bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Atorvastatin prevents depressive behavior improving the sphingolipid metabolism and triggering neurovascular coupling via Apolipoprotein E
Authors: Su Dan , song yonggui , Lai Meixizi , Zhou Liao , Liu Yali , Liao Liangliang , Zhang Zhentao , Zhu Genhua , Yang Ming , luo Xiaoquan , Ai Zhifu
Published: May 2022

Depression is a common mental disorder, but classical antidepressants
have many adverse reactions in clinical application. Many clinical
studies show that lipid metabolism plays an important role in
depression. In this study, chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS)
model was established to evaluate the antidepressant activity and
mechanism of classic lipid regulating drugs - atorvastatin (ATV) by
ethology and multichannel electrophysiology etc., Laser speckle flow
imaging and Doppler ultrasound measurement showed that ATV increased the
cerebral blood flow and carotid blood flow of depressed mice. At the
same time, ApoE-/- mice were compared to verify the important role of
Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) in ATV antidepressant mechanism. Lipomics and
Western blot showed that ATV administration could inhibit the increase
of synaptic plasma membrane acidic sphingomyelinase (ASMase) stimulated
by CUMS. Through further analysis of immunofluorescence and primary cell
culture technology etc., it was found that ATV administration can
inhibit the decrease of neuronal glutamate caused by the disorder of
nerve sphingolipid, and increase the expression of metabotropic
glutamate receptor (mGluR) and IP3 receptor (IP3R) in astrocytes. These
findings suggest that ATV can regulate ApoE protein in central cortex,
regulate sphingolipid metabolism in cortical synaptic plasma membrane,
and alleviate the decline of cerebral blood flow in depressed mice
through neurovascular coupling mechanism (NVC), so as to improve
depression like symptoms. This means that atorvastatin may be a
potential candidate for the treatment of depression. At the same time,
it also provides a basis for lipid metabolism to become an
antidepressant target.
Suprachoroidal hemorrhage during phacoemulsification surgery in two cases with recent COVID-19
Authors: jamali hossein , Sadeghi Elham , Nowroozzadeh M.Hossein
Published: May 2022

To report two cases of suprachoroidal hemorrhage (SCH) during otherwise
uncomplicated phacoemulsification, in whom COVID-19 was documented with
PCR about one month before the surgery.
Roles of Heath Education and Promotion in Combating Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
Authors:   Department of Health Promotion and Education, Ogun State College of Health Technology Ilese-Ijebu  P.M.B, 2018, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria E-mail: :oladapoismail1234@gmail.com Phone: +2348163545418, +2348050212898, Okanlawon-Peters P.O.
Published: May 2022

This study was carried to assess the roles of health education and promotion in Nigeria. Coronaviruses belong to a large family of viruses causing a wide spectrum of illness, ranging from very mild i.e. Common cold to severe illness such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).In early August 2020, there were nearly 18 million confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), including 686,145 deaths globally; very rapid growth in prevalence since the first case was reported to the World Health Organization in December 2019 (WHO, 2020). In a desperate attempt to contain the further spread of the virus, governments across the world have taken public health interventions that are unprecedented. To prevent the further spread of COVID-19 infection, many countries have taken strict measures such as the complete lockdown of a country restricting the movement of people in public, forcing people to stay at home except for emergencies and certain essential jobs. At the same time countries are also trying to scale up their testing capacity and expand their contract tracing system while scientists around the world are in a race to develop a vaccine against the virus as well as drugs to alleviate its symptoms. It is well-known that public health education plays a crucial role in the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, but how health providers should advise families and parents to obtain health education information is a challenging question. With COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) spreading around the world, this rapid review aims to answer that question and thus to promote evidence-based decision making in health education policy and practice Keywords: SARS-CoV, WHO, Nigeria, Corona Virus, Health Education, COVID 19, Pandemic
Specific features of memory consolidation and reconsolidation in older individuals with vision and hearing impairments
Authors: Zakharova IA , Petrash EA , Nikishina VB , Razuvaeva TN , Shuteeva TV
Published: May 2022

Sensory impairments (visual and auditory) reduce quantity and quality of the information input. The associated memory loss can be classified as intrinsic decline in memory functionalities or mere physiological effect of sensory deprivation. This study aimed to specify this issue by analyzing memory consolidation and reconsolidation processes in older people with sensory deficits. The study enrolled 65–75 year-old individuals (n = 61) distributed into four groups: patients with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (n = 17); patients with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (n = 14); patients with visual impairment (n = 19); and patients with combined sensory deficits (n = 11). The methods included Luria’s auditory-verbal (“10 words”) and visual memory tests and Bartlett’s experimental procedure. A decrease in memory volume for auditory-verbal and visual-figurative short-term memories was observed in all groups. The results reveal significant adverse dynamics of qualitative and quantitative indicators for memory consolidation and reconsolidation processes, associated with decreased volume of short-term memories, both auditory-verbal and visual-figurative. Based on these findings, we conclude that consolidation and reconsolidation efficiency depends on proper accommodation of the newly incoming information to already memorized modules (previous experience) and requires dosing of the newly incoming information in order to preserve its integrity at the stage of consolidation.
Microglia and putative macrophages of the subfornical organ: structural and functional features
Authors: Guselnikova VV , Razenkova VA , Sufieva DA , Korzhevskii DE
Published: May 2022

The subfornical organ is an important regulator of water-salt metabolism and energy balance of the body, involved in the control of the cardiovascular system and immune regulation. The organ comprises several cell populations, among which microglia and macrophages remain uncharacterized. This study aimed at structural, cytochemical, and functional characterization of microglia and macrophages of the subfornical organ in rats. Brain specimens were collected from mature male Wistar rats (n = 8). Microglia and macrophages were revealed by immunostaining with poly- and monoclonal antibodies against calcium-binding protein Iba1 and lysosomal protein CD68; the slides were examined by light and confocal laser microscopy. The study provides a comprehensive morphological characterization of microglial cells and macrophages of the subfornical organ. We demonstrate that the majority of Iba1-expressing cells in this area of the brain are microglial cells, not macrophages. Pre-activated state of the subfornical organ microglia may reflect structural and functional features of this organ and specific functions of local microglia. Subependymal microglial cells, the processes of which penetrate into the third ventricle of the brain, constitute a distinct subpopulation among the Iba1-expressing cells of the subfornical organ. Apart from microglial elements, the subfornical organ contains few tissue macrophages with characteristic strong expression of CD68 accompanied by undetectable or weak expression of Iba1.
Chronic non-treated posterior fracture-dislocation of the shoulder
Authors: Egiazaryan KA , Ershov DS , Badriev DA , Soshnikov DY
Published: May 2022

Posterior fracture-dislocations often remain undiagnosed at initial medical attendance. In dislocation, the head of the humerus extends beyond the glenoid to form a zone of impaction, which “fixes” it. The injury is almost unidentifiable in standard frontal X-ray images. Meanwhile, continued fixation of the humerus in the state of posterior dislocation leads to a rapid progression of the traumatic impaction over up to 50% of the articular surface area. The associated damage to the articular lip of the scapula, rupture of the rotator cuff muscles, symptoms of shoulder instability after relocation, and severe pain syndrome require advanced treatments for this type of injury. Here we report a clinical case of anatomical neck fracture of the humerus with displaced consolidation, combined to posterior dislocation. To avoid subacromial impingement, instead of correcting the position of the head, we abandoned the reposition and performed an osteotomy with distal displacement of the greater tubercle of the humerus.
Impact of Education Level of Women in Russia on the Position of Women in Society (historical summary)
Authors: GULİYEVA-KABAOĞLU Shanay
Published: May 2022

Purpose: Since the 18th century, discrimination against women was part of official government policy in higher education institutions within Russia, as across the world until the beginning of the twentieth century. For many years, only men had the advantage of attending higher education. Thus, it can be said that women of lower socio-economic status had barely any rights in Czarist Russia. They had no right to divorce and extremely limited rights to own private property.

Design/Methodology/Approach: Only women who were at least of median socio-economic level could consider leaving their husband. Effects of both the industrial revolution in the western world and the labour movement within Russia during the 19th century along with a number of socio-economic changes within society, led to a system of values which ultimately allowed women to participate in educational life.

Findings: As it observed in most societies, a long period of awakening and raising awareness is required in order to ensure the desired level of equality of opportunity between genders in both education and work areas, as well as in other areas of society in Russia too.

Highlights: When it comes to the historical process in Russia's women's education, it can be said that the path taken in the field of women's education, considering the changes in the political, socio-economic and value system is practical and beneficial.
Exploring 7th Grade Students' Lived Experiences About Domestic Waste and Recycling After Attending a Scientific Trip
Authors: DEMİREL Ramazan , ÖZCAN Hasan
Published: May 2022

Purpose: This research study aims to analyze the effects of teaching the subject of domestic waste and recycling, which isincluded in the Science course curriculum, in informal learning environments on secondary school students’ learning.Design/Methodology/Approach: In the research, the phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, is used.The phenomenology design focuses on a person's first-order experiences about a phenomenon. And, it aims to have in-depthinformation about the phenomenon. The study group of the investigation consists of 14 secondary school students receivingeducation at a public school in Aksaray, during the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The trip evaluation formand the semi-structured interview questions developed by the researcher as data collection tools are used as pre-test and posttest. The data acquired from the investigation were analyzed by content and descriptive analysis methods. Codes, categories,themes, and subthemes were built for the student’s answers.Findings: According to the results obtained from the study, the students observed that recycling is not a simple process thatcan be applied easily. The students remarked that the recycling facility trip creates awakening and awareness towards theenvironment and facilitates learning by walking through, seeing, and having fun.Highlights: Based on this study, it is recommended to arrange field trips in different disciplines to forthese trips enable studentsto gain interesting and catchy experiences.
Analyzing of Researches on Gifted in Science Education in Turkey From 2018 to 2020
Authors: ADIGÜZEL Sibel , ÇALIŞKANER NİBAT Gözde , YILDIRIM Mehtap
Published: May 2022

Purpose: This research aims at analyzing graduate theses and articles made on gifted individual in science education in Turkeythrough content analysis.Design/Methodology/Approach: In the research, 16 theses (10 master’s and six PhD theses) and 37 articles made betweenJanuary 2018 and July 2020 were analyzed with content analysis. The studies were accessed from The Council of HigherEducation National Thesis Center and Google Academic database.Findings: In the studies in which content analysis made, current issues were determined as STEM education, curriculum studies,and teaching material development. In most of the studies, qualitative research method was used and “case study” amongqualitative research and “survey” among quantitative research models were frequently used. A limited number of experimentalresearches have shown that learning approaches such as STEM Education, Brain Based Learning, Differentiated Teaching,Argumentation Based Learning, Project Based Learning, Computer Based Learning have positive results on self-regulatedlearning strategies, attitude towards science, scientific process skills, problem solving skills, creativity and critical thinking skills.Highlights: It has been concluded that more experimental studies with different variables are needed on science education ingifted. Making studies on entrepreneurial skills, use of technology and different education levels are recommended.
An Analysis of University Students’ Fear of Mobile Phone Deprivation (Nomophobia) and Levels of Happiness
Authors: GÖKBULUT Bayram
Published: May 2022

Despite the undeniable fact that smartphones make our lives easier, their excessive use can have negative consequencesleading to nomophobia and unhappiness. In this regard, this study aims to determine the nomophobia and happiness levels ofpreservice teachers studying at the faculty of education at a public university in the West Black Sea Region, Turkey. The datawere collected from 424 preservice teachers through the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire and the NomophobiaQuestionnaire. Descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used in theanalysis phase of the study conducted by the survey method. The relationship between nomophobia and happiness levels ofpreservice teachers was determined with the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r). As a result of the study, the nomophobia andhappiness levels of the preservice teachers were found moderate. No statistical significance was observed between the genderand levels of happiness of the preservice teachers, whereas a significant difference was observed between the levels ofnomophobia, which were found higher in the female preservice teachers than those of the men. Similarly, no significantdifference was found between the class levels and the nomophobia levels of the preservice teachers, while a significantdifference was found between the class levels and the happiness levels. Considering the difference at the class level, itappeared that the happiness levels of the third-year students were higher than those of the first and second-year students. Ahigh positive correlation was observed between the preservice teachers’ levels of nomophobia and its sub-factors (Lack ofAccess to Information, Relinquishing the Comfort, Failing to Communicate, Loss of Online Connection), whereas no significantrelationship was found between nomophobia and happiness levels.
Cognitive Control and Flexibility as Predictor of Career Adaptability in Emerging Adults
Authors: DEMİRTAŞ Ayşe Sibel , KARA Ahmet
Published: May 2022

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to reveal the predictive role of cognitive control and flexibility on career adaptabilityof emerging adults and the relationships among the variables.Design/Methodology/Approach: A total of 318 emerging adults, 193 female (60.7%) and 125 male (39.3%) participated in thestudy. The age range of the participants in the study is 19-26 and the mean age is 21.52 (SD: 1.57). The data of the study werecollected by the Career Adaptability Scale and the Cognitive Control/Flexibility Questionnaire. Pearson correlation coefficientand multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data.Findings: The findings of the study revealed that the variables in the study showed positive correlations and appraisal/copingflexibility factor significantly predicted career adaptability. According to the regression model, appraisal/coping flexibility factorexplains approximately 12% of the total variance in career adaptability.Highlights: The results of the study were discussed in light of the literature, and the recommendations were proposed to theexperts and researchers working in the field of career psychological counseling.
An Investigation of the Learners' Personalized Feedback Paths Based on E-Assessment
Authors: ORHAN ÖZEN Sevil , CUBUKCU Zühal
Published: May 2022

Purpose: The purpose of the research is to investigate personalized feedback paths of learners based on e-assessmentaccording to the feedback preferences of learners and their needs.Methodology: The design-based research method consisting of two stages was used in this study. The study group comprisedof 36 undergraduates in the department of Computer and Instructional Technology in the Education Faculty in one of the stateuniversities was determined based on criterion sampling method. The data collection process has carried out with the samestudy group at both design stages by using blended learning method. Data collection tools are consisted of Motivation andMetacognition scales, learning management system records and semi-structured interview form. The descriptive analysismethods, Chi-Square independence test, multiple correspondence analysis, and content analysis have been used for dataanalysis.Findings: According to the findings of the research, the effect of test anxiety and extrinsic goal orientation from motivationsources, metacognition, the judgment of learning and task level variables have determined on feedback preferences of thelearner. Classify by these characteristics, a number of personalized feedback strategies have been developed based on thelearner's preferences and needs for feedback. In addition, it was found that learners wanted to get feedback from teachersrather than peers because they found teacher’s feedback more qualified and they did not trust their peers' feedback.Highlights: In order to use the personalized feedback strategies developed in the research in different research groups andtraining programs, it should be important that the system is similar to those in this study. These should be similar systems thatdetermine both the learner's preference and the needs for feedback according to the learner characteristics to support learningperformance. Otherwise, it is thought that will be out of the context of personalization.
The Effect of Argumentatıon Modal Implemented in The Unit “Change of Matter” on Students’ Achievements, Argumentative Attitude, Perceptions of Problem Solving
Authors: GÜR Esen , KOÇ Yasemin
Published: May 2022

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of Primary School 5th class students’ science achievements, arguer attitude and problem solving sense in Science Lesson. The participants constituted by selecting a primary school in Defne/ Hatay by convinience sampling method using impartial designation. At research used pretest- posttest nonequalized control group quasi- experimental design. Data collected by “Change of Matter Unit Success Test”prepared by reseacher, “Arguer Attitude Scale” and “Problem Solving Inventory” addapted from previous studies. Data analysis by using SPSS packet programme, benefit from descriptive and inferental statistic method. Lessons performed the activities of recommended by the Ministry of National Education (2013) in control group and argumentation activities in experimental group. After appliying pretests, lessons started at the same time in both groups and aplication continued 20 hours (5 weeks). After aplication the same tests appliying as posttests. In conclusion ABSL (Argumentation Based Science Learning) method didn’t creat statistically significant different as far as present programme in academic success and problem solving skills sense; besides determined effected positively to argumentative skills sense.
Pre-Service Social Studies Teachers’ Perceptions of Social Problems
Authors: ERYILMAZ Önder , PEHLİVAN YILMAZ Ayşegül , GÜNEL Elvan
Published: May 2022

Purpose: The main purpose of this research isto understand pre-service social studies teachers’ perceptions of social problems.Design/Methodology/Approach: The phenomenological design was employed in order to investigate pre-service social studiesteachers’ perceptions of social problems. Participants are consisted of eight pre-service social studies teachers. Data wasobtained in the fall semester in 2016-2017 academic year. Semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tool. Theinductive analysis approach was adopted to analysis data.Findings: As a result of the research, it was revealed that there are similarities between the pre-service social studies teachers’perceptions of social problems and functionalist (structuralist), confrontational, symbolic interactionist and social constructivisttheories.Highlights: It was concluded that pre-service social studies teachers’ perceptions of social problem are shaped by differentresources such as family, culture, political groups, and mass media. Besides, it was found that pre-service social studies teachersdid not feel that they have enough skills and experiences about how to teach social problems in the courses.
A Latent Native Speakerism in ELT in the Private Sector in Turkey: A small scale content analysis
Authors: ÜNLÜ Züleyha
Published: May 2022

Purpose: The doubling share of private education institutions in the education sector between 2010 and 2017 reveals thatthese institutions also have a determining effect in the field of teacher training. This study aimed at examining the Englishlanguage teacher employment approaches of private education institutions through job postings and understanding theapproaches to the identities of the English language teachers to be employed in these institutions.Design/Methodology/Approach: This qualitative study examining 141 online job postings by private educational institutions inTurkey utilized the principles of content analysis. The job postings reviewed are to employ the English language teachers.Findings: The study showed that the native speaker orientation in the employment of the English language teachers in theprivate sector persists at different layers as traditional native speakerism (first layer) and latent native speakerism (secondlayer). In light of the findings, this study showed that the English language teachers whose native language is not English areperceived in a secondary position despite the pluralism and diversity in the field.Highlights: Native speakerism in the Turkish private sector existed in two layers. At Layer 1, latent native speakerism, a newform of native speakerism, was found. Although latent native speakerism foregrounded traditional native-speakerism, itdisguised this orientation in the so-called expertise-oriented requirements. This layer is directly visible and a hidden version ofthe traditional native speakerism. At Layer 2, which is the source and the sub-layer of Layer 1, the presence of traditional nativespeakerism was found to persist. The findings are important in showing that with the rise of neoliberal educational policies,thus the increasing share of the private educational sectors, further studies are needed to reveal how the dichotomy can beovercome via a potential collaboration between teacher training programs, policymakers, and stakeholders.
'Using the Past to Serve the Present'
Authors: Wang Dylan K.
Published: May 2022

On 26 January 1958, the Chinese state-sponsored literary journal Wenyi bao (Literary Gazette) launched its second issue of the year. This special number carried half a dozen polemics under the rubric of “Zai pipan” (“Resumed Criticisms”), each followed by the unexpurgated text of the essay or short story that it targeted. In June, these articles were collected into a slim volume along with the condemned pieces. Among the numerous political campaigns in Mao’s China, this event seems insignificant at first glance and most previous studies refrain from more than mentioning it; but a closer look reveals many extraordinary features about it. To begin with, all the targeted works were originally published in the early 1940s and had already been denounced in the famous Yan’an Rectification Campaign (hence the title): why bother dredging up all these banal works? Besides, recently published eyewitness accounts reveal that the manifesto of the campaign was penned (in part) by none other than the Great Helmsman himself: why would a paramount leader condescend to denunciate a group of hapless writers (one of them already dead)? This short essay seeks to explore this much-forgotten inquisition and explain some of its anomalous qualities. Furthermore, it argues that this campaign exemplifies Mao’s own brand of historical revisionism — 'using the past to serve the present.'
In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
Authors: Minot Lacey
Published: May 2022

In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, the first of a two-part exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, attempts to develop a vocabulary to address the evocative qualities of American fashion since the 1940s. The exhibition comprises approximately 100 ensembles classified and subdivided amongst twelve emotional themes (Nostalgia, Belonging, Delight, Assurance, Desire, Strength, Comfort, Confidence, Affinity, Wonder, Joy and Consciousness) in order to consider how is fashion ‘spoken’ in America. A Lexicon is inspired by and conceptually modelled upon the quilt, a staple of American folk tradition and a metaphor of diversity, with the exhibits arranged by likeness in shadow boxes. The quantity is impressive, the relations thoughtful and the definitions nuanced, but the succession of identically presented exhibits can be overwhelming, if not monotonous. At the same time, the exhibition feels somewhat abridged, with the promise of a more spectacular Part Two weighing on the galleries. Nevertheless, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion succeeds in providing a vocabulary that one naturally falls into when considering the American fashion on display and in asking the most time-tested, à propos question that has shaped the nation since even before its founding: Who gets to be American?
Gobernanza ambiental y globalización: retos de la era poscolonial
Authors:   Profesora, Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Universidad de Antioquia, Ochoa Sierra María ,   becaria Conacyt, investigadora predoctoral en Ciencias Sociales, El Colegio de Michoacán
Published: May 2022

Reseña de libro: Partzsch, Lena. Alternatives to multilateralism: new forms of social and environmental governance. The Meet Press, 2020.240 págs.
Movilización legal transnacional: el caso del desastre minero en Mariana y río Doce en Brasil
Authors:   Profesora, Universidad Federal de Espírito Santo, Brasil, Losekann Cristiana
Published: May 2022

Este artículo analiza el proceso de internacionalización de la movilización legal en busca de reparación por el desastre minero ocurrido en 2015 en la ciudad de Mariana, en la cuenca del río Doce y en la costa de la región sureste de Brasil. Se quiere comprender la dinámica que produce la activación de diferentes escalas de justicia y los efectos que la internacionalización genera sobre el funcionamiento de las instituciones de justicia a nivel nacional. Al respecto, se observan dos patrones distintos de internacionalización: a) a través de las tradicionales redes de defensa de derechos humanos y b) uno nuevo, promovido por una oficina internacional especializada en la «financiación alternativa de litigios» (ALF, por sus siglas del inglés), que moviliza argumentos de derecho ambiental y legislación transnacional. Se examinan las características y los efectos de estos dos patrones en las dinámicas de movilización legal y en las instituciones nacionales.
Derecho y conflictos ambientales: la situación en la Ciénega Grande de Santa Marta en Colombia
Authors:   Profesor principal, Universidad del Rosario, Gómez Rey Andrés ,   abogado de la Universidad de La Sabana,   especialista en derecho ambiental,   investigador predoctoral, Universidad del Rosario, Rodríguez Gloria Amparo ,   Profesora titular, Facultad de Jurisprudencia, Universidad del Rosario; abogada, y magistrada de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, Henao Mera Álvaro José ,   Abogado y exasesor del Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, la Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente de Bogotá, y Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia; socio fundador de la Firma Manglar Abogados S.A.S
Published: May 2022

Desde la intersección entre la sociología, la antropología y el derecho, este artículo analiza las diferentes herramientas legales existentes para la protección del medio natural en Colombia, las cuales han generado, en su aplicación, diversos conflictos derivados de las estrategias de conservación de los ecosistemas, la complejidad legal y la invisibilización de realidades sociales. A partir del análisis de la situación en la Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, el artículo argumenta que la interacción de las distintas medidas de protección y conservación del entorno está generando una tensión entre la garantía de los derechos humanos, el bienestar de las personas y los propios ecosistemas.
Walnut (Juglans Regia): A Review of Phytosanitary Properties and Theirs Mathematical Modeling
Authors: Tăbăcariu Anca Bălan Sandu
Published: May 2022

Walnut (Juglans regia L.) is the most widespread walnut in the world. All parts of the plant are important: bark, leaves, dried and green peel of the fruit, septum, core. The benefits of walnuts are due to the presence of phytochemicals such as flavonoids, carotenoids, alkaloids, polyphenols, etc. In addition to the many benefits that walnut has on our health (antibacterial, antioxidant), it also has important phytosanitary and insecticidal properties. Walnuts can be used because of their plant-friendly properties in the form of biopesticides that are safe and can be a viable, inexpensive and cleaner alternative to synthetic products that can be harmful to the environment. This review paper seeks to bring to the fore the available literature on Juglans regia directed on the properties, antifungals and insecticides with action on plants and antibacterials with action on the human body, as well as mathematical models regarding the multiplication of microorganisms.
A Review of Metallic Materials Corrosion
Authors: Popa Olga , Roşu Ana-Maria , Zichil Valentin
Published: May 2022

The present manuscript presents a theoretical study for the corrosion process. Corrosion processes are primed and stimulated in 60% of cases by chemical and biological elements. One of the most used biological elements are: bacteria, actinomycetes, microscopic fungi, algae. Corrosion of a solid body results from the transformation of structural bonds in that body. Less than certain influences (water, oxygen, light, etc.) the atom - which is practically neutral - can lose or gain electrons and it is ionized.

Brake pads are affected of corrosion process. The conceptions and mathematical symbols serve as the models building blocks. Authors like, Boz M, and other authors demonstrate in their researches that starting with the concept of number, where every mathematical object is a mathematical model.

In practice it is not possible to reproduce some experimental, theoretical conditions related to corrosion processes. These processes are therefore, to some extent, different in terms of the applicability of theoretical laws. From a thermodynamic point of view, metals are not stable and due to corrosion, metals tend to return to the stable form of oxides with the help of oxygen and moisture in the air. For this each metal requires certain ionization energy.

When establishing the mathematical model, those characteristics of the modeling object are highlighted, which, on the one hand, are informative, and on the other hand, they admit the mathematical form review.
General Considerations Related to the Membrane Material Locking Models ‒ A Short Rewiew
Authors: Zaharia Andrei , Nedeff Valentin
Published: May 2022

The problem of clogging membrane pores has become an area of interest for the vast majority of researchers in the field, because according to the literature, membrane materials are very sensitive when it comes to clogging and blocking pores.

Therefore, this paper briefly describes the problems that occur during the process of obstruction the pores of the membrane. Models and characteristics of pore blocking mechanisms have also been developed.

It is essential to mention that the principal purpose of the paper, which which consisted to review the simulations and classical models that were optimized, used in the analysis processes of clogging of membrane materials, was successfully fulfilled.

According to those mentioned, the combined mathematical models of pore blocking (methods combined with three blocking mechanisms using Hagen-Poiseuille’s law or standard 0-order blocking) have proven to be very effective in describing membrane clogging problems.
Drei FAQs zur Wirtschaftsethik in Fratelli tutti Wie wollen wir warum wirtschaften? Wer soll wo handeln? Hat Franziskus Recht?
Authors: Bachmann Claudius
Published: May 2022

Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli tutti (2020) is also interesting from a business ethics perspective. In terms of a systematic analysis, it seems promising to distinguish three different perspectives that are well established in academic business ethics. The three perspectives can be operationalized using three corresponding questions. How do we want to do business and why? Who should act and where? Is Pope Francis right? Following these questions, the paper highlights the key aspects of Francis’ business ethics in FT and beyond and establishes some cross-references to the current, especially German-speaking discourse on business ethics.
Stakeholder Management, Cooperatives, and Selfish-Individualism
Authors: Ferri Giovanni , Leogrande Angelo
Published: May 2022

We analyze stakeholder management (STM) relative to cooperation and individualism within the fourth industrial revolution (FIR). STM is a recent corporate governance tool boosting cooperation and allowing representativeness of individualistic behaviors even in dialectical environments. Though forerunning it, cooperatives massively use STM now, while the FIR demands cooperation also at non-cooperative enterprises. We reach two main conclusions. Deeper orientation towards STM helps solve the shareholder management (SHM) crisis. Moreover, exemplifying the benefits of STM towards social and environmental goals, cooperatives can inspire also other companies aiming to reduce the negative externalities of SHM and profit from cooperation within the FIR.
Wie werden Ethik und ethisches unternehmerisches Handeln gegenüber den Stakeholdern kommuniziert? Eine Analyse der Geschäftsberichte der DAX30 Unternehmen
Authors: Naumann Laura , Herberger Tim Alexander , Ender Manuela
Published: May 2022

Our content analysis of the reporting of the DAX30 companies shows that the focus is primarily on compliance, codes of conduct, company-specific sustainability, CSR and corporate citizenship programs. Ethics and sustainability departments are positioned close to the board of directors and company management, which emphasizes the strategic relevance from a company perspective. The results help to summarize and compare the communication between companies and their stakeholders in the context of ethics and to identify potential for improvement.
Sustainable Consumption: More Using, Less Shopping
Authors: Scaraboto Daiane
Published: May 2022

To develop a more sustainable economy, we need a new definition of “consumption”: To consume is to use, not to buy. Understanding consumers as users – rather than shoppers – can prompt organizations to reconsider what they can do to create value for consumers. Rather than extracting resources from the planet to produce more goods that could feed into the cycle of purchases, organizations can devise value-creating ways to collect, reuse, and recycle post-consumption resources. They can consider the many ways in which services can be offered to support consumers in using the products they already own for longer. Even though more sustainability can be fun in some cases, people will also need to make peace with the fact that consuming sustainably will not necessarily be convenient, cheap, or fast. While consumers and their actions in the marketplace play a key-role, responsibility cannot be placed on consumers alone. Developing a sustainable economy will take a concerted effort from multiple market and non-market actor.
Clicking Our Way to Conscious Consumption
Authors: Kozinets Robert V.
Published: May 2022

Most marketers are familiar with the classic marketing funnel that illustrates how people are led from awareness to interest, desire, and then purchasing action for a product or brand. The presented Conscious Consumption to Digital Activism Funnel depicts a similar process of increasing involvement. In this new funnel, people move from learning about some aspect of consumption online to becoming more and more involved in digital activism relating to it. Not everyone who learns something meaningful about their consumption will act on it or become a digital activist. The funnel expresses the idea that smaller and smaller numbers will make it to the next stage. Digital platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and others may empower consumers to raise awareness but at the same time they may also restrict their users’ abilities to promote a cause. Consumers will successfully navigate today’s broad and fluid digital landscape and continue to use online platforms to learn more about their own consumption. And then some will be moved to promote what they learn online, doing their part to create more conscious consumption.
2. Distance Education Prompted by Covid-19 Lockdowns: A Challenge for Teaching Musical Performing Arts
Authors: Marisi Rossella
Published: May 2022

In 2020 and 2021, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) played a crucial role during the lockdowns, giving people the chance to continue doing business, entertainment, and education. In the education sector, in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, many countries adopted ICT-enabled distance education, which shows both positive and problematic features. The most concerning aspects relate to the digital divide, the readers’ ability to assess the trustworthiness of texts found on the Web, the educators‘ competence in using ICT by incorporating it in their pedagogical practice, and the applicability of distance education to the teaching of performing arts.
8. The Tourte Bow and its Effects on Instrumental Technique
Authors: Ciobanu Luminița
Published: May 2022

The history of bow makers records various changes in the construction of the bows, in close conection with the expansion of the artistic repertoire and the development of the instrumental technique of the bow and strings instruments. The eightheenth century brought an important concern for these changes, but only in the late of the 1700s there will be a standardization in the lenght and shape of the bows. After a period of transition, full of multiple attempts, Francois Tourte is the one who creates the model we call today the modern bow.
13. Integrating Functions of Music in Learning and Education
Authors: Morari Marina
Published: May 2022

Isolation/separation of human activity from art is a manifestation of the incoherence of our society. In scientific research, the spiritual and physical worlds are often separated. In the recovery of this dualism in the education system, but also the life of human society, an organic place must be occupied by the arts. Because it is only in the work of art that we find the expression of the human inner world, which naturally connects human life with the environment - the external world in which the artist lives/creates. Integrated education and learning are based on quality disciplinary education. The article develops the integrative functions of musical art in the process of school learning and early education and identifies the levels of musical-didactic activities integration in the educational process.
15. Polonaise for Violin and Piano OP. 4 in d Major by Henryk Wieniawski
Authors: Ioniță Raluca Dobre
Published: May 2022

Wieniawski’s creations for violin imposed themselves in the romantic musical literature both by their special melodic musicality and by the difficulty of the technical passages. Polonaise for violin and piano, op. 4 in D major is one of the most beautiful musical jewels of the romantic century. The piece has become famous since the time of the composer, who performed it quite frequently in his tours. In this composition, Wieniawski emphasizes to the maximum the timbre, technical and interpretive potential of the violin.
4. Jerzy Grotowski’s Laboratory, A Model for the Experimental Workshop
Authors: Moraru Iuliana
Published: May 2022

Grotowski concludes that theatre can exist without sets, without costumes, without music and without light effects and even without text. The argument in support of this surprising thesis comes from the very history of the theatre. In the evolution of theatrical art, the text was one of the last elements to be added. The theatre cannot exist without actors, not even the puppet theatre, behind the stage being hidden another manipulative actor. Furthermore, it cannot exist without the audience. Consequently, following the successive eliminations, only two elements remain: the actor and the audience.
1. Art, Technology and Environmental Commitment in Education
Authors: Blanco Verónica Perales
Published: May 2022

We believe that it is essential to integrate an ecological analysis in artistic production, or better still, to consider art as a tool and agent towards change. It has never been as necessary as it is right now, and we have never had such a powerful technological device. Technology must be an ally of the planet, or what is the same, of the possibility of life; It has to help us see, hear, and ultimately “feel” better. New technologies have transformed the vision we have of the world and also the representation of it. We are the map and we write it. We are part of the text layer that covers the planet and this layer of information is updated live through each of the nodes that make it up: ourselves. Art and science have tried and try to answer the same basic questions, in this search, and always respecting the precautionary principle, technology is an ally. We feel this common space with an intense latency: art, science and technology, which merge like an image with the coupled layers. Let’s hope that from the mixture, sublime not only knowledge, but also wisdom.
2. Persistence and the Becoming of the Pictorial Portrait
Authors: Ungureanu Cristian
Published: May 2022

The seductive power of the Pictorial Portrait determined that, in the context of certain cultural eras, the portraits were made according to attitudes and expressions that would cover the aspects of philosophical, theological, aesthetic, or political ideals. Once it regains its place in the modern art of the 20thcentury, the Pictorial Portrait becomes an opportunity to explore unlimited expressive and conceptual dimensions. Artists realize that when there is an exceptional talent and it is educated on all intellectual and spiritual levels of the human being, the perspective on art acquires unprecedented dimensions in the history of the arts.
8. The Evolution of Engraving in Moldova
Authors: Savițkaia-Baraghin Iarîna
Published: May 2022

This paper achieves some landmarks regarding the appearance and evolution of engraving in Moldova within the medieval, modern and contemporary art periods and aims to highlight the evolution of engraving and achievements in the art of engraving in the historical territory of Moldova, but also to establish the basic stages of the evolution of engraving and regional interferences in relation to European engraving. If we follow the comparative evolution of the genus in various neighboring regions, we find that each area has its own specificity and particularities. The approach to this issue is related to the general aspects that conditioned the development of religious engraving, but also to the local tradition, which has evolved in close connection with the respective process in European countries.
3. Constructing Meaning and Learning Collaboratively Through Movement and Body Expression
Authors: Virag Francisca Hortensia , Manea Mihaela Mitescu
Published: May 2022

Movement and body expression exercises are not the obvious choices for mainstream approaches to cognitive and socio-emotional learning. Here we present the preliminary findings of a youth led participatory action research project aiming at a better understanding of wellbeing and educational equity issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on exploring how meaning making and collaborative learning were facilitated through a movement and body expression exercise. Implications for mainstream educational practice are discussed.
10. Didactic Method of Learning during Music Lessons – Applicable in Distance Learning
Authors: Hudáková Jana , Králová Eva
Published: May 2022

The development of contemporary modern technologies in the field of music education is advancing forward. Our contribution points out to the use of didactic method of learning in music lessons with a focus on tablets. The importance of tablet as a modern teaching aid is significant in terms of pupils’ motivation in education of contemporary elementary school. We focus on the classification of teaching aids and didactic techniques and their appropriate selection and analysis. In our survey we use a questionnaire as a method to find out how effective is the use of didactic techniques by selected Slovak teachers. We conclude the contribution synthesizing the knowledge from the nationwide project School at a Touch.
12. To be, Or Not to be (Informed)? An Unthinkable Choice
Authors: Grigoraș Florin
Published: May 2022

The reported research refers to the implications of Information Theory, Information and Communication Technologies and Applied Ontologies, in the educational process, in general, with specific attention to artistic education. We emphasize the major role of the informational methods for knowledge organisation, calling on such concepts as shared use and interoperability of information, in the context of the recent teaching and learning paradigms shift. Three contributions with significant potential are introduced: an extension of the navigationist paradigm and two formal methods, aiming at improved information processing for teaching and learning in the arts, with a new perspective on the definition of the work of art.
Assessment of Charophyta Flora and Ecological Status in Two High-Mountain Lakes (Rize, Turkey)
Authors: Şahin Bülent , Barinova Sophia
Published: May 2022

The benthic algal composition of Charophyta in the Avusor Great Lake and Koçdüzü Great Lake at the altitude of about 3,000 m a.s.l. was investigated on 21 August 2019. A total of 112 species, belonging to Zygnematophyceae, were identified. The genera Cosmarium (44), Staurastrum (16), Closterium (15), and Euastrum (13) were most abundant. The members of filamentous charophyta were represented by two species. Bioindicator species characterize water in both lakes as clear, Class 2 of water quality and the lakes ecosystem as mesotrophic. The partly unexpected presence of certain desmids taxa, i.e., species characteristic of eutrophic water, was recorded.