bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
An Ultralong-wavelength Sky Model with Absorption Effect
Authors: Cong 丛艳 Yanping 平 , Yue 岳 Bin 斌 , Xu 徐怡 Yidong 冬 , Huang 黄啓 Qizhi 志 , Zuo 左世 Shifan 凡 , Chen 陈学 Xuelei 雷
Published: June 2021

The radio sky at frequencies below ∼10 MHz is still largely unknown; this remains the last unexplored part of the electromagnetic spectrum in astronomy. The upcoming space experiments aiming at such low frequencies (ultralong wavelengths or ultralow frequencies) would benefit from reasonable expectations of the sky brightness distribution at relevant frequencies. In this work, we develop a radio sky model that is valid down to ∼1 MHz. In addition to discrete H ii objects, we take into account the free–free absorption by thermal electrons in the Milky Way’s warm ionized medium. This absorption effect becomes obvious at ≲10 MHz, and could make the global radio spectrum turn over at ∼3 MHz. Our sky map shows unique features at the ultralong wavelengths, including a darker Galactic plane in contrast to the sky at higher frequencies, and huge shadows of the spiral arms on the sky map. It will be a useful guide for designing future ultralong-wavelength observations. Our Ultralong-wavelength Sky Model with Absorption (ULSA) model can be downloaded at doi:10.5281/zenodo.4454153.
Charting the Galactic Acceleration Field. I. A Search for Stellar Streams with Gaia DR2 and EDR3 with Follow-up from ESPaDOnS and UVES
Authors: Ibata Rodrigo , Malhan Khyati , Martin Nicolas , Aubert Dominique , Famaey Benoit , Bianchini Paolo , Monari Giacomo , Siebert Arnaud , Thomas Guillaume F. , Bellazzini Michele , Bonifacio Piercarlo , Caffau Elisabetta , Renaud Florent
Published: June 2021

We present maps of the stellar streams detected in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) and Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) catalogs using the STREAMFINDER algorithm. We also report the spectroscopic follow-up of the brighter DR2 stream members obtained with the high-resolution CFHT/ESPaDOnS and VLT/UVES spectrographs as well as with the medium-resolution NTT/EFOSC2 spectrograph. Two new stellar streams that do not have a clear progenitor are detected in DR2 (named Hríd and Gunnthrá), and seven are detected in EDR3 (named Gaia-6 to Gaia-12). Several candidate streams are also identified. The software also finds very long tidal tails associated with the 15 globular clusters: NGC 288, NGC 1261, NGC 1851, NGC 2298, NGC 2808, NGC 3201, M68, ωCen, NGC 5466, Palomar 5, M5, NGC 6101, M92, NGC 6397, and NGC 7089. These stellar streams will be used in subsequent contributions in this series to chart the properties of the Galactic acceleration field on ∼100 pc to ∼100 kpc scales.
Generation of hydrogen by hydroheterogeneous compositions based on aluminum and alkali metals
Authors: Askhadullin Sergey R. , Milinchuk Viktor K.
Published: June 2021

The process of hydrogen formation and the associated risk of combustion and explosion is a complex problem concerned with the hydrogen and radiation safety of nuclear reactors. Lithium, potassium and sodium hydroxides are used in VVER reactors as corrective additives for keeping the hydrogen potential of the water coolant with boric acid at a controlled level of 5.8 to 10.3. In the process of investigating the interaction of aqueous solutions of the above hydroxides with aluminum, the most chemically active of these is lithium hydroxide; this reaction proceeds with hydrogen formed at a high rate at room temperature (in an exothermic mode). The processes of hydrogen generation in hydroheterogeneous compositions with potassium and sodium hydroxides proceed at an acceptable rate with heating to ~ 60 °C. The kinetics of hydrogen generation depends in a complex way on the content of boric acid, namely, the hydrogen yield is at a level of ~ 1000 ml at a low concentration of 0.01 to 0.05 g/l, and there is no hydrogen formation at a concentration of 0.6 g/l. According to the coolant quality standards, in the hot state of a VVER-1000 unit or in the reactor state at the minimum controlled power level, the total concentration of alkali metals is about 1 mg/dm3, i.e. two to three orders of magnitude as less as in the investigated compositions. The discovery of the influence of alkali metal hydroxides on the formation of hydrogen with the participation of structural materials based on the example of aluminum makes it possible to suggest that the hydroxides of these metals contained in the coolant in a small amount can also take part in the hydroheterogeneous process of formation of minor hydrogen amounts. The potential for hydrogen formation in such a way needs to be taken into account during long-term operation of nuclear reactors, and during accidents and incidents at NPPs
The concept of inherent safety of generation V nuclear power plants
Authors: Slesarev Igor S. , Adamov Yevgeny O. , Leonov Viktor N. , Rachkov Valery I. , Orlov Alexander I.
Published: June 2021

Elimination of significant risks in nuclear power production is at the present stage a necessity and goal-setting that determines its development in the near future.

Of particular importance is the problem of maximum credibility and convincingly substantiated stability of nuclear power plants against severe accidents. The lack of clear logic, transparency and guarantees in the reliability of the announced nuclear safety significantly hinders its development, unnecessarily overcomplicating expensive technical solutions, thereby weakening the competitiveness of nuclear power.

The originally proposed Concept of Inherent Safety set the task of solving the above problems; however, its specific content has not been explicitly presented so far, which allows many competitors to use its terminology to promote projects that are not directly related to the ‘spirit and letter’ of Inherent Safety.

This paper is intended to fill this gap. The authors also discuss the conditions for the generation and development of new self-protection means for innovative nuclear reactors as well as the phenomenological and technical aspects for their implementation based on the deterministic formalism.
Joyeux anniversaire la vie !
Authors: Barrier Philippe
Published: June 2021

Le texte, écrit par le malade chronique que je suis à l’occasion de l’anniversaire de l’événement médical qui m’a redonné un champ et un pouvoir d’action renouvelés et élargis, commence par évoquer mon parcours médical sous le paradigme de la contradiction surmontée. Il évoque ensuite la confrontation de cette expérience singulière avec ce que révèle l’actuelle pandémie, c’est-à-dire le basculement potentiel de l’humanité entière dans le régime de la maladie chronique, et la manifestation de l’évidence de son universelle vulnérabilité. Il pointe enfin l’incapacité de la démocratie, telle que conçue et pratiquée aujourd’hui, non seulement à éviter puis gérer les catastrophes, mais aussi à permettre à la société de penser collectivement et de faire fructifier les savoirs utiles à la prise en main de telles situations qui risquent de devenir notre horizon. Il se clôt par un appel à un soulèvement pacifique des vulnérables contre l’ordre économique toxique qui détruit le monde et nos vies.
Chroniques d’un virus annoncé
Authors: Dupuis Emmanuel
Published: June 2021

Cet article est le point de vue situé et singulier d’un médecin néphrologue confronté avec ses patients particulièrement fragiles à la pandémie de Covid 19 durant plus d’un an.
Victimizing Europeans: Narrating Shared History in the European Parliament’s House of European History
Authors: Kaiser Wolfram
Published: June 2021

La Maison de l'histoire européenne du Parlement européen à Bruxelles, qui a ouvert ses portes en 2017, est le premier musée en Europe consacré à l'histoire de l'Europe moderne. Basé sur une analyse attentive de son exposition permanente, une observation non participante, une analyse documentaire et des entretiens, cet article explore et interprète le maître-récit du musée sur la Première Guerre mondiale, les régimes totalitaires et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et l'Europe d'après-guerre, ainsi que l'intégration européenne. Il montre comment et pourquoi le musée blâme le nationalisme comme cause fondamentale de conflits et de guerres en Europe. Avec son fort accent sur les similitudes entre le national-socialisme et le stalinisme en tant que régimes d'oppression, il raconte, en outre, une histoire des Européens comme victimes de régimes oppressifs abstraits. Paradoxalement, la Maison de l'histoire européenne utilise ainsi les outils narratifs du nationalisme pour vaincre le nationalisme.
Competing Regimes of Memory? The European Day of Remembrance in Romania
Authors: Thiemann Alina , Pricopie Valentina
Published: June 2021

Cette étude examine à la fois la transposition en Roumanie de la Résolution du Parlement européen de 2009 sur la Conscience européenne et le totalitarisme, et la couverture médiatique de la Journée Européenne du Souvenir pour la commémoration des victimes de tous les régimes totalitaires et autoritaires. Elle montre que la dimension européenne du 23 Août reste bloquée en Roumanie, vu la saturation mnémonique des passés toujours non résolus. Malgré les conséquences directes du Pacte germano-soviétique, le 23 août 1939 y est encore perçu comme un événement historique extérieur, ce qui le rend plutôt marginal dans le cadre du répertoire mnémonique national.
Orlando, le discours incarné d’un livre mélancolique
Authors: Tateou Alexia , Aloupis Panos
Published: June 2021

L’auteure suggère qu’à travers l’écriture de Woolf on suit une voie difficile de traduction psychique. Dans le discours poétique de son écriture on écoute la fragilité d’un monde psychique qui perd le contact avec le monde en tant que scène externe, submergé par un réel qu’il n’est pas capable de métaboliser. À l’aide des travaux de P. Aulagnier, on découvre le discours incarné d’une écriture mélancolique, où la corporéité sensorielle et la douleur représentent les éléments de sa propre cohérence et le moyen de sa communication au lecteur.
Les coulisses du cerveau (l’inconscient aux commandes), de Jean-Paul Tassin
Authors: Brusset Bernard
Published: June 2021

Ce livre d’un grand maître des neurosciences donne un accès clair à des données neurobiologiques et neuropharmacologiques très actuelles. Notamment à propos des rêves, des traumatismes et des addictions, il montre les relations entre les automatismes rapides des « bassins attracteurs » de l’inconscient analogique et le traitement cognitif lent par la conscience. Des données qui posent la question de leurs rapports avec la clinique psychanalytique et la métapsychologie.
Local controllability of complex networks
Authors: Luo Chang
Published: June 2021

The control of complex networks has been studied extensively in the last decade, with different control models been introduced. In this paper, we propose a new network control framework, called local controllability. Local controllability extends the entire network control onto a local scale, and it concerns about the minimum number of inputs required to control a subset of nodes in a directed network. We develop a mathematical formulation for local controllability as an optimization problem and show that it can be solved by a cubic-time algorithm. Moreover, applications to both real networks and model networks are presented and results of these numerical studies are then discussed.
Les déterminants de la construction et de la mise en œuvre de démarches d’investigation chez deux enseignants de physique-chimie au collège
Authors: Jameau Alain , Boilevin Jean-Marie
Published: June 2021

Cet article porte sur les déterminants de l’action enseignante lors de la construction et la mise en œuvre d’un enseignement fondé sur l’investigation. Nous nous plaçons dans le contexte de l’enseignement de la mécanique en classe de troisième. Notre approche théorique fait référence à la didactique des sciences et à la didactique professionnelle. Nous avons élaboré une méthodologie spécifique dont l’un des principes est un suivi des enseignants, pendant deux années consécutives, qui englobe leur activité hors classe. Nous identifions les déterminants en analysant les buts des professeurs au cours de leur activité ainsi que les tâches prescrites qui en découlent pour les élèves. Nous nous appuyons pour cela sur un repérage des critères retenus par les enseignants pour construire une « démarche d’investigation ». Nous montrons que différents éléments interviennent dans les déterminants de l’action : certaines catégories de connaissances professionnelles, notamment des PCK mais aussi la connaissance des enseignants sur la façon dont les élèves apprennent les sciences, sur l’historique des apprentissages construits au sein d’une classe, sur l’épistémologie de la discipline enseignée.
Nouvelle professionnalité des enseignants d’éducation physique et sportive en lycée professionnel. Bonne distance, séquençage et extériorisation des règles du travail scolaire
Authors: Coste Sabine
Published: June 2021

Le lycée professionnel (LP) est un espace d’enseignement en pleine mutation. Ses enseignants vivent des réformes qui questionnent le métier parmi lesquelles la rénovation de la certification. Notre recherche s’intéresse à un groupe d’enseignants, les professeurs d’éducation physique et sportive qui doivent mettre en œuvre de nouvelles modalités de certification. Nous étudions la professionnalité enseignante grâce à une approche comparatiste de deux groupes de professeurs, des enseignants déjà en exercice et des enseignants entrant dans le métier et découvrant un milieu d’enseignement peu abordé lors de leur formation initiale. La réforme du contrôle en cours de formation (CCF), nécessitant la construction d’un nouveau dispositif d’évaluation et de nouvelles règles de notation, est devenue pour nous un levier permettant d’accéder à l’activité des enseignants. Notre analyse nous a permis de mettre en évidence des éléments révélateurs d’une « nouvelle professionnalité » mobilisée par les enseignants entrant dans le métier dont les plus marquants sont présentés dans cet article. Ainsi la construction de la « bonne distance », le renforcement du séquençage et l’extériorisation des règles du travail scolaire caractérisent la façon d’exercer le métier des « nouveaux enseignants » pour enseigner avec des élèves qui sont en réapprentissage des normes scolaires.
AIC Algorithm for Online Purchasing Intention
Authors: Khoi Bui Huy
Published: June 2021

In recent years, the internet market in Vietnam has developed strongly, leading to many forms of electronic business being born and with rapid growth. Online shopping is seen as the solution to cost-effective, fast, and convenient shopping. This chapter was based on concepts and theoretical grounds related to behavior intention to accept and apply new technology to form the proposed research model. It consists of three independent factors—(1) utility perception, (2) trust, (3) social influence—and one dependent factor, online purchasing intention. This study reveals the optimal choice by the AIC algorithm.
Role of Cryptocurrency in Digital Marketing
Authors: Bhadeshiya Hardik Bharatbhai
Published: June 2021

This chapter explores the role of cryptocurrency in digital marketing. Throughout the most recent years, cryptocurrency has developed, both in worth and ubiquity. Indeed, numerous industry leaders trust that cryptocurrency can change money and promote it until the end of time. In any case, as computerized cash, bitcoin turns out to be more ordinary ; cryptocurrency may introduce a few issues for advertisers hoping to gather shopper information. The cryptocurrency market is an appropriate environment dependent on the distributed network innovation. Decentralization is a distinguishing characteristic of this framework, and it is an impression of how there is no national bank or another case that authorizes power over the organization. The exchanges are led and checked to employ an appropriated blockchain system that relies upon clients' assets called diggers.
Blockchain Technology in Tourism Management
Authors: Ramos Célia M. Q.
Published: June 2021

The tourist activity realized early on the advantages in the adoption of technology for the performance of its activities. With the emergence of the technological environment provided by Industry 4.0, blockchain technology emerges as the most disruptive and consequently more challenging technology for the tourism industry, since it has excellent potential to leverage innovation in this activity, whether in terms of products, processes, management, marketing, or institutionally. A bibliometric analysis was carried out to investigate affected studies in the tourism area, including the hotel, restaurant, marketing, and other sectors. Application of blockchain technology may be the key to boost tourism since its applicability presents several opportunities for tourism stakeholders, adds security and confidence in business transactions, can influence changes in the tourism value system, in terms of the value creation for customers, value creation for business, and in the tourism distribution chain.
Role of Cryptocurrency in Digital Marketing
Authors: Trivedi Sonal , Malik Reena
Published: June 2021

Today, the world has become a digital platform where technology has become an important part of day-to-day life. The world is growing at a rapid pace where there is a new innovation every other day. As days are passing, every aspect of life has become online. Companies have also identified the scope and opportunity of digital marketing. This chapter discusses how cryptocurrency is a challenge for digital marketing. This study is an exploratory study that involves secondary data collection. The objective of the research is to identify the influence of cryptocurrency on digital marketing. The findings of the study suggest that digital marketing is a data-driven marketing technique, and cryptocurrency is a payment mode that hides data; thus, the popularity of cryptocurrency as a mode of payment is a challenge for digital marketing.
Motivating Antecedents and Consequences of Blockchain Technology in the Insurance Industry
Authors: Oberoi Sumit , Kansra Pooja
Published: June 2021

Quantum leaps in technology affect all phases of business models over numerous industries and are the fundamental characteristic of any technological revolution. Emerging technologies provide new avenues for industries to increase their competitive advantage and enhance the economic progression. The aim of this study is to advance a theoretical model on motivating antecedents and consequences of blockchain technology in insurance industry based on the evidence from past literature. This chapter is approached from the theoretical viewpoint, so it meticulously assesses and examines the prior literature to debate on the role of blockchain technology in the insurance industry. The outcome of the present study is dispassionate and corresponding to the conclusions of the prior literature. Blockchain helps in achieving innovation, augmenting transparency, refining data standards, and advancing an integrated approach for quality service. Thus, the espousal of blockchain in insurance is developing very quickly, and it has become the default platform for the complete insurance industry.
Applications of DSSs in Irrigation and Production Planning in Agriculture
Authors: Papathanasiou Jason , Bournaris Thomas , Tsaples Georgios , Digkoglou Panagiota , Manos Basil D.
Published: June 2021

Agricultural management has become an increasingly complex endeavor. As a result, there is the need to generate knowledge from information that can guide practice, and in that aspect, decision support systems (DSSs) can contribute to achieving this goal. A DSS can be defined as a computer-based information system that is used to support complex decision-making. The aim of this paper is to present such a DSS focused on the agricultural sector. Its purpose is to be used for the planning of agricultural production and better utilization of a region's available resources. The development of the DSS relies on the classic theory of such tools utilizing MCDM models, databases, and a user interfaces. The proposed DSS was applied in the prefecture of Larissa in Central Greece. The DSS is adaptable to different contexts, and applications of these capabilities are presented at the end of the paper, applied in different regions under additional objectives and/or constraints.
Analysis of Harvesting Sustainability
Authors: Satapathy Suchismita
Published: June 2021

The existing harvesters for farming purposes are not affordable to small-scale farmers because of their financial reasons. Moreover, there is a requirement of a small, economic, more accessible & effective machine cost and also these are not available in most of the rural areas due to transportation or finance which would be easily operatable by the small scale farmers. In view of this, the present study was carried out by a depth review of literature s and expert concern is taken for existing harvesting practices and machines. Further, on the basis of ergonomic assessment followed by ISM analysis was done for considering the existing and the modified machines.
Intervention Planning in ITIL Context
Authors: Ketata Mounir , Loukil Zied , Gargouri Faiez
Published: June 2021

In incident management and especially in after-sales services, customer interventions must be planned according to a priority order set by service level agreements as well as the availability of both technicians and clients. Despite the availability of incident management software solutions, intervention planning is still performed manually in most solutions because numerous constraints must be considered such as the synchronization of technician skills and customer requests, their availability, and the customer priorities. The intervention planning problem is considered as a difficult combinatorial optimization issue. Various approaches have been proposed in the literature including the transformation of this problem into a vehicle routing problem (VRP) or into a CSP in the context of ITIL framework. Yet, the resolution of this problem with a classical CSP solver is time consuming and must be optimized by proposing filtering rules or specific heuristics. This paper proposes the improved CSP and COP models for intervention planning problem with implementing filtering rules and techniques.
A New Nanorobots Movement Control Strategy for Treating Cancer
Authors: Ezzat Doaa , Amin Safaa El-Sayed , Shedeed Howida A. , Tolba Mohamed F.
Published: June 2021

Nanorobots were proposed to deliver drugs directly into cancer cells to destroy only these cells without harming the surrounding cells. During their journey, the nanorobots may encounter some obstacles such as blood cells which may be resistant to their movement. So, it is necessary to avoid collisions with these obstacles to achieve their goal. This study proposes a new strategy for controlling the nanorobots movement in human body to reach cancer cells. This proposed strategy uses an efficient algorithm based on fuzzy logic for dynamic obstacle avoidance. Also, this proposed strategy uses the directed particle swarm optimization (DPSO) algorithm for delivering nanorobots to cancer cells. Simulation experiments have proved that the proposed control strategy can efficiently deliver nanorobots to their target and also avoid collisions with dynamic obstacles which move in the same direction of the nanorobots or across their direction.
Rapid mass propagation of endangered valuable medicinal plant Salacia chinensis L. and GC-MS/LC-MS analysis of active compounds produced in callus and leaf extracts
Authors: Kamat S. G. , Vasudeva R. , Patil C. G.
Published: June 2021

A protocol for indirect organogenesis of Salacia chinensis was established. Normally S. chinensis is propagated through seeds. However, due to the difficulty to obtain uniform plants in a short time period by seed germination, micro-propagation is a possible alternative method. For the micro-propagation, media with different concentration combinations of cytokinins and auxins were used to induce callus formation in three explants types: leaf segment, nodal segment and seeds. The rate of recurrence of callus formation from leaf on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal medium supplemented with thidiazuron (TDZ) 0.5mg and TDZ 1mg was 100% and the maximum percentage of shoot let development from nodal segment on MS basal medium supplemented with BAP 6-(benzylamino purine) 3.5+ indole3-butyric acid (IBA) 1 mg/l was 78.3% when compared to other plant growth regulators (PGR) combinations used. The highest shoot regeneration response (85%) and the determined shoots (12.33 ± 0.33%) per callus were attained from leaf explants on MS medium containing 1-napthaleneacetic acid (NAA) 1mg/l + BAP 0.5 mg/l. The seeds showed highest percentage of shoot formation on MS medium supplemented with BAP 2mg + indole 3-acetic acid (IAA) 2mg/l and BAP 2mg + isopentenyl adenine (2iP) 2mg/l. Highest root formation (70±1.3%) was found in shoot regenerated using leaf segment on MS medium supplemented with IBA 0.5mg. The gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of methanolic extract of callus showed more compounds at higher percentage. HPLC-MS analysis of methanolic extract of callus showed higher concentration of Mangifera than in leaf extracts are reported for the first time.
Comparison of the Effectiveness and Clinical Outcome of Everolimus Followed by CDK4/6 Inhibitors with the Opposite Treatment Sequence in Hormone Receptor-Positive, HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer
Authors: Jeong Hyehyun , Jeong Jae Ho , Kim Jeong Eun , Ahn Jin-Hee , Jung Kyung Hae , Kim Sung-Bae
Published: June 2021

Purpose In hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative metastatic breast cancer (HR+ HER2–MBC), the mainstay treatment options include cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors (CDK4/6i) and everolimus (EVE) in combination with endocrine treatment. This study aims to compare the outcomes of the following treatment sequences: CDK4/6i followed by EVE and EVE followed by CDK4/6i.Materials and Methods Data from HR+ HER2– MBC patients treated between January 2014 and November 2020 with both CDK4/6i and EVE were retrospectively analyzed.Results Among the 88 patients included in the study, 51 received CDK4/6i before EVE (C→E group), and 37 received EVE before CDK4/6i (E→C group) with endocrine treatment. More patients in the E→C group had endocrine resistance (13.7% vs. 40.5%), experienced palliative chemotherapy (7.8% vs. 40.5%), and were heavily treated (treated as ≥ 3rd line, 5.9% vs. 40.5%). Median overall survival was 46.8 months in the C→E group and 38.9 months in the E→C group (p=0.151). Median composite progression-free survival (PFS), defined as the time from the start of the preceding regimen to disease progression on the following regimen or death, was 24.8 months in the C→E group vs. 21.8 months in the E→C group (p=0.681). Median PFS2/PFS1 ratio did not differ significantly between groups (0.5 in the C→E group, 0.6 in the E→C group; p=0.775). Ten patients (11.4%) discontinued EVE, and two patients (2.3%) discontinued CDK4/6i during treatment.Conclusion Although the CDK4/6i-based regimen should be considered as an earlier line of treatment, CDK4/6i- and EVE-based treatments can be valid options in circumstances where the other treatment had been already given.
Knowledge and Practice Related to COVID-19 and Mental Health among Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Workneh Firehiwot , Wang Dongqing , Millogo Ourohiré , Worku Alemayehu , Chukwu Angela , Lankoande Bruno , Assefa Nega , Hemler Elena C. , Korte Michelle L. , Soura Abdramane , Oduola Ayoade , Sie Ali , Fawzi Wafaie W. , Berhane Yemane
Published: June 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health emergency affecting the lives of millions of people globally. Different measures and extraordinary steps are being taken to contain the transmission of the virus. The levels of knowledge and implementation of preventive practices related to COVID-19 in sub-Saharan African countries are unclear. Additionally, there is a lack of evidence regarding the impacts of the pandemic on mental health. This study aimed to describe knowledge and practices related to COVID-19 and to assess mental health status among adults in three sub-Saharan African countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. A total of 1,797 adults were included in the survey, and data were collected using computer-assisted telephone interviews. The proportions of adults who identified more than 80% of COVID-19 symptoms, transmission methods, and prevention mechanisms were 69.9%, 79.2%, and 90.7%, respectively. The practice of preventive measures was relatively lower for avoiding social gatherings and disinfecting contaminated surfaces. Better education, urban residence, and believing the pandemic is real were factors associated with good knowledge on COVID-19 symptoms, transmission methods, and preventive actions. Additionally, being male was associated with good knowledge on symptoms and transmission methods, whereas being in an older age group was associated with knowledge of transmission methods. Mild, moderate, and severe psychological distress was reported by 20.6%, 5.9%, and 1.1% of the participants, respectively. Although this study found high levels of knowledge regarding COVID-19, interventions are needed to increase the uptake of recommended preventive practices among adults in sub-Saharan Africa.
Translating Patterns of Style in 'Hour of the Wolves'
Authors: Boase-Beier Jean
Published: June 2021

For a translator of poetry, it is important to analyse the style of the original poem in order to gain access to the poetics from which the poem arose. I consider here the translation of a German poem, ‘Stunde der Wölfe’, by Volker von Törne, into English. Stylistic patterns in the original poem include the central metaphor of wolves and many other metaphors: birds, paths and journeys, night and winter. There are images of curtailment, intervention and impediment caused by natural agents such as wolves, hawks, wind and snow. And there are several patterns of repeated sounds. The translator must also look beyond the poem itself, to the context in which the poet was writing, and to the use of metaphor and myth in both languages. Considering the interaction of all these elements allows the translator to find ways of translating that preserve the central images and stylistic patterns.
In Search of the Essential Competences for Overcoming Language Barriers in Public Services
Authors: Mikolič Južnič Tamara , K. Pokorn Nike
Published: June 2021

It is argued in the article that despite the relatively strong presence of English in Slovenia, the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) alone does not guarantee access to quality public services. To supplement the use of ELF interpreting support is needed, in particular in high-risk situations. A step in this direction was the certification of a national vocational qualification for community interpreters for Albanian in 2020. Since at the same time a new vocational profile for intercultural mediators was created, which also aims to assist the inclusion of migrants in the Slovene society, we investigated the differences between these two profiles by comparing the competences defined in both. The results show that despite some overlaps Slovene vocational standards for both professions differ significantly: while transfer and linguistic competences are central to community interpreter’s profile, conflict resolution and mediation competence figure more prominently in the intercultural mediator’s profile.
In the Limelight? Interpreters’ Visibility in Transborder Interpreting
Authors: Nuč Aleksandra , Pöllabauer Sonja
Published: June 2021

This paper explores photographs that were taken along the Austrian and Slovene border between 2015 and 2018 as ethnographic records of a specific field of interpreting. The photographs show interpreters who helped bridge communication barriers in situations when the mass displacement of refugees from the Middle East resulted in an increased demand for interpreters for a range of languages that had previously not been as sought after. The photographs come from a corpus of pictures and accompanying texts that were compiled through a picture search in digital media. Drawing on the constructs of (in)visibility and bodily semiotics, a set of chosen examples is analysed qualitatively, using a visually oriented approach to examine interpreters’ positionality and agency in transborder humanitarian interpreting. The results suggest a high degree of interactional agency and visibility, but less social visibility.
CoLecTer KIN: Mobile Application for Collaborative Bilingual Glossary Compilation in the ESP Classroom
Authors: Paradiž Martina
Published: June 2021

The ubiquitous use of smartphones has shown to offer great advantages in language learning, which still remain to be harnessed in the field of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL), ESP teaching and translator training in higher education. Language teachers are predominantly the users of existing mobile applications and not their producers, which may narrow their range of choices and options in using mobile technology in teaching. This paper presents the results of a student survey on the usability, perceived benefits, and feedback on the features of an Android mobile application built by the author. The CoLecTer KIN application was used by first-year undergraduate students of Applied Kinesiology in a collaborative project of compiling a Slovene-English bilingual glossary of topic-specific terminology. The design of the application makes it suitable for use in the ESP and translation classroom and in collaborative translation projects.
Application of Revenue Management Practices in Star-Rated Hotels In Kenya
Authors: Muremi Micheal , Wadongo Billy
Published: June 2021

The study aimed to find the extent of applying revenue management (RM) practices in star-rated hotels in Kenya. Specifically, the study sought to determine RM policies and implementation, application of RM techniques, and the use of RM systems. The study used a quantitative approach and adopted a cross-sectional survey research design. The study targeted 225 revenue managers from all-star-rated hotels in Kenya. The findings revealed that RM is a practice in star-rated hotels, even though not in all hotels. Hotels reported having RM policy and implementation taking place. There was an adoption of RM techniques. A dynamic RM team and the presence of social media integration with RM were identified. The findings revealed that by large, star-rated hotels interact with RM systems and sub-systems on the use of RM systems. Some hotels use either one or a combination of two systems. Furthermost, hotels were found to have automated their revenue collection. It was also revealed that they have adopted integrated RM soft-wares. The hotels were found to have meaningful RM data and information, RM pricing devices, and non-pricing devices. In comparison, information reveals a slightly above average presence of RM application in hotels in Kenya. The empirical evidence presented in this paper reveals that some hotels have not entrenched RM applications in terms of policies and implementation, RM tools and techniques, and their RM systems are lacking. The paper proposes that for full realization and maximization benefits associated with RM practices like predicting the growth of hotels, reducing operational costs, improving yields, and generating revenue, the industry should fully embrace RM applications.
Sudan’da Tasavvufî Hayatın Şekillenmesine Kâdiriyye Ve Şâziliyye Tarikatlarının Etkisi
Authors: ÖZKÖSE Kadir
Published: June 2021

Sudan tasavvufî hayatın etkili olduğu ülkelerden biridir. Ülkede İslâm’ın yayılışı daha çok tarikat erbabının gayretleri sonucu gerçekleşmiştir. Tarikatlar zaviye teşkilatları ile Sudan’da geniş halk kitlelerin beklentilerine cevap veren öncelikli kurumlar olarak dikkat çekmektedir. Bölgede tarih boyunca hakim olan tarikatlar özellikle Kâdiriyye ve Şâziliyye olmuştur. Her iki tarikat da farklı kol ve şubeleri ile Sudan’da İslâmî kültürün şekillenip gelişmesinde öncelikli rol oynamışlardır. Kâdiriyye ve Şâziliyye tarikatlarına mensup dervişler Sudan coğrafyasını baştan sona gezmek, halkın arasına karışmak, halkın beklentilerine cevap vermek, farklı kesimlerin kaynaşmasına öncülük etmek suretiyle bölgenin müspet manada gelişimine katkı sağlamışlardır. Kâdiriyye ve Şâziliyye zâviyeleri gerek konumları gerekse işlevsellikleri bakımından canlılıklarını korumuş, ilim ve ticaret merkezi olarak görülmüşlerdir. Kâdiriyye ve Şâziliyye meşayıhı Sudan Müslüman hanedanlıklarının başarılı olmasında, merkezi otoritelerin tesisinde, İslâm’ın yayılmasında, İslâmî bilincin uyanmasında irşad faaliyetleriyle öncülük etmişlerdir. Makalemizde Kâdiriyye ve Şâziliyyenin Sudan’da faaliyet yürüten şubelerini ve önde gelen meşayıhını ele almaya çalıştık. Sudan’daki tasavvufî atmosferin şekillenmesinde Kâdiriyye ve Şâziliyyenin etkisini ele almaya çalıştık.
Educación ambiental mediante tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en San Vicente, El Salvador
Authors: Pérez Dagoberto , Bosque Suárez Rafael , Tornés Reyes Emmanuel
Published: June 2021

Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación poseen un alto potencial para promover las conductas que contrarresten el deterioro ambiental del planeta. El presente estudio se desarrolló con el objetivo de contribuir a la educación ambiental en el departamento de San Vicente, El Salvador, a partir del empleo de cuatro herramientas y recursos facilitados por dichas tecnologías. Con este fin, se siguió una metodología mixta recurrente, donde los métodos teóricos y empíricos permitieron identificar las problemáticas ambientales vigentes y los canales apropiados para la difusión de los contenidos educativos; propiciándose la concepción y consolidación de un programa de televisión mediante cable y Facebook Live, la creación y el funcionamiento de una página en Facebook y un grupo de Whatsapp, así como el diseño de secciones y mensajes de bien público en programas de emisoras locales. El índice de audiencia, teleaudiencia y seguidores de esos productos mostró una alta aceptación, su alcance nacional e internacional, unido a un creciente interés de la población por formar parte de ellos. Lo anterior permite ratificar la importancia y aplicabilidad del uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación para contribuir a la educación ambiental de la sociedad salvadoreña.
Uso de fármacos en el anciano, un desafío a enfrentar. Reporte de un caso
Authors: Ortega López Irma Leonor , Sagaró Yi Natacha de la Concepción
Published: June 2021

Los adultos mayores son especialmente vulnerables a los efectos adversos de medicamentos por lo que es necesario realizar intervenciones para su reducción. Es un hecho que los mejores resultados en salud se obtienen cuando los servicios de salud están organizados en torno a las necesidades y expectativas de salud de las personas, no en torno a las enfermedades. En este sentido se presenta un caso y la estrategia de seguimiento para minimizar la incidencia de los problemas relacionados con medicamentos en un paciente con comorbilidades y polifarmacia.
USLUGA NAMIRENJA IMOVINSKOPRAVNOG ZAHTEVA
Authors:   Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, Milojević Marija
Published: June 2021

The paper presents a continuation of the research on the problem of realization of compensation for damage caused by the commission of criminal offense. In the first paper created within the same project, the author laid the foundations of the problem, dealing with the theoretical notion of damage caused by a criminal offense, the notion of civil torts and tortious liability, and the distinction between the notion of damage and the consequence of a criminal offence. This time, the author will concentrate on settling the receivables for damages by presenting the entire path that one claim for damages should take. Namely, obtaining a property claim should occur primarily in criminal proceedings, but it is most often adjudicated in litigation because in most cases the subject entitled to it is referred to litigation in order to exercise his right to compensation. After the judgement in the civil procedure is rendered, which orders the defendant-convict in the criminal procedure to compensate the caused damage either by compensating the damage in money or by returning the thing, or by annulling a certain legal deal, the concrete execution of the verdict in the executive procedure begins. While studying the manner of collecting the claims of the entitled subject through all three different procedures for the damage caused by the commission of criminal offense, the author also deals with controversial issues that may arise (the issue of statute of limitations for property claim, the issue of subjects who may be holders of property claims, the adequacy of the procedure in which the property claim is exercised, the means of execution of a monetary claim for damages caused by the commission of criminal offense, etc.).
NAČELO PRILAGOĐENOSTI USLUGE I PRAVO NA SLOBODAN IZBOR
Authors:   Faculty of Law, University of Niš, Janković Jelena
Published: June 2021

The first step of a positive change in the system of service-legal relations is a change of view on the role and importance of service users. By providing opportunity to the service user to be an active and important member of the service-legal relationship, a far-reaching and universal value of humanization of the service economy sector is achieved. In such circumstances, the moral authority of the service law is realized through its justice and through voluntary obedience to the law of the subjects of the service-legal relationship. Precisely, this moral dimension of the rule of law, in the service economy sector is realized by applying the principles of service suitability and the right to free choice. In this regard, the paper analyzes the moral dimension and culture of the rule of law in the service sector, based on the principle of service suitability and the right to free choice, which are presented in the paper as guardians of justice of the service-legal norm.
RAZVITAK FRANCUSKE ADVOKATURE U XIX VEKU
Authors:   Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, Marinković Milica
Published: June 2021

The paper is dedicated to the development of advocacy in France throughout history, and special attention is paid to the struggle of lawyers to repair the damage caused to their position by the Bourgeois Revolution. The goals of the legal struggle were fully achieved in the period of the Third Republic, rightly called the "Republic of Lawyers", when they took over the legislative and executive power. French lawyers, especially in the 19th century, were often real political dissidents. With their work as a politival opposition, they redefined the relationship between the state and society and set a clear border of state power, all of which enabled the easier emergence of a liberal constitutional monarchy, and then a republic. Due to the constant opposition activities in the courtroom, the lawyers demonstrated in the best possible way how closely law and politics stand in each state. In the introductory chapter of the paper, the author gives an overview of the historical development of advocacy from the Frankish period to the Revolution itself. During the Old Regime, lawyers enjoyed the status of "secular clergy" and, although members of the Third Class, were an unavoidable political factor in absolutist France. The second chapter contains an analysis of the devastating impact of the Revolution on the legal profession and timid attempts to improve the position of the legal profession with the advent of the Restoration. The third chapter provides an overview of the period from 1830 to 1870, which was characterized by the increasingly serious interference of lawyers in politics in order to fight for the advancement of the profession. The chapter on the Third Republic talks about the successful outcome of the lawyer's fight for their own rights, and the final chapter talks about the tendencies in the French legal profession in the 20th century.
FINANSIRANjE PREDUZEĆA EMISIJOM KORPORATIVNIH OBVEZNICA
Authors:   Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, Labudović Stanković Jasmina
Published: June 2021

The corporate bond market contributes to the development of the financial market, its infrastructure, and affects economic growth. In developed countries, corporate bond issuance is a very common way of borrowing by the corporate sector. In developing countries, this method of borrowing is used "shyly" because companies most often turn to banks for help. In addition, the inflow of FDI in these countries contributes to meeting the financial needs of the corporate sector, thus reducing the need for bond issues. The paper compares borrowing by issuing corporate bonds and bank loans, explains the forms of issue of these securities, rating bonds, the secondary market of corporate bonds and briefly presents the picture of the corporate bonds market of Republic of Serbia.
OSIGURANI RIZICI U OSIGURANjU PREKIDA POSLOVANjA
Authors:   Faculty of Law University of Rijeka, Belanić Loris , Baretić Bojan
Published: June 2021

Business interruption insurance is a type of insurance that covers the loss of income when a company suffers a catastrophic event such as natural disaster, massive fire damage or a huge machinery failure. Closing of the business facility due to the rebuilding process, which is typically considered only property damage in insurance terms, actually has far greater impact on any company as a whole. Many owners, managers and chief executive officers view business interruption insurance predominantly as expense, but global market trends require such policies to be implemented as key basis for modern risk management. For croatian insurance market business interruption policies are still developing as a tailor-made insurance product, while in European insurance market they are considered common business practice. This work is an overview of essential factors which determine business interruption insurance.
PRUŽANjE USLUGA PUTEM MASOVNOG RADA (CROWDWORK)
Authors:   Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, Urdarević Bojan
Published: June 2021

Digitalization is transforming business and the world of work by redefining the boundaries of production, consumption, and distribution. This brings many advantages, but also disadvantages, both for workers and employers. At the same time, digitalization has resulted in the establishment of a new entity in the field of work – the digital platform. Although, they are most often presented as exclusively intermediary agencies that deal with bringing the job seeker and the client in touch, digital platforms have become much more than that over time. In the legal space given to them, which does not currently treat them as a visible party in the contractual relationship, digital platforms enjoy their legally undefined position, which results in creation of a new formation of workers, known as crowdworkers. The subject of this paper is crowdwork, a sa special form of digital work in which the client (service user) and digital worker usually are not in any form of contractual relationship. The very nature of related tasks in corwdwork is about performing a large number of simple, straightforward work operations, although it can also be about far more complex and creative work tasks. This type of work and provision of services, in addition po positively assessed flexibility, often contains negative sides which are reflected in low labour costs, lack of social protection, as well as complete exclusion of crowdworkers from any form of labour protection.