bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
AN EFFICIENT ANDROID BASED SCHOOL BUS TRACKING SYSTEM
Authors: J Hemalatha , K Hitaishi , Sharma S Vivek , Vura Swetha , V S Mownika , Paul Bharat
Published: September 2021

These days, guardians are concerned about the
school-going youngsters on account of the expanding
number of instances of missing students. The parents or
guardians must patiently wait for the arrival of school
transportation. The use of private vehicles aggravates the
current terrible deadlock and many of the guardians
consider that school transport is usually dangerous for
their children. This task presents the improvement of a
school transport observing framework, fit for offering
profitable types of assistance through arising advances like
Arduino regulator. By using geo location capabilities, our
proposed Arduino regulator has the capability to provide
the location of children. The proposed system employs the
client-server architecture. To save the waiting time of
parents, the software developed allows parents to detect
the exact location of the school bus via geo location and
informs them when the school bus reaches a nearby
place. Admin, Driver, and Parents are the three modules
included in this framework. The system allocates
transportation and its related components space on Google
Maps is refreshed by Cloud workers and viewable to
administrators. The most up-to-date information of the
bus in the form of time and location can be received by
parents.
TEST COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT USING HYBRID MODULAR APPROACH FOR WEB BASED APPLICATION
Authors: R Roopesh , S Dr. Manimala
Published: September 2021

Automation testing may be a process that
compares the particular results to the specified outcome
within the software application. Automation testing is one
of the foremost effective ways to check web-based
applications since it allows you to hide more scenarios in
less time. Selenium is one every of the foremost popular
and effective automation frameworks that have been
widely used for automating the testing of applications. The
modular testing framework is one of the techniques used
for automated testing, in which test scripts are built by
breaking down the entire application into smaller pieces.
Multiple data sets cannot be used thanks to hardcoded
data within the test scripts. In this paper, a hybrid
approach of keyword-data driven strategy is presented, in
which the test data and script are separated to allow for
various datasets and greater coverage. Furthermore, for
improved test coverage, this split procedure is used across
many modules.
MOOD LIGHTING USING DAYLIGHT IN GREEN BUILDINGS
Authors: M Shivsharan , Sundar.B.T Shyam
Published: September 2021

The use of daylighting technique signifies a
solution for energy-efficient lighting in the interiors of a
building. Thus, this paper provides a conceptual technique
that courses daylight into the building through a mirror
tube. Although daylighting illumination is energy efficient
and has many health benefits, it also potentially causes
heat transmission and glare which impacts people’s visual
comfort. To resolve the issue, this paper also focuses on
proposing a technique to control the intensity of light
transmitting into the room and also to change the colour of
the light which falls into the concept called "mood
lighting
DETECTING ANOMALOUS ACTIVITIES IN SPATIO-TEMPORAL REGION
Authors: T Gadiyar H Manoj , Goudar Kanchana , G S Dr. Thyagaraju , K Harshitha , Jeevan Kurdekar Megha , K Manjushree
Published: September 2021

Anomaly detection system using Machine
Learning helps to detect the anomalies like accidents
etc. Detecting anomalies in videos is important but it is
an unsolved problem. This system will automatically
detect the anomaly by image analysis from the
surveillance videos. This system is capable of tracking
abnormal event in each frame and generates a
notification of such event. The proposed K-means
algorithm performs existing anomaly detection
techniques, while being comparatively time efficient.
The system just requires a dataset of video frames and
is fed as input to the anomaly detecting module
NON LINEAR CONTROL OF MULTI FED INDUCTION GENERETOR BASED OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE SYSTEM
Authors: . Keerthana , . Vahini , . Sahana , Rafi Mohamed
Published: September 2021

Novel technique is used to improve
the voltage ride of wind turbine system by
using LVRT System. In most of the turbines
sequence operation is a proper way to
increase the capacity of electronic devices in
PMDD wind power generation system.
Direct Current Link are regulated in this
system. Because it causes the ZSCC, which
brings current oscillation, distortion of
waveform, reduction in power, and
interruption of Electromagnetic waves, and
so on. This system gives a different
methodology for offshore wind turbine
system which are composed of the various
control strategies applied to the multi- phase
converter which can deal with mostly
imbalanced. Apart from averagemodels of the
turbine system MVF is used to compensate
highly imbalance load but not affecting the
static and dynamic response of the system.
Based on the above topology, the schematic
diagram of the proposed system is
constructed. The simulated results of
offshore wind turbine system will show the
advantages of the proposed system and
control strategies.
IMPLEMENTATION OF COVID-19 VACCINE TEMPERATURE MONITORING AND TRACKING SYSTEM
Authors: Varamb Muriyan Aboobacker Sidheeq , Ahmed Alshehhi Shumookh , Alblooshi Mahra Ali , Saeed Abdulla Nabil , Alshehhi Mohammed Ebrahim
Published: September 2021

This paper is concerned with the design and
implementation of real-time temperature control,
monitoring, and tracking system for COVID-19 Vaccines.
COVID-19 Vaccines must be stored properly from the
manufacture's time until the administration's time to
people. The proper vaccine maintenance during the
transportation stage known as the cold chain process. An
excellent temperature-controlled supply chain involves all
equipment and procedures used in the transportation,
storage, and handling of COVID-19 vaccines. By
maintaining temperatures recommended by the vaccine
manufacture, implementing best storage and handling
practices, providers can ensure that patients will get the
full benefit of the COVID-19 vaccines they receive. In this
project, the Arduino-based controller automatically
monitors and preserves the vaccine box's temperature as
per the prescribed WHO (World Health Organization)
standard and alarming the system if deflection in the
standard range happens. The tracking system in this
project implement by using another Arduino-based GPSGSM module for the vaccine suppliers or hospitals to track
the exact location of the designed Vaccine box. In addition,
a portable case solar battery charge design to ensure an
uninterrupted power supply during transportation.
DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF BOGIE WHEELSET- A REVIEW
Authors: Urassa Patrick Emanuel
Published: September 2021

The dynamic of railway vehicle wheelsets is
influenced by the actions of the conicity of the wheels and
the creep forces acting between the wheels and rails. In
this review paper, the dynamics analysis of wheelset has
investigated, equations of motion have formulated and
stability criteria obtained which indicate the effects of
varying the various parameters of the system. The nature
of the motion at the critical speed is investigated and the
mode of energy conversion between the forward motion of
the vehicle and the lateral motion of the wheelset is
explained. From a dynamic analysis, it is shown how the
critical speed of the wheelset slips and suspension stiffness
relates to the kinematic motion.
SEISMIC EVALUATION OF HIGH RISE BUILDING WITH VERTICAL IRREGULARITIES BY PUSHOVER ANALYSIS
Authors: Shoaib Syed , Shoaib Syed , Waiker Dr M L
Published: September 2021

During earthquake motion. The seismic behavior
depends upon the strength, mass, and stiffness are
distributed in both horizontal and vertical planes. the
buildings structural damage was severe the frame is
caused due to the discontinuity in the stiffness mass and
strength between the alongside stories. The same type of
discontinuity is vertical geometric irregularity which is due
to the irregular building configuration in vertical plane so
there is to know the seismic response of building modals in
different structural irregularities.
Non-linear static (pushover analysis) which is used for
Investigation. The purpose of study doing nonlinear static
(pushover analysis) by conventional design methodology
G+12 High rise buildings this work shows seismic
performance and behavior of building frame with and
without vertical irregularity in terms of base shear, story
shear, story displacement the performance point of all
models are considered also found that irregularity in
assessment of the structure decreases the performance
level of building there is also reduces in deformation or
displacement of the structure. all the models analyzed by
using ETABS and design as per IS 456:200 and 1893:2016
HALF ADDER DESIGN USING VARIOUS TECHNOLOGIES AND COMPARISON OF
Authors: Yadav Rituraj , Sura Ashish , Dahiya Sunita
Published: September 2021

: In this paper, investigate and analysis various
techniques for implementing a half adder circuit with
the fewest transistors possible. In digital electronics half
adder combinational circuit used to add two numbers.
It is an arithmetic circuit that performs the arithmetic
operation of adding two single-bit words. The half
adder technique, design of half adder using AVL
technology, Design of a 3-T Half Adder, NMOS pass
transistors logic design of half adder using 2:1 MUX,
half adder circuit design with CMOS NAND gates, half
adder circuit design with CMOS transmission logic
gates in cadence virtuoso. In this section, compare half
adder circuit design techniques and compare various
parameters of half adder circuit design used various
circuit design techniques. Conventional techniques
required fewer number routing resources. A 3-T halfadder circuit performs with less delay, high speed,
small layout area, less power consumption and batter
efficiency and accuracy
A STUDY ON THE APPROXIMATE METHODS VS EXACT METHODS OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Authors: Yasin Bhat Mohammad , Hassan Er. S. Tahir
Published: September 2021

The analysis of statically indeterminate
structures, using the force and displacement methods, are
considered as exact, as in such an analysis, the conformity
and equilibrium conditions of the structure are satisfied
exactly. However, the results of such a particular analysis
represent the particular structural response only to the
purpose up to which the model of the structure represents
the particular structure. These methods are often reliably
used, given as accurate as possible analytical model of the
structure is employed within the analysis. But due to the
difficulties related to exact analysis like time consuming
computations of deflections and finding solutions of
multiple equations, further complicated by the relative
sizes of the members of the structure, the preliminary
designs of indeterminate structures are often supported by
the results of approximate analysis. Approximate analysis
becomes very convenient to use within the planning phase
of projects, when various alternative designs of the
structure are considered and compared with reference to
economic aspects. This text aims to match the results from
the 2 methods obtained with numerical analysis on a frame
structure. The approximate methods are expected to yield
results within 25% of the precise solutions.
THE INFLUENCE OF URBAN LAND USE ON THE WATER QUALITY OF OTAMIRI RIVER FOR MUNICIPAL SUPPLY
Authors: . Onosakponome , Robert Ogaga
Published: September 2021

Water quality levels of Otamiri
River was studied to seek explanations for the
variations of water quality indicators in the river
and also tried to evaluate the influence of urban
land use activities and season on the water
quality and to examine the water quality of
Otamiri River for agricultural and domestic
uses. Water sampling and laboratory analyses
were carried out using standard procedures to
determine the concentrations of selected
parameters in the sample. The data obtained
ranged from 21.10 to 98.00µS/cm for Electrical
Conductivity, 9.70 to 45.10mg/l for TDS, 5.60 to
20.80mg/l total hardness, 0.00 to 3.06mg/l NO3-
,
0.15 to 6.50mg/l PO4, 0.00 to 12.63mg/l SO4
2-
,
and 14.48 to 32.96mg/l Cl-
. Other results ranged
from 12.03 to 19.26mg/l BOD5, TSS 40.50 to
1793.50mg/l, turbidity 7.86 to 96.40NTU and pH
6.48 to 6.90 at 29?C. The data clearly show that
areas outside the influence of urban activities
still maintain their pristine environmental
conditions with water quality parameters falling
within permissible limits. The water from these
areas can sustain aquatic life and are safe for
human consumption. However, the results
further showed that the midstream area that
receive wastes from urban land use activities
was polluted with parameters such as NO3-
, PO4-
, Cl-
, BOD5, TDS, and COD being higher than
the permissible limit. This demonstrates the
influence of urban land use on the water quality
of Otamiri River.
SENTIMIX (HINDI- ENGLISH)
Authors: Awasthi Aastha , Singh Akanksha , Agarwal Istuti , Sanjay Arushi
Published: September 2021

— The study of emotions is an important
part of research in the excavation of literature. It
involves removing ideas from articles such as
reviews, news, blog posts, etc. and then classifying
them as positive, negative or negative. The senses
of English were studied but not much work was
done for the Indian language. Studies were
conducted in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and
Punjabi. Today, most communications are made
on social media using the Hinglish language which
is a combination of both Hindi and English.
Hinglish is a native language that is very popular
in India because people are more comfortable
speaking their own language. This paper provides
a new method for expressing the emotions of
Hinglish (Hindi + English). Emotional analysis
(SA) uses mixed data from the social media with
many programs. Feedback from consumer
satisfaction in evaluating social activity in multiple
languages society. Progress in this area is
hampered by a lack of relevant sequential data.
We Introduces a Hi-En code-mixing set for
sensitive information and satisfying performance.
A comparative study of the feasibility and
implementation of SA methods in social media.
We also derive and describe Hinglish language.
We examine this problem by using sets of lexicon,
emotion, and form metadata to construct a
classification that can vary between “positive”,
“negative” and “neutral” feelings.
ADVERSARIAL OPEN DOMAIN ADAPTION FRAMEWORK (AODA): SKETCH-TO-PHOTO SYNTHESIS
Authors: Thakur Amey , Satish Mega
Published: September 2021

This paper aims to demonstrate the efficiency of
the Adversarial Open Domain Adaption framework for
sketch-to-photo synthesis. The unsupervised open domain
adaption for generating realistic photos from a hand-drawn
sketch is challenging as there is no such sketch of that class
for training data. The absence of learning supervision and
the huge domain gap between both the freehand drawing
and picture domains make it hard. We present an approach
that learns both sketch-to-photo and photo-to-sketch
generation to synthesise the missing freehand drawings
from pictures. Due to the domain gap between synthetic
sketches and genuine ones, the generator trained on false
drawings may produce unsatisfactory results when dealing
with drawings of lacking classes. To address this problem,
we offer a simple but effective open-domain sampling and
optimization method that “tricks” the generator into
considering false drawings as genuine. Our approach
generalises the learnt sketch-to-photo and photo-to-sketch
mappings from in-domain input to open-domain categories.
On the Scribble and SketchyCOCO datasets, we compared
our technique to the most current competing methods. For
many types of open-domain drawings, our model
outperforms impressive results in synthesising accurate
colour, substance, and retaining the structural layout.
COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT AND COSTESTIMATION OF GFRP RC AND STEEL RC COMPOSITE (BOX MULTI-CELL TYPE) BRIDGE USING STAADPRO
Authors: Suryawanshi Veena Maroti , Awchat G D.
Published: September 2021

While examining regarding the establishment
within India, and all the most explicitly, the issues
confronting India's structure, failure of bridges has
been one of the principal issues facing India's system.
Failure of bridges regularly are exorbitant in the trade
predestined, lives lost, and substitution reserves needed
to remake the bombed connect. In minding the past
interface disillusionments, it is normal, or synthetic that
with most noteworthy death toll and straightforwardly
influences the people just as nation economy. From this
past dissatisfaction it is important to concentrate how to
reinforce the future development.
Conventional materials have neglected to satisfy the
requirements for extreme, secured and low-support
roads and bridges. Steel bar can undoubtedly be
vulnerability to erosion (corrosion) or oxidation when
introduced to salts, intense engineered substances, and
moistness that prompts further and speedier
debilitating of the steel and concrete. The degree of the
assessment is taking "disintegration" as a reason for
dissatisfaction into thought so the design ought to be
strengthened by using advanced composite material i.e.,
Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) and
differentiating with Steel. GFRP composites offer high
solidarity to-weight proportion, phenomenal weakness
opposition, and extra security against thruway climate
conditions and decrease the general life-cycle costs. . It
is utilized to assemble cost-proficient construction with
a life expectancy of more than 100 years.
The main purpose of research is relative assessment,
plan and cost-appraisal of the composite (box multi-cell
type) bridge having Reversed L-Shaped Cantilever
Retaining wall with GFRP-Reinforced Concrete and
Steel Reinforced Concrete material. Finally, the bridge
is analyzed using Finite Element Method demonstrating
with STAAD PRO. The consequence of cost assessment
shows that construction with GFRP material is much
conservative as contrast with structure with steel
Estrategias de enseñanza docente en la satisfacción académica de los estudiantes universitarios
Authors: Hurtado-Palomino Americo , Merma-Valverde Willam , Ccorisapra-Quintana Flor de Meliza , Lazo-Cerón Yarixa , Boza-Salas Karol
Published: September 2021

El actual escenario universitario exige mayor planificación y desarrollo de estrategias de enseñanza docente que permitan alcanzar un óptimo aprendizaje y satisfacción académica. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el efecto de las estrategias de enseñanza docente a través de la estrategia instrumental, afectivo-motivacional y cognitiva–metacognitiva en la satisfacción del estudiante universitario en un entorno de aprendizaje virtual sincrónico. La metodología del estudio, sigue la ruta del enfoque cuantitativo, de alcance explicativo, para el cual se realiza 469 encuestas a estudiantes de pregrado. Además, para examinar los datos se utiliza la regresión lineal múltiple. Los resultados muestran que todas las dimensiones de las estrategias de enseñanza tienen una relación directa positiva en la satisfacción académica. Sin embargo, la dimensión afectivo-motivacional tiene mayor incidencia que las demás estrategias. Finalmente, se concluye que los docentes aplican estrategias de enseñanza en un entorno de aprendizaje sincrónico de manera satisfactoria.
Experiencias emocionales de los niños indígenas durante la hospitalización. Un abordaje cualitativo de las brechas culturales
Authors: Esteves Villanueva Ángela Rosario , Incacutipa Limachi Duverly Joao , Incacutipa Limachi Cleida , Aparicio Salas Vilma Luz
Published: September 2021

Las reacciones emocionales de los niños indígenas requieren ser abordadas desde un enfoque de salud intercultural, debido a que son motivadas por patrones culturales que difieren del sistema hospitalario. El objetivo es interpretar las reacciones emocionales de los niños indígenas en hospitalización. Metodología, enfoque cualitativo de tipo etnográfico interpretativo, realizado en un hospital público con 23 niños hospitalizados en el área de pediatría, por medio de entrevistas a profundidad. Los resultados reflejan la incomprensión de los códigos culturales, temor al abandono, rebeldía a las indicaciones del personal de salud, temor a los procedimientos y trastornos del sueño. Arribamos a la conclusión de que el niño hospitalizado aymara y quechua, por el contexto cultural de procedencia, se enfrenta a una relación desventajosa en el hospital, expresado en la incomprensión de códigos hospitalarios de parte de los niños y códigos culturales de parte del personal de salud. Por tal motivo, es fundamental reconocer la diversidad cultural, étnica y multilingüismo de los pacientes durante la atención especializada.
Phonetic-Lexical Tools and Ways of Translation in Kyz Daryika Poem
Authors: Zhaparova G. , Karaeva Z. , Abdullaeva Zh.
Published: September 2021

Research relevance in this study, according to Kadyrkul Alimanov, phonetic and phonological means of translating the Kyz Daryika poem into other languages is the phonetic harmony in poetic speech. Research purposes: using phonetic and lexical means, and determine the structure of the place in the sentence, function, place in the sentence and comprehensively identify their features in order to attract the reader’s attention. Research materials and methods: in this work, phono-stylistic means used not only in the organization of rhythm and rhyme, but also in the poetic category, organizing aesthetic impact and melodiousness in Kyrgyz poetry, both folklore and professional written literature, were considered. Research results: Translation is important both for introduction with life, culture and history of other people as well as in the process of exchanging with their literary and scientific achievements. Conclusions: Translation contributes to the development of people culture, to emergence of all-round communication and simultaneously performing social function in language when connecting with other peoples.
Vakhsh as a Hydronym of the Amu Darya
Authors: Kabulov E.
Published: September 2021

It is known that the Amu Darya is considered a major river that has played an important role in the social-economic life of the people of Central Asia. Historically, the Amu Darya has been called by different names. It is analyzed this process based on sources in this article.
Comprehensive Assessment of the Safety of a New Antituberculosis Drug from the Diarylquinolines Group
Authors: Savchenko A. Yu. , Ramenskaya G. V. , Kukes V. G. , Burenkov M. S. , Shilov B. V.
Published: September 2021

The safety of the new anti-tuberculosis drug Tiozonide was studied by bioinformatics and preclinical methods using laboratory animals and with the participation of healthy volunteers. The absence of toxic effects on the main life support systems of mammals predicted by QSAR models was confi rmed by the results of acute, subchronic and chronic toxicity tests in various laboratory animals. Monitoring of the vital indicators of volunteers and a comparative analysis of the generalized results of these indicators before (screening), during and after the study showed the absence of reliable and clinically signifi cant changes that threaten the life and health of people.
Pharmacological Correction of Long-Term Effects of Acute Severe Poisoning with Sodium Thiopental under Chronic Light Desynchronosis
Authors: Batotsyrenova E. G. , Kashuro V. A. , Sharabanov A. V.
Published: September 2021

We experimentally studied the possibility of using a peptide extract from the pituitary gland of a reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) to correct the functional state of the body under the combined effect of acute severe poisoning with sodium thiopental in rats, at a dose of LD50 under long-term light desynchronosis. The research was conducted using the statistical method of two-factor analysis of variance. It was found that, under constant light, a peptide extract from the pituitary gland of a reindeer affects such parameters as diene conjugates concentration, the activity of glutathione-S-transferase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Under prolonged darkness, the extract under study affected the activity of glutathione-S-transferase, glutathione peroxidase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase.
A Zootechnical Analysis of the Functional Parameters of Grazing Kabarga Deer with the Purpose of Increasing the Musk Quality
Authors: Borisova M. M. , Chechushkov M. A. , Nesterov M. S.
Published: September 2021

The species flora composition of regions inhabited by musk deer affects the musk quality. A microelement analysis of plants collected from natural ranges of musk deer was carried out in order to optimize the diet of musk deer under open grazing.
Adverse Drug Reactions and Methodological Approaches to Their Monitoring
Authors: Litvinenko T. S. , Safronenko A. V. , Gantsgorn E. V. , Kudelina O. M. , Postnikova E. S. , Chotiy V. A.
Published: September 2021

The article is devoted to undesirable drug reactions, an urgent problem of pharmacology. Up-to-date information on their global prevalence is provided, along with methodological approaches to their monitoring. The main directions for the development of the pharmacovigilance system in Russia are outlined.
Standardization of Critical Quality Indicators of Liposomes of Siberian Musk Deer Prepucial Gland Extract
Authors: Nesterov M. S. , Ageldinov R. A. , Khvostov D. V. , Kokhan V. S. , Levashova A. I. , Lyublinskiy S. L. , Karkischenko V. N.
Published: September 2021

The liposomal form of a new original remedy based on the preputial gland of Siberian musk has been standardized and characterized. For the preparative isolation of musk musk liposomes, an effective and scalable method of high-pressure homogenization was used. The resulting liposomal product was characterized by transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, preparative and analytical chromatography, and chromatography-mass spectrometry. A specification for the liposomal form of the extract of the prepucial gland of Siberian musk deer, including all critical indicators of the product quality, has been developed. Homogeneous dispersions of musk musk liposomes with uniform size distribution — with distribution maxima at 50 and 240 nm — were obtained. The high physical and chemical stability of the liposomal dispersion was established: the zeta potential of the obtained nanoparticles was -5...-35 mV. The degree of inclusion in the liposomes of the target components of musk musk according to gel-size chromatography and mass spectrometry for musk liposomes for steroid components and total protein was 58–75%. The developed quality indicators of the liposomal product allow for serial standardization of the manufacturing quality control and form the prerequisites for guaranteed high efficiency of the product based on the liposomal form of musk musk extract as an adaptogen of natural origin with an enhanced and pronounced effect.
Impact of 4,4’-(propanediamide)Dibenzoate Sodium on Manifestations of Experimental Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
Authors: Belykh M. A.
Published: September 2021

The impact of a propanedioic acid derivative, 4,4’-(propanediamide)dibenzoate sodium (maloben), on the physiological and histological characteristics of mice line C57BL/6 was studied under 24-week modeled steatohepatitis. It was found that the compound in question exhibits hepatoprotective and regenerative properties, thus being promising for further study as an anti-steatosis agent.
Study on the Correlations among Environmental Protective Factor of Resilience, Social Exclusion, and Hope of Disadvantaged Youths
Authors: HSIAO Suh Chen
Published: September 2021

A needy family is the underprivileged group in the society, in which children and youths growing in a needy family are the most underprivileged group, who have no choice and could not overcome it by themselves. Effects of poverty on children contain malnutrition or disorder, more chronic diseases, higher epidemic disease infection rate, high accident rate, low study preparation, low learning achievement, high social emotion and behavior problems, high risk of domestic violence, and bad parent-child relationship. Discussions about poverty are often related to social exclusion. Some people regard social exclusion as the division of poor people; social exclusion is not simply a result, but a dynamic process; social exclusion is not the result of inequality, but the behavior to separate people and group due to systems. Aiming at disadvantaged youths in southern Taiwan, random sampling is adopted to distribute 450 copies of questionnaire, and 348 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 77%. The retrieved questionnaire data are analyzed with statistics software. The research results show significantly negative correlations between environmental protective factor of resilience and social exclusion, remarkably negative correlations between social exclusion and hope, and notably positive correlations between environmental protective factor of resilience and hope. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to provide various environmental factors in the growing process of youths for reinforcing youths’ confidence and cultivate the resilience.
Effects of Blockchain Law Course Integrated Multimedia Dynamic Teaching on Students’ Learning Motivation and Learning Effectiveness
Authors: TONG Xiuyu
Published: September 2021

The cultivation of intellectual property right talents who bear the mission of blockchain era becomes the key in the new breakthrough of integrating blockchain and intellectual property rights to form new sources of economic growth in the new/old kinetic energy conversion. Higher education is the major way to cultivate talents. Nevertheless, blockchain law courses currently offered by international colleges and universities are developed from technology fields of technology finance, distributed systems, and cryptocurrency, but not the instruction from legal perspectives. The experimental design model is applied in this study to the experimental research of students majoring in intellectual property rights in the same grade from same-level schools in Guangxi. Total 170 students are preceded the 16-week blockchain law knowledge on-campus experimental teaching. The research results show significant correlations between blockchain law course integrated multimedia dynamic teaching and learning motivation, remarkable correlations between blockchain law course integrated multimedia dynamic teaching and learning effectiveness, notably positive effects of learning motivation on learning effect in learning effectiveness, and significantly positive effects of learning motivation on learning gain in learning effectiveness. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to cultivate domestic students majoring in intellectual property rights, from legal vision, establishing the systematic way of thinking and knowledge system from know-why, to practical application, and then to legal regulations to enhance the learning effect of blockchain law knowledge and core skills to solve blockchain law issues of students majoring in intellectual property rights.
Types of Older Adults ICT Users and the Grey Divide: Attitudes Matter
Authors: ALONSO GONZALEZ David , D’ANTONIO MACEIRAS Sergio , DIAZ CATALAN Celia , SADABA RODRIGUEZ Igor
Published: September 2021

In a context where the proportion of older people increases, research related to active aging and digital technologies has generated a wide debate and numerous investigations aiming to implement new public policies. Usually these are based more on “classic” gaps than on the so-called “grey divide”, which focuses on perceptions and attitudes. To capture this dimension, a questionnaire was designed on uses, learning, and ethical, motivational and attitudinal aspects. A field work was carried out aimed at the population of the Autonomous Community of Madrid between 65 and 80 years old, with quotas of age and sex, with a total of 785 cases, with a sampling error of 3.5% for a p=95%. The results indicate that, given the specific uses made by the elderly, they are marked by the ubiquity of the cell phone, which is basically used to communicate, to alleviate loneliness and to stay active. Thus, through a cluster analysis we have been able to elaborate a typology of users according to attitudes and perceptions (grey divide) allowing us to better characterize the levels of technological adoption in a wider set of factors.
Digital divides in education. An analysis of the Romanian public discourse on distance and online education during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Hosszu Alexandra , Rughiniș Cosima
Published: September 2021

Adapting “face-to-face” education to distance/remote and/or online education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a massive challenge for countries around the world. Online education reignited older debates about inclusive education, such as hoped-for universal access versus current digital divides, prompting the public to reflect about the past, the present, and future of the educational system. This article analyzes the Romanian public discourse, both scientific and non-scientific, on emerging distance and online education in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to understand how public communication functioned as feedback for school digitalization. The paper charts the advantages and challenges of distance and online education experienced by various actors (teachers, students, and the members of civil society) or identified through scientific research, focusing on the way online education has spotlighted and reshaped social inequalities. We use thematic content analysis of 152 online articles published from March to June 2020 and eight scientific studies and reports. The results showed that public discourse about distance and online education was largely consistent within and across multiple stakeholders; also, the scientific reports were aligned with the other public opinions expressed and promoted via online channels. The general perspective of the emerging online education during COVID-19 is that it deepens the educational gaps and creates new forms of exclusion. On the positive side, some of the teachers have improved their teaching methods and educational content.
ACUM, Again, Brașov, 17-19 octombrie 2019
Authors: Berescu Cătălin
Published: September 2021

The International Colloquium of Social Sciences and Communication ACUM (NOW) took place in Brasov in between 17th and 19th of October 2019, over three sunny autumn days. The event was organized by the Faculty of Sociology and Communication of the University Transylvania and by the Society of Sociologists of Romania. The keynote speakers were: Bogdan Voicu (R.I.Q.L.) with a communication about migration as a double osmosis, Robbie Gilligan (University of Dublin), with a paper about working with vulnerable young people, Sylvie Huet, (University of Clermond), who investigated the “glass ceilings”, and Mihai Burlacu, from the Bucharest Polytechnic, with a reconsideration of the anthropological space as heterotopia. The colloquium organized by SSR is already part of a local university tradition of national and international openness. Slowly but steadily, a real international character of scientific manifestations in Romania is formed, much less cosmopolitan than similar conferences in the global West, but with a constant presence of foreign guests and participants who bring a much needed diversity of perspectives and research themes. During the works, we received a very careful reception from colleagues in sessions that put together various contributions, from long-term individual research topics to recent exploratory research.The event was one that confirmed its success over the years, thus strengthening Brasov's place on the map of social sciences in Romania.
Informal payments in Romanian health care system. A sample selection correction
Authors: Buligescu Bianca , Espinoza Peňa Henry
Published: September 2021

This paper draws on economic theory, sociology and political science approaches to explain informal payments in the Romanian health care system. It estimates the likelihood of paying a bribe (informal payment) using a reduced health care demand equation in a probit model with sample selection correction. Social capital, as having a relationship with doctors, and the perception of the health care system, as corrupt, are found to influence the probability of making an informal payment. The likelihood of making an informal payment in the Romanian health care system is modelled using a maximum-likelihood probit estimation with sample selection correction. In the selection equation, reduced health care demand, self-perceived health status and being afraid of diseases are used as exclusion restrictions for identifying the parameters of the econometric model.
Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania, RAO Press, Bucharest, 2019, Bogdan Bucur
Authors: Dumitrescu Lucian
Published: September 2021

This review seeks to critically unravel Bogdan Bucur's Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania by using both an emic and an etic approach. From an emic perspective, that is, from inside the book, Bogdan Bucur's intellectual effort is really impressive. Despite a huge amount of data, Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania proves itself quite easy to read thanks to a solid organization. Additionally, due to the fact that the author has employed a classic academic recipe, the abovementioned book is also very coherent. However, looked at it etically, the book loses its internal coherence due to some conceptual and methodological blunders. Conceptually, despite the fact that the book brings to the fore the issue of bad governance and that it includes a theoretical chapter, the concept of good governance is left unaddressed. Methodologically, the author seems to have fallen in the trap of methodological nationalism. A consistent liberal and neo-marxist literature has already addressed the state as a historical institution which is more or less dependent on the international milieu. In his attempt to explain the administrative failures of the interwar Romanian state, the author has completely overlooked the path dependence explanation and the impact former empires had had on post-colonial states. Thus, a confusion between causes and manifestations of bad governance has emerged.
La théâtralité académique. L’usage de la métaphore dans la recherche sociologique
Authors: Stoiciu Gina
Published: September 2021

We propose to grasp conferences as an institutional ritual, which deploys a whole institutional theatricality. To do this, we use the metaphor of the orchestra; indeed each participant in the conference plays their part by adjusting to each other. The metaphor of the art of composition allows us to detect the process of shaping the knowledge of an academic text. The wide angle of reflection finds its inspiration in symbolic approaches to communication. The use of the metaphor in the understanding of academic practices, drives us to an imaginary approach framing an image, making analogies between the image and the object under study, to then take advantage of this operation of transposing the meaning of the image to the object of study. We thus have access to a fresh and imaginary angle on the rituals which mark the academic life, and which are not only duty bound. ##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.details##
Echoes from Gusti’s School: Historical, Epistemological, and Destiny Bonds between Sociology and Anthropology
Authors: Geană Gheorghiță
Published: September 2021

In the interwar period of time, a team of four to six biological anthropologists headed by Francisc Rainer attended the monographical researches in the framework of Dimitrie Gusti’s Sociological School. After war, while sociology was abolished by the communist political regime, anthropology survived under the leadership of the physician Ștefan Milcu, an ex-member of Rainer’s team. As Director of the Anthropological Research Centre, Milcu took over the idea of monographical research ‒ this time from a bioanthropological perspective. However, he invited to researches a few social scientists to cover some aspects of demography, family studies, ethnography etc. Among them, especially Traian Herseni and Vasile Caramelea (under the protection identity of “demographer”, “or statistician”) produced outstanding contributions to the monographs of the villages Clopotiva, Bătrîna, Nucșoara & Cîmpu lui Neag ‒ all of them in the district of Hațeg, an ancient county of great importance for understanding the genesis of the Romanian people. A collateral super-effect of this activity was the foundation ‒ în 1964, at Vasile Caramelea’s initiative ‒ of the Section of cultural anthropology in the organization of the Anthropological Research Centre. This inauguration is interpreted again as “an adequate illustration of Thomas Kuhn’s theory about the changing of paradigm în science” (Geană, 2014b).
ASSESSING THE WAY GENDER NORMS AFFECT TEENAGERS’ BEHAVIOUR IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Authors: SESERMAN Corina-Maricica
Published: September 2021

The internet, together with its associated smart technologies, has a central, and since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic one might even add, essential position in the fluid functionality of social apparatus. This is apparent on multiple facets, but it has especially impacted the way individuals socialise and present themselves in the online space. Although it has been in use for several decades the way the Internet is perceived has changed significantly as now it has presently become an extension of the social front stage. Through the tools offered by social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, users can carefully construct their own digital versions. These characteristics have proven to be highly attractive to teenagers, as social media platforms offer them the possibility of engaging with their peers, uncover various aspects about the environment outside their familiar space and to create a digital identity. All of these aspects prove to be attractive to them as it caters to their need to seek and to have a sense of empowerment and belonging. Gender plays an important role in the process of developing one’s identity and the type of behaviour an individual chooses to present in a social environment, be it digital or otherwise. Previous studies have also pointed out the fact that gender stereotypes and gender norms affect and influence the way individuals perceive others and the type of behaviour they act out. This paper aims to pinpoint a theoretical examination of the way teenagers’ behaviour and digital identity on social media platforms is affected by the way people around them look at and perceive gender.
Beyond the Scope of Each Computational Chemistry
Authors: Akitsu Takashiro , Suda Shintaro , Katsuumi Natsuki
Published: September 2021

Due to recent advances in computational chemistry, not only computers and analysis programs in crystal structure analysis, but also TD-DFT calculations related to intramolecular electronic states and energies have been easily performed, and detailed discussions have become possible. On the other hand, how to discuss information such as intermolecular interactions, molecular assembly states, and packing, which is beyond the scope of application of each computational chemistry program and theory, is still a subject of research. Here, authors would like to consider what is possible and difficult using a program, for example, Hirshfeld surface analysis.
Targeting Host Glycolysis as a Strategy for Antimalarial Development
Authors: Jezewski Andrew J. , Lin Yu-Hsi , Reisz Julie A. , Culp-Hill Rachel , Barekatain Yasaman , Yan Victoria C. , D’Alessandro Angelo , Muller Florian L. , Odom John Audrey R.
Published: September 2021

Glycolysis controls cellular energy, redox balance, and biosynthesis. Antiglycolytic therapies are under investigation for treatment of obesity, cancer, aging, autoimmunity, and microbial diseases. Interrupting glycolysis is highly valued as a therapeutic strategy, because glycolytic disruption is generally tolerated in mammals. Unfortunately, anemia is a known dose-limiting side effect of these inhibitors and presents a major caveat to development of antiglycolytic therapies. We developed specific inhibitors of enolase – a critical enzyme in glycolysis – and validated their metabolic and cellular effects on human erythrocytes. Enolase inhibition increases erythrocyte susceptibility to oxidative damage and induces rapid and premature erythrocyte senescence, rather than direct hemolysis. We apply our model of red cell toxicity to address questions regarding erythrocyte glycolytic disruption in the context of Plasmodium falciparum malaria pathogenesis. Our study provides a framework for understanding red blood cell homeostasis under normal and disease states and clarifies the importance of erythrocyte reductive capacity in malaria parasite growth.
Outcomes of Spironolactone Withdrawal in Dilated Cardiomyopathy With Improved Ejection Fraction
Authors: Chen Yanjia , Qiu Zeping , Jiang Jie , Su Xiuxiu , Huang Fanyi , Tang Jing , Jin Wei
Published: September 2021

Background: The feasibility of spironolactone withdrawal in dilated cardiomyopathy patients with improved ejection fraction remains unknown. This study sought to determine whether spironolactone can be withdrawn safely in this circumstance.

Methods: Consecutive patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and prescribed spironolactone at discharge were included in this prospective, observational cohort using the Risk Evaluation and Management in Heart Failure Trial (NCT02998788) database. Those patients who experienced an absolute left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) improvement ≥10% and a second measurement of LVEF >40% would choose whether to continue spironolactone therapy and be included in final analysis. The primary endpoint was dilated cardiomyopathy relapse within 12 months, defined as a more than 10% reduction in LVEF, a 15% or greater increase in LVESVi, a 2-fold rise in NT-proBNP, or clinical signs of heart failure.

Results: Seventy patients achieved an ejection fraction improvement and were included in the final analysis, of whom 30 chose to continue spironolactone and 40 decided to withdraw. In primary endpoint analysis, 23 (58%) patients from the withdrawal group and 4 (13%) patients from the continuation group relapsed (relative risk for relapse: 4.31; 95% CI: 1.67–11.11; p < 0.001). Patients from the withdrawal group experienced more symptom aggravation than the continuation group. No secondary safety endpoint was recorded. Improvements in cardiac structure parameters were no longer observed after spironolactone withdrawal, while improvements persisted in continuation group.

Conclusions: Most dilated cardiomyopathy patients with improved ejection fraction will relapse after spironolactone withdrawal. These results should be weighed before spironolactone withdrawal was attempted.
Multidimensional Mechanistic Spectrum of Long Non-coding RNAs in Heart Development and Disease
Authors: Han Lei , Yang Lei
Published: September 2021

With the large-scale genome-wide sequencing, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been found to compose of a large portion of the human transcriptome. Recent studies demonstrated the multidimensional functions of lncRNAs in heart development and disease. The subcellular localization of lncRNA is considered as a key factor that determines lncRNA function. Cytosolic lncRNAs mainly regulate mRNA stability, mRNA translation, miRNA processing and function, whereas nuclear lncRNAs epigenetically regulate chromatin remodeling, structure, and gene transcription. In this review, we summarize the molecular mechanisms of cytosolic and nuclear lncRNAs in heart development and disease separately, and emphasize the recent progress to dictate the crosstalk of cytosolic and nuclear lncRNAs in orchestrating the same biological process. Given the low evolutionary conservation of most lncRNAs, deeper understanding of human lncRNA will uncover a new layer of human regulatory mechanism underlying heart development and disease, and benefit the future clinical treatment for human heart disease.