bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Comparative microanatomy of the guard hairs in the Late Pleistocene wolf (Canis lupus ssp.) from the Late Quaternary deposits of Yakutia, based on SEM observations
Authors: Chernova O. F. , Klimovsky A. I. , Protopopov A. V.
Published: December 2024

Using scanning electron microscopy, a comparative morphological analysis of the fine structure of the guard hairs in the mummy of an adult male ancient wolf (Canis lupus ssp.) with an age of 45504 ± 150 BP, found in the late Pleistocene deposits in Yakutia, was carried out. Guard hairs selected for maximum thickness (guard I) vary significantly in different areas of the wolf’s skin in profile and metric data, and the vibrissae show a special medullary structure. The fine structure of the cellular medulla of the hair in the ancient wolf is shown to be similar to that of extant representatives of Caninae, such as the jackal (C. aureus), maned (Chrysocyon brachyurus) and red wolves (Cuon alpinus), some breeds of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) (Akita Inu, Basset, Dalmatian, Irish Terrier, Miniature Schnauzer, Russian Greyhound, Hortaya Greyhound), and African fox (Vulpes pallida). In these species, the disordered (lacey or spongy) medulla of the thickest part of the hair shaft (“shield”) differs from the ordered (cellular, with regularly located large cavities) medulla of the fox (V. vulpes), gray (V. ferrilata) and Tibetan foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), arctic fox (Alopex lagopus), corsac fox (Vulpes corsac), American corsac fox (V. velox). By this feature, it is possible to distinguish the hair of wolves and foxes, if we compare the medial part of the hair, since at the base of the hair a cellular medulla is found in some breeds of dogs (Akita Inu, Mastino Napoletano, Miniature Schnauzer, Hortai Greyhound) and corsac fox. The cuticle pattern greatly varies along the guard hair shaft, which is typical of wolves and foxes. This is especially specific in the area of the shaft in front of its thickened part, as it consists of lanceolate or diamond petal scales extended along the hair. The cuticle pattern formed by lance-shaped or diamond petal scales is quite similar in ancient and extant wolves, arctic foxes and African foxes. Yet the cuticle of the hair of many other species differs from that of wolves. Thus, such a feature as the presence of lanceolate or diamond petal cuticle on the hair is of limited importance for distinguishing between the species. We have shown that the hair of an ancient wolf in its fine structure (the thickness of the shaft, the degree of development of the medulla and its microanatomy, the cuticle pattern and its variability along the guard hair shaft) is practically not different from that of recent wolves, this confirming that the wolf as a species had already been fully formed in the Pleistocene. The fine structure of wolf hair differs from that of foxes, but has features similar to the hair of the jackal and domestic dog, this confirming the phylogenetic connections with the latter two genera.
Influence of external factors on the success of transmissing messages during the monitoring of wild reindeer movements using the “Argos” satellite system (Rangifer tarandus)
Authors: Mamontov V. N. , Salman A. L.
Published: December 2024

Currently, satellite telemetry is increasingly in use in environmental research. As a result, researchers obtain a large amount of data on the use of space by animals. However, despite the perfection of modern satellite navigation and data transmission systems, reports on the positions of animals are extremely uneven. We consider here the main technical and natural factors that may influence the success of spacecraft in the “Argos” satellite system receiving messages emitted by radio beacons installed on animals. Among the natural factors when an animal is under the forest canopy, the greatest influence has been established to be exerted by the closure of tree crowns, which can be offset by the abundance of snow in the crowns after heavy snowfalls. Dense clouds have a weaker effect. Of the technical factors associated with the characteristics of flights of satellites of the “Argos” system, the success of receiving messages is influenced, first of all, by the maximum angle of elevation of the satellite above the horizon and the intensity of flights of satellites with a maximum angle of elevation above the horizon of more than 10° per unit time. This is due to the high unevenness of message receipt. At night and in the afternoon, due to a reduction in the number of satellite flights and a decrease in the altitude of their trajectories, the success of reception may decrease to 3% of the number of transmitted messages.
Variations in the slope of the earthquakes recurrence curve in the tonga subduction zone in 2005–2022
Authors: Shakirova A. A. , Saltykov V. A.
Published: December 2024

The Tonga‒Kermadec subduction zone is located between the Pacific and Australian plates and is the site of the highest rates of Pacific plate subduction and dominant extension. In 2006 and 2009 in this region, two strong earthquakes occurred with magnitudes Mw = 8.0 and 8.1. There are about 170 islands in the Tonga region. They are volcanic centers that have erupted regularly over the past few decades. The paper presents the results of determining temporal variations in the slope of the earthquakes recurrence curve (b-value) in the Tonga subduction zone for 2005–2022 and variations in b depending on depth. Temporal variations in the b-value reflect the general tendency for the most powerful earthquakes to occur against the background of a decrease in b-value only in the surface layer at depths of 0–100 km. By comparing the variation of b-value with depth with a tectonic model of the Tonga subduction zone, it suggested that lower b-value might reflect greater stress at the top of the subducted slab due to its bending. Elevated b-value can apparently be associated with stretching mechanisms. For the Tonga subduction zone, as for other subduction zones, the increased b-value identified at a depth of 90‒100 km, which may be due to the presence at this depth of a magmatic front, which is associated with active volcanism.
Corrosion of EP-823 STEEL (16Kh12MVSFBR) under conditions of high-temperature processing of spent nuclear fuel
Authors: Karfidov E. A. , Nikitina E. V. , Mazannikov M. V. , Potapov A. M. , Dedyukhin A. E.
Published: December 2024

The corrosion behavior ofEP-823 steel was studied during high-temperature treatment (HTT) with nitrogen. Itwas found that innitrogen attemperatures of 650–800°C, the steel issubject toonly slight surface corrosion. Itis shown that there isa slight change inthe surface composition and structure ofsteel, which does not have asignificant effect onthe reprocessing ofmodel SNF. Itis shown that onthe surface ofthe material, processes ofinteraction ofsome electronegative components offerritic-martensitic steel with components ofthe gas phase–nitrogen and impurity oxygen–occur with the formation ofinclusions ofnitride and oxide compounds ofchromium and manganese ofdifferent stoichiometric compositions. The process islimited bythe diffusion ofthese components from the volume ofthe alloy tothe surface. The corrosion rates ofEP-823 steel attemperatures of 650 and 800 ° Cwere 0.104 and 0.241 mm / year for 12 hours ofexposure, and 0.013 and 0.02 mm/year for 84 hours ofexposure, respectively. The nature ofthe destruction ofthe surface ofthe samples iscontinuous and uneven, localization ofcorrosion atthe boundaries ofsteel grains isclearly observed, which isassociated with the formation ofsecondary phases along the grain boundaries. Atthe temperature ofthe treatment, significant sensitization ofsteel occurs, chain-like precipitation ofsecondary phases isobserved along the grain boundaries, which leads tothe development ofintercrystalline corrosion. Conclusions are made about the change inthe structure ofthe material during high-temperature exposure and the nature ofthe corrosion damage ofthe material isdetermined; based onthe results ofX-ray fluorescence analysis, conclusions are made about the composition ofthe corrosion products ofEP-823 steel.
Chlorinated graphite as positive electrode for aluminium-ion batteries with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride/aluminium chloride electrolyte
Authors: Druzhinin K. V. , Kukin A. S. , Balakin K. Y.
Published: December 2024

The article defines the dependence type of the cathode polarization of an aluminum-ion battery based on chlorinated graphite of the initial EC-02 type in a low-temperature melt of aluminum chloride with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazole chloride on the geometric characteristics of the electrode and the current density. It is determined that for the chlorinated graphite material the polarization values are slightly reduced compared to the initial non-chlorinated graphite of the same brand in a similar melt and are 25–50 mV at 1 mA/cm2. The dependence of polarization on the current density does not have a break between the values of 1 and 1.2 mA/cm2, observed for initial graphite, which characterizes the maximum rate of the current-generating reaction, which means an increase in the rate of the main process on the chlorinated graphite. Using a reference experiment on a glassy carbon electrode, the surficial density of chloroaluminate complexes intercalation sites was estimated as about 15%. Accordingly, the maximum degree of intercalation for such materials is 6. Since graphite chlorination does not lead to distortions geometric parameters of its interlayer gaps, the sorption density of chloroaluminate ions is found to increase after chlorination; in the case of non-chlorinated graphite, the degree of intercalation varies with current density from 9 to 18.
Cluster structure of nickel and its alloys with chromium in the liquid state
Authors: Tyagunov A. G. , Baryshev E. E. , Tyagunov G. V. , Zaitseva N. A. , Mushnikov V. S.
Published: December 2024

Modern ideas about the structure of liquid metals and alloys are considered. The main emphasis is placed on the cluster model and its structural parameters. The effect of chromium concentration in nickel-chromium melts on the change in the parameters of the cluster structure is shown. The calculation results are compared with the previously obtained experimental X-ray diffraction data and the results of studying the temperature dependences of the physical properties of nickel and its alloys with chromium in the liquid state. Attention is drawn to the fact that at a temperature close to 1900ºС the cluster radius becomes less than 10 Ǻ and these are the critical temperatures characteristic of binary and multicomponent nickel melts, upon reaching which structural changes occur in the melts and the metallic liquid becomes more equilibrium. and microhomogeneous.
МЕТОД ЗАХИЩЕНОГО ОБМІНУ ТА ЗБЕРІГАННЯ ФАЙЛІВ У ПІРИНГОВИХ МЕРЕЖАХ
Authors: КРЕНЦІН МИХАЙЛО , КУПЕРШТЕЙН ЛЕОНІД
Published: December 2024

The article proposes a method for secure file exchange and storage in peer-to-peer networks based on the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) protocol and a linear feedback shift register (LFSR). The use of IPFS provides efficient decentralized data storage with guaranteed integrity due to the use of content-oriented addressing based on hash functions. In IPFS, each file or data block is identified by a unique CID (Content Identifier), which changes with any modification of the content. To increase confidentiality before uploading files to the network, it is proposed to use an encryption method based on a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) and counters. This method provides efficient generation of pseudo-random permutations of the file bytes, which makes it impossible to decrypt it without knowing the key. Encryption using the FLSR is characterized by high speed, ease of implementation, and low requirements for computing resources. This is especially important for peer-to-peer networks, where nodes may have limited performance and unstable connections.
The proposed approach eliminates the vulnerability of IPFS associated with the possibility of obtaining file contents based on their CIDs, since even with the presence of an identifier, only encrypted content is available. In addition, the method ensures the confidentiality of the transmitted data, since files are transmitted in encrypted form and can only be decrypted by authorized nodes.
The method also provides high performance due to the features of IPFS: files or their fragments (IPLD objects) can be downloaded in parallel from several nodes, which speeds up the transfer of large amounts of data. The method can be used in decentralized storage systems, platforms for secure file exchange, as well as in environments with increased requirements for information security.
Replication of soft skills training in the Rohingya camp and host community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Authors: Talukder Md. Noorunnabi , Al Mahmud Shohag Abdullah , Hossain Mohammad Muktadir , Hossain Sharif , Rob Ubaidur
Published: December 2024

The Population Council in collaboration with Research, Training and Management International (RTMI) and Underprivileged Children’s Education Program (UCEP) implemented a pilot project on soft skills training in Cox’s Bazar in 2022 and 2023. The purpose of this training was to improve the personal, social, and financial management skills of Rohingya youth, which would be useful on their return to Myanmar or during their interim period of stay in Bangladesh. This pilot initiative also included host community youth. The Council found the soft skills training relevant and necessary for the lives of Rohingya and host community youth and identified an increase in demand for the training. Although several United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and private organizations are actively working in the camps and host communities, the coverage of soft skills training programs is limited and uneven against increasing demand for the training among Rohingya and local youth. The need for increasing the coverage of soft skills training in the Rohingya camp has been accentuated in different reports. Based on the positive response from the pilot training program and increasing demand for the training, the Population Council designed and supported the scale-up of soft skills training intervention in the camp and host community.

This report describes the evolution of the soft skills training program, from the development stage to pilot testing and then to replication in the Rohingya camp and host community. It also narrates the lessons learned from the replication of the training intervention and outlines a plan for sustainability.
Pendampingan Pencatatan dan Penyusunan Laporan Pertanggungjawaban Keuangan Berbasis Tri Hita Karana Pada Subak Saradan Desa Adat Sibanggede, Badung
Authors:   Universitas Hindu Indonesia, Sugianingrat Ida Ayu Putu Widani , Putra Cokorda Gde Bayu ,   Universitas Hindu Indonesia, Wulandari Putu Etika ,   Universitas Hindu Indonesia, Ariasa I Gede ,   Universitas Hindu Indonesia, Yoga I Dewa Gede Adi Ambara ,   Universitas Hindu Indonesia
Published: December 2024

The traditional subak irrigation system is a driving force in achieving farmer welfare, this system is inherited from generation to generation as the wisdom of the local Hindu community in Bali by adhering to the Tri Hita Karana concept in it. This study aims to determine how a well-organized financial recording system can produce quality and accountable reports. This study was carried out by implementing three stages, namely: 1. Socialization, 2. Observation, 3. Assistance in recording and compiling accountability reports. To realize this, assistance in recording and compiling financial accountability reports was carried out as a basic means in managing financial reports. The object of this study was the administrators and members of the subak in the Sibanggede Traditional Village. The results of this study indicate that one of the subaks in the Sibanggede Traditional Village, namely Subak Saradan, still carries out recording manually so that the recording and compilation of subak financial accountability reports have not been carried out optimally and are accountable to subak members.
Appendix A: A Gazetteer for the Study of Villa Décor from Hispania Baetica
Authors: Montoya González Rubén
Published: December 2024

This Gazetteer contains information about the 67 villas considered in this book. A complete version of the Gazetteer, with detailed information on each of the villas, as well as photographs of the structures and mosaics, can be consulted at the University of Leicester Research Archive, where it is held. Although the territorial limits of this research are marked by the provincial boundaries of Hispania Baetica, this Gazetteer is organised by current provinces in alphabetical order; that is, nine sections – one for each province of the provinces from the two Spanish autonomous regions within which Hispania Baetica was located.1 This facilitates a logical and easy navigation through the different gazetteer entries included. The geographical distribution of the villas considered in this study is shown at the beginning of the Gazetteer (Figure A.1); in addition, at the beginning of each section there is a map of the current province and its territorial organisation in the Roman period with the villa(s) from that province considered in this study.
DISTAL SPLENORENAL SHUNT IN SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PORTAL HYPERTENSION IN CHILDREN
Authors: Godik O. S.
Published: December 2024

Background. Management of pediatric patients with portal hypertension (PH) has evolved considerably in recent years. Physiologic shunts and successful liver transplant has changed the paradigm of portal hypertension surgery. However, pediatric patients with noncirrhotic causes of PH and unfavorable anatomy, and patients with cirrhotic causes require other radical surgical approaches.  There is a lack of publications on pediatric cohorts in which other surgical procedures, including DSRS, was performed. 
Aim: to analyze effectiveness of DSRS in treatment of most dangerous PH symptoms: esophageal varices grade and bleeding episodes recurrence, splenomegaly, thrombocytopenia and anemia, and to assess DSRD survival in different groups of patients.
 Materials and methods. A single-center retrospective study was performed. In 37 children underwent distal splenorenal shunt (DSRS) was performed in the period from January 2011 to January 2022. The mean follow-up period was 55.4±6.1 months.
Results. Patients of the study group (n=37,100%) were divided into two groups according to etiological factor, that caused PH: 29 (78.3%) were diagnosed EHPVO, and 8 (21.7%) – HPH. Comparison showed difference in spleen volume (p=0.009) and follow-up duration (p=0.001). DSRS resolved thrombocytopenia, anemia and decreased the spleen size in all the patients, platelets count increase in patients of both EHPVO (p=0.009) and HPH patients (p=0.021) and hemoglobin level increase in EHPVO patients (p=0.037). Varices grade comparison showed involution in both groups (p<0,001). However, DSRS dysfunction was observed in 8 (28.5%) patients from EHPVO group  and in 1(12.5%) in HPH group. DSRS survival in EHPVO patients was assessed 0.309 (95%CI 0.0186-0.708) with no difference in overall shunt survival between groups.
Conclusion.  DSRS showed good results in resolving dangerous symptoms of PH in both study groups with non-cirrhotic (EHPVO) and cirrhotic (HPH) causes of PH, with significant thrombocyte count increase and varices grade involution. However, despite no difference was found in DSRS survival between study groups, DSRS survival in patients with EHPVO reached median survival by 136 months.
FEATURES OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL COURSE OF MILD DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA IN TYPE 2 DIABETES
Authors: Suk S.А.
Published: December 2024

Background. Diabetic macular edema (DME) can occur at any stage of diabetic retinopathy (DR), being a major cause of central vision loss in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The study of DME in order to prevent vision loss is extremely important. Understanding and characterizing DME is important for its prevention and development of new targeted therapies.
Aim: to investigate the features of the development and clinical course of mild diabetic macular edema in type 2 diabetes.
Materials and methods. 680 patients (1296 eyes) of the Ukrainian population with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) and type 2 diabetes were under observation. In these patients, the nature and frequency of DME development were studied. DME 0 was diagnosed in 720 eyes (55.56%), DME 1 in 194 eyes (14.97%), DME 2 in 196 eyes (15.12%), DME 3 in 186 eyes (14.35%). From this group of patients, 477 patients (936 eyes) underwent various DME treatment according to treatment protocols for a separate stage of edema. 203 patients (360 eyes) with DME were not treated for the patient’s care, and eyes with mild diabetic macular edema (DME1) were selected from this group, and this group of patients was the target of our study.
Results. After 6 months, DME 1 was recorded in 56 eyes (15.56%). UCVA in these patients averaged 0.39±0.01. The ICG average was 0.48±0.01. The average fasting venous plasma glucose level was 8.4±0.05 mmol/l, the average glycated hemoglobin content was 8.61±0.02%. The average BMI was 31.91±0.04 kg/m2. According to optical coherence tomography, Central sector was 220.09±0.3 μm, Volume – 8.54±0.01 mm³, NFL+GCL+IPL average – 122.98±0.2 μm. During OCT angiography, the area of foveal avascular zone was 0,276±0,015 mm² on average. The average density of the superficial capillary plexus is 52.02±0.4%. The average density of the deep capillary plexus is 53.32±0.5%.
Conclusions. In patients with NPDR and type 2 DM, the frequency of DME 1 was on average 15.0%. A statistically significant relationship was established between UCVA, BCVA and glucose levels (p<0.01) after 3 and 6 months of observation in DME 1 in patients with NPDR and type 2 diabetes. There was a pretest correlation between visual acuity and the average thickness of the retina in the center of the macula (p<0.01), the average sum of the thickness of the layer of nerve fibers, the layer of ganglion cells and the internal boundary layer (p<0.01) according to OCT data after 3 and 6 months observations in DME 1 in patients with NPDR and type 2 diabetes. A statistically significant relationship between visual acuity and the average area of foveal avascular zone was established (p<0.01) according to angio-OCT data in DME 1 in patients with NPDR and type 2 diabetes at all follow-up periods (p<0.01).
THE ROLE OF PLATELET GROWTH FACTOR PDGF AS A PREDICTOR OF FIBROTIC CHANGES IN LUNG PATHOLOGY (literature review)
Authors: Liubarets T. F. , Sych O. G.
Published: December 2024

Background. Fibrotic changes as manifestations of a systemic process in the human body are found in a wide range of diseases of the bronchopulmonary system. The genetic component of the process of lung tissue fibrosis, which involves genes of the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) family, plays an important role in the clinical course of lung diseases and the formation of isolated consequences, in particular, the development of respiratory failure, which significantly complicates the quality of life of patients.
Aim: To determine the role of PDGF family genes in the formation of fibrotic changes in normal and lung pathology, to analyze the ways of correcting the detected disorders.
Materials and methods. The article uses the bibliographic method, summarizes scientific publications presented in PubMed and Google Scholar.
Results. The literature review presents structural features of PDGF family genes and their receptors (PDGFR). The role of PDGF genes in the processes of physiological development of the lungs, their participation in the mechanisms of the formation of pathological processes accompanied by fibrosis of lung tissue (viral infections, interstitial lung diseases, bronchial asthma) was analyzed. The effectiveness of the use of modern drugs that affect signaling pathways involving genes of the PDGF family and their receptors PDGFR as predictors of the formation of fibrotic changes in lung tissue was evaluated.
Conclusion. Genes of the PDGF family play an important role both in the processes of lung development in the neonatal period and in the development of fibrotic changes in lung tissue in a wide range of diseases (viral infections, interstitial lung diseases, bronchial asthma). The introduction into treatment of drugs that affect signaling pathways involving the genes of the PDGF family and the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors to correct the functioning of PDGFR receptors leads to a reduction in the progression of fibrotic changes in the lung tissue and is one of the modern strategic directions in the treatment of this group of diseases.
Pengaruh Pengawasan dan Kepemimpinan terhadap Disiplin Kerja dengan Motivasi Kerja sebagai Variabel Pemoderasi
Authors: Andini Lilla , Budiati Yuli , Albert Albert
Published: December 2024

Adanya pengawasan dan kepemimpinan mempengaruhi disiplin dan motivasi kerja. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh antara pengawasan dan kepemimpinan terhadap disiplin kerja, selain itu juga untuk mengetahui apakah motivasi kerja dapat memoderasi pengaruh antara pengawasan dan kepemimpinan terhadap disiplin kerja. Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kuantitatif dengan jumlah sampel yang diambil sebanyak 147 pegawai. Sampel dalam penelitian ini diambil dengan menggunakan teknik probability sampling yaitu simple random sampling. Teknik analisis data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan Partial Least Square (PLS). Didapatkan hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu a) pengawasan mempunyai pengaruh secara signifikan terhadap disiplin kerja, b) kepemimpinan berpengaruh secara langsung dan signifikan terhadap disiplin kerja, c) motivasi memoderasi pengaruh secara langsung dan signifikan pengawasan terhadap disiplin kerja, d) motivasi memoderasi kepemimpinan yang berpengaruh secara langsung dan signifikan terhadap disiplin kerja.
Hubungan Laba dan Rasio Pasar di Perbankan Indonesia
Authors: Ferli Ossi , Paulina Paulina , Farhanah Hanifah , Dinanti Queen
Published: December 2024

Di tengah maraknya globalisasi dan dinamisme perekonomian, sektor perbankan Indonesia mendapat perhatian yang cukup besar dalam penelitian. Memahami dinamika keuangan perbankan di Indonesia seringkali dimulai dengan memahami fenomena umum yang mempengaruhi sektor ini, seperti perubahan peraturan keuangan, fluktuasi pasar global, dan faktor makroekonomi lainnya yang mempengaruhi kinerja keuangan dan penilaian pasar lembaga keuangan. Kajian ini berfokus pada aspek spesifik hubungan antara keuntungan dan kondisi pasar pada industri perbankan Indonesia, tidak hanya pada kinerja keuangan perbankan namun juga bagaimana pasar menilai kinerja dan potensi pertumbuhan lembaga keuangan. Penelitian sebelumnya telah menyelidiki faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi hubungan ini dan dampaknya terhadap kinerja pasar. Namun, penelitian terbaru menunjukkan bahwa pemahaman kita tentang hubungan antara profitabilitas dan pasar perlu diperbarui sebagai respons terhadap dinamika yang berkembang di sektor perbankan. Dengan memperbarui pemahaman tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan wawasan yang lebih mendalam bagi para pemangku kepentingan industri perbankan, regulator, dan peneliti yang tertarik pada bidang ini. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggunakan kerangka analisis yang rinci dan modern untuk mengeksplorasi dan menganalisis hubungan-hubungan tersebut dan memberikan wawasan berharga terhadap literatur akademis dan praktis di bidang perbankan di Indonesia.
Pengaruh Pengembangan Karir dan Motivasi Kerja terhadap Kinerja Karyawan PT BCA Multifinance Kanwil 1 Bandung
Authors: Miranda Intan Rizki , Rahmayanti Rima
Published: December 2024

Sumber daya manusia menjadi salah satu modal dan memegang suatu peran yang paling penting dalam suatu perusahaan dalam upaya untuk mewujudkan keberhasilan perusahaan. Salah satu faktor yang dapat mempengaruhi kinerja karyawan adalah pengembangan karir dan motivasi kerja. Semakin efektif pengembangan karir diterapkan, semakin tinggi motivasi dan tingkat kinerja di antara karyawan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh pengembangan karir dan motivasi kerja terhadap kinerja karyawan di PT BCA Multifinance Kanwil 1 Bandung secara simultan. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif dan menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi linear berganda. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa tanggapan responden terhadap variabel pengembangan karir memiliki persentase sebesar 63,6% yang termasuk dalam kategori “Cukup Baik”, serta variabel motivasi kerja memperoleh persentase sebesar 68,5% yang berada dalam kategori “Baik” dan variabel kinerja karyawan sebesar 69% termasuk dalam kategori “Baik”. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah terdapat pengaruh yang simultan antara pengembangan karir dan motivasi kerja terhadap kinerja karyawan di PT BCA Multifinance Kanwil 1 Bandung dengan persentase sebesar 16,3%. Hasil tersebut dapat menunjukan bahwa pengembangan karir dan motivasi kerja memberikan kontribusi pengaruh terhadap kinerja karyawan pada perusahaan.
Development of a Tunable First Order Wide Bandpass Active Filter for Communication Systems
Authors: Venumula Shravankumar , M.K. Karthikeyan
Published: December 2024

In this research, a tunable first-order wide bandpass active filter (BPAF) is developed especially for contemporary communication systems where frequency, flexibility and adaptability are crucial. Because of their limited ability to adapt to changing operating conditions, conventional fixed-frequency filters are inappropriate for dynamic systems such as Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and multi-band communication platforms. Using operational amplifiers and variable passive parts like resistors and capacitors, this paper describes the design theoretical analysis and real-world application of a first-order tunable bandpass filter. With a frequency range of 1 kHz to 10 MHz and an adjustable bandwidth of 100 Hz to 2 MHz, the tunable BPAF is perfect for both narrow and wideband applications. Circuit simulation hardware prototyping and testing with function generators and oscilloscopes are all part of the design process which assesses the circuit noise performance gain, stability and frequency response. The findings show low harmonic distortion and superb tuning accuracy preserving steady performance over the whole operating range. When real-time frequency adjustment is required in communication systems, this tunable filter offers substantial benefits by offering flexibility and dependability in demanding settings. Higher-order designs for more precise frequency roll-offs and enhanced selectivity may be investigated in future research.
Transfer coefficients of heavy metals and fatty acid content of total lipids in freshly built beehives in different territories of the Carpathian region
Authors: Rivis Y. F. , Postoienko V. O. , Gutyj B. V. , Stadnytska O. I. , Saranchuk I. I. , Klym O. Ya. , Shelevach A. V. , Diachenko O. B. , Hopanenko O. O. , Bezaltychna O. O. , Yasko V. M.
Published: December 2024

In the literature, there is only fragmentary data on the content of heavy metals and certain forms of fatty acids in freshly built bee combs (tongues) in different territories of the Carpathian region. The work aimed to determine the transfer coefficients of heavy metals from bee combs and abdominal tissues to bee combs and the fatty acid content of total lipids in freshly built bee combs (tongues) in different territories of the Carpathian region. Experimental apiaries of clinically healthy honey bees of the Carpathian breed were selected based on private apiary farms in the mountain, foothills, and forest-steppe territories of the Lviv region. The content of heavy metals in bee pollen, abdominal tissues of honey bees, and freshly built bee combs were studied to determine the transition coefficients. The content of heavy metals in selected samples of bee pollen, abdominal tissues of honey bees, and freshly built bee combs was determined using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, and the fatty acids of total lipids in the combs were determined using a gas-liquid chromatographic apparatus. It was established that in the direction from the mountain to the foothills and further to the forest-steppe territories of the Carpathian region, the content of Ferrum, Zinc, Cuprum, Cobalt, Chromium, Nicol, Plumbum, and Cadmium in bee pollen (pollen), tissues of the abdomen of honey bees and in freshly built bee combs increases (tongues). In the above direction, the transfer coefficients of Ferrum, Zinc, Copper, Chromium, Nicol, and especially Plumbum and Cadmium from bee pollen to bee combs increase strongly; Ferrum, Zinc, Cobalt, Nicol and especially Lead and Cadmium from abdominal tissues. The total content of esterified forms of fatty acids in bee combs (tongues) obtained from beehives located in the foothills and especially the forest-steppe area of the Carpathian region is lower than in combs selected from beehives located in the mountainous area. The content of fatty acids of total lipids, which are characterized by antimicrobial activity, in freshly built bee combs (tongues) obtained from beehives located in the foothills and forest-steppe areas of the Carpathian region, compared to combs selected from beehives located in the mountainous area, is lower. Freshly built bee combs (tongues) can be bioindicators of the ecological state of the environment. In the future, it is necessary to establish the wax productivity of worker bees in different territories of the Carpathian region and search for ways to obtain high-quality honey in the above region.
ІНТЕГРАЦІЯ ОБЛІКОВОЇ ТА АНАЛІТИЧНОЇ РОБОТИ В СИСТЕМІ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ УПРАВЛІННЯ ЕКОНОМІЧНОЮ БЕЗПЕКОЮ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА
Authors: Саванчук Т.М. , Ромма А.С. , Чалий Р.В.
Published: December 2024

В сучасних умовах підвищених вимог до інформаційного забезпечення управління економічною безпекою підприємства, одним із важливих завдань є якісна інтеграція облікової та аналітичної роботи при підготовці необхідних даних. У статті виокремленні основні підходи до організації такої інтеграції з метою формування обліково-аналітичного базису управління економічною безпекою підприємства. Авторами встановлено, що в практичній діяльності організація зазначеної інтеграції може здійснюватися трьома основними способами. Надано характеристику та визначено основні переваги і недоліки кожного із зазначених способів, що дозволить конкретним суб’єктам господарювання вибрати для себе найоптимальніший. Стаття містить практичні поради та рекомендації, які можуть бути корисними керівникам та власникам бізнесу при організації налагодження інтеграції облікової та аналітичної роботи в єдиний процес.
MODERN ANALYSIS TOOLS AND THEIR ROLE IN MAKING STRATEGIC DECISIONS OF CREATIVE AGENCIES
Authors: Сагачко Ю.М. , Канан Фуад огли Сеїдалі
Published: December 2024

The article examines modern analysis tools used by creative agencies in the process of making strategic decisions. In particular, such technologies as business analytics, big data analysis, artificial intelligence tools, as well as specialized platforms for processing marketing and customer data are considered. An analysis of the key functions performed by these tools was carried out, including forecasting of market trends, analysis of consumer behavior, evaluation of the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and optimization of internal business processes. Attention is focused on how the integration of modern analysis tools into the activities of creative agencies allows not only to make more informed strategic decisions, but also to increase competitiveness, adaptability to changes in the market environment and the formation of a long-term development strategy. As a result of the study, the key advantages of using such tools to improve the efficiency of agencies' work have been identified.
НОРМАТИВНО-ПРАВОВІ ЗАСАДИ ДЕРЖАВНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ ДОРОЖНІМ БУДІВНИЦТВОМ У ВОЄННИЙ ТА ПОСТ-ВОЄННИЙ ЧАС
Authors: Середа Ю. В.
Published: December 2024

У статті розглянуто теоретичні та практичні підходи щодо визначення нормативно-правових засад забезпечення державного управління дорожнім будівництвом в Україні. Акцентовано увагу на необхідності забезпечення належного рівня державного управління дорожнім будівництвом, в тому числі й через прийняття нормативно-правових актів. Описано питання нормативно-правового регулювання державного управління дорожнім будівництвом. Розкрито сутність нормативно-правового механізму державного управління дорожнім будівництвом в Україні, визначено види, структуру та практичне значення нормативно-правових актів, що регулюють питання державного управління дорожнім будівництвом. Сформульовано авторське визначення поняття нормативно-правового механізму державного управління дорожнім будівництвом, проведено класифікацію нормативно-правових актів за юридичною силою, за їх впливом на об’єкт, за суб’єктом їх прийняття, оцінено їх вплив на державне управління дорожнім будівництвом в Україні. Визначено, що за юридичною силою нормативно-правові акти поділяються на закони та підзаконні нормативно-правові акти. Проведено розподіл актів на стратегічні, загальні, спеціальні та надзвичайні. Вказано на важливість актів Європейського Союзу. Визначено специфіку системи нормативних актів, які регулюють відносини учасників дорожнього будівництва. Охарактеризовано вплив усіх перелічених актів на управління дорожнім будівництвом в Україні. Визначено коло нагальних проблем дорожнього будівництва та запропоновано шляхи їх вирішення. Описано міжнародні договори та Угоди та систему норм.
Збірник освітніх кейсів з охорони довкілля та ресурсозбереження в повоєнній аграрній галузі
Authors:   Інститут професійної освіти НАПН України, Герлянд Тетяна , Дрозіч Ірина , Каленський Андрій , Лапа Оксана
Published: December 2024

У практичному посібнику висвітлено завдання професійної освіти в контексті охорони довкілля та ресурсозбереження в повоєнній аграрній галузі; окреслено принципи екологічної безпеки, збалансованого ресурсозбереження і вектори сталого розвитку як сучасної парадигми екоорієнтованої професійної підготовки фахівців української повоєнної аграрної галузі. Надано практичні розробки освітніх кейсів з охорони довкілля та ресурсозбереження і рекомендації щодо їх застосування. Адресовано керівникам і педагогічним працівникам закладів професійної освіти, аспірантам і докторантам, методистам навчально (науково)-методичних центрів (кабінетів) професійно-технічної освіти та усім, хто цікавиться питаннями збереження довкілля та сталого розвитку.
Gender, Weather, and Time of Day: Active Travel Observations in Greater Sydney
Authors: Zhang Yuting , Shao Jingyi , Nelson John D. , Kent Jennifer L. , Vardoulakis Sotiris
Published: December 2024

This paper examines how weather and time of day affect the way males and females use walking and cycling infrastructure in Sydney, Australia. Using observational data from three dedicated walking and cycling paths, the results show that more males than females engaged in walking and cycling, with cycling showing a greater gender disparity. While active travel volumes were influenced by weather and time of day, no significant gender differences were observed in how these factors affected the number of active travel users.
The Ultimate Astonisher: Dorothy Richardson's "Pilgrimage"
Authors: Podnieks Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

[para. 1]: "It is by now a commonplace that feminist scholars, responding to the call to expose these "half-truths," have been re-opening the doors of modernist literary history in order to admit women writers into a canon that has for too long excluded them. Virginia L. Smyers stresses that women, including Dorothy Richardson, Bryher, Sylvia Beach, Djuna Barnes, Mary Butts, Frances Gregg, Marianne Moore, May Sin- clair, Amy Lowell, Harriett Weaver, Gertrude Stein, and Mina Loy, "were not a sidelight of the literary production of the period; they were as much a part of it as Joyce, Eliot, and Pound. That the men's names have emerged since as the stars might have much to do with the per- ceptions of the predominantly male critics." The accuracy of this state- ment can be measured by focussing on the fate of one of these women: Dorothy Richardson."
'Daddy Time All the Time’: Representations of	Involved Fatherhood in Contemporary Dadoirs
Authors: Podnieks Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

Since the late twentieth century, motherhood memoirs, or momoirs, have become a staple of the literary marketplace. These matrifocal texts, written in the mother’s own voice, are a vital addition to a tradition of both fictional and nonfictional narratives about the mother figure delivered from the adult child’s point of view. The mother’s recent breakthrough into textual subjectivity has inspired—and been complemented by—a proliferation of patrifocal stories. While Andre Gerard identifies a historical trajectory, from the seventeenth century to the present, of what he calls the “patremoir,” an “essay, poem, play or film built around memories of the authors father,” the early twenty-first century has generated a new genre, which I will call the dadoir: memoirs about fatherhood written by fathers themselves. The emergence of the dadoir coincides with, just as it contributes to, our dramatically increasing preoccupation with paternal identity and experience within all spheres of society. At the same time, the dadoir takes its place alongside the socially mediated life writings and performances of blogs, talk shows, and reality TV that have spread since the 1990s on. Through their narratives of confession, self-revelation, and overexposure, these genres accentuate our millennial obsession with the self while blurring, with ethical impunity, public and private lines.
Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937
Authors: Podnieks Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her years as an expatriate in the modernist hubs of France and England. During her time abroad, Coleman developed as a surrealist writer, publishing a novel, The Shutter of Snow, and poems in little magazines like transition. She also began her life’s work, her diary, which was sustained for over four decades. This portion of the diary is set against the cultural, social, and political milieu of the early twentieth century in the throes of industrialization, commercialization, and modernization. It showcases Coleman’s often larger-than-life, intense personality as she interacted with a multitude of literary, artistic, and intellectual figures of the period like Djuna Barnes, Peggy Guggenheim, Antonia White, John Holms, George Barker, Edwin Muir, Cyril Connolly, Arthur Waley, Humphrey Jennings, Dylan Thomas, and T.S. Eliot. The book offers Coleman’s lively, raw, and often iconoclastic account of her complex social network. The personal and professional encouragements, jealousies, and ambitions of her friends unfolded within a world of limitless sexual longing, supplies of alcohol, and aesthetic discussions. The diary documents the disparate ways Coleman celebrated, just as she consistently struggled to reconcile, her multiple identities as an artistic, intellectual, maternal, sexual, and spiritual woman. Rough Draft contributes to the growing modernist canon of life writings of both female and male participants whose autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries offer diverse accounts of the period, like Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company, and Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle’s Being Geniuses Together.
Introduction: Popular Culture’s Maternal Embrace
Authors: Podnieks Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

[para. 1]: "Mothers are indeed everywhere, as Julie Tharp and Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb affirm in This Giving Birth: Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Women’s Writings. In a related spirit, Chatelaine editor Sara Angel explains the rationale for the magazine’s “first-ever Motherhood Issue” in May 2013: “At no point in history has being a mother, a daughter – or both – been as complicated as it is now. We are working to maintain relationships, careers, homes and aging parents. Playgrounds have become political forums for battles in competitive parenting. Bookstore shelves overflow with manuals on how to do right by your child, and the mommy memoir is its own literary genre. Meanwhile, as the age of first-time mothers climbs higher than ever before, the topic of getting pregnant is a media obsession.” The topic of motherhood in general is “a media obsession,” as Judith Timson explains in the Globe and Mail on 10 April 2005: “We have guided tours of every nook and cranny of modern motherhood and every possible blogging subset of moms: political moms, eco moms, lazy moms, shopping moms, sexually frustrated moms, angry moms, moms who confess that their kids bore them, moms who say it’s necessary to stay home, moms who argue we should all be working.” Timson concludes that “we’ve become, as one blog has it, ‘mothered up beyond all recognition.’”"
Textual Mothers/ Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures
Authors: Podnieks Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter.

The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering and maternal roles, and how these texts offer alternative practices and visions for mothers. Further, it illuminates how textual representations both reflect and help to define or (re)shape the realities of women and families by examining how mothering and being a mother are political, personal, and creative narratives unfolding within both the pages of a book and the spaces of a life. The range of chapters maps a shift from the daughter-centric stories that have dominated the maternal tradition to the matrilineal and matrifocal perspectives that have emerged over the last few decades as the mother’s voice moved from silence to speech.

Contributors make aesthetic, cultural, and political claims and critiques about mothering and motherhood, illuminating in new and diverse ways how authors and the protagonists of the texts “read” their own maternal identities as well as the maternal scripts of their families, cultures, and nations in their quest for self-knowledge, agency, and artistic expression. 
“Celebrity Bio Blogs: Hagiography, Pathography, and Perez Hilton”
Authors: Podnieks Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

[para. 1]: "In "The Case Against Biography," Michael Holroyd plays devil's advocate to all those who dismiss, demean, or devalue the genre. "First," he announces, "comes the biographer who writes about the very famous, either the living or the warm dead. This class of biographer keeps company with film stars, murderers and the royal family." "They trade on other people's miseries, dine out on their tragedies, and make the trivial perpetually portentous" (4-5). Originating from the eighteenth century, they remain "the most newsworthy biographers of our own day and perhaps the easiest to attack. Fat sitting ducks" (4-5). Celebrity biographers are indeed everywhere, plying their trade in books, in tabloid newspapers and gossip magazines, on entertainment television shows, and, most recently, online. From the mid-1990s, when the internet began its steady domination of popular culture to the present, websites like People.com, etonline.com and biography.com have proliferated. Devoted to the public and professional as well as the private and personal lives of celebrities, they can now comfortably be referred to as a genre in their own right: online celebrity biography."