bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Deep Learning and Image Processing Pipeline for Object Characterization in Firm Operations
Authors: Aghasi Alireza , Rai Arun , Xia Yusen
Published: December 2023

Given the abundance of images related to operations that are being captured and stored, it behooves firms to innovate systems using image processing to improve operational performance that refers to any activity that can save labor cost. In this paper, we use deep learning techniques, combined with classic image/signal processing methods, to propose a pipeline to solve certain types of object counting and layer characterization problems in firm operations. Using data obtained by us through a collaborative effort with real manufacturers, we demonstrate that the proposed pipeline method is able to achieve higher than 93% accuracy in layer and log counting. Theoretically, our study conceives, constructs, and evaluates proof of concept of a novel pipeline method in characterizing and quantifying the number of defined items with images, which overcomes the limitations of methods based only on deep learning or signal processing. Practically, our proposed method can help firms significantly reduce labor costs and/or improve quality and inventory control by recording the number of products in real time, more accurately and with minimal up-front technological investment. The codes and data are made publicly available online through the INFORMS Journal on Computing GitHub site.

History: Accepted by Ram Ramesh, Area Editor for Data Science and Machine Learning.

Supplemental Material: The software that supports the findings of this study is available within the paper and its Supplemental Information ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/suppl/10.1287/ijoc.2022.0260 ) as well as from the IJOC GitHub software repository ( https://github.com/INFORMSJoC/2022.0260 ). The complete IJOC Software and Data Repository is available at https://informsjoc.github.io/ .
Can Merchants Benefit from Entry by (Amazon-Like) Platform if Multiagent Prices Signal Quality?
Authors: Qiu Ye , Rao Ram C.
Published: December 2023

Merchants need not fear platform entry because that can raise merchants’ profits by resolving quality uncertainty for consumers.
On the Causal Effect of Fame on Citations
Authors: Brogaard Jonathan , Engelberg Joseph E. , Eswar Sapnoti K. , Van Wesep Edward D.
Published: December 2023

Papers published in finance and economics journals whose first authors are famous have more citations than papers whose second or third authors are famous. As a paper ages, its citation rate varies most with variation in the fame of the first author and less so with the fame of second and third authors. Author order is alphabetical, so these patterns are unrelated to underlying quality. The magnitudes we find are large; a three-author paper written by the most prolific author in economics and his two research assistants would increase, on average, its percentile rank by 30 percentage points if the prolific author was first rather than second or third. The effect is especially pronounced in three, rather than two, author papers, suggesting that burying a famous author in the “et al.” reduces citations the most.

This paper was accepted by David Sraer, finance.

Supplemental Material: The data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.00840 .
"Boyish as a Ganymede": Greek Love and the Erotic Experiment in Jude the Obscure
Authors: Wiet Victoria
Published: December 2023

Abstract: This article demonstrates the importance of Jude the Obscure's Oxford setting to Thomas Hardy's project of writing a novel of maturation that refuses to conclude with successful reproduction. Linking the character of Sue Bridehead with Hardy's interest in writing about Greek love by Oxford graduates, I show how Jude's coupling with Sue incites intellectual exploration rather than the reducing development to the ends of reproductive marriage or professional achievement. To narrate the effect of Sue's tutelage, I show, Hardy derails the novel's teleological progression in favor of a pastoral mode made possible by spaces where the couple can safely practice non-marital sexuality. By way of conclusion, I position Jude at the start of a queer pastoral tradition in British fiction in which setting is formally significant because of its historical significance to the sustainability of sexually nonnormative lives.
Magnon blockade in a strongly coupled nonlinear cavity–magnon system
Authors: Ding Zhong , Gao Yong-Pan , Zhang Yong
Published: December 2023

The quantum blockade effect is one of the important control methods for various quantum states. Recently, magnon has gradually become the focus of quantum device research due to its excellent properties such as stability, high spin density, and tunability. This study investigates the generation of conventional and unconventional single and double magnon blockades, as well as magnon-induced tunneling effects, in strongly nonlinearly coupled cavity–magnon systems. By adjusting the coupling strength and the driving field, we achieved single and double magnon blockades, along with magnon-induced tunneling effects. Interestingly, we found that the transition from a magnon blockade to magnon-induced tunneling can be controlled by modulating the driving field. To validate the feasibility of our model, we examined the impact of thermal noise at an experimental temperature of 20 mK. Our proposed scheme may offer a method to manipulate few-magnon states and holds potential applications in quantum communication and quantum information processing.
X-ray phase and dark-field computed tomography without optical elements
Authors: Leatham Thomas A. , Paganin David M. , Morgan Kaye S.
Published: December 2023

X-ray diffusive dark-field imaging, which allows spatially unresolved microstructure to be mapped across a sample, is an increasingly popular tool in an array of settings. Here, we present a new algorithm for phase and dark-field computed tomography based on the x-ray Fokker-Planck equation. Needing only a coherent x-ray source, sample, and detector, our propagation-based algorithm can map the sample density and dark-field/diffusion properties of the sample in 3D. Importantly, incorporating dark-field information in the density reconstruction process enables a higher spatial resolution reconstruction than possible with previous propagation-based approaches. Two sample exposures at each projection angle are sufficient for the successful reconstruction of both the sample density and dark-field Fokker-Planck diffusion coefficients. We anticipate that the proposed algorithm may be of benefit in biomedical imaging and industrial settings.
Anti-noise UWFBG-array enhanced DAS system using double-pulse-based time-domain adaptive delay interference: publisher’s note
Authors: Gui Xin , He Siqi , Wang Yiming , Fu Xuelei , Guo Yongxing , Li Zhengying
Published: December 2023

This publisher’s note contains a correction to Opt. Lett. 48, 1814 (2023)10.1364/OL.486149.
Real-time PCR detection of mixed Plasmodium ovale curtisi and wallikeri infections in human and mosquito hosts
Authors: Potlapalli Varun R. , Muller Meredith S. , Ngasala Billy , Ali Innocent Mbulli , Na Yu Bin , Williams Danielle R. , Kharabora Oksana , Chhetri Srijana , Liu Mei S. , Carey-Ewend Kelly , Lin Feng-Chang , Mathias Derrick , Tarimo Brian B. , Juliano Jonathan J. , Parr Jonathan B. , Lin Jessica T.
Published: December 2023

Plasmodium ovale curtisi (Poc) and Plasmodium ovale wallikeri (Pow) represent distinct non-recombining Plasmodium species that are increasing in prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa. Though they circulate sympatrically, co-infection within human and mosquito hosts has rarely been described. Separate 18S rRNA real-time PCR assays that detect Poc and Pow were modified to allow species determination in parallel under identical cycling conditions. The lower limit of detection was 0.6 plasmid copies/μL (95% CI 0.4–1.6) for Poc and 4.5 plasmid copies/μL (95% CI 2.7–18) for Pow, or 0.1 and 0.8 parasites/μL, respectively, assuming 6 copies of 18s rRNA per genome. However, the assays showed cross-reactivity at concentrations greater than 103 plasmid copies/μL (roughly 200 parasites/μL). Mock mixtures were used to establish criteria for classifying mixed Poc/Pow infections that prevented false-positive detection while maintaining sensitive detection of the minority ovale species down to 100 copies/μL (<1 parasite/μL). When the modified real-time PCR assays were applied to field-collected blood samples from Tanzania and Cameroon, species identification by real-time PCR was concordant with nested PCR in 19 samples, but additionally detected two mixed Poc/Pow infections where nested PCR detected a single Po species. When real-time PCR was applied to oocyst-positive Anopheles midguts saved from mosquitoes fed on P. ovale-infected persons, mixed Poc/Pow infections were detected in 11/14 (79%). Based on these results, 8/9 P. ovale carriers transmitted both P. ovale species to mosquitoes, though both Po species could only be detected in the blood of two carriers. The described real-time PCR approach can be used to identify the natural occurrence of mixed Poc/Pow infections in human and mosquito hosts and reveals that such co-infections and co-transmission are likely more common than appreciated.
Screening of the Pandemic Response Box identifies anti-microsporidia compounds
Authors: Huang Qingyuan , Chen Jie , Pan Guoqing , Reinke Aaron W.
Published: December 2023

Microsporidia are fungal obligate intracellular pathogens, which infect most animals and cause microsporidiosis. Despite the serious threat that microsporidia pose to humans and agricultural animals, few drugs are available for the treatment and control of microsporidia. To identify novel inhibitors, we took advantage of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans infected with its natural microsporidian Nematocida parisii. We used this system to screen the Pandemic Response Box, a collection of 400 diverse compounds with known antimicrobial activity. After testing these compounds in a 96-well format at high (100 μM) and low (40 μM) concentrations, we identified four inhibitors that restored the ability of C. elegans to produce progeny in the presence of N. parisii. All four compounds reduced the pathogen load of both N. parisii and Pancytospora epiphaga, a C. elegans-infecting microsporidia related to human-infecting species. One of these compounds, a known inhibitor of a viral protease, MMV1006203, inhibited invasion and prevented the firing of spores. A bis-indole derivative, MMV1593539, decreased spore viability. An albendazole analog, MMV1782387, inhibited proliferation of N. parisii. We tested albendazole as well as 5 other analogs and observed that MMV1782387 was amongst the strongest inhibitors of N. parisii and displayed the least host toxicity. Our study further demonstrates the effectiveness of the C. elegans-N. parisii system for discovering microsporidia inhibitors and the compounds we identified provide potential scaffolds for anti-microsporidia drug development.
Aged and induced-premature ovarian failure mouse models affect diestrus profile and ovarian features
Authors: Zucon Bacelar Ana Carolina , Momesso Nataira Regina , Pederro Felipe Haddad Martim , Gonçalves Alaíde , Ervolino Edilson , Chaves-Neto Antonio Hernandes , Biguetti Claudia Cristina , Matsumoto Mariza Akemi
Published: December 2023

Sex hormones exert a wide influence on several systems of the human body, especially in women, who undergo intense changes in the trans and postmenopausal periods. Different experimental models are used to mimic these conditions; however, the impact on hormonal profile may be different. This study aimed to analyze and compare vaginal cytology of different post-estropausal mice models, along with their microscopical ovarian features. Forty-six C57BL/6J female mice with the ages of 4, 6 and 18 months at the beginning of the experiment, weighing about 25–28 grams, constituted five groups: NC–(negative control) animals with no treatment, OVX-SHAM—sham ovariectomized, OVX–ovariectomized, VCD–medicated with 160 mg/kg/day of 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide via IP for 20 consecutive days, and Aged–senescent mice under physiological estropause. Euthanasia was performed at different periods for the removal of the ovaries, and after diestrus was confirmed by vaginal cytology for 10 consecutive days. For daily vaginal cytology, morphological and histomorphometric microscopic analyzes were performed. Aged mice presented significant increased neutrophils when compared to VCD group, as well as increased cornified epithelial cells when compared to OVX mice, and also increased nucleated epithelial cells when compared to VCD and OVX. NC and OVX-SHAM ovaries presented innumerous follicles at different stages of development, while VCD showed marked follicular atresia, depleted of primordial or developing follicles and a predominance of interstitial cells. The ovaries of aged mice were predominantly constituted by corpus luteum degenerated into corpus albicans, with rare antral follicles. All analyzed models led to different permanent diestrus profiles caused by each model, as indicated by ovarian features. This should be carefully considered when choosing a post-estropausal experimental model, in order to better correlate this challenging phase of female’s life with physiological/pathological conditions.
How to promote knowledge transfer within R&D team? An evolutionary game based on prospect theory
Authors: Zhu Xiaoya , Meng Xiaohua , Zhang Yanjing
Published: December 2023

Knowledge transfer is the basis for R&D teams and enterprises to improve innovation performance, win market competition and seek sustainable development. In order to explore the path to promote knowledge transfer within the R&D team, this study considers the bounded rationality and risk preference of individuals, incorporates prospect theory into evolutionary game, constructs a perceived benefits matrix distinct from the traditional benefits matrix, and simulates the evolutionary game process. The results show that, R&D personnel’s knowledge transfer decisions depend on the net income difference among strategies; only if perceived cost is less than the sum of perceived synergy benefit, perceived organization reward value, and perceived organization punishment value, can knowledge be fully shared and transferred within the R&D team. Moreover, R&D personnel’s knowledge transfer decisions are interfered by the irrational psychological factors, including overconfidence, reflection, loss avoidance, and obsession with small probability events. The findings help R&D teams achieve breakthroughs in improving the efficiency of knowledge transfer, thereby enhancing the capacity of enterprises for collaborative innovation.
Blood flow restriction reduces the increases in cardiorespiratory responses and subjective burden without inhibiting muscular activity during cycling at ventilatory threshold in healthy males
Authors: Uematsu Azusa , Mizushima Yuta , Ishizaka Hayato , Hortobágyi Tibor , Mizushima Takashi , Toyoda Shigeru , Nakajima Toshiaki
Published: December 2023

Low-intensity endurance exercise with blood flow restriction (KAATSU) is under consideration for use in cardiac rehabilitation. However, the physiological responses to such exercise have not yet been fully characterized. In an initial effort in healthy males (n = 11, age: 26.3±4.6 y), we compared the physiological responses to low-intensity endurance exercise with and without a thigh KAATSU. Participants performed maximal graded exercise testing using a cycle ergometer with or without KAATSU. We examined responses to cycling exercise at ventilatory threshold (VT) in heart rate (HR), oxygen consumption (VO2), dyspnea, ratings of perceived exertion (RPE), blood pressure (BP), and rectus femoris activation. Participants reached VT at a lower mechanical load, HR, VO2, dyspnea, and double product (HR×systolic BP) with KAATSU vs. no-KAATSU. At VT, RPE, and rectus femoris activity did not differ between the two conditions. These results suggest that KAATSU reduced exercise intensity to reach VT and the physiological responses to exercise at VT without changes in knee extensor muscle activation. Results from this pilot study in healthy males suggest that KAATSU aerobic exercise at VT intensity has the potential to be an effective and low-burden adjuvant to cycling in cardiac rehabilitation.
Downsizing and purchases of psychotropic drugs: A longitudinal study of stayers, changers and unemployed
Authors: Blomqvist Sandra , Alexanderson Kristina , Vahtera Jussi , Westerlund Hugo , Magnusson Hanson Linda L.
Published: December 2023

Background

The evidence is insufficient regarding the association between organizational downsizing and employee mental health. Our aim was to analyze trajectories of prescribed sedatives and anxiolytics with a sufficiently long follow-up time to capture anticipation, implementation and adaption to a downsizing event among stayers, changers and those who become unemployed compared to unexposed employees.

Method

Residents in Sweden aged 20–54 years in 2007, with stable employment between 2004 and 2007, were followed between 2005 and 2013 (n = 2,305,795). Employment at a workplace with staff reductions ≥18% between two subsequent years in 2007–2011 (n = 915,461) indicated exposure to, and timing of, downsizing. The unexposed (n = 1,390,334) were randomized into four corresponding sub-cohorts. With generalized estimating equations, we calculated the odds ratios (OR) of purchasing prescribed anxiolytics or sedatives within nine 12-month periods, from four years before to four years after downsizing. In order to investigate whether the groups changed their probability of purchases over time, odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated contrasting the prevalence of purchases during the first and the last 12-month period within four time periods for each exposure group.

Results

The odds of purchasing psychotropic drugs increased more for changers (sedatives OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.05–1.11) and unemployed (anxiolytics OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.03–1.14), compared to unexposed before downsizing, while for stayers purchases increased more than for unexposed during and after downsizing. Among those without previous sickness absence, stayers increased their purchases of psychotropic drugs from the year before the event up to four years after the event.

Conclusion

This study indicates that being exposed to downsizing is associated with increased use of sedatives and anxiolytics, before the event among those who leave, but especially thereafter for employees who stay in the organization.
Temporal trends of hemoglobin among pregnant women: The Mutaba’ah study
Authors: Abdullahi Aminu S. , Suliman Abubaker , Khan Moien AB , Khair Howaida , Ghazal-Aswad Saad , Elbarazi Iffat , Al-Maskari Fatima , Loney Tom , Al-Rifai Rami H. , Ahmed Luai A.
Published: December 2023

Background

Low hemoglobin (Hb) level is a leading cause of many adverse pregnancy outcomes. Patterns of changes in Hb levels during pregnancy are not well understood.

Aim

This study estimated Hb levels, described its changing patterns across gestational trimesters, and identified factors associated with these changes among pregnant women.

Materials and methods

Data from the ongoing maternal and child health cohort study–The Mutaba’ah Study, was used (N = 1,120). KML machine learning algorithm was applied to identify three distinct cluster trajectories of Hb levels between the first and the third trimesters. Descriptive statistics were used to profile the study participants. Multinomial multivariable logistic regression was employed to identify factors associated with change patterns in Hb levels.

Results

The three identified clusters–A, B and C–had, respectively, median Hb levels (g/L) of 123, 118, and 104 in the first trimester and 119, 100, and 108 in the third trimester. Cluster ’A’ maintained average normal Hb levels in both trimesters. Cluster ’B’, on average, experienced a decrease in Hb levels below the normal range during the third trimester. Cluster ’C’ showed increased Hb levels in the third trimester but remained, on average, below the normal range in both trimesters. Pregnant women with higher gravida, diabetes mellitus (type 1 or 2), nulliparity or lower level of education were more likely to be in cluster ’B’ than the normal cluster ’A’. Pregnant women who reported using iron supplements before pregnancy or those with low levels of education. were more likely to be in cluster ’C’ than the normal cluster ’A’.

Conclusion

The majority of pregnant women experienced low Hb levels during pregnancy. Changes in Hb levels during pregnancy were associated with parity, gravida, use of iron before pregnancy, and the presence of diabetes mellitus (type 1 or 2).
EL USO DE MATERIALES EN LAS CLASES DE EDUCACIÓN FÍSICA DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO
Authors: Kopelovich Pablo
Published: December 2023

Consideramos, de manera relacional, los materiales utilizados para la enseñanza secundaria en el Colegio Secundario de Señoritas y en el Colegio Nacional (dependientes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata), en lo que respecta a la cultura física (masculina) y la cultura física femenina y de qué modo estos artefactos, desde una educación diferenciada, generizaron y sexualizaron. El período abordado va desde 1929, momento de creación del Departamento de Cultura Física, hasta 1946, cuando se produce su disolución. Analizamos un caso por estimarlo interesante en sí mismo y llevamos a cabo análisis de variados y numerosos documentos. Hallamos que los materiales –que fueron más numerosos, costos y pesados en los alumnos que en las alumnas- acompañaron un proceso de desigualdad a favor de las hombres y de distinción social (para el caso de los varones), en línea con lo sucedido en la región, aunque presentando ciertas particularidades.
ABOUT MARKERS OF THE RESIDENCE BORDERS OF SIBERIAN POPULATION
Authors: S. TIKHONOV
Published: December 2023

In archaeology, there is a problem of determining the boundaries of archaeological sites or their totality in the form of an archaeological culture or its local variants. The author considers the possibility of applying the algorithm for their determination retrospectively, starting with the objects of the new time, and gradually ascending to earlier times. The basis for this assumption is the materials of studies of the ethnographic and archaeological complexes of the Ayalyn Tatars and Russian Siberians of the Middle Irtysh region, supplemented by data from other territories in the basins of the Ob, Tobol, Tom and their tributaries. The boundaries in the epochs of the New Age and the late Middle Ages were rivers, swamps, clearly defined folds of relief, perhaps rapids on rivers, or individual noticeable objects: hills and manes, some trees. Judging by the fact that many elements of the system of settlement, land use and nature management date back to epochs earlier than the late Middle Ages, it is possible that the borders could have been traditional.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASS BEADS FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES OF YAKUTIA
Authors: S. VALIULINA , E. SOLOVYOVA , R. BRAVINA , V. DYAKONOV , V. SYROVATSKY
Published: December 2023

The article presents the results of a study of the chemical composition of glass beads of archaeological sites of the 15th-18th centuries from the territory of Yakutia. The purpose of the study is to determine the origin of glass j ewelry and to identify the features of the technology. The chemical composition of 24 beads was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Glass analysis showed 4 types of chemical composition. The study found that the place of production of the beads of the Yakut sites are the Chinese workshops of one geobiochemical raw material province, which worked within the framework of different handicraft traditions. The results obtained can become one of the tools for reconstructing the intercultural interaction of the region in a wide chronological range of the late Middle Ages and the New Age.
GENETIC STUDIES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN HORSES OF ALTAI AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES
Authors: M. KUSLIY , A. GRAPHODATSKY , A. TISHKIN
Published: December 2023

Over 40 years of ancient DNA research, both fragments and complete sequences of mitogenomes and nuclear genomes of many ancient, medieval and modern horses of Altai and adjacent territories have been studied. The mentioned region attracts attention because already extinct species (Equus lenensis, Equus ovodovi) as well as wild and domestic horses lived there. Modern native breeds of this region are reservoirs of unique genetic diversity. The obtained results expanded the boundaries of distribution of horses of the Botai Eneolithic culture and confirmed the origin of ancient domestic horses of Asia from horses bred by the carriers of the Sintashta culture of the Southern Urals. A close genetic relationship was also revealed between the horses of the Khereksur and Deer Stone culture of Mongolia and the Aldy-Bel culture of Tuva, between the horses of the Pazyryk culture of Altai and the Xiongnu culture of Inner Asia.
ON THE POSSIBILITY OF USING ZOOMS-ANALYSIS IN THE STUDY OF ANCIENT LEATHER GOODS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF FINDS FROM THE BUGRY SITE)
Authors: A. TISHKIN , S. SHNAIDER , S. BARANOVA , A. CHERNONOSOV , O. ERSHOVA , Ju. SRYVKINA , V. KOVAL
Published: December 2023

This publication discusses perspectives and individual experiences in the study of ancient leather goods or their preserved remains. The largest number of finds from organic materials was found in frozen graves of the Pazyryk culture. Special attention was paid to the found fur coats. Besides them there is a substantial array of jewellery, different things and devices made of leather, which can be studied by ZooMS-analysis (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry analysis). Fragments from leather clothing were recorded in burial No. 4 at the Bugry site, dated to the Scythian-Sarmatian period and assigned to the Kamen archaeological culture. Determination of the collected samples was carried out. Peptides were isolated to identify the animals whose skins were used for upper shoulder clothing. The obtained AMS-dating results complement the ongoing research programme.
POTTERY WITH AN ADMIXTURE OF POUNDED SHELLS IN THE COMPLEXES OF EARLY PALEOMETAL EPOCH IN PRIMORYE
Authors: I. BELOVA , N. KLUYEV
Published: December 2023

The work is devoted to one of the most controversial periods in the archaeology of Primorye - Early Paleometal Epoch. A striking feature of this period is the appearance on the territory of the region of the settlements, which complexes contain ceramics with an admixture of pounded river mollusk shells. There are four cultural groups to which these complexes belong: Anuchino-Sinegaiskaya, Chernyatinskaya, Risovskaya and Lidovskaya. The article calls into question the hypothesis previously expressed by researchers about the unification of sites containing ceramics with an admixture of pounded shells in complexes into one cultural community. It is indicated that the origins of the migrations of these groups could have come both from the west, from the territory of Northeast China, from where came the population who knew bronze, and from the north, along the river Ussuri. It is also noted that the emergence of some cultural groups could have influenced by the population of the Voznesenovskaya culture of the Late Neolithic.
CERAMICS OF THE TRANSITIONAL TYPE FROM THE DEVELOPED BRONZE TO THE LATE BRONZE OF THE KALINOVKA-II SETTLEMENT (EASTERN KULUNDA)
Authors: A. FEDORUK , G. IVANOV , O. FEDORUK
Published: December 2023

The paper presents preliminary results of the study of ceramics of the transitional type from the developed Bronze Age to the Late of the Kalinovka-II settlement. The series is based on jars decorated with a stamp, fingers, rollers. The patterns consist of two, less often three, different motifs or one motif is repeated three or more times. Most of the specimens were made from medium ferrous raw materials. Five recipes for the manufacture of molding masses have been identified: clay + fireclay + organic solution, clay + fireclay + organic, clay + fireclay + grus + organic solution, clay + grus + organic solution, a mixture of two clays + fireclay + organic. As a result of comparison with the Andronovo and Sargarinsko-Alekseevskaya ceramics of the site, it is concluded that the studied dishes testify to the influx of a new population, its interaction with the local, Andronovo one, and adaptation to new conditions, which was reflected in the appearance of dishes of a syncretic type.
MEDIEVAL FISHING CAMPS MALIN OVKA-1 AND MALINOVKA-2 IN THE PRIMORSKY KRAI
Authors: Ya. ANZULIS , S. PROKOPETS , I. BELOVA , D. BELOV , N. DOROFEEVA , E. SERGUSHEVA , E. SHAPOVALOV
Published: December 2023

The article presents the results of a study of two medieval fishing sites located in the north of Primorye, in the Dalnerechensky district, on the right bank of the Malinovka river: Malinovka-1 and Malinovka-2. According to the results of the research, the sites were identified as seasonal fishing sites for fishermen. The obtained radiocarbon dates cover the 11th-15th centuries. The chronology of the site is also determined by clay sinkers - “bricks” for nets, iron products, a certain set of stone tools for working with metal products. All of them find analogies in the sites of the Far East of the Middle Ages, mainly in the Jurchen culture and Pokrovskaya culture.
COMPLEX STUDY OF BEREZOVAYA LUKA SETTLEMENT OF THE BRONZE AGE (FOREST-STEPPE ALTAI)
Authors: V. PRIKHODKO , E. PIVOVAROVA , L. POLYANSKAYA , E. ROGOZIN , A. Tishkin
Published: December 2023

^mp^em^ study of the well-preserved cultural layer (CL) of the Berezovaya Luka unique settlement (~4000 ka BP) and paleosols (2.4 ka BP) in the river Alley floodplain of the Altai Kray was done. P and K accumulate in CL due to thousands of animal remains. In CL and paleosol dominate bacterial cells of medium and small size <0,43 ^m (using nuclear filters), reaching 80%, contributing to their survival in the lack of moisture and nutrients; fungal spores (26%) ^ is 3 times more than in paleosol (luminescent microscopy). As, Cr, Pb, Cd, S, Zn, Mn are concentrated in CL with slag and ore from bronze production and ceramic fragments, exceeding the lithosphere clark, which could affect people's health. According to palynological data, the climate was favorable for the Elunites etnos. This is also confirmed by geochemical indices of weathering and biological activity. 2.4 ka BP the climate was wetter, this is indicated by increase in forbs pollen, decrease in xerophytes, appearance of cedar.
GILGAMESH AND KARAKOL: RECONSTRUCTION OF A NOMADIC META-THEME
Authors: I. KOVTUN
Published: December 2023

The work deals with comparing of iconography and meaning aspects of Akkadian composition representing the battle of Gilgamesh and Enkidu with the Sky Bull and one of the scenes from a plate of Karakol cemetery. The paper contains a list of formal and semantic matches of two compositions, considers the parameters allowing the comparison of their characters' key features, reconstructs the invariant pre-base of the myth which is the base of the narrative twists and turns of Mesopotamian epos and Altai Mountains folklore narrative. An assumption has been put forward about Indo-European sources of the Karakol theme brought to Southern Siberia when spreading of Indo-Nuristani filiations of fallen Indo-Iranian linguistic unity to the North-East. The work proved the sources of the primary myth connected to the myth-calendar practices of the first half of 3rd millennium BC in the population of sub-continental areas of Western, Central and North-Western Asia.
HISTORY OF FORMATION OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY CABINET OF THE MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF ALTAI ASU
Authors: V. ALEKSEEVA , V. SAYBERT , M. KUZEVANOVA
Published: December 2023

The Anthropology Cabinet, founded by A.R. Kim in 1988 and located within the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of Altai Altai State University (ASU), has a large collection, which now numbers more than 2,000 items. At present it is the second cabinet in Siberia by the number of available collections and by its importance after the Cabinet of Anthropology of Tomsk State University (established in 1889). The opening of the Anthropology Cabinet at ASU gave impetus to the development of a new scientific direction by such researchers as A.R. Kim, D.V. Pozdnyakov, K.N. Solodovnikov and S.S. Tur, who has been the head of the Cabinet since 1995. Currently, the Museum of Altai Archaeology and Ethnography has become an educational and scientific subdivision of the Institute of History and International Relations of ASU.
QING SABER WITH ORNAMENTED BLADE
Authors: O. MITKO
Published: December 2023

The author presents a description and cultural attribution of a type of saber, rare for Southern Siberia, from the collection of the Minusinsk Museum of Local Lore. The scabbard and details of the straight handle have not been preserved. A small crosshair stands out, which was the emphasis for the guard. The bowl-shaped guard is deployed with a high side towards the blade. The length of the slightly curved blade is 75,5 cm, the width is 2,8 cm. The blade was bent and then straightened. One of its sides is decorated with a cartouche. It is a framed ornament consisting of a combination of geometric and floral elements. Decorating technique is taushing. The Minusinsk saber can be attributed to one of the varieties of luedao, which differs from the basic model in a more straight blade and a straight handle. It has been suggested that it could have been made by a Manchu blacksmith. The time of existence of the saber can be attributed to the second half of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century
ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX OF CATACOMB-10 OF THE TULEBAITOBE-III BURIAL GROUND
Authors: A. PODUSHKIN
Published: December 2023

The publication is devoted to the results of an archaeological study of mound 10 of the Tulebaitobe-III burial ground, located in South Kazakhstan, in which a collective burial in a catacomb was discovered, a complex of artifacts was obtained, including tableware (pot and jug), remote weapons (a bone middle lining on the bow handle, iron stalked arrowheads), melee weapons (calling), horse harness (parts of a bridle, bit), household items (iron knives, belt buckles) and a ritual stone artifact. This complex, by its origin and ethno-cultural parameters, is associated with the state of Kangyui, and dates back to the 1st century BC - 3rd century AD
A COMPLEX OF ANTIQUE CERAMICS FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE “ECOCENTR” MUSEUM
Authors: A. SHMIDT , S. IZMAYLOVA , R. GALIV
Published: December 2023

The archaeological collection of the “Ecocentr” Museum contains 19 fragments of antique tableware. Ceramics were found near Rostov-on-Don on the base monument of the Scythian-antique period of the Northern Black Sea region - the settlement of Elizavetovskoe. Ceramics are fragments of various ancient Greek vessels: oinochoe, bolsal, kantharos, kylix, skyphos, “megarion” bowl, amphorae, lamps, etc. The article is aimed at solving the question: how did artifacts from the Northern Black Sea region end up in a small museum in Western Siberia.
Sensoriamento para automatização em processo industrial de tratamento térmico
Authors: Hanauer Anderson , Cecconello Ivandro
Published: December 2023

Ao produzir ferramentas de uso manual, o fator chave é o controle dos indicadores de qualidade, especialmente o processo de tratamento térmico, que concede dureza e durabilidade para a ferramenta. O processo de tratamento térmico eficiente precisa manter o calor da peça estável, em produções contínuas é necessário ter repetibilidade e constância, para tanto é necessário minimizar variáveis. As operações manuais com uso de mão de obra humana, expõe fragilidade ao processo, encarregando operadores de decidir através da visualização da cor da temperatura da peça, a liberação para produzir, impondo processos de repetição exaustivos. Assim, este trabalho tem o objetivo de demonstrar a aplicação de sensoriamento no processo de tratamento térmico. Para tanto, foi aplicado  o método do estudo de caso, tendo como objeto de estudo uma linha de fabricação de cavadeiras. Através do sensoriamento é possível identificar a temperatura do produto e determinar se o processo está dentro das especificações técnicas, criando alertas e correções automatizadas. O sensoriamento permite integração total das operações e viabiliza o uso de robôs nas operações repetidas e exaustivas ao ser humano. Com uso dos sensores é possível identificar perdas superiores a 20% de qualidade, onde o produto não recebeu o tratamento térmico adequado, além de perdas de produtividade e exposição inadequada dos operadores a repetição, calor e tomada de decisão. O sensoriamento e o uso de câmeras de visão, somados a tecnologias da indústria 4.0 potencializam decisões inteligentes.
Development of Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices (µPADs) for Determination of Cd2+, Pb2+, and Cu2+ Ions in Mineral Water
Authors: Hermansyah Andri , Rees Neil V. , Gunlazuardi Jarnuzi , Wibowo Rahmat
Published: December 2023

Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (µPADs) have been successfully developed using dual detection: electrochemical and colorimetric systems. The µPADs have the potential to be used as Pb(II), Cd(II), and Cu(II) sensors to test the quality of water. The fabrication process uses hot embossing and screen-printing methods. The working electrode in the electrochemical zone was enhanced by the bismuth metal deposition process, while in the colorimetric zone, the gold nanoparticles modified with thioctic acid and dansylhydrazine (TA-Au-DNS) were used as a colorimetric sensor to detect Cu. The basic material of µPADs was characterized using a Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and a contact angle meter (CAM). In the electrochemical zone, the signals of square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWASV) resulted in good detection of Pb(II) and Cd(II) (from 0 to 100 ppb) with a limit of detection of 1.588 and 1.42 ppb, respectively. In the colorimetric zone, the performance of TA-Au-DNS for detecting Cu metal was obtained from readings through the red-green-blue (RGB) sensor as a miniature of µPADs reader. The LOD, LOQ, and average Vx0 (linearity values) in the detection of Cu(II) (from 58 to 100 ppb) are 8.51 ppb, 28.36 ppb, and 0.41%, respectively.
Green Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Activity of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Photodegradation of Naphthol Blue Black Dye
Authors: Silver Jesisca , Lubis Surya , Ramli Muliadi
Published: December 2023

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized using water extract of red dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) stem with zinc acetate dihydrate as a precursor of ZnO. Chemical compounds contained in the red dragon fruit stem extract, such as phenolics, terpenoids, and steroids, acted as reducing agents, stabilizers, and capping agents. The phase structure, crystallite size, functional groups, shape, and morphology of ZnO nanoparticles were determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopy, and Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX). The XRD pattern confirmed the crystallinity of synthesized zinc oxide was in the zincite (ZnO) phase with an average crystallite size of 79.09 nm. Spectroscopy FTIR analysis showed that the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles had characteristics similar to the ZnO standard/commercial. SEM-EDX analysis revealed that the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles were spherical, evenly distributed, and homogeneous particle size. The photocatalytic activity of synthesized ZnO nanoparticles was evaluated on the photodegradation of naphthol blue black (NBB) dye. The results showed that the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles have high photocatalytic activity that can degrade NBB dye up to 98.82%. This high photocatalytic activity was obtained at operating parameter conditions with the initial pH of NBB at 2, the dosage of ZnO nanoparticles at 250 mg, and the initial dye concentration at 10 ppm.
Effectiveness of Noise Barriers Based on Waste Materials in Case Study of Residential Noise Due to Double-Track Railways
Authors: Febrianti Denisa Eka , Agus Salim Alfi Tranggono , Rezika Wida Yuliar , Annas Muhamad Azwar , Suyatno Suyatno
Published: December 2023

The noise pollution in residential areas adjacent to double-track railways can significantly disturb the comfort and well-being of residents. The noise originates from passing trains on these double-track railways. The research problem aims to compare the noise levels in the residential area with the standard noise threshold and evaluate the effectiveness of a noise barriers based on waste material called sustainable noise barrier. The effectiveness of reducing noise levels for communities residing near the dual railway lines. The sustainable noise barrier is constructed using waste cardboard and sawdust as sound absorbers for reducing noise from passing trains. The objective of the research is to analyze the noise levels in the residential areas near the dual railway lines, referring to the noise threshold value specified in Kep.MenLH No.48 of 1996, which is 55 dBA. Additionally, the research aims to assess the effectiveness of the sustainable noise barrier in mitigating noise pollution in these residential areas. The research employs a quantitative experimental method, following the SNI 8427 of 2017 standard for measuring residential noise pollution and determining the sustainable noise barrier's effectiveness using Insertion Loss (IL) and Sound Transmission Loss (STL) measurements in both laboratory-scale and existing conditions (alongside the double-track railways). The research findings indicate that the noise levels in residential areas adjacent to dual railway lines exceed the threshold value, reaching 78.08 dBA. However, the sustainable noise barrier proves to be effective in reducing noise pollution by 27 dB at a frequency of 1,000 Hz in the residential areas neighboring the double-track railways. This research suggests that limiting noise disturbances in residental areas bordering railway lines is one solution with noise barriers.
Comparison of Percentage Depth Doses with the Published Data for Co-60 Radiotherapy Machine at a Regional Cancer Hospital
Authors: Ali Javaid , Sohail Muhammd , Samad Abdul , Ahmad Israr , Soomro Hafeezullah , Biradar Ghufran , Naz Irum , Tariq Imadullah
Published: December 2023

In external beam radiation therapy, the percentage depth dose (PDD) is a main factor for estimation of patient’s dose and dose distribution in target volume, therefore its accurate estimation is important. The purpose of this article is to compare PDDs with the published PDDs of different authors along central axis at different depths and field sizes for cobalt-60 (Co-60) radiotherapy machine at a regional cancer hospital Pakistan. A dedicated water phantom was used for estimation of PDDs at different depths and different field sizes, for Theratron phoenix Co-60 machine. It was observed that for 10×10 cm2 filed size of Co-60 beam mean percent variation in measured PDDs and published PDDs by different authors was -0.29% to 1.13%, which was within acceptable limit of ± 2%. However, for one author who used semi-empirical equation for PDDs calculation, the mean percent variation between measured PDDs and that of the author was -3.23%, 4.69% and 5.88% for 10×10 cm2, 25×25 cm2 and 30×30 cm2 field sizes of Co-60 beam respectively, which were within acceptable limit of   ±10%. A noticeable increase in PDDs was observed with increase of the field size at given depth which shows obvious contribution of secondary scattered radiation. Also measured PDDs were well matched with that of published PDDs of most of the authors i.e. ± 2%, but the measured PDDs were moderately matched with that of PDDs for only one author for some field sizes and some depths i.e. ±10%, which need to be rectified by taking more such data.
Vliv čtenářských strategií na rozvoj porozumění v předškolním věku
Authors: Koželuhová Eva , Koželuh Ondřej
Published: December 2023

Příspěvek se zabývá tématem rozvoje porozumění předškolních dětí v mateřské škole, příběhům, které jsou jim předčítány. Cílem výzkumné sondy bylo zjistit, jak je porozumění předčítaným textům ovlivněno záměrným využíváním čtenářských strategií ze strany učitele ve snaze facilitovat porozumění dětí. Šetření bylo realizováno ve smíšeném designu. Výzkumný vzorek tvořily děti ve věku 3–6 let z 11 mateřských škol z České republiky (N=113). Data byla získávána v průběhu října a listopadu 2021 pomocí strukturovaného, zúčastněného pozorování s využitím pozorovacího archu, analýzy videonahrávek a rozhovorů s učitelkami dětí. Výsledky ukázaly, že využívání čtenářských strategií vedlo u všech sledovaných dětí k nárůstu rozvoje některé dimenze porozumění a celkově zájmu o knihy a předčítání, a to ve všech sledovaných věkových kategoriích. Zároveň byly identifi kovány čtenářské strategie vhodné pro děti 3-4leté a pro děti 5–6leté.
« Et gloriosus in saecula » : Paléographie des notations franques nord-occidentales (970–1120) - Annexes et Planches
Authors: Goudesenne Jean-François
Published: December 2023

The Materiality of Chant Manuscripts is an innovative multi-author  project dealing with the complex interconnections between learning, writing and  performing chant in the Middle Ages. A number of different methodological  approaches have been employed, with the aim of beginning to understand the  phenomenon of chant transmission over a large geographical area, linking and  contrasting modern definitions of East and West. Thus, in spite of this wide  geographical spread, and the consequent variety of rites, languages and musical  styles involved, the common thread of parallels and similarities between various  chant repertoires arising from the need to fix oral repertories in a written  form, and the challenges involved in so doing, are what bring this wide variety  of repertoires and approaches together. It is the Editors’ hope that this  multi-centric, multi-disciplinary approach will encourage scholars working in  these areas to consider their work as part of a much larger geographical and  historical picture, and thus reveal to reader and listener more, and far richer,  patterns of connections and developments than might otherwise have been  suspected.  

Online Appendix

Analyse des neumes : étude détaillée (6 pages)

ANNEXES (An. 1-7)

1. Schéma modal du Cantique de Daniel

2. Liste des témoins manuscrits examinés

3. Axes d’écriture

4. Modélisation des livres liturgiques au XIe s.

5. Variantes mélodiques

6. Coefficients de diversité graphique des neumes

7. Distribution des versets et parcours modal dans les sources

SYNOPTIQUES (Planches de format A3, pliées) 

A Tableau des neumes (pl. A-1-4)

B Transcriptions du Canticum Danielis (pl. B-1-16)

Jean-François Goudesenne, ‘« Et gloriosus in saecula ». Paléographie des notations franques nord-occidentales (970–1120)’, Musicalia Antiquitatis & Medii Aevi, 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023)