bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
السِّياسة الخارجيَّة الأوروبيَّة المُشتركة: ملامحُ الواقع وتحدِّياتُ المُستقبل
Authors: السحاتي أ.خالد خميس , الدرسي أ. خالد صـالــح , الفيتوري أ. نـوال بالعيد سالم
Published: February 2024

تناولنا في هذه الدراسة موضوع: "السِّياسة الخارجيَّة الأوروبيَّة المُشتركة: ملامحُ الواقع وتحدِّياتُ المُستقبل"، من خلال خمسة محاور رئيسة هي: المحور الأول: تـأسيـسُ "الاتحـــاد الأوروبي"، الثاني: السِّياسةُ الخارجيَّةُ الأوروبيَّةُ المُشتركةُ: لمْحةٌ عامَّةٌ، الثالث: أهـدافُ السِّياسة الخارجيَّة الأوروبيَّة المُشتركة، الرابع: آليَّـاتُ السِّيـاسة الخـارجيَّة الأوروبيَّة المُشتركـة، الخامس: أبرزُ التَّحدِّياتُ التي تُعيقُ من تحقيق السِّياسة الخارجيَّة المُشتركة للاتحاد الأوروبي. وتم التركيز على أبرز التحديات الداخلية والخارجية، فالأولى أبرزها عشرة تحديات: إشكالية الانسجام السياسي، الخلافاتُ المُتعلقة بالسِّيادة الوطنيَّة، الخلافاتُ والانقساماتُ الأوروبيَّة نتيجة تبايُن المصالح، رفضُ الدستُور الأوروبيِّ، إشكاليَّاتُ ميزانيَّة الاتِّحاد الأورُوبيِّ ومُخصَّصاتُ السِّياسة الخارجيَّة المُشتركة، مسألة اختلاف الثقافات في أوروبا، "التوسُّعُ الجديدُ" انضمامُ دُولٍ أُخْرى لعُضويَّة "الاتِّحاد الأوروبيِّ"، مسارُ صُنع القرار وإشكاليَّاته، تزايد حالة التشكيك في الاتحاد الأوروبي، وأخيرا الحربُ الرُّوسيَّة-الأوكرانيَّة في أوروبا. أما أبرز التحديات الخارجية: الوزنُ السِّياسيُّ المحدُود لأوروبا في النِّظام الدَّوليِّ، العـلاقـة مع الولايات المتحـدة الأمريكية، استمـرار نفـوذ الاتحاد الأوروبي على الساحة الدولية.

إن ما يمكن استخلاصه من خلال هذه الدراسة، هو أن الاتحاد الأوروبي كتكتل إقليمي قد نجح في تحقيق التكامل الاقتصادي الذي ولد الرغبة في مواصلة مسيرة التكامل والانتقال من التكامل الاقتصادي إلى الرغبة في تحقيق التكامل السياسي المتمثل في توحيد السياسة الخارجية والأمنية المشتركة، فمنذ نهاية الحرب الباردة، وانهيار الاتحاد السوفيتي وظهور تحديات تشكل خطرا على الأمن الأوروبي تزايدت التوجهات الأوروبية نحو التفكير في صياغة سياسة خارجيَّة وأمنيَّة مُشتركة. إن الضعف في السياسة الخارجية للاتحاد الأوروبي راجع إلى انقسام دول الاتحاد في تحديد مفهوم دقيق للسياسة الخارجية والأمنية المشتركة، وكذلك اختلاف خصائص الدول وثقافتها السياسية، وعلاقات بعض دول الاتحاد الأوروبي مع الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. والاستراتيجيَّة التي يُعوَّلُ عليها لتحقيق فاعليَّةٍ وتقدُّمٍ في السِّياسة الخارجيَّة المُشتركة هي الإرادةُ السِّياسيَّةُ القويَّة، التي يستطيعُ من خلالها الاتحادُ الأوروبيُّ الوُقُوف على أرضٍ صُلبةٍ، وتعزيز قُوَّته السِّياسيَّة في المجتمع الدولي.
Evaluating the Appropriateness of Learner-centered Education in Higher Education
Authors: Masaud Mohamed Mabrouk
Published: February 2024

This study aims at introducing learner-centered education as an alternative to the conventional education that exists in higher education institutions in Libyan universities. The assumption is that the didactic teaching hinders learners from participating effectively in the learning process. The study will explore possible obstacles and factors that influence the learning situation. Possible ways to improve the situation will be suggested. This will include adopting the ways of learning which encourage learners to be active participants rather than recipient of knowledge. This study is an attempt to introduce the learner-centered approach to both teachers and learners. It is hoped that it will be possible to replace the strict teacher-centered approach to learning which prevail in Libyan universities with the suggested approach. The ultimate goal is to encourage learners to be themselves, and to learn by themselves instead of passively regurgitate information remembered from lectures. By the end of the study, some suggestions are introduced in an attempt to encourage both university teachers and students to adopt the learner-centered education. This of course necessitate the modification of both teachers and learners roles in the learning process.
Analysis of the Effect of Brand Resonance and Brand Trust on Brand Loyalty
Authors: Nizarikhutama Mohammad Bryan , Murwanti Sri
Published: February 2024

Business competition for the products or goods sold. Companies utilize existing resources to obtain superior products. With these resources obtained, you can improve the quality of human resources to meet company needs. The purpose of this research is to analyze whether digital marketing and product quality can influence consumer purchasing decisions on 3Second products in Solo Raya. This research is a quantitative research using a non-probability sampling technique using a purposive sampling method where in this study not all members of the population can be used as a sample, but there are several criteria used so that a person can be used as a sample. The results of this study indicate that digital marketing has no influence on consumer purchasing decisions because it has a t-statistic value <1.96, namely 1.394 and p-values > 0.05, namely 0.164, while product quality has a positive and quite significant influence on purchasing decisions. consumers because it has a t-statistic value > 1.96 which is 6.877 and p-values < 0.05 which is 0.000.
Prevalencia de Desnutrición En Paciente con Enfermedad Renal Crónica En Hemodiálisis en Seguimiento en la Consulta de Primer Nivel de Atención
Authors: Flores Silva Josceline , Álvarez Adame Jorge Isaac , Sosa Martínez María de Jesús
Published: February 2024

La desnutrición por desgaste energético proteico (DEP) se caracteriza por una pérdida de músculo y grasa cuya etiología en pacientes con hemodiálisis es compleja, mayormente como resultado de una alta producción de citocinas inflamatorias. Objetivo. Determinar la prevalencia de desnutrición por DEP en pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) en hemodiálisis en el hospital general regional (HGR) No. 1 Vicente Guerrero de Acapulco con seguimiento en la consulta de primer nivel de atención. Material y métodos. Estudio transversal, retrospectivo, del período de febrero 2020 a enero de 2021. Las fuentes de información fueron 95 expedientes clínicos electrónicos con sus hojas dietéticas del servicio de Nutrición y Dietética de pacientes con ERC en hemodiálisis atendidos en el HGR No. 1 Vicente Guerrero de Acapulco que llevan seguimiento en la consulta de primer nivel de atención, obtenidos mediante muestreo probabilístico, aleatorio simple. Se creó una base de datos para el análisis estadístico mediante el paquete estadístico SPSS para obtener frecuencias simples y porcentajes. Resultados. El rango de edad de la muestra de estudio fue de 19 a 89 años, 56.8% fue del sexo masculino. Se encontró una prevalencia de desnutrición por DEP en pacientes con ERC en hemodiálisis de 51.6%. Conclusión. La prevalencia de desnutrición por DEP fue elevada en los pacientes con ERC en hemodiálisis del HGR No. 1 Vicente Guerrero de Acapulco.
Glioma del Nervio Óptico en Pacientes con Neurofibromatosis
Authors: Peñaloza Barrios Natalia , Ortiz Roncallo Lina Marcela , Posso Escobar Andres Mauricio , Díaz Burgos Stefany del Carmen , Rincon Molano Miguel Angel , Yepes Sarmiento Aura Patricia , Ramos Zamora Sebastian
Published: February 2024

Los tumores del nervio óptico representan aproximadamente un 4% de los tumores orbitarios y pueden presentarse a cualquier edad. En los últimos años, autores han relacionado esta patología con la neurofibromatosis, especialmente la NF-1, la cual, produce múltiples manifestaciones en el campo oftalmológico, siendo los gliomas de la vía óptica los tumores del sistema nervioso central más frecuentes en la enfermedad. Generalmente tienen la capacidad de afectar al quiasma y su curso suele ser indolente para el paciente. Dentro de las manifestaciones clínicas destacan la proptosis que suele ser gradual, se presenta hinchazón o palidez del disco óptico, pérdida de agudeza visual, pérdida del campo visual y defecto pupilar aferente relativo debido a los efectos compresivos ocasionados por el tumor, el tratamiento es conservador con seguimiento estrecho hasta que se detecte progresión.
The role of TrkB receptor signaling in Alzheimer’s disease
Authors: He Kaiwu , Nie Lulin , Dai Zhongliang , Li Shupeng , Yang Xifei , Liu Gongping
Published: February 2024

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders among the elderly. However, there is no reliable drug for the treatment of AD, which is largely due to the unknown mechanisms and the lack of credible drug targets. Some studies demonstrated the   hat the brain-derived neurotrophic factor/tropomyosin receptor kinase B (BDNF/TrkB) signaling pathway may be a potential therapeutic target for AD. As the most widely studied neurotrophin in the brain, BDNF has a high affinity for TrkB receptor and plays an important role in the regulation of neuronal survival, growth, and synaptic plasticity. Mechanistically, TrkB signaling cascade is considered to be the most important way in which BDNF exerts neuroprotective effects. The expression of TrkB receptor was also found to be significantly decreased in AD patients and AD animals compared with the control, suggesting the involvement of TrkB receptor and TrkB-dependent signal in AD pathogenesis. In this review, we aim to discuss the possible role of TrkB-dependent signal in AD pathogenesis, focusing on three major downstream pathways including phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase/protein kinase B (PI3K/AKT), extracellular regulated kinase (ERK), and phospholipase C-γ1 (PLC-γ1) pathways.
“Something Was Going to Change”
Authors: Tentomas Lazaros
Published: February 2024

The subject of the article is a critical presentation of aspects of the Democratic Transition period (Metapolitefsi) in Greece through interviews and e-mails exchanged by subscribers to the mailing list of the magazine
Disability Now,
collected from April to July 2000. At the heart of these dialogues lies the discourse about the lifting of accessibility barriers for disabled people in Greece during the 1990s. Through the use of contemporary political theories on populism, the author explains that the discourse on accessibility barriers becomes “a place of political opportunity.” The participants develop a kind of populist discourse inspired by the ideology of the political theory of Modernization, as well as by the possibilities and disadvantages of Greece within the politico- economic framework of the EU. These elements imbue the meaning of the disabled self with a dual content: They connect and unite disabled individuals by producing the expression of an emancipatory discourse which, however and at the same time, is maintained through traces of an ablenationalistic rhetoric, activated by notions of Greekness and Europeanness.
Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries. I. Target Selection Using Hipparcos and Gaia Proper Motion Anomalies*
Authors: Zhang 张 Jingwen 婧雯 , Weiss Lauren M. , Huber Daniel , Jensen Eric L. N. , Brandt Timothy D. , Collins Karen , Conti Dennis M. , Isaacson Howard , Lewin Pablo , Marino Giuseppe , Massey Bob , Murgas Felipe , Palle Enric , Radford Don J. , Relles Howard M. , Srdoc Gregor , Stockdale Chris , Tan Thiam-Guan , Wang Gavin
Published: February 2024

The effect of stellar multiplicity on planetary architecture and orbital dynamics provides an important context for exoplanet demographics. We present a volume-limited catalog of up to 300 pc of 66 stars hosting planets and planet candidates from Kepler, K2, and TESS with significant Hipparcos-Gaia proper motion anomalies, which indicates the presence of companions. We assess the reliability of each transiting planet candidate using ground-based follow-up observations, and find that the TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) with significant proper anomalies show nearly four times more false positives due to eclipsing binaries compared to TOIs with marginal proper anomalies. In addition, we find tentative evidence that orbital periods of planets orbiting TOIs with significant proper anomalies are shorter than those orbiting TOIs without significant proper anomalies, consistent with the scenario that stellar companions can truncate planet-forming disks. Furthermore, TOIs with significant proper anomalies exhibit lower Gaia differential velocities in comparison to field stars with significant proper anomalies, suggesting that planets are more likely to form in binary systems with low-mass substellar companions or stellar companions at wider separation. Finally, we characterize the three-dimensional architecture of LTT 1445 ABC using radial velocities, absolute astrometry from Gaia and Hipparcos, and relative astrometry from imaging. Our analysis reveals that LTT 1445 is a nearly flat system, with a mutual inclination of ∼2.°88 between the orbit of BC around A and that of C around B. This coplanarity may explain why multiple planets around LTT 1445 A survive in the dynamically hostile environments of this system.
Illuminating the Dark Side of Cosmic Star Formation. III. Building the Largest Homogeneous Sample of Radio-selected Dusty Star-forming Galaxies in COSMOS with PhoEBO
Authors: Gentile Fabrizio , Talia Margherita , Behiri Meriem , Zamorani Giovanni , Barchiesi Luigi , Vignali Cristian , Pozzi Francesca , Bethermin Matthieu , Enia Andrea , Faisst Andreas L. , Giulietti Marika , Gruppioni Carlotta , Lapi Andrea , Massardi Marcella , Smolčić Vernesa , Vaccari Mattia , Cimatti Andrea
Published: February 2024

In the last decades, an increasing scientific interest has been growing in the elusive population of dark (i.e., lacking an optical/near-IR, hereafter NIR, counterpart) dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). Although extremely promising for their likely contribution to the cosmic star formation rate density (SFRD) and for their possible role in the evolution of the first massive and passive galaxies around z ∼ 3, the difficulty in selecting statistically significant samples of dark DSFGs is limiting their scientific potentialities. This work presents the first panchromatic study of a sample of 263 radio-selected NIR-dark (RS-NIRdark) galaxies discovered in the COSMOS field following the procedure by Talia et al. These sources are selected as radio-bright galaxies (S
3 GHz > 12.65 μJy) with no counterpart in the NIR-selected COSMOS2020 catalog (Ks ≳ 25.5 mag). For these sources, we build a new photometric catalog including accurate photometry from the optical to the radio obtained with a new deblending pipeline (Photometry Extractor for Blended Objects, or PhoEBO). We employ this catalog to estimate the photo-zs and the physical properties of the galaxies through an spectral energy distribution-fitting procedure performed with two different codes (Magphys and Cigale). Finally, we estimate the active galactic nucleus contamination in our sample by performing a series of complementary tests. The high values of the median extinction (A

v
∼ 4) and star formation rate (SFR ∼ 500 M
⊙ yr−1) confirm the likely DSFG nature of the RS-NIRdark galaxies. The median photo-z (z ∼ 3) and the presence of a significant tail of high-z candidates (z > 4.5) suggest that these sources are important contributors to the cosmic SFRD and the evolutionary path of galaxies at high redshifts.
Zero and Extremely Low-metallicity Rotating Massive Stars: Evolution, Explosion, and Nucleosynthesis Up to the Heaviest Nuclei
Authors: Roberti Lorenzo , Limongi Marco , Chieffi Alessandro
Published: February 2024

We present the evolution and the explosion of two massive stars, 15 and 25 M
⊙, spanning a wide range of initial rotation velocities (from 0 to 800 km s−1) and three initial metallicities: Z = 0 ([Fe/H] = −∞), 3.236 × 10−7 ([Fe/H] = −5), and 3.236 × 10−6 ([Fe/H] = −4). A very large nuclear network of 524 nuclear species extending up to Bi has been adopted. Our main findings may be summarized as follows: (a) rotating models above Z = 0 are able to produce nuclei up to the neutron closure shell N = 50, and in a few cases up to N = 82; (b) rotation drastically inhibits the penetration of the He convective shell in the H-rich mantle, a phenomenon often found in zero metallicity nonrotating massive stars; (c) vice versa, rotation favors the penetration of the O convective shell in the C-rich layers with the consequence of significantly altering the yields of the products of the C, Ne, and O burning; (d) none of the models that reach the critical velocity while in H burning lose more the 1 M
⊙ in this phase; (e) conversely, almost all models able to reach their Hayashi track exceed the Eddington luminosity and dynamically lose almost all their H-rich mantle. These models suggest that rotating massive stars may have contributed significantly to the synthesis of the heavy nuclei in the first phase of enrichment of the interstellar medium, i.e., at early times.
Bat white-nose disease fungus diversity in time and space
Authors: Zhelyazkova Violeta , Fischer Nicola , Puechmaille Sebastien
Published: February 2024

White-nose disease (WND), caused by the psychrophilic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, represents one of the greatest threats for North American hibernating bats. Research on molecular data has significantly advanced our knowledge of various aspects of the disease, yet more studies are needed regarding patterns of P. destructans genetic diversity distribution. In the present study, we investigate three sites within the native range of the fungus in detail: two natural hibernacula (karst caves) in Bulgaria, south-eastern Europe and one artificial hibernaculum (disused cellar) in Germany, northern Europe, where we conducted intensive surveys between 2014 and 2019. Using 18 microsatellite and two mating type markers, we describe how P. destructans genetic diversity is distributed between and within sites, the latter including differentiation across years and seasons of sampling; across sampling locations within the site; and between bats and hibernaculum walls. We found significant genetic differentiation between hibernacula, but we could not detect any significant differentiation within hibernacula, based on the variables examined. This indicates that most of the pathogen’s movement occurs within sites. Genotypic richness of P. destructans varied between sites within the same order of magnitude, being approximately two times higher in the natural caves (Bulgaria) compared to the disused cellar (Germany). Within all sites, the pathogen’s genotypic richness was higher in samples collected from hibernaculum walls than in samples collected from bats, which corresponds with the hypothesis that hibernacula walls represent the environmental reservoir of the fungus. Multiple pathogen genotypes were commonly isolated from a single bat (i.e. from the same swab sample) in all study sites, which might be important to consider when studying disease progression.
Isolation and characterisation of 17 microsatellite DNA loci from RAD reduced-representation genomes for Asian warty newts, genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae)
Authors: Mao Ming-Le , Luo Tao , Li Wei , Xiao Ning , Deng Huai-Qing , Zhou Jiang
Published: February 2024

Asian warty newts, genus Paramesotriton, are endemic to southern China and northern Vietnam. Despite the achievements in biodiversity, molecular systematics and biogeography of species in this genus, population genetic diversity studies are lacking due to the lack of economical and available genetic markers. In this study, we developed 17 highly polymorphic microsatellite loci from RAD simplified genomic data for the Asian warty newts, genus Paramesotriton and successfully completed cross-species amplification tests on 20 samples of four species of Paramesotriton. These microsatellite markers can be used as important tools to study population genetic structure, levels of gene flow, population differentiation, mating systems and landscape genetics within the genus Paramesotriton and, thus, to make scientific conservation decisions and actions for the conservation of these rare and endangered amphibians.
A new species of Palaeohypotodus Glückman, 1964 (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) from the lower Paleocene (Danian) Porters Creek Formation, Wilcox County, Alabama, USA
Authors: Ebersole Jun A. , Cicimurri David J. , Harrell Jr. T. Lynn
Published: February 2024

The historic collection of the Geological Survey of Alabama includes several fossil shark specimens that were recovered from the lower Paleocene Porters Creek Formation in southwestern Alabama, USA. Among these specimens are 17 teeth that we herein recognize as a new species within the extinct Paleogene genus, Palaeohypotodus. Detailed examination of these individual teeth, coupled with analyses of the dentitions of various extant lamniform sharks, allowed us to confirm monognathic and dignathic heterodonty within Palaeohypotodus. We identified upper and lower anterior and lateral tooth files that can be differentiated from one another by minor variations in morphology. Additionally, numerous isolated teeth from other Danian exposures in Alabama and Arkansas, USA, enhance our understanding of the composition of the dentition and ontogenetic heterodonty of both the new species and the genus as a whole.
Linguistic summarisation of multiple entities in RDF graphs
Authors: Zimina Elizaveta , Järvelin Kalervo , Peltonen Jaakko , Ranta Aarne , Stefanidis Kostas , Nummenmaa Jyrki
Published: February 2024

Methods for producing summaries from structured data have gained interest due to the huge volume of available data in the Web. Simultaneously, there have been advances in natural language generation from Resource Description Framework (RDF) data. However, no efforts have been made to generate natural language summaries for groups of multiple RDF entities. This paper describes the first algorithm for summarising the information of a set of RDF entities in the form of human-readable text. The paper also proposes an experimental design for the evaluation of the summaries in a human task context. Experiments were carried out comparing machine-made summaries and summaries written by humans, with and without the help of machine-made summaries. We develop criteria for evaluating the content and text quality of summaries of both types, as well as a function measuring the agreement between machine-made and human-written summaries. The experiments indicated that machine-made natural language summaries can substantially help humans in writing their own textual descriptions of entity sets within a limited time.
Alternating current servo motor and programmable logic controller coupled with a pipe cutting machine based on human-machine interface using dandelion optimizer algorithm - attention pyramid convolution neural network
Authors: Agnihotri Santosh Prabhakar , Joshi Mandar Padmakar
Published: February 2024

The proposed research addresses the optimization challenges in servo motor control for pipe-cutting machines, aiming to enhance performance and efficiency. Recognizing the existing limitations in parameter optimization and system behavior prediction, a novel hybrid approach is introduced. The methodology combines a Dandelion optimizer algorithm (DOA) for servo motor parameter optimization and an Attention pyramid convolution neural network (APCNN) (APCNN) for system behavior prediction. Integrated with a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and human-machine interface (HMI), this approach offers a comprehensive solution. Our research identifies a significant research gap in the efficiency of existing methods, emphasizing the need for improved control parameter optimization and system behavior prediction for cost reduction and enhanced efficiency. Through implementation on the MATLAB platform, the proposed DOA-APCNN approach demonstrates a noteworthy 30% reduction in computation time compared to existing methods such as Heap-based optimizer (HBO), Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA), and Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA). These findings pave the way for faster and more efficient pipe-cutting operations, contributing to advancements in industrial automation and control systems.
Perception of climate change impacts, urbanization, and coastal planning in the Gaeta Gulf (central Tyrrhenian Sea): A multidimensional approach
Authors: Gioia Eleonora , Guadagno Eleonora
Published: February 2024

The coasts, with their intricate combination of natural and anthropogenic fragilities, can always be considered a crucial component in the geography of risk and territorial governance. Furthermore, coastal areas worldwide are currently facing profound and immediate impacts of climate change, presenting unparalleled challenges for both ecosystems and coastal communities. In these contexts, high socio-environmental vulnerability has often been linked to planning and management practices that, at times, have exacerbated coastal exposure, making it more prone to extreme natural phenomena, such as coastal floods and storm surges, as well as degradation. The case of the Gaeta Gulf, a largely urbanized part of the central Tyrrhenian coast in Italy that encompasses two administrative areas between the northern Campania and the southern Lazio Regions, provides an opportunity to investigate these criticalities both along the coastline and within the interconnected inland areas. This research aims to understand how administrations and communities perceive, experience, and understand the coastal risks and challenges posed by climate change, as well as their level of information and preparedness to address such risks. These aspects will be analyzed through a multidisciplinary approach, shedding light on the political, social, environmental, and economic practices in these areas, and the potential implications for coastal planning policies. In addition, this contribution presents the results of a qualitative survey involving the administration of questionnaires related to the perception of climate change impacts on the coasts and the level of information on the mitigation and adaptation practices within the communities living in these areas.
Oedipus Rex and the Mythology of Psychoanalysis
Authors: Chattopadhyay Arka
Published: February 2024

This article develops an analysis of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex in relation to the mythological and literary-theatrical place the play holds in the history of psychoanalysis from Freud to Lacan, not to mention Foucault’s counter-psychoanalytic reading. How do we see the constitutive relation between this play and the Freudian complex? Does Lacanian psychoanalysis help illuminate the play as a tragedy of desire in alienation? The paper argues for a tragedy of desire’s Otherness in Sophocles’ play, showing how the parental alterity is configured in the shifting dynamics of paternal and maternal signifiers. Be it in the divine oracle or the chorus, the play accentuates the field of Other to activate the tragedy of desire and chanellizes it through affects like guilt, shame and self-reproach, inscribed on the subject’s body in the form of scopic and invocatory drives. The paper concludes by reflecting on the status of the unconscious as knowledge, complicating Foucault’s interpretation and presenting a tragedy of the desire-to-know that produces existence without desire as an experience of suffering.
Body as Mass Media in the Livestream Regime
Authors: Valencia Sayak
Published: February 2024

In the article we discuss the meaning of the body in its material dimension in relation to its transformation in the current context, which is determined by the multi-layered convergence of biopolitics (Foucault 1978–79), necropolitics (Mbembe 2003), digital psychopolitics (Han 2014), and gore capitalism (Valencia 2010). It is an inquire of the ways in which the contemporary body becomes a form of mass media for certain populations who choose to consent to the mandate of making themselves entrepreneurs of their own bodies within the livestream regime (Valencia 2016, 2018). The author analyzes a variety of representations of femininity taking physical form g-locally in bodies, which—in an effort to comply with capitalist mandates and with binary choreographies of gender and sexuality—become businesses themselves.
Arbitrage on Life, Differánce of the Flesh
Authors: Beller Jonathan
Published: February 2024

Who/what can be had at an ontological discount? By grasping the “anitrelationality” and “dismediation” of social relations by capital’s system of accounts, we discern not only the epistemicide and the expropriation of the cognitive-linguistic by capital, we shed new light on racial abstraction and gender abstraction. We grasp in “the coloniality of race and gender” the logistics of abstraction that at once code the social factory and give rise to what I have called the derivative condition—a condition in which the multiple forms of being, when dissolved in and as executable information, are functionalized as contingent claims on the value-form by means of “the world computer.” When we say that semiotic processes are metapragmatically put under economic and informatic pressure, we are also saying that the datafication expresses more than a simple analogy to the commodity form by assigning numbers to qualities. Rather, datafication appears as the preeminent mechanism for the commodification of sociality, and thus also encodes access to social currency. Femicide and the ritual violence of parastate cartels of “gore capitalism” can be seen as alternative means of issuing derivative (soft) currencies by imposing extrajudicial if equally violent systems of account.
Body in Mind
Authors: Vršič Zarja
Published: February 2024

In the last few decades, emotion became one of the central topics in many scientific disciplines. Neuroscientific research has developed many tools and approaches for studying emotions in humans and animals. In this regard, the work of Antonio Damasio has been important for uncovering physiological mechanisms of emotions and feelings and their role in homeostatic regulation. In some aspects, his theory has challenged our own everyday intuitions about what emotions are. The aim of this article is to show that Damasio’s account of affects has underlined the importance of the body in generating feelings and subjective conscious experience and that this view of the two-way communication between the body and brain can offer a fresh perspective on the mind-body problem.
Tropological Animal
Authors: Liponik Vesna
Published: February 2024

Biopolitics and necropolitics have used animals as a concept to illustrate a particular human biopolitical situation, much in the “tradition” of Aristotle’s provisional biopolitics. In the Western context, not only our understanding of politics but also tropology and the conceptual apparatus itself are haunted by this ancient legacy, which underlies a vertical ontology tied to processes of spatialization and containment, a vertical ontology that enables an intelligibility of figurative translation. The article considers tropological systems as systems embedded in particular forms of governmentality, forms of the violent administration of life and death. To show how certain bodies are marked as animal or animal-like and used in the (metaphorical) processes of exclusion/inclusion, it focuses on Giorgio Agamben’s thoughts on Carolus Linnaeus and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s analysis of metaphorics in the most recent (r)evolutionary theory, symbiogenesis, developed by Lynn Margulis. Moreover, to radically disturb the graduated ontological premises of traditional stylistics and tropology, we move beyond existing conceptualizations of the body and the sovereign, all of which are based on de-borderization, intersections, movements, and transfigurations.
Of Times, Religions, and Revolutions
Authors: Reihanzadeh Arsalan
Published: February 2024

Starting from the impact of biblical teachings on Islam, the first part of this article attempts to show the divergent paths that Christianity and Islam have taken when confronted with the three dimensions of time (chronos, kairos, krisis). The article aims to elucidate the distinct onto-theologies of the two religious discourses by analysing various examples that illustrate this divergence. Consequently, the onto-theology of Islam can be encapsulated as “One unites in two,” in contrast to the onto-theology of Christianity, which can be formulated as “One divides into two.” In the second part of the article, one of the political implications of the onto-theology of “One united in two” is examined in depth in a socio-political context, showing how the conceptualisation of such a context can only be done adequately if its onto-theological dimension is taken into account.
Hacia un estudio diacrónico del árabe marroquí: Acerca de algunos rasgos dialectales en los documentos árabes del siglo XVI conservados en el Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
Authors: Guerrero Jairo
Published: February 2024

El presente artículo se propone hacer un rastreo a través de un corpus epistolar del siglo XVI, con el fin de obtener algunos datos lingüísticos acerca de las variedades árabes que se hablaban en esa época en la parte occidental de Marruecos. Asimismo, este estudio trata de arrojar luz acerca del desarrollo histórico de varios rasgos dialectales, los cuales pueden ayudarnos a comprender mejor la evolución de los dialectos árabes en Marruecos y en el Magreb. Nuestro estudio se basa en el análisis lingüístico de algunas de las cartas luso-marroquíes que se conservan en el Archivo Nacional de la Torre do Tombo (Lisboa).
Un dosier en curso de reactivación: el estudio del árabe dialectal/vernáculo en las fuentes escritas del Occidente islámico premoderno
Authors: Meouak Mohamed
Published: February 2024

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Morphometric analysis of structure of Jebel El Hairech (Northern Tunisia)
Authors: Neffati Islem , Deffontaines Benoît , Katlane Rim , Rabia Mohamed Chedly , Mahroug Ali , Ferhi Fayçal El , Sarsar Banen
Published: February 2024

El Hairech structure represents one of the two exposed basement outcrops in the Tell orogen of northern Tunisia. The El Hairech anticline is bounded to the south by E-W trending faults and to the northwest by a NE-SW major fault. On the edge of these two faults, the Chemtou earthquake was recorded on August 6, 1985 (MW=3.5). In order to highlight the effect of seismotectonics on the morphology and recent tectonics of the El Hairech anticline, the aim is to study the geomorphometric response of the drainage network and their associated watersheds. To achieve this, we digitized the topographic isocontours from the Ghardimaou topographic map at a scale of 1/50,000 to create a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) with a ground resolution of 10m. Several geomorphometric indices, including the Hypsometric Integral (Hi), Hypsometric curve, and Topographic Roughness (STD), were calculated based on this DTM. Through morphometric analysis of the El Hairech anticline, we established the relationship between morphology, lithology, and active tectonics. Our analysis allowed us to classify over 105 sub-basins into high, moderate, and low clusters based on incision rate and tectonic activity. The results showed that the overall topography of El Hairech, characterized by a radial outward drainage pattern, is strongly influenced by the reactivation of NE-SW and E-W basement tectonic faults.
Securing Cloud Infrastructure in IaaS and PaaS Environments
Authors: Nanda Ashok Kumar , Sharma Abhishek , Augustine P. John , Cyril B. Rex , Kiran Venneti , Sampath Boopathi
Published: February 2024

Cloud computing has revolutionized IT infrastructure deployment and management, but it also presents security and resilience challenges. The study delves into the principles and strategies of cloud security to safeguard cloud environments and guarantee business continuity. It explains the concepts of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS), their benefits and challenges, and the complex web of security principles within the cloud, including the shared responsibility model, best practices, and identity and access management. The guide explores cloud threats, focusing on common threats and emerging trends. It covers data security, network security measures, and security monitoring. It emphasizes integrating security into DevOps, securing CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (IaC) security. It covers disaster recovery, business continuity, cloud backup strategies, high availability, and cloud-based solutions, enabling organizations to effectively manage cloud security and resilience.
Corrosion analysis of orthodontic brackets and arch wires – An in vitro study
Authors: Wijesinghe D. M. L. , Gunathilake W. S. S. , Weerasekera W. B. M. C. R. D. , Jayasinghe U. J. M. A. L.
Published: February 2024

Orthodontic plates are fixed onto the teeth in a dynamic environment in the oral cavity. The Orthodontic appliances, which includes both the brackets and the arch wires, are exposed to different pH fluctuations in the mouth. These appliances are manufactured using metal alloys that made out from nickel, iron, cadmium and titanium. These are commercially available in Sri Lanka and in the international market in different prices covering a large price range. Recent studies are investigating on the biocompatibility of these materials with the aim of determining the upper limit of the biological tolerance and to find methods to maintain ion release within acceptable limits. According to the previous studies there are evidences that the Ni and Cr ions release from Ni-Cr alloy in the presence of different acidity of artificial saliva. In this research in vitro corrosion process of selected orthodontic wires in artificial saliva solutions were evaluated with the aim of identifying a relationship between the quality and the price of selected orthodontic appliances available in Sri Lankan market. Eighteen specimens from different brands were selected and immersed in each of different types of artificial saliva at different pH, for different storage periods. All the sample tubes were incubated at 37°C. The release of metal ions from specimens with time were studied by conductivity, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopic (AAS) and mass loss measurements. According to the results, all specimens prepared using Ni -Ti wires release Ni²⁺ in the range between 9 ppm – 20 ppm during one year study period. Ni²⁺ concentration in all saliva solutions has increased with time and in specimens B, D, E, F the Ni²⁺ releasing rates were decreased with time. According to this study, all brands of brackets which were used in this study may lead to develop nickel hypersensitivity with time.
Interventions for Reduction of Stigma in People with Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: Chuang Shu-Ping , Wu Jo Yung-Wei , Wang Chien-Shu
Published: February 2024

People with schizophrenia experienced a higher level of internalized stigma compared to people with other mental disorders. Internalized stigma could lead to pervasive negative effects in their life. Although internalized stigma interventions have shown some benefits, there is a dearth of interventions and meanwhile a lack of evidence as to their effectiveness in people with schizophrenia. This study aims at examining the effectiveness of internalized stigma reduction in people with schizophrenia through a systematic review and meta-analysis. Two electronic databases were searched. Studies were included if they (1) involved community or hospital-based interventions on internalized stigma, (2) included participants who were given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and (3) were empirical and quantitative in nature. Thirteen articles were selected for extensive review and seven for meta-analysis. A variety of psychosocial interventions were utilized with the majority employing psychoeducation, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), social skills training, hope instillation program, and against stigma program. The internalized stigma was used to examine the efficacy of the intervention. Seven studies involving a total of 799 patients were included in the meta-analysis. Assuming a random effects model, the meta-analysis revealed an improvement in internalized stigma favoring the internalized stigma intervention (95% confidence interval [0.492; 1754], P = 0.001), but the heterogeneity among individual effect sizes was substantial (I
2 = 93.20%). Most internalized stigma reduction programs appear to be effective. This systematic review was unable to show light in indicating the most effective intervention, however, demonstrates evidence that psychoeducation is promising. Large-scale randomized control trials and multicomponents of intervention are required to further develop the evidence based of more targeted interventions.
Explicit moduli of superelliptic curves with level structure
Authors: Bergvall Olof , Leigh Oliver
Published: February 2024

In this article we give an explicit construction of the moduli space of trigonal superelliptic curves with level

3

structure. The construction is given in terms of point sets on the projective line and leads to a closed formula for the number of connected (and irreducible) components of the moduli space. The results of the article generalise the description of the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves with level

2

structure, due to Dolgachev and Ortland, Runge and Tsuyumine.
A note on the $H^{s}$-critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Authors: An JinMyong , Kim JinMyong
Published: February 2024

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for the

H^{s}

-critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger (INLS) equation

iu_{t} +\Delta u=\lvert{x}\rvert^{-b}f(u),\quad u(0)=u_{0} \in H^{s} (\mathbb{R}^{n}),

where

n\in \mathbb{N}

,

0\le s<\smash{\frac{n}{2}}

,

0<b<\min\{2, n-s, 1+\smash{\frac{n-2s}{2}}\}

and

f(u)

is a nonlinear function that behaves like

\lambda \lvert{u}\rvert^{\sigma}u

with

\lambda \in \mathbb{C}

and

\sigma=\smash{\frac{4-2b}{n-2s}}

. First, we establish the local well-posedness as well as the small data global well-posedness in

H^{s}(\mathbb{R}^{n})

for the

H^{s}

-critical INLS equation by using the contraction mapping principle based on the Strichartz estimates in Sobolev–Lorentz spaces. Next, we obtain some standard continuous dependence results for the

H^{s}

-critical INLS equation. Our results about the well-posedness and standard continuous dependence for the

H^{s}

-critical INLS equation improve the ones of Aloui–Tayachi [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 41 (2021), 5409–5437] and An–Kim [Evol. Equ. Control Theory 12 (2023), 1039–1055] by extending the validity of

s

and

b

. Based on the local well-posedness in

H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{n})

, we finally establish the blow-up criteria for

H^{1}

-solutions to the focusing energy-critical INLS equation. In particular, we prove the finite time blow-up for finite-variance, radially symmetric or cylindrically symmetric initial data.
Symmetry and monotonicity property of a solution of $(p,q)$ Laplacian equation with singular terms
Authors: Jana Ritabrata
Published: February 2024

This paper examines the behavior of a positive solution

u\in C^{1,\alpha}(\overline{B_R(x_0)})

of the

(p,q)

Laplace equation with a singular term and zero Dirichlet boundary condition. Specifically, we consider the equation

\left\{ \begin{aligned}-\operatorname{div}(\lvert\nabla u\rvert^{p-2}\nabla u+ a(x) \lvert\nabla u\rvert^{q-2}\nabla u)&= \frac{g(x)}{u^\delta}+h(x)f(u)&&\text{in}\ B_{R}(x_{0}),\\ u&= 0&&\text{on}\ \partial B_{R}(x_{0}).\end{aligned} \right.

We assume that

0<\delta<1

,

1<p\leq q<\infty

, and

f

is a 

C^{1}(\mathbb{R})

nondecreasing function. Our analysis uses the moving plane method to investigate the symmetry and monotonicity properties of

u

. Additionally, we establish a strong comparison principle for solutions of the

(p,q)

Laplace equation with radial symmetry under the assumptions that

1<p\leq q\leq 2

and

f\equiv1

.
Cardiotoxicity induced by fluoropyrimidine drugs in the treatment of gastrointestinal tumors
Authors: Kong Mo-Wei , Sun Feng-Di , Pei Zhen-Ying , Xu Li , Wang Ze-Bi , Chen Yan , Tang Shu-Qing , Yang Ting-Fang , He Guo-Xiang
Published: February 2024

In this editorial, we review the article published in World J Gastrointest Oncol 2019, 11: 1031-1042. We specifically focus on the occurrence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of fluoropyrimidine drug-related cardiotoxicity in patients with gastrointestinal tumors. Despite significant advancements in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques that have reduced mortality rates associated with digestive system tumors, the incidence and mortality rates of treatment-related cardiotoxicity have been increasing, severely impacting the survival and prognosis of cancer patients. Fluoropyrimidine drugs are widely used as antimetabolites in the treatment of malignant tumors, including gastrointestinal tumors, and they represent the second largest class of drugs associated with cardiotoxicity. However, there is often a lack of awareness or understanding regarding their cardiotoxic effects and associated risks.
Systemic Inflammation Response Index and weight loss as prognostic factors in metastatic pancreatic cancer: A concept study from the PANTHEIA-SEOM trial
Authors: Pacheco-Barcia Vilma , Custodio-Cabello Sara , Carrasco-Valero Fatima , Palka-Kotlowska Magda , Mariño-Mendez Axel , Carmona-Bayonas Alberto , Gallego Javier , Martín A J Muñoz , Jimenez-Fonseca Paula , Cabezon-Gutierrez Luis
Published: February 2024

BACKGROUND

The prognostic value of the Systemic Inflammation Response Index (SIRI) in advanced pancreatic cancer is recognized, but its correlation with patients´ nutritional status and outcomes remains unexplored.

AIM

To study the prognostic significance of SIRI and weight loss in metastatic pancreatic cancer.

METHODS

The PANTHEIA-Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) study is a multicentric (16 Spanish hospitals), observational, longitudinal, non-interventional initiative, promoted by the SEOM Real World-Evidence work group. This pilot study sought to analyze the association between weight loss and inflammatory status as defined by SIRI. The cohort stems from a proof-of-concept pilot study conducted at one of the coordinating centers. Patients with pathologically confirmed metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma, treated from January 2020 to January 2023, were included. The index was calculated using the product of neutrophil and monocyte counts, divided by lymphocyte counts, obtained within 15 days before initiation chemotherapy. This study evaluated associations between overall survival (OS), SIRI and weight loss.

RESULTS

A total of 50 patients were included. 66% of these patients were male and the median age was 66 years. Metastasis sites: 36% liver, 12% peritoneal carcinomatosis, 10% lung, and 42% multiple locations. Regarding the first line palliative chemotherapy treatments: 50% received gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel; 28%, modified fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan and oxaliplatin, and 16% were administered gemcitabine. 42% had a weight loss > 5% in the three months (mo) preceding diagnosis. 21 patients with a SIRI ≥ 2.3 × 103/L exhibited a trend towards a lower median OS compared to those with a SIRI < 2.3 × 103/L (4 vs 18 mo; P < 0.000). Among 21 patients with > 5% weight loss before diagnosis, the median OS was 6 mo, in contrast to 19 mo for those who did not experience such weight loss (P = 0.003). Patients with a weight loss > 5% showed higher SIRI levels. This difference was statistically significant (P < 0.000). For patients with a SIRI < 2.3 × 103/L, those who did not lose > 5% of their weight had an OS of 20 mo, compared to 11 mo for those who did (P < 0.001). No association was found between carbohydrate antigen 19-9 levels ≥ 1000 U/mL and weight loss.

CONCLUSION

A higher SIRI was correlated with decreased survival rates in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer and associated with weight loss. An elevated SIRI is suggested as a predictor of survival, emphasizing the need for prospective validation in the upcoming PANTHEIA-SEOM study.