bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Obituario. Mario Arrubla Yepes
Authors: Jaramillo Restrepo Sandra
Published: June 2021

El 7 de diciembre de 2020, cuando finalizaba el primer año de la pandemia, falleció Mario Arrubla Yepes en Goshen, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos. Intelectual, escritor y editor de relevancia nacional, Arrubla fue ampliamente influyente en la generación que desde la década de 1960 hacía foco en el cambio social y debatía sobre las vías “revolucionarias o reformistas” y sus más polisémicos contenidos.

Nacido en Medellín el 14 de mayo de 1936, Arrubla provenía de una familia antioqueña trabajadora que había hecho parte del proceso de transición del campo a la incipiente urbe a inicios del siglo XX. Desarrolló una atracción temprana por los libros, haciendo de la lectura y la escritura prácticas cotidianas. Hizo sus estudios primarios en la Escuela Alfonso López del barrio Manrique y para la secundaria pasó al Liceo de la Universidad de Antioquia, retirándose en tercer año de bachillerato (1952) en pro de emprender una formación intelectual autónoma junto con otro intelectual antioqueño: Estanislao Zuleta (1935-1990). Durante varios años este fue su colega y amigo con quien compartió la formación intelectual y la práctica política iniciales. Al momento del retiro de la escuela, la poesía y la literatura moderna fueron objeto de atención. Tiempo después, ambos se ocuparon del existencialismo, el marxismo y el psicoanálisis.
Edición y frustración. El fracaso de la colección Poetas Hispano-Americanos y los límites del comercio de librería en América Latina a fines del siglo XIX
Authors: Murillo Sandoval Juan David
Published: June 2021

Objetivo: este artículo analiza el inicio, desarrollo y fracaso de la colección Poetas Hispano-Americanos, un ambicioso proyecto editorial concebido por el librero colombiano Lázaro María Pérez en 1887. A pesar de contar con el establecimiento mejor surtido y conectado de su época, el lento y dificultoso avance de este proyecto, del que logró publicar apenas un tomo, permite examinar los problemas que debían encarar los editores suramericanos para trabajar a escala continental, así como la relación no estricta entre una red de contactos transnacional y el éxito comercial. Metodología: las cartas del archivo familiar de Pérez, que revelan sus intercambios internacionales, así como su correspondencia con el bibliotecario peruano Ricardo Palma, permiten reconstruir tanto el empuje inicial del proyecto, como su estancamiento, y constituyen fuentes de relevancia para analizar las prácticas intelectuales y editoriales del librero. Originalidad: al igual que ocurre con otros itinerarios de su tipo, el de Lázaro María Pérez resulta desconocido, por lo que su reconstrucción y el análisis de este megaproyecto editorial resultan claves para examinar las dinámicas del comercio del libro en Colombia y los dominios y horizontes de sus representantes para finales del siglo XIX. Conclusiones: desde las orillas de la historia transnacional del libro, el artículo subraya, por un lado, las capacidades de Pérez como librero y editor, gracias a las cuales pudo convertirse, al menos temporalmente, en un agente del libro clave en el espacio cultural latinoamericano, y por otro, enfatiza la necesidad de atender las conexiones como elementos significativos en la construcción del mercado del libro continental, pero asimismo como mediadoras no necesariamente efectivas.
Three new records of fern species (Polypodiopsida) in Senegal, from Dindefelo Falls, Kedougou region
Authors: Mingou Paterne Arnaud Bernard , Gueye Mathieu , Abotsi Komla Elikplim , Bayet Theophile , Cambier Christophe , Rouhan Germinal
Published: June 2021

Blotiella currorii (Hook.) R.M.Tryon. (Dennstaedtiaceae), Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.F.) Underw. (Gleicheniaceae), and Aleuritopteris farinosa (Forssk.) Fée (Pteridaceae) are reported for the first time in the flora of Senegal. They represent not only three more species but also two new families, Dennstaedtiaceae and Gleicheniaceae, for Senegal. Data on species, morphology, taxonomy, ecology, and geographic distribution are included. These three species were found in the interstices of the cliff of the 100-m Dindefelo Falls, which is in Kedougou region.
TÜRKİYE’DE FAİZ ORANI İLE DÖVİZ KURU İLİŞKİSİNİN ANALİZİ (2003-2020)
Authors: KÜÇÜK Eda , DERELİ Deniz Dilara
Published: June 2021

Ekonomilerde faiz oranı ve döviz kuru makroekonomik istikrar açısından iki önemli unsur olarak öne çıkmaktadır. Bu sebeple döviz kuru ve faiz oranı arasındaki etkileşimin ekonomi politikalarının düzenlemesinde dikkate alınması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmada Türkiye’de 2003-2020 döneminde döviz kuru ve faiz oranı arasındaki nedensellik ve eşbütünleşme ilişkisi incelenmiş ve uzun dönemde karşılıklı ilişki tespit edilmiştir.
BLACK WHEAT BRAN AS A PROMISING SOURCE OF FOOD FIBRES WITH AN EXPANDED SPECTRUM OF FUNCTIONALITIES
Authors: Cherno N. , Gural L. , Naidonov O.
Published: June 2021

Modern requirements of nutritiology determine the enrichment of a person’s daily diet with food fibres. Dietary supplements and cereal-based ingredients are widely used to achieve this goal. Wheat as a food crop traditionally occupies a leading position in food production. Currently, new varieties of wheat with colored grains are being given increasing attention as a source of high-activity phytochemical compounds, which can initiate a positive synergistic physiological effect in the complex. The black-grain wheat of the domestic variety "Chornobrova" belongs to the functional species among the new valuable colored varieties of wheat. It contains an increased amount of biologically active components concentrated in the husk and germ of the grain. At grain processing plants by-products are formed in the production of flour and cereals, among which the hard shells of grain release in the form of bran, that have a rich source of dietary fibres. The paper describes the breaking bran and grinding bran of black-grained wheat "Chornobrova". They contain up to 78.0% of polysaccharides, among which hemicelluloses and cellulose predominate. Both types of black wheat bran are protein-rich (13.0-15.3%), and the crude fat content does not exceed 2.1%. The non-hydrolyzed residue, represented primarily by lignin, reaches 3.8%. Bran is rich in phenolic compounds – powerful antioxidants with the mass fraction 310.0 mg/100 g. Both types of bran have a water retention and sorption capacity towards toxicants (phenol, Pb2+), cholic acid, methylene blue. As a result of acid treatment of bran, dietary fibre concentrates were obtained, in which non-starch polysaccharides predominate. They are characterized by modified physicochemical properties, namely improved water holding capacity, sorption activity against Pb2+, not inferior to bran in terms of the ability to bind cholic acids and methylene blue. "Chornobrova" wheat bran and dietary fibre concentrates are highly active enterosorbents with antioxidant activity, which can be considered as dietary supplements and food ingredients that should be included in recipes in the development of new functional foods.
DEVELOPMENT OF A RECIPE FOR CRUSTILIANS WITH HIGH NUTRITIONAL VALUE
Authors: Telezhenko L. , Napadovska M. , Pasternak T.
Published: June 2021

One of the most important problems of the population's nutrition is the high caloric content of flour confectionery products, due to their oversaturation with carbohydrate and fat components. This trend leads to micronutrient deficiencies, and later to metabolic problems and deteriorating health. In recent years, there has been an expansion of the range of waffles, improving technology through the wider introduction of various ingredients of plant origin. Crustilian is a crunchy product or component of a dish that has a crispy texture (waffles, cereal breads) or a surface (a crust of bread or potato balls with a fried crust). Crustilian is also used as a layer for cakes or desserts, which usually consists of waffle crumbs, chopped nuts and melted dark chocolate. There are still many variations for making crustilians. The range of applications of crustilian in the manufacture of sweet dishes is extremely wide. The nutritional value of crustilians is determined by the composition of raw materials and can be significantly increased due to the rational selection of components, the introduction of enrichments in the recipe, as well as technological processing, which increases their digestibility. Improving the technology of crucifers waffles by increasing their nutrient density will expand the range of products with functional ingredients, and enrichment of the micronutrient composition due to valuable plant raw materials will improve the nutritional value and organoleptic characteristics of the finished product. A line of crustilians with a high content of biologically active compounds has been developed due to the introduction of superfoods such as flax seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower and walnuts and peanuts into the product formulation. It is established that the use of peanuts and walnuts, in the composition, makes the dough less crispy and more fatty. The presence of flax and sesame does not reduce the crunchiness of the finished product, which is characteristic of crustilians, but, on the contrary, slightly increases this figure. It is proved that the index of nutritional density of crustilian made according to the developed recipe in comparison with the prototype is characterized by an increase in the index of nutritional density in three times, while the mass fraction of the macronutrients increases from 1.26 to 2.5 times, depending on the micronutrient. increases only 1.1 times.
Distance technologies in teaching Russian as a foreign language at the present stage of development of foreign language education
Authors: Makhaeva Roza
Published: June 2021

The transmission of information is one of the most accessible common phenomena in the modern world. For the convenient dissemination of scientific knowledge, it is enough to use the virtual environment of the Internet. Technologies of the present time make it possible to freely use the computer and the web space for learning at any level, either at a school or university. Open access to learning is essential for today's society, which strives to meet the growing demand for education, regardless of location of educational process. Distance learning technologies make it possible to reach large groups of people in remote areas of the country, people with different forms of disabilities and those who, for whatever reason, are not able to study in person.
Teaching foreign languages, in particular Russian as a foreign language, today takes place with the help of modern programs that facilitate classes in direct interaction with the teacher or independently. Therefore, when building a model of teaching Russian as a foreign language using distance technologies, it is very important to create an educational language environment that includes teaching materials, a set of tasks, the organization of student communication not only in asynchronous, but also in synchronous, including voice, modes. The article discusses the use of distance platforms for learning foreign languages, highlights the functions of a teacher in organizing the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language using distance technologies.
The article proposed by the author reflects the work of the founders of the theory of distance learning in Russian as a foreign language E.G. Azimova, L.A. Dunaeva, O.I. Rudenko-Morgun, A.N. Bogomolov. The author of the article defines the criteria for the selection of linguodidactic materials using distance technologies and the specifics of the task system. The research carried out within the framework of this article allows us to conclude that distance learning should not and cannot replace traditional education. The use of distance technologies can increase the motivation of students to learn, their responsibility, the level of self-realization, as well as form communication skills and cultural competence.
Manipulating interword and interletter spacing in cursive script: An eye movements investigation of reading Persian
Authors: Hermena Ehab W.
Published: June 2021

Persian is an Indo-Iranian language that features a derivation of Arabic cursive script, where most letters within words are connectable to adjacent letters with ligatures. Two experiments are reported where the properties of Persian script were utilized to investigate the effects of reducing interword spacing and increasing the interletter distance (ligature) within a word. Experiment 1 revealed that decreasing interword spacing while extending interletter ligature by the same amount was detrimental to reading speed. Experiment 2 largely replicated these findings. The experiments show that providing the readers with inaccurate word boundary information is detrimental to reading rate. This was achieved by reducing the interword space that follows letters that do not connect to the next letter in Experiment 1, and replacing the interword space with ligature that connected the words in Experiment 2. In both experiments, readers were able to comprehend the text read, despite the considerable costs to reading rates in the experimental conditions.
Between Zurich and Romania: A Dada Exchange
Authors: Miholca Amelia
Published: June 2021

In 1916, a group of ambitious artists set out to dismantle traditional art and its accompanied bourgeois culture. Living in Zurich, these artists—among them the Romanians Marcel Janco and Tristan Tzara, and the Germans Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball—formulated the new Dada movement that would awaken new artistic and literary forms through a fusion of sound, theater, and abstract art. With absurd performances at Cabaret Voltaire, they mocked rationality, morality, and beauty. Within the Dada movement in Zurich, I would like to focus on the artists whose Romanian and Jewish heritage played a central role in Cabaret Voltaire and other Dada related events. Art historical scholarship on Dada minimized this heritage in order to situate Dada within the Western avant-garde canon. However, I argue that the five young Romanians who were present on the first night of Cabaret Voltaire on February 5, 1916 brought with them from their home country certain Jewish and Romanian folk traditions, which helped form Dada’s acclaimed reputation. The five Romanians—Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and his brothers Georges Janco and Jules Janco, and Arthur Segal—moved to Zurich either to escape military conscription or to continue their college studies. By the start of the twentieth-century, Romania’s intellectual scene was already a transcultural venture, with writers and artists studying and exhibiting in countries like France and Germany. Yet, Zurich’s international climate of émigrés from all over Europe allowed the young Romanians to fully expand beyond nationalistic confines and collaborate together with other exiled intellectuals. Tom Sandqvist’s book Dada East from 2007 is the most recent and most comprehensive study of the Romanian aspect of Dada. Sandqvist traces Janco’s and Tzara’s prolific, pre-Dada time in Bucharest, along with the folk and Jewish sources that Sandqvist claims influenced their Dada performances. For instance, Tzara’s simultaneous poems, which he performed at Cabaret Voltaire, may derive from nineteenth century Jewish theater in Romania and from Hasidic song rituals. Moreover, the Dada performances with grotesque masks created by Janco relate to the colinde festival in Romania’s peasant folk culture. In my paper, I aim to analyze Sandqvist’s claim and answer the following questions: to what extent did Janco and Tzara incorporate the colinde festival and Jewish theater and ritual? Was their Jewish identity more important to them than their Romanian identity? And, lastly, how did they carry Dada back to Romania after the war ended and the Dadaists in Zurich moved on to other cities?
News Narratives across Borders: The Convergence of Interests and Patterns of Meaning in International Media Coverage of Disaster
Authors: Matthews Jamie
Published: June 2021

Shared narratives emerge across transnational news, circulating meaning and contributing to how publics process and make sense of significant issues and events (Cottle, 2014; Pantti, Wahl-Jorgensen, Cottle, 2012). These narratives are also reflected in the spaces made possible by digital communication technologies, including social media, and the through the formation of transnational discursive communities. Disasters, or at least those that meet the criteria of proximity for Western media (Benthall, 1993; Gans, 1980), are exemplars of such global media events, where analogous narratives or frames are rendered in media coverage across national borders. The evidence from studies of national media, however, suggests that journalistic narratives to disaster tend to reinforce a discourse of difference between spectators and sufferers through the representations of those communities and societies affected by disaster (Bankoff, 2011; Joye, 2009). This chapter considers how difference is reinforced in transnational news narratives of disaster through the circulation of cultural stereotypes, arguing that the prominence of stereotypes are a consequence of the processes of domestication that shape the characteristics of news and the dominant news flows in the global media system. More specifically, that to enable accounts to resonate with audiences, news is often packaged and adapted to a national context (Gurevitch, Levy and Roeh, 1992), which can be achieved by using familiar images of different societies and cultures to provide a link for audiences when covering distant events (Tanikawa, 2017). At the same time, as news and information becomes increasingly deterritorialised the overlaying of cultural frames to inform and explain a disaster in one national context may evolve across media coverage in others, contributing to the development of shared narratives to a single event. This is facilitated, for example, by the flow of information from news agencies and international news organisations, in particular those emanating from the core (the West) to the periphery (Wu, 2003). To elucidate these mediation processes across borders, the chapter will draw on one recent case study of disaster journalism to consider how essentialist notions of Japanese culture emerged as a unified narrative across international news coverage of the tripartite disaster of March 2011, reflecting its position as a dominant Western discourse on Japan.
Self-Translation in Transcultural Mode: Francesca Duranti on how to Put ‘a Scent of Basil’ into One’s Translations
Authors: Dagnino Arianna
Published: June 2021

“Who but he... had ever felt what these words expressed?–these words that thundered and howled through his mind translating himself to himself, with such appalling fitness” (Amélie Louise Rives) Francesca Duranti is a creative writer who grew up with several languages and spent much time abroad. Her mother tongue is German but she writes mainly in Italian and translates mostly from French and English. Her particular transcultural sensibility runs through her body of work but is mostly manifest in her novel Sogni mancini (1996), the story of an Italian academic woman living in New York obsessed with the idea of finding a way to get rid of fixed identities and monological perspectives. Subsequently, Duranti decided to self-translate this novel into English, publishing it with the title Left-handed Dreams (2000). What were her reasons for self- translating this book, what self-translation strategies did she adopt, what did she gain and what did she lose in the process of mediating between two cultures and how did readers receive her target text? In this in-depth interview with Arianna Dagnino, Duranti reveals to what extent her acquired transcultural identity affected not only her way of writing but also of self-translating. As a coda to the interview and in light of what emerges from the writer’s answers, Dagnino analyzes Duranti’s self-translation, looking for those elements that mostly reveal the transcultural identity of a writer who decided to translate herself to herself. The article includes introductory paragraphs on the theory of the transcultural and transcultural identities (Dagnino 2015, Epstein 2009, Welsch 2009) as well as on the most recent studies in the field of literary self-translation (Grosjean 2010, Grutman 2016, Saidero 2011).
Established and Alternative Literary Criticism: A Study of Marguerite Duras’s Works Reviewed in Sweden
Authors: Aronsson Mattias
Published: June 2021

The article examines recent reviews of Marguerite Duras’s works in Sweden. A corpus of reviews published in the Swedish press has been collected (here called “established criticism”), and this material is compared to and contrasted with reviews published on the Internet, on personal blogs and homepages (in the study labelled as “non-established criticism”). The non-established literary criticism published on the Internet represents a somewhat new phenomenon, insomuch as it constitutes a parallel to the traditional reviews published in the “old” press – such as printed daily newspapers, literary magazines, etc. It also presents the interpretations and opinions of “ordinary” readers, and by that I refer to people who do not occupy a position of power in the field of cultural production. This category of readers did not have access to the literary debate before the democratization of information and communication technology, i.e., personal computers with high-performance Internet connection, smartphones, IPads, etc. In that respect, reviews written and published by non- established critics represent a new facet of literary criticism. Recent studies show the importance of opinions expressed by bloggers in the modern economy, where the “e-commerce” phenomenon has been soaring for quite some years. Hence, all publishing houses today must keep an eye not only on what the established critics in the old media have to say about the products, but they must also be increasingly aware of the opinions expressed by amateur critics in the blogosphere. The narratives studied in this article have crossed several borders. First, Marguerite Duras’s works have been translated from French to Swedish, which means that the texts have been transformed to fit a new linguistic and cultural context. Secondly, the examined corpus does not only come from established critics, but it also contains reviews that originate from the less explored territory of the blogosphere. The study is inspired by concepts such as convergence culture and participatory culture, popularized by media researcher Henry Jenkins, among other scholars. In a culture where old and new media tend to converge, the consumer of literature (and other products) has the opportunity to be an active participant in the construction of meaning and value – for instance by publishing literary reviews on the Internet. Thus, the notion of prosumer (neologism created by merging “producer” with “consumer”) is used with reference to this somewhat new actor in the world of commerce – and, indeed, in the world of reader-response research.
Acesso à Informação e a Saúde: Uma Análise do Site da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo
Authors: Hernandez Fernandes Raquel Helena , Arena Ventura Carla Aparecida
Published: June 2021

O acesso à informação é importante aliado da garantia do direito à saúde e, hoje, a internet é canal direto de contato entre Estado e população. Nesse sentido, o presente artigo apresenta como objetivo identificar os documentos, legislações e informações disponibilizados pela Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo no ano de 2017. Como resultado, observou-se que estão disponíveis cartilhas e informações sobre algumas doenças e respectivos tratamentos, serviços de saúde disponíveis nos territórios, atos normativos e a Carta dos Direitos dos Usuários do SUS, o que traz uma visão de saúde mais restrita ao tratamento. Considerando que é importante refletir sobre como se pode ir além dos documentos, sugere-se uma apresentação mais sistematizada dos tipos de serviços de saúde oferecidos, mencionando-se as redes de apoio existentes e a importância da participação da comunidade na elaboração de políticas de saúde.
FLORISTIC COMPOSITION AND FREQUENCY INDEX OF SPECIES OF HERBAL COVER UNDER THE TREE CANOPY OF 30-YEARS SPRUCE CULTURES IN THE MIDDLE URALS
Authors:   Botanical Garden Ural Branch of RAS, Terekhov G. G. , Andreeva E. M. ,   Botanical Garden Ural Branch of RAS, Stetsenko S. K. ,   Botanical Garden Ural Branch of RAS
Published: June 2021

The results of studies of the species composition of the grass cover with a tree canopy density of 0.3 - 0.7 in areas of 30-year-old spruce cultures planted in the types of herbs and green mosses spruce forest and berry spruce-pine forest were given. The materials of study showed that the species composition was more numerous in the first type of forest, 91 species of the vascular herbaceous plants belonging to 34 families, 72 genera were noted; in the second type of forest – 63 species belonging to 32 families and 57 genera. The species of the herbaceous plants of rather small frequency (their shares were 70 and 57%) prevailed. At the same time, in both types of forests 42 species of the same herbaceous plants were found. The majority of the studied herbaceous plants in both types of forests were mesophytes (77 and 95%), the proportion of hygrophytes was higher in the spruce forest of herbs and green mosses. Of the total number of species noted in these types of forests, 85 species were medicinal and 4 species were rare for the Sverd-lovsk region.
MODERN BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITEFISH COREGONUS LAVARETUS, EUROPEAN VENDACE C. ALBULA AND EUROPEAN SMELT OSMERUS EPERLANUS FROM THE IMANDRA LAKE
Authors:   Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems of KSC RAS, Zubova E. M. , Kashulin N. A. ,   Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems of KSC RAS, Terentyev P. M. ,   Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems of KSC RAS
Published: June 2021

The modern biological characteristics of numerous fish species from the Imandra Lake reaches – white-fish, european vendace and european smelt was investigated. It was shown that under the conditions of the ongoing negative change in the hydrological and hydrochemical regimes of the lake over the past 20 years, there have been multidirectional changes in the population’s structures of these species. If in short-cycle species (smelt, vendace) there is a positive dynamics of a number of indicators, then in whitefish these changes are negative. Euryphagia of smelt from the Imandra Lake, including the transition to preda-tion when reaching a length of 150 mm, combined with an effective breeding strategy and the virtual ab-sence of a predator press, provide him high numbers and successful competition with other species.
FEATURES SEED REPRODUCTION OF HEDYSARUM GRANDIFLORUM PALL. EX SITU AND IN VITRO
Authors:   Volgograd Regional Botanical Garden, Suprun N. A. , Malaeva E. V. ,   Volgograd Regional Botanical Garden, Shumikhin S. A. ,   Perm State University
Published: June 2021

Hedysarum grandiflorum samples were collected from 7 natural populations of the Volgograd, Samara and Lugansk People's Republic and the features of seed reproduction were studied under ex situ and in vitro conditions. The optimal temperature for seed germination and the dependence of germination and seed vigor on the storage were revealed. We observed the maximum germination rate in the scarified seeds of H. grandiflorum of 2018 collection and it was equal to 70%.It was found that the seed germina-tion and seed vigor are low and quickly decrease with years of storage, while their scarification allows to increase these indicators. It is noted that the relatively low germination of the studied seeds is leveled by the rather high productivity of species in general. The optimal mode of sterilization of H. grandiflorum seeds was experimentally determined - 10% Lysofornin® 3000 solution for 5 minutes. The percentage of sterile seedlings was 60%.
INFLUENCE OF SELECTIVE SUBSTRATE ON POLYCHLOROBIPHENYL-DEGRADATIVE ACTIVITY OF AEROBIC SOIL BACTERIAL ASSOCIATIONS
Authors:   Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms of the Ural Branch RAS, Egorova D. O. , Pervova M. G. ,   Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis of the Ural Branch RAS, Demakov V. A. ,   Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms of the Ural Branch RAS
Published: June 2021

As a result of enrichment cultivation using ortho-phthalate, naphthalene or biphenyl as a selective factor, six aerobic bacterial associations were obtained. It was found that all associations, having reached a sta-ble composition, actively grow on a selective substrate. However, associations, isolated using ortho-phthalate as a selective factor, do not have the ability to use biphenyl as a carbon source. Associations R24, R63, R26 and R62 grow effectively in a mineral medoum with biphenyl, and also decompose com-mercial PCB mixtures by the classical pathway of biphenyl oxidation. The level of destruction of Trihlo-robiphenyl by these associations was 99.7 - 99.8%, and for Sovol - 99.6 - 99.8% in 8 days. At the same time, there was no significant difference in biodegradation indices between the R24 and R63 associations selected on biphenyl and the R26 and R62 associations isolated on naphthalene.
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS AND THEIR EFFECT ON RESOURCE USE BY FEMALE SINCELLA LATERALIS
Authors: Myers Laura , Paulissen Mark
Published: June 2021

Studies of aggression and space use are essential to understanding resource use by reptiles, particularly lizards. Research in this area, however, exhibits bias in that the seminal work has been done on (1) species that are highly visible in their habitats (e.g. Iguanians); and (2) males. Studies of secretive species such as skinks and of females are less common. Here, we present results of a lab study of dyadic encounters of adult females of a common North American skink: Scincella lateralis (Little Brown Skink), and compare them to results obtained from an earlier study of adult males of the same species. Female S. lateralis never interacted unless they were within one body length of each other. The most common behavior exhibited was avoidance of one lizard (the subordinate) away from the other lizard (the dominant). As a result, the two lizards spent more time apart than close together and rarely shared the retreat. The larger of the two females was dominant in 9 of 10 trials. Compared to adult males, adult females showed far fewer aggressive behaviors such as lunging or chasing, and never bit each other. Unlike males, however, subordinate female S. lateralis exhibited tail twitching significantly more often than did dominants, suggesting this behavior may be a social signal for females, though the data suggest there may be other possible functions. Despite differences in the frequency of behaviors exhibited, patterns of space use and retreat use were the same in females as they were in males.
AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF E-GOVERNMENT ADOPTION IN RUSSIA: ACCESS, RIGHTS, TRUST AND CITIZENS’ EXPERIENCE
Authors:   National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation, Sergey A. Revyakin , Alvaro da Rocha ,   University of Coimbra (Portugal) and University of Lisbon
Published: June 2021

The problem of low usage of e-government solutions is common in many emerging countries. Is Russia experiencing the same issue? Are there sufficient conditions to grow the usage of e-government solutions (internet penetration rate, rights for the citizens to approach the government remotely, trust in government, computer skills and usage perception, etc.)? Do the use rates for public e-services portals and e-participation platforms equal one another? Based on scholarly articles, analytical reports, laws, regulations, and the results of citizens’ surveys, the research considers some factors that influence e-government implementation in Russia. The findings highlighted that the penetration of the Internet in Russia is high and that citizens have the right to approach the government remotely and trust the government. The survey demonstrated that the users believe they have enough knowledge and skills for using public e-services portals and e-participation platforms. At the same time, within the same institutional framework, the level of use of public e-services was still low in 2018 (29% of the respondents), and it was even lower for e-participation platforms (17% of the respondents). This observation suggests that the nature of e-government solutions (whether it is a public e-service portal or e-participation platform) should be considered when governments are developing roll-out programs.
ARTIC-NEB: SARS-CoV-2 Library Prep v4
Authors: Mwakibete Lusajo , Tato Cristina , Ahyong Vida , Kistler Amy , Vanaerschot Manu , M Detweiler Angela , Tan Michelle
Published: June 2021

This experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of fragmentation time on the genome recovery of SARS-COV2 from COVID-19 positive patient samples using an iSeq. The experiment uses the ARTIC protocol to attain the amplicon from the extracted RNA, followed by FS DNA Library Prep Kit to make the amplicon library. We investigated the fragmentation time at the beginning of the FS DNA library prep. Fragmentation time of 5 minutes gave the best genome coverage having the least dropout regions. The ARTIC protocol was adapted from Josh Quick 2020.nCoV-2019 sequencing protocol.io
Antioxidant activity by Deoxyribose assay: in vitroprotocol v1
Authors: Sachett Adrieli , Gallas-Lopes Matheus , M M Conterato Greicy , P Herrmann Ana , Piato Angelo
Published: June 2021

Considering the role of oxidative stress in the pathology of several diseases and the use of antioxidants as treatment and/or adjuvants in these conditions. Here we propose a protocol to evaluate the antioxidant capacity of different compounds by the TBARS method in vitro through the ability to inhibit the synthesis of hydroxyl radical from the oxidation of deoxyribose by hydrogen peroxide H2O2 via Fenton reaction. This protocol was standardized at LAPCOM (Psychopharmacology and Behavior Laboratory at UFRGS) to assess biochemical parameters in vitro.
Antioxidant activity by FRAP assay: in vitro protocol v1
Authors: Sachett Adrieli , Gallas-Lopes Matheus , M M Conterato Greicy , P Herrmann Ana , Piato Angelo
Published: June 2021

Considering the role of oxidative stress in the pathology of several diseases and the use of antioxidants as treatment and/or adjuvants in these conditions. Here we propose a protocol to evaluate the antioxidant capacity of compounds by the FRAP method, which is based on the reduction of Fe3+ (ferric) to Fe2+ (ferrous) by antioxidant molecules forming the blue-colored Fe2++ TPTZ complex. This protocol was standardized at LAPCOM (Psychopharmacology and Behavior Laboratory at UFRGS) to assess biochemical parameters in vitro.
Restrictions of Private Property Right in Terms of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Experience of the US, UK and Ukraine
Authors: Nekit Kateryna
Published: June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on human rights. Many rights have been restricted to prevent the spread of infection. The restrictions on private property rights during the pandemic were not so obvious, but no less significant. The massive closure of restaurants, cafes, cinemas and other crowded places has resulted in significant losses for business owners. The question arose about the admissibility of such restrictions on the rights of owners, as well as the need to compensate for the losses caused. The purpose of this article is to study the criteria developed by international practice under which the restriction of property rights is allowed, and approaches to resolving issues of compensation for losses caused to owners when it is necessary to ensure a balance of private and public interests in Ukraine. The article also analyzes approaches to resolving issues of compensation for losses caused to owners as a result of restrictions on their rights, developed in the case law of the United States and Great Britain.
ALROSA’s hydrogeological services: Current problems and future considerations
Authors: Yannikov A. M. , Korepanov A. Yu. , Zyryanov I. V.
Published: June 2021

The Russian Federation is a leading diamond producer at the moment, and ALROSA is Russia’s largest diamond mining company. It operates a number of placers and primary deposits in the diamond-bearing provinces in Yakutia and in the Arkhangelsk Region. The challenges and economic problems currently facing the Company call for diverse managerial decisions, including optimization of production and enhancement of operating efficiency. The article gives a brief description of Company’s hydrogeological services and their transformations. The hydrogeological, geological and gas-dynamic conditions of operated deposits are assessed. Alternatives of optimized interaction between different structural divisions of the Company are proposed, and the promising activities aimed at safe mining and at expansion of theoretical framework for generation and implementation of technological innovations are identified. The proposed consolidation of high-skilled hydrogeologists can enable technological optimization at the preserved personnel resources and maximized competences. Hydrogeological supervision of mining operations from a united center can promote advancement of hydrogeology as a school at the Company, at the sustained and even increased potency. Further development of such promising hydrogeology research areas as Quaternary Hydrogeology, Structural Hydrogeology, Geochemistry of Groundwater in Different Physical States, etc. requires tight cooperation and contiguity between the Company and topranked research centers of the Russian Federation.
Justification of the required hold-down dependence on the length and angle of high-angle pressure belt conveyor
Authors: Sheshko E. E. , Pestrikov O. V.
Published: June 2021

High-capacity and high-angle pressure belt conveyors which come into use in open pit mines in Russia and in the post-Soviet space, as well as acknowledgment of their economic efficiency made large mineral mining companies interested in installation of such equipment. The related research and empirical data grow in number. However, conveyors currently operated in Russia and in the CIS countries are manufactured abroad. Both domestic and foreign technical literature lacks a commonly accepted design policy of the conveyors. Furthermore, most foreign-manufacture high-angle pressure belt conveyors have small angles and lengths. In the meanwhile, open pit mines in Russia need long high-capacity and high-angle conveyors. Many aspects of justification of high-angel conveyor parameters are sufficiently elucidated in technical literature. The estimate of the hold-down and its dependence on the angle and length of a conveyor is yet deficiently studied. The value of the hold-down has a direct influence on the conveyor characteristics, including resistance to motion and engine power requirements. Accordingly, this article analyzes the influence exerted by the angle and length of a conveyor on the hold-down. The stress state of the load on the belt of the high-angle conveyor is analyzed, and the required holddown is evaluated with respect to the conveyor capacity, angle and length. It is known that hold-down governs loading of the load-carrying branch, which affects its service life. The analysis shows that 30 % of down-time of high-angle conveyors in the world is caused by failures of the load-carrying branch. The relations are proposed for determining the required linear hold-down versus the length of a conveyor to ensure sliding of cargo layers relative to each other and relative to the belt along the longitudinal axis of the conveyor. The recommendations on hold-down distribution along the conveyor to slacken the hold-down influence on the resistance to motion and on the engine power are proposed.
Industry sector role in the Brazilian GDP and Exportation Share
Authors: Oliveira Henrique Friedrich de , Lengyel Peter
Published: June 2021

With the advent of more complex technologies, a new industrial revolution has approached, which leads to changes in several processes and the industrial sector might have a crucial role in the present days since the advanced products the society uses are all manufactured and need well develop industrial plants to be produced. At the same time during the last 20 years, the world experienced the economical emergence of new countries, and among them one was Brazil. The current essay intends to investigate the powers behind the Brazilian growth during this period, dividing the GDP composition and comparing it with other similar countries. The focus will be the manufacturing sector’s role in the Brazilian economy, and whether the country is walking towards the modern advancements in society.
Sex Differences in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Short Literature Review
Authors: Ositkovska Oleksandra , Bayer Oхana
Published: June 2021

The review of the latest foreign literature on the issue of sex differences in ADHD carriers is presented. The analysis of theories on the causes of the prevalence of the disorder among boys and girls is presented, and minor sex differences are highlighted. Therefore, ADHD is more common among boys than among girls, which leads to arguments about the difference valid in the prevalence of the disorder among men and women. Also, many researchers have noticed certain differences in the symptoms and behaviour of girls compared to boys, both in childhood and adulthood.
Boys and girls with ADHD appear to be more similar than different, and usually the symptoms are not sex specific, but still there is a difference. In general, these differences are manifested in the fact that girls have problems with the emotional sphere and the predominant inattentive symptoms of ADHD, while boys have problems with the behavioural sphere and the predominant impulsive and hyperactive type of ADHD. Moreover, boys are more aggressive in behaviour than girls, although girls are more likely to manifest verbal aggression than their female peers, who do not have the disorder.
It has been found that the difference in the prevalence of the disorder among males and females can be described by the Cognitive Endophenotype Theory, which assumes the influence of generally accepted endophenotypes on the severity of ADHD, that means processing speed, inhibition and working memory. This theory does not preclude theories such as the Mean Difference Model and the Variance Difference Model, which state that men on the average have more severe symptoms than women, and thus the scale of the severity of the ADHD among boys is much wider than among women.
Contextualización cultural de la petaca novohispana conservada en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid
Authors: Granados Ortega María Ángeles
Published: June 2021

Abordamos el examen de las características materiales, funcionales y artísticas de una petaca novohispana expuesta en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid, España). Maleta utilizada para guardar pertenencias valiosas y trasladarlas en el camino, representa las nuevas formas adquiridas por la cultura material novohispana cuando confluyeron los usos y gustos generados por el intercambio de bienes e ideas a través de las rutas marítimas que conectaron los territorios americanos, asiáticos y europeos pertenecientes en los siglos XVI y XVII a la monarquía hispánica. El valor transcultural de este objeto ha cobrado relevancia al ser comparado su piteado con el bordado de una colcha confeccionada en India, producto del mismo intercambio global, conservada en el mismo museo. Planteamos además la posible relación de algunas petacas novohispanas con el ajuar nupcial femenino.
Madrid-Mallorca-Barcelona. Furniture for a Royal Union
Authors: Sánchez Casado Antonio
Published: June 2021

In 1802 the heir to the Spanish crown and his sister María Isabel married their cousins, the prince of Naples and Sicily and his sister María Antonia. Being the wedding in Barcelona, the court had to move there, with the logistical problem that this represented. Part of the magnificent furniture that was made for the occasion in Madrid is largely known. However, some years ago I brought to light some furniture designs that seemed to have been made in Mallorca for this event and I was able to identify with some furniture from the royal collection. Fortunately, all the documentation related to this order has appeared and confirms many of the suggestive aspects of this unknown production system, confirming who commissioned it, why in Mallorca, what cabinetmaker, under what conditions, with what deadlines, for what price and even by what criteria some of them were rejected.
El mueble español entre España y América durante la primera mitad del siglo XX: Caminos de «ida y vuelta»
Authors: Pérez-Flecha González Javier
Published: June 2021

Se estudia en este artículo las razones y vías por las que el mueble español fue exportado y subastado en Nueva York para los coleccionistas y galerías que cumplían esta demanda y se dan ejemplos de ventas propiciadas por la galería French & Co. Además, se analiza el retorno del mercado del anticuariado español tras la guerra civil y la importancia que tuvo en ello el mueble importado de vuelta a España desde Estados Unidos.
Mobiliario novohispano con diseños geométricos: maderas, carey y hueso.
Authors: Díaz Cayeros Patricia
Published: June 2021

Dentro del amplio patrimonio de mobiliario novohispano que ha recibido escasa investigación se encuentran objetos de pequeño formato decorados con figuras geométricas y taracea de maderas, carey y hueso. Varias colecciones en México, Venezuela, España y Estados Unidos conservan ejemplares de este tipo, con materiales, técnicas de manufactura y diseños decorativos semejantes. En la historiografía del arte novohispano, este tipo de piezas suele ser vinculado con la ciudad de Puebla dentro de un grupo más amplio de mobiliario que no forzosamente emplea el hueso o el carey. Además, sigue siendo común que -por la técnica y decoración- se les inserte dentro de la problemática categoría del arte “mudéjar”. En la tradición historiográfica venezolana y española, en cambio, lo más común es que las pocas menciones existentes los considere de importación y provenientes de Campeche. Se presenta un estado de la cuestión, preguntas y vías de análisis para también repensar problemas históricos, teóricos y metodológicos respecto al estudio del mobiliario hispanoamericano.
Pandemi Döneminde İletişim Aracı Olarak Blog Kullanımı: Türkiye’de Müze Blogları Üzerine Bir İnceleme
Authors: Öztürk İlknur Doğu
Published: June 2021

Bilgi ve iletişim alanında özellikle teknoloji temelli web araçlarının yaygınlaşması, müzeler gibi ziyaretçi çekmeyi amaçlayan kurumların, kitlelerle etkileşimli iletişim kurmak ve fiziksel mekânları dışında sanal ortamda var olabilmek amaçlarıyla bu araçlardan yararlanmasına yol açmıştır. Pandemi gibi kitlesel boyuttaki sağlık krizi dönemleri, toplumsal mekân olan müzelerin dijital araçlarından yararlanma ihtiyaçlarını daha da arttırmıştır. Kişisel ya da kurumsal kullanıcıların yarattığı içeriği paylaşabildiği bloglar müzelerin yararlanabileceği dijital araçlar arasında yer almaktadır. İçerik oluşturmanın kolaylığıyla dikkat çeken ve güncelliği önemli olan bloglar, dünyanın önde gelen müzeleri tarafından kullanılmaktadır. Bu araştırma, pandemi döneminde Türkiye’de müzelerin iletişim aracı olarak blogları nasıl kullandığı sorusuna yanıt arama amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışma, blogların müzeler tarafından dijital iletişim aracı olarak etkileşimli ve katılım sağlamaya yönelik kullanım durumunu tespit etmesi ve öneriler getirmesi ile önemlidir. Nitel araştırma yaklaşımıyla içerik analizi tekniğinden yararlanılarak gerçekleştirilen bu çalışmada ilk olarak Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı’na bağlı 200 devlet müzesi ile 293 özel müzenin blog aracından yararlanma durumu tespit edilmiştir. Daha sonra blog kullandığı tespit edilen müzelerin türü, blog paylaşımlarının sıklığı ve güncelliği, paylaşım konuları ve temaları ile blog paylaşımlarının katılıma ve tartışmaya olanak vermesi incelenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda, Türkiye’de sınırlı sayıda müzenin iletişim aracı olarak blog kullandığı anlaşılmıştır. Bu kısıtlı kullanımın pandemi döneminde neredeyse tamamen ortadan kalktığı görülmüştür.