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The Impact of Consumer Participation Certification on the Trust of Eco-Agricultural Products Based on the Mediating Effects of Information and Identity
Authors: Ge Wenguang , Bai Xinyu , Zhang Zheng , Gao Qianqian
Published: March 2022

With the increasing distrust of food safety, both third-party certification systems (TPC) and participatory guarantee systems (PGS) play a vital role in restoring consumer trust. Although the fact that previous research has focused on consumer trust and the factors that impact it in TPC products, little emphasis has been made on how consumer participation in certification affects trust. The goal of the study was to explore how consumer participation certification affects trust in eco-agricultural products under PGS. We constructed a theoretical framework of consumer trust in eco-agricultural products under PGS, based on consumer trust theory, and clarified the relationship between consumer participation certification, information quality, social identity, and consumer trust. After obtaining 238 valid questionnaires on consumers from 12 PGS organizations nationwide, a structural equation model (SEM) was conducted. The conclusions are as follows: (1) Consumer participation has a positive impact on consumer trust, and the direct effect is not significant, but the indirect effect is significant; (2) Information quality and social identity have been identified to play full intermediary roles in the relationship between consumer participation and trust. We suggest relevant research implications and recommendations for future research on consumer trust in PGS based on the findings.
Does ESG Performance Promote High-Quality Development of Enterprises in China? The Mediating Role of Innovation Input
Authors: Ge Ge , Xiao Xiang , Li Zhenzhu , Dai Qinghui
Published: March 2022

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concept has internal consistency with the high-quality development of China’s economy theoretically, and implementing ESG concept is an important way to achieve sustainable economic development. However, whether ESG performance can promote the high-quality development from the perspective of micro enterprises is rarely studied. Thus, we explore the impact and mechanism of ESG performance on enterprises’ high-quality development. The empirical results indicate that good ESG performance is conducive to promoting high-quality development of enterprises. Environmental performance and social performance can promote high-quality development of enterprises more than corporate governance performance. The mechanism results show that innovation input plays a medicating role between ESG performance and enterprises’ high-quality development. The additional analysis suggest that the promoting effect is more obvious in state-owned enterprises, environmentally sensitive enterprises and enterprises with less financing constraints. This study has enlightenment significance for enterprises to value ESG performance and government departments to formulate relevant policies.
Exploring Sustainable E-Learning Platforms for Improved Universities’ Faculty Engagement in the New World of Work
Authors: Falola Hezekiah O. , Ogueyungbo Opeyemi O. , Adeniji Anthonia A. , Adesina Evaristus
Published: March 2022

The familiar places where faculty and students engage, collaborate, debate, interact and exchange viewpoints appear to have been improved by introducing digital technology. This study investigates the influence of e-learning opportunities on faculty engagement in Nigerian universities. Five hundred faculty members were surveyed across eight private universities in Nigeria using purposive and convenient sampling techniques. Only 431 copies of the questionnaire, representing 86.2% response rate, were analysed with Smart PLS 3.0. The results show that virtual learning platforms, digital databases, online short courses and webinar learning platforms significantly influenced teaching, research, administrative and community engagements. The study concludes that the faculty of various universities should leverage e-learning platforms to be more engaged. The study recommends the machinery needed by the faculty members of Nigerian universities during the COVID-19 lockdown that challenged the conventional practice. The study empirically contributes to strengthening the current teaching, research, partnership and collaboration trends for improved faculty engagement in the new-normal world of work.
Linking Intellectual Leadership Practices to Sustainability Outcomes: Moderated Mediation Effect of Employees’ Multifunctionality
Authors: Zhao Fangfang , Kang Tae-Won , Kang Mingu
Published: March 2022

This study aims to examine the indirect mechanism by which intellectual leadership practices influence sustainability outcomes. By using the multi-source data from 289 manufacturing firms around the world, regression and bootstrapping analysis are applied to test both the mediation and moderated mediation models. The findings show that environmental competitive advantage indirectly mediates the relationship between intellectual leadership practices and sustainability outcomes. In addition, the indirect mediating relationship is strengthened as the level of employees’ multifunctionality increases. By exploring the jointed effect of intellectual leadership practices and employees’ multifunctionality on sustainability outcomes, this study provides insights into how manufacturers effectively enhance the economic consequences of sustainability management.
Relating Social and Ecological Resilience: Dutch Citizen’s Initiatives for Biodiversity
Authors: During Roel , Van Assche Kristof , Van Dam Rosalie
Published: March 2022

Social resilience and ecological resilience are related and distinguished, and the potential of social resilience to enhance resilience of encompassing social-ecological systems is discussed. The value of resilience thinking is recognized, yet social resilience needs to be better understood in its distinctive qualities, while resisting identification of social resilience with one particular form of governance or organization. Emerging self-organizing citizen’s initiatives in The Netherlands, initiatives involving re-relating to nature in the living environment, are analyzed, using a systems theoretical framework which resists reduction of nature to culture or vice versa. It is argued that space for self-organization needs to be cultivated, that local self-organization and mobilization around themes of nature in daily life and space have the potential to re-link social and ecological systems in a more resilient manner, yet that maintaining the diversity of forms of knowing and organizing in the overall governance system is essential to the maintenance of social resilience and of diverse capacities to know human-environment relations and to reorganize them in an adaptive manner. Conclusions are drawn in the light of the new Biodiversity Strategy.
Air Pollution and Public Bike-Sharing System Ridership in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals
Authors: Park Jooho , Honda Yasushi , Fujii Sayaka , Kim Satbyul Estella
Published: March 2022

A bicycle-sharing system (BSS) has been implemented in Seoul, South Korea to promote green transportation policy as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to mitigate climate change, reduce traffic jams, and promote physical activity. However, the concentration of air pollutants in Seoul often exceeds the standards of the World Health Organization, thereby creating a conflict with SDG 3 (Health). Therefore, it is important to recognize the trade-offs between actions targeted at SDGs as they might offset each other. In this context, a primary concern is investigating how the behavior of BSS users regarding outdoor air pollution appears. This study explores the relationship between ambient air pollution and the behavior of BSS riders in Seoul. We conducted a time-series analysis of associations between particulate air pollution and participation in the BSS. We used generalized additive models, adjusted for mean temperature, humidity, rainfall, day of the week, long-term trends, and seasonality to construct an exposure–response relationship. We observed a nonlinear relationship between increasing air pollution and bicycle ridership. This study method can be used as a basis for similar analyses to investigate BSS policies in other cities.
A Survey on Sustainable Surrogate-Based Optimisation
Authors: Bliek Laurens
Published: March 2022

Surrogate-based optimisation (SBO) algorithms are a powerful technique that combine machine learning and optimisation to solve expensive optimisation problems. This type of problem appears when dealing with computationally expensive simulators or algorithms. By approximating the expensive part of the optimisation problem with a surrogate, the number of expensive function evaluations can be reduced. This paper defines sustainable SBO, which consists of three aspects: applying SBO to a sustainable application, reducing the number of expensive function evaluations, and considering the computational effort of the machine learning and optimisation parts of SBO. The paper reviews sustainable applications that have successfully applied SBO over the past years, and analyses the used framework, type of surrogate used, sustainable SBO aspects, and open questions. This leads to recommendations for researchers working on sustainability-related applications who want to apply SBO, as well as recommendations for SBO researchers. It is argued that transparency of the computation resources used in the SBO framework, as well as developing SBO techniques that can deal with a large number of variables and objectives, can lead to more sustainable SBO.
From Memristor-Modeled Jerk System to the Nonlinear Systems with Memristor
Authors: Wu Xianming , He Shaobo , Tan Weijie , Wang Huihai
Published: March 2022

Based on the proposed generalized memristor, a new jerk system is proposed. The complex dynamics of the system are investigated by means of bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, and MSampEn, and rich dynamics are observed. Moreover, the circuits of the generalized memristor and the jerk system are physically implemented in the hardware level. The experimental results show that the memristor circuit can generate “8”-shaped pinched hysteresis loops, and the observed attractors match well with the numerical simulations results. In this paper, we summarize nonlinear systems with memristors in the references. It indicates that there are two symmetry methods to find a memristor model in nonlinear systems. However, some of them cannot be realized using the memristor devices, although a memristor model can be found. For example, the famous Lorenz system contains a memristor function, but it cannot be realized using the memristor device. The principles regarding whether nonlinear systems with a memristor function can be realized using a memristor device are discussed.
Escalated (Dependent) Oxycodone Self-Administration Is Associated with Cognitive Impairment and Transcriptional Evidence of Neurodegeneration in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Transgenic Rats
Authors: Fu Yu , Lorrai Irene , Zorman Barry , Mercatelli Daniele , Shankula Chase , Marquez Gaytan Jorge , Lefebvre Celine , de Guglielmo Giordano , Kim Hyunjae Ryan , Sumazin Pavel , Giorgi Federico M. , Repunte-Canonigo Vez , Sanna Pietro Paolo
Published: March 2022

Substance use disorder is associated with accelerated disease progression in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV; PWH). Problem opioid use, including high-dose opioid therapy, prescription drug misuse, and opioid abuse, is high and increasing in the PWH population. Oxycodone is a broadly prescribed opioid in both the general population and PWH. Here, we allowed HIV transgenic (Tg) rats and wildtype (WT) littermates to intravenously self-administer oxycodone under short-access (ShA) conditions, which led to moderate, stable, “recreational”-like levels of drug intake, or under long-access (LgA) conditions, which led to escalated (dependent) drug intake. HIV Tg rats with histories of oxycodone self-administration under LgA conditions exhibited significant impairment in memory performance in the novel object recognition (NOR) paradigm. RNA-sequencing expression profiling of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in HIV Tg rats that self-administered oxycodone under ShA conditions exhibited greater transcriptional evidence of inflammation than WT rats that self-administered oxycodone under the same conditions. HIV Tg rats that self-administered oxycodone under LgA conditions exhibited transcriptional evidence of an increase in neuronal injury and neurodegeneration compared with WT rats under the same conditions. Gene expression analysis indicated that glucocorticoid-dependent adaptations contributed to the gene expression effects of oxycodone self-administration. Overall, the present results indicate that a history of opioid intake promotes neuroinflammation and glucocorticoid dysregulation, and excessive opioid intake is associated with neurotoxicity and cognitive impairment in HIV Tg rats.
Predicting Change in Adaptation Strategies of Households to Geological Hazards in the Longmenshan Area, China Using Machine Learning and GIS
Authors: Su Haichuan , Fernandez Glenn , Hu Xiaoxi , Wu Shaolin , Di Baofeng , Tan Chunping
Published: March 2022

Hydrological changes combined with earthquakes easily trigger secondary disasters, including geological hazards. The secondary hazard of precipitation is the main disaster type in the Longmenshan Area (China). The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake caused more than 60,000 landslides, severely affecting rural households. This study aimed to answer two questions: (1) How did households adapt to the landslide-prone post-earthquake environment? (2) How will the households’ adaptation strategies change if landslide frequency changes? Different post-disaster adaptation strategies of households in Longmenshan Town, Sichuan, China were identified through a questionnaire survey and then clustered into groups based on similarity using a K-means algorithm. Afterward, a gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) was used to predict change in adaptation strategies if there was a change in the frequency of landslides. The results show that there are three types of landslide adaptation strategies in the study area: (1) autonomous adaptation; (2) policy-dependent adaptation; and (3) hybrid adaptation, which is a mixture of the first two types. If the frequency of landslides is increased, then around 5% of households previously under the autonomous adaptation type would be converted to policy-dependent and hybrid adaptation types. If the frequency of landslides is reduced, then around 5% of households with policy-dependent adaptation strategies would be converted to the autonomous adaptation type. This exploratory study provides a glimpse of how machine learning can be utilized to predict how adaptation strategies would be modified if hazard frequency changed. A follow-up long-term study in Longmenshan Town is needed to confirm whether the predictions are indeed correct.
Correction: Tzanakakis et al. Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Island of Crete, Greece. Water 2020, 12, 1538
Authors: Tzanakakis V. A. , Angelakis A. N. , Paranychianakis N. V. , Dialynas Y. G. , Tchobanoglous G.
Published: March 2022

The authors wish to make the following corrections to the published paper [1], there were mistakes as follows: 1 [...]
Application of Hierarchical Clustering Endmember Modeling Analysis for Identification of Sedimentary Environment in the Houtao Section of the Upper Yellow River
Authors: Pang Hongli , Li Fuqiang , Gao Hongshan , Jia Yunxia , Chen Dianbao , Zhang Xiaonan
Published: March 2022

The unmixing of grain-size distribution (GSD) with multivariate statistical analysis provides insight into sediment provenance, transport processes and environment conditions. In this article, we performed hierarchical clustering endmember modeling analysis (CEMMA) to identify the sedimentary environment of fluvial deposits at core HDZ04 drilled in the paleofloodplain on the north bank of the upper Yellow River. The CEMMA results show that four end members can effectively explain the variance in the dataset. End-Member 1 and End-Member 2 are polymodal and dominated by silty clay, and they are associated with the suspended load. End-Member 3 is composed of fine sand and silt, and medium-coarse sand makes up the majority of End-Member 4, corresponding to a mixed saltation load and bed load, respectively. Combined with the end-member scores, we constructed energy values to further divide the core samples into different depositional environments. Unit 2 and unit 5 have a high proportion of coarser end-member components, presenting a shallow channel and a high-energy channel environment, respectively. Unit 1 and unit 3 are composed of fine-grained silt and clay and are dominated by finer end-member components, which can be interpreted as a floodplain situation. Unit 4 is characterized by frequent fluctuations in grain-size composition and energy values, indicating the transition from a high-energy river channel to floodplain deposits. For the channel sedimentary environment, the accumulation rate was relatively low (0.32 mm/yr) due to the frequency migration of the channel. A high accumulation rate of the fluvial deposits had occurred in unit 1 during 1.6 Ka (4.35 mm/yr), which was a response to the influence of increased fluvial instability and human activity during the late Holocene.
Development and Evaluation of a Saturated Zone Module in an Integrated Urban Hydrological Model
Authors: Li Yinghao , Rodriguez Fabrice , Berthier Emmanuel
Published: March 2022

Shallow urban groundwater interacts with surface water and underground infrastructures. Low-impact development in urban water management by at-source infiltration should consider shallow urban groundwater in a holistic manner. Traditional hydrological models, however, rarely detail groundwater flows and their interaction with urban runoff and the water budget. In the present study, a new approach is proposed, using the integration of a flow module WTI for the saturated zone in a distributed urban hydrological model URBS-MO. This integration is carried out by paying attention to retaining the initial waterflow subsurface parameterization. The performance of the integrated model is evaluated by piezometric and runoff data in an experimental urban catchment, through a sensitivity analysis and a manual calibration of the main model parameters, as well as a validation step. The new module shows its capacity to improve groundwater flow simulation by assessing more realistic water table variations, along with a very small improvement of flowrate simulation. The bias on the average groundwater level was reduced from +14 to +7% for the one-year validation period. The modelling results show the importance of parameter calibration for distributed physically-based hydrological models. Difficulties in the calibration of parameter values due to spatial heterogeneities are also revealed, as the use of piezometric data for the calibration of a hydrological model is rather innovative.
Mega Flood Inundation Analysis and the Selection of Optimal Shelters
Authors: Han Daegun , Kim Deokhwan , Kim Kyunghun , Wang Won-Joon , Jung Jaewon , Kim Hung Soo
Published: March 2022

In recent decades, extreme storm events due to climate change have frequently occurred worldwide, a few of which have even occurred consecutively; we class such rainfall events as mega events. That is to say, if the inter-arrival time between rainfall events with a 100-year frequency is less than the IETD (Inter-Event Time Definition), the event can be considered a mega event. Therefore, the aim of this study was to implement flood inundation analysis using the hypothetical mega event from two consecutively occurring events of 100-year frequency, and select the optimal shelters using a developed method for minimizing casualties from floods. The Gyeongan stream basin, which is a tributary of the Namhan River in Korea, was selected as the study area. This study calculates mega flood discharge using the SSARR (Stream Synthesis and Reservoir Regulation) model, and conducts a flood inundation analysis of mega floods via the level pool method and the HEC-GeoRAS model. An inundation map was constructed, and the inundated area was classified into three zones and five administrative districts. Sixteen shelters were selected as candidates based on the criteria of the local government safety management plans and the Guidelines for Establishing the Disaster Relief Plan of 2013. To evaluate the candidates for evacuation in each district, we selected seven evaluation indicators from the shelter criteria of several countries, and calculated the weights of the indicators using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. As a result, four optimal shelters were selected in the study area. The results of the study can be used as the basic information for analyzing mega natural disaster events and inundation, and for establishing evacuation shelters, which are one of the non-structural flood protection measures.
Long-Term Study of Antibiotic Presence in Ebro River Basin (Spain): Identification of the Emission Sources
Authors: Moles Samuel , Gozzo Sebastiano , Ormad María P. , Mosteo Rosa , Gómez Jairo , Laborda Francisco , Szpunar Joanna
Published: March 2022

Water monitoring is key to determining the presence of potentially hazardous substances related to urban activities and intensive farming. This research aimed to perform a long-term (four years) quantitative monitoring of selected antibiotics (azithromycin, enrofloxacin, trimethoprim and sulfadiazine) both in rivers and wastewaters belonging to the Ebro River basin (North of Spain). The target antibiotics were chosen on the basis of a preliminary multispecies screening. The analysis of the antibiotics was carried out by LC-MS/MS on wastewater-treatment plant (WWTP) effluent, effluents of a slaughterhouse and hospital, rivers downstream and upstream of these WWTPs, and rivers close to extensive farming areas. The ANOVA test was performed to study the significant differences between the points exposed to concrete emission sources and antibiotic concentration. The monitoring, carried out from 2018 to 2020, has been essential to illustrating the presence of the most abundant antibiotics that were detected in the Ebro River basin. Enrofloxacin has appeared in river waters in significant concentrations, especially near intensive farming, meanwhile azithromycin has been frequently detected in wastewaters.
Disability in systemic lupus erythematosus
Authors:   City Polyclinic No. 37, St. Petersburg, Kochieva Marina Leonidovna
Published: March 2022

Systemic lupus erythematosus is one of the most severe systemic diseases with autoimmune damage to the connective tissue, microvasculature vessels and a number of internal organs. In the clinical picture of the disease, lesions of the skin (pathognomonic feature is the appearance of an erythematous rash in the form of a butterfly on the bridge of the nose and cheeks), the occurrence of Raynaud's syndrome, involvement of the joints in the pathological process, proceeding as arthritis, damage to the lungs and kidneys are in the first place. Most often, the onset of disease is noted at the age of 15-25 years; mainly women are affected. The disease onset is not very specific: a temperature reaction and asthenic syndrome are noted; skin rashes or a microcirculatory reaction may appear in response to exposure to cold or stressful situations. The danger of systemic lupus erythematosus is the polysyndromic nature of the disease, which consists in the involvement of many organs and systems in the pathological process. The kidneys are most often and severely affected with the development of lupus nephritis, which can cause the rapid development of chronic renal failure. The manifestation of a convulsive syndrome with the subsequent development of mental disorders is not uncommon. Disability in systemic lupus erythematosus is given in case of the development of chronic renal failure of stage 2A and above, with complete atrioventricular block with the need to install a pacemaker, with damage to the vision organ and the nervous system with impaired functional activity. Systemic lupus erythematosus requires lifelong use of glucocorticoid drugs and, in some cases, the use of extracorporeal detoxification methods to remove metabolic products and circulating immune complexes.
Assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 and comorbidities impact on some parameters of the cardiovascular system in intensive care patients
Authors:   FSBEI HE Volgograd State Medical University, Skvortsov Vsevolod Vladimirovich , Eremenko Andrey Andreevich ,   SHI Clinical Hospital No. 5, Eremenko Natalya Vladimirovna ,   SHI Clinical Hospital No. 5
Published: March 2022

Modern prospective studies report that an increase in the stiffness of the vascular wall is a predictor of diseases of the cardiovascular system (CVS) due to impaired shock-absorbing function of the main arteries. Shock absorption (reduction of fluctuations) of the walls of the arteries is determined by their extensibility (stiffness) and elasticity; it is indispensable in order to smooth out periodic systolic waves of blood flow and reduce the damaging effect of the pulse wave on the vascular wall. The novel coronavirus infection SARS-CoV-2 predominantly affects the lung tissue, but it can also impact the cardiovascular system. Numerous studies support the development of myocarditis, heart failure, arrhythmias, and thrombotic complications in patients hospitalized for COVID-19.
Why was the surgeon V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky canonized?
Authors:   Ryazan Regional Clinical Hospital, Ryazan, Perminova Elena V.
Published: March 2022

Surely everyone has heard of Saint Luke the Blessed Surgeon, whose name is given to many scientific and medical institutions, medical universities and colleges, treatment and diagnostic centers. The Institute of Pediatric and Adult Neurology and Epilepsy in Moscow, the Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, and the International Educational Center for Medical Institutions bear his name. Do you know that the famous surgeon Valentin Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetsky and Saint Luke the Blessed Surgeon are one and the same person, and that he lived and worked not in ancient times, but under the Soviet Union? An outstanding scientist, PhD in Medicine, professor, laureate of the Stalin Prize V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky made a huge contribution to the development of surgery, including purulent surgery. He wrote about 60 scientific papers, and many of the works were accompanied by his own drawings. He was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree for Essays on Purulent Surgery and Late Resections for Gunshot Wounds of the Joints. These monographs were a necessary and timely scientific and practical guide in all base and field hospitals during the Great Patriotic War. In this work, the anatomical and topographic principle of the study of suppurative processes, first put forward by N.I. Pirogov, was consistently highlighted. Over the years, the monograph has not lost its relevance; it remains of interest to neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists, dentists, urologists, and doctors of other specialties. The author of these books was PhD in Medicine, a scientist, surgeon, teacher and artist, who took holy orders in the most terrible years of persecution of the church, in 1921. For the courageous confession of Orthodoxy, he was repeatedly arrested. He spent many years in prisons and camps, but he always remembered the high calling of a doctor. While healing the body, he also healed spiritual wounds, and he never betrayed any of his callings.
Features of Finnish healthcare in the coronavirus era
Authors:   Blood Transfusion Department, Kremenskaya Central District Hospital, Frolova Elena Vladimirovna
Published: March 2022

Finland is a country on the Scandinavian Peninsula with a population of about 5.5 million people. Like any other country in Europe, at the beginning of 2020, Finland faced the spread of the coronavirus infection. The government reacted immediately, and a strict two-month quarantine was introduced in the country. Travel to and from Helsinki was banned, schools and kindergartens were closed, and a little later, restaurants and shopping centers were prohibited. All these measures were taken even when the number of cases in the country was minimal. Due to the rather high level of trust in the government, there was practically no dissatisfaction with the introduction of restrictive measures in the country. Moreover, according to the results of the survey, it was found that about 23 % of Finns noted an improvement in their mental state due to the transition to remote work. Most likely, this situation can be explained by the natural tendency of the Finns to maintain social distance — there it is not customary to hug when meeting, let alone kiss. As of the beginning of 2022, the number of cases reached 393 thousand people, and the number of deaths was 1753 people. Thus, the mortality rate is one of the lowest in Europe (along with Denmark and Norway) and is 0.4 %. For instance, in neighboring Sweden, where strict quarantine restrictions were not introduced, this figure was about 1 %.
March 6 — World Glaucoma Day
Authors:   SBHI RR Kerch City Children's Hospital, Rybachok Oksana Aleksandrovna
Published: March 2022

In 2008, the World Glaucoma Association and World Glaucoma Patients Association proposed March 6 to celebrate the World Day of fighting against this formidable disease, which is the cause of blindness in 13.5 % of cases. Glaucoma is a pathology of the eye, which is characterized by a constant or periodic increase in intraocular pressure, resulting in the gradual development of optic nerve atrophy, followed by partial or complete loss of vision. According to the World Health Organization, more than 100 million people suffer from glaucoma worldwide. This disease most often affects both eyes, as a rule, develops in older patients, and occurs in women about three times more often than in men. As the world's population gradually ages, there is a trend towards a slow but steady increase in the incidence of glaucoma in the world. Ophthalmologists are sounding the alarm — with timely treatment, the onset of irreversible changes in this eye pathology can at least be delayed, if not completely avoided. In order to draw public attention to this problem and increase the level of public awareness in the prevention and treatment of glaucoma, it was proposed to celebrate this memorable date.
Human resource management in projects
Authors:   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Korneeva I.V. , Timokhina D. S. ,   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Published: March 2022

In the field of consulting, companies with completely different directions work, using various practical management methods. In this regard, it is important to consider the company in detail, to analyze the approaches to human resource management in it in order to further disseminate positive experience.
Digital smart home technologies for the disabled people and people with disabilities
Authors:   Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Kolobova S. V. , Brovkina A. I. ,   Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
Published: March 2022

The author analyzes and presents the latest technologies in the field of assistance to persons with disabilities. The developments of the Istok-Audio group of companies, engaged in the development and production of modern technical means of rehabilitation for people with disabilities, were considered. Namely, the article presents devices for household adaptation of deaf and hard of hearing people— a Smart home system that can not only improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, but also make it complete and safe.
Branch features of pricing in construction and their influence on the financial policy management in the company
Authors:   Moscow State University of Civil Emgineering, Vasilyeva E. Yu. , Pokusaeva E. S. ,   Moscow State University of Civil Emgineering
Published: March 2022

Some branch features of budget-and-pricing construction as well as the factors influencing it are pointed out in the article. Budget pricing is the main difference between builders financing and financing of the organizations relating to other industries. The authors considered, how the features of construction activity in turn affect the solvency and financial stability of the companies, and how they define the financial policy.
Technologies of information modelling in training of constructors
Authors:   Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Ginzburg A. V. , Romanova E. V. ,   Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
Published: March 2022

Training of highly qualified personnel for the construction industry during its upgrade under the auspices of the Digital Economy programme demands sure possession of technologies of information modeling from the university graduates. In this article The purpose and the main maintenance of a training course of "Technology of information modeling" for students of magistracy are revealed in this article. The created competences, information and digital technologies, used within training, examples of educational tasks are also presented.
Reaching consensus on GP interprofessional competencies: a nominal group study
Authors: Duijn Stijn , van Dijk-de Vries Anneke , Scherpbier-de Haan Nynke D , Dolmans Diana HJM , Muris Jean WM , van Bokhoven Marloes A
Published: March 2022

Background

As the requirements for collaboration in primary care increase, effective interprofessional teamwork between GPs and other primary care professionals is crucial. The need for more training in interprofessional collaborative competencies is widely recognised. However, existing competency frameworks do not sufficiently specify interprofessional collaboration to guide interprofessional competency development.

Aim

To reach consensus among GPs and other primary care professionals on interprofessional competencies that GP and GP trainees should learn.

Design & setting

A qualitative consensus study among Dutch GPs and other primary care professionals, all with expertise in primary care interprofessional collaborative practice.

Method

Three nominal group sessions were held, each resulting in its own group consensus on GP interprofessional collaborative competencies. The researchers conducted a content analysis to merge and thematise the prioritised competencies into one list. Participants prioritised this list of competencies. A pre-set cut-off point was applied to determine the overall consensus on core GP interprofessional competencies.

Results

Eighteen professionals from nine different disciplines participated. The content analysis resulted in 31 unique competencies, of which 14 competencies were prioritised in the final ranking into the following three main themes: (1) professional identity development and role definition by the GP (three competencies); (2) developing and executing shared care plans for individual patients (six competencies); and (3) initiating and maintaining interprofessional collaborative partnerships (five competencies).

Conclusion

An interprofessional group of experts reached consensus on 14 competencies within three themes. This framework provides a stepping stone for GPs to focus on their development regarding interprofessional collaboration.
Standardisation of Weaning Protocol for Larvae of Clarias magur (Hamilton, 1822)
Authors:   ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar 751002, Odisha, India, FEROSEKHAN S. , SAHOO S.K. , RADHAKRISHNAN K. , GOKULAKRISHNAN M. , GIRI S.S. , PILLAI B.R.
Published: March 2022

Clarias magur (Hamilton, 1822) is a highly priced commercially important species targeted for aquaculture diversification in India and South-East Asian countries. Weaning from live to formulated feed during larval rearing is critical for successful seed production. Hence, the present study aimed to standardise the effective weaning age to achieve high growth and survival of C. magur. The 4 days post-hatch (dph) larvae with mean initial length and weight of 7.4 ± 0.83 mm and 4.97 ± 0.35 mg, respectively, were selected, and 2100 larvae were randomly stocked into 21 plastic tubs (100 larvae per tub) for six weaning treatments (W4, W7, W9, W11, W13 and W15 dph) and the control in triplicates. The study was conducted for 21 days and 4 to 24 dph. All larvae in the treatments groups were fed Artemia nauplii ad libitum and a weaning diet fed to apparent satiation according to W4 to W15 schedules. The control group larvae were fed with Artemia nauplii alone. Results revealed that final length and weight, weight gain per cent, daily weight gain and specific growth rate were significantly (P < 0.05) higher in the Artemia nauplii fed control group followed by W15 dph larval group. The survival rate was significantly (P < 0.05) higher for W15 larvae, followed by the control group. The present study indicates that the ideal protocol for C. magur larval fed with Artemia nauplii from 4 dph for weaning to formulated diet was at 15 dph until 24 dph for good growth and survival rates.
Le site Paléolithique moyen de Payre dans la moyenne vallée du Rhône en France (stades isotopiques 6 et 5). Un exemple de mode de débitage discoïde
Authors: Moncel Marie-Hélène
Published: March 2022

Le site de Payre livre plusieurs niveaux d''occupation datés des stades isotopiques 6 et 5. Située en bordure de la vallée du Rhône et de par sa localisation à la jonction de plusieurs biotopes, cette cavité effondrée a enregistré des occupations saisonnières et répétées orientées vers la récupération de cervidés, bovidés et équidés. Les hommes ont utilisé en majorité le silex de très bonne qualité provenant de 10 à 15 km du site ou des plages de la vallée du Rhône. Celui-ci sert au débitage. Les autres matériaux sont strictement locaux, prélevés aux pieds du site. Ce sont des galets de basalte et calcaire pour le façonnage d''outils sur galet et des galets de quartz pour un débitage sommaire d''éclats épais. Quelques outils en quartzite sont arrivés déjà façonnés dans la cavité. Leur origine peut être très locale, en l''occurrence la vallée du Rhône toute proche. L''activité essentielle est le débitage sur silex en rognons et galets. Celui-ci est organisé selon plusieurs schémas opératoires mais la chaîne opératoire principale est de type discoïde. Elle conduit surtout à l''extraction d''éclats épais, dont certains ont un dos. Une partie des éclats est retouché en racloirs et secondairement en outils convergents. La retouche est plus fréquemment de type scalariforme pour l''ensemble G le plus ancien, ordinaire pour les ensembles supérieurs F et D. La fréquence de la retouche scalariforme pourrait faire rentrer certaines occupations dans le Moustérien de type Quina. Le même type de débitage s''observe dans quelques autres sites du même secteur géographique, comme Saint-Marcel, Le Figuier, l''abri Moula ou la Baume Néron. La question de sa signification est discutée.
Mortality Profile and Taphonomy : A Look at Huron Deer Procurement
Authors: Horvath Ildiko
Published: March 2022

Faunal assemblages that preserve in the archaeological record and reach the desk of zooarchaeologists are not always representative of past subsistence practices and diet. Taphonomic factors affect bone accumulation, deposition and preservation at archaeological sites and these need to be filtered out before conclusions are drawn about human behaviour and the exploitation of faunal resources. In this study, ethnohistoric references to Huron subsistence are confronted with faunal data from a late prehistoric site. The analysis reveals that taphonomic processes have altered bone deposition and preservation of the faunal assemblage, in general, and of the collection white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) remains, in particular. The mortality profile constructed with the use of NISP counts reveals low relative percentage of young deer in the assemblage. Taphonomic processes, rather than game procurement strategies are invoked as the main causal factor behind such distribution.
The international dimension of the romanians’ antiottoman fight between the 15th and the 18th century
Authors: Georgescu Maria
Published: March 2022

Les évolutions de l 'espace roumain ont été très influencées par les facteurs externes, par les états plus ou moins proches dont les intérêts se sont croisés dans cette zone géographique de grande importance pour l’Europe Centrale et du Sud-Est. Du 15' au IS1’ siècle, l'espace roumain a subi des pressions militaires, politiques et économiques de toutes parts.

La dimension internationale de la lutte anti-ottomane des roumains qui constitue le sujet de cette élude aura pour issue le maintien de l'autonomie et de l'intégrité territoriale des pays roumains. Nous soulignerons les évènements politiques principaux auxquels les pays roumains ont participé pendant les siècles mentionnés, soulignant leur place et leur rôle dans le cadre des relations internationales du I5'‘ au 18e siècle, et l ’influence de ces relations sur leur situation politique.

L'expansion de l’Empire ottoman dans la direction de l'Europe Centrale a été arrêtée par la résistance isolée ou coalisée des Pays Roumains, le Danube devenant, pendant cette période, pour l’Empire ottoman, le principal front européen.

Les Roumains ont mené une lutte solide de défense de leurs pays. Cette lutte anti-ottomane des Roumains du 15' au 18'' siècle a produit un grand nombre de pertes pour les armées ottomanes et ù eu des conséquences importantes pour les pays de notre continent.
Internal and international conditions for the establishing of the Romanian Patriarchate
Authors: Şarpe Ciprian
Published: March 2022

Im Jahre 1885 hat le die Ökumenische Patria reine die Autocephalie der Rumänischen Kirche anerkennt. Danach aber die politischen Bedingungen haben der Rumänischen Kirche nicht erlaubt, Patriarchie zu entstehen, so dass dieses Thema nur in 1919, unter besseren Bedingungen aufgenonunen wurde. Vom Jahre 1919 bis zum Jahre 1924 haben sich viele Vorschläge für die Entstehung der Rumänischen Patriarchie gemacht,. Die erste Vorchläge vom 9. März 1919, hatten keinen Erfolg. Der nächste Schritt wurde im Jahre 1919 gemacht, als der priesterliche Kongress am 6-8 März in Sibiu stattgefunden ist. Andere Schritte wurden durch zwei andere Geschehen verwirklicht : die Kirchenberalung vom 12-15 Juni 1919, und die Kirchenkonstituante, vom Bukarest. 1920-1921. Der Heilige Synod hat am 4. Februar 1925 die Entstehung der Rumänischen Patriarchie entschieden, danach wird diese Realität auch von der Ökumenischen Patriarchie am 30. Juli 1925 anerkennt.
L'industrie roumaine entre la création de l'état national et la guerre d'indépendance (1860-1878) - orientations et conceptions
Authors: Băsccanu Ovidiu
Published: March 2022

After the constitution of the Modem Romanian Slate by the Union of Romanian Principalities in January 1859. the Romanian trend began to affirm itself in the Romanian economic politics strongly.

The maintainers of the new trend were especially the liberals -the radicals reunited around I. C. Brătianu and the moderates of M. Kogălniceanu as well. The new trend was asking, mainly, for the adoption of some encouragement and protection measures concerning the young national industry in Romania faced with the foreign capital rivalry.

Great historians, such as A. D Xenopol. B. P. Harden. M. Kogălniceanu, but also gret economists — the best known being P. S. Aurelian -promoted the new protectionist doctrine based on some careful analysis of Romanian economy and up theoretical studies towards the economic development of Romania.
Surface analyses of archaeological objects - Some new perspectives with Laser Scanning Microscopy
Authors: Steguweit Leif
Published: March 2022

The development of computer-aided microscopy opens new opportunities for the documentation of anthropogenious surface modification of archaeological finds. Laser Scanning Microscopes contribute significantly to advances in quantifying the surface topography of objects, as is shown here on two kinds of human modified finds : The first example deals with cutmarks on animal bones, shown here on some very remarkable objects from the Middle Pleistocene site of Bilzingsleben. The main focus is on bones with regular engravings associated with intentional activity of early humans. Characterising the cuts this way reveals new indications of the amazing regularity, probably on every bone produced by the same cutting edge of a tool. Surface modifications of cutting edges on flint tools were also investigated, in order to differentiate possible usewear from sedimentological alteration. Measurment of roughness becomes possible within well-defined technical parameters. Given the technical potential of LSM there very promising data-based systems for quantifying modifications on both lithic artefacts and bones can be developed.
Les sites à débitage de type discoïde. Comportements techniques, territoires et mobilité dans la moyenne vallée du Rhône du Pléistocène moyen au début du Pléistocène supérieur
Authors: Moncel Marie-Hélène
Published: March 2022

The excavations lead on the site of Payre, dated of MIS 7 and 5, bring new data on assemblages with a discoid behaviour located in the middle Rhône valley (south-eastern France). Several sites of the same area offer similar technical behaviour, associated to various faunal remains and environmental patterns. The increase of the fieldworks in this geographical area these last years carries to new hypothesis on the human settlement and to a synthesis on the raw material gathering, the technical behaviour and the subsistence behaviour.
Les industries aurignaciennes et « aurignacoïdes »en Moldavie après 30.000BP
Authors: Noiret Pierre
Published: March 2022

Les industries lithiques de plusieurs sites fouillés en Roumanie et en République Moldave suggèrent l’existence d’un Aurignacien récent autour de 27.500 BP, puis d’un Épi-Aurignacien, plus récent, dès 21.000 BP. Si le premier semble une expression tardive de l’Aurignacien typique, le second ne correspond probablement qu’à la résurgence de certaines techniques d’allure aurignacienne, sans filiation directe. Le phénomène est néanmoins observable à l’échelle de l’Europe centrale et orientale et ses rapports à l’Épigravettien sont encore mal connus.