1, ANXA1, CCNL2, OAS1, PTPN6, SPINK1 and TNFRSF14 were specially expressed in distinct T lymphocytes of bladder tumours at the single-cell level, potentially participating in T cell-mediated antitumour immunity. They were transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally modulated, and might become potentially actionable therapeutic targets.

Conclusions

Altogether, the consensus RNA modification-based signature may act as a reliable and hopeful tool for improving clinical decision-making for individual bladder cancer patients.
Hidden in plain sound: overlooked repetition in Just a Minute
Authors: Wray Alison
Published: November 2023

In the BBC Radio Four panel game Just a Minute (JaM), players must speak fluently for one minute without hesitation, deviation, or repetition. Other players challenge them and take over the remainder of the minute if successful. What impact do the JaM rules have on players’ spoken output? Study 1 compares twelve unchallenged JaM minutes with twelve sample minutes from an interview by the same speaker, Paul Merton. Although lower, his repetition rate in JaM is still >34%. Study 2 asks why so many repeated words go unchallenged. Analysis of 97 JaM rounds (18,500 words) from 12 complete episodes reveals that word class, word frequency, and the distance between mentions all play a role. The parameters of challenges in the game are modeled and there is consideration of why and how repetition occurs in a language and how the wider priorities of JaM as entertainment shape the linguistic patterns.
Las locuciones hiperbólicas
Authors: Martínez Inmaculada Penadés
Published: November 2023

In contrast to the case of metaphorical and metonymical idioms, there is no research specifically concerned with Spanish hyperbolic idioms. This article shows that it is possible to apply different definitions and characterizations of hyperbole to idioms that should be considered hyperbolic. The analysis is based on idiomaticity and is supported by the distinction between the literal and idiomatic meanings of these fixed expressions. In the conclusions, seven criteria are established to identify hyperbolic idioms, and the types are differentiated according to: 1) the conceptual mechanisms of metaphor and metonymy that explain their formation, 2) the form and meaning of their constituent parts, and 3) the semantic fields in which they are included. Finally, we point out the need to continue analyzing these types of idioms from both a theoretical and an applied perspective, in the latter case with a possible view to marking them as hyperbolic in dictionaries.
Zur Diachronie der Valenz von Verbphrasemen mit der Struktur Adjektiv + Kopula
Authors: Korhonen Jarmo
Published: November 2023

Some adjectives in the German language can only be used in connection with a copula verb (e. g., ansichtig werden and eingedenk sein/bleiben). Other adjectives can have different meanings, among which a particular meaning restricted to predicative use (i. a. bar sein). Since these constructions consist of an adjective and a fixed verb component, they can be classified as phrasemes or even as verb phrasemes. Verb phrasemes and one-word lexemes can demand a certain number of complements with a particular form and syntactic function and a certain meaning. The choice of the valency characteristics of phrasemes with a predicative adjective as the subject of this article is explained by the fact they have not yet been systematically analyzed concerning the diachronic perspective.

The research approach and method examine each phraseme in its valency occurrences, documenting these by examples found in historical and modern dictionaries as well as in corpora of different kinds from Old High German to Modern German. The valency occurrences consist of a combination of complements, which are recorded as so-called complete valency. Both the quantitative and qualitative variation of complements are contained in the complete valency and can therefore be called polyvalency. Quantitative polyvalency refers to the number of complements while qualitative polyvalency refers to the type of complements. Each combination of complements found in the research material is illustrated with an example. Finally, the quantitative and qualitative valency developments are summarized in a short commentary.
Molecular dynamics simulation on electrohydrodynamic atomization: Stable dripping mode by pre-load voltage
Authors: Bai Dongqiao , Huang Jin , Wang Jianjun , Jiang Shan , Gong Hongxiao , Liang Chaoyu
Published: November 2023

The electrohydrodynamic atomization (EHDA) process is a method of forming liquid droplets or jets in a solution under an electric field. Molecular dynamics simulations were used in this study to reveal the EHDA dripping mode at a microscopic level. In this study, we investigated whether a liquid contains ions under the influence of a 1 V·nm−1 electric field that affects the dipole direction of water molecules to explore the cause of the dripping mode. It was hypothesized that the presence of ions would disrupt the local electric field distribution, causing liquid rupture. Furthermore, we observed the jetting behavior under varying ion concentrations and identified jetting instability. To solve this problem, the pre-load voltage method was used to control the distribution of ions in the solution, thus effectively increasing the ion concentration at the nanotube opening. In this study, we also investigated the movement behavior of ions in solution under different pre-load voltages, leading to a stable dripping mode under different ion concentrations. This study offers microscale mechanism research perspectives for EHDA and can be used in future studies for parameter setting and optimization.
Unraveling the surface activity and micellization characteristics of linear alkyl benzene sulfonate in aqueous solution
Authors: Budhalakoti Bharti , Kothiyal Navin Chandra
Published: November 2023

The aggregation behavior of various neutralizing agents (monovalent and diamine bases) has been investigated for linear alkylbenzene sulfonate. Measurements employing conductivity at temperature (298.15 K, 303.15 K, 308.15 K, and 313.15 K) and surface tension at 298.15 K have been determined to study micellization and surface active properties. The conductivity versus concentration plot elucidated CMC and dissociation of counterion (α). Additionally, surface active parameters ϒCMC, A
min, π
CMC, and τ
max were investigated via tensiometry using the Wilhelmy plate procedure. The wettability characteristic of the surfactant solution was determined using contact angle analysis. Furthermore, the particle size parameters were determined using DLS measurements. The Gemini salts of LABS portrayed improved efficiency and demonstrated economical in domestic and industrial applications.
Evaluation of the Effects of Different Strain Paths on the Behavior of Sands Using Direct Simple Shear Tests
Authors: Tohidvand Hamid Reza , Hajialilue-Bonab Masoud , Katebi Hooshang
Published: November 2023

Many researchers have evaluated different parameters that can affect the mechanical behavior of sands. However, most of the conducted investigations considered drained and undrained stress–strain paths as the limiting boundaries of the behavior; recently applied studies have indicated that this assumption cannot be accurate for all situations. In this paper, by using expansive and contractive strain paths (in addition to the conventional constant volume path), partially drained responses of sands are simulated. Influences of different grain size distributions on the behavior of sands are studied by controlled coupling between volumetric to shear strain ratios. The results show that the asymptotic stress ratio (steady state stress ratio), phase transformation stress ratio, and instability stress ratio depend on the experienced strain paths and cannot be considered material constant (inherent) parameters. It is shown that coarse sands can be affected by the various strain paths more than finer sands, and loose sands are more sensitive against the partially drained strain paths compared to dense sands.
Shades of Becoming Toward Regenerative Futures: Revelatory Purposes and Process in Sustainability Education and Public Pedagogy
Authors: King Jordan
Published: November 2023

The daunting complexities of the apocalyptic present compel new pedagogies for learning, action, and change toward regenerative futures. This paper explores how areas of convergence and emergence between public pedagogy and sustainability education reveal purposes and processes that enable individual and collective experiences of regeneration. Specifically, the paper considers how features of sustainability education, realms of sustainability change, and forms of public pedagogy can be linked to elements of regeneration. The paper presents a theoretical framework that leverages the metaphor of different shades of becoming to capture the experience of regeneration through a dynamic and iterative process of un-becoming, re-becoming, and becoming. Ultimately, the paper suggests implications for how public pedagogy negotiates apocalyptic challenges, orients both pedagogies and publics toward sustainability, and navigates possibilities to enable regenerative futures.
What’s Bad About Spoonvilles?: Investigating Pedagogies of Kindness and Connection Through Community-Engaged Art Projects in Public Space
Authors: Qadri Debbie
Published: November 2023

When the pandemic struck I felt that art had nothing to offer in such an apocalypse. But after being involved in participatory art projects I saw them as pedagogical vehicles, connecting people through shared experiences and emotions. Many participatory projects were made by the public and placed physically in public space—banners, murals, chalk drawings and collections of decorated spoons under the auspices of ‘kindness’, ‘joy’ and ‘hope’. Commonly these projects encouraged the people to create and contribute something, focussing on connecting people to the artworks and connecting them to a particular community.Alongside the actual site of the physical artworks, they also existed online. Images shared through social connections via the internet often facilitated more participants and an audience for artworks. Ironically some of these facets of the artwork are very personal and private instead of public. These private moments of making and encounter (integral to public art) can question our assumptions about the publicness of public art. We assume that such projects connect, include and benefit the public—but ‘community’ can also exclude—perhaps evidenced by responses of threats or the destruction of the artworks. Besides sweet platitudes, what does evidence bear out?
Open access for all
Authors: Malički Mario , Mounier Pierre
Published: November 2023

The recent success of open access across the scientific landscape may hide strong inequalities among scientific communities in terms of adoption of open scholarly communications. It is a fact that concerns regarding equity, diversity and inclusion are quite recent in the community. Then, how should we try to redesign open access to address these concerns? The talk will aim at suggesting potential solutions and open a discussion with the audience.
Bringing efficiencies to tens of thousands of journals
Authors: Alperin Juan Pablo
Published: November 2023

In addition to the growing number of scholarly journals published by the so-called “big five”, there are tens of thousands of journals that are published by individual scholars or by academic institutions. These smaller operations are a source of great bibliodiversity that deserves to be encouraged but can also be seen as inefficiencies in the system as a whole. The use of a common software—Open Journal Systems (OJS)—is helping these journals take advantage of an economy of scale without needing to centralize or homogenize them. The key to promoting both efficiency and bibliodiversity is in OJS’s open source nature. This presentation will describe the ways in which PKP’s open source software is bringing efficacy to journal operations, to the discovery of their content, and, in the best of cases, to supporting a transformation of the system as a whole.
Developing a peer review information service for monographs
Authors: Stern Niels
Published: November 2023

The Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) is offered to publishers who have registered with the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and is provided by the DOAB Foundation on behalf of the OPERAS community. PRISM is currently operating in the beta stage and will move into production in the second half of 2022. It provides information from open access (OA) book publishers about their peer review procedure. The service enables publishers to provide information at both the publisher level and the individual publication level. The goal of the service is to build trust in OA book publishing by improving transparency around quality assurance of OA book publishers and their publications.The service has been tested in partnership with a small and diverse group of commercial and noncommercial, small, medium, and large OA book publishers. Thanks to their involvement, the service has further been improved and made ready to accommodate many more publishers from 2022 onwards.This presentation will describe the background and context for PRISM, its objectives, implementation (including its Scientific Committee), and potential future trajectories. Moreover, the presentation will highlight the relevance of the service for stakeholders other than OA publishers, such as research libraries, readers, and authors. More information about the service is available at https://doabooks.org/en/publishers/prism
Scholars’ domain of information space
Authors: Banek Zorica Mihaela , Pongrac Danijela , Domović Roman
Published: November 2023

The article addresses scholars’ information behaviour and how they use technology to acquire information in three areas of their work: teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities. Research in information behaviour highlights fundamental problems concerning information availability, recognisability, and context (Jones et al., 2017). On the other hand, it can respond to information diffusion by demonstrating the perspective of information transmission and sharing (Vilar, 2014). Because context is so important, it is likely that scholars in different fields of science will have distinct informational habits when it comes to finding knowledge (Canary, McPhee, 2011; Yu & Zhou, 2015.). An assumption in the model of information space (I-Space) is that dissemination of information is weaker as the targeted audience is broader (Boisot, 1995).The aim of our study was to find which communication channels academics utilize to find and share knowledge. Are they those targeting a broader audience, i.e. formal-explicit communication, or those targeting a narrower one, i.e. informal-tacit communication? Our questionnaire, which included 125 academics from Croatian public polytechnics, aimed to find how respondents received knowledge in the three primary areas of work through various communication methods. Nine possible statements were presented for each domain and scored on a seven-point Likert scale. The domains included personal level, informal and formal groups, and public modalities for disseminating information, such as the Internet and institutional intranets, social networks, and cloud technologies. With Cronbach’s alpha coefficient value we can confirm that the set of statements in questions has sufficient internal consistency and is reliable for further processing. Considering a large number of channels for each area of activity, a reduction was made through Principal Component Analysis (PCA), with the aim of determining new factors to find the latent component in various communication channels and to discover which type of communication is most represented in each domain and with a distinction between science field.We discovered that academics typically locate material for teaching purposes in a narrower scope and in a more direct form inside communication channels, whereas information for research purposes is obtained in a broader scope and in a more explicit form. Although explicit in nature, information collection and dissemination through administrative operations takes place within a smaller scope in either formal or informal methods (Goes, 2015). Our factor analysis shows a distinction between social and technical domains of science in terms of how scholars collect material for administrative task.This work is part of a larger study aimed at determining the mechanisms of information diffusion within an academic institution utilizing information space model.
DIGITOOLS - the future of open digital education
Authors: Cavanagh Jerald , Banek Zorica Mihaela , Kučina Softić Sandra , Odak Marko
Published: November 2023

The Multiplier Events will see the participation of stakeholders, international experts, and academia. The aim of this regional multiplier event is to bring the results of the research conducted within the DIGITOOLS project. The workshop will also discuss the future of digital education in universities and European frameworks in the field of digital education. Special focus is on the role of Universities in the effective implementation of digital learning, Open educational resources and open access to resources.The crisis generated by the COVID 19 pandemic has forced European universities to move their teaching activities to the online environment. Although most Higher Education Institutions have implemented E-Learning platforms years ago, the teaching staff are now experiencing difficulties in using these platforms and in creating and adapting the course content, needed to quickly adapt to a fast evolving and complex situation.DIGITOOLS is a project aimed at introducing enhanced digital tools and methods to help university staff deliver quality education through online means. The DIGITOOLS project will develop five Intellectual Outputs which will support the teaching staff from Higher Education Institutions to acquire the skills and competencies needed to create and deliver high quality online courses, including blended teaching.The role of university libraries will be crucial in this project, as they will have to adapt their services and provide digital learning materials as well as information and digital skills training, both to teaching staff and students. As a result of the DIGITOOLS project, the universities will be able to provide, through teaching staff and libraries, high quality online training courses, with a focus on subject – specific teaching. The project brings together seven Higher Education Institutions and one consulting SME, specialized in digitization, from seven countries and will focus on the implementation of online and blended teaching, encouraging, at every step, the unitary practice.
Two pillars of open science
Authors: Ignat Tiberius
Published: November 2023

CSI-COP Project is an EU-funded Project that investigates GDPR compliance to better understand how far we are being tracked by default as we use the Internet to visit websites and apps on our mobile devices. CSI-COP engages citizen scientists to address the growing concerns in society around privacy issues and the methods that are supposed to ensure integrity in the collection and use of data.This workshop will highlight the fundament rights we all have to digital privacy, explores how much institutions comply with the GDPR, introduces tools and solution to protect your digital privacy and introduces you to a massive open online course on the topic. The workshop will pose questions and concerns about the system scholars use to communicate between themselves (e.g. academic journals and monographs) and with the broader public.An interested observer will notice that the current digital content industry is heavily oriented towards building platforms that track users’ behaviour and seek to convince them to stay longer and come back sooner onto the platform. Similarly, authors are incentivised to publish more and to become champions of dissemination. Generally, the digital content industry is permeable to non-human contributors (algorithms that are able to generate content and reactions), anonymity and identity fraud.It is pertinent to organise a series of workshops about the early signs of track and persuasion in scholarly communication. The CSI-COP project inspired an independent pilot study that tried to determine the opportunity for conducting research about the use of “track and persuade” technologies in scholarly communication. We collected observations on a sample of 148 relevant websites and we interviewed 15 experts related to the field. Through this work, we tried to identify 1) the essential questions that could inspire proper research, 2) good practices to be recommended for future research, and 3) whether citizen science is a suitable approach to further research in this field. The findings could contribute to determining a broader solution for building trust and infrastructure in scholarly communication. The principles of Open Science were used as a framework to see if they offer insights into this work.The CSI-COP project offers an international discussion forum to exchange experiences on the matter of digital tracking and remains open to engaging with the larger public in order to raise awareness and refine results about the use of cookies and other digital trackers.You are all welcome to join this workshop and explore together the depth of digital tracking in the scholarly communication field and beyond it.CSI-COP project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 873169.
How to get published
Authors: Giers-Fidler Marzena
Published: November 2023

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the world’s largest university press, with the widest global presence. This makes us uniquely placed to increase your impact, by connecting your ideas and research to a diverse readership. Our mission is to further the University of Oxford’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education, by publishing worldwide. This mission guides how we work with the academic community and the content we produce.For over 500 years, OUP has published the world’s finest minds, shaping and developing important and rigorous research and scholarship. As an OUP author, you are part of a prestigious tradition of excellence.When you publish with OUP, you benefit from our:▸ reputation for quality,▸ long term publishing experience coupled with future facing innovation and investment,▸ global presence and reach, connecting your work with diverse readers and maximizing your impact,▸ trusted relationships with the academic community.Our dedicated and expert publishing teams support you every step of the way, adding value through constructive collaboration and helpful intervention to help your work reach its full potential. We connect powerful ideas with the widest audience, so that your research and scholarship achieve the greatest possible impact. We know, that publication represents the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and passion.We are future-facing and always innovating, keeping our eye on what is coming next for our community and how we can facilitate better research outcomes. We invest and innovate to help improve the scholarly communications landscape for both authors and readers, and to make sure that our content is available in a way that meets the changing needs of scholars and researchers.Quality is the main criterion we consider when evaluating a new title for publication. All our publications are peer-reviewed by outside readers or our editorial staff, to ensure we maintain the highest standards of scholarship and research. OUP is committed to supporting different business models in the dissemination of our scholarly research and has read and publish agreements with institutions and consortia worldwide.We believe in the power of research to make a better tomorrow, and so we invite you to partner with OUP to help your work reach its full potential and reach readers across the world.
Transgressing proved patterns
Authors: Pale Predrag
Published: November 2023

Where does the whole hype about artificial intelligence (AI) come from? Is it the first time? Do we really have a true, general AI? If not, how soon shall we have it? How much will technology change everyday tasks, complete job descriptions, entire professions? Does it apply to scientific publishing and how? What do scientists really need in publishing, what can be done by AI and what is the job for a human?