bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
INCENTIVOS TRIBUTARIOS DE EMPRESAS TURÍSTICAS Y HOTELERAS DE LA PROVINCIA DE TUNGURAHUA, BAJO TEORÍA DEL REFORZAMIENTO DE FREDERIC SKINNER, PERIODO 2019-2020
Authors: CHANGO MARIELA , Benavides- Echeverría Iralda Benavides- Echeverría , Panchi-Pastora Viviana Panchi-Pastora
Published: March 2023

En la última década el Turismo representa un impacto en la sociedad Moderna, en tal virtud los incentivos tributarios en las actividades desarrolladas por las empresas Turísticas y Hoteleras de la provincia de Tungurahua permitira evidenciar lo afirmado. El enfoque de la investigación es mixto, el tipo de investigación es descriptiva y explicativa, el diseño es no experimental y la modalidad es una investigación de campo, se aplicó un instrumento de 353 encuestas dirigidas a los contribuyentes que integran los cinco sectores de las actividades turísticas de la provincia de Tungurahua conformado por los cantones de Ambato, Baños, Pelileo, Mocha, Patate, Quero, Cevallos, Tisaleo y Pillaro. Entre las conclusiones, está fortalecer la difusión y aplicación de los incentivos tributarios, con el objetivo de impulsar el desarrollo y crecimiento económico. Entre los resultados El 54% manifesta que conoce la existencia de estos beneficios tributarios directos con el sector, pero por el desconocimiento de aplicabilidad no se practica en algunos casos por parte de los empresarios y/o contadores; respecto al aporte de los incentivos al sector, el 35% considera que los beneficios tributarios apoyan a la generación de más fuentes de empleo.

 Palabras Clave: Empresas turísticas, Hotelería y turismo, Tributación – Impuestos.
LOOK, LOOK! THIS SHRINE IS LEAKING RED “MENSTRUAL ACTIVISM IN NINA PAGALIES’ GRAPHIC TEMPLES”
Authors: Katyal Aishwarya , Jain Neha
Published: March 2023

Menstruation is a physiological phenomenon that has long been associated with taboos and myths that justify women's exclusion from religious ceremonies and the public realm. Many cultures around the world consider menstruating women as unholy and polluting, often associating them with filth that must stay beyond the threshold of shrines and places of worship. Owing to the negative attributes associated with menstruation, the equation between women’s bodies and divinity gets problematized leading to their polarised conception. Such beliefs culminate into sexist practices that often undermine women’s rights and freedom and become instruments of perpetuating gender-based violence against them. The controversy of Sabarimala Temple in India stands as testimony to the above statement. This paper explores graphics from a collection titled ‘Temples’ by a German illustrator, Nina Pagalies, anthologized in The Elephant in the Room: Women Draw their World. Her work, Temples, explore varied experiences and attributes of female sexuality that are beautifully dovetailed to the idea of religion and purity by depicting women’s bodies as shrines and temples, thus reconciling the otherwise polarised view of female sexuality and the divine. This paper unravels how the Pagalies’ visuals subvert the notion of dirt and impurity associated with menstruation to support the narrative that rather celebrates it. It undertakes a semiotic analysis of the ‘gendered blood’ and other motifs to understand how these visuals are transgressive. Subsequently, the paper closes with the view that the illustrations valourize the ‘female blood’ and debunks patriarchal modes of representation by carving a democratic vista for feminine expression advocating the permission of menstruating females into temples.
Evaluation of the Regression Coefficient between the Activity of FoxP3 Gene on Regulatory T Cells and Glucose Level in Patients with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus In the City of Mosul
Authors: Ali Saad Imrrer , AL-Allaff Rojan G.M.
Published: March 2023

Still, external insulin therapy with its various types causes a variety of immune reactions through its variable control of the glucose level in patients with type 1 diabetes. However, major immune problems are uncommon, and less serious diabetic events have long-term effects on immune responses. The current study aimed to follow up the effect of glucose levels on the level of gene expression of the FoxP3 gene, one of the most important genes responsible for the activity of Regulatory T cells in patients with type 1 diabetes. (26) blood samples were collected from individuals diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for a period of more than (5) years, their ages ranged from (15-35) years, and from both sexes, from Al-Wafa Center for the treatment of diabetics and endocrine glands in the city of Mosul. The patients were divided into four groups, depending on the type of insulin injection , These groups included (Actrapid patients group, Insulatard patients group, Insulatard / Actrapid patients patients group, and finally Mixtard patients group). The control group also included (7) blood samples of healthy people as donors, ages ranging from (15-30) years, (males and females), without communicable diseases, bacterial infections, or autoimmune diseases. . The results showed an effect of glucose concentration on the expression level of the FoxP3 gene by (26%) in the group of patients who used insulin mixtard type, while the results of the effect analysis of glucose on the level of gene expression of the FoxP3 gene showed a rate of (76%) in the group of patients who used insulin type Insulatard, On the contrary, there was no effect of glucose concentration on the level of FoxP3 gene expression in patients using Actrapid and  Insulatard / Actrapid insulin at (P≤0.05).
Review on Common Steganography Techniques
Authors: Ayoob Noor Kadhim , Hussein Asraa Abdullah
Published: March 2023

Various authorities are keen to preserve the confidentiality of their information and protect it from competing or hostile parties who were also keen to access that information by all available means. Since the encryption of information is exposed as it produces incomprehensible texts that arouse suspicion, some tend to work in a way that removes suspicions by hiding the information in a medium like text or picture so that what is sent and circulated appears natural and free of signs or incomprehensible symbols as if not loaded with any additional information. This paper introduces a review the techniques used to hide data in images as one of the most common concealment techniques.
The implementation and effects of contemporary Problem-Based Learning techniques in the field of chemistry
Authors: Hoyland Joshua , Hyde Julie
Published: March 2023

Chemistry courses are seeing an increasing inclusion of the relatively novel methods of Problem Based Learning (PBL). With roots dating back to 18th Century philosophers, it aims to develop the Higher Order Cognitive Skills (HOCS) of prospective graduates, alongside other transferrable skills and social benefits that traditional teaching has failed to build upon. The utilisation of real-world problem-solving projects in chemistry modules has a wide array of seemingly verifiable benefits but a lack of trained facilitators and minimal exposure of students to PBL at lower levels provides significant drawbacks to the methodology. This review looks at the pros and cons of PBL in detail to estimate its viability in future chemistry courses around the world.
A EXECUÇÃO DA PENA DE PRISÃO NO BRASIL E EM PORTUGAL
Authors: Bordalo Tayana de Souza , Santos Cláudia Cruz
Published: March 2023

O presente escrito esforça-se para trazer à nova comunidade leitora uma amostra da necessidade de se voltar a olhar para a execução da pena e suas finalidades com a devida importância no meio penal e criminológico, recobrando a especial atenção para o mundo carcerário e seus efeitos diretos na vida do ser humano preso. Pretende-se, então, ressaltar a relevância de se analisar a prisão como pena, a crise do sistema carcerário, a relação do cumprimento da pena com as suas essenciais finalidades (retributiva, preventiva e ressocializadora), devendo estas estar voltadas à observância do status de sujeito de direitos e de garantias fundamentais da pessoa humana do apenado. Na primeira parte, aborda-se a considerável história das prisões como pena e a evolução do sistema carcerário desde os tempos antigos até aos tempos hodiernos. Na segunda parte, visualizou-se a importância de abordar, mesmo que brevemente, a execução da pena no Brasil e em Portugal. Assim, no segundo quesito, aborda-se brevemente o conceito, a natureza jurídica e a forma da legislação executória nos dois países. Na terceira parte, tenciona-se atentar para o não-exemplo da medida de disciplina carcerária brasileira denominada de Regime Disciplinar Diferenciado. Na quarta parte da dissertação de mestrado, objetiva-se propor um olhar sobre a (in)constitucionalidade das regras do instituto jurídico RDD que fora inserido no ordenamento legal brasileiro. Diante da investigação feita, se procura verificar a interferência da situação carcerária atual em relação ao cumprimento das finalidades da execução da pena e, ainda, objetiva-se entender o papel que as medidas de disciplina carcerária assumem como consequências na vida do preso, sobretudo, evidenciado o exemplo do RDD.
ALTERAÇÕES LABORATORIAIS NA SÍNDROME DE HAFF
Authors: Conceição Suyanne de Paiva da , Soares Vitória Alves , Carneiro Ellen Laryssa da Costa , Silva Cleicielle Magalhães , Silva Sara dos Santos , Serra Mariana Barreto
Published: March 2023

A síndrome de Haff, também denominada doença de Haff ou popularmente conhecida como doença da urina preta, trata- se de uma condição clínica rara relacionada à ingestão de peixes e crustáceos contaminados por uma toxina termoestável ainda não conhecida. A mesma caracteriza-se por um quadro de rabdomiólise, com mialgia intensa de início abrupto, rigidez muscular, dispneia, perda de força, urina escura cor de café e elevações séricas de creatinofosfoquinase, mioglobina, transaminases e desidrogenase láctica. Os primeiros sintomas causados pela síndrome podem aparecer em até 24 horas após a ingestão de peixe contaminado, no entanto os três principais sintomas: dor, fraqueza muscular e exceção de urina escura são observados em menos da metade dos casos notificados. Dessa forma, o diagnóstico é comprovado com a determinação dos níveis plasmáticos e urinários de creatinofosfoquinase e mioglobina. Também, é possível observar outras alterações laboratoriais como elevações séricas de transaminases e desidrogenase láctica. Tais alterações identificadas nesta síndrome são de fundamental importância para confirmação da doença, pois a mesma desenvolve-se rapidamente podendo levar o paciente acometido à óbito. Portanto, observa-se que por se tratar de uma condição rara há muitos aspectos que ainda são desconhecidos pela comunidade científica.

Palavras-chave: Síndrome de Haff, Peixes, Crustáceos, Toxina, Diagnóstico.
دراسة منحنى النمو لخط خاليا 3-A
Authors: محمد مائدة حسين
Published: March 2023

Tissue culture technique was used to study the growth carve for AMN-3 cell line witch had been grown in vitro for three different passages (114, 118, 123), five sequenced between one passage to other and for ten period (12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84, 96, 108, 120) hour; to detects the stages of cell cycle and calculate population doubling time (PDT) for three passages. The result show the shorten of the Lag phase(from zero point- 12) h. for three passages in comparison to other stages, in the other side the long in the Log phase, its between 12- 72 hour for the passages 123, 114 and 12- 60 hour for 118 passage. The variation of population doubling time for the three passages was reaches sequins 21.34, 19.94 and 20.54 hour. Thus the result was show adhesions between Log and Stationary phase until the decline phase which show redacts in among cell growth during the time until 120 h. of the study and for the three passages
Novel Synthetic 3-Amino-2-Methylquinazolin-4(3H)- one (L) Induce Apoptosis and Modulate Antioxidant Enzyme Activity in Some Cancer Cell Lines
Authors: Al-Hilli Zaid A. Ali Al-Hilli A. Ali
Published: March 2023

A quinazoline ring possess interesting biological activities, we study the combined cytotoxic activity, induction of apoptosis and antioxidant enzyme modulation of new synthetic aquinazoline compound in several cancer cell lines. This compound is 3-amino-2-methylquinazolin-4(3H)-one (L), it was synthesized in the laboratories of Department of Applied Science - University of Technology – Iraq. Its showed potent cytotoxic and growth inhibition effect on all cancer cell lines tested. Cells death was due to the induction of apoptosis through modulation of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione S transferase (GST) and glutathione (glutathione L-glutamyl-L-cysteinylglycine, GSH). These results indicate that this compound has desirable drug-like properties; it’s of great significance to understand its full anti-proliferative mechanism
origen del intrusivo Potrerillos (Macará, Ecuador)
Authors: Romero Cóndor Christian Wladimir , Castillo Jara Marilyn Del Cisne , Oñate Acurio Leyla Lisbeth , Carranco Andino Fausto Rodolfo , Vélez Suquilanda Tito Salvador , Torres Cartuche Juan Gonzalo , Gómez Estevez Dayana Mishell , Freire Cabrera Hector Georgy , Escobar Duche Vanessa Leonor , Gramal Aguiar Ana Belén , Condoy Guairacocha Darwin Patricio , Pulupa Vela Anibal Roberto , Barona Diaz Diego
Published: March 2023

Recientes campañas de cartografía geológica en la cuenca Alamor – Lancones reportaron al intrusivo Potrerillos, al este de Macará. Este intrusivo se emplaza en rocas volcanoclásticas de la Formación Ciano, sin embargo, se desconoce la petrografía, la geoquímica y la edad del intrusivo. Este trabajo discute el ambiente tectónico del intrusivo Potrerillos en función de nuevos datos litoestratigráficos, petrográficos y geoquímicos, recolectados en la sección Bocana La Laja – Vicin. La cuarzomonzonita Potrerillos consiste en un cuerpo tipo domo, de dirección NE y 1,5 Km de longitud. Su mineralogía incluye: albita, oligoclasa, microclina, cuarzo, hornblenda, augita y biotita, con textura fanerítica, holocristalina, inequigranular. Concentraciones de óxidos mayores indican afinidad calcoalcalina potásica, series magnesianas, perluminicas a metaluminicas saturadas en sílice. Bajas concentraciones de Ta, P, Yb, Nb, Ti, Ni, Cr, las relaciones Th/Yb, Ta/Yb, Th/Ta, Th/Hf, Ta/ Hf, enriquecimiento relativo en LREE y ligeras anomalías negativas de Eu indican que el ambiente de formación del intrusivo Potrerillos se vincula al desarrollo de un arco volcánico en margen activa continental.
Design and Implementation of a Control System to Mitigate Osteonecrosis in Orthopedic Bone Drilling Procedures
Authors: Gok Kadir , Kisioglu Yasin , Gök Arif
Published: March 2023

The drilling process in orthopedic surgery can sometimes lead to an undesired increase in temperature, which can cause serious damage to bones and soft tissues. This overheating is typically identified as a temperature above 47 °C, known as the critical limit, and can result in the condition known as osteonecrosis. This study aims to develop a new control system, using a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller, to prevent overheating and the resulting osteonecrosis. The bone temperature is constantly measured using a thermocouple and, when it reaches the critical temperature of 47 °C, the cooling device is activated by the PID-controlled system. This new control system makes the drill machine with cooling device more user-friendly and allows surgeons to set a desired temperature level manually.
Study of stability of the vehicle body during rotation with the air suspension
Authors: Truong Ho Xuan
Published: March 2023

This article deals with the problem of controlling the stiffness of the air suspension system to help stabilize the body when the vehicle is moving around. Through the simulation of the change of the suspension stiffness parameter using Matlab simulink software, this paper has shown the impact of external force on the change of air suspension stiffness through simulation graphs. Based on the specifications of the Thaco Mobihome vehicle, simulation results have shown that there is a control to change the air suspension stiffness to help the vehicle move more stably and safely in the horizontal direction when the vehicle is moving around. From the results of this study, it has also been shown that the application of air suspension system for passenger cars will completely improve the level of stability and safety for passengers.
Picturing Transnationalism
Authors: Cubero Carlo
Published: March 2023

This research report addresses epistemological issues confronted in the ongoing process of making an ethnographic documentary about transnationalism. It begins by considering the use of cinematic vocabulary as an analogy to narrativise the complexities of transnationalism. It then contextualises a specific documentary project within methodological debates in the ethnographic film-making community.

 

Keywords: ethnographic documentary, visual methods, transnationalism, montage, observational cinema, documentary narrative, ethics of representation
Transnational Adoption, Technologies of Exclusion, and the Promise of ‘Hom
Authors: Yngvesson Barbara
Published: March 2023

Petri Hautaniemi’s provocative essay focusing on Finland as a case study of European immigration politics illuminates the ways that the application of more exclusive understandings of household, home and family by the nation state work to limit the immigration of refugees who claim the right to do so on grounds of family reunification. Hautaniemi’s research contributes to a rethinking of approaches to kinship and nationhood by anthropologists over the past decade (Franklin and McKinnon 2001; Wade [ed.] 2007). A central thread in this research examines the potential connections between the ways kinship can be reworked using new reproductive technologies, and the ways national bodies can be reproduced or transformed through technologies that restrict or expand  understandings of who does or does not belong (Campbell 2007). As Campbell and others note, these various technologies tend to have ‘race effects’, even as race is publicly eschewed as grounds for immigration policy, for understandings of national identity, and/or for the construction of family.
Analysis of The Knowledge Level of Sei Tuan Village Community Regarding Respiratory Tract Infections Before and After Health Education
Authors: Tarigan Sabrina Edriati , Adilah Raisah , Maziaturrahmah Maziaturrahmah , Hana Nabila , Sari Ridmahsyah Widiya , Azhari Mutia , Hafizah Rehana Qari , Edriani Maysara , Dalimunthe Muhammad Iqbal , Siregar Putra Apriadi
Published: March 2023

Acute respiratory infections are contagious diseases that make people sick and kill them in developing countries. This study aims to determine how much the community knows about acute respiratory infections before and after getting some education about them. This research is quantitative descriptive research with a quasi-experiment design. The population in this study were all participants in counseling acute respiratory infections. The sample used in this study consisted of 30 respondents, selected using total sampling and primary data with pretest and posttest data collection tools. The results showed that age and education affect the level of knowledge. The level of good knowledge before and after the intervention was 53.4%, and it was 83.4% after the intervention. There was a 30% increase in knowledge before and after the intervention. Increasing public knowledge about health is a way to improve the degree of public health. It is strongly suggested that the North Sumatra Health Office keep helping people, especially those near the coast, with health counseling.. 
Tingkat Kepuasan Konsumen terhadap Produk Olahan Perikanan Amplang UD. XYZ di Samarinda Consumer Satisfaction level on Processed Fishery Products (Amplang) at UD. XYZ in Samarinda City
Authors: Hairunnisa  , Susilo Heru , Darmansyah Oon
Published: March 2023

The purposes of the study were determine the characteristics of consumers, consumer satisfaction, and attribute that required to be improved. The research was conducted during 11 months from April 2021 to February 2022 in Samarinda City. The sampling method used purposive sampling to 45 respondents. The data analysis method included descriptive analysis, Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI), and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). The result showed that the characteristics of consumers range around 21-27 years old, most of whom were women with unmarried marital status and status as students with high school graduate with income under Rp. 500,000 every month. The result of the CSI analysis showed a satisfaction level at 79.99% with the criteria of satisfied consumers, while the result of the IPA analysis showed priority of attribute that need to be improved were the nutritional facts.
Изучение противогрибковой активности нового бромпроизводного 4,5-дигидрофуран-3-карбоновой кислоты на модели биопленки
Authors: Новикова Валентина Васильевна , Иванов Дмитрий Владимирович , Игидов Назим Мусабекович
Published: March 2023

Изучена противогрибковая активность нового вещества — нитрила 2-амино-5-бром-5-(1-бром-2-оксо-2-фенилэтил)-4-оксо-1H-4,5-дигидрофуран-3-карбоновой кислоты в планктонной культуре и в условиях биопленки. Установлено наличие высокой антифунгальной активности в отношении планктонных культур типового и клинических изолятов Candida albicans (pMIC 0,3 – 2,9 мкг/мл), превышающей действие препарата сравнения флуконазола. Противогрибковый эффект данного соединения в пленочной культуре сопоставим с флуконазолом: подавление роста 80% микроорганизмов возникало при sMIC80 500 мкг/мл и более. Показана необходимость тестирования новых противогрибковых соединений на модели биопленки для возможности их дальнейшего использования в практической медицине при ситуациях, сопровождающихся биопленкообразованием.
Kat Maliklerinin Yapı Maliki Sıfatıyla Hukuki Sorumluluğu
Authors: CANBOLAT Ferhat , OKYAR Dila
Published: March 2023

098 sayılı Türk Borçlar Kanunu’nun 69. maddesinde ağırlaştırılmış bir sebep sorumluluğu olarak düzenlenmiş olan yapı malikinin sorumluluğunun kat mülkiyeti ilişkinde ortaya çıkması mümkündür. Kat mülkiyeti düzenine tâbi bir yapı eserindeki yapım bozukluğu ya da bakım eksikliği nedeniyle üçüncü kişinin uğradığı zarardan kimin/kimlerin yapı maliki sıfatıyla sorumlu olduğu belirlenirken bağımsız bölüm-ortak yer ayrımı belirleyicidir. Ayrıca, klasik kat mülkiyetinden farklı olarak toplu yapı düzeninde, ortak yerler nicelik bakımından artmakta ve nitelik bakımından çeşitlenmekte olup, bu durum, ortak yerlerden kaynaklanan zararlardan sorumlu kişilerin tespitinde önem arz eder. Ortak yerlerdeki yapım bozukluğu veya bakım eksikliği nedeniyle üçüncü kişilerin uğradığı zarardan kat maliklerinin sorumluluğunun hukuki niteliği tartışmalıdır. Bu tartışmanın çözüme kavuşturulmasında TBK m. 69 hükmünde düzenlenen sorumluluğun dayandığı temel ve kanun hükmünün ruhuna göre bir değerlendirme yapılmalıdır.
THE CYPRUS PROBLEM AND THE FENCED-OFF VAROSHA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE JUDGMENTS TO DATE
Authors: ERDEM Meliz
Published: March 2023

Negotiations continuing for more than forty-five years under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) in resolving Cyprus problem have to date ended without agreement. The property dispute has been one of the aspects of the problem. The Immovable Property Commission (IPC) established in the north to examine claims of Greek Cypriots who abandoned their properties has been a development in this regard. In this respect, the properties remaining in the fenced-off area of Varosha deserve a separate analysis.

The area has been a military zone since the Turkish military intervention of 1974. The UN Security Council Resolutions 550 (1984) and 789 (1992) state that it should be transferred to the administration of the United Nations for resettlement of its inhabitants. Following the Turkish initiative in 2020 to demilitarize and open the area up for its original inhabitants, the political implications of this move have been subject of various discussions.

However, this article attempts to shed light upon upon the domestic decisions and judgments in relation to properties remaining in this area and the implications these might have on the Greek Cypriots property rights. The question is whether and how, the initiative by the Turkish authorities on one hand, and the approach by the IPC on the other hand could impact the prospect of Greek Cypriot claims before the European Court of Human Rights.
Baseball, Manhood, and Fathering Gay Children in Tom Perrotta's "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face"
Authors: Gomez-Vega Ibis
Published: March 2023

Played out on a baseball field, Tom Perrotta's "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face" is about two men who behave badly for different reasons. Chang, a Chinese father who comes to the stadium to watch his daughter play softball, behaves badly when he rushes across a baseball field to defend his daughter who has been hit on purpose by a bean ball. He is brutalized by the police and arrested for his behavior. Jack, an upper-middle class white man, behaves badly at home when he slaps his teenage son for saying something that offends him, but the slap is followed by a punch so hard that he breaks his son's nose. This leads his wife to leave him and take the children with her, which causes Jack to feel like a victim alone in his own home without his family. The story opens after Jack has been alone for a year during which he claims to have learned a few things about himself. What the reader learns about Jack through his performance as the umpire in a Little League game is that he is in fact homophobic, probably racist, and a little too infatuated with the bodies of twelve-year-old girls. He sees himself as a victim, a man whose very existence is threatened by people like a next door neighbor who has fathered three "normal" sons, the wife who leaves him and takes "his" children with her, and the effeminate son who no longer wants to associate with his father. At the end of the story, Jack still does not know that he should blame his heteronormative way of seeing the world for all of his problems instead of his wife or his son.
Picture-Skin, Music-Muscle: The Intersemiotic/ Intermedia Body of Olney São Paulo’s Manhã Cinzenta
Authors: Pires Antonia Cristina , Tanus Gustavo , Schettini Filipe
Published: March 2023

The film Manhã cinzenta (1969), by Brazilian filmmaker Olney São Paulo, is a fictional documentary in a short film, which works with fictional space scenes and real elements (clipping from newspapers, movie posters, radio news, images from student marches, and police repression). As a political-artistic form of resistance to the 1964 Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, it is a manifest against authoritarian regimes, also referring to the Latin American dictatorships of 1960-1970. Based on the work of Rajewsky and Clüver, we analyzed, from the intermediate texture, the relationship between image and music, respectively, “epidermis and muscle” by Wingstedt, threads of an artistic and political texture as elements of the constitution of a multimedia body: metaphor of resistance. The film can contribute to breaking with the logic of domination - a logic that is structured by the monopoly of discourse about the past, which in current times has been trying to extinguish from history, from memory, the violent event of the Brazilian civil-military coup. For this reason, it is important to study it, due to the importance of this film as one of the most significant films about resisting, having also been a metaphor for the life of the filmmaker himself.
Pesticide residues in sauce manufactured from agricultural products
Authors: BALKAN Tarık , KARA Kenan
Published: March 2023

In this study, pesticide residues in sauce manufactured from agricultural products were examined. A simultaneous multiresidue analysis for 260 pesticides in sauce samples was performed using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The QuEChERS AOAC 2007.01 (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe) was selected as the most suitable protocol for routine determination of pesticide residues. In line with the SANTE/11312/2021 guideline two parameters were used as identification criteria: retention time (RT) with a tolerance of ± 0.1 min in relation to the RT of the analyte in matrix-matched calibration standard and ion ratio tolerance below 30%. The RT deviation in positive samples was always < 0.1 min, and the ion ratio tolerance was < 30%. A total 4 different pesticides were detected in 20 sauce samples. No active ingredient was found in 16 samples. The residue levels were between 10 and 94 µg kg. The residues of acetamiprid, ametoctradin, imazalil sulfate, and metalaxyl-M were below the European Union Maximum Residue Limits (EU-MRLs).
Teacher Perceptions of Past Classroom Behaviors Influence Adolescents’ Receptivity and Responsiveness to a Belonging Intervention
Authors: Pyne Jaymes
Published: March 2023

This study shows how receptivity and responsiveness can influence the efficacy of an intervention helping adolescents reappraise worry or uncertainty following the difficult transition to middle school. The intervention was implemented at-scale in a diverse sample of sixth-grade public school district students followed through eighth grade (N = 1,180; 41% Black or Latinx; 44% low socioeconomic status). Results suggest the intervention’s effects on grade point average are confined to a racially and socioeconomically diverse subgroup of adolescents who had high teacher evaluations of their classroom behaviors in kindergarten that declined over the early elementary school years (i.e., “Disengagers”). These findings suggest that adolescents’ past school experiences with educators may bound the extent to which interventions can promote success in school.
Perceptions and Emotions of Nursing and Health Management Students About Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study
Authors: TUNA Rujnan , ŞAHİN Safiye
Published: March 2023

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the perceptions and emotions of nursing and health management students, who had clinical/vocational practice course, about distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Phenomenological design was employed in this qualitative study. The study was conducted with 39 full-time health sciences students in nursing and health management. Data were collected by in-depth interviews. The interviews were conducted with ten open-ended and semi-structured questions between December 2020-January 2021. Data were analyzed using content analysis.

Results: As a result of this study, the perceptions and emotions of the nursing and health management students about distance learning were classified into three themes and 14 sub-themes: “emotional state”, “the effect of distance learning on theoretical courses” and “the effect of distance learning on clinical/vocational practice”.

Conclusion: Results have indicated that distance learning is insufficient especially in terms of clinical/vocational practices and that the emotional states of students are negatively affected.
Experiment ended
Authors: Robinson Jonny
Published: March 2023

Cost of Science Asian Researchers and the Disparity in US
Mental health and psychosocial interventions in the context of climate change: A scoping review
Authors: Xue Siqi , Massazza Alessandro , Akhter-Khan Samia C. , Wray Britt , Husain Ishrat , Lawrance Emma
Published: March 2023

Background: The evidence on the impacts of climate change on mental health and wellbeing is growing rapidly. The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of existing mental health and psychosocial interventions aimed at addressing the mental health and psychosocial impacts of climate change.Methods: A scoping review methodology was followed. MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases were searched from inception to May 2022. Comprehensive grey literature search, including expert consultation, was conducted to identify interventions for which peer-reviewed academic literature may not yet be available. Data on intervention type, setting, climate stressor, mental health outcome, evaluation, and any other available details were extracted, and results were summarized narratively.Results: Academic literature search identified 16 records and grey literature search identified a further 24 records. Altogether, 37 unique interventions or packages of interventions were identified. The interventions act at the levels of microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem through diverse mechanisms. While most interventions have not been formally evaluated, promising preliminary results support interventions in low- and middle-income-country settings disproportionately affected by climate disasters.Conclusions: Interventions from multidisciplinary fields are emerging to reduce psychological distress and enhance mental health and wellbeing in the context of climate change. This scoping review details existing evidence on the interventions and summarizes intervention gaps and lessons learned to inform continued intervention development and scale-up.
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Authors: Robinson Jonny
Published: March 2023

Cost and Ethics of Science Funding
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Authors: Robinson Jonny
Published: March 2023

Navigating Open-Access Policies A Costly
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Authors: Robinson Jonny
Published: March 2023

Cost of Science and the Issue of Ethics Asian Researchers Face Disparity With Key U.S. Science Funding
Zat gizi makro (karbohidrat, protein dan lemak)
Authors: Irmayanti Andi
Published: March 2023

Zat gizi makro karbohidrat, protein dan lemak
Differential expression of RCN1 in colorectal cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: March 2023

Cancer is a leading cause of death and colorectal cancer is among the most lethal cancers (1, 2). We mined published and public microarray datasets (3, 4) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the level of the transcriptome genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We found significant differential expression of the gene encoding reticulocalbin 1, RCN1, when comparing colorectal tumors to the tissue of origin, the colon. RCN1 mRNA was present at significantly higher quantities in tumors of the colon as compared to normal colorectal tissue. Analysis of human survival data revealed that expression of RCN1 in rectal tumors was correlated with recurrence-free survival in patients with rectal cancer. RCN1 expression changes may be important for the initiation or progression of human CRC.
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Authors: Robinson Jonny
Published: March 2023

Benefits and Challenges of Expanding Risky Virus
Studying effective color transformations for predicting soil state change
Authors: Hamed Riwiz
Published: March 2023

In order to increase agricultural output, forecast floods and droughts, comprehend Earth's weather and climate, and other things, it can be helpful to research soil moisture, which is the quantity of water stored between soil particles. The topsoil's moisture content is influenced by both current meteorological conditions, such as rainfall, and land surface features, such as soil texture. According to several earlier research, land surface factors mostly influence small-scale soil moisture patterns, or those that range between 3 and 30 metres. The key factor affecting large-scale patterns, which can range in size from 1.5 kilometres to hundreds of kilometres, is the weather. We turn to colorspaces as a means to study minute changes in soil particles based on their earlier studies showing how impactful they can be in image classification and adversarial defenses. Our early results have been very promising, seeing an improvement in performance by 3.4% when using LAB color space over traditional RGB color space. This shows the promise in the general direction that the potential of color spaces possess.
Differential expression of CEP55 in colorectal cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: March 2023

Cancer is a leading cause of death and colorectal cancer is among the most lethal cancers (1, 2). We mined published microarray datasets (3, 4) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the level of the transcriptome genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We found significant differential expression of the gene encoding centrosomal protein 55, CEP55, when comparing colorectal tumors to the tissue of origin, the colon. CEP55 mRNA was present at significantly higher quantities in tumors of the colon as compared to normal colorectal tissue. CEP55 expression changes may be important for the initiation or progression of human CRC.
Differential expression of ANLN in colorectal cancer.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: March 2023

Cancer is a leading cause of death and colorectal cancer is among the most lethal cancers (1, 2). We mined published and public microarray datasets (3, 4) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the level of the transcriptome genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We found significant differential expression of the gene encoding anillin, actin-binding protein, ANLN, when comparing colorectal tumors to the tissue of origin, the colon. ANLN mRNA was present at significantly higher quantities in tumors of the colon as compared to normal colorectal tissue. Analysis of human survival data revealed that expression of ANLN in rectal tumors was correlated with overall survival in patients with rectal cancer. ANLN expression changes may be important for the initiation or progression of human CRC.
Motivation and pleasure deficits undermine the benefits of social affiliation in psychosis
Authors: Blanchard Jack J. , Smith Jason F. , Bennett Melanie , Orth Ryan D , Savage Christina , McCarthy Julie , Coan James Arthur , Shackman Alexander J.
Published: March 2023

In psychotic disorders, reward motivation and pleasure (MAP) deficits are associated with decreased affiliation and heightened functional impairment. We leveraged a transdiagnostic sample enriched for psychosis and a multi-method approach to test the hypothesis that MAP deficits undermine the stress-buffering benefits of affiliation. Participants completed the Social Affiliation Enhancement Task (SAET) to cultivate affiliation with an experimental partner. Although the SAET increased perceived affiliation and mood, individuals with greater negative symptoms derived smaller emotional benefits from the partners, as indexed by self-report and facial behavior. We then used the Handholding fMRI paradigm, which combines threat-anticipation with affiliative physical contact, to determine whether MAP deficits undermine the social regulation of distress. Individuals with greater MAP deficits showed diminished neural ‘benefits’—reduced dampening of threat-elicited activation—from affiliative touch in key frontoparietal nodes of the Dorsal Attention Network. In short, MAP symptoms disrupt the emotional and neuroregulatory benefits of affiliation.
Visual perception is highly flexible and context-dependent in young infants: A case of top-down modulated motion perception
Authors: Xiao Naiqi G , Emberson Lauren
Published: March 2023

Top-down modulation is an essential cognitive component in human perception. Despite mounting evidence of top-down perceptual modulation in adults, it is largely unknown whether infants can engage in this cognitive function. Here, we examined top-down modulation of motion perception in six- to eight-month-old infants via their smooth pursuit eye movements. With four experiments, we demonstrated that infants’ perception of motion direction can be flexibly shaped by briefly learned predictive cues when no coherent motion was available. The current findings present a novel view of infant perception and its development: Infant perceptual systems respond to predictive signals engendered from higher-level learning systems, leading to a flexible and context-dependent modulation of perception. This work also suggested that the infant brain is sophisticated, interconnected, and active when placed in a context where it can learn and predict.
Older yet Sharp: No General Age-Related Decline in Focusing Attention
Authors: Souza Alessandra S. , Frischkorn Gidon T. , Oberauer Klaus
Published: March 2023

Attention is a multifaceted mechanism operating on space, features, and memory. Previous studies reported both decline and preservation of attention in aging. Yet, it is unclear if healthy aging differentially affects attentional selection in these domains. To address these inconsistencies, we evaluated the ability to focus attention in a battery of 11 tasks in a large sample of younger and older adults (n = 172/174). We addressed if (1) aging effects are consistent across different attention tasks, and (2) if there is domain-specific or domain-general age-related decline in focused attention. Both younger and older adults benefited from focusing attention on space, features, and memory representations. Within the same domain, some tasks showed a decline, whereas others showed improvement with aging; and, on average, attentional benefits were similar across age groups. These results are inconsistent with the claim that aging is associated with either domain-specific or domain-general deficits in focused attention.
Modular Serial-Parallel Network for Hierarchical Facial Representations
Authors: Fific Mario , Little Daniel R. , Yang Cheng-Ta
Published: March 2023

Researchers in the field of face perception have long debated the extent to which we process faces holistically (as a whole) versus analytically (focusing on individual features). While some evidence suggests that faces are perceived holistically, research on the neural organization of the visual system and people's subjective experiences indicate that face parts can also be analyzed individually. This view is corroborated by observations of hierarchical object representation in which selective neural populations are fine-tuned to detect specific visual properties ranging from simple features to more complex combination of features. Thus, advances in theories of face perception are met with two major challenges: How can hierarchical face representations be used to integrate holistic and analytic encoding within the same framework? And how can the stages of face processing be integrated with higher-level cognitive processes, such as memory and decision-making, that are recruited during facial perception? We propose a novel computational framework termed the Modular Serial-Parallel Network (MSPN), which synthesizes several perceptual and cognitive approaches including memory representations, signal detection theory, rule-based decision-making, mental architectures (serial and parallel processing), random walks, and process interactivity. MSPN provides a computational modeling account of four stages in face perception: (a) representational (b) decisional, (c) logical-rule implementation, and (d) modular stochastic accrual of information and can account for both choice probabilities and response-time predictions. In a face classification task, MSPN showed an impressive ability in fitting choice response time distributions over other models. MSPN can be used as a tool for further development and refinement of hypotheses in face perception. The analysis of the model’s parameter values, estimated from data, can be used to explore distinct properties of the perceptual and cognitive processes engaged in both analytic and holistic encoding. We conclude by outlining how MSPN could be generalized to other perceptual and cognitive domains.
A Diffusion Model Analysis of Age and Individual Differences in the Retro-Cue Benefit
Authors: Souza Alessandra S. , Frischkorn Gidon T.
Published: March 2023

The limited capacity of working memory constrains how well we can think and act. Focused attention alleviates this limitation by prioritizing the most relevant mental content at a given time. Retro-cues tap into this ability by guiding attention to one working memory content, thereby improving memory speed and accuracy. So far, few attempts have been made to understand the retro-cue effect through well-established computational models, nor how their parameters track age-related changes and individual differences in focusing efficiency. The present study aims to close these gaps. We applied the drift-diffusion model to the data from a large sample of younger and older adults (total N = 346) that completed four retro-cue tasks. Diffusion modeling showed that retro-cues increased the quality of evidence accumulation, reduced the time taken for retrieval, and changed response conservativeness. Younger and older adults benefited from retro-cues in all tasks and parameters. Yet, age-related decline was observed in the retro-cue boost for evidence quality. Likewise, evidence quality was the only parameter capturing individual differences in focusing efficiency. Our results suggest that people differ in how well they can strengthen and protect a focused representation to boost evidence-quality accumulation, and this ability declines with aging.
धुन्धकारीको अवसान कथामा लैङ्गिकता {Gender in the story of Dhundhakari's demise}
Authors: अधिकारी Adhikari अनिल Anil
Published: March 2023

प्रस्तुत अध्ययनमा कथाकार इस्मालीद्वारा लिखित धुन्धकारीको अवसान कथाको लैङ्गिक अध्ययन गरिएको छ । कथाको विश्लेषणका लागि पितृसत्ता, लैङ्गिक प्रतिनिधित्व, लैङ्गिक सम्बन्ध, लैङ्गिक विभेद, नारीवादी दृष्टिकोण र लैङ्गिक प्रतिरोधजस्ता प्रतिमानलाई आधार बनाइएको छ । यस अध्ययनको पूर्णताका लागि साँस्कृतिक अध्ययन अन्तर्गतको लैङ्गिकतालाई सैद्धान्तिक अवधारणाका रूपमा उपयोग गरिएको छ । मूल समस्या र शोध्यप्रश्नको समाधानका लागि पाठविश्लेषणकेन्द्री गुणात्मक अनुसन्धान पद्धति तथा विश्लेषणात्मक विधिको प्रयोग गरिएको छ । प्रस्तुत अध्ययनमा समाजमा आतङ्क फैलाई समाजलाई क्रीडास्थल बनाएका उच्चवर्गले निम्नवर्गमाथि वर्गीय, जातीय र लैङ्गिक रूपमा गर्ने शोषण र विभेदका घटना, वर्गीय र लैङ्गिक रूपमा भएको प्रतिकारले परास्त भएको उच्चवर्गको मानसिकता र व्यवहार प्रस्तुत भएको छ । सामन्तवादी समाज व्यवस्थामा आर्थिक हैसयतकै कारण नारीले सामन्तको वासनापूर्तिको साधन बन्नुपर्ने, नारीलाई बलात्कार गर्ने, कुट्ने, पिट्ने, मरणासन्न तुल्याउने जस्ता गतिविधिका विरूद्धमा सशक्त नारी प्रतिकार भएको यस कथामा समाजमा विद्यमान लैङ्गिक शोषण, विभेद, नारीवादी दृष्टिकोण र लैङ्गिक प्रतिरोधको स्थिति प्रभावकारी रूपमा संयोजन भएको छ । नारीलाई भोग्याका रूपमा हर्ने  पितृसत्तात्मक सामन्तवादी दृष्टिकोणका कारण विभेदमा परेकी माइली घर्तिनी र उसका छोरीलाई लैङ्गिक हिंसाका दृष्टिकोणबाट हेर्ने स्थिति होस् अथवा सामाजिक शोषणका विरूद्ध आवाज उठाउने गुलाम रायकी छोरीमाथि भएको बलात्कार तथा नारी समुदायमाथि भएको विभेदका विरूद्धमा एकल प्रतिरोध गर्ने बुलकियामाथि भएको भौतिक आक्रमणको घटनाको प्रस्तुतिले पितृसत्तात्मक समाजले नारीप्रति हर्ने  दृष्टिकोण र त्यसका विरूद्ध सशक्त प्रतिकार भएको कथाका स्थानमा उभ्याएको छ । कथामा पितृसत्ताका कारण वञ्चितीकरणमा परेका नारी समुदायको प्रतिकारको सहयोगी बनेर आएको पुरूषसमूहको सामूहिक प्रतिकारको अन्तर्यमा पितृसत्ता प्रदत्त लैङ्गिक विभेदको अन्त्य भई समतामूलक समाज निर्माण हुन लागेको सङ्क्रमणकालीन अवस्थालाई प्रस्तुत गरेको निष्कर्षमा निकालिएको छ ।
Echocardiographic Study Among Traffic Police Personnel in Central Nepal
Authors: Laudari Shankar , Dallakoti Samanata , Khanal Sulav
Published: March 2023

Background: Echocardiographic studies among traffic police personnel are lacking in the world including in Nepal. So, this study is planned to detect any structural cardiac abnormalities in this specific group population.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among fifty traffic police personnel working in the Chitwan district of Nepal. All underwent two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in Chitwan Mutu Aspatal.
Results: The age ranged from 21 to 55 years, with a mean age of 35 years. Males were predominant (46/50) and 14(28%) were diagnosed as hypertensives. Mild MR was detected on 11(22%) participants.
Conclusion: This is the first reported observational study so far among the traffic police personnel in Nepal. There is a high incidence of systemic hypertension among these populations though no major cardiac structural abnormalities were detected.