bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Bridging Nations: Quantifying the Role of Multilinguals in Communication on Social Media
Authors: Mendelsohn Julia , Ghosh Sayan , Jurgens David , Budak Ceren
Published: June 2023

Social media enables the rapid spread of many kinds of information, from pop culture memes to social movements. However, little is known about how information crosses linguistic boundaries. We apply causal inference techniques on the European Twitter network to quantify the structural role and communication influence of multilingual users in cross-lingual information exchange. Overall, multilinguals play an essential role; posting in multiple languages increases betweenness centrality by 13%, and having a multilingual network neighbor increases monolinguals’ odds of sharing domains and hashtags from another language 16-fold and 4-fold, respectively. We further show that multilinguals have a greater impact on diffusing information is less accessible to their monolingual compatriots, such as information from far-away countries and content about regional politics, nascent social movements, and job opportunities. By highlighting information exchange across borders, this work sheds light on a crucial component of how information and ideas spread around the world.
The Chance of Winning Election Impacts on Social Media Strategy
Authors: Murayama Taichi , Matsui Akira , Miyazaki Kunihiro , Matsubara Yasuko , Sakurai Yasushi
Published: June 2023

Social media has been a paramount arena for election campaigns for political actors. While many studies have been paying attention to the political campaigns related to partisanship, politicians also can conduct different campaigns according to their chances of winning. Leading candidates, for example, do not behave the same as fringe candidates in their elections, and vice versa. We, however, know little about this difference in social media political campaign strategies according to their odds in elections. We tackle this problem by analyzing candidates' tweets in terms of users, topics, and sentiment of replies. Our study finds that, as their chances of winning increase, candidates narrow the targets they communicate with, from people in general to the electrical districts and specific persons (verified accounts or accounts with many followers). Our study brings new insights into the candidates' campaign strategies through the analysis based on the novel perspective of the candidate's electoral situation.
The Geometry of Misinformation: Embedding Twitter Networks of Users Who Spread Fake News in Geometrical Opinion Spaces
Authors: Ramaciotti Morales Pedro , Berriche Manon , Cointet Jean-Philippe
Published: June 2023

To understand why internet users spread fake news online, many studies have focused on individual drivers, such as cognitive skills, media literacy, or demographics. Recent findings have also shown the role of complex socio-political dynamics, highlighting that political polarization and ideologies are closely linked to a propensity to participate in the dissemination of fake news. Most of the existing empirical studies have focused on the US example by exploiting the self-reported or solicited positioning of users on a dichotomous scale opposing liberals with conservatives. Yet, left-right polarization alone is insufficient to study socio-political dynamics when considering non binary and multi-dimensional party systems, in which relevant ideological stances must be characterized in additional dimensions, relating for example to opposition to elites, government, political parties or mainstream media. In this article we leverage ideological embeddings of Twitter networks in France in multi-dimensional opinions spaces, where dimensions stand for attitudes towards different issues, and we trace the positions of users who shared articles that were rated as misinformation by fact-checkers. In multi-dimensional settings, and in contrast with the US, opinion dimensions capturing attitudes towards elites are more predictive of whether a user shares misinformation. Most users sharing misinformation hold salient anti-elite sentiments and, among them, more so those with radical left- and right-leaning stances. Our results reinforce the importance of enriching one-dimensional left-right analyses, showing that other ideological dimensions, such as anti-elite sentiment, are critical when characterizing users who spread fake news. This lends support to emerging accounts of social drivers of misinformation through political polarization, but also stresses the role of the entanglement between fake news, anti-elite polarization, and the role of scientific authorities in public debate.
Effects of Algorithmic Trend Promotion: Evidence from Coordinated Campaigns in Twitter’s Trending Topics
Authors: Schlessinger Joseph , Garimella Kiran , Jakesch Maurice , Eckles Dean
Published: June 2023

In addition to more personalized content feeds, some leading social media platforms give a prominent role to content that is more widely popular. On Twitter, "trending topics" identify popular topics of conversation on the platform, thereby promoting popular content which users might not have otherwise seen through their network.
Hence, "trending topics" potentially play important roles in influencing the topics users engage with on a particular day.
Using two carefully constructed data sets from India and Turkey, we study the effects of a hashtag appearing on the trending topics page on the number of tweets produced with that hashtag.
We specifically aim to answer the question: How many new tweeting using that hashtag appear because a hashtag is labeled as trending?
We distinguish the effects of the trending topics page from network exposure and find there is a statistically significant, but modest, return to a hashtag being featured on trending topics.
Analysis of the types of users impacted by trending topics shows that the feature helps less popular and new users to discover and spread content outside their network, which they otherwise might not have been able to do.
Cybersecurity Misinformation Detection on Social Media: Case Studies on Phishing Reports and Zoom’s Threat
Authors: Singhal Mohit , Kumarswamy Nihal , Kinhekar Shreyasi , Nilizadeh Shirin
Published: June 2023

Prior work has extensively studied misinformation related to news, politics, and health, however, misinformation can also be about technological topics. While less controversial, such misinformation can severely impact companies’ reputations and revenues, and users’ online experiences. Recently, social media has also been increasingly used as a novel source of knowledgebase for extracting timely and relevant security threats, which are fed to the threat intelligence systems for better performance. However, with possible campaigns spreading false security threats, these systems can become vulnerable to poisoning attacks. In this work, we proposed novel approaches for detecting misinformation about cybersecurity and privacy threats on social media, focusing on two topics with different types of misinformation: phishing websites and Zoom’s security & privacy threats. We developed a framework for detecting inaccurate phishing claims on Twitter. Using this framework, we could label about 9% of URLs and 22% of phishing reports as misinformation. We also proposed another framework for detecting misinformation related to Zoom’s security and privacy threats on multiple platforms. Our classifiers showed great performance with more than 98% accuracy. Employing these classifiers on the posts from Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Twitter, we found respectively that about 18%, 3%, 4%, and 3% of posts were misinformation. In addition, we studied the characteristics of misinformation posts, their authors, and their timelines, which helped us identify campaigns.
Top-Down Influence? Predicting CEO Personality and Risk Impact from Speech Transcripts
Authors: Theil Kilian , Hovy Dirk , Stuckenschmidt Heiner
Published: June 2023

How much does a CEO’s personality impact the performanceof their company? Management theory posits a great influence, but it is difficult to show empirically—there is a lack of publicly available self-reported personality data of top managers. Instead, we propose a text-based personality regressor based on crowd-sourced Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessments. The ratings have a high internal and external validity and can be predicted with moderate to strong correlations for three out of four dimensions. Providing evidence for the upper echelons theory, we demonstrate that the predicted CEO personalities have explanatory power of financial risk.
How Circadian Rhythms Extracted from Social Media Relate to Physical Activity and Sleep
Authors: Zhou Ke , Constantinides Marios , Quercia Daniele , Šćepanović Sanja
Published: June 2023

Circadian rhythm has been linked to both physical and mental health at an individual level in prior research. Such a link at population level has been long hypothesized but has never been tested, largely because of lack of data. To partly fix this literature gap, we need: a dataset on population-level circadian rhythms, a dataset on population-level health conditions, and strong associations between these two partly independent sets. Recent work has shown that affect on social media data relates to population-level circadian rhythms. Building upon that work, we extracted five circadian rhythm metrics from 6M Reddit posts across 18 major cities (for which the number of residents is highly correlated with the number of users), and paired them with three ground-truth health metrics (daily number of steps, sleep quantity, and sleep quality) extracted from 233K wearable users in these cities. We found that rhythms of online activity approximated sleeping patterns rather than, what the literature previously hypothesized, alertness levels. Despite that, we found that these rhythms, when computed in two specific times of the day (i.e., late at night and early morning), were still predictive of the three ground-truth health metrics: in general, healthier cities had morning spikes on social media, night dips, and expressions of positive affect. These results suggest that circadian rhythms on social media, if taken at two specific times of the day and operationalized with literature-driven metrics, can approximate the temporal evolution of people's shared underlying biological rhythm as it relates to physical activity (R2=0.492), sleep quantity (R2=0.765), and sleep quality (R2=0.624).
Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
Authors: Pfeffer Jürgen , Matter Daniel , Jaidka Kokil , Varol Onur , Mashhadi Afra , Lasser Jana , Assenmacher Dennis , Wu Siqi , Yang Diyi , Brantner Cornelia , Romero Daniel M. , Otterbacher Jahna , Schwemmer Carsten , Joseph Kenneth , Garcia David , Morstatter Fred
Published: June 2023

At the end of October 2022, Elon Musk concluded his acquisition of Twitter. In the weeks and months before that, several questions were publicly discussed that were not only of interest to the platform's future buyers, but also of high relevance to the Computational Social Science research community. For example, how many active users does the platform have? What percentage of accounts on the site are bots? And, what are the dominating topics and sub-topical spheres on the platform? In a globally coordinated effort of 80 scholars to shed light on these questions, and to offer a dataset that will equip other researchers to do the same, we have collected all 375 million tweets published within a 24-hour time period starting on September 21, 2022. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first complete 24-hour Twitter dataset that is available for the research community. With it, the present work aims to accomplish two goals. First, we seek to answer the aforementioned questions and provide descriptive metrics about Twitter that can serve as references for other researchers. Second, we create a baseline dataset for future research that can be used to study the potential impact of the platform's ownership change.
DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION-REACTION FLOW IN A SQUARE ENCLOSURE FILLED WITH POROUS MEDIUM
Authors: Singh Sunil K. , Sharma Abhishek Kumar , Dixit Archana
Published: June 2023

In this work, we analyze the double-diffusive convection-reaction of a binary mixture in a square enclosure filled with a porous media, with constant temperatures and concentrations at the two vertical walls and adiabatic and impermeable horizontal walls. The boundaries of the enclosure are under chemical equilibrium. The porous medium is assumed to be in local thermal equilibrium (LTE) state and the solubility of the dissolved salts depends on temperature. The two-dimensional steady-state flow rate is determined by a non-Darcy (Darcy-Brinkman) model, and the entire governing equations are solved using the usual SIMPLE-R finite-volume methodology. It has been found that as the reaction rate increases in the system the salt precipitation also increases, causing a decrease in overall mass transfer rate. Also, the chemical reaction tends to decrease the overall heat transfer-rate.
The first high-rise concrete modular integrated construction building in Hong Kong
Authors: Lee Paul , Lee Jacqueline , Yuen Ming , Tang Siu-Chung , Chu Joelle , Au Sonic , Tai Yeny , Wong Colin
Published: June 2023

A new multi-award-winning development of high-rise living quarters for firefighters in Hong Kong, China has been successfully delivered using modular construction. Created from 3726 factory-made concrete modules, it is the first high-rise concrete building development in the region to adopt the ‘modular integrated construction’ method. This paper describes the modular construction process, the NEC-based procurement approach and the innovative technologies used in the development’s design and construction, all of which contributed to a highly efficient and sustainable solution.
Feature deletion by head movement – A new solution to agreement asymmetries in Modern Standard Arabic
Authors: Himmelreich Anke
Published: June 2023

In this paper, I present a new approach to agreement asymmetries in Modern Standard Arabic. In Arabic, the verb agrees with the subject in number whenever the word order is SV, but not if the word order is VS. I argue against previous approaches that suggest that this lack of number agreement is due to the absence of syntactic Agree in these configurations. I propose a new account that is based on the assumption that the lack of number agreement in VS orders is the result of head movement of the verb to the T head. I suggest that head movement has two effects: First, head movement of the verb can satisfy the EPP property and, second, the head movement operation that I propose leads to the deletion of the number feature in Modern Standard Arabic. I show that this approach overcomes the problems of previous approaches and I discuss some implications that the theory has for EPP movement.
Interacciones comunicativas pandémicas. Reconfiguraciones del des/encuentro con el otro
Authors: Herrera Miller Karina Mireya
Published: June 2023

La pandemia por la COVID-19 ha provocado múltiples transformaciones en distintos órdenes. Uno de ellos, el más básico y vital, el de las interacciones comunicativas, fluye hoy en un marco de relación caracterizado por el miedo al contagio y en las construcciones de un yo inocuo y un tú infectado; una alteridad sometida a la sospecha, la exclusión, la descalificación y la acusación del otro. Ante la prescripción del “distanciamiento físico”, las interacciones comunicativas presenciales, bajo la sospecha del contacto, han transitado natural y traumáticamente hacia las interacciones digitales. El cibercontacto, en apariencia seguro frente al contacto físico, se ha convertido tanto en solución parcial e inmediata como en un desdoblamiento del problema por la incomunicación y las rupturas que promueve.
Pobreza, trabajo y asistencia bajo el Gobierno multicolor en Uruguay
Authors: Baraibar Ximena
Published: June 2023

¿Cuál es la mirada que el actual Gobierno uruguayo tiene sobre la pobreza, el trabajo y la asistencia?, ¿cómo concibe las relaciones entre dichas categorías? Acerca de esa temática versa el presente artículo. Se analizan, específicamente, las modificaciones que, entre el contexto de la campaña electoral y el generado por la pandemia, sufrió la visión que tenía al respecto el llamado Gobierno multicolor, que asumió el poder el 1 de marzo de 2020. La estrategia metodológica se basó en el análisis de fuentes documentales elaboradas por la coalición de partidos de derecha que actualmente gobierna en Uruguay; una parte de estos textos pertenece a la campaña electoral de 2019 y la otra al período de administración entre 2020 y 2021. Se considera que las orientaciones que los gobernantes posean sobre la vinculación entre pobreza, empleo y asistencia influirán en la valoración sobre el papel del Estado, tanto en la cobertura y la calidad protectora como en la legitimidad de su acción frente a la sociedad.
El análisis retórico en el estudio de las políticas públicas
Authors: Chica Vélez Sergio Alberto
Published: June 2023

El análisis retórico en el estudio de políticas públicas busca identificar trayectorias discursivas con el fin de evidenciar tensiones y complementariedades, que delimitan la argumentación y la deliberación pública. Por tal motivo, se lo considera novedoso en comparación con las tendencias que han predominado en este tipo de estudios. En la primera parte del presente trabajo, se realiza un recorrido por diferentes posiciones desde las que se estudia la relación entre políticas públicas y retórica, y su introducción en América Latina. En la segunda parte, se presenta una propuesta para el análisis retórico en políticas que plantea pautas metodológicas, con el fin de explorar no solo el mundo de las ideas y contenidos argumentales (logos), sino también el carácter y las posturas valorativas de los actores involucrados (ethos), así como el rol que juegan las emociones (pathos).
El trauma latinoamericano y la guerra en Ucrania
Authors: Zimmering Raina
Published: June 2023

En el artículo se plantea la pregunta de cómo las experiencias con la política de los Estados Unidos ante América Latina, especialmente a través de la Doctrina Monroe, influyen en las acciones de política exterior actual de los Estados latinoamericanos. Particularmente en la actitud ante la guerra de Ucrania, en las posiciones en la nueva tensión entre las grandes potencias globales y en la concentración del potencial promotor de la paz en el sistema internacional. La actitud ante la guerra en Ucrania se distancia de Rusia al condenar su invasión de Ucrania como ilegal bajo el derecho internacional. Al mismo tiempo, se diferencian marcadamente de Occidente a través de posiciones divergentes sobre las cuestiones de las sanciones, las causas de la guerra, la cuestión de la culpa y del fin de la guerra. Teóricamente, el artículo se basa en una vinculación entre teorías del imperialismo con la teoría de estrategias de desarrollo, especialmente del poscolonialismo. Además, se contrastan varios artículos publicados en distintos medios de prensa sobre las temáticas escogidas. Se concluye que los Estados latinoamericanos en cuanto a la Guerra en Ucrania están permeados por la Doctrina Monroe y por el temor a sufrir una nueva invasión estadounidense.
Cortinarius bovinus (Şişörümcekmantarı): Türkiye Mikotası İçin Yeni Bir Kayıt
Authors: SESLİ Ertuğrul
Published: June 2023

Cortinarius bovinus’un bazidiyokarpları Türkiye’den ilk kez toplanmış, incelenmiş ve burada ilgili fotoğraflar ve kısa bir tartışma ile birlikte sunulmuştur. Yeni kayıt konik, dışbükey, tepe çıkıntılı, turuncumsu, grimsi veya kırmızımsı kahverengi veya toprak boyası renginde ve higroskopik şapka; seyrek, geniş, soluk grimsi kahverengi, turuncumsu kahverengi veya passı kahverengi lameller; çomak biçiminde ve tabanda soğansı sap; geniş eliptik veya yuvarlağımsı, az veya çok dikenli, 8–10.5 × 5–7 μm ve açık limon rengi bazidiyosporlar ile yakın türlerden ayırt edilir.
Competing (ac)counts of disability: situating prevalence studies in Zambian disability policymaking
Authors: Cleaver Shaun , Lencucha Raphael , Bond Virginia , Hunt Matthew
Published: June 2023

Research is a critical starting point for public policy. For disability policy, the calculation of prevalence – the percentage of persons with disabilities in a population – has attracted significant attention. Multiple disability prevalence studies have been conducted in Zambia. We used data from semi-structured interviews about research and the policy process with twelve Zambian disability policy stakeholders to explore perspectives about disability prevalence research and policymaking. Policy stakeholders, disability advocates and policymakers, expressed more interest in prevalence than in other types of research. Participants perceived prevalence research according to three competing priorities: inclusion (‘Involve us [for] good results’), pragmatism (‘We have to use that [number]’), and granularity (‘We need details’). Participants discounted the value of prevalence research that conflicted with their priorities. Better understanding of stakeholder perspectives of disability prevalence can illuminate ways that these perspectives influence the use of research evidence in disability policy making.
Pedagogies of lived experience: The perspectives of people with disabilities on their educational presentations about disability topics
Authors: Hughes Oscar
Published: June 2023

Disability Studies in Education (DSE) scholars have described the importance of centering the lived experiences of disabled people in order to understand the complex and context-specific nature of living with a disability and to advance justice and inclusion for disabled people. Researchers have yet to explore the perspectives of disabled people on the potential significance of learning about disability topics from people with disabilities themselves. For the current qualitative study, I interviewed nine people with disabilities who had delivered presentations on personally relevant disability topics in a college course to examine their perspectives on teaching from their lived experience and on the potential broad impacts of opportunities to learn about disability from disabled people. The participants believed that learning from people with disabilities contributed insider perspectives and meaningful interactions to the study of disability topics. They hoped that their presentations would teach students to recognize the capabilities of people with disabilities and to see them as individuals. They believed that learning about disability from disabled people has the potential to improve access to communication and community participation for disabled people. These findings contribute important implications and directions for future research.
Dramatic Prosthesis: Embodying Disability in Lear
Authors: McNabb Cameron Hunt
Published: June 2023

No abstract available.
Facial Disfigurement, Madness, and the Royal Touch in Early Modern Britain: Reconsidering Arise Evans
Authors: Cock Emily
Published: June 2023

No abstract available.
Higher Education in the COVID-19 Era: Challenges and Opportunities of Using of Distance Education
Authors:   Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Kairouan, Tunisia, Dkhili Sahbi
Published: June 2023

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a major health crisis and quarantined half of the planetary population, and as a result, it has caused a momentary rupture or even, in the invisibility of the magnitude of this virus total suspension of higher education. It is in this perspective that the treatment of a subject related to this Pandemic is, for us, very important, and especially to study its impact on higher education. Moreover, especially that there is little or no research that has addressed this issue in the case of Tunisia. The objective of this contribution is to report on research that we conducted at the Higher Institute of Technology Studies of Kairouan in Tunisia (HITS of Kairouan), with the aim of studying the experience feedback from the practice of Distance Education, through the Virtual University of Tunis (UVT) platform, in the COVID-19 confinement period (for the years 2020 and 2021). In this context, we will divide our research into three parts. The first will be reserved for the presentation of the general and current context of the COVID-19 phenomenon. Next, we will explain the extent and impact of this virus on higher education around the world. Finally, a third empirical part will be devoted to the presentation of our research, while demonstrating the impact of COVID-19 on teaching within the HITS of Kairouan, and also the opportunities and constraints of the use of distance education.
Chinese Translation of Trade Names of Imported Drugs from Perspective of Three-Dimensional Adaptive Transformation
Authors: Ren Yujie , Fan Jinli , Wang Yan
Published: June 2023

With the globalization of Chinese pharmaceutical business, many foreign pharmaceuticals have entered the domestic market. An appropriate Chinese trade name will help promote the acceptance of imported drugs. This study selected some translated versions of imported drug names from the database of National Medical Products Administration, classified and analyzed these versions from perspective of three-dimensional adaptive transformation in the hope to find out the principles of E-C translation of trade names. The study concludes the translation principles as being objective and scientific, conforming to target language culture, being concise and intelligible, and arousing associations.
Language of Intermediality: Merging Arts, Cultures and Literature
Authors: Isagulov Mykyta
Published: June 2023

The paper demonstrates through specific examples the peculiarities of intermedial ‘language’ employed by E.M. Forster to enlarge the contextual field of his novel Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905). Thus, through the application of the close reading technique and hermeneutical method, it covers the specificity of pictorial depictions and theatrical medium, as well as intermedial references integrated into the canvas of the literary artefact to extend its contextual field, draw borders between cultures, deepen the conflicts. It concludes that the writer applies specific intermedial language patterns and frameworks to extend the context of the plot and deepen the conflicts and oppositions between English and Italian, own and strange, old and new.
Analisa Pengaruh Variasi Pelumas terhadap Keausan Baja St 60 dengan Tribometer Pin-On-Disc
Authors: Roziqin Ihsan Nur
Published: June 2023

Pin-On-Disc is a tool used to test a material's friction and wear levels. This tool is also one of the tribometer components. Pin-on-Disc uses a ball-shaped pin and a disk of ST 60 wrought iron as a disc in this test. This test aims to see or determine the volume of wear produced by pins with SAE40 and SAE140 lubricants and the importance of pin wear without lubrication. Lubrication influences the material or test specimen in this tribometer test. In this test, they are using a simple Pin-on-Disc Tribometer. The results obtained from this test are that the test without using lubricant shows at coordinates 0.0704 N, while the test with SAE40 lubricant shows at coordinates 0.07027 N, and testing with SAE140 lubricant is at coordinates 0.0703N.
How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy of Oppression?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ontario’s Early Years Pedagogical Framework
Authors: Stronach Richard
Published: June 2023

As Canada begins to establish universal childcare, the market-based neoliberalism of the early learning and care system continues to undervalue, underpay, overwork, and overpolice early childhood educators (ECEs). Ontario’s resource How Does Learning Happen? (HDLH) has been celebrated for its sociocultural stance and identified as transformative and central to the modernization of Ontario’s childcare system. Critical discourse analysis reveals how HDLH and the Ontario Ministry of Education continue to oppress ECEs. The implementation of universal childcare provides an opportunity for the government to include ECEs to make real changes in working conditions, wages, and the provision of quality childcare.
Hsa_circ_0023826 protects against glaucoma by regulating miR-188-3p/MDM4 axis
Authors: Qu Bin , Wang Jing , Li Yan , Wu XiaoWei , Zhang MingYing
Published: June 2023

Objective: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are characterized as a class of covalently closed circRNA transcripts and are associated with various cellular processes and neurological diseases by sponging microRNAs. The most common feature of glaucoma, a form of retinal neuropathy, is the loss of retinal ganglion cells. Although the pathogenesis of glaucoma is not fully understood, elevated intraocular pressure is undoubtedly the only proven modifiable factor in the classic glaucoma model. This study investigated the role of circ_0023826 in glaucoma-induced retinal neurodegeneration by modifying the miR-188-3p/mouse double minute 4 (MDM4) axis. Methods: The expression pattern of circ_0023826 was analyzed during retinal neurodegeneration. The effect of circ_0023826, miR-188-3p, and MDM4 on retinal neurodegeneration in vivo was assessed by visual behavioral testing and H&E staining in glaucoma rats, while that on in vitro retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) was evaluated by MTT assay, flow cytometry, Western blot, and ELISA. Bioinformatics analysis, RNA pull-down assay, luciferase reporter assay were performed to reveal the regulatory mechanism of circ_0023826-mediated retinal neurodegeneration. Results: Circ_0023826 expression was downregulated during retinal neurodegeneration. Upregulating circ_0023826 attenuated the visual impairment in rats and promoted the survival of RGCs in vitro. Circ_0023826 acted as a sponge of miR-188-3p sponge, resulting in increased expression of MDM4. MDM4 silencing or miR-188-3p upregulation reversed the protective effect of upregulated circ_0023826 on glaucoma-induced neuroretinal degeneration in vitro and in vivo. Conclusion: Overall, circ_0023826 protects against glaucoma by regulating the miR-188-3p/MDM4 axis, and targeted intervention of circ_0023826 expression is a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of retinal neurodegeneration.
SULLA AND POPULAR ASSAMBLIES IN 88 B.C.
Authors:   State Academic University for the Humanities, Korolenkov A.V. , Khrustalyev V.K. ,   State Academic University for the Humanities
Published: June 2023

the paper examines the relationship between the consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the Roman plebs in 88 B.C. The first part of the paper considers the role of the popular assemblies in the political struggle around the bills of the plebeian tribune Publius Sulpicius. The authors take the view that the violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Sulpicius’ proposals were inspired by Sulla and his consular colleague Quintus Pompeius Rufus who thereby sought to disrupt the vote in the comitia. The riots in the streets were used by the consuls as a pretext for introducing non-attendance days (iustitium). In the second part of the paper the reform concerning the legislative powers of the comitia is discussed which was allegedly carried out by Sulla in 88 B.C. The authors come to the conclusion that in reality this reform never took place.
STATISTICAL METHODS WHEN WORKING WITH AMPHORАE CATALOGUES AND THE APE DATABASE
Authors:   Saratov State University, Churekova N.B.
Published: June 2023

the article is devoted to the possibilities of using statistical methods in the analysis of amphorae material contained in museum catalogues and the APE database. The composition of the collections of various museums by the centers of amphora production, the time of their manufacture, chronology and typology is analyzed and it is proposed to consider the potential of using these data to build models of trade relations in the Northern Black Sea region.
HERODOTUS’ PAST – THUCYDIDES’ PRESENT – XENOPHON’S FUTURE (ΑΡΧΗ, ΗΓΕΜΟΝΙΑ AND IMPERIALIST TENDENCIES IN CLASSICAL GREECE THROUGH THE EYES OF THREE GREAT HISTORIANS)
Authors:   Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Surikov I.E.
Published: June 2023

the article deals with some topics connected with imperialist tendencies in Greece of the last half of the 5th and the first half of the 4th century BC and with treatment of these developments in the work of the authors mentioned in the title. The author argues against a recent hypothesis, according to which Herodotus was still alive and writing in the period when the Peloponnesian War came to its end. Observations are made concerning foreign-policy sympathies of Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon. A point is made that, if in the last half of the 5th century BC Athens sought to add the ἡγεμονία to its ἀρχή, later in the first half of the 4th century BC Sparta started transforming its ἡγεμονία to ἀρχή.
FRAGMENTS OF IMPORTED BRONZE VESSELS, UTENSILS AND COSTUME DETAILS – AMULETS FROM THE SARMATIAN BURIAL IN THE LOWER DON REGION
Authors: Treister M.Yu.
Published: June 2023

fragments of imported bronze vessels, utensils and items of costume (?) used as amulets in the 2nd century AD burial of a young woman in burial mound no. 9/1987 of the Valovyy-I cemetery in the vicinity of Tanais in the Lower Don region are discussed. Attributions of a patera medallion, a part of a strainer receptacle, a ring-shaped lamp handle (?), a mirror and a plate in the form of an openwork palmette, possibly a belt clasp are offered. The finds under consideration reflect a phenomenon that is quite rarely recorded in the burials of Sarmatia. In addition to finds in the burial mounds in the Mius and Lower Don basins, to mention are the rare finds in the Kuban region and Western Kazakhstan. Attention is drawn to the concentration of amulets from fragments of bronze vessels and utensils in the burial grounds of the barbarian population of the South-Western Crimea in the first centuries AD.
«THE UNBEKNOWN ANIMAL» ON THE COINS OF CYRENE
Authors:   Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Selivanova L.L.
Published: June 2023

the article revisits the first catalogue of ancient Greek and Roman coins in British collections, published by N.F. Haym in London in 1720. In the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Haym found a golden coin from Cyrene with the image of strange small animal next to the silphium, the vegetative symbol of Cyrene, which evinced a multidisciplinary interest during the Enlightenment period in England. Such coins from Cyrene constitute the subject of the current investigation, which aims to analyze their iconography and, specifically, to identify the animal and tentatively suggest the reason that it was depicted together with the silphium. Among other things, the author concludes that the coin from the collection of the Duke of Devonshire helped the development of three fields of study: numismatics, zoology, and botany.
CATO THE YOUNGER, SENECA THE YOUNGER, PLINY THE YOUNGER: CONFLICT BETWEEN NORM AND REALITY
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov, Nikishin V.O.
Published: June 2023

the article is devoted to three politicians and intellectuals – the republican leader Cato of Utica, Neroʼs tutor Seneca and Trajanʼs friend Pliny the Younger. An uncompromising fighter against tyranny, Cato chose to commit suicide rather than accept the dictatorship of Caesar. The conformist Seneca, who consciously accepted autocracy and dreamed of the rule of an ideal princeps, was forced to commit suicide under the compulsion of his unworthy pupil, emperor Nero. Pliny the Younger made a brilliant political career and, having survived the despotic regime of Domitian, created the image of «the best princeps» in the «Panegyric» dedicated to Trajan.
Effects of radioiodine therapy on fertility indicators among men with differentiated thyroid cancer: A cohort study
Authors: Soltani Salman , Aghaee Atena , Zakavi Seyed Rasoul , Mottaghi Mahdi , Emadzadeh Maryam , Naeini Soheil Kasaeian
Published: June 2023

Background: Following thyroidectomy, radioiodine therapy is the standard management of differentiated thyroid cancer. The effects of such treatment on testicular function remained a concern for cases and clinicians.
Objective: We aimed to observe changes in fertility indicators in men treated with ablation.
Materials and Methods: In this prospective cohort study, 18 men with differentiated thyroid cancer from June to December 2020 underwent thyroidectomy plus radioiodine therapy. Participants were grouped based on iodine dose (8 men with 30 mCi vs. 10 men with ≥ 150 mCi). Baseline values (VB) of the follicular stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, testosterone, and sperm analyses were measured 3 wk before iodine ablation and repeated 3 (V3) and 12 (V12) months later. They were analyzed once as a whole and once based on their groups via ANOVA and Friedman’s tests where appropriate.
Results: The mean age of participants was 35.61 ± 9.74 yr. Follicular stimulating hormone levels showed a significant trend among all participants (VB: 12.51 ± 1.72, V3: 13.54 ± 1.41, and V12: 13.10 ± 1.67 IU/mL; p < 0.001). Luteinizing hormone showed a similar pattern (VB: 4.98 ± 1.27, V3: 5.65 ± 1.29, and V12: 5.21 ± 0.95 IU/mL; p < 0.001). Testosterone levels did not differ significantly from baseline. Sperm count decreased at the first checkpoint and returned to normal after 12 months (VB: 38.22 ± 19.40, V3: 32.05 ± 17.96, and V12: 36.66 ± 18.81 million/mL; p < 0.001). Sperm motility and morphology did not change significantly.
Conclusion: Our research showed that even less than 5 GBq irradiation could induce a transient testicular dysfunction in the first 3 months of therapy, but it was mostly reversible after 12 months.
Key words: Follicle-stimulating hormone, Iodine-131, Male infertility, Semen analyses.
Comparison of mouse ovarian follicular development and gene expression in the presence of ovarian tissue extract and sodium selenite: An experimental study
Authors: Hoorei Hamed S , Jafarabadi Mina , PourBayranvand Shahram , Salehnia Mojdeh
Published: June 2023

Background: Ovarian tissue extract (OTE) and sodium selenite (SS) enhance the growth and maturation of preantral follicles in a dose-dependent manner.
Objective: The present study was designed to bring more information regarding the mechanism of OTE and SS on the mRNA expression of follicle-stimulating hormone receptors (FSHR) and the proliferation cell nuclear antigens (PCNA) of in vitro matured isolated follicles.
Materials and Methods: The tissue extract was prepared from adult ovaries. The preantral follicles (n = 266) were isolated from 12-16-day-old mice and cultured in the control, experimental I (10 ng/ml SS), and experimental II (OTE) groups for 12 days. The follicular diameter, survival, and maturation rates, also, the production of 17-β-estradiol and progesterone, and the follicular expression of PCNA and FSH receptor genes were analyzed.
Results: The survival rate of follicles in the SS-treated group (84.58%) was significantly higher than that OTE (75.63%; p = 0.023) and control (69.38%; p = 0.032) groups. The mean diameter of culture follicles in experimental group I (403.8 μm) and experimental group II (383.97 μm) increased significantly in comparison with the control group (342.05 μm; p = 0.032). The developmental rate of follicles, percentages of antrum formation, released metaphase II oocytes (p = 0.027; p = 0.019 respectively), production of hormones and the expression of 2 studied genes were significantly increased in both experimental groups in compare with control group (p = 0.021; p = 0.023 respectively).
Conclusion: The OTE and SS have a positive effect on development of mouse preantral follicles via over-expression of FSHR and PCNA genes.
Key words: Follicle-stimulating hormone receptor, Ovary, Sodium selenite, Proliferation cell nuclear antigen, Mouse.
Evaluación de consorcios micorrícicos arbusculares nativos en interacción con niveles de fósforo en la promoción del crecimiento y fotosíntesis de Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni
Authors: Cauich-Cauich Rodrigo Armando , Tun-Suárez José María , Cristóbal-Alejo Jairo , Herrera-Parra Elizabeth de los Ángeles , Andueza-Noh Rubén , Lozano Contreras Monica Guadalupe
Published: June 2023

La creciente demanda de Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni como edulcorante natural, exige la búsqueda de sistemas de producción más sostenibles. El fósforo es indispensable en este cultivo, al estar involucrado en procesos de transformación de energía y biosíntesis de fitoquímicos; su poca disponibilidad afecta la producción y retarda el crecimiento de las plantas. La simbiosis con hongos micorrícicos arbusculares (HMA) representa una vía sostenible para aumentar la producción de los cultivos, gracias a una mejor absorción de nutrientes, particularmente fósforo. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el efecto de consorcios de HMA nativos, provenientes de las localidades: Reserva Cuxtal (RC), Tizimín (TZ) y Colonia Yucatán (CY) pertenecientes al estado de Yucatán, en interacción con porcentajes de fósforo en base a su requerimiento nutricional, sobre parámetros de crecimiento y fotosíntesis en S. rebaudiana a nivel invernadero. Se utilizó un diseño completamente al azar con arreglo bifactorial 4 X 5. Los resultados indicaron que, a bajas concentraciones de fósforo, hay mayor colonización micorrícica. Los tratamientos RC+25 % P y CY+25 % P aumentaron el crecimiento, mejoraron la arquitectura aérea de las plantas y la producción de biomasa, derivado de un mayor contenido de clorofila y mejor tasa fotosintética con respecto a plantas no inoculadas.
1922-2022: COMO PENSAR AS PRÁTICAS DO TURISMO A PARTIR DO DESAPARECIMENTO DO BAIRRO DA MISERICÓRDIA NO RIO DE JANEIRO?
Authors: Botelho Eloise Silveira , Borges Vera Lúcia Bogéa , Deutsch Simone Feigelson
Published: June 2023

O artigo aborda sobre a Exposição Internacional do Centenário da Independência do Brasil e sua relação com o bairro da Misericórdia, localizado na área central do Rio de Janeiro. Contextualiza a região a partir de referências históricas e dos impactos arquitetônicos e urbanísticos em decorrência do evento. Analisa as possibilidades de turismo na região, na atualidade, a partir das construções arquitetônicas remanescentes e dos parques urbanos que foram se constituindo nas diferentes temporalidades. O objetivo é estabelecer conexões históricas, arquitetônicas, urbanísticas e paisagísticas do bairro da Misericórdia com práticas de turismo. O estudo é exploratório, descritivo, realizado a partir de revisão bibliográfica e produção de mapas com software livre. O turismo na área central da cidade pode explorar as referências ao centenário da Exposição Internacional do Centenário da Independência do Brasil, ocorrida entre os anos de 1922 e 1923.
HOSPITALIDADE URBANA NO CONTEXTO DE PATRIMÔNIO HISTÓRICO-NATURAL DE PARANAPIACABA (SANTO ANDRÉ, SP)
Authors: Moreira Sueli Aparecida , Frank Fabíola Bonaldo , Neiman Zysman
Published: June 2023

A Vila de Paranapiacaba, Santo André, SP,presenta potencial turístico devido ao rico patrimônio histórico e natural, além de festivais. Então, a hospitalidade local demanda boa infraestrutura de restaurantes, bares, hotéis, pousadas, serviços de transporte e internet. Portanto, realizou-se o presente estudo com objetivo de avaliar a hospitalidade da Vila (identidade, acessibilidade, legibilidade e hospitalidade virtual). Empregou-se escala para avaliação da hospitalidade em meios de hospedagem e nos serviços de restauração de Moreira et al. (2021), para avaliar o desempenho. A escala foi aplicada junho a julho de 2021 em 23 meios de hospedagem e serviços de restauração. A acessibilidade e os serviços de restauração obtiveram nota 4 ou bom. A legibilidade devido ao não domínio da língua inglesa e da falta de sinalização das ciclovias obteve nota 3 ou regular. A Vila atende os princípios da hospitalidade urbana.
O OLHAR DOS STAKEHOLDERS SOBRE A PAISAGEM TURÍSTICA DE TUTÓIA-MA
Authors: Brito Daline da Costa , Colasante Tatiana
Published: June 2023

O trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar as percepções dos stakeholders sobre a paisagem turística de Tutoia-MA. Com base neste quadro, desenvolvemos o corpus teórico da pesquisa a partir de estudos principalmente de Santos (1996), Urry (2002), Carvalho (2009) e Beni (2019) no intuito de discutir as inter-relações entre turismo e paisagem. Para compreender as diferentes apreensões da paisagem nesse cenário turístico, privilegiamos os olhares de representante da administração municipal, moradores locais e turistas. Como metodologia, o trabalho de caráter exploratório, contou com a realização de entrevistas com esses stakeholders, sendo que com suas respostas os sujeitos da pesquisa apresentaram visões diferenciadas e subjetivas sobre as paisagens tutoienses. A principal conclusão do estudo se refere ao fato de aquelas paisagens serem determinantes para o desenvolvimento do turismo local, mediante sua força motivacional para que turistas decidam conhecer a cidade, mas que também servem de memória à comunidade local.
EXPERIÊNCIA EXTENSIONISTA NA HOSPITALIDADE COMERCIAL
Authors: Rodrigues Ágila Flaviana Alves Chaves , Queiroz Jacirene da Silva
Published: June 2023

O estudo discute a experiência extensionista do Eixo de Turismo, Hospitalidade e Lazer do Instituto Federal do Pará, a partir do projeto de extensão “Anfitrião Cidadão: assessoria técnica para empreendedores de pequenos meios de  hospedagem”, entre os anos de 2019 e 2020. A análise bibliográfica teórico-conceitual lançou mão de literatura sobre os circuitos da economia urbana e da hospitalidade comercial, tendo como recorte analítico hotéis e imóveis disponíveis para locação por temporada. A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio da análise documental nos relatórios das atividades do projeto, Inventário da Oferta Turística e em sites de vendas de diárias. Os resultados revelaram aspectos recentes da expansão das atividades características da hotelaria na cidade e os desafios da estrutura organizacional na prestação de serviços de hospedagem para pequenos empreendedores.
Identification of Resistant Genotypes and Integrated Management of Dry Root Rot of Chickpea
Authors: Sunkad Gururaj , Dore Deepa , Patil Meghana , Joshi Ranjana , Muniswamy S.
Published: June 2023

Background: Dry root rot is an economically important soil borne disease of chickpea in India. The pathogen, Rhizoctonia bataticola, is a soil borne fungus resulting in significant losses in yield. Therefore, the present investigation was aimed to identify the management strategy of disease through identification new sources of resistance and integrated management of disease. Methods: R. bataticola was isolated and purified by using hyphal tip technique and molecular detection was done by using ITS primers. One hundred chickpea germplasm entries were screened under in both field and advanced phenotyping in glass house. The field trials on integrated management of the disease were conducted with different treatments using randomized block design. Result: Fourteen resistant and five moderately resistant genotypes were identified under artificial epiphytotic conditions. Advanced screening of these 19 genotypes under phenotyping technique yielded four resistant and five moderately resistant genotypes. Among nine treatments, seed treatment with mancozeb 50% + carbendazim 25% WP @ 3.5 g/kg followed by soil drenching of mancozeb 50% + carbendazim 25% WP @ 3 g/l water to infected and surrounding plants was found highly effective by recording least disease incidence with highest seed yield, test weight and benefit cost ratio.