bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Efficacy of Nucleo C. M. P. Forte in Restorative Therapy after Nerve Injury
Authors: Barylo O. S. , Polishchuk S. S. , Furman R. L. , Zakalata T. R.
Published: March 2023

Experimental modelling of nerve injury was carried out by its clamping and subsequent treat- ment with drug product Nucleo C. M. P. Forte. Ultrastructural study of femoral nerve after clamping detected significant dystrophic and destructive changes in axoplasm of axis cylinders of nerve fibers in rats not treated with the drug. Treatment with Nucleo C. M. P. Forte was found to be associated with significantly less pronounced ultrastructural changes as compared to the rat sreceiving no treatment after femoral nerve clamping. Taking into consideration all abovementioned ultrastructural morphological signs, it can be confidently stated that this drug product improves the recovery of nerve fiber, actingas a neuroprotective and restorative agentat tissue and cellular levels.
Social well-being of single women in the modern world
Authors: Havryilovska K. P. , Falkovska L. M. , Muzychko L. V.
Published: March 2023

The aim of the work is to identify the factors of social well-being of single women. It has been revealed that social environment, in which there are single women with others` attitude towards them, is of great importance for experiencing social well-being. An empirical study has been carried out within the psychosemantic approach. The results of the study show a negative attitude of men towards single women who bring up one child or several children. There is a need to continue this study in order to identify the subjective experiences of the single women themselves about their loneliness. The value of this study lies in the identification of the problem of a low level of tolerance and acceptance towards single women, which requires searching the ways to improve this situation.
Possibilities of community social work in the process of internally displaced persons inclusion into the new territorial communities
Authors: Shkoliar M. V.
Published: March 2023

Socio-psychological adaptation of the displaced persons to the conditions of host communities and, concordantly, search of the tools for their successful inclusion into a new social environment is considered to be one of the burning issues in the context of the migration processes in Ukraine in 2014–2017. In this article the possibilities of the implementation of different social work models with the communities aimed at integration of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) into the new territorial communities are justified. The fundamental principle that should be considered by a social worker-services provider lies in maintaining a balance between the person and the environment, as well as understanding that a new environment may become both the source of stress and desadaptation, and the resource in the problem solving process. Implementation of the “local development” model allows to intensify public initiatives, and to consider the IDPs interests together with the interests of the host communities in their attempts to find solutions of common problems. Implementation of the “social action” model is connected with engaging the IDPs into active advocacy of their own rights, drawing attention to unresolved problems, and establishing a dialogue with the authorities. The “social planning” model allows to focus on building a network between displaced persons, state social services, and NGOs for the sake of high quality services provision to the IDPs.
The impact of interpersonal conflicts on mental health performance of theater actors
Authors: Shopsha E. L.
Published: March 2023

Conflicts and their relationship with mental health always go hand in hand, especially when it comes to theater actors. Despite the enormous role of the theater in the spiritual life of society, there are many contradictions that lead to conflicts that have negative consequences for the creative process and the integrity of the theater. Psychological methods of maintaining mental health actors in modern conditions of transformation of Ukrainian society are insufficiently developed in the scientific literature. This research is an attempt to study the factors affecting the quality of mental health in actors, which was conducted for ten years. Subgroups of actors were solicited separately: soloists, ballet dancers, chorus, orchestra. Based on the results of the study, the specificity of the experience of conflict situations in each group was determined. Three main types of employees of the theatrical collective in the style of interpersonal communication are singled out: conflict, passive and benevolent, where it was found a weak but statistically significant link between the expressiveness of the styles of behavior in the conflict situation and the divisions of the theater. The influence of the personal characteristics of members of the theatrical collective on interpersonal conflicts is stated. In particular, according to the characterological features of the actors, the negative accentuations of the cyclotomic, pedantic and hypertensive types were found to be negatively influenced, especially in the theater department such as the ballet. The results obtained were used as the basis for the development of a training program aimed at overcoming conflicts and preserving the mental health of actors.
Changes in the psychoemotional state and mental health of patients under the influence of liver pathology
Authors: Gumeniuk L. I. , Gubska O. Ju. , Kuzminets A. A.
Published: March 2023

Benchmarking study of Cognitive function and psychoemotional state of 30 hepatopathy patients. The distribution according to the nosologies of liver disease was the following: 41,67 % of the above-mentioned patients had class C cirrhosis of the liver; 29,17 % of them had chronic hepatitis with cytolytic symptom and cholestasis altogether 20,83 % had chronic hepatitis with moderate cytolytic symptom and 8,33% had cytolytic hepatitis with significant cytolytic symptom. From the results it is concluded that higher percent (20,83 %) of the patients with class C cirrhosis of the liver suffer from fourth extent of disease hepatic encephalopathy and significant fourth extent of depressive disorder. Patients with chronic hepatitis with moderate cytolytic symptom and chronic hepatitis with cytolytic symptom and cholestasis altogether (4,17 % each) suffer to a smaller extent from second or third extent of disease hepatic encephalopathy and first-second and third extent of depressive disorder, which confirms the influence of dismetabolic processes on the psychoemotional state and quality of life.
The correlation between indicators of intelligence and cognitive styles in children mental development
Authors: Shmarhun V. M.
Published: March 2023

According to the results of longitudinal study of children with delay of mental development and ordinary children the attention should be given to relatively different structure of intellectual abilities of children from the target groups during the primary school children’s age period and teenagers. It was observed that indicators of intellectual abilities and cognitive and style differences of these children demonstrate sustainable character that are proved by significant correlative connection according to the indicators of defined abilities and cognitive and style peculiarities of children, obtained during repeated study. The conclusion is the following: there is a specific correlation between intellectual abilities and style characteristics of children in this stage of ontogenesis.
Treatment of dermatological diseases related to mental disorders
Authors: Kourkouta Lambrini I. , Iliadis Christos K. , Papathanasiou Ioanna V.
Published: March 2023

The skin is a means of expressing feelings such as anger, fear, shame, disappointment and plays an important role in the socialization of the person, which begins from childhood and continues during his adulthood. The skin retains the ability to respond to endogenous and exogenous stimuli, feels and integrates environmental signals and at the same time "transmits" internal states to the outside world. The medical practitioner should respond promptly to various questions before proceeding to his overall assessment through a well-structured consultation. The treatment of skin symptoms and disorders could be particularly beneficial for patients.
The phenomenon of suicide: existential choice of a person or social problem (Philosophical and psychological analysis)
Authors: Nych T. V.
Published: March 2023

The article is dedicated to the philosophical and psychological analysis of the phenomenon of suicide. The relevance of the topic is associated with the growth of suicidal behavior in modern society, the complexity of the problem and the urgent need to find ways to prevent suicidal behavior. The article attempts to analyze suicide in the unity of three important aspects of the problem: philosophical, psychological and social. The consideration of philosophical theories of different epochs, from antiquity to modern times, regarding the problem of suicide and comparative analysis of statistical data of cases of suicide in different countries, as well as in one country, but in different historical periods were combined. The scientific data of the suicidology, which is presented in the article, reflect the worsening of the problem in the modern world, in particular, in Ukraine. The practical and social value of the work consists in an attempt to unite the social, philosophical and psychological approaches in studying the reasons of suicidal behavior, and, respectively, in their prevention.
Accountabilities in the NHS
Authors: Pushkar Piyush
Published: March 2023

This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out with managers, politicians and political activists in the English public healthcare system. Rather than a dominance of financial accountability, I found a mish-mash of accountabilities, in which the duty to ‘balance the books’ was a key driver but one that relied on other forms of coercion. Campaigners mobilised the concept of political accountability against cuts and privatisation. While bureaucrats were often sympathetic to activists’ point of view, they felt constrained by ‘the reality’ of limited funds. Their conceptualisations of what was possible were enclosed. Debate regarding those limits was foreclosed. I sketch these limits on bureaucrats’ ethical imagination, theorising them as ideological closure. But at times, managers did imagine alternative possibilities. Mostly, they kept quiet regarding alternatives due to a fear of losing their jobs. Thus, corporate accountability – to one's employer – enforced service retrenchment in the name of financial accountability.
Sermons as a Formation of Ethical Behavior of Man in the Second Half of the 18th Century, Based on the Example of Sermons by Dominik Mokoš OFM (1718-1776)
Authors: Škovierová Angela
Published: March 2023

Dominik Mokoš (1718–22.XII.1776) was a Franciscan monk and religious writer who also acted as preacher, vicar, teacher and chronicler in the second half of the 18th century in various regions of Slovakia (such as Nižná Šebastová, Stropkov, Kremnica, Pruské, Okoličné, Beckov) or as a missionary in various areas of Šariš, Spiš, Orava and Poland. He was one of the most prolific authors of homiletic literature in the second half of the 18th century in Slovakia. In his Marian, Christmas and lenten preaching, we can identify intertextual references to the Bible, patristic, medieval and humanist religious literature. This study focuses on how these sources were used by Mokoš to draft his sermons and how he applied their moral tidings to the particular situations that the believers in the 18th century were facing.
Beatitudes in Juvencus’ Epic "Evangeliorum libri quattuor" – Philologically Analyzed and Poetically Translated
Authors: Wintner Viktor
Published: March 2023

Gaius Vettius Aquilinus Iuvencus is the author of the first biblical epic which is known as Evangeliorum libri quattuor. It retells the Gospel story in classical hexameter in order to adapt its form to the literary aesthetics of the 4th century pagan society. Through the analysis of his poetic version of the beatitudes, this study aims to uncover and appraise the basic principles of his periphrastic technique, whether they apply to the form or content of the Matthean original. It shows that the author constantly tries to vary its syntax with the intention to disturb its monotonous regularity. He also promotes the value of heavenly rewards promised to Christians, providing them with sympathetic epithets and embellishes the original with stylistic figures such as alliteration or contrast. As for the content, the most significant change is the occasional insertion of author’s comments, the purpose of which is to provide the Matthean text with additional theological information that he might find missing. The study concludes with our free translation of this passage into iambic heptameter or fourteener.
Kevin G. Grove, "Augustine on Memory, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology", Oxford University Press, New York 2021, pp. 266
Authors: López-Arias Fernando
Published: March 2023

Review of the book Kevin G. Grove, "Augustine on Memory, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology", New York 2021.
DESCRIPTION – ANALYSIS OF AN ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE JAPANESE TRADITION ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE "CHURCH OF LIGHT" BY TADAO ANDO.
Authors: Vologodskiy Ruslan
Published: March 2023

In the modern socio-cultural situation of the world, there is a change in the value system, which largely determines the interpretation of past meanings in religious art. Christianity is the world's largest religion, which has its own attributes of faith, for example, such as temples. The task of building temples in the context of modern times is to interpret the idea of Christianity as such with the help of new materials, new ideas, and taking into account the modern concept of human thinking. In the era of postmodernism, a distinctive feature of society is the high segmentation of various spheres of human activity, which makes the individual necessarily participate in all these spheres of life. To realize such an opportunity, a person is forced to accelerate and even superficially participate in one or another sphere of life. The trend described above can also be traced in the religious sphere of a Christian's life. Thus, a thinking creator cannot help but have a desire, through his work of art, to return the Christian's thought to the mainstream of Christian aesthetics, which states that communication with God is comprehended through sensory cognition, through beauty and art. Religious revival is impossible without the restoration, preservation and use of cult art – the most important component of church life. The subject of this research is the study of the theological, material and index signs of the cult architectural structure "Church of Light". In the study of the "Church of Light" designed and built by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando in 1989 in Osaka, a conceptual approach will be used to take into account the modern reflection of old meanings.
On Global Food Security Challenges
Authors: Votinova Maria
Published: March 2023

In the context of the constant growth of the global population, the problem of providing it with the means of subsistence is aggravated, primarily, with food, the demand for which, according to forecasts, will grow. New challenges to the global economy are posed by the tense epidemiological situation; pandemic response measures affect supply chain disruptions. As a result, a food emergency is brewing that could lead to disruption of agricultural systems, with dire consequences for optimal health and nutrition. The study examines rational and recommended norms for food consumption, identifies the advantages and disadvantages of the domestic agro-industrial complex, analyzes the calculated coefficients and factors that determine the level of food security. The proposed activities help to mitigate the identified risks and provide additional opportunities for the development of human capital.
PERLINDUNGAN TERHADAP PEREMPUAN DAN ANAK MELALUI HUKUM ADAT SEBAGAI MANIFESTASI HAK ASAL USUL DALAM TINDAK KEKERASAN TERHADAP PEREMPAN DAN ANAK DI SUMATERA BARAT
Authors: Yoserwan Yoserwan
Published: March 2023

Women and children are groups that are vulnerable to acts of violence. National and international laws have provided protection for women and children from acts of violence. In addition, customary law as one of the rights of origin also provides protection. In West Sumatra, protection for women and children is provided through customary law contained in the Undang-Undang nan Salapan and in the Petatah Petitih that exist and lives in society. Through the nagari government, protection is provided through the resolution of acts of violence against women and children through customary settlements of acts of violence that are mild in nature. Meanwhile, serious acts of violence are resolved through the criminal justice system. It is necessary to prepare a nagari regulation to provide a legal basis for optimizing legal protection for women and children that is truly in line with the conditions that exist in customary law communities.
Conexiones Culturales y Patrimonio Prehistórico
Authors: Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita
Published: March 2023

José C. Martín de la Cruz is a pioneer scholar whose contributions both to Prehistory and the diffusion of cultural heritage have been acknowledged at an international level. The present volume pays homage to his professional career, by inviting more than 40 international scholars who tackle the study of Prehistory and the dissemination of heritage from several thematic and temporal perspectives. It is thus a multidisciplinary volume in which scholars from different fields investigate Prehistory from its origins to the period immediately before Greek and Phoenician colonization; at the same time, they explore the different ways in which Prehistoric heritage is transmitted. The volume is composed of four different but related parts, organized chronologically and starting with the most recent Prehistory. The first part deals with the intercultural connections which took place during the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean area. The second part goes back in time and investigates the first settlements and early food producing societies. The third examines our remote past and its natural environment. Finally, the closing part includes a set of multidisciplinary chapters which study prehistory from several different scientific fields. All in all, this volume becomes a scientific meeting point where senior professors and junior scholars get together to offer their scientific findings, at the same time as they pay homage to Professor Martín de la Cruz.
The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
Authors: Vitaly A. Kashin
Published: March 2023

The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia: The History and Results of Research in 1940–1980 combines details of discoveries of Palaeolithic sites in a vast region of Northeast Asia (covering mostly the northeastern part of modern Russia), and meticulous analysis of hypotheses, ideas, and concepts related to the Northeast Asian Palaeolithic. Written in the 1980s – 1990s, it is based on the author’s own experience and analysis of published and archival sources. The volume is especially important for better understanding the development of knowledge on this subject, closely related to the issue of the peopling of the New World. The author presents details on the conceptual issues developed by Soviet archaeologists, not previously available to the international scholarly community. This book is for archaeologists, ethnographers, and historians of science in the USSR and worldwide. It has a special interest for students of the peopling of the Americas.
La cerámica ibérica gris: ensayo de tipología
Authors: David Rodríguez González
Published: March 2023

2022 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of one of the crucial studies in the definition of the pottery of the Iberian culture (7th to 1st centuries BC). The work of C. Mata and H. Bonet (1992) La cerámica ibérica: Ensayo de tipología both synthesized and at the same time brought to fruition a long trajectory of studies related to the material culture of this paradigmatic pre-Roman culture of the Iberian Peninsula, bequeathing to future generations a typological guide that remains valid. However, one of the ceramic types that this culture produced, Iberian grey ware, was not studied individually in the aforementioned research.

With this work and through the characterization of more than 6000 ceramics from 55 Iberian sites, our typological knowledge of the pottery productions of these protohistoric populations is completed. It is intended not only to expose the typological, but also the technological characteristics of Iberian grey ware, its functionality and even its origin and symbolism for the people who made it.
Data-driven evaluation of machine learning models for climate control in operational smart greenhouses
Authors: Morales-García Juan , Bueno-Crespo Andrés , Martínez-España Raquel , Cecilia José M.
Published: March 2023

Nowadays, human overpopulation is stressing our ecosystems in different ways, agriculture being a critical example as different predictions point towards food shortages in the near future. Accordingly, smart farming is becoming key to the optimization of natural resources so that different crops can be grown efficiently, consuming as few resources as possible. In particular, greenhouses have proved to be an effective way of producing a high volume of vegetables/fruits in a reduced space and within a short time span. Hence, optimizing greenhouse functioning results in less water use and nutrient consumption, less energy use, faster growth, and better product quality. In this article, we carry out an in-depth analysis of different machine learning (ML) models to improve climate control in smart greenhouses. As part of the analysis of the techniques we also considered 3 ways of pre-processing the data, as well as 12-hour and 24-hour forecasting. We focus on forecasting the indoor air temperature of an operational smart greenhouse, i.e. assessing the data anomalies that are inherently present in these environments due to the instability of IoT infrastructures. Several ML models are adapted to time series forecasting to provide an overview of these techniques and to find out which one performs better in this particular scenario. Our results show that, after statistically validating the results, the Random Forest Regression technique gives the best overall result with a mean absolute error of less than 1 degree Celsius.
Designing ontologies for behaviours based on temporal passive data
Authors: Siebra Clauirton , Wac Katarzyna
Published: March 2023

The use of ontologies to model human behaviours that affect health is challenging since this process involves data from multiple inter-related domains that unfold and evolve over time. However, while current ontology development methodologies are generic enough to model any domain of interest, they do not provide design guidelines for modelling time-related aspects. This paper proposes a methodology for ontology development that entails the requirements for behaviours modelling based on passive temporal data. Its main focus is on temporal representations of classes and their holistic relations since no other methodology approaches ontology design from its temporal perspective. We exemplify these ideas by modelling the sleep behaviour domain, its relations to other behavioural aspects, and its effects on health.
The association between pain and WHO grade of pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms: A multicenter study
Authors: Wang Cheng , Lin Tingting , Chen Xin , Cui Wenjing , Guo Chuangen , Wang Zhongqiu , Chen Xiao
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND: Abdominal or back pain is a common symptom in pancreatic diseases. However, the role of pain in pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm (PNENs) has not been clarified. OBJECTIVE: In this study, we aimed to show the association between the pain and the grade of PNENs. METHODS: A total of 186 patients with pathologically confirmed PNENs were included in this study. Clinical features and histological or radiological findings (size, location, and vascular invasion and local organs invasion and distal metastasis) were collected. Logistic regression analyses were used to show the association between pain and grade of PNENs. Nomogram was developed based on associated factors to predict the higher grade of PNENs. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to evaluate the diagnostic performance of size and nomogram model. RESULTS: The prevalence of pain in the cohort was 30.6% (n= 57). The vascular invasion and G3 PNENs were more common in the pain group (P= 0.02, P< 0.01). The tumor size was larger and incident of higher grade of PNENs was higher in the pain group than the non-pain group (p< 0.01). Age, pain and size were independent risk factors for G2/G3 or G3 PNENs. The odds ratio was 3.03 (95% CI: 1.67–7.91) and 3.32 (95% CI: 1.42–7.79) for pain, respectively. The nomogram model was developed to predict the G2/G3 or G3 PNENs. The area under the curve (AUC) of the nomogram model was 0.84 (95% CI, 0.77–0.91) in predicting the G2/G3 PNENs, and was 0.84 (95% CI, 0.78–0.91) in predicting the G3 PNENs. CONCLUSION: Abdominal or back pain is associated with the grade of PNENs. The nomograms based on clinical features may be a powerful numerical tool for predicting the grade of PNENs.
Construction and validation of a prognostic model based on ten signature cell cycle-related genes for early-stage lung squamous cell carcinoma
Authors: Zhang Chengpeng , Huang Yong , Fang Chen , Liang Yingkuan , Jiang Dong , Li Jiaxi , Ma Haitao , Jiang Wei , Feng Yu
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND: We performed a bioinformatics analysis to screen for cell cycle-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and constructed a model for the prognostic prediction of patients with early-stage lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC). METHODS: From a gene expression omnibus (GEO) database, the GSE157011 dataset was randomly divided into an internal training group and an internal testing group at a 1:1 ratio, and the GSE30219, GSE37745, GSE42127, and GSE73403 datasets were merged as the external validation group. We performed single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA), univariate Cox analysis, and difference analysis, and identified 372 cell cycle-related genes. Additionally, we combined LASSO/Cox regression analysis to construct a prognostic model. Then, patients were divided into high-risk and low-risk groups according to risk scores. The internal testing group, discovery set, and external verification set were used to assess model reliability. We used a nomogram to predict patient prognoses based on clinical features and risk values. Clinical relevance analysis and the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) database were used to verify signature gene expression. RESULTS: Ten cell cycle-related DEGs (EIF2B1, FSD1L, FSTL3, ORC3, HMMR, SETD6, PRELP, PIGW, HSD17B6, and GNG7) were identified and a model based on the internal training group constructed. From this, patients in the low-risk group had a higher survival rate when compared with the high-risk group. Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic (tROC) and Cox regression analyses showed the model was efficient and accurate. Clinical relevance analysis and the HPA database showed that DEGs were significantly dysregulated in LSCC tissue. CONCLUSION: Our model predicted the prognosis of early-stage LSCC patients and demonstrated potential applications for clinical decision-making and individualized therapy.
L2-Betti numbers and computability of reals
Authors: Löh Clara , Uschold Matthias
Published: March 2023

We study the computability degree of real numbers arising as [Formula: see text]-Betti numbers or [Formula: see text]-torsion of groups, parametrised over the Turing degree of the word problem.
Tolerance-based granular methods: Foundations and applications in natural language processing
Authors: Ramanna Sheela
Published: March 2023

Natural Language processing (NLP) derives its roots from artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. The proliferation of large-scale web corpora and social media data as well as advances in machine learning and deep learning have led to practical applications in diverse NLP areas such as machine translation, information extraction, named entity recognition (NER), text summarization and sentiment analysis. Named-entity recognition (NER), is a sub task of information extraction that seeks to discover and categorize specific entities such as nouns or relations in unstructured text. In this paper, we present a review of the foundations three tolerance-based granular computing methods (rough sets, fuzzy-rough sets and near sets) for representing structured (documents) and unstructured (linguistic entities) text. Applications of these methods are presented via semi-supervised and supervised learning algorithms in labelling relational facts from web corpora and sentiment classification (non-topic based text). The performance of the three presented algorithms is discussed in terms of bench marked datasets and algorithms. We make the case that tolerance relations provide an ideal framework for studying the concept of similarity for text-based applications. The aim of our work is to demonstrate that approximation structures viewed through the prism of tolerance have a great deal of fluidity and integrate conceptual structures at different levels of granularity thereby facilitating learning in the presented NLP applications.
Traverser: A method and a tool to extract user’s traverses within web systems from ontology
Authors: Nakatani Takako , Sato Kazuaki , Shigo Osamu
Published: March 2023

People explore specific services or information to accomplish their goals within a web system. Efficient visitors’ exploration routes must be defined as requirements to guide them through a good experience. In order to define these requirements, we focused on links from one object to another and developed a method named Traverser to guide the visitors from the starting point to the destination. In our study, these links are within the ontology of a service domain. The set of links to guide visitors from a certain object to the destination is referred to as a “traverse.” A traverse is inferred from the ontology by tracing associations and inheritance relationships between domain items, taking the rights of each user group into account. The ontology for extracting traverses is developed as a conceptual model with a class diagram of UML, while the roles of an association are diverted as a user group’s permissions. We also developed a tool to define the conceptual model and extract traverses. The effectiveness of Traverser is evaluated by comparing the requirements derived by Traverser with those of the use case approach.
Impact of Climate Change-Induced Rainfall on the Agriculture Pattern of Goa – A Geographical Perspective
Authors: Morakar Prakash R. , Hiremath C.P. , Jakati D.M.
Published: March 2023

“Climate change poses a roadblock. The number of droughts increasing year after year. Climate change is not only affecting farmers, government officials, politicians, and lawmakers but also every citizen of the country. Many famous academicians are also opining that the recent onion and tomato crisis is an example of the challenge from climatic change”. Goa is a tiny emerald land situated well on the west coast of India. Apart from Mining, Tourism, and Fishing, Agriculture is one of the major occupations; it plays a crucial role in the economy of the State. The above-said occupations provided the main livelihood to rural, urban, and coastal populations. According to FAO (2018), the share of the agricultural population in the study area is less than 32% among the working population and accounts for just 16% of the GDP. The statistical data for the agricultural scenario in Goa is indicating that traditional agriculture is declining concerning the area as well as production. Though agriculture is the backbone of the State’s economy, which provides a source of livelihood to the majority of Goan people, it is now rapidly declining due to physical as well as cultural factors. Researchers clearly say that, global warming is also one such factor, which is responsible for the reduction in agricultural pursuits. The present study discusses the trends, growth, and impact of global warming and climate change on agriculture patterns in Goa. Farmers, academicians, scientists, and politicians of the State think that there is an impact of climate change and global warming on Goan agriculture. The study further revealed that there is a reduction in area under staple crops, and most significantly yield/productivity is also declining (Economic Survey, 2020-21). Given global warming and climate change, coastal plains are exhibiting various problems like floods and landslides. Government officials have already revealed that the land-use pattern has already taken place in the study area, and a lot of damage has taken place concerning forests and mangroves. These are the main concern for our study to know the agricultural activities in Goa are largely impacted by global warming and climatic changes. Hence, all the hypotheses quoted tested positive.
Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction Through Granulometric Analysis of a Palaeolake Deposit at Bhikiyasain, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya
Authors: Kotlia B.S. , Kukreti Manmohan , Bisht Harish , Singh A.K. , Sharma Anupam , Kothyari G.C. , Porinchu David F. , Chand Pooja , Kashyap Rajkumar , Sharma G.K.
Published: March 2023

Grain size analysis is an essential tool for classifying sedimentary environments. The main aim of the current research is to use granulometric analysis of the Bhikiysain palaeolake sequence along the Ramganga river to describe changes in the depositional environment within the lake during the late Quaternary. The granulometric analysis was conducted using a laser particle size analyser on 32 samples, collected at 10 cm intervals in a vertical palaeolake profile, at Bhikiyasain (Ramganga Basin). The results of the grain-size analysis indicate that the size distribution of the sediment is unimodal. The unimodal size distribution of the sediment suggests that the sediment was supplied via fluvial action. The Bhikiyasain Basin (29°43.106’ N; 79°15.682’ E) underwent tectonic activity around 44 ka, resulting in the ponding of the Ramganga river and the formation of palaeolake deposit. Based on grain size analysis, variation in the colour and lithofacies, the entire profile has been divided into 6 different zones (zones 1 to 6). The silt has the highest concentration in all the zones except for zones 1 and 3. Zones with high silt concentration are inferred to represent low energy depositional environments during the time of deposition. The higher amount of sand concentration in zones 1 and 3 represent higher energy depositional environment. For the whole profile, the sorting of the samples varies between 1.1 and 2.0, indicating poor sorting of the samples. The poorly sorted sediment in all six zones represents limited transportation of sediment from the catchment and also suggests that the sediment was deposited in a low energy environment. The ternary plots also signify the dominance of silt followed by sand and clay. The skewness values range from 0.1 to 0.5 which indicates that the samples are symmetrical to very finely skewed. Variability in the skewness values may be due to changes in the intensity of wind and hydrodynamic conditions of the lake. The kurtosis value ranges from 0.9-1.4, indicating the samples are platykurtic, leptokurtic and mesokurtic in nature. Variability in the kurtosis may be due to changes in the flow characteristics of the depositional medium.
Monitoring the Air Quality and Microclimate in a Semi-urban Area Using a Smartphone
Authors: Datta Madhumita Ghosh
Published: March 2023

In most developing countries, the air quality index is a relevant issue since it directly impacts human health and mobility. Commercial devices have already been used to describe the relationship between the air quality index and associated risks. But these results are not readily accessible to the general public, especially in semi-urban areas where threats of air pollution lurk with rapid urbanisation. The main idea is to use open-source wireless technologies for real-time monitoring of outdoor pollutants where free access to data on air pollution is not available. The result of the study shows the mean concentration of nitrous oxide ranges from 1.50 μg/m3 to 3.83 μg/m3 with the maximum being 6 μg/m3 and the minimum being 0 μg/m3. The average daily concentration of P.M10 ranges from 20.58 μg/m3 to 38.43 μg/m3 with a maximum 46 μg/m3 and the minimum 13 μg/m3. The average concentration of particulate matter P.M2.5 ranges from 30.04 μg/m3 to 53.39 μg/m3 with the maximum concentration being 59 μg/m3 and the minimum concentration being 2 μg/m3 in the study period. Similarly, the daily mean concentration of ozone varied between 19.87 μg/m3 and 34.75 μg/m3 with a maximum 52 μg/m3 and the minimum 5 μg/m3. The mean AQI value ranges from 34.54 to 54.30 with a maximum value of 91 and a minimum being 24. PM2.5 and PM10 showed a positive correlation (r2 = 0.998) with each other, indicating they came from the same source. Both PM2.5 and PM10 were negatively and weakly correlated with temperature and humidity. In the study, it is shown that PM10 acts as a single variable that affects the air quality index as a result of the combined effects of multiple factors.
Investigation on Modelling and Control of Induction Machine
Authors: Varma Hena , Banerjee Sandeep , Tharani Kusum , Rawat Sourav , Panwar Vansh , Pant Piyush
Published: March 2023

The usage of renewable resources results in easing the burden on exhaustible fuels. Consequently, there is a marked reduction in pollution and an improvement in the general environmental conditions. Shifting from exhaustible fuel to a clean energy-based system is a sure-shot way of combating the adverse effects of rapid climate change. This study is a comparison of two MPPT control methods applied to a solar energy conversion system. The two algorithms i.e., Perturb and Observe, and Modified Perturb and Observe were implemented in Simulink and their results were compared. The analysis revealed comparative details related to the system.
Implicit Motor Sequence Learning in People with Mild to Moderate Parkinson’s Disease: Behavior and Related Brain Function
Authors: Freidle Malin , Thompson William H. , Albrecht Franziska , Franzén Erika
Published: March 2023

Background:

Deficits in motor learning could be an important explanation for the balance and gait impairments characteristic of people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Empirical studies often report that so-called implicit motor sequence learning is impaired in people with PD, but the results are inconclusive. Altered brain activity during implicit motor sequence learning has also been reported for people with PD in comparison to healthy individuals.

Objective:

To investigate implicit motor sequence learning and associated neural correlates in individuals with mild to moderate PD.

Methods:

Fifty-seven participants with PD and 34 healthy participants, all ≥60 years of age, performed the serial reaction time task (SRTT) during the acquisition of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. We analyzed the SRTT as a measure of implicit motor sequence learning in two complementary ways. We analyzed the task-induced fMRI data within regions of interest (ROIs) as well as functional connectivity between ROIs.

Results:

We found a significant group difference in SRTT performance indicating that the participants with PD had a somewhat lower level of implicit motor sequence learning than the healthy participants. Exploratory analyses suggested that impairments in implicit motor sequence learning for people with PD might be due to a lower learning rate. We did not find any significant group differences in the fMRI data.

Conclusion:

Our exploratory finding of a lower implicit motor learning rate in PD could have important implications for how people with PD should practice new motor tasks and physical exercise. Future studies need to confirm this finding with hypothesis-driven analyses.
Occupational fatigue and health of gas station workers: A review
Authors: Yin Yimeng , Tan Xiaotong , Fan Jialin
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND: Occupational health factors such as shift work, sleep, fatigue, and work environment jeopardise the health and safety of gas station workers. This calls for new research to investigate how the working environment and characteristics impact the occupational health of workers at gas stations. However, minimal research has been conducted in this field, especially those involving psychological and behavioural factors, occupational stress, and so forth. OBJECTIVE: This review was performed to investigate the present condition of the occupational risk of gas station workers in this safety-critical position. METHODS: Five databases (Web of Science, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Google Scholar, and PsycINFO) were searched for relevant peer-reviewed studies. Results were selected according to these criteria: studies on fatigue, shift work, sleep, and physical and mental health of gas station employees; published on or before November 11, 2021; papers in English. RESULTS: Twenty studies were considered for the final analysis. The results showed that shift work at gas stations leads to psychological and physiological problems. The psychological consequences included anxiety, stress, and depression, while the physiological consequences included biochemical changes and lifestyle consequences. CONCLUSION: Shift work and the specific working environment of gas station employees adversely affect their sleep, stress levels, physical and mental health, and turnover intention. This systematic review allowed us to consider the occupational risk factors that can lead to sickness or accidents and contribute to reducing these risk factors. Realistic countermeasures ought to be established and interventions must be explored to mitigate risks to life, property, and the environment in operating gas stations.
Two symptoms can accurately identify post-exertional malaise in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Authors: Davenport Todd E. , Chu Lily , Stevens Staci R. , Stevens Jared , Snell Christopher R. , Van Ness J. Mark
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND: Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is the hallmark symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) yet its diverse manifestations make it difficult to recognize. Brief instruments for detecting PEM are critical for clinical and scientific progress. OBJECTIVE: To develop a clinical prediction rule for PEM. METHOD: 49 ME/CFS and 10 healthy, sedentary subjects recruited from the community completed two maximal cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPETs) separated by 24 hours. At five different times, subjects reported symptoms which were then classified into 19 categories. The frequency of symptom reports between groups at each time point was compared using Fisher’s exact test. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis with area under the curve calculation was used to determine the number of different types of symptom reports that were sufficient to differentiate between ME/CFS and sedentary groups. The optimal number of symptoms was determined where sensitivity and specificity of the types of symptom reports were balanced. RESULTS: At all timepoints, a maximum of two symptoms was optimal to determine differences between groups. Only one symptom was necessary to optimally differentiate between groups at one week following the second CPET. Fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, lack of positive feelings/mood and decrease in function were consistent predictors of ME/CFS group membership across timepoints. CONCLUSION: Inquiring about post-exertional cognitive dysfunction, decline in function, and lack of positive feelings/mood may help identify PEM quickly and accurately. These findings should be validated with a larger sample of patients.
Promoting the Leadership Effectiveness in HEC Organizations of Southern Punjab, Pakistan
Authors: Adnan Bukhari Syed , Ali Aqib , Naeem Samreen
Published: March 2023

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the function of psychological safety as a mediator in the connection between servant leadership and voice behavior (promotive and prohibitive). Psychological safety partially mediates (beta value of IV-DV reduced to 0.505) and positively impacts the servant leadership. The results showed that servant leadership positively impacts psychological safety (β = 0.487**) and voice behavior (β = 0.664**). The sample consisted of 176 full-time employees of private HEC institutes in South Punjab. Both the theoretical and practical ramifications of the findings were explored.
Principal as Instructional Supervisor: Role of Supervisory Practices in Professional Development of APS&CS and FGEIS Teachers
Authors: Saeed Sayyam Bin , Ain Noor ul
Published: March 2023

The process of supervision directly impacts teachers and students in a school. The current study revolved around the comparison of instructional supervision practices carried out by the principals of APS&Cs and FGEIs in Pakistan and its impact on professional development of teachers. A quantitative approach was used to conduct the current study. Sampling was carried out through multi-stage stratified random sampling technique. The study comprised 600 teachers and 120 principals from APS&Cs and FGEIs. The data was collected through questionnaires and the reliability was .871 and .766 respectively. Statistical techniques for instance, t-test, standard deviation, and mean were used for the analysis of acquired data. The findings of the study revealed that the concept of supervision is a much broader phenomenon than inspection. Moreover, it is the duty of the heads of institutions to develop interactive, healthy, and accommodating environment for teachers. The principals need to utilize available resources in institutions in such a way that it results in overall enhancement of teaching-learning process. Moreover, the head of institutions should collaborate and guide the teachers. It would help the teachers to reinforce their competencies in field of teaching which would ultimately result in overall performance.
Sputum Interleukin-32 in childhood asthma: correlation with IL-1β
Authors: Louhaichi Sabrine , Cherif Tarak , Hamdi Besma , Hamzaoui Kamel , Hamzaoui Agnes
Published: March 2023

_Background:_ Asthma is an airway disorder where inflammatory cytokines are partly responsible for exacerbating the disease. Interleukin (IL)-32, generally referred to as natural killer cell (NK4) transcript 4, is described as an immunoregulator involved in the stimulation of anti-/pro-inflammatory cytokines. The abnormal presence of IL-32 has been observed during inflammatory diseases, particularly in asthma. This study aims to characterize IL-32 in the inflammatory process in patients with severe asthma. _Methods:_ IL-32 and IL-1β levels in the supernatant of induced sputum obtained from 59 asthma patients (mild: 20 patients; moderate: 20 patients; severe: 19 patients) were measured using ELISA. Sputum IL-32 mRNA expression was measured by RT- PCR. _Results:_ Sputum IL-32 was significantly elevated at the protein (_p= 0.00019_) and mRNA expression (_p < 0.0001_) in asthmatics compared to non-asthmatic controls. IL-32 was elevated in severe asthmatic patients (_p < 0.0001_) compared to mild-moderate asthma. Severe asthmatics allergic to house dust mites expressed higher sputum IL-32 level than severe asthmatics without allergy (_p = 0.0001_). A significant association was found between sputum IL-32 and IL-32 mRNA (r =0.531_; p = 0.0159_) in severe asthma. In the same way, sputum IL-1β and IL-32 were significantly correlated (r = 0.476; _p = 0.0337_). _Conclusion:_ The level of IL-32 in induced sputum may be associated with asthma severity.