bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
NewbornTime - improved Newborn Care based on Video and Artificial Intelligence - Study protocol
Authors: Engan Kjersti , Meinich-Bache Øyvind , Brunner Sara , Myklebust Helge , Rong Chunming , García-Torres Jorge , Ersdal Hege L. , Johannessen Anders , Pike Hanne Markhus , Rettedal Siren
Published: February 2023

Background: Approximately 3-8\% of all newborns do not breathe spontaneously at birth, and require time critical resuscitation. Resuscitation guidelines are mostly based on best practice, and more research on newborn resucitation is highly sought for.
Methods: The NewbornTime project will develop artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions for activity recognition during newborn resuscitations based on both visible light spectrum videos and infrared spectrum (thermal) videos. In addition, time-of-birth detection will be developed using thermal videos from the delivery rooms. Deep Neural Network models will be developed, focusing on methods for limited supervision and solutions adapting to on-site environments. A timeline description of the video analysis output enables objective analysis of resuscitation events. The project further aims to use machine learning to find patterns in large amount of such timeline data to better understand how newborn resuscitation treatment is given and how it can be improved.
The automatic video analysis and timeline generation will be developed for on-site usage, allowing for data-driven simulation and clinical debrief for health-care providers, and paving the way for automated real-time feedback. This brings added value to the medical staff, mothers and newborns, and society at large.
Discussion: The project is a interdisciplinary collaboration, combining AI, image processing, blockchain and cloud technology, with medical expertise, which will lead to increased competences and capacities in these various fields.
A Reinforcement Learning-based Approach to Testing GUI of Moblie Applications
Authors: Tao Chuanqi , Gao Yuemeng , Guo Hongjing , Gao Jerry
Published: February 2023

With the popularity of mobile devices, the software market of mobile applications has been booming in recent years. Android applications occupy a vast market share. However, the applications inevitably con- tain defects. Defects may affect the user experience and even cause severe economic losses. This paper proposes ATAC and ATPPO, which apply reinforcement learning to Android GUI testing to mitigate the state explosion problem. The article designs a new reward function and a new state representation. It also constructs two GUI testing models(ATAC and ATPPO) based on A2C and PPO algorithms to save memory space and accelerate training speed. Empirical studies on twenty open-source applications from GitHub demonstrate that: (1) ATAC performs best in 16 of 20 apps in code coverage and defects more exceptions; (2) ATPPO can get higher code coverage in 15 of 20 apps and defects more exceptions; (3)Compared with state-of-art tools Monkey and ARES, ATAC, and ATPPO shows higher code cov- erage and detects more errors. ATAC and ATPPO not only can cover more code coverage but also can effectively detect more exceptions. This paper also introduces Finite-State Machine into the reinforcement learning framework to avoid falling into the local optimal state, which provides high-level guidance for further improving the test efficiency.
Topological and dynamical properties of Torelli groups of partitioned surfaces
Authors: Baik Hyungryul , Shin Hyunshik , Tranchida Philippe
Published: February 2023

Putman introduced a notion of a partitioned surface which is a surface with boundary with decoration restricting how the surface can be embedded into larger surfaces, and defined the Torelli group of the partitioned surfaces. In this paper, we study some topological and dynamical aspects of the Torelli groups of partitioned surfaces. More precisely, first we obtain upper and lower bounds on the cohomological dimension of Torelli groups of partitioned surfaces and show that those two bounds coincide when at most three boundary components are grouped together in the partition of the boundary. Second, we study the asymptotic translation lengths of Torelli groups of partitioned surfaces on the corresponding curve complexes. We show that the minimal asymptotic translation length asymptotically behaves almost like the reciprocal of the Euler characteristic of the surface. This generalizes the previous result of the first and second authors on Torelli groups for closed surfaces.
Genetic algorithm with a Bayesian approach for the detection of multiple points of change of time series of counting exceedances of specific thresholds.
Authors: Sierra Biviana Marcela Suárez , Coen Arrigo , Taimal Carlos Alberto
Published: February 2023

Although the applications of Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes to model and study the threshold overshoots of interest in different time series of measurements have proven to provide good results, they needed to be complemented with an efficient and automatic diagnostic technique to establish the location of the change-points, which, when taken into account, make the estimated model fit poorly in regards of the information contained in the real model. For this reason, we propose a new method to solve the segmentation uncertainty of the time series of measurements, where the emission distribution of exceedances of a specific threshold is the focus of investigation. One of the great contributions of the present algorithm is that all the days that overflowed are candidates to be a change-point, so all the possible configurations of overflow days are the possible chromosomes, which will unite to have offspring. Under the heuristics of a genetic algorithm, the solution to the problem of finding such change points will be guaranteed to be non-local and the best possible one, reducing wasted machine time evaluating the least likely chromosomes to be a solution to the problem. The analytical evaluation technique will be by means of the Minimum Description Length (\textit{MDL}) as the objective function, which is the joint posterior distribution function of the parameters of each regime and the change points that determines them and which account as well for the influence of the presence of said times.
Thus, one of the practical implications of the present work comes in terms of overcoming the need of modeling the time series of measurements, where the distributions of exceedances of certain thresholds, or where the counting of certain events involving abrupt changes, is the main objective. For this reason, the present proposal will be very useful in phenomena related to climate change, information security, epidemiology, to name a few.
Determinants of the Agroforestry Practices in Mana Districts, Oromyia Region, Ethiopia
Authors: Bekele Birhanu , Yeshiwas Endashwa , kassie Mesert , Zewde Anchinesh
Published: February 2023

Due to little adoption of the agroforestry practices, land degradation has become a serious pressing problem in various parts of the world in general and in study area in particular. Therefore, these studies aim to assess the determents of the agroforestry practices in the study area. Therefore, based on multi-stage sampling techniques 184 randomly selected sample households’ heads was determined. Descriptive and inferential statistics such as T-test, chi-square tests, and binary logit model was used to compare the mean difference between adopters and non-adopters households. The finding the study shows Senegal (L. Britton), home garden, and boundary planting are the most common agroforestry practices in the study area. The mean annual income for adopter farm households' heads was 1148743.00 birr, and for non-adopters, was 138675.00 birr. This implies that agroforestry practices make a significant contribution to the adopter's income. However, lack of farmland (27.7%), pests (16.3%), and low market access (15.2%) are major constraints that determine the adoption of the agroforestry practices in the study area. The results of the binary logistic model specify that age, farm size, and distance negatively affect the adoption of agroforestry practices in the study area. While perception were positively and significantly influence adoption of agroforestry practices in the study area, Therefore, the governmental & non-governmental organizations should have to develop new land policies to remove barriers to land access, tree tenure & an array of exotic tree species should be required to resist pests and drought conditions in study area.
A Collaborative Cache Allocation Strategy for Performance and Link Cost in Mobile Edge Computing
Authors: Zhang Xinyu , Hu Zhigang , Liang Yang , Xiao Hui , Yang Liu , Zheng Meiguang
Published: February 2023

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a new paradigm to address massive content access on mobile networks to support the fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT) services and applications. However, inappropriate cache placement and utilization and requests for cached data at different times are highly variable. Nevertheless, most current optimization approaches lack the adaptive ability to orchestrate dynamic caching environments, and although many studies use online deep learning approaches, many challenges remain. This paper synthesizes the value of cached content and the cost of transmission links to derive a comprehensive utility function that can meet both the performance and link cost requirements of edge computing caching systems by dynamically changing the weight values. To improve the timeliness of the caching policy and the efficiency of deep learning, we propose a collaborative two-stage deep reinforcement learning (CDRL) framework to design the caching mechanism; CDRL cleverly combines double-deep reinforcement learning (DDRL) with deep sarsa. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can effectively improve the performance in terms of cache hit rate, service latency, and link cost.
An Optimal Individual Selection Algorithm Based on "Layer Proximity and Branch Distance Function"
Authors: bingqin qiao , yingjian an
Published: February 2023

Using heuristic method to automatically generate test cases is a research hotspot at present. Although its advantages are obvious, it is slightly insufficient in the selection of optimal individuals. In this paper, aiming at the problems existing in the evaluation and selection of the optimal individual at present, based on the comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of layer proximity and branch distance function, a test case evaluation algorithm combining layer proximity and branch distance function is proposed. The basic idea of this algorithm is to select the individuals with high proximity between the actual execution path and the target path, and then select the individuals with the smallest branch distance in these individuals, so as to obtain the individuals with the best navigation ability. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm can quickly find test cases, especially for the test case generation of multi-layer nested programs.
Penicillin Antibiotic (Ampicillin and Cloxacillin) Degradation Using Non-Thermal Pencil Plasma Jet
Authors: RATHORE VIKAS
Published: February 2023

In the present work an antibiotic drug degradation efficacy of a non-thermal pencil plasma jet in artificial wastewater. Air is used as a plasma-forming gas. The air plasma is produced in a cylindrical co-axial assembly of electrodes powered by a 50 Hz High-voltage power supply. The electrical characterization of plasma is performed and the generated plasma species/radicals are identified using optical emission spectroscopy. The degradation of antibiotics in solution after plasma treatment is analyzed using high performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detector (HPLC-PDA). In addition, total organic carbon (TOC), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) is also determined.
The HPLC-PDA results reveal that plasma degradation of antibiotics solution followed first-order degradation kinetics with a rate constant of 0.158 min-1 (ampicillin) and 0.366 min-1 (Cloxacillin). Furthermore, the reduction in TOC and COD supported the degradation of antibiotics using plasma jet. It has been observed the plasma 9-minute gives 76.10% and 99.99% degradation in ampicillin and cloxacillin solution respectively. The change in physicochemical properties and various reactive species formed due to which degradation of antibiotics solution take place are measured. Finally, the toxicity of plasma degraded antibiotic solutions are studied on freshwater chlorella algae species. The results reveal that plasma degraded antibiotics solutions are non-toxic toward freshwater algae. The non-thermal plasma jet could be a potential eco-friendly alternative for the degradation of various antibiotic drugs present in wastewater.
Characteristics of Subsequent Contralateral Proximal Femoral Fracture:More Convenient Access Needed to Treat Osteoporosis
Authors: Jiang Yuxuan , Zhu Yangjun , Zhang Binfei , Feng Dongxu
Published: February 2023

Background
Patients with proximal femoral fracture (PFF) have high mortality and many complications. Osteoporosis increases the risk of subsequent fractures, leading to subsequent contralateral PFF. This study was performed to analyze the features of individuals with subsequent PFF following surgical therapy of first PFF and to ascertain whether such patients received an examination or treatment of osteoporosis. The reasons for lack of examination or treatment were also analyzed.
Methods
This retrospective study involved 181 patients with subsequent contralateral PFF who underwent surgical treatment in Xi'an Honghui hospital from September 2012 to October 2021. The patients’ sex, age, hospital day, mechanism of injury, surgical procedure, fracture interval, fracture type, fracture classification, and Singh index of the contralateral hip at the time of the initial and subsequent fractures were recorded. Whether the patients took calcium and vitamin D supplements, used anti-osteoporosis medication, or underwent a dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan was recorded, as was the start time of each. Patients who had never undergone a DXA scan or received anti-osteoporosis medication took part in a questionnaire.
Results
The 181 patients in this study comprised 60 (33.1%) men and 121 (66.9%) women. Patients with initial PFF and subsequent contralateral PFF had a median age of 80 years (range, 49–96 years) and 82 years (range, 52–96 years), respectively. The median fracture interval was 24 (7–36) months. Contralateral fractures occurred at the highest incidence between 3 months and 1 year (28.7%). The Singh index was not significantly different between the two fractures. In 130 (71.8%) patients, the fracture type was the same. No significant difference was found in the fracture type or fracture stability classification. A total of 144 (79.6%) patients had never received a DXA scan or anti-osteoporosis medication. The main reason for not treating osteoporosis further was concern about the safety of drug interactions (67.4%).
Conclusions
Patients with subsequent contralateral PFF were of advanced age, had a higher proportion of intertrochanteric femoral fractures, had more severe osteoporosis, and had longer hospital stays. The difficulty managing such patients requires multidisciplinary involvement. Most of these patients were not screened or formally treated for osteoporosis. Advanced-age patients with osteoporosis need reasonable treatment and management.
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast
Authors: Tellini Nicolò , De Chiara Matteo , Mozzachiodi Simone , Tattini Lorenzo , Vischioni Chiara , Naumova Elena , Warringer Jonas , Bergström Anders , Liti Gianni
Published: February 2023

Shared genetic polymorphisms between populations and species can be ascribed to ancestral variation or to more recent gene flow. Here, we mapped shared polymorphisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its sister species Saccharomyces paradoxus, which diverged 4-6 million years ago. We used a dense map of diagnostic markers (mean distance 15.6 bp) in 1,673 sequenced S. cerevisiae isolates to catalogue 3,852 introgressed blocks (≥ 5 consecutive markers) from S. paradoxus, with the majority being recent and clade-specific. The highly diverged wild Chinese S. cerevisiae lineages were depleted of introgressed blocks, but retained an excess of individual ancestral polymorphisms derived from incomplete lineage sorting, perhaps due to less dramatic population bottlenecks. In the non-Chinese S. cerevisiae lineages, we inferred major hybridisation events and detected cases of overlapping introgressed blocks across distinct clades due to either shared histories or convergent evolution. We experimentally engineered, in otherwise isogenic backgrounds, the introgressed PAD1-FDC1 gene-pair that independently arose in two S. cerevisiae clades and revealed that it potentiates resistance against diverse antifungal drugs and ferulic acid. Overall, our study retraces histories of divergence and secondary contacts across S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus populations and unveil a functional outcome.
Copywriting as a symbiosis of journalism and advertising
Authors: Diuzheva Kateryna
Published: February 2023

Introduction. Copywriting as a phenomenon in journalism has a special place because of its uncharacteristic nature for a specialist journalist. A copywriter’s job is different from being a journalist. This distinction is due to a number of inherent copywriting features. The article attempts to clarify and characterize these features in a scientific way.
Relevance of the study. The purpose of the article is to study the aspect of combining the features and peculiarities of journalism and advertising within copywriting, which, harmoniously intertwined in a kind of symbiosis, allow copywriters to achieve their goal in preparing custom materials. The objectives of the study identify a number of tools and techniques used in copywriting, as well as professional market conditions of the copywriter, the features of the professional profile of a specialist in a competitive environment.
Methodology. During the research, the methods of monitoring and content analysis were mostly used, thanks to which scientific sources on the chosen topic, freelance exchanges and websites of recruitment agencies and job search sites with detailed analysis of requirements for a copywriter in the professional field were developed. The method of observation, the comparative method, the descriptive method, the historical-functional method, the system method and the synthesis method were used.
Results. The article considers the peculiarities of copywriting as an applied profession, which, however, is not scientifically sound and in the field of Ukrainian higher education is not a specialty, but is an empirical unit. The aspect of combining the features and peculiarities of journalism and advertising within copywriting is analyzed, which, intertwined in a kind of symbiosis, allow copywriters to achieve their goal in the preparation of commissioned materials. It is impossible to equate copywriting with journalism itself, as well as with advertising itself, which is indicated by the purpose of the copywriter’s activity. The article also identifies a number of tools and techniques used in copywriting, including psychological, manipulative.
Сonclusions. The relevance of the study is that the skills of a copywriter in the training of future journalists is given not the last role. However, this is usually only one course, designed for six months (semester) study. This is not enough for the professional training of a specialist who plans to engage in copywriting in the future, which leads to the need for self-education and practical deepening of the scientific base on their own, outside the higher education institution.
Raising Awareness Mechanism of the Literary Competition
Authors: Osmolovska Olena
Published: February 2023

Introduction. The inclusive literary competition for children and youth is considered as effective raising awareness mechanism. The use of such mechanisms is especially actual in the context of the implementation of state policy in the field of inclusion.
Relevance of the study. The purpose of the research is to study the raising awareness functionality and potential of the Dmytro Ruzhevych Inclusive Literary Competition for Children and Youth.
Methodology. The research methods were: the empirical method in the part of scientific observation of the implementation of the inclusive literary competition, the analysis as the main method of studying regulatory documents, the method of comparative analysis in the context of researching the results of the competition and the generalization method for preparing the summary and conclusions of this article.
Results. The Dmytro Ruzhevych Inclusive Literary Competition for Children and Youth is a unique event today. We studied and analyzed the conditions of participation in the competition and other organizational principles. The raising awareness function of literary competitions has not been sufficiently researched, which absolutely does not meet the modern challenges and demands of society. Research and analysis of all stages of the competition during its two years of existence allowed to systematize the results and formulate an effective raising awareness mechanism that can be applied in the organization of other literary competitions, especially inclusive. It is proposed to use the raising awareness mechanism of the inclusive literary competition for the implementation of the information campaign “Ukraine without barriers”, implemented by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. Monitoring of the legislative framework allows us to state that today the definition of raising awareness has not yet been settled in the legal field. This is a risk factor in the context of the spread of blogging culture and various forms of informal education.
Conclusions. Therefore, raising awareness mechanism of the Dmytro Ruzhevich Inclusive Literary Competition for Children and Youth is determined as a highly effective synergy of the main elements: the status of the competition, a professional jury, the distribution of participants into age groups, methodological recommendations for participation, a real motivational story, an educational environment as a practical tool, information campaign on two levels – national and local, genre of competitive works, publication of an electronic collection of works. The fact that the term «raising awareness» is not legally regulated and there is a complete lack of scientific research on the raising awareness functionality of inclusive literary competitions indicates a high research potential and should stimulate the scientific interest.
Essays of Sofia Rusova: Factors Influencing the Choice of Genre Form of Publications
Authors: Yevdokymenko Irina
Published: February 2023

Introduction. During the entire period of her creative activity, S. Rusova published about 500 publications, which are quite diverse in their genre embodiment – from scientific monographs, educational and methodological textbooks and manuals to literary and critical reviews, reviews, notes, articles, biographical, historicalethnographic and travel essays, etc.
Relevance of research. Analyzing the life and creative path of the educator, it can be seen that the author’s choice of genre form for her own publications often depended on several important factors that significantly influenced this choice: the specific historical period of S. Rusova’s life, the publishing platforms with the financial support of which the works were published, the audience for which the publishing product was intended; a topic that the author sought to raise in her publications. The purpose of scientific research is to find out how the factors outlined above influenced S. Rusova’s choice of the genre form of the essay for her own publications. The object of the study was the journalistic heritage of S. Rusova, in particular, the works that corresponded to the essay genre in their form.
Research methods. The main method is comparative-historical, which is used to examine social and cultural phenomena in the context of the era (mid-19th – early 20th centuries), their relationships with the history of the people, socio-political and economic life. The discursive method helped to determine the connections between a specific publication by S. Rusova and the socio-political situation in the country in a certain historical period. The methods of information selection and its classification were used to select from the entire array of S. Rusova’s journalistic heritage publications written in the essay genre and classify them according to intra-genre varieties – biographical (portrait), historical-ethnographic (problematic) and travel. A problem-thematic analysis of their content was also carried out. The methods of synthesis and generalization made it possible to draw conclusions and outline the prospects for research on a similar topic.
Conclusions. Having analyzed the creative heritage of S. Rusova, we can state that the author’s journalistic, and even more so, publishing activity is often directly related to the historical and economic conditions of the time, the state of public opinion, the level of democratization of society, etc. If journalism can be influenced by emotional moments, mental state, appropriate mood, then mostly economic factors contribute to or hinder the implementation of a publishing project. Under the conditions of strict censorship, which prevailed in Right-Bank Ukraine at that time, the young, inexperienced author had to maneuver, searching for and choosing the optimal forms of presenting information. Such an “optimal form in the literary process of the 19th-20th centuries. became essays.
Rainfall–streamflow response times for diverse upland UK micro-basins: quantifying hydrographs to identify the nonlinearity of storm response
Authors: Mindham David , Beven Keith , Chappell Nick
Published: February 2023

While it is known that antecedent conditions and rainfall profiles contribute to the nonlinearity of streamflow response and that hydrograph shape can be dependent on the nature of rainfall inputs, how antecedent conditions (with similar rainfall inputs) impact hydrograph shape is less known. Here, a data-based mechanistic (DBM) approach is applied to quantify hydrograph shape, in terms of timing and volume, for the purposes of comparing hydrographs across 17 micro-basins at selected localities in upland UK over a 4-year period. The analysis demonstrates the nonlinearity of storm response for small catchments and revealed that with low antecedent conditions and/or small rainfall inputs there was a high variance in hydrograph shape quantifiers and that these variances decrease (at rates micro-basin dependent) as the micro-basins became wetter or as the storms increased in size, potentially converging to a more stable response.
„Wrzesień trzydziestego dziewiątego roku zdarzył mi się po raz pierwszy”. "Opór" oraz metafory klęski i oporu w twórczości Józefa Hena
Authors: Wyrembelski Marcin
Published: February 2023

This article is devoted to Józef Hen’s novel entitled Resistance, part of the diptych Herod’s Theater, and to the metaphors of defeat and resistance in Józef Hen’s work. Polish prose narrating the 1939 September is dominated by a military perspective, which I refer to as a military-centric narrative. Hen’s novel, on the other hand, takes a different, civilian perspective – it tells the story of the fate and resistance of the civilians of one of Warsaw’s tenements in the Jewish district of Nowolipie against the German invaders during the siege. In the article, I discuss Resistance against the background of other books dealing with the tragedy and defeat of September ‘39, and reconstruct the fate of the novel, also mentioning its press and criticalliterary echoes. In the following part, however, I focus my attention on the novel’s metaphorical echoes, for it is noticeable in Hen’s work that resistance and defeat – or, more precisely, the attempt to resist and the sense of life defeat – are mutually intertwined and constitute the attitude and determine the lives of the protagonists of his several other novels from the 1970s and 1980s, later than Resistance.
Dwaj zawodnicy, ring, krematorium – sprawa nie jest prosta, czyli o prawdzie i fikcji w sportowych narracjach o Zagładzie (na przykładzie opowiadania Bokser i śmierć")
Authors: Wolski Paweł
Published: February 2023

The author traces the biography of Józef Hen in connection with his sporting experiences and reflects upon the extent to which one should consider him an author of Polish sports literary writing. He then takes a deeper insight into one of his three short stories on sports, namely Boxing and Death in order to establish the factual reference of the fictional tale and, in particular, its protagonists. This leads him to the conclusion that a sports narrative which involves any given aspect or event related to the Holocaust constitutes an autonomous genre, different from both Holocaust and sports narratives as such.
Józef Hen i Józef Bau
Authors: Morawiec Arkadiusz
Published: February 2023

The main subject of this article is Józef Hen’s 1955 short story Samotność (Loneliness). The prototype of its protagonist is Józef Bau, and the prototype of its main theme, the volume of poetry containing the poems “born from the nightmare of the death camp”, is his 1949 volume Cień przechodnia (The passer-by’s shadow), a work interesting both in terms of literature and art (graphics). Samotność is probably the only (and at the same time peculiar) expression of the reception of the volume Cień przechodnia. Hen and Bau met in 1945. The familiarity between the two writers, with Jewish roots, seems to result from a shared experience, the Jewish fate. In the case of Bau, who passed through the ghetto and concentration camps, this fate turned out to be traumatizing, as both his parents and his brother were murdered by the Germans. Nonetheless, the experiences of Hen, who fled to the East (the Soviet Union) in September 1939 and thus avoided similar torments, were painful too. Bau was the first person to report to Hen in detail what a concentration camp was. It seems that Samotność is, above all, a self-referential work, exploring the issue that has been and is still preoccupied with Hen as a writer and as a man who lost a number of his relatives during the war. By writing Samotność, as well as other works dealing the Holocaust and the loneliness of the survivors, Hen frees himself from his own trauma, and also calls for the memory of the “Jewish tragedies” (which were displaced during the period of Stalinism and the domination of socialist realism).
Józef Hen o Polsce Żydów polskich, której już nie ma, ale wciąż jest ("Nowolipie", 1991)
Authors: Gosk Hanna
Published: February 2023

The article discusses Nowolipie – an autobiographical work written by Józef Hen. This prose is a kind of a journey into the past to resurrect and to commemorate it for the author himself and for others. Hen successfully achieves in this text the present of the past effect (R. Koselleck’s term). The analysis presents an interesting interweaving of three narrative layers: the first is focused on the pre-war present of Nowolipie (a part of Warsaw area), the second is connected with the shadow of the Shoah, and the third deals with the self-presentation of the author – a writer and a Polish Jew.
"Królewskie sny", czyli „marzenie obywatela współczesnej Polski o mądrym, sprawiedliwym władcy”
Authors: Zwierzchowski Piotr
Published: February 2023

The television series Royal Dreams directed by Grzegorz Warchoł was created in 1988. The script was written by Józef Hen who, a year later, published a novel under the same title based on the series. When telling about Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland in 1386–1434, Hen first of all presented a timeless, in his opinion, ethical and political ideal, in which power was based on ethics, authority and pragmatism. Based on a textual analysis, the article is aimed at reconstructing the abovementioned ideal and methods of creating it as well as ethical and historiosophical meanings related to it. In turn, a contextual analysis was used to interpret this ideal in the context of the situation in Poland in the late 1980s, when the serial and the novel came into being. Hen presents Jagiełło as a pragmatic ruler, though emphasizes that his greatness was also determined by his ethics, morality and authority originating not from the attributes of royal power, but from Jagiełło himself. He shows the importance of realizing the limitations of royal power. He also praises the king’s mature age because the wisdom and experience that age brings result in a way of seeing the world that is based on self-reflection, strengthens the attitude of a sage and forms part of the ruler’s image. However, one should remember that for Hen equally important as historical processes is the history of an individual presented against the background of the epoch, a specific microhistory. Thus, he presents Jagiełło not only as a historical and political figure, but in the context of a specific, really existing human fate. Hen was primarily concerned with revealing the truth about the character that fascinated him, but Royal Dreams can also be read in the context of the present times. By no means the thing is simple analogies, translating historical events into current ones or straightforwardly evaluating the political situation in the second half of the 1980s. Royal Dreams clearly expresses the sense of the coming of the time of the twilight of a certain epoch and the imminent birth of a new reality. However, the thing is not the prophetic dimension either, but the ethical and historiosophical one, to show the importance of a wise, responsible and strong leader in such an exceptional time. The title of the series and the novel can be read in two ways. This is not only about the king’s dreams about a strong state and his awareness of change, but also the dream about the king, “the dream of a citizen of contemporary Poland about a wise and just ruler” who will make right decisions, and his authority will make others obey him.
Notatki filmowe Federica Felliniego. "Notatnik reżysera" jako manifest poetyki twórcy
Authors: Birkholc Robert
Published: February 2023

The article is devoted to a little-known film Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969), which is included by the author in the so-called film “notes” – essayistic, selfreferential films depicting the directors’ work on fictional movies. As the author argues, Notebook … can be viewed as a kind of manifesto of the poetics (and even “semiotics”) of the artist’s films, which expresses its attitude to issues such as relations: director-actor, author-work, and film-reality through an essayistic form. Fellini plays with his image (appearing personally on the screen) and fictionalizes the non-fictional genre, creating a kind of “fake-documentary”. The subject and the quasi-documentary form of the “notes” allow the director to demonstrate an individual approach to the relationship between the film and reality. As the author argues, Notebook… was for Fellini a kind of transitional film, developing new artistic ideas – from then on, Fellini’s fictional works will be more and more essayistic, artificial, heterogeneous, and fragmentary.
Być celebrytą, być paparazzim. Fellini i jego postaci w "Słodkim życiu"
Authors: Godzic Wiesław
Published: February 2023

In his essay the author discusses the question of film spectator of the particular movie, namely “La Dolce Vita”, directed by Federico Fellini. Since its premiere in February 1960, the movie has produced a lot of controversies, concerning both the artistic aspects, as well as manners and customs. The author concentrates on the extraordinary position of the spectator inside the film narration. He discusses the question of the intertextual place of the viewer both inside the narration and syuzhet. The viewer in many cases plays a role of authors porte parole. The different roles of protagonists are named: fallen aristocrats, petit bourgeois, artists, intellectuals, foreign celebrity. The one of the most important is the role of paparazzi, coined for the first time in the Fellini’s film. It created the aggressive photographer, the “bandit” of the camera. The variety of the roles, with emphasis of the paparazzi, produce the situation, where Fellini brilliantly makes an illusion of fully controlled narration by the spectator. But it is the artistic illusion, nothing more.
"Va, pensiero…" – opera w filmie Federica Felliniego "E la nave va" ("A statek płynie")
Authors: Kosacka Małgorzata
Published: February 2023

he aim of the article is to present the ways in which opera exists in 1983 Federico Fellini’s film E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On). The research is aimed at proving the thesis that Fellini’s film is a film about opera – opera as a medium, as an institution and as a social custom. It is the film that follows operatic conventions and is made with the help of operatic means. The film in which opera becomes the structure of the film narrative.
Fellini and Popular Music
Authors: Masi Leonardo
Published: February 2023

Through some examples taken from Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita and The Voice of the Moon, the essay explores Federico Fellini’s attitude towards popular music, which plays a particularly relevant and original role in his films. Characters like Cabiria or Salvini identify themselves with popular music and are immersed in its particular taste, in contrast with other characters represented by classical music (Lazzari, Steiner, Gonnella). Popular music appears in some key moments of the three films and comes to unblock a stalemate on the level of the plot. Moreover it often creates “magical” moments in which the fourth wall is torn down and diegetic and extra-diegetic levels are messed up.
Operatorzy Felliniego
Authors: Taras Katarzyna
Published: February 2023

In this essay I am attempting at a description of the phenomenon of communication and relationship between Federico Fellini and his cinematographers. Their background was Italian neorealism, but they could create unrealistic reality in Fellini’s movies. The most important thing for me was “who was influenced by whom”? Fellini by his cinematographers, or the great DPs by the Maestro. I discuss the neorealistic context of Polish movies too, since the influence of Italian neorealism is noticed in the Polish Film School movies, especially in Andrzej Wajda’s debut.
Wzniosłość jako koło zamachowe grozy. O wpływie estetyki Edmunda Burke’a i Immanuela Kanta na literaturę romantyzmu
Authors: Barski Kamil
Published: February 2023

The article is an attempt to synthesize the basis information about the influence of Edmund Burke’s and Immanuel Kant’s esthetics on fear and its depictions in the literature of Gothic and Romanticism. This subject should be considered as important, because for the artist of those two trends the terror was one of the most popular methods of obtaining the effect of sublimity. The problem is analyzed in context of theory of literature and aesthetics. Therefore, the emphasized issue is not the interpretation of particular poems, but description of the phenomenon and gathering available sources. Adduced literary works are, as a consequence, an illustration of the thesis. The paper was thought as a handy compass, base for further interpretation wanderings. It opens with the depiction of this area of Burke’s esthetics, in which sublimity is united with terror. This last one is elicited by the pictures of danger, death etc., but – because of the distance, which is guaranteed by literature – when it is connected with motifs such as infinity or vastness, it can evoke sublimity. The next part of the article is an attempt at the description of Kant’s views and at connecting them with art – because, unfortunately, the philosopher did not trouble himself with the latter. The last fragment of the paper is an attempt to see the sublime through the Freudian psychoanalysis, which reveals other fears which hide behind well known motifs associated with sublimity and terror.
Praca na materii i duchu, czyli co się stało w Ciemnym Lesie
Authors: Kopciński Jacek
Published: February 2023

The essay is based on interpretation of the Dark Forest, the most important play by Andrzej Stasiuk. In the world of this grotesque-futuristic drama, the author of the sketch found a representation of a paradoxical mechanism, which consists in taking power over Western societies by the inhabitants of the East – previously employed as cheap labour or forced to slave labour. In this play the revolutionary mechanism is shown on the example of relations between Germans and Poles. The Germans are a nation of wealthy and long-lived people, but unable to do any work and internally sterile, and thus exposed to the displacement by nations such as Poles – ambitious, hardworking, ready to gain the power. The revolution in the Dark Forest takes place as a result of the sudden death of one of the gastarbeiter working in the forest belonging to the German owners and the arrival of the deceased man’s attractive wife. According to the author of the essay, these two events: the tragedy and the farce, trigger forces that have not been present in the heroes so far. The first is the symbolic strength of Thanatos and the forgotten funeral ritual associated with death, the second is the strength of Eros. Death gives the lives of people harnessed in great civilization processes a dramatic dimension, individualizes them and empowers as persons potentially capable of higher feelings. Love and desire, on the other hand, restore the vitality of the Germans, and give the Poles an unforeseen form of power over them (and also over the Chinese, who are pressing from the East). Jacek Kopciński argues that the Dark Forest in the play is not only a place where organic matter is processed, but also an internal metamorphosis of the protagonists who, in a sterilized, materialized world, experience substitutes for forgotten holiness, and through desire – they come to life.
„Chyba w ten sposób toczy się ta ludzka komedia przez całe pokolenia drogą na Zachód i przez pustynie”. Paraboliczność w kinie braci Coen
Authors: Żyto Kamila
Published: February 2023

The Coen brothers stylized films, full of quotations and borrowings, are for many scholars the quintessence of a postmodern game with remnants, interpretive openness, and ambiguity. This fact does not incline to look in these films for the rules governing the world or human existence what is typical of parabolic thinking. The article is an attempt to demonstrate that the makers of the Oscar-winning Fargo (Fargo, 1996) often use in their work elements, tricks, or strategies typical of a traditional parabola, though their films may often be read as its contemporary invariants. Numerous Coens’ films bear the hallmarks of parabolic texts, even if in this case one cannot speak of a parabola as a genre. The messages they contain are never unambiguous and are not intended to educate. However, owing to their enigmatic nature, they encourage viewers to search for extra meanings.
A Novel Continuous-time Hidden Markov Model Based on a Bag of Features Extracted from MR Brain Images for Alzheimer's Stage Progression and Detection
Authors: Shankar Venkatesh Gauri , Sisodia Dilip Singh , Chandrakar Preeti
Published: February 2023

Background:

Mounting novel solutions for conspicuous neurodegenerative disorders that grow consistently, such as Alzheimer's disease, rely on tracking and identifying disease development, improvement, and progression. Compared to many clinical or survey-based detection methods, early Alzheimer's stage detection can be possible through computer-based MR brain images and discrete stochastic processes.

Aim:

In the case of Alzheimer's stage progression, the existing models illustrate that the learning problem comprises two issues: estimating posterior probabilities of the Alzheimer's stage and computing conditioned statistics of the Alzheimer's end-stage. The proposed model overcomes these issues by restructuring the estimation problem as EM-centered CT- HMM. This paper proposes a novel framework model with two phases; the first phase covers the feature extraction of magnetic resonance imaging based on many computer vision methods known as a collection of bag-of-features (BoF). In the second phase, we used the EM-centered learning method for the continuous-time hidden Markov model (CTHMM), an efficient approach to modeling Alzheimer''s disease progression with time and stages.

Methods:

This paper proposes a novel framework model with two phases; the first phase covers the feature extraction of magnetic resonance imaging based on many computer vision methods known as a collection of bag-of-features (BoF). In the second phase, the EM-centered learning method is used for the continuous-time hidden Markov model (CT-HMM), an efficient approach to modeling Alzheimer's disease progression with time and stages. The proposed CT-HMM is implemented with eight Alzheimer's stages (source: ADNI) to visualize and predict the stage progression of the ADNI MRI dataset.

Results:

The proposed model reported the transition posterior probability as 0.765 (high to low stage progression) and 0.234 (low to high stage progression). The model's accuracy and F1 score are estimated as 97.13 and 96.51, respectively.

Conclusion:

The proposed model’s accuracy and evaluation metrics reported higher results in the work on Alzheimer's stage progression and prediction.
A Critical Review of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterial MXenes and their
Applications in Water Treatment
Authors: Chen Yingchun , Yu Bei , Peng Lingling
Published: February 2023

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Environmental pollution has accelerated and intensified because of the acceleration of
industrialization, therefore fabricating excellent materials to remove hazardous pollutants has become
inevitable. MXenes as emerging transition metal nitrides, carbides, or carbonitrides with high
conductivity, hydrophilicity, excellent structural stability, and versatile surface chemistry, become
ideal candidates for water treatment. This review summarizes recent advances in the synthesis and
applications of MXenes as adsorbents, photocatalysts, and separation membranes for water purification.
Extensive information related to the synthesis and applications of MXenes for water treatment
and their associated patents were collected. This review has given a comprehensive survey of the
recently reported 2D nanomaterial (NM) MXenes which are used in various water treatment applications.
The effects of structure control, surface modification and composite of MXene on the adsorption
performance of MXene and the formation of effective heterojunction, photocatalysts separation
membrane were discussed in detail. The existing problems in the water treatment applications
of MXene were summarized and analyzed. The overview also features discussions on the computational
attempts, biocompatibility, and environmental impact in the exploration of MXenes for applications
of water treatment, highlighting the challenges and opportunities of these advanced 2D
NMs. The prospects of designing MXene based water treatment materials with excellent performance
were put forward.