bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Problem of Illegal Channel-crossing
Authors:   Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Godovanyuk Kira
Published: November 2020

In 2020 the number of illegal small boat Channel-crossings to the UK drastically increased (nearly 7000 registered cases). This sparked sharp discussions on measures of countering illegal migration, border control and improvement of asylum policy. The phenomenon of illegal Channel-crossing is related to a wider spectrum of problems beyond international protection and rescue operations, border management and countering international crime (human smuggling and trafficking). The UK withdrawal from the European asylum system after the transition period poses a major challenge. The author argues that the UK’s ambition is to have access to the asylum seekers return procedures stipulated in the Dublin regulation along with strengthening bilateral border control and policing cooperation with the EU member-states. The British authorities are considering different scenarios of bolstering border control including Royal Navy deployment to stop migrant boats. In the meantime, the authorities tend to overstate the problem of illegal migration in order to channel public opinion into the framework of the «take back control of national border» discourse and to put pressure on the EU. The top priority now for Britain is to conclude a Readmission agreement with the European Union.
Deep Green and Social
Authors: Caraway Rose T.
Published: November 2020

Permaculture is a holistic sustainability movement brought to Cuba from Australia in the early 1990s. In addition to a set of twelve design principles that permaculturalists use to organize their houses, backyards, and farms, the movement is grounded upon three main ethical principles: care for the Earth, care for people, and share resources through the recognition of limits to consumption. Using etic analysis of qualitative interviews from the provinces of Havana and Sancti Spíritus, I argue that permaculture in Cuba is a religious movement that is meeting both the spiritual and material needs of individuals. This environmentally engaged religious movement promotes the idea that the Earth is alive and is therefore worthy of reverent care, and this care extends to humans through the growing of food produced within permaculture systems using ecological methods.
Soft Computing Prediction of Oil Extraction from Huracrepitan Seeds
Authors: Nwosu-Obieogu Kenechi , Aguele Felix , Chiemenem Linus
Published: November 2020

This study analyses the extraction process parameters of huracrepitan seed oil using the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The experiments were conducted at temperature (60–80 °C), time (4–6 h), and solute/solvent ratio (0.05–0.10) with output parameter as oil yield. Sensitivity analysis shows that temperature and time had the most significant effect on the oil yield. The oil yield estimation performance indicators are: ANN (R2 = 0.999, MSE = 5.63192E-13), ANFIS (R2 = 0.36927, MSE = 0.42331). The results show that ANN gave a better prediction than ANFIS.
THE USE OF CHITIN AND CHITOSAN IN MANUFACTURING DRESSING MATERIALS
Authors: Latańska Ilona , Kolesińska Beata , Draczyński Zbigniew , Sujka Witold
Published: November 2020

Despite continuous progress in the development of advanced dressing materials, there is a constant need for dressings used in an environment of infected and hard-to-heal wounds. Dressings that meet the above described requirements are products based on chitin and its derivatives. Chitosan and chitin derivative dressings are now becoming a very effective medical device in healing hard-to-heal wounds, as well as in the control of severely bleeding wounds. Chitosan and chitin are particularly valuable
raw materials that accelerate wound healing processes, and they are also biocompatible and antibacterial. Dressings made of butyric-acetic chitin copolyester are intended for treating wounds of various aetiologies, including chronic wounds in which the healing process is disturbed by concomitant diseases. Materials based on chitosan are also widely used in the area of heavily bleeding and chronic wounds.
Pegvisomant and Pasireotide LAR as second line therapy in acromegaly: clinical effectiveness and predictors of response
Authors: Chiloiro Sabrina , Giampietro Antonella , Mirra Federica , Donfrancesco Federico , Tartaglione Tommaso , Mattogno Pier Paolo , Angelini Flavia , Liverana Lauretti , Gessi Marco , Carmelo Anile , Rindi Guido , Giustina Andrea , Fleseriu Maria , Pontecorvi Alfredo , De Marinis Laura , Bianchi Antonio
Published: November 2020

Background

The treatment of acromegaly resistant to first-generation somatostatin receptor ligands (SRLs) is often difficult. Pegvisomant and Pasireotide LAR are mostly used in these subset of patients, as second line therapies. Choice of the type of second line therapies is difficult, since predictors of response are still unclear, impairing personalized therapy. We aimed to investigate predictors of response to Pegvisomant and Pasireotide LAR.

Methods

Seventy-four acromegaly patients entered this observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study if (i) resistant to high dose first-generation SRLs and (ii) treated with Pegvisomant and Pasireotide LAR for at least 12 consecutive months. Patients treated with radiotherapy in the previous 10 years were excluded.

Results

Fourty-one patients were treated with Pegvisomant and 33 with Pasireotide LAR. At the end of the study, acromegaly was controlled in 35 patients treated with Pegvisomant (85.4%) and in 23 treated with Pasireotide LAR (69.7%). In this cohort, a poor Pegvisomant response and a shorter progression free time were observed in cases with tumor extension to the third ventricle (P = 0.004, HR: 1.6, 95%CI: 1.2–4.6), with a Ki67-Li >4% (P = 0.004, HR: 3.49, 95%CI: 1.4–4.0) and with pre-treatment IGF-I >3.3×ULN (P=0.03, HR: 1.3, 95%CI: 1.1–6.0). A poor Pasireotide LAR response and a shorter progression free time were observed in cases with tumor extension to the third ventricle (P=0.025, HR: 1.6 95%CI: 1.4–3.4), pre-treatment IGF-I >2.3×ULN (P=0.049, HR: 2.4, 95%CI: 1.4–8.0), absent/low SST5 membranous expression (P=0.023 HR: 4.56 95%CI: 1.3–6.4) and in patients carried the d3-delated GHR isoform (P=0.005, HR: 11.37, 95%CI: 1.3–20.0).

Conclusion

Molecular and clinical biomarkers can be useful in predicting the responsiveness to Pegvisomant and Pasireotide LAR.
Paul Celan and Osip Mandelstam: Poetry under the Critique of Language
Authors: Kotelevskaya Vera
Published: November 2020

The dialogue of Paul Celan, a reader and translator, with the poetry and the whole complex poetic views of Osip Mandelstam demonstrates an important general condition: both poets worked in the context of the modernist language crisis and language critique. Mandelstam takes on the task of creating a pure language of poetry in the struggle against the symbolist “code,” in the “resurrection” of words (V. Shklovsky) by means of a “defamiliarizated” intermixture of meanings and contexts, in intentional semantic oblivion and, among other things, by immersing himself in foreign languages (“An alien speech will be my warming ear husk”). Paul Celan’s work, under the conditions of “poetry after Auschwitz” (T. Adorno), aiming at clearing up the German language of the terror of history, was influenced, among other things, by his strategy of creating a non-figurative, hermetic poetry language comparable to the so-called “absolute music” (K. Dahlhaus). This paper identifies the common poetic motifs in the works of Celan and Mandelstam, as well as individual solutions for overcoming the lingual crisis.
Reception of Osip Mandelstam’s Creativity in Interwar Lithuania
Authors: Lavrinec Pavel
Published: November 2020

The presented materials on the reception of Osip Mandelstam’s work were revealed in memoir testimonies, published epistolaries, works on the biography of the writer and scientist Vincas Krėvė and his colleague at the University of Lithuania in Kaunas (Vytautas Magnus University since 1930) Mykolas Banevičius (Mikchail Podshibyakin), and periodicals in Lithuanian and Russian languages. The study showed that among the Lithuanian poets and translators there were connoisseurs of poetry and prose by Mandelstam, but translations into Lithuanian language did not appear during the interwar years. A possible explanation for this is the lack of a demand for this kind of creativity, as the materials of the reception of contemporary Russian literature show. The only text by Mandelstam published in Lithuania in Russian is a translation of the story by Henri Barbusse, reprinted in 1926 by a Kaunas newspaper from a Soviet edition. The only characteristic of his poetry is presented in an article in Russian about the latest Russian poetry, published in 1931 in an academic journal under a pseudonym; its most likely author could be M. Podshibyakin.
“No, I Will Not Hide from the Great Mess…”: Mandelstam and Akhmatova
Authors: Bartoshevich-Zhagel Olga
Published: November 2020

This paper is devoted to the analysis of Osip Mandelstam’s poem “No, I will not hide from the great mess.” The poem is well-known yet remains relatively obscure and understudied, the meaning of most of its images is not clear. On the basis of motive analysis, draft versions of the poem (as analyzed by I. M. Semenko), and memoirs, a new interpretation is proposed: the addressee and the antagonist of the poem is Anna Akhmatova. The lyrical hero of the poem rides in a tram in the 1930s and painfully recalls the trips on a carriage with Akhmatova in 1917–1918. This interpretation allows to clarify the semantics of all the elements of the poem: its desperate and “rippling” intonation, the motive of the carriage driver, the motive of the game, the image of the “whore,” the comparison with a sparrow, etc. All of these images have a biographical connotation, related to Mandelstam’s relationship with Akhmatova.
GARLIC LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE AND REDUCES OXIDATIVE STRESS BY INCREASING PLASMA H2S CONTENT IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
Authors:   Kozyatyn Central District Hospital of Kozyatyn District Council Vinnitsia region, Ukraine, Kravchuk O.M. , Goshovska Yu.V. ,   O.O.Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Korkach Yu.P. ,   O.O.Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sagach V.F. ,   O.O.Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: November 2020

Arterial hypertension (AH) is a multifactorial disease that is accompanied by the development of oxidative-nitrosative stress and insufficient production of hydrogen sulfide (H2S). We hypothesized that garlic bio supplement Full Spectrum Garlic (Swanson Health Product, USA) may be used as a potential H2S donor in treatment of AH in patients. The aim was to study the effect of garlic on blood pressure, ROS generation and cNOS/iNOS activity, biochemical in male 28-39 years old patients with grade II AH. It was found that 10 days of standard antihypertensive therapy (adrenoblockers, ACE inhibitors) with 30 days of garlic supplementation reduced mean systolic and diastolic pressures by 9 and 8 mm Hg respectively. Positive effects of garlic consumption on hemodynamic parameters were observed: enddiastolic volume increased by 8% and peripheral vascular resistance decreased by 11,3% . In the blood plasma of patients, H2S levels increased by 43,6% , the production of ROS and the content of lipid peroxidation products decreased significantly. It is important that the cNOS activity was increased by 130% and iNOS activity decreased by 38,3%. No significant changes in cholesterol, urea, creatinine, glucose, as well as erythrocyte parameters were observed, which indicates the tolerance of the garlic supplements. Thus, the hypotonic effect of garlic is realized by increasing endogenous H2S in plasma, improving endothelium-dependent relaxation of blood vessels and reducing the manifestations of oxidative stress, which makes it promising to use it in the complex therapy of hypertension.
Provider Experiences With Offering Families Bedside Health Record Access Across a Children’s Hospital
Authors: Kelly Michelle M. , Coller Ryan J. , Hoonakker Peter L. T. , Nacht Carrie L. , Dean Shannon M.
Published: November 2020

OBJECTIVES:

Evaluate provider experiences with a bedside tablet inpatient portal application given to hospitalized patients and families across a children’s hospital.

METHODS:

In this cross-sectional study, English-speaking parents of children <12 years old and adolescents ≥12 years admitted between February and June 2017 to a 111-bed tertiary children’s hospital were given an inpatient portal application (MyChart Bedside; Epic Systems Corporation, Verona, WI) on a tablet (iPad) to use during their stay. The portal included real-time vital signs, test results, medication and problem lists, a daily schedule, educational materials, and provider names and photographs. Portal use was described from electronic health record data, and provider (physician, nurse, and pharmacist) experiences were assessed from surveys.

RESULTS:

Of 1892 admissions given a tablet over 5 months, 1502 (79.4%) logged in to view their inpatient health record at least once during their hospital stay. No tablets were lost or stolen. Of 101 providers, 96 completed the survey (a response rate of 95%). They reported that patients and/or parents asked them questions about information they found, including laboratory results (45% of respondents), medications (13%), diagnoses (13%), and errors and/or mistakes in care (3%). Few perceived spending more time answering questions related to portal use (8%) or that it increased their workload (11%). In all, 92% of providers wanted patients and parents to continue to be able to use the portal.

CONCLUSIONS:

Almost 80% of hospitalized patients and parents given a tablet accessed real-time information from the inpatient health record. The portal facilitated communication about test results, diagnoses, and medications and providers overwhelmingly supported its ongoing use.
Shared Decision-making With Parents of Hospitalized Children: A Qualitative Analysis of Parents’ and Providers’ Perspectives
Authors: Hoang Kim , Halpern-Felsher Bonnie , Brooks Michelle , Blankenburg Rebecca
Published: November 2020

OBJECTIVES:

Shared decision-making (SDM) is the pinnacle of patient-centered care and has been shown to improve health outcomes, especially for children with chronic medical conditions. However, parents perceive suboptimal involvement during hospitalization. The objective was to explore the perspectives of parents of hospitalized children and their hospital providers on facilitators and barriers to SDM in the hospital and identify strategies to increase SDM.

METHODS:

A qualitative study was conducted by using semistructured interviews with parents of hospitalized children with and without complex chronic conditions and their pediatric hospital medicine faculty. Parents and faculty were matched and individually interviewed on the same day. Two investigators iteratively coded transcripts and identified themes using modified grounded theory, with an additional author reviewing themes.

RESULTS:

Twenty-seven parents and 16 faculty participated in the interviews. Four themes emerged: (1) parents and providers value different components of SDM; (2) providers assume SDM is easier with parents of children with medical complexity; (3) factors related to providers, parents, patients, and family-centered rounds were identified as barriers to SDM; and (4) parents and providers identified strategies to facilitate SDM in the hospital.

CONCLUSIONS:

There is a discrepancy between parents’ and providers’ understanding of SDM, with parents most valuing their providers’ ability to actively listen and explain the medical issue and options with them. There are many barriers that exist that make it difficult for both parties to participate. Several strategies related to family-centered rounds have been identified that can be implemented into clinical practice to mitigate these barriers.
A Multidisciplinary Home Visiting Program for Children With Medical Complexity
Authors: Lin Elaine , Scharbach Kathryn , Liu Bian , Braun Maureen , Tannis Candace , Wilson Karen , Truglio Joseph
Published: November 2020

OBJECTIVES:

Given the high needs and costs associated with the care of children with medical complexity (CMC), innovative models of care are needed. Home-visiting care models are effective in subpopulations of pediatrics and medically complex adults, but there is no literature on this model for CMC. We describe the development and outcomes of a multidisciplinary program that provides comprehensive home-based primary care for CMC.

METHODS:

Medical records from our institution were reviewed for patients enrolled in our program from July 2013 through March 2019. Demographics, clinical characteristics, and health care use were collected. We compared the differences in pre- and postprogram enrollment health care use using Wilcoxon signed rank test. We applied Cox proportional hazard models to examine the association between the time-dependent postenrollment health care use and numbers of home visits. We collected total claims data for a subset of our patients to examine total costs of care.

RESULTS:

We reviewed data collected from 121 patients. With our findings, we demonstrate that enrollment in our program is associated with reductions in average length of stay. More home visits were associated with decreased emergency department visits and hospitalizations. We also observed in patients with available cost data that total costs of care decreased after enrollment into the program.

CONCLUSIONS:

Our model has the potential to improve health outcomes and be financially sustainable by providing home-based primary care to CMC.
Pathways to Publication in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Educational Research
Authors: Solano Joy L. , Richardson Troy , Walker Jacqueline M. , Bettenhausen Jessica L. , Platt Michael , Riss Robert , Veit Christopher , Latta Grant , Etzenhouser Angela , Herrmann Lisa E.
Published: November 2020

OBJECTIVES:

Dissemination of rigorous, innovative educational research is key to inform best practices among the global medical education community. Although abstract presentation at professional conferences is often the first step, journal publication maximizes impact. The current state of pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) educational scholarship dissemination via journal publication has not been well described. To describe educational research dissemination after PHM conference abstract submission, we identified the publication rate, median time to publication, and median publishing journal impact factor of abstracts submitted over 4 years.

METHODS:

Abstract data were obtained from the 2014–2017 PHM conferences and organized by presentation type (oral, poster, rejected). PubMed, MedEdPORTAL, and Google Scholar were queried for abstract publication evidence. We used logistic regression models, Kaplan-Meier survival curves and Kruskal-Wallis tests to determine the association of presentation type with the odds of publication, time to publication, and publishing journal impact factors.

RESULTS:

Of 173 submitted educational research abstracts, 56 (32%) were published. Oral abstracts had threefold greater and fivefold greater odds of publication compared to poster and rejected abstracts, respectively (odds ratio 3.2; 95% confidence interval 1.3–8.0; P = .011; odds ratio 5.2; 95% confidence interval 1.6–16.7; P = .003). Median time to publication did not differ between presentation types. The median journal impact factor was >2 times higher for published oral and poster abstracts than published rejected abstracts.

CONCLUSIONS:

Because abstract acceptance and presentation type may be early indicators of publication success, abstract submission to the PHM conference is a reasonable first step in disseminating educational scholarship.
Congenital Neuroblastoma
Authors: Minakova Elena , Lang Jordan
Published: November 2020

Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor diagnosed during childhood and gives rise to various heterogeneous tumors along the sympathoadrenal axis. Congenital neuroblastoma accounts for 5% of total neuroblastoma cases diagnosed annually, with the majority of cases diagnosed in the first month after birth. Interestingly, neonates demonstrate a unique disease trajectory compared with children older than 1 year of age. This article will provide information on the pathogenesis and variable clinical presentation of congenital neuroblastoma, along with the biological prognostic factors that predict long-term outcomes in affected neonates.
Evaluation of the potential SNPs for breeding selection of white spot syndrome virus resistance in Litopenaeus vannamei
Authors: Kim Lien Nguyen Thi , Tung Nguyen Van , Chi Thanh Duong , Thu Hien Nguyen , Ngoc Lan Nguyen , Thanh Ngan Nguyen Thi , Huy Hoang Nguyen , Trang Trinh Thi , Huu Ninh Nguyen , Huu Hung Nguyen
Published: November 2020

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is a dangerous virus causing great damage to shrimp farming. Many genes related to disease resistance mechanisms have been identified and studied. In this study, we amplified and sequenced nine fragments of DNA harboring SNPs in the genes involved in WSSV resistance of white-legged shrimp, Litopenaeous vannamei. Allele frequencies at the SNP loci were recorded and calculated by SPSS statistical software (version 22) in the study groups: the disease shrimp (were infected with WSSV and died) and the resistance shrimp (were infected with WSSV but survived). Six SNPs (in AIF, ALF1, HAE, P53, Rab5B, and TRAF6 genes) were in accordance with Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) (p > 0.05) while three SNPs (in ALF2, BGB, and CAL) were not (p < 0.05). For AIF and ALF1 genes, the frequencies of GG and CC genotypes were significantly different between two groups and were associated with an decreased resistance with WSSV compared to the AA and TT genotypes (p = 0.021 and p = 0.017, respectively). The G and C alleles were associated with a decreased resistance with WSSV (p = 0.000 and p = 0.001, respectively). For HAE gene, the frequency of TT genotype was significantly different between two groups and was associated with a increased resistance with WSSV compared to the TC+CC genotype (OR = 68.750; 95% CI: 11.462–412.381; p = 0.000). For Rab5B gene, the frequency of CC genotype was significantly different between two groups and was associated with an increased resistance with WSSV compared to the TT genotype in all three tested models (p<0.05). The C allele was associated with an increased resistance with WSSV (OR = 3.974; 95% CI: 1.754–9.003; p = 0.001). The above evaluation results suggested that the potential SNPs of these AIF, ALF1, HAE, and Rab5B genes can be used as the molecular markers for breeding selection the resistance to white spot disease in white-legged shrimp L. vannamei.
The Communication Power of Chinese Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19) News Reports in Light of the Framing Theory
Authors: Zheng Shuyuan
Published: November 2020

This paper attempts to use the Framing Theory and the Conceptual Metaphor Theory to explain the surface frames and deep frames often used by Chinese state media in face of the COVID-19. It discusses how the official discourse achieves its purpose of inspiring based on the audience emotion , and enables the audience to be more determined and courageous to overcome the epidemic, which best displays the communication power news reports with regard to COVID-19. It is found that Chinese official media mainly use metaphorical frames such as WAR, COMPETITION, and BARRIERS, and non-metaphorical frames such as SOLIDARITY, CONFIDENCE, and VICTORY. News reports of Chinese state media fully highlights the unity of the Chinese people in fighting against the epidemic, which helps persuade the audience to understand and trust the Chinese government and to become more determined and courageous in the battle.
Study of foot length measurement as a screening tool to identify low birth weight and preterm neonates
Authors:   Senior Resident, Department of Paediatrics, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, Mehta Dr. Rishika , Dhaneria Dr. Mamta ,   Professor and Head, Department of Paediatrics, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, Prajapati Dr. Jyoti ,   Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, MGM Medical College and MY Hospital, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Published: November 2020

Introduction: Low birth weight is an important indicator of survival, future growth, and overalldevelopment of the child. It is associated with socio-economic, clinical, racial, hereditary, personal,and geographical factors. Method: This prospective observational study was conducted during the19 months in the nursery and postnatal wards at RDGMC, Ujjain. All live birth newborns wereassessed within 24 hours of birth. All Sick babies requiring NICU care, newborns with congenitalmalformation were excluded from the study. For each newborn recruited in the study length of theleft foot was measured from the heel to the tip of the big toe using a hard transparent plastic rulerwhich was pressed vertically against the babies’ sole and the reading was recorded. The data wasanalyzed in Epidata (version 3.1) and then transferred to Stata10.0 (Stata Corp College Station,Texas, U.S.A) for statistical analysis. Results: (1) Foot length measurement was directly correlatedwith gestational age with cut off being 6.3 cm for 32 weeks,6.6 cm for 36 weeks, and 7.35 cm for >36 weeks. (2) Foot length measurement directly correlated with the birth weight with the cut off forVLBW babies being 6.25 cm, for weight< 2000gm being 6.78 cm and LBW being 7.92 cm.Conclusion: Present study strongly recommends foot length measurement as an easy, fast,accurate, and low-cost tool for predicting prematurity and low birth weight not only in the hospitalsetup but also for community health providers.
Method of calculating the electric strength of oil channels of the main insulation of power transformers
Authors: Melnikova O.S. , Kuznetsov V.S.
Published: November 2020

The most damage-sensitive unit of power transformers is the main insulation of the oil barrier type. The breakdown of such insulation occurs as a result of the breakdown of the oil channel near the high voltage winding. In accordance with traditional methods of calculating the dielectric strength of insulation, the value of the breakdown strength is determined by empirical formulas depending on the selected width of the oil channel. The existing methods do not consider the influence of the oil channel volume, of the electric strength the statistical characteristics of the oil, the design features of the insulation of power transformers, and do not contain recommendations for creating design models. Thus, to improve the calculation accuracy, it is relevant to develop the evaluation method of dielectric strength of the main insulation of power transformers taking into account the volume and parameters of the breakdown voltage distribution of transformer oil, design features. The research results of the breakdown tension in oil channels with different volumes of transformer oil were used. To improve the accuracy of the calculation and taking into account the design features, the model of the main insulation of power transformers was made in the ANSYS program. Boundary data and assumption of linear stress distribution of transformer coils were considered. A method for calculating the dielectric strength of oil channels of the main insulation of power transformers, considering the volume and parameters of the breakdown voltage distribution of transformer oil was proposed. Unlike the existing methods, when calculating the minimum breakdown strength in the model of the main insulation, the design features of power transformers are taken into account and assumptions are justified to improve the accuracy of the calculation. In accordance with the methodology, the parameters of the dielectric strength of the transformer oil in the oil channel of the high voltage winding of the transformer were calculated. It was concluded that with increase of relative value of breakdown tension, dielectric strength of oil channel is decreasing, and it corresponds to physical sense of breakdown. The method for calculating the dielectric strength of transformer oil can be used when choosing the main insulation of power transformers in design.
GEOLOGY AND PETROGRAPHY OF THE VEDEL ISLANDS (WILHELM ARCHIPELAGO, WEST ANTARCTICA)
Authors: Mytrokhyn O. , Bakhmuto V.
Published: November 2020

The Vedel Islands are a small island group that is part of the Wilhelm archipelago in the West Antarctica. They are located near the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula at a distance of 12 km from Akademik Vernadsky Ukrainian Antarctic Station. Until recently, the Vedel Islands were a "white spot" on all existing geological maps. In 2019, during the seasonal work of the 24th Ukrainian Antarctic expedition, the authors first carried out field geological researches on the Vedel Islands. The main goal of the geological survey was reconnaissance and large-scale geological mapping. The general ideas about the geological structure of the study area were developed by further processing of the collected materials. The preliminary data about the mode of occurrence, the geological ages, the petrographic peculiarities and the ore potential of the local rocks were also obtained. It was first established that multiple-aged intrusive-magmatic formations take part in the geological structure of the Vedel Islands. The intermediate compositions of the plutonic rocks namely the diorites and quartz diorites are the most common among them. The gabbroids and the tonalites are less common. The least common ones are hypabyssal and subvolcanic dike rocks namely microdiorites and diabases. The plutonic rocks were formed in at least three intrusive phases with a homodromous order of their intrusions. The most ancient among them are gabbroids. The Early Cretaceous age for their formation is assumed by analogy with the petrographically similar rocks of the Tuxen-Rasmussen layered gabbroid intrusion (TRGI). The tonilites are the youngest plutonic rocks on the Vedel Islands. It is assumed that their formation at a deep level took place in the Late Cretaceous, although their tectonic exhumation and the final erosion outcropping occurred in the Paleogene and ended in the Neogene. In the process of the exhumation, the plutonic rocks were intruded by hypabyssal dikes of microdiorites. The youngest subvolcanic diabase dykes intruded the tonalites supposedly after their complete erosion outcropping i. e. in Neogene or even Quaternary. Like TRGI and other layered gabbroid intrusions of the Wilhelm archipelago, the Vedel island gabbroids contain iron-titanium oxide-ore and copper-silicate mineralization, which requires further study. The additional researches are also needed to clarify the age, origin, petrography and mineralogy of the numerous veins of aplite-pegmatoid granite which intrude gabbroids and diorites on the Vedel Islands.
Little Rusian Identity and its Fatures in Social Life of Ukraine in the Beginning of the XX Century
Authors: Domoroslyi Valentyn
Published: November 2020

The article describes current and long-lasting issue of little Russian identity in Ukrainian society. It is shown in demonstration of suffering, looking for people, who are responsible for their powerlessness. Nowadays it has all become a necessary factor.

Little Russian identity is a disease which destroys intellect and national instinct. Little Russian identity is a special mental approach, which embodies deep inner dependence from an empire, and also subconscious fear of it. People who have such identity behave as the former empire is their eternal parent state, with which they constantly check their assessments, mood, perception. It remains an eternal reference point for them. That is why the bearer of little Russian identity is always a person who has inferiority complex.

At the beginning of the twentieth century nationally conscious Ukrainians made a big blow to it, but it remained due to big impact it has on social conscience.

Years has passed, political regimes changed, bu their essence remained the same – little Russian identity.

Lots of representatives of the movement for Ukrainian national liberation grappled with it, but it demonstrates its survivability.

The task of this article is to investigate the issue of little Russian identity at the beginning of the twentieth century, how exactly did it influence on the development of Ukrainian lands and what constituted an obstacle for Ukrainians to get rid of its influence.
YENİ ASUR KRALLIĞI’NDA “ÇADIR”
Authors: Coşkun İsmail , Polat Erdal
Published: November 2020

İnsanoğlu, çadırı
kolay kurulumu ve rahat taşınmasının yanı sıra dış etkenlerden korunabilmek
için çok fazla tercih etmiştir. En ilkel haliyle mamut kemikleri, ahşap ve
hayvan derileriyle yapılan çadırların erken örneklerine MÖ 44 binlerde
rastlanılmıştır. Birçok farklı tasarımı olan çadırların aynı zamanda birden çok
amaca hizmet ettiği de bilinmektedir. Söz konusu bu amaçlar içerisinde askeri
seferler de bulunmaktadır. Orduların ihtiyaçlarına göre tasarlanan bu çadırlar,
kendi içerisinde de farklılıklar göstermektedir. Seferlere katılan kral, rütbeli
ve rütbesiz askerler için dizayn edilen çadırlar özellikleri açısından
birbirinden ayrılmaktadır.

Bu çalışmada, Asur
Krallığı Dönemi öncesi de ele alınarak çadırın gelişimi hakkında bilgi
verilmiştir. Konumuzun ana temasını oluştura Yeni Asur Krallığı’nın askeri
seferlerde kullanılan çadırlarından bahsedilmektedir. Yazılı metinler ve görsel
sanat eserleri dikkate alınarak incelenen çadırların; iskelet yapısı, konforu,
günlük ihtiyaçları karşılama ve işleve yönelik özellikleriyle “Basit Çadırlar”
ve “Kral Çadırları” olarak iki başlıkta ele alındığı görülmektedir. Bu
çadırlar, görsel sanat eserleri ışığında yeniden çizilerek anlatılmaya
çalışılmıştır. Yukarıda belirtilen özellikler ışığında, çadırların kral ve
askerlerin günlük yaşamlarını kolaylaştırmak ve mevsimin olumsuz etkilerini en
aza indirmek için belli bir plan çerçevesinde yapıldığı düşünülmektedir.

Çalışmamızda, Yeni
Asur Krallığı dönemindeki çadırlar yeni bir bakış açısıyla ele alınacaktır.
Newspaper Media Libraries: Journalists and their Information Seeking Behaviour
Authors: Sawant Sarika , Mokashi Vishakha
Published: November 2020

The advancement in ICT and media convergence are redefining the scope of journalism education (ACRL, 2011). The span of journalism covers content published via newspapers and magazines (print as well as e editions), television and radio (broadcast including web versions), websites and applications. The present research attempted to study the information seeking behaviour of journalists in Maharashtra. A structured questionnaire developed using Google forms were used for data collection. The response rate was 12.4%. It was observed that 25(83.3%) respondents used Internet for information seeking. Followed by various reports related to incidents that they covered 23(76.7%) and persons who were present at the incidents 21(70%). Verbal communication with colleagues 15(50%) were found to be useful to them for information seeking. It was found that nearly half of the respondents visit their newspaper library as per their need of information. The study presents a clear picture of information seeking behaviour of working journalists.
Designing of YouTube Access Interface for Institutional Digital Repository
Authors: Mandal Sukumar
Published: November 2020

YouTube is a video-sharing website. It allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users and offers a wide range of user-oriented and education-related videos. Digital resource is growing and digital libraries will include digital materials that subsist outside the physical and administrative bounds of any one digital library. Even though digital libraries include all traditional processes, these have to be revised and enhanced to accommodate the differences between digital media and traditional media. This paper describes a system that can describe and manage digital resources in libraries.
Social Cataloguing Sites: Features and Comparison in Relation to ISBD
Authors: Sarkar Arindam , Bhattachrya Udayan
Published: November 2020

In the past few years, the number of social site related applications has increased; and also, these are playing an important role in the collection and sharing of knowledge. These types of application give users the freedom to create vocabulary, which helps to describe and categorize online resources. The social cataloguing applications are a type of web application that helps users to catalogue various items. These social cataloguing sites help users to catalogue their personal book collections, and make the collection known to all users with similar tastes. This study analyzed and evaluated the bibliographic and social features of some selected popular social cataloguing sites and also compared with the data elements prescribed in the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).
Scientometric Study of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research in India (1994 – 2015): An Analysis from Astrophysics Data System
Authors: Kumar Rai Vijay , Sengar K. P. S. , Cyriac Giji
Published: November 2020

A scientometric study evaluation of India’s scientific research output in the field of astronomy and astrophysics during 1994–2015 has been done. The bibliographic data were harvested from Astrophysics Data System Database (ADSD) for a period of 22 years from 1994 to 2015. The compound annual growth rate, collaboration trends, authorship pattern, growth rate and doubling time, degree of collaboration, highly productive authors are examined. India is holding 15th rank in the field of astronomy and astrophysics research in the world and it is found that 9.09% was the average CAGR of Indian astronomy and astrophysics publications during the study period. It is also found that India has published 83.67% of research papers as journal articles, 11.88% publication as conference papers. The degree of collaboration is 0.86. The study revealed that collabor ative research is most preferred and focused as multi authorship pattern of publication; 3815 papers were two–authored followed by 3250 papers with three–authors during the study period.
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Research Outcomes: A Study of Top Engineering Institutes
Authors: Kumar Abhishek , Singh Joorel J. P. , Tiwari Sanjay , Ahirwar Ramswaroop
Published: November 2020

This study presents the rank and research output (in terms of article publications) of top 10 engineering institutes in India. The data has been extracted from Web of Science (WoS) bibliographic database for the period from 2013 to 2018. It examines year–wise growth of research output in terms of number of publications, citations and h-index. The study also examines degree of collaboration.
Secondary School Libraries in Bangladesh: A Proposed National Strategy for Rejuvenating Secondary School Library Services
Authors: Monirul Islam M. , Abdullah-Al-Mahmud
Published: November 2020

Secondary school library plays a significant role to support the school course curriculum. However, national policy or strategy for secondary school library is yet to be formulated in Bangladesh. The present study made an effort to propose a strategy for secondary school library in Bangladesh, to review and re-envision its functions and services. This strategy will act as a guideline for a librarian and secondary school authorities. Based on the present status of secondary school library in Bangladesh, the present study also focuses on the significance, organizational structure, obstacles and possible outcomes of this strategy.
Research in Library and Information Science in the University of Delhi (1957-2018): An Analytical Study
Authors: Singh K. P. , Negi Nandi
Published: November 2020

The paper examines the research output of the University of Delhi in the field of Library and Information Science. The data was collected through the official records available in the Department/University. Study finds that 263 doctoral and M. Phil research degrees have been awarded by the Department during 1957-2018.
Visualizing Academic Library Data to Understand Use Patterns and Trends
Authors: Yadav Akhilesh K. S. , Ahmed Sagiruddin
Published: November 2020

The main purpose of the study is to explore the pattern and trends of library usage. This study is based on library circulation data. Many tools and applications have been used for the research and data visualization e.g. Tableau, Voyant Tools, MSExcel, Google Ngram Viewer etc. The data set of library transaction was collected from the KOHA (Open Source Library Automation Software) of Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library (SDTM Library) of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. The research has been undertaken with the raw transaction data from the 2014 to 2018 time period. The striking trend suggests that from the year 2015 the number of books checked-out is declining every year. From the research it is also found that on Mondays maximum number of library transactions takes place at TISS library. Text visualization reflects that TISS library holds books in major domains of social sciences.
Relationship between Users’ Past Experience and Cognitive Factors that Influence Information Seeking: A Case Study of Graduate Students in Nairobi, Kenya
Authors: Daniel Wambiri Muthee
Published: November 2020

Background: Previous studies have not sufficiently explained what triggers users to use or avoid using reference information service. They have not identified the different factors that trigger information seeking. The studies have suggested that users’ past experience as a variable may be useful for better understanding the cognitive and social background of human information processing and may have important implications in information seeking process. Objective: There is need to investigate the relationship between users’ past experience and cognitive information seeking behavior as thiscan help information system design. Method: To develop the variables, Vroom’s expectancy theory of motivation was used. A descriptive survey method was used to study a sample size of 384 students. Results: Results showed evidence that expectancy theory can be used to explain students’ information seeking behavior. Depending on the users’ experience, their perception of service quality, need satisfaction and personal competencies, students would seek or avoid using the library in the future. Conclusion: Cognitive information seeking process can be influenced by user-centric service. Users’ past experiences, their perception of service quality, need satisfaction and personal competencies are major factors in deciding on using or avoid using the library in the future. The findings support the idea that understanding cognitive information behavior can help University libraries to plan appropriate services. The implications of this study are that there are key cognitive drivers such as user past experiences that trigger users’ information seeking behavior in Academic libraries.
Disturbances of Autonomic Regulation of Cardiovascular System at Different Working Regimes with Night Shifts
Authors: Merkulov Yu. A. , Pyatkov A. A. , Gorokhova S. G. , Merkulova D. M. , Atkov O. Yu.
Published: November 2020

Aim        To study temporal and spectral characteristics of heart rhythm variability (HRV) in night shift workers.

Materials and methods       Along with traditional risk factors, conditions of labor contribute to development of cardiovascular morbidity, including night shift work, which can be associated with disorders of the autonomic regulation detected by analysis of HRV. This study included 100 healthy men. 74 of them were engaged in shift work, including 53 men with rotating shift work, 21 men with fixed night shifts, and 26 men with day-time work. HRV was analyzed by data of 5-min electrocardiogram recording (background recording and orthostatic test).

Results   Night-shift workers had decreases in total power of regulation (ТР, SDNN) and in the parasympathetic branch (HF, pNN50). Rotating night-shift workers displayed significant decreases in SDNN and pNN50 and pronounced changes in the VLF / LF / HF ratio in the orthostatic test.

Conclusion            In work with night shifts, the type of autonomic regulation differs from the “standard” functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). This study showed different effects of night work regimens on HRV indexes. With the rotating shift work, the ANS dysregulation was more profound and was evident by a significant decrease in the ANS total tone and parasympathetic activity (SDNN, pNN50) compared to night shifts with fixed working hours. The excessive weakening of the parasympathetic component in the passive orthostatic test can be considered as an early marker for ANS maladaptation.
Comorbidity and Gender of Patients at Risk of Hospital Mortality After Emergency Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Authors: Zykov M. V. , D’yachenko N. V. , Trubnikova O. A. , Erlih A. D. , Kashtalap V. V. , Barbarash O. L.
Published: November 2020

Aim        To study gender aspects of comorbidity in evaluating the risk of in-hospital death for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) after a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Material and methods        The presented results are based on data of two ACS registries, the city of Sochi and RECORD-3. 986 patients were included into this analysis by two additional criteria, age <70 years and PCI. 80% of the sample were men. Analysis of comorbidity severity was performed for all patients and included 9 indexes: type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, atrial fibrillation, anemia, stroke, arterial hypertension, obesity, and peripheral atherosclerosis. Group 1 (minimum comorbidity) consisted of patients with not more than one disease (n=367); group 2 (moderate comorbidity) consisted of patients with 2 or 3 diseases (n=499), and group 3 (pronounced comorbidity) consisted of patients with 4 or more diseases (n=120). In-hospital mortality was 2.7 % (n=27).

Results   Significant data on the effect of comorbidity on the in-hospital prognosis were obtained only for men of the compared groups: 0.6, 1.8, and 8.8 %, respectively (χ2=21.6; р<0.0001). At the same time, among 44 women with minimum comorbidity, there were no cases of in-hospital death, and the presence of moderate (n=110) and pronounced comorbidity (n=40) was associated with a similar death rate (7.3 and 7.5 %, respectively). Noteworthy, in moderate comorbidity, the female gender was associated with a 4-fold increase in the risk of in-hospital death (odd ratio, OR 4.3 at 95 % confidence interval, CI from 1.5 to 12.1; р=0.003). In addition, both in men and women with minimum comorbidity, even a high risk by the GRACE scale (score ≥140) was not associated with increased in-hospital mortality, which was minimal (0 for women and 1 % for men). At the same time, in the patient subgroup with moderate and pronounced comorbidity, a GRACE score ≥140 resulted in a 6-fold increase in the risk of in-hospital death for men (OR 6.0 at 95 % CI from 1.7 to 21.9; р=0.002) and a 16-fold increase for women (OR 16.2 at 95 % CI from 2.0 to 130.4; р=0.0006).

Conclusion            This study identified gender-related features in predicting the risk of in-hospital death for ACS patients with comorbidities after PCI, which warrants reconsideration of existing approaches to risk stratification.