bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
SUBSTANTIATION OF THE CALCULATION STRATEGY FOR THE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF AN INCLINED TUNNEL CONSTRUCTED BY NATM
Authors: TIUTKIN O. L. , BIELIKOVA S. I.
Published: September 2022

Purpose. Based on the analysis of calculation strategies (analytical, experimental, numerical) and their methodological features, to substantiate the most appropriate one for the study of the design of the inclined tunnel under construction by NATM. Methodology. To achieve this goal, an analysis of computational strategies (analytical, experimental, numerical) was performed. The specifics of each strategy for the conditions of underground workings and the case of the construction of an inclined tunnel under construction by NATM are analyzed. It is determined how each calculation strategy provides an opportunity to explore sloping tunnels. Findings. The advantages and disadvantages of three calculation strategies (analytical, experimental, numerical) for the study of the design of an inclined tunnel under construction by NATM are identified. It is noted that analytical and experimental strategies have special advantages, but are marked by considerable complexity during the study. Analytical research methods cannot fully reflect the complex multilayer structure of the inclined tunnel under construction by NATM. Experimental methods are characterized by a high level of complexity of implementation. Based on comparative analysis, it was found that numerical analysis is the only calculation strategy, with moderate labor of researchers and a high level of accuracy of calculation results. Originality. Based on the results of comparative analysis of computational strategies (analytical, experimental, numerical) it is proved that numerical analysis is devoid of a number of significant shortcomings (introduction of additional simplifications in analytical methods and time-consuming reflection of the real situation in experimental models). Practical value. In the course of the research the substantiation of the numerical calculation strategy of the study of the design of the inclined tunnel constructed by NATM as the most rational in practical terms is carried out.
IMPROVEMENT OF CONTAINER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY USING RFID SYSTEMS
Authors: LAVRUKHIN O. , KULISH O.
Published: September 2022

The purpose of the work is to improve the work technology to optimize the functioning of the container terminal. An important role in container terminals is played by container yards, together with personnel who handle loading and unloading operations with containers and their sorting. The technology of working with containers is the same, but there are many new devices that can be used for sorting and accounting for containers. The methodology. The interaction between workers, technical means and transport that takes place at a container terminal is a complex system. The results. The proposed technology of using RFID systems will ensure a reduction in container processing time, the role of the human factor will also decrease, due to the fact that all information about the cargo will be in electronic form, and due to the automation of the movement of containers through the terminal. Scientific novelty. The article examines RFID technology for improving container handling technology by reducing the operating time of the gantry crane on the example of the Kharkiv-Lisky container terminal. The practical significance. The use of radio frequency identification technology makes it possible to speed up cargo operations with containers and information operations performed with employees.
STRATEGIC APPROACH TO CLIMATE RISKS IN TRANSPORT
Authors: NIKOLAIENKO I. , KHARA M. , MANYK I.
Published: September 2022

Purpose. The aim of the work is to study the climate risks problem in transport systems and to form recommendations for strategic decisions on the adaptation of transport in Ukraine to the occurrence of adverse effects as a result of climate hazard. Research methods. The research has been carried out with the statistical analysis and synthesis methods. Results. The study of climate change in the world and Ukraine, which indicates the need for new effective methods and proposals that would take into account the peculiarities of the national transport system and ensure the implementation of the strategic approach concept to transport management in climate risks, has been carried out. A precautionary attitude to extreme weather is the basis for the strategic decisions formation at the national level. The main stages of the strategic approach to climate risks in transport have been formulated. Scientific novelty. The results of the study allow to form the scientific basis of the development strategy of Ukrainian transport industry in the conditions of natural dangers and risks growth. Practical significance. This paper determines the strategic measures of adaptation of the transport system to climatic risks, which are formed due to the implementation of a set of organizational, technical, construction and economic decisions. The results can be used in the development of management plans for transport and logistics companies in climate hazard.
METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF THE BENCHMARK FREIGHT CUSTOMS COMPLEX TAKING INTO ACCOUNT TRANSPORT MARKET PARTICIPANTS` INTERESTS IN INTERNATIONAL ROAD TRANSPORTATION
Authors: LUZHANSKA N. , LEBID I. , LEBID Е. , MELNICHENKO О.
Published: September 2022

The paper aims to substantiate the choice of a freight customs complex for customs and logistics services in the delivery of goods in different customs regimes. The proposed development will allow all stakeholders to determine the feasibility of cooperation both relying on the indicators of an individual freight customs complex and in comparison with others based on the assessment of the technical and operational performance of the infrastructure facility. Methods. We carried out a multicriteria assessment of the efficiency of freight customs complexes on the basis of a simulation model developed in the GPSS software environment. Results. Entities engaged in foreign economic activities turn to freight customs complexes to meet their needs for customs and logistics services guided by requirements arising under individual operating conditions. The choice of an infrastructure facility is influenced by some criteria and performance indicators that are formed and determined in comparison with competing organizations. Scientific novelty. The developed method of determining the benchmark freight customs complex will be useful for identifying the optimal conditions for cooperation with infrastructure facilities, taking into account the interests of transport market participants in specific conditions of foreign trade operations based on the assessment of their technical and operational performance. Practical implications. The practical significance of the paper is that the proposed method will allow customers of customs and logistics services to get recommendations for the choice of a freight customs complex to get serviced based on the assessment of the technical and operational performance of the infrastructure facility; customs authorities will be able to analyze the operation of existing freight customs complexes to determine the optimal number of employees needed to ensure the operation of customs checkpoints on the territory of freight customs complexes; the owner of a freight customs complex has the opportunity to discover «bottlenecks» in the operation of the infrastructure facility and take measures to eliminate them, as well as to determine its advantages and disadvantages as compared to competitors.
BioSCIENCE: NOVA PROPOSTA PARA A CIÊNCIA ABERTA
Authors: Malafaia Osvaldo Andrade , Ariede Bruno , Picotti Diego Belo , Carvalho Nerlan Tadeu Gonçalves de , Macedo José Fernando , Pascolat Gilberto , Oliveira Marllon dos Santos de
Published: September 2022

A editoração acadêmica tem muitas ideias com novas ideias, promovendo mudanças para novas áreas. Deixou de ser estanque e associado aos aspectos tradicionais, vigentes por extensões e possibilidades interativas, modernas, de acesso livre. O objetivo deste foi apresentar novo modelo de editoração projeto, além de aspectos tradicionais, seções diversas que permitem inclusão da multimídia, infografia, vídeos, videocasts, postcasts, sons, educação, publicação de dados (data papers), continuada e interatividade universitária . Foi realizada revisão digital sobre o tradicional como as revisões da área médica em situação o tradicionais da editoração nacional e para a criação de novas necessidades de status novo modelo no que se refere a todos os dados institucionais internacionais para albergar em todos os prazos e submissões. Em conclusão, foi possível transformar um periódico com 80 anos de publicação contínua em projeto moderno e integrado com a Ciência Aberta e Open Access.
Cash-Hedged Stock Returns
Authors: Ross Chase P. , Ross Landon J. , Ross Sharon Y.
Published: September 2022

Corporate cash piles vary across companies and over time. A firm's cash holding is an implicit position in a low-return asset that is correlated across firms. Cash generates variation in beta estimates. We show how investors can hedge out the cash on firms' balance sheets when making portfolio choices. We decompose stock betas into components that depend on the firm's cash holding, return on cash, and cash-hedged return. Common asset pricing premia — size, value, and momentum — have large implicit cash positions. Portfolios of cash-hedged premia often have higher Sharpe ratios because firms' cash returns are correlated.
Internal and External Content: A New Alignment
Authors: Strawson Galen
Published: September 2022

The debate about mental content is not well framed as internalists versus externalists, because there is both internal and external mental content. There is also a question about how best to draw the line between them, and this paper argues that this line is not usually drawn in the right place. It proposes a new alignment: the expression ‘internal content’ is to be taken to denote actually occurring, concrete, immediately phenomenologically given content. Absolutely everything else that can be said to be the content of experience is to be classified as external content. It turns out, under this new alignment, that internal content can be external content; this is the case when I think about your pain, or indeed my own pain. But this is as it should be.
Inner Awareness as a Mark of the Mental
Authors: Mihálik Jakub
Published: September 2022

While for Brentano it is a mark of the mental that any mental state is an object of inner awareness, this suggestion is notably rejected by the Higher-Order Thought Theory (HOTT) of consciousness that posits non-conscious inner awareness, which isn’t an object of inner awareness, and yet is mental. I examine an objection against the HOTT, according to which inner awareness is phenomenally present in ordinary consciousness. To assess the objection, I investigate arguments of Chalmers and Montague in favor of this phenomenal presence. I argue that while these arguments may show that experience is not transparent, they crucially fail to demonstrate that ‘inner transparency’ must be false too, i.e. that inner awareness is phenomenally present. I conclude that non-conscious inner awareness is an open possibility and Brentano’s posit of inner awareness as a mark of the mental thus looks unpromising.
Two Problems with Shoemaker’s Regress and How to Deal with Them
Authors: Niemeck Maik
Published: September 2022

With his now famous regress argument, Sydney Shoemaker (1968) aimed to provide justification for the assumption that at least some cases of self-awareness cannot be based on identification. The overall goal of this paper is to discuss two possible worries one may have about Shoemaker’s argument. I will show that these problems have far-reaching consequences that may diminish the argument’s importance for an adequate theory of self-awareness and that another conclusion Shoemaker and other philosophers draw may be unwarranted.
Phenomenally-grounded Intentionality for Naïve Realists
Authors: Martina Giulia
Published: September 2022

In this paper, I outline a disjunctivist proposal for understanding the intentionality of perceptions and hallucinations within a naïve realist framework. For the case of genuine perceptual experience, naïve realists can endorse a version of the view that their intentionality is phenomenally-grounded: perceptual experiences have intentionality in virtue of being relations of conscious acquaintance to aspects of the mind-independent environment. By contrast, hallucinations have intentionality dependently or derivatively, in virtue of their indiscriminability from, or similarity with respect to, perceptual experiences. Within this proposal, naïve realists can allow that perceptions and hallucinations have a property in common – that of being intentionally directed at apparently mind-independent entities – whilst having wholly different metaphysical natures.
The Significance of the Many Property Problem
Authors: Crane Tim , Grzankowski Alex
Published: September 2022

One of the most influential traditional objections to Adverbialism about perceptual experience is that posed by Frank Jackson’s ‘many property problem’. Perhaps largely because of this objection, few philosophers now defend Adverbialism. We argue, however, that the essence of the many property problem arises for all of the leading metaphysical theories of experience: all leading theories must simply take for granted certain facts about experience, and no theory looks well positioned to explain the facts in a straightforward way. Because of this, the many property problem isn’t on its own a good reason for rejecting Adverbialism; and nor is it a puzzle that will decide amongst the other leading theories.
Wittgenstein’s Transcendental Thought Experiment in Ethics
Authors: Nota Simone
Published: September 2022

In this essay, I argue that Wittgenstein attempted to clarify ethics through a procedure that, by analogy with “transcendental arguments”, I call “transcendental thought experiment”. Specifically, after offering a brief perspectival account of both transcendental arguments and transcendental thought experiments, I focus on a thought experiment proposed by Wittgenstein in his 1929 Lecture on Ethics, arguing that it deserves the title of “transcendental”.
A tri-specific killer engager (TriKE) against mesothelin targets NK cells towards lung cancer v1
Authors: R Kennedy Philippa
Published: September 2022

A collection of protocols associated with the publication 'A tri-specific killer engager (TriKE) against mesothelin targets NK cells towards lung cancer' by Kennedy et al.
Time-lapse killing assay (spheroid - IncuCyte) v1
Authors: R Kennedy Philippa
Published: September 2022

Many tumors exist in vivo as three-dimensional masses. In order to better model the dynamics of three-dimensional tumor growth and immune cell invasion, cancer cell lines are grown in low-adhesion plates that force them to interact with each other, forming a spheroid. After spheroids form in culture, immune effectors and drugs are added to the wells and their effect on the tumor mass is measured by transmitted light or fluorescence microscopy in a live-cell image system (IncuCyte, Sartorius Inc).
Overall protocol for MicroPOTS LCMS top down proteomics of pancreas tissue sections v1
Authors: Zhou Mowei
Published: September 2022

This is the overall workflow for LCMS top down proteomics of pancreas functional units from tissue sections using the MicroPOTS platform. The expected outcomes are proteoform identification and quantitation values from selected tissue functional units.
collection with public v1
Authors: Murzin Misha
Published: September 2022

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Overall protocol for 2D intact proteoform mapping by MALDI imaging v1
Authors: J. Zemaitis Kevin
Published: September 2022

Scope: An overall protocol outlining several nested sub-protocols for the 2D mapping of intact proteoforms from human tissue by MALDI imaging on an UHMR Q Exactive Orbitrap MS. Expected Outcomes: Annotated ion images of intact proteoforms ready to be ingested and disseminated.
Cell line information v1
Authors: R Kennedy Philippa
Published: September 2022

An amalgamation of cell line data in the lab. Its origin and standard culture conditions.
Assessing IL-15 bioavailability ("the bioassay") v1
Authors: R Kennedy Philippa
Published: September 2022

Assessing the capacity of IL-15 analogs (e.g. within TriKE molecules) to stimulate proliferation of NK-92 cells. NK-92 are deprived of cytokines overnight, then cultured with IL-15 analogs for two days. After this time, the expansion of viable cells is quantitatively assessed using a redox-sensitive dye that changes from blue/non-fluorescent in media to pink/fluorescent upon reduction in viable cells. It should be noted that NK-92 lack CD16, so delivery of IL-15 to these cells should not be enhanced by the anti-CD16 component of the TriKE as it would be for CD16+ NK-92 or CD16+ pNK cells. This protocol is adapted from the following assays: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0022175994903964 http://doi.wiley.com/10.1046/j.1440-1711.1998.00733.x
Factors Contributing to the Gap Between Listening and Speaking Skills Performance Among University Students Post COVID-19
Authors: Metwally Amal Abdelsattar , Hakami Sabreen Ahmed A. , Alabdaly Abeer Hussien
Published: September 2022

The present study explores the improvement in speaking skill as compared to the listening skill in EFL traditional classrooms post COVID-19. In this context, the grades of 168 female students at the intermediate level at the department of English language, faculty of languages and translation, King Khalid University were analyzed. A comparative analysis of the data of both listening and speaking exams was conducted to find out the gap between both skills. The data were gathered then analyzed using the SPSS statistical analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient to determine the relationship between the variables. The results indicated that students’ listening exam grades are better than their speaking grades. The investigations suggest that nonlinguistic factors (i.e. anxiety, stress because of speaking in front of the class, and other psychological fears) significantly affect the students’ speaking skill. The students were also requested to complete a survey about their experiences with traditional speaking sessions and face-to-face speaking exams. The study is both descriptive as well as prescriptive. It describes the current situation of the gap between students’ skills and the nonlinguistic factors resulting in students’ lower grades in speaking as compared to the listening skill. It ends up with suggesting some guidelines to help teachers improve their students’ speaking skill and overcome their fears of face-to-face speaking exams especially after a long period of virtual learning and examination environment. The study provides invaluable insights to make the best possible, data-based recommendations to optimize speaking skill in EFL traditional classrooms.
Cross-Linguistic Influences in Writing: A Case Study of a Chinese International Student
Authors: Zhang Wenli
Published: September 2022

There has been a longstanding debate on the use of native language (L1) in second language acquisition (SLA). One important topic in language education to investigate is the use of language in the second language (L2) writing process. The majority of studies have focused on L2 writers in English as a foreign language (EFL) settings. Quantitative research approaches have been dominant. Nevertheless, the complexity of this issue cannot be comprehensively explored without qualitative analysis. This case study investigates the language use of a Chinese international college student in the United States throughout the L2 writing process. It adopts a qualitative research approach. The findings show that language learners draw upon their entire linguistic repertoire while writing; even those with a high proficiency level still rely upon their L1 in the L2 writing process. The findings also reveal the multiple functions of the L1 in facilitating L2 writing. Although this study primarily focuses on the linguistic influences of the L1, its implications can be generalized to a broader context. Teachers working with English learners (ELs) or bilingual students are highly recommended to acknowledge and gain a comprehensive understanding of the value of students’ linguistic knowledge, as well as embrace and strategically utilize students’ linguistic repertoires.
Shape Dynamic Time Warping for Seismic Waveform Inversion
Authors: Tan Jiayan , Langston Charles A.
Published: September 2022

We illustrate shape dynamic time warping (ShapeDTW) for 1D structure waveform inversion with examples from Tanzania, East Africa, and Northeastern Oklahoma. Seismograms of the Mw 5.9 Lake Rukwa, Tanzania, earthquake (18 August 1994) recorded by regional broadband seismographic stations of the Tanzania Broadband Seismic Experiment are used to demonstrate the method. We also test the inversion through solving for 1D crustal velocity structure of the Cherokee Platform in Oklahoma using seismograms of the 2011 Mw 5.7 Prague, Oklahoma, earthquake recorded by the EarthScope Transportable Array. Dynamic time warping (DTW) bypasses the time expense required for manual identification of seismic phases and shows potential for linking discrete seismic phases between two similar waveforms. ShapeDTW improves inversion performance by characterizing the character of the time series near each amplitude point. Applying Sakoe-Chiba band limits to ShapeDTW and an additional amplitude constraint improves the overfitting problem that occurs with the classic DTW method. We apply ShapeDTW to estimate optimal time shifts between observed and synthetic waveforms with time shifts reduced through inversion. The crustal velocity model of Tanzania found using ShapeDTW is close to that found using “phase time inversion” of numerous regional seismic phases observed in the three-component waveforms in a previous study but avoids the necessity of isolating and interpreting different seismic phases in the waveforms. Reducing the ShapeDTW functional misfits can overcome the cycle-skipping problem that often occurs with direct comparison of amplitudes in waveform inversion. This method may be useful in generating starting models for other 1D and 3D inversion methods.
Adolfo Revuelta Fernández, o “Tissié español”: a súa etapa en Santiago de Compostela (1903-1923)
Authors: Antas Ramos José Luis
Published: September 2022

Adolfo Revuelta Fernández (1867-1935) graduouse na Escola Central de Ximnástica en 1889. Entre 1903 e 1923 exerceu de profesor da disciplina de Ximnasia no Instituto de Santiago e na Escola Normal. Introduciu as prácticas deportivas en Compostela, organizou as primeiras competicións e creou o primeiro club deportivo. Na súa cátedra no Instituto innovou a metodoloxía do ensino da Ximnasia aplicando o sistema sueco segundo a proposta desenvolvida polo doutor francés Philippe Tissié. Afondou nese modelo dedicando unha especial atención ao ámbito da educación física da muller. Divulgou as súas experiencias educativas a través de artigos, escritos e conferencias, ademais de promover ao longo de toda a súa vida a saúde e as prácticas físicas. Introduciu o movemento de exploradores (scoutismo) en Santiago e organizou e participou en múltiples das súas actividades. Na etapa final da súa traxectoria docente puxo a súa bagaxe compostelá ao servizo de iniciativas pioneiras, como o Curso Civil de Especialización en Educación Física para Mestras e Mestres na Escola Normal Central.
A queda de um Diretor Geral. O estranho caso do inquérito de 1945 ao Ensino Liceal Feminino e o seu debate
Authors: Azevedo Rodrigo
Published: September 2022

Em 1945 a Educação Nacional, versão salazarista da Educação totalitária caraterística dos regimes fascistas, estava já profundamente implantada em todo o Sistema de Ensino Português. A maioria dos liceus era de frequência mista, onde se praticava uma propalada coeducação profundamente vigiada. Neste contexto, o Diretor Geral do Ensino Liceal enviou, no final de 1945, para os Liceus um inquérito sob o título de Ensino Liceal Feminino. Nele se questionavam os reitores e os professores sobre a coeducação, mas também sobre a formação dos professores, a possibilidades destes lecionarem alunos que não fossem do seu sexo e, mesmo, problemas de ordem salarial. O questionário abriu um debate inédito entre os professores, nos liceus em que os reitores não o boicotaram, e causou uma rara polémica na imprensa do partido único e da Igreja, bem como na Assembleia Nacional, tendo terminado com a demissão e aposentação do atrevido e incauto Diretor Geral.
The role of pacemaker algorithms in preventing atrial fibrillation progression
Authors: Abdelmoneum M.S. , Aboul-Enein H. M. , Abdelhakeem A.S. , Makled W.A.E. , Darwish M.S.
Published: September 2022

Background: Unnecessaryright ventricular (RV) pacing leads to cardiac dyssynchrony and increases the risk of developing permanent atrial fibrillation. Minimizing RV pacing by specefic algorithms decreases the AF risk. Aim and objectives: Our objective was to study the effect of pacemaker algorithms on atrial fibrillation progression. Subjects and Methods: Patients with dual chamber (group A) and single chamber (group B)pacemakers were included in the study. Patients with history of AF at the time of pacemaker implantation were not included in the study. The relation between pacemaker parameters and AF development was monitored. Result: Group A showed that RV pacing percentage had high significance for developing AF with P value P <0.001, also A pacing had high significance for developing AF with P value <0.001 and VIP mode OFF there was high significance of developing AF with P value <0.001.As regards group B RV pacing (%) had high significant risk for developing AF with p value<0.001,Also hysteresis off had high significant risk for developing AF with p value<0.005. Conclusion: Reducing unnecessary RV pacing in single and dual chamber pacemakers is assossiated with decreasing the risk of AF.
Comparative analysis of visual quality between unilateral implantation of a trifocal intraocular lens and a rotationally asymmetric refractive multifocal intraocular lens
Authors:   Shaanxi Eye Hospital, Xi’an People’s Hospital (Xi’an Fourth Hospital), Affiliated Guangren Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi Province, China, Hui Na , Li Yan ,   Shaanxi Eye Hospital, Xi’an People’s Hospital (Xi’an Fourth Hospital), Affiliated Guangren Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi Province, China, Wang Cong-Yi ,   Shaanxi Eye Hospital, Xi’an People’s Hospital (Xi’an Fourth Hospital), Affiliated Guangren Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi Province, China, Yu Lei ,   Shaanxi Eye Hospital, Xi’an People’s Hospital (Xi’an Fourth Hospital), Affiliated Guangren Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi Province, China, Ma Bo ,   Shaanxi Eye Hospital, Xi’an People’s Hospital (Xi’an Fourth Hospital), Affiliated Guangren Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710004, Shaanxi Province, China
Published: September 2022

AIM: To compare visual quality after unilateral cataract surgery with implantation of trifocal intraocular lens (IOL) and asymmetric refractive multifocal IOL.
METHODS: The prospective nonrandom, comparative study consisted of 60 eyes of 60 patients suffering unilateral cataract surgery with implantation of two different IOLs: AT LISA tri 839MP (30 eyes; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Germany) and LS-313 MF30 (30 eyes; Oculentis GmbH, Germany). Visual acuity, refractive outcome, contrast sensitivity, defocus curves, quality of vision, and optical phenomena were evaluated at 3mo postoperatively.
RESULTS: There were no statistical differences between groups in uncorrected distance visual acuity (P=0.13) and uncorrected near visual acuity (P=0.54). In contrast, uncorrected intermediate visual acuity was better in trifocal group compared to the refractive multifocal group (P=0.02). No significant statistical between-group difference was detected in cylinder (P=0.43). Compared to trifocal group, spherical refraction and spherical equivalent in refractive multi focal group were more myopic (P<0.01). Under photopic conditions, no significant statistical differences were found between groups in contrast sensitivity at 3 and 6 cycles per degree (cpd). The refractive multifocal group performed better at 12 and 18 cpd than the trifocal group (P=0.01, P=0.034, respectively). The questionnaires of quality of vision and optical phenomena showed no differences between groups.
CONCLUSION: Trifocal IOL is superior to refractive multifocal IOL in intermediate visual acuity. Rotationally asymmetric refractive multifocal IOL is more myopic in automated refraction and significantly better for the photopic contrast sensitivity at high frequency.
Reprodutibilidade Técnica do Cálculo do Volume Vaginal - Um Estudo Piloto
Authors: Haddad Natália Carion , Soares Leila Cristina , Oliveira Marco Aurelio Pinho , Bnardo-Filho Mário
Published: September 2022

Objetivo: Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar a reprodutibilidade de uma técnica de mensuração do volume vaginal. Métodos: A mensuração do volume vaginal foi realizada com espéculo, pinça Cheron, fita métrica e escova cervical em trinta e uma mulheres do ambulatório de patologia cervical de um hospital público terciário do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. A partir dos diâmetros ântero-posterior e lateral e do comprimento do canal vaginal (em cm), foi calculado o volume vaginal (em cm3). A análise estatística foi realizada com o software R Statistical Software versão 3.6.2. Resultados: Não houve correlação entre volume vaginal e paridade, índice de massa corporal, frequência sexual ou cor da pele. Houve variabilidade no volume vaginal entre as diferentes mulheres; no entanto, houve pouca variação de volume entre a mesma mulher que realizou medições em diferentes consultas (ICC 0,96; IC 95%) e por diferentes examinadores (ICC 0,98; IC 95%). Conclusão: A técnica apresentou reprodutibilidade inter e intra-examinadores.
Equilibrium in a Symmetric Game of Resource Extraction with Coalitional Structure
Authors: Sylenko Illia
Published: September 2022

The game of resource extraction / capital accumulation is a stochastic nonzero-sum infinite horizon game, obtained as an extension of the well-known optimal growth model to m strategically competing players, who jointly posses a renewable resource. The existence of a Nash equilibrium in different, often symmetric, frameworks of the game received a significant attention in the scientific literature on the topic. The focus of this paper is to introduce the coalitional component to the symmetric problem. Specifically, we examine whether the game with a fixed coalitional structure admits stability against profitable coalitional deviations.It is assumed that the set of all players is partitioned into coalitions which do not intersect and remain consistent throughout the game. The members of each coalition are able to coordinate their actions and perform joint deviations in a cooperative manner. Such setting incorporates a natural concept of established social ties, which may reflect a potential context appearing in practical applications. The corresponding notion of equilibrium in the paper is expressed as a position, from which none of the set coalitions can deviate in a manner to increase a total reward of its members. Its existence is studied in the context of a certain symmetric resource extraction game model with unbounded utilities of the players. This model was studied in [12; 13], concluding a Stationary Markov Perfect Equilibrium existence in both symmetric and non-symmetric game structure. The first feature of the model is that the preferences of the players are considered to be isoelastic in the form of strictly concave power functions. Furthermore, the law of motion between states is set to follow a geometric random walk in relation to players' joint investments. We prove that the game within the formulated settings admits stability against profitable coalitional deviations for any partition on the set of agents. The method provides an algorithm for building the corresponding stationary strategies, which can be useful for practical purposes. Finally, we use two examples with different numerical configurations to illustrate possible patterns of how the individual rewards of the players vary depending on a coalitional structure, which is set at the beginning of the game.
Diameter Search Algorithms for Directed Cayley Graphs
Authors: Olshevskyi Maksym
Published: September 2022

It is considered a well known diameter search problem for finite groups. It can be formulated as follows: find the maximum possible diameter of the group over its system of generators. The diameter of a group over a specific system of generators is the diameter of the corresponding Cayley graph. In the paper a closely related problem is considered. For a specific system of generators find the diameter of corresponding Cayley graph. It is shown that the last problem is polynomially reduced to the problem of searching the minimal decomposition of elements over a system of generators. It is proposed five algorithms to solve the diameter search problem: simple down search algorithm, fast down search algorithm, middle down search algorithms, homogeneous down search algorithm and homogeneous middle down search algorithm.
Markers of Cognitive Quality in Student Contributions to Online Course Discussion Forums
Authors: Farrow Elaine , Moore Johanna , Gašević Dragan
Published: September 2022

By participating in asynchronous course discussion forums, students can work together to refine their ideas and construct knowledge collaboratively. Typically, some messages simply repeat or paraphrase course content, while others bring in new material, demonstrate reasoning, integrate concepts, and develop solutions. Through the messages they send, students thus display different levels of intellectual engagement with the topic and the course. We refer to this as cognitive quality. The work presented here used two widely studied frameworks for assessing critical discourse and cognitive engagement: the ICAP and Community of Inquiry frameworks. The constructs of the frameworks were used as proxy measures for cognitive quality. Predictive classifiers were trained for both frameworks on the same data in order to discover which attributes of the dialogue were most informative and how those attributes were correlated with framework constructs. We found that longer and more complex messages were associated with indicators of greater quality in both frameworks, and that the threaded reply structure mattered more than chronological order. By including the framework labels as additional model features, we also assessed the links between frameworks. The empirical results provide evidence that the two frameworks measure different aspects of student behaviour relating to cognitive quality.
FoLA2 — A Method for Co-creating Learning Analytics–Supported Learning Design
Authors: Schmitz Marcel , Scheffel Maren , Bemelmans Roger , Drachsler Hendrik
Published: September 2022

Learning activities are at the core of every educational design effort. Designing learning activities is a process that benefits from reflecting on previous runs of those activities. One way to measure the behaviour and effects of design choices is to use learning analytics (LA). The challenge, however, lies in the unavailability of an easy-to-use, LA-supported learning design (LD) method. We established such a method—the Fellowship of Learning Activities and Analytics (FoLA2)—reinforced by a gameboard and cards, to provide structure and inspiration. The method enables several participants with different roles to interact with a set of card decks to collaboratively create an LA-supported LD. Using this method helps to design learning activities in a collaborative, practical way; it also raises awareness about the benefits of multidisciplinary co-design and connections between LA and LD. FoLA2 can be used to develop, capture, and systematize design elements and to systematically incorporate LA.
Opportunities and Challenges Regarding the Development of the Administrative Capacity from Romania. The European Integration and the Influence on the Elaboration Process of the Public Policies
Authors: Tascu-Stavre Miroslav
Published: September 2022

The present paper aims to capture the manner in which the public administration of Romania evolved during the post-communist transition period. Likewise, this approach intends to identify the challenges and the opportunities associated with the adaptation and increase of the Romanian administrative capacity in the context of the adhesion to the European Union.

The aim of these changes was the shift from a controlled, political administration to a democratic one. As we will observe, the institutionalization of the formulation, implementation and evaluation systems of public policies in Romania is directly linked to the efforts of integration in the European Union and, implicitly, to the reform of the administrative system.

The hypothesis that we support is the following – the development of the administrative capacity and the reform of the public system was stimulated from outside the central administration and under the pressure of the obligations arising from the status of a Member State of the European Union.

Unfortunately, in Romania, despite the changes made at central levels, the reform of the administration has not brought an improvement in the planning or implementing of  the policies.

In terms of policy evaluation, things do not seem to be any better, the culture of evaluation, the satisfaction of the public interest or the improvement of the activity remaining the exception rather than the rule, despite the constant support provided by European-funded programs
Usefulness of Thoracic Ultrasound with an Image Processing Method in The Diagnosis of Silicosis Disease
Authors: UZUNGET Sinan Cem , ERTÜRK Zamir Kemal , BARAN Tarık , UZUNGET Sezen
Published: September 2022

Abstract:

The diagnosis of Silicosis Disease is based on regular follow-up, including physical examination, anamnesis and imaging methods, chest radiography and high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) which are the main imaging modalities shaped by universal guidelines. Due to its advantages such as rapid results, non-invasiveness, less cost of the procedure and radiation safety, thoracic ultrasound is an imaging method that can be utilized in the diagnosis of lung consolidation and alveolar-interstitial diseases and is preferred progressively.

Aims:

The thoracic ultrasound may accelerate the diagnostic process, with unbiased measurements, and contribute to control the disease progression by providing early diagnosis for patients with silicosis.

Methods:

We enrolled 34 patients with silicosis who had 1/0 or more involvement in chest radiography according to the ILO Pneumoconiosis reading score and age-matched 16 healthy volunteers. Then, pleural thickness, diaphragmatic thickness, pleural plaque, B line evaluated by thoracic ultrasound and the number of hyperechoic nodules that obtained from image processing by ImageJ Software.

Results :

There were no B lines in any study groups. Moreover, the pleural and diaphragmatic thicknesses and were not different between groups.

Conclusion

It was not accomplished to convert nodular structures in the thorax ultrasound into visible graphics by the image processing method, apart from a few exceptional cases
Re-teoretyzowanie rodzimej sztuki i estetyki w rozwoju Afryki – na przykładzie ludu Joruba
Authors: Oyeshile Olatunji Alabi
Published: September 2022

The African developmental challenge in a broad configuration, be it political, cultural, artistic, aesthetic, scientific and economic, has been predicated and interrogated on the basis of conflict between tradition and modernity. However, many researches in this sphere of analysis have paid little attention to the superimposition of the European gaze on Africa which has tried to denigrate the African past in a bid to impose or foist what may be regarded as a ‘dubious modernity’ that tries to severe the contemporary African being-in-the-world from its tradition. In this paper, I try to show that African culture and arts, especially from the trajectory of tradition cannot be separated from modernity. Just as tradition provides the pivot on which modernity is erected, there are also traces of tradition in modern expressions of African arts and culture. In this paper therefore, I defend the view that it is tradition, as can be gleaned in African arts and aesthetics, especially in Yoruba culture of South-Western Nigeria that provides the basis for modern African culture in its utilitarian and moral dimensions. I also do a critique of the philosophical arguments bordering on the tradition-modernist debate in African philosophy and then make a case for African modernity rooted in tradition, the absence of the latter has led to the stunted development of arts and culture in contemporary Africa. The Yoruba artistic and aesthetic weltanschauung (worldview) is then used as the basis for my thesis of re-theorizing indigenous African arts and aesthetics for African development. The methodology of this paper is made up of historical, analytic and reconstructive aspects of philosophy. The paper traces the history of the denigration of African arts, and engages in the analysis of its constitutive forms. Thereafter, an attempt is made to reconstruct these various elements to pave way for a development oriented culture predicated on the synergy of tradition and modernity. It is concluded that the development of Africa is to be largely founded on values which tradition has bequeathed, though from a critical perspective, and which must be reckoned with if there is to be a genuine African renaissance.
Maski ludu Nuna w rytuale inicjacji – symbolika i sztuka
Authors: Podsiadły Magdalena
Published: September 2022

The sacred living masks that take part in ritual of initiation are slowly dying in Africa. Civilization puts them to rest. However in Burkina Faso, peoples of Bwaba, Mossi, Gurunsi, and Kurumba that profess animism, cultivate a cult of ritual mask, especially in region of Big Masks, in area from Bobo-Dioulasso to Boromo. The subject of the article are the zoomorphic masks of Nuna – the people that belongs to Gurunsi. In Zawara village, near the border with Ghana, o of the most important religious event with participation of the masks is Bouzouyu – the rite oh initiation. The Nuna people don’t have the griots, so the masks store the memory in of the people in form of symbols, signs and colours. The creation myth is contained in myth of revelation of the first mask to man. The mask is not only an object of religious cult – it is also the culture-factor that enriches imagination and philosophy, shapes fairy tales and poetry and. It is a folk work of art.
Inspiracje, imitacje i zapożyczenia ze sztuki prymitywnej przez artystów południowoafrykańskich w I połowie XX wieku
Authors: Pawłowska Aneta
Published: September 2022

The aim of the article is the presentation of the influence of African art at the beginning of the 20th century in South African. Primitivism and the awareness of Primitive Art have played a crucial role in the history and development of 20th century European and American Art, in a number of different ways, although the dynamics of how this happened are complex and varied. The purpose of this article is limited only to the presentation of the influence of indigenous Art from the African Continent and the socalled primitive or aboriginal art in the South African art tradition of European descent in the first half of the 20th century such as: Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, Irma Stern, Walter Battiss and Alexis Preller. All of them have started to utilize the African iconography in their own paintings and decided to borrow some typical stylistic elements and narratives from indigenous works of African Art.
Pędzel zamiast karabinu – sztuka jako sprzeciw polityczny. Niepokorna twórczość Ramona Esono Ebalé z Gwinei Równikowej
Authors: Díaz-Szmidt Renata , Jankowski Jakub
Published: September 2022

Postcolonial history of Equatorial Guinea is marked by dictatorships: Francisco Macías (1968–1979) first and then Teodoro Obiang (from 1979 r.). The first president murdered one third of the Guinea’s population, mostly those well educated: professors, doctors, engineers, lawyers, writers and artists. The now ruling president is responsible for torturing, intimidating and oppressing the next generations of the Guinea’s people. The state itself is facing a very painful political issues from the point of view of the citizens – traumatic experiences of the dictatorships, no freedom of speech and persecution of the opposition members. The economic issues are caused by corruption and demoralization of the ruling elite which is visible in the wealth’s redistribution of the reach Guinea’s soil and in the lack of the necessities. The social issues are caused by the messy educational and medical systems, as well as by the lack of the proper infrastructure. All of the above became the main topic of the rebellious works by Ramón Esono Ebalé (born in 1977), self-made artist, who in his illustrations, drawings and comic books tries to show the regime’s crimes. The works by Esono which we are about to analyze show how absurd and tragic the Guinea’s reality has become. We read them as an intentional, lucid and consequently projected struggle against the dictatorship.
Postkolonialne hybrydy. Współcześni artyści nigeryjscy wobec problemu tożsamości i historii
Authors: Baka-Theis Małgorzata
Published: September 2022

Contemporary artists, who came from Nigeria, live between the western world and Africa. The article discusses some problems related postcolonial history and artistic and hybridized identity in the creativity of Yinka Shonibare, Sokari Douglas Camp and Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze. These artists use the western resources of artistic expression, motives and formal solutions. But in their artworks is contained “Africanness”. They take issues of ethnic, political and social identity, and some problems of economic, ecological correlation Africa (Nigeria) with West. Yinka Shonibare and Sokari Douglas Camp emigrated to Great Britain in 80s during the Civil War in Nigeria. Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze grew up in the Great Britain and United States. Their identity is hybridized; their identity consists of elements of western and nigerian culture. Shonibare, Camp and Amanze make reframing global culture, visualize colonial history, while stressing own identity and origin.
Book Review. Leading From the North: Rethinking Northern Australia Development
Authors:   Charles Darwin University, Mathur Deepika
Published: September 2022

Leading From the North: Rethinking Northern Australia Development points out that understanding land, environment and people of northern Australia should be the first step in any government policy formation. It is an anthology of articles by researchers from Charles Darwin University, James Cook University and Australian National University, and is an important reference work for anyone working in Northern development.