bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Structural Optimization of Long and Flexible Composite Cover with Topography Method and Examination of Frequency Values
Authors: KATMER Mehmet Can , AKKURT Adnan , KOCAKULAK Tolga
Published: February 2023

In this study, the finite element model of the long, thin, and flexible carbon fiber reinforced composite cover design prepared using the Unigraphics NX program CAD module was analyzed in ANSYS program. Topography optimization was performed by transferring the analysis results to the GENESIS program. The cover rib created after optimization was combined with the initial design, and necessary corrections were made in the design based on the topography guide. The rib design, created by conventional methods, weigh the same as the optimum design, is combined with of the initial design. Modal analysis of initial, conventional rib and optimum rib design was performed in ANSYS environment. When the findings were evaluated it was observed that the composite cover, which was remodeled after topography optimization, increased by 33.3% compared to the initial design, while its natural frequency (mode 2) increased approximately 1.6 times. In addition, the lowest moment of inertia value has been obtained in the cover design with optimum design geometry. Then, the conventional design, which has the same mass as the new design, was compared and it was revealed by the data that the new design was more resistant. According to the results obtained, the most suitable rib geometry to be preferred for this and similar types of long and flexible structures to have a more resistant structure has been determined.
Application of Risk Assessment Study at Petro-Processors of Louisiana, Inc. (PPI) Site
Authors: TUTAR ÖKSÜZ Seçil
Published: February 2023

Petro-Processors of Louisiana, Inc. (PPI) site, located North of the city of Baton Rouge Parish, used two sites as depositories for various petrochemical wastes from mainly the 1960s until the 1980s. The main problem was the potential for leachate migration and for exposure of toxic materials, which had been released into local waterways. Therefore, the site is considered a public health hazard area because of risks to human health from past, present, and future exposure to hazardous substances. This study focuses on investigating selected chlorinated organic liquids, which are the predominant contaminants among all wastes: Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and Hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) with possible health effects using a risk assessment study. The results show that even though the petrochemical waste disposal has completely shut down since1980, it will still take an average of the HCB and HCBD to reach the domestic well with groundwater is 68 years and 57 years, respectively via slow migration, which will increase the cancer risks for the people who live near PPI site. Our results indicated that the cancer risks of exposure to HCB and HCBD are 4.6x10-6 and 2.6x10-3, respectively, which are more than the 10-6 goal. In addition, this study can be used at similar sites and for different compounds to investigate the potential impacts of pollutants on human health.
Multilayer Flexible SU8-Gold Microelectrode Arrays for Wearable Bioelectronics
Authors: YAPICI Murat Kaya
Published: February 2023

Wearable health trackers for vital signs monitoring are becoming ever more important especially due to the global coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) caused by the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus which severely affect the respiratory system and can cause cardiac manifestations. Particularly, wearable solutions which can seamlessly monitor heart activity are critical to facilitate personal preventive and remote healthcare, as well as to allow early diagnosis of cardiac dysfunctions. A fundamental enabler of wearable bioelectronics is the sensing bioelectrode which is used to record surface biopotentials. While a plethora of attempts have been reported to realize skin-conformal dry electrodes and electronic skin patches, oftentimes a very critical aspect of the electrode i.e., the actual electrical interfacing of the wearable electrode to readout circuits without disturbing the skin-electrode contact, is overlooked. To address this issue, this paper reports a unique tri-layer, polymer-metal-polymer skin-conformal microelectrode design with sidewall metal coating to achieve vertical interconnect accesses (VIAs) and realize contact pads for external interfacing. The novel and optimized process flow reported herein allows repeatable fabrication of flexible electrodes in arrayed format with yields exceeding 90%. Functionality of the microfabricated electrodes were demonstrated by successful acquisition of the electrocardiogram in lead-I configuration with clear detection of the P-QRS-T complex.
Effects of Single and Combined Exposure to Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Cyfluthrin and Copper on Digestive Gland Histology of Lymnaea stagnalis
Authors: ARMAN Sezgi
Published: February 2023

Pyrethroid insecticides and heavy metals frequently co-exist in aquatic systems, due to intensive anthropogenic activities, and their effects on aquatic organisms are needed to be investigated. In the present work, single and combined effects of environmentally realistic concentrations of cyfluthrin and copper on the digestive gland histology of the freshwater pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis) were evaluated. Snails were exposed to 1 µg/L cyfluthrin, 10 µg/L copper, and 1 µg/L cyfluthrin + 10 µg/L copper mixture for 96 h. Cyfluthrin-exposed samples showed apparent vacuolization, basal lamina separations, and disrupted digestive cells. Exposure to copper alone gave rise to enlargements of the tubule lumens and the intertubular area, degenerated tubules, atrophied basophilic cells, prominently disrupted and ruptured digestive cells, and nuclear enlargements in some basophilic cells. Cyfluthrin and copper mixture caused more severe histopathological changes in the digestive gland. General tissue appearance was altered by prominently degenerated, and fused tubules lacking cellular structure; tubule lumens filled with cellular content were noted. Increased intertubular regions were filled with connective tissue formations. Progressive disruption of digestive cells; and basophilic cell atrophy were also observed. The findings of the current study highlighted that cyfluthrin and copper at environmentally relevant concentrations caused a biological response in L. stagnalis; however, this response was more intense following their co-exposure.
Removal of Paracetamol by Powdered Activated Carbon Synthesized From Orange Peels
Authors: KONUK AKÇA İrem , KÖKLÜ Rabia
Published: February 2023

This study aims to investigate the removal of Paracetamol active ingredient from aqueous solutions with the use of powdered activated carbon obtained by ZnCl2 activation of orange peels. Equilibrium values of initial paracetamol concentration (100-500 mg L-1), pH (2-10), adsorbent dose (10-500 mg) and contact time (5-120 minutes) parameters in the removal of paracetamol from aqueous solutions are evaluated. The adsorption mechanism of paracetamol is explained with the kinetic models. The highest correlation among Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin, and Dubinin-Radushkevichi isotherms applied to experimental data was determined as Freundlich isotherm with R2 =0.95. Pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetic models were applied, and it was found that the latter, whose correlation coefficient is determined as R2 =0.99, is the best model to explain paracetamol adsorption. As a result of this study, it can be seen that powdered activated carbon synthesized from orange peel is an effective adsorbent in the removal of paracetamol and can be easily applied thanks to its low cost.
Building Regulations for North Eastern Region of India
Authors: Imsong Rongsentila , Kumar Ashwani
Published: February 2023

The age of urbanization has ushered in better connectivity and accessibility, opening up the North-Eastern Region to the rest of the world like never before. Consequently, the region has experienced an unprecedented population growth, urban development and an increase in tourist influx. This rapid urbanization has also brought with it several issues like poor living conditions, increased vulnerability to hazards and environmental degradation, which highlights the poor state of building regulations in these regions. Building regulations, while enforced to regulate the ever-increasing demand for development in hill towns, are yet to achieve any substantial impact on elevating the issues faced in the North Eastern cities, which calls into question the appropriateness of these regulations given the current context. This paper attempts to study the type of development occurring in the North Eastern Region and the issues faced to accommodate the growing population. It also presents an in-depth study of the state of existing building regulations in major hill towns of the region, and briefly discusses the possible strategies to revise the existing building regulations for achieving contextually appropriate development.
The Pandemic History Classroom: grouping or groping the digital divide
Authors: Karen H , Tinashe N
Published: February 2023

This article is concerned with the impact of Covid-19 on the higher education sector. It examines the impact of group work in the discipline ofhistory in remote university teaching and learning set in the context of Covid-19 imposed lockdowns in South Africa. When the pandemic broke out, few were prepared for its worst excesses in terms of lives lost impact on health facilities, economies and higher education. Lockdowns to limit the pandemic's spread were imposed in many countries worldwide, limiting in-person interaction, which affected various aspects of human contact, not least in university education. Taken away from campuses, universities in South Africa, as elsewhere, were forced not only to adapt to online teaching but to be inventive in the methods used to retain student participation and engagement. While technology was heralded as the solution to the global crisis in teaching, other concerns affect the well-being of students that also require attention. By using the research conducted with staff and students in history modules at one South African university, this article considers the pandemic classroom with its online and remote mode of instruction. It takes specific cognisance of what is lost due to this form of engagement in terms of isolation's psychological and emotional impact on students in the tertiary education sector. Within this context, it assesses whether the use of group work within a university environment and, in particular, the discipline of history, is a possible means to try and bridge this digital divide or if this option is merely a case of groping in the digital ditch.
Knowledge for the people: Understanding the complex heritage of colonial education in South Africa
Authors: Kallaway P
Published: February 2023

The decolonisation of education seems to require a clear understanding of the colonial education heritage in South Africa and an understanding of the emergent global trends that shaped policy and practice from the 19th century. This paper explores the origins of educational discourses and practices that emerged in England and formed the basis of colonial practices. It focuses on emergent policies aimed at educating the working classes in the industrial heartland, which came to influence the literate or scientific culture in the Cape during that time. It explores the hitherto neglected issue of the ideas and resources deployed in both contexts, with particular reference to printed materials that shaped that culture in the process of framing a secular and scientific culture in schools and popular culture of literacy amongst working-class people in the metropolis and African subject/ citizens in the colonial context. It also traces gradual attempts to introduce a culture of literacy which embraced the African language and culture. These educational developments related to children's schooling and the popular education of adults helped shape the state-controlled mass education system that emerged during the 20th century. This paper aims to begin an exploration of the complex dynamics of that process and open the way for further research on these neglected issues.
Teaching history in primary schools in Mauritius: Reflections on history teachers' pedagogical practices
Authors: Goburdhun S
Published: February 2023

Although post-independent Mauritius has witnessed the evolution of the history curriculum, the discipline has still not been accorded the status as in some countries in Europe and Africa. The evolution also marks change and continuity in the content of the history curriculum and how the teaching is transacted in classrooms. This paper informs on the current state of teaching history in primary schools in Mauritius. An interpretivist qualitative methodological approach was adopted to understand the pedagogical choices made by teachers in the implementation of the history curriculum in primary classrooms. Data was generated through classroom observations and interviews with 15 primary school history teachers. Findings reveal the need to draw on a range of knowledge to engage learners successfully in history classes. This range of knowledge they need to draw is extensive and complex. The study shows that teachers' knowledge base is crucial for effective history teaching in classrooms.
The Problem of Socioeconomic Differentiation of Space in the Aspect of Regional Neoliberal Policy
Authors:   Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Goncharova Kseniya S.
Published: February 2023

Based on the methods of qualitative retrospective and cause-and-effect analysis of the texts of scientific articles on the research topic published in the abstract databases of domestic and foreign researchers’ publications, the author infers that by now the neoliberal concept has become a global paradigm of the universal (economic, socio-demographic, cultural, ecological, etc.) development of most states of the world. The author determines that one of the key provisions of this concept is the deregulation of the resource allocation process (state noninterference in the economy), which in practice, in the process of implementing the state regional policy, led to a widespread increase in the socioeconomic differentiation of territories. The latter, in turn, contradicts the declared goals of global (in the documents of the UN, the World Bank, and other international organizations) and regional development: these goals imply a reduction in the level of inequality between countries and within them. Based on the results of the analysis, the author of the study suggests that today, within the framework of the dominant neoliberal paradigm, the decision on the priorities of the leveling of the socioeconomic space is controversial. The theoretical significance of the results of the research lies in the expansion of theoretical and methodological ideas about the process of socioeconomic differentiation of territories considered in the aspect of the implemented neoliberal policy.
Insurance as a tool to reduce financial risks associated with postvaccinal complications
Authors:   Baikal State University, Stepanova Marina N. , Morozova Maya S. ,   Baikal State University
Published: February 2023

Population’s participation in vaccination for immunization against infectious diseases entails not only the risks of harm to health, but also financial risks. Unfavorable financial consequences of immunization can arise due to refusals from vaccinations and the development of postvaccinal complications. The problem of the discrepancy between the volume of state social support provided to citizens and the material consequences of vaccination actualizes the role of insurance in reducing the corresponding financial risks. The authors found that insurance companies on the Russian market offer financial coverage that is larger than that provided for by the state guarantees of social security for the vaccinated. However, the offers on the market have a number of serious limitations that impede the ability of interested parties to have the content of insurance coverage that would meet their expectations. At present, in insurance practice, formulations such as “serious complications”, “postvaccinal reactions and complications”, “complications, side effects, and other health disorders as a result of vaccination”, “complications arising after vaccination”, “conditions that have emerged since the moment of vaccination” are used in the formation of relevant programs, which significantly complicates the understanding of insurance conditions by the insurance services’ recipient and makes it difficult to compare the content of different programs in order to form optimal consumer preferences. Each insurance company fills the programs’ content with its own meaning so that quite often the amount of insurance coverage does not correlate with the list of side effects that occur after immunization accepted in medicine. Violation of industry standards in terms of the volume of disclosed information is allowed, which casts doubt on the quality of the insurance services provided. The authors propose to unify the approach to determining the basic categories for this type of insurance in order to remove the existing multivariance allowed by insurers in the development and further commercialization of insurance programs. Contribution of the authors: the authors contributed equally to this article. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
Experience in the formation of a territorial brand and the boundaries of the method
Authors:   Tomsk State University, Kaz Mikhail S. ,   Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
Published: February 2023

The plurality of territorial brands is a problem of many large and small cities, regions, as well as historical, cultural, and natural territories; however, it continues to be under-researched. At the same time, understanding the reasons why we again and again have to observe this phenomenon in a particular territory is absolutely necessary for the successful solution of the tasks of their strategic development. The analysis of this phenomenon makes it possible to study the conceptual prerequisites that determine the emergence of a situation of a plurality of territorial brands and opens up the possibility of testing the validity of some theoretical concepts in practice. To achieve these objectives, using the example of the city of Tomsk and Tomsk Oblast, I analyze the history and logic of the formation of a territorial brand, the role of city and regional administrations at different stages of its formation and development. I also reveal the conceptual attitudes of the participants in the process of forming the territorial brand, which they voluntarily or involuntarily follow when making decisions in this area. The results of the study show that the principles of cognitive relativism have a significant impact on the decision-making of persons involved in the formation and management of a territorial brand, and also make it possible to establish the limits of applicability of the above methodological setting. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
The Modern Rationale for the Spanish National Idea of Espaholidad and the Problem of Spanish “Historical Nationalities”
Authors:   Southern Federal University, Tumin Aleksandr D.
Published: February 2023

The main particularity of the Spanish civic collective identity is that its doctrine, Espanolidad, was initially formulated as theocratic, proclaiming the unity of the Spanish nation under the aegis of the Spanish Empire. However, after the Spanish War of Independence of 1808-1814, Espanolidad became the banner of opposite political forces: conservative on the one hand and liberal on the other. Espanolidad as the basic factor of the formation of the Spanish civic collective identity in the course of the 19th century favored Castelano-centrismo, which consisted in the centralization of the Spanish economy around Madrid and in the cultural Castilization of the Spanish state, the principal mechanism of which was the universal introduction of the Castilian language. Basque and Catalan regional nationalists being partial towards Castelanocentrismo considered the federalization of the Spanish state as an alternative to it already at the beginning of the 20th century. Conservative elements of Espanolidad received their distinct shape in the Francoist cultural doctrine of Nacionalcatolicismo, which had to justify the Spanish monoethnic state resting on the Christian unity. The Spanish “transition to democracy” is the transformation of the Francoist monoethnic state into the Spanish State of Autonomous Communities. Nevertheless, the rejection of Nacionalcatolicismo, symbolized by the slogan Spain is difference, put the unity of the Spanish nation into question and led to the intensification of regional separatist movements (Catalan and Basque). The criticism of the principle of ethnic nationalism, partly related to Nacionalcatolicismo, fostered the adoption of Constitutional Patriotism as the dominant Spanish cultural strategy. While postulating unity in variety, Constitutional Patriotism gives new breath to the old Espanolidad asserting national unity through the State of Autonomous Communities. The equal legal status of Spanish regions resting on the principles of solidarity and economic utility is upheld by the leveling of the inequalities of economic development between the rich and the poor autonomous communities.
“On the European Events of 1854”: Dostoevsky in a Dialogue with Contemporary Poets on “Holy Russia”
Authors:   Linguistics University of Nizhnii Novgorod, Koroleva Svetlana B.
Published: February 2023

The major focus of the research is the content of the “Holy Russia” concept in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s poem “On the European Events of 1854”, analyzed in the context of the writer’s creative biography, as well as in the “big” context of historic, military, and political events of 1854, and the wave of poems evolved in Russian literature in response to these events. The author argues that, by the beginning of the Crimean war in 1854, Dostoevsky acquired a new understanding of himself, the Russian people, and Russia. This new understanding had, at its core, the notion of Christ’s absolute holiness, of inner connection between a person and a person through compassionate Christian love as an undoubted value, of vibrant pulse of this love in the Russian heart. No wonder, then, that the poem “On the European Events of 1854” - written by Dostoevsky in March 1854 and devoted to the political, historic, and religious situation connected with the Crimean War - comprises significant motifs characteristic of the writer’s mature works (primarily, the motif of holiness of Russian people’s ideals) and, thus, cannot be considered simply an expression of the author’s loyalty to the tsar and those in power. Two literary contexts - of military-patriotic poetry and of Slavophile poems devoted to the Crimean War - allow distinguishing between the common topics and the author’s voice in the poem. The text has three distinct parts: the first is profoundly innovative, both in the form and content, while the second and third ones basically follow the samples of Slavophile and military-patriotic poetry, correspondingly. The peculiarity of the “Holy Russia” concept, actualized in the first part of the poem, is determined by its involvement with the image of a “little man”, on the one hand, and by the significance of the motifs of self-sacrifice, sufferings, Christian love and faith, on the other. The name “Holy Russia” corresponds here to the Russian people’s historic way of shaping the state and defending it as a truly national value; it expresses the basis of the “Russian spirit”: self-sacrifice; Orthodox notions; respect for such holy things as family and motherland, the tsar and the state; the Russian people’s belief in a sort of special connection with the Lord. The analysis of the way the name “Rus’ ” functions in Dostoevsky’s other “Crimean” poem - “On the First of July 1855” - verifies the hypothesis that the writer’s concept of “Holy Russia” was formed in his poems devoted to the Crimean War.
The Forms of the Interaction between “Civilization” and “Nature” in the Fiction by Oscar Wilde: The Exchange and the Ritual of Sacrifice
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Kuznetsova Natalya V.
Published: February 2023

Most of Oscar Wilde’s works focus on the high society (including the royalty), which is portrayed as artificial, imitative, and ludic. These characteristics are epitomized in the process of collecting (artificial) rarities (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, The Young King), or in the passion for performance and mystification (The Birthday of the Infanta, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Importance of Being Ernest). As opposed to the “high society”, Wilde shows the natural (or ancient) milieu, which is firmer and healthier, but devoid of aesthetic perfection. Paradoxically, the high society represents external, corporeal, aesthetic form of life, while the natural milieu means the spiritual and ethic one. Wilde shows the aesthetic or ethic perfection as a fatal and dangerous phenomenon, since fully expressing themself in one, the person has to abandon the other. As a result, a good-looking person becomes a paragon of immorality, while a morally upstanding one looks too much ugly). Wilde is interested in the technique of the interaction between the opposites, rather than in the depiction of the absolute corporeal or moral perfection. The article aims at showing the two forms of interaction between “the civilization” and “the nature”. The positive model shows a profitable exchange: one side gives exactly as much as the other side receives (i.e. the rescued Hare for the rescued Star-Child; the peace of the Canterville Ghost for Virginia’s fortunate marriage). This is the case when the characters, who have some problems with their bodies (the transparent Ghost or the serpent-like Star-Child) gain the distinct shape, as if passing from the ancient to the modern state. In the cause of mutually beneficial exchange, the happy end (in Wilde’s terms) is possible. In the negative model, we can clearly see the imbalance between the two sides: one side gives more, but receives less, while the other becomes the figure of worship. Gradually, the influence of one of the sides grows: the “predator”, like the vampire, consumes and exhausts their “victim”. Instead of the modern exchange, the relationships between “the civilization” and “the nature” transform into the ancient ritual of the sacrifice, or idol worship (Basil, Nightingale, Jokanaan), with the members of this process returning to the ancient - formless - state.
Sleep of Reason: Existential Motifs in Vasily Shukshin’s Story “Thoughts”
Authors:   Altai State Pedagogical University, Kulyapin Alexander I.
Published: February 2023

Shukshin’s characters tend to reflect on problems that cannot be called otherwise than philosophical. For example, in the film There Is Such a Lad, the characters indulge in arguments about death, love, and the meaning of life more than once. So, already in Shukshin’s early works, two poles - love and death - that determine the themes of his characters’ philosophical reflections were identified. Despite the abundance of thanatological motifs and symbols in the film, the director rejects the philosophy of pessimism. The final phrase of the film is permeated with a life-affirming pathos: “So, we will live!” Later, Shukshin became less optimistic. The feeling of the total loss of meaning, characteristic of the heroes of Shukshin’s stories of the late 1960s -early 1970s, turned out to be akin to an existentialist experience of the absurdity of being. Night memories and reflections of Matvey Ryazantsev, the protagonist of the story “Thoughts”, provoke the accordion of the enamored Kolka Malashkin. The completely non-melodic sounds of Kolka’s accordion are functionally akin to the alarming hum of the alarm bell with the invariably accompanying screams. Kolka Malashkin not only violates public order, he also breaks the unconsciously automatic order of existence of his fellow villagers. The radical change in the outlook of Matvey Ryazantsev, who has followed social rituals all his life, begins with surprise, with the discovery of the strange in the usual. Matvey Ryazantsev’s nocturnal thoughts about love and death are close to the philosophy of Nietzsche and Camus, and also organically correlate with the concept of Shklovsky. The most important semantic core of the story “Thoughts” is the motif of haymaking. Three scenes of haymaking simulate three types of attitude to life. It is senseless to hope to continue to exist in the memory of descendants. Human life is like a fleeting footprint on the grass. A purely utilitarian approach to absolutely everything is absurd. Matvey Ryazantsev appears in the story as a modern Sisyphus with his meaningless work. And only the “wild delight” of the memorable night, when the thirteen-year-old Motka reaches the Nietzschean “Dionysian ideal”, is able to justify the absurdity and tragedy of human existence. Without waiting for Kolka’s accordion on one of the nights, Matvey falls into despondency, returns to a boring routine. If in the film There Is Such a Lad death is reincarnated into love, in the story “Thoughts” everything is the other way around, love turns into death. For Kolka, marriage, in his own words, is not the beginning of a new life, but a stop, the end of the road. The final “terrifying silence” is the silence of death. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club: Reconsidering the Image of China within Chinese American Discourse
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Vechorynska Tatyana V.
Published: February 2023

The article discusses the image of China as an integrant part of Amy Tan’s writings. The imagological approach to the study of Chinese American discourse, as well as discussion of the semantics and poetics of hetero-images and auto-images of Chineseness, American Chineseness, Ameri-canness, provides a comprehensive understanding of the writer’s artistic concept in representing the changing nature of the Chinese American identity. At the same time, the article seeks to open new vistas in Chinese American discourse, to focus on intrinsic textual peculiarities beyond the extrinsic ethnocentric concepts of cultural hybridity and Orientalism, which have been prevalent in academic literary surveys during the latter half of the twentieth century. A comparative approach based on imagology theory allows investigating the multiple dimensions of the ambivalent Chinese American identity through revealing the core images implicitly present in all Amy Tan’s novels. Within American circumstances, the problem of the other cultural background for Chinese American writers constitutes an essential part of their creative quest. The article thus highlights the mechanisms of literary representation of the image of China and explores the ways of artistic literary textualization of Chinese cultural facts. By considering such categories as Chineseness, American Chineseness, and Americanness through the lens of literary imagology, the article provides an interpretation of the Self and the Other distinction in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. It is argued that the image of China in this novel cannot be viewed as otherness, but as the other Self. The Joy Luck Club is not just a family saga on the life of people of Chinese origin in the American circumstances but also a true representation of a conflict between the knowledge about the world possessed by Chinese mothers and the “American knowledge” of their American-born daughters. The novel represents mutual self-reflected images of the East and the West. The imagological analysis provides grounds for concluding that the novel is not about the distinction between the Self and the Other, but about a world that protagonists can no longer consider either own or alien since it is both for them. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan considers problems that reveal the fundamental issues of Chinese American literary and critical discourse: the role of Chinese culture within Chinese American identity, the Self versus the Other, the national and the transnational. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
Christian Monasteries of the East of the 6th-7th Centuries in the “Sacred Space” of The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus
Authors:   Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Popova Tatiana G.
Published: February 2023

The article studies the translation of The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus with the aim to name historical evidence and facts about the life in Eastern monasticism of the 6th-7th centuries, described in this work of literature. The author uses the term “sacred space” to define the residences of Egyptian monks described by John Climacus. In total, The Ladder names four Christian monasteries (St. Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai, the Raifa Monastery, the Lavra of St. Savva the Sanctified, and the Tavennisi Monastery), Scetis, five places of monastic seclusion near St. Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai (Fola, Siddin, Arsilaia, and two unnamed places: the residence of St. Stephen on Mount Sinai and the residence of Isychii on Mount Khoriv). The names of three monasteries included in the “sacred space” are not given, though The Ladder contains vivid pictures of the life there. These are: 1) a monastery in Asia, where St. Acacius of Sinai lived; 2) a monastery in Pontus, where St. John the Silent lived; 3) a monastery near Alexandria, which plays the key role in the “sacred space” of The Ladder. This monastery owned a lavra and a metochion, used a prison. The name of the hegumen of this monastery is also unknown, though The Ladder presents him as an ideal collective vision of a senior priest: a sheperd, father, teacher, judge, doctor, helmsman, and artist. The symbolic key to understanding The Ladder is the Parable about the Good Shepherd and the Mercenary. The traits of a “good shepherd” The Ladder are epitomized by an anonymous hegumen of an anonymous monastery. Concealing the name of the hegumen, John Climacus names the monks who lived in this monastery (Isidore, Lawrence, Avvakir, Macedonian, Mina). In total, there were 330 monks, besides those were in the lavra or metochion. John Climacus privides a vibrant description of the life in this monastery, which he observed for two month, paying special attention to the description of the monastery prison. The monks voluntarily doom themselves to suffering in the prison, with their torments making the deepest impression on the medieval reader. These images can be found in various types of fine arts, in Byzantine hymnography and in other literary monuments, for example, in the “Testament” of the Kiev Metropolitan Constantine I, who ordered not to bury his body after death, but to drag it out to the wasteland and leave it to be torn apart by the street dogs. The question remains why the name of a huge monastery near Alexandria, whose hegumen enjoyed undoubted spiritual authority, has not been mentioned in The Ladder. Probably, the monastery was the spiritual center of Monothelitism, so that it was cursed and deleted from all sources, including The Ladder. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
The “Russian foreigner” Leo Tolstoy and the “Russian European” Ivan Turgenev: Their perception of the French society
Authors:   Altai State University, Goncharova Anastasia S. , Chernyshov Yury G. ,   Altai State University
Published: February 2023

The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of perception by Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev of the French and their society. The writers adopted different models of perception through factors such as personality, communication skills, and worldviews. With all the similarities, Tolstoy, a “Russian foreigner,” emphasized the differences between the two cultures, and Turgenev, a “Russian European,” strove to find a common language between them. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.
Desenvolvimento de uma tecnologia digital de apoio à terapia cognitivo-comportamental
Authors: Gonçalves Júlio , Ferreira Andriel , Alves Adriana Gomes
Published: February 2023

INTRODUÇÃO: Na atualidade, abordagens que se utilizam de aplicativos tecnológicos para solução de problemas psicológicos têm sido cada vez mais comuns, de modo que múltiplos estudos têm evidenciado eficácia bem estabelecido nessa modalidade de intervenção. OBJETIVO: O objetivo do presente trabalho é o de apresentar o projeto-piloto do desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta, com componentes mobile e web, de apoio ao tratamento psicológico via Terapia Cognitivo-Comportamental. De forma específica, será discorrido sobre a metodologia de desenvolvimento da pesquisa e projeto de software, apresentação da solução tecnológica desenvolvida, avaliação da solução e as considerações finais. METODOLOGIA: A metodologia adotada foi o Design Science Research (DSR), que propõe a resolução de problemas por meio de criação de artefatos. RESULTADOS: Como resultado obteve-se uma solução tecnológica centralizada e eficaz, por meio de um Software as a Service (SAAS), composto por um sistema web que permite ao psicoterapeuta gerenciar o tratamento psicológico pela Terapia Cognitivo-comportamental e um aplicativo móvel que possibilita ao paciente o registro preciso de funcionamento cognitivo-comportamental diário, frequência de sintomas, atividades gamificadas, e técnicas de manejo. CONCLUSÃO: A integração entre áreas da psicologia e da tecnologia tem sido cada vez mais comum, contudo, é primordial a condução de estudos que descrevam desde sua concepção até a sua aplicação, com vistas a uma validação baseada em evidências científicas.
Mulheres trabalhadoras domésticas e a qualidade de vida no trabalho
Authors: Antoniassi Junior Gilmar , Santos Flávio Henrique Sousa , Moreira Rosana Mendes Maciel , Beretta Regina Célia de Souza
Published: February 2023

OBJETIVO: Analisar sob a luz das categorias do instrumento QVT QWLQ-78 como as mulheres trabalhadoras domésticas atribuem ou não o valor de qualidade de vida ao seu trabalho. MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS: Trata-se de uma pesquisa narrativa e observação participante, de natureza qualitativa, acerca da qualidade de vida no trabalho de mulheres trabalhadoras domésticas. O estudo atendeu aos princípios éticos, sendo apreciado pelo Comitê de Ética. Participaram da pesquisa 23 mulheres trabalhadoras domésticas, as quais responderam ao Questionário de avaliação da qualidade de vida no trabalho – QWLQ-bref e posteriormente, de uma roda de conversa. Para as análises dos dados coletados foi desenvolvida uma planilha eletrônica a partir de algoritmos no programa Microsoft Excel for Windows, apontando o índice de correlação de Pearson entre os domínios do QWLQ-bref. RESULTADOS: A idade das participantes situa-se entre 26 e 59 anos. São casadas e chefes de família; todas trabalham atualmente em uma única residência, entre os dias de segunda e sábado. Em relação ao indicador de qualidade de vida no trabalho foi possível observar que as trabalhadoras domésticas estão no nível médio de satisfação no trabalho, segundo o QWLQ-bref, o que indica uma dispersão de 16% pelo coeficiente de variação de Pearson, considerada o mesmo para todos os domínios (físico/saúde; psicológico; pessoal; profissional), resultando numa QVT de 63,53 pontos. CONCLUSÃO: O estudo mostra que, mesmo com todas as informalidades nos modos de relação de trabalho em que elas estão expostas, essas mulheres não estão isentas da satisfação pessoal. Pelo contrário, o estudo evidencia tal satisfação e reforça a capacidade que a mulher trabalhadora tem de desempenhar seus diferentes papéis como mãe, esposa e muitas vezes chefe de família, de modo a estarem satisfeitas em relação aos cuidados prestados.
Analysis of energy efficiency and dynamics during car acceleration
Authors: Graba Mariusz , Bieniek Andrzej , Prażnowski Krzysztof , Hennek Krystian , Mamala Jarosław , Burdzik Rafał , Śmieja Michał
Published: February 2023

In this work, the authors focused on analyzing the energy efficiency and
dynamics during car acceleration, featuring investigation of acceleration
dynamics under various acceleration intensities. The tests were
performed in the speed range between 45 km/h and 120 km/h, at a
constant gear ratio. This enabled obtaining variable dynamic parameters
of the acceleration process, ranging from about 0.1 to 1.4 m/s2
, and
recording variation in fuel consumption from 6.28 to 27.03 dm3
/100km.
The study focused on determining the relation between fuel
consumption, energy efficiency and vehicle acceleration depending on
the available drivetrain power. The relation between fuel consumption
and vehicle acceleration was described by using the dynamic index. The
proposed dynamic index takes into account the energy (from burned
fuel) and vehicle acceleration intensity to obtain an objective metric for
characterizing the acceleration process. The aforementioned index takes
the form of the passenger car movement energy quality index and can be
related to widely known physical properties, thus ensuring its
universality. The index expresses the energy expenditure within the time
needed to accelerate a vehicle weighing 1kg by a 1m distance. As
opposed to other criteria that are applied to the assessment of passenger
cars dynamics, the index shows a high determination coefficient R2 in
excess of 0.99, and can be used as a universal metric to test other vehicle
types.
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN UKRAINE IN CONDITIONS OF THE RUSSIANUKRAINIAN WAR: POLES OF CIVILIZATIONAL CHOICE
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv, KAHAMLYK Svitlana , OBUSHNYI Mykola ,   Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv
Published: February 2023

The article clarifies the role of the leading Orthodox institutions of Ukraine – the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate – in the conditions of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. It was noted that the war became a powerful catalyst for the national identification and civilizational choice of the institutions of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, the positions of which were finally polarized by the full-scale invasion of Russian troops.It was concluded that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the conditions of war sees its role primarily in the continuous supply of chaplains for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They perform the functions of meeting the spiritual and religious needs of Ukrainian soldiers, providing them with the necessary supplies, and social and psychological assistance. The church provides charitable assistance to Ukrainian families whose homes were destroyed by the occupiers. The social initiative of the Foundation of Metropolitan Epiphany regarding the construction of temporary housing for residents of the Kyiv region is aimed at this.The presentation of Ukrainian autocephaly in the world was the representation of the OCU in the assembly of the World Council of Churches in October 2022, which was strengthened by the resolution condemning Russian aggression.The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate takes an ambiguous position regarding the war. The environment of this institution became significantly polarized with the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops. On the one hand, its hierarchs in the East and South of Ukraine support the invasion of Russian troops and mobilization, fake referendums, and actively collaborate with the occupiers. At the same time, another part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is trying to clearly and unambiguously distance itself from the Russian Orthodox Church. The group of archpriest Andrii Pinchuk, who became one of the initiators of collecting signatures for an international church tribunal against Patriarch Kirill. In order to stop the split in the Church, the Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate adopted a decision on "independence and independence" from the Russian Church. Analyzing the decisions of the Council, the leaders of the Orthodox Church ofUkraine commented on them as a "smoke screen", in fact a mimicry of independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.
THE FIRST MEMORIAL SIGN TO THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLODOMOR IN CRIMEA: FROM IDEA TO PLACE OF MEMORY IN SIMFEROPOL
Authors:   National Museum of the Holodomor-genocide, Kyiv Ukraine, IVANETS Andriy
Published: February 2023

The article highlights the history of the first memorial sign in Crimea to the victims of the Holodomor, which was installed in the form of an Orthodox cross in 2000 on the facade of the Cathedral of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princes Volodymyr and Olga in Simferopol. The idea of its establishment belongs to the secretary of the Crimean Diocese of the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate Pavlо Kushch, who in 2000 was ordained a bishop under the name of Kliment. The nearly three-meter memorial sign in the form of a pedestal and a stele, on which an Orthodox cross entwined with vines and stones are carved, was made and presented to the bishop by Crimean Tatar sculptor and national movement activist Ilmi Ametov. The memorial cross has become a place of remembrance where, since 2000, members of the public have gathered every year to commemorate both the victims of the Holodomor and the people repressed and deported by the totalitarian communist regime. Before the occupation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, representatives of the Crimean Tatar people regularly participated in these events along with activists of the Ukrainian community of Crimea. In an abbreviated version, the ceremony honoring the victims of the genocide of the Ukrainian nation at the memorial in Simferopol continues to be held in the temporarily occupied Crimea, but its existence is threatened. As part of the general policy of discrimination against the Ukrainian community of Crimea, the Crimean Diocese of the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate, which since 2018 has become part of the autocephalous Ortodox Church of Ukraine is subject to systematic pressure. In particular, the occupiers have already taken part of the temples from it. In 2019, the illegitimate occupation "court" decided to vacate the premises of the OCU, where a memorial cross to the victims of the Holodomor was installed. As of 2022, the church continues to hold it, but if the church building is seized, the memorial will probably be dismantled, because Russia has declared itself the successor of the USSR and does not recognize the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian nation.
KARANTİNA DÖNEMİNDE MEME KANSERLİ KADINLARLA YAPILAN TERAPÖTİK AMAÇLI DANS VİDEOSU PROJESİ
Authors: TEMEL Tan , TEMEL Sernaz DEMİREL , BİÇER Elçin
Published: February 2023

2019’da Covid-19 pandemisinde kronik hastalıkları olanlar, yüksek risk grubuna girmekteydiler. Bir kronik hastalık olarak meme kanseri deneyimlemiş kişiler hastane ortamındaki sağlık riski sebebiyle tedavilerini aksatmak durumunda kalırlarken, evde de bakım ve sosyal destekten mahrum kaldılar. Psikolojik olarak da durumdan en fazla etkilenen gruplardandı. 18-65 yaş aralığındaki 10 meme kanserli kadın, 1 meme hemşiresi ve 1 terapist olmak üzere 12 kadın “Kendimi Seviyorum” temasıyla sosyal medya mecralarında yayımlanmak üzere bir dans videosunda buluştu. Terapötik amaçlı dans videosu, izolasyona rağmen bağlantıda olma hali yaratmak, dans ve müzik araçlarıyla yaşam arzusunu, iç gücü pekiştirmek, ifadenin duyulması ve görülmesiyle yaşamla bağlantıda olma hissi oluşturmak amacıyla kurgulanmıştır. Proje, sosyal medyada 3000 kişiye ulaşmıştır. Katılımcılardaki pozitif etkisi, sözel geribildirimlerle temin edildi. Bu çalışmanın yalnızlığın tersi olan aidiyet duygusu ve diğer temel kaygılarla baş edebilmek için kısa süreli bir terapötik etki yarattığı gözlemlenmiştir. Alınan geribildirimlerden dans/müzik araçlarının toplumsal farkındalık oluşturmada iyileştirici ve etkin bir araç olduğu anlaşılmaktadır.