bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN BITOLA AND SUBCARPATHIAN RUS: HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS, EDUCATIONAL PROCESS, GRADUATES
Authors: Danylets Yurii
Published: December 2022

The article investigates the historical ties of Subcarpathian Rus with one of the theological institutions in the Balkans - the St. John the Theologian seminary in Bitola. The deficient educational level of the Orthodox clergy in the early 1920s is characterized. The network of Orthodox seminaries in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes during this period is shown. Based on the documents of Serbian and Ukrainian archives, the stages of attracting students from Subcarpathian Rus to study in the Kingdom's secondary and higher spiritual and theological institutions are clarified. The role of the bishops-delegates of the Serbian Orthodox Church, who served the most for the departure of entrants to study in Macedonia, is assessed. For the first time in historiography, the names of the Transcarpathians who graduated from the seminary and were ordained as priests were established. The article also mentions other seminarians who were expelled for failure or transferred to other educational institutions. The article describes the seminary's curriculum, extracurricular activities, incentives system, and students' leisure time. The annual reports of the seminary also provide an opportunity to trace the way of reforming the educational institution's curriculum, increasing and decreasing the number of hours in certain subjects. The author concludes that Bitola Theological Seminary trained about 30 priests for Subcarpathian Rus and was among the most popular and respected in the region. The Orthodox clergy who graduated from the studios in Macedonia were highly educated and able to unite the faithful in the parishes. On this basis, the diocesan hierarchs entrusted the "Bitolians" with large parishes or problematic parishes where it was necessary to normalize the situation. The conclusions outline the prospects for further research.
«POSSESSIONES SEU VILLAE KENEZIOS HABENTES...»: THE EVOLUTION OF KENEZSHIP ON THE TERRITORY OF BEREG COUNTY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH - THE FIRST THIRD OF THE 18TH CENTURIES
Authors: Perun Mykhailo
Published: December 2022

This article attempts to reveal the main characteristics and functions of the kenezs of the Bereg county in the second half of the 16th – the first third of the 18th century. Also, one of the main goals of the publication is to consider the evolution of kenez status in the specified historical period. In general, the early modern era was marked by a significant population movement and influx for the northeastern border territories of the Kingdom of Hungary and the northwestern borders of the Principality of Transylvania. The such migratory activity led to the interaction of different legal systems, resulting in the emergence of new or a change in the meaning of old legal structures. Currently, the term «kenez» is considered in the scientific literature as a phenomenon of high–altitude Carpathian settlements existing exclusively within the boundaries of «Wallachian law». Accordingly, one of the main tasks of this study is to verify the mentioned concept in the example of Bereg county, which includes plains, foothills, and mountain areas. In addition, the publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the idea of «kenezship» and considers various variants of its meanings. To achieve the goal, the author studies written sources related to the administrative-territorial and economic structure of Bereg county. At the same time, the publication examines some aspects of the contemporary social structure of the settlements of the Kingdom of Hungary. The article substantiates the thesis about the gradual transformation of the status of «kenezship» and its displacement by elements of Hungarian law, which the author tries to demonstrate with the help of the analysis of these acts, privileges, urbariums, and inventory descriptions of the committees of northeastern Hungary of the 16th – 17th centuries. The author paid particular attention to the processing of such documents as the charter granting privileges to the kenez of the settlements of the Bereg county, the court case of the kenez families of the village of Guklyve in 1645, and the urbaria of the early modern period from the Chynadiieve and Mukachevo domains. In addition, the publication reviews the concept of the term «birov», which existed together with the term «kenez» on the territory of Bereg county. The author concludes that the kenesis were not homogeneous in terms of functions and had their internal division. At the same time, highlighting the main features of the kenezship on the territory of the Bereg county allows us to assert its gradual transformation and transition into the framework of Hungarian law. For the sake of certain clarifications and a more detailed analysis of the phenomenon under study, the author is allowed to go beyond the time and geographical framework of the study.
DEFENDER OF CZECHOSLOVAK UNITY. A PROBE INTO THE POLITICS OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL SOCIALISTS IN SLOVAKIA BETWEEN 1918 AND 1938
Authors: Marek Pavel
Published: December 2022

Until 1989, the reformist current of the National Socialists was one of the backbone elements of the Czech/Czechoslovak party-political system. The political party of the Czech National Socialists was formed in the 1890s and during the years of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918 – 1938) under the name Czechoslovak National Socialist Party (CSNP) was a regular part of government coalitions. The historiographical description of their activities and their contribution to solving the political, economic, social, and cultural problems of state formation corresponds to this fact. An exception in this context is the history of the party in Slovakia between 1918 and 1938, a period when the party leaders decided to extend the organization's reach to the entire territory of the newly formed state. Apart from partial mentions, we have only a few short historical studies, which are inaccurate in their findings and give only the most basic outline of the Party's policy in this territory. Therefore, the present study is one of the new probes into the Party's activities in Slovakia, aiming to reduce the historiographical debt. Given the limited scope, this article analyses the party's profile in Slovakia intending to evoke its Czechoslovakist programme, the programme of Czechoslovak national and state unity, which was not accepted with understanding in the conservative and especially nationalist and autonomist-oriented Slovak environment or was fundamentally rejected. In the field of political practice, the party projected the concept of unity into the issue of the search for the optimal administrative system of the Czechoslovak Republic. It was opposed not only to the vision of an autonomous Slovakia within Czechoslovakia, which she correctly perceived as the first step in the process leading to the state-law separation of Czechs and Slovaks, but also the provincial system. The ideal, fulfilling the idea of self-government, autonomy, and independence, was the county system. As a probe into the aforementioned topic, this study also analyses the relationship of the National Socialists in Slovakia to Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, which had the most significant electoral support of the population and differed with them programmatically and politically on the issues addressed in our study. It was their primary political opponent.
GERMANS AND BOLSHEVIKS IN THE UKRAINIAN-POLISH CONFLICT OF 1939 – 1945 IN THE DOCUMENTS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONALIST UNDERGROUND
Authors: Prokopchuk Viktoriia
Published: December 2022

In this article, with the help of a detailed analysis of the documents of the Ukrainian nationalist underground, which were issued during the Second World War, the topic of the involvement of the "third forces", namely the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, in the Ukrainian-Polish conflict of 1939 – 1945 is raised. Based on the analyzed reports , social and political reviews, etc., the methods used by the Germans and Bolsheviks to incite mutual hatred between Ukrainians and Poles are singled out. It was found out that the Germans created special police departments for their own purposes, where they recruited both Poles and Ukrainians, provided them with weapons, encouraged the Poles to rob the Ukrainian population, and often practiced handing over Ukrainian jobs or farms to Poles, and vice versa. It has been investigated that the Soviets, in turn, contributed to the creation of Polish partisan units, in some places transferred the responsibility for the murders of Poles committed by them to Ukrainians and gave Poles ammunition to fight against Ukrainians. Particular attention is paid to the contemporary phenomenon of informants by Poles against Ukrainians, to which the Ukrainian nationalist underground reacted by distributing warning leaflets addressed to Poles. The article also analyzes those documents in which the Germans and the Soviets are called the enemies of the Ukrainian and Polish peoples and in which the awareness of Ukrainian nationalists that the German and Bolshevik regimes were interested in the Ukrainian-Polish confrontation is traced at the same time. It has been suggested that the strengthening of enmity between Ukrainians and Poles on the part of the Germans and the Soviets could be based in some places on the fear of the deployment of Ukrainian and Polish liberation movements with the aim of creating their own independent states. It was concluded that the documents of the Ukrainian nationalist underground are an informative and noteworthy source in the context of the Ukrainian-Polish struggle during the Second World War. Scientific works related to the specified topic were involved in writing the article. It was found that until now there is no comprehensive scientific work devoted to the issues raised in the article. This requires further research on the impact of the Third Reich on the USSR on the Ukrainian-Polish inter-ethnic conflict of 1939 – 1945.
The Origin of the Concept of Style in European Musical Thinking
Authors:   Associate Professor Dr. Habil., “Gheorghe Dimaˮ National Academy of Music, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: oleg.garaz@gmail.com., Garaz Oleg
Published: December 2022

"Essentially, the emergence of the concept of style in European musical thinking is the consequence of the shift produced at the end of the Renaissance. The trend towards the simplification of language and musical expression and the subordination of both to the notional-poetic discourse determines the unimaginable: the hegemony of rhetoric and, implicitly, of style as a rhetorical sub-category having the function of organizing and controlling musical suggestiveness – the taxonomy of musically expressible emotions. It is also during the period of the musical Baroque that the practical insertion of the concept of style begins by cohabiting with the idea of genre in all its three forms: as a specific habitat for the performance of the musical act, as a composition coefficient and equally as a type of ethos. This confusion will persist for the entire period of use of the concept of style, which gradually fades as the insertion of postmodernism gathers momentum. As a tool for functional and semantic dislocation, style also acts in relation to the term canon, the only value reference until the shift from the mathematical-cosmic quadrivium to the discursive-philological trivium (the Del Bene moment, 1586). Apart from taking over the attributions from the concept of genre, style also claims the function of canon as the exclusive value reference. Starting with the Baroque, we already speak of the stylistic canon. The complete absorption of the canonical function by style takes place during the Viennese Classicism, when style becomes a personalizing-biological reference, attached to the musical thinking of a prominent personality (Wilhelm von Lenz, Beethoven et ses trois styles, 1855). Musical Romanticism raises the understanding of style to the level of an almost absolute exclusivity, on a par with the transcendentalism displayed by the genius-musician (the Liszt-Wagner paradigm). The dissipation of Romanticism determines the return to the identification through ethos: verism, expressionism, impressionism-symbolism and naturalism, so that it is only during the first musical modernism (1900-1914) that we witness the return to the purely technical Renaissance acceptance: the atonal style, during the second modernism (1918-1939) – the dodecaphonic style, the serial style, and further, during the third modernism (1946-1968) – the style of stochastic music, the style of aleatoric music, the minimalist style etc. The uselessness of the concept of style as a procedure of identification through differentiation (Boris Asafiev) and obviously as a meta-narrative is already revealed in musical postmodernism, with all the three anti-metanarrative “ideologies” of postmodernism: the ideology of distrust, the ideology of the fragment and the ideology of recovery. Keywords: history of style, stylistic canon, style as a genre, style as a metanarrative, liberation from style "
Chinese National Piano Style in “Two Poem Classics of The Tang Dynasty” by Xu Zhenmin
Authors:   Professor PhD, Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Kyiv, Ukraine. Email: olegbezborodko@gmail.com., Bezborodko Oleg
Published: December 2022

" “Two Poem Classics of the Tang Dynasty” by Xu Zhenmin is a bright example of the Chinese national piano style. We analyze its main features using S. Tyshko’s theory of national style and the concept of the sound image of the instrument by L. Gakkel as the theoretical and methodological basis of our research. We introduce and define the concept of the national sound image of the instrument. Chinese piano music is characterized by the purposeful activity of composers both in stylistic adaptation and in stylistic generation. The European historical and stylistic sound images of the piano are adapted and act as the “foreign” material. The “native” material is generated both from folk and traditional Chinese music, its mode, intonation, and instrumental specifics, as well as from the rich artistic, philosophical and historical heritage of China. Keywords: National music style, piano music, Chinese piano music, Chinese national piano style, sound image of the instrument, Chinese national sound image of the piano "
Specific Sound Production Techniques in Academic Guitar Music
Authors:   Dr. habil., Associate Professor, Head of Department of Theory and History of Music Performing, Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. Email: premierre.ivannikov@gmail.com., Ivannikov Tymur , Filatova Tetiana ,   "Professor PhD, Department of Theory of Music, Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. Email: filatova.tanya@gmail.com. "
Published: December 2022

"The article is focused on the problematic research area in the borderline between performance, musical and composer’s interests in academic guitar music. Modern growth trends have been identified in the sound production experimental reserves being not typical for the classical guitar performance stroke in concert practice until the early 20th century. A specific method typology of sound production has been proposed: using the technical performance parameters, phonic and visual sound effects, the origin, and primary, authentic realms of life. The connections with similar processes in other instrumental areas have been traced. The light has been thrown on technical and aesthetic facets. The specific methods in sound production stroke, the tone quality and acoustic characteristics varying in range, the expanded visual noise sound effects, and graphic images in the score have been examined. The artistic music samples of the whole generation of experimental composers, namely the French ones: Maurice Ohana, Roland Dyens, Francis Kleynjans and the Chilean ones: Juan Antonio Sánchez, Gustavo Becerra Schmidt analyzed through specific methods of guitar sound extraction have resulted in marked imaginative connections and associations with the content core of musical works. Keywords: guitar music, specific methods of sound extraction, modern guitar concert practice "
The Connection Between a Professional Singer’s Intonation and the Coordination of the Cybernetic Circuits of the Ear
Authors:   Associate professor, PhD candidate, Faculty of Music, Transilvania University, Brașov, Romania. Email: anda.pop@unitbv.ro., Pop Anda Olimpia , Filip Ignác Csaba ,   Professor PhD, Faculty of Music, Transilvania University, Brașov, Romania. Email: f_ignac@unitbv.ro.
Published: December 2022

"This article is addressed to pedagogues, students, and professional singers and draws attention to the tight connection between the functionality of the larynx and the cybernetic circuits of the ear. During the training periods of a singer, and then throughout one’s career, we deal with sound intonation flaws very many times. These are due not only to a flawed vocal technique or amusia , but also to flaws of audio-vocal feedback circuits many times. If they are discovered and corrected, the voice can be completely regained. It is very important to be aware of the difference between hearing and listening, dealing with the listening posture when singing and the medical check of a specialized doctor in hearing impairment. Keywords: voice, singer, connection between ear and voice, cybernetic circuits, audio-vocal feedback, control loop. "
Zoltán Kodály, Seven Piano Pieces OP. 11
Authors:   Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Music Department, Eger, Hungary. Email: csullog.judit@uni-eszterhazy.hu., Csüllög Judit
Published: December 2022

"Zoltán Kodály is mostly known for his pedagogical concept, however he was also a respected composer. The Seven Piano Pieces is one of his most popular series amongst piano teachers. The compositions are very colourful following different trends of the early 20th century such as the styles of Debussy and Bartók and take inspiration from Hungarian folk music. This article focuses on the presentation and analysis of each piece and points out the connections between them based on the style in which they were written. Keywords: Zoltán Kodály, piano pieces, 20th century, Béla Bartók, Hungarian folk music, impressionism "
Presupuesto público de género
Authors: Bariggi Mónica
Published: December 2022

Las desigualdades e inequidades sociales generan situaciones de exclusión y marginación que impactan en los Estados, la perspectiva de género aparece con el propósito de señalar y suprimir no sólo las inequidades que afectan a las mujeres. Tomando al presupuesto público como herramienta de gestión, creación y aplicación de las políticas públicas y sociales, aparece el presupuesto público de género, al cual se pretende en este trabajo abordar bajo la luz de análisis comparativo de dos países: el caso de los Estados Unidos de América, y el caso de la República Argentina.
El derecho del arbitraje en la República Argentina
Authors: Pérez Nélida
Published: December 2022

El arbitraje es un modo de solución de controversias que ofrece el ordenamiento jurídico para que las partes basadas en el principio de la autonomía de la voluntad puedan nombrar a terceros denominados árbitros con el fin de que de manera independiente e imparcial resuelvan el conflicto dictando un laudo que las partes cumplirán voluntariamente, en caso contrario se llevará a cabo una ejecución judicial. En la República argentina existen leyes sancionada y promulgadas en distintas épocas con fundamentos y objetivos diversos que coexisten, se superponen y se contradicen sobre el derecho aplicable al arbitraje nacional e internacional. El estudio, interpretación y aplicación del derecho del arbitraje, con el fin de instalar una auténtica cultura arbitral local y hacer atractivo al país como sede de arbitrajes comerciales internacionales, será el tema a desarrollar en este artículo.
El alcance de la imparcialidad notarial y la interpretación de la expresión «documento idóneo» en el Código Civil y Comercial de La Nación
Authors: Cosola Sebastian Justo
Published: December 2022

El presente ensayo pretende describir la proyección normativa que el Código Civil y Comercial de La Nación realiza de la institución de la imparcialidad como así también del juicio de identificación notarial. Con ella, se anexa un punto de vista sobre la adecuada interpretación de un derecho normativo constitucionalizado y convencionalizado.
La revocación de mandato en México. Su diseño institucional. El caso AMLO (2022)
Authors: Eberhardt Maria Laura
Published: December 2022

Desde los años 80 varios países latinoamericanos ejecutaron reformas constitucionales donde adoptaron la revocación de mandato entre otros mecanismos de democracia directa. México es hasta el momento el último país en incorporarla en su constitución nacional: lo hizo en 2019. Es también el cuarto en habilitar la revocación presidencial y el tercero en votarla. Durante 2021, el presidente electo, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, impulsó una consulta sobre su propia permanencia en el cargo, con la intención subyacente de ratificarse en el mismo. Celebrada en 2022, en medio de una honda polémica y con resultados a todas luces ambiguos, en este artículo nos proponemos, primero, analizar su diseño institucional, a fin de dilucidar su aplicabilidad y posibles efectos sobre el régimen presidencial, y, segundo, estudiar el caso de aplicación del 10A, para conocer su real desempeño e impacto, ya sea como mecanismo de control ciudadano y/o como potencial herramienta de manipulación política.
Estudio sobre la desigualdad
Authors: Bursztyn Debora
Published: December 2022

La historia relata los procesos políticos en que los hombres y las mujeres nos desarrollamos durante progreso de la civilización. Esta civilización que también concentra algunas de las causas de la desigualdad que nos atraviesa en este siglo XXI. El avance, que en los últimos decenios se ha manifestado en torno a este suceso, nos introduce en el estudio de acontecimientos y pensamientos que intentan explica o justificar la génesis del fenómeno dentro de un contexto que no resulte distópico.
El concepto de seguridad social y derecho de la seguridad social
Authors: Balbín Adolfo Nicolás
Published: December 2022

A través del presente trabajo tiendo a efectuar un aporte al estudio de la seguridad social y del derecho de la seguridad social, desde un aspecto conceptual. Para ello, recupero las opiniones de importantes autores en el campo científico referenciado, y realizo algunos aportes personales direccionados a ampliar el análisis ontológico de aquellos ámbitos que, aunque ubicándose en el mismo terreno, imponen efectuar algunas aclaraciones identitarias entre sí, así como también explicar la incidencia de otras figuras o institutos puntuales específicos. La metodología seleccionada se basa, por ende, en una revisión bibliográfica, y en algún breve apunte de normativa vigente. Luego del desarrollo, concluyo respecto a la crucial importancia que tiene la seguridad social y su normación jurídica actual, el papel protagónico de la política en dicho terreno, y en la necesidad de concebir y estudiar aquella disciplina desde una posición ampliada.
The role of organizations in the public communication of science – Early research, recent studies, and open questions
Authors: Peters Hans Peter
Published: December 2022

Organizational science communication of higher education institutions (and research institutes outside the university sector) came into view of scholars of “science journalism” soon after the begin of systematic studies of the scientist-journalist relationship. While the pioneering French study of scientists’ relationship with the mass media by Boltanski and Maldidier (1970) focused on implications of the norms of the scientific community for public communication by scientists, early surveys of scientists in the United States (Dunwoody & Ryan, 1982, 1983) and – peripherally – also in Germany (Krüger, 1985; Peters & Krüger, 1985) considered both the scientific community and the university (or other public research organizations) as relevant contexts of the scientist-journalist relationship. The issue of organizational science public relations (PR) was also addressed by scholars and practitioners in publications and workshops in Europe (see, e.g., Peters, 1984; Ruß-Mohl, 1990; Zerges & Becker, 1992) in the 1980s and early 1990s. While researchers were not oblivious of self-interests’ influence in public communication activities of universities and other research institutions, the dominant perspective on science communication was that of the relationship of science and the media, and PR officers at science organizations were largely conceptualized as “mediators between scientists and journalists” (Dunwoody & Ryan, 1983) or as “practitioner in the middle” (Rogers, 1988).
Citizen Participation: A Matter of Competency
Authors: Souad Sassi Boudemagh , Rafika Korti
Published: December 2022

Citizens are social actors willing to give their time and energy to participate in collective projects, in order to live better in their built environment. Thus, the inhabitant is not only apprehended as a figure of belonging to a place, but he is perceived as being able to act on his environment, to be in connection with it. He is the one who invents his living environment and, beyond, transforms the city in the same way as the other actors. Individuals must acquire skills to become effective participatory citizens and live together in peace and on an equal footing in democratic societies. The recent work in the social sciences, which deals with "scholarly knowledge" and "ordinary knowledge", makes it possible to conclude on this notion of skills and to make the link with the question of the participation of the inhabitants. The "scholarly knowledge" is classified as scientific academic and professional knowledge, opposing knowledges qualified as profane or ordinary, that is to say, shared "by all or part of the social world". From a systemic point of view, the process of participation would be the meeting of these academic knowledge and lay knowledge. The purpose of this article is to understand what types of skills the resident uses, as a resource person, a living force, to engage in the process of participation.
About the Discourse of the Necessity of Military Intervention in Brazil for the "Restoration of Order in the Country": Analytical Notes
Authors: Baronas Roberto , Bonani Tamires
Published: December 2022

In this work, based on the analysis of the French orientation discourse, we aim to reflect on a discourse that is becoming increasingly common in Brazil: the request for the Armed Forces to take control of the country by force. Although a recent past full of suffering, death and torture stamped the pages of the history books when telling about the Military Coup of 1964, research indicates the support of more than 40% of the population for a supposed military intervention in Brazil in 2018. In a quick survey of major newspapers in the country and in social networks, we noted that often some statements are associated with the demand for seizure of power, such as: "We are going to sanitize the country", "establish order", "in the name of God and the family, Brazil will be a serious country". Such relations between this "semantic universe" makes us question whether there is a discursive "order" that governs and sustains this need for military intervention in Brazil. Therefore, we will use a theoretical-discursive approach based on the concepts of Alice Krieg-Planque (2016), Dominique Maingueneau (2014) and Marie-Anne Paveau (2015), more specifically of small phrases and discursive virtue, respectively. The latter guides us in the sense of answering a question that the author herself asks: "Will there be good statements in the moral sense of the term? If so, what then is a statement capable of receiving a judgment of moral value? And how does moral value manifest itself linguistically?" (p. 24). This is because, for her, this notion "functions at the core of an ethics of values and supposes an intersubjective negotiation within a given group or given society" (p. 26). For the constitution of our corpus, will be analyzed especially statements published in newspapers and magazines of great circulation in the country.
Psychometric properties of the Slovenian version of the cardiac depression scale
Authors: Palandačič Anja Kokalj , Ucman Saša , Lainščak Mitja , Šarotar Brigita Novak
Published: December 2022

Introduction

The aim of this study was to translate the Cardiac Depression Scale into the Slovenian language and test its validity and reliability on Slovenian patients with heart disease.

Methods

A total of 272 patients with heart disease who underwent elective coronary angiography at Celje General Hospital participated in this study. We used the Slovenian Cardiac Depression Scale (S-CDS), the Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S), and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-20 (CES-D) to collect data. An exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity were performed.

Results

Cronbach’s alpha for the total scale was 0.92 and the test-retest reliability was 0.71. Exploratory factor analysis confirmed six factors, accounting for 61% of the total variance. The confirmatory factor analysis indicated that a two- and one-factor solution had acceptable goodness-of-fit measures. However, we kept a more parsimonious one-factor method, given a high correlation between the two factors and the theoretical background in previous studies. Concurrent validation against the CES-D and the STAI-S showed moderate to strong correlations.

Conclusions

The S-CDS is a reliable and valid instrument for screening for depression in Slovenian patients with heart disease.
Vitamin D fortification of eggs alone and in combination with milk in women aged 44–65 years: Fortification model and economic evaluation
Authors: Vičič Vid , Mikuš Ruža Pandel , Kugler Saša , Geršak Ksenija , Osredkar Joško , Kukec Andreja
Published: December 2022

Introduction

For almost nine decades, the fortification of foods with vitamin D has been proven effective in preventing rickets. This study aims to build and economically evaluate a fortification model based on egg biofortification and milk (including yoghurt) fortification.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was carried out between 1. March and 31. May 2021. Three hundred and nineteen healthy women from the Central Slovenian region aged between 44 and 65 were recruited for the study, with 176 participants included in the final analysis. For the fortification model calculations, the vitamin D contents of unenriched milk (including yoghurt) and eggs were replaced by enriched foods containing vitamin D. The economic evaluation was done using available drug and food supplement prices. Fortification costs were calculated using vitamin D prices provided by suppliers.

Results

Mean vitamin D intake from food was 2.19±1.34 µg/d. With fortification Model 1 (enriched eggs), it would be: 6.49±4.45 µg/d, and with Model 2 (enriched eggs and milk): 10.53±6.49 µg/d. Without fortification, none of the participants would reach a daily vitamin D intake >10 µg. With fortification Model 1 (egg fortification), 15.3% would reach >10 µg and with Model 2 (egg and milk fortification) 46.2% would reach >10 µg. The economic comparison of the annual cost of 10 µg vitamin D/d/person was EUR 6.17 for prescription drugs, EUR 6.37 for food supplements, EUR 0.09 for direct milk fortification and EUR 0.12 for egg biofortification with vitamin D.

Conclusions

Egg and milk (including yoghurt) fortification could cost-effectively increase vitamin D intake in the Slovenian population of women between 44 and 65 by almost five-fold, and could significantly lower the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency. Additional research and changes to legislation are needed before this can be introduced.
Binge eating in a Slovenian population-based sample of adults
Authors: Bizjak Maša Černelič , Adamič Katarina
Published: December 2022

Introduction

Binge eating is the most common form of disordered eating associated with obesity, reduced quality of life, and medical and psychological comorbidities. It therefore affects the well-being of individuals. This underscores the fact that it is a serious public health problem. The study aimed to investigate binge eating and anxiety across gender, age and body mass index in a large population sample of adults in Slovenia.

Methods

A total of 3,310 adult volunteers participated in this cross-sectional study. Questionnaires, including a binge eating and anxiety scale and an eating behaviour questionnaire, were completed by 1,487 subjects (90.9% female, ages 18 to 69).

Results

The frequency of reported binge eating was 29.9%, with 9.8% of participants reporting severe binge eating, and the presence of overweight and obesity was high (41.8%). BMI was associated with this problematic eating, and explained 5.4% of the variation in binge eating. Importantly, anxiety was the most important factor related to binge eating, with younger participants and women reporting significantly more anxiety.

Conclusion

The high presence of binge eating, obesity and anxiety in the Slovenian population-based sample is worrying. Anxiety is clearly an important factor in understanding the relationship between negative affect and binge eating, as it accounts for a greater proportion of the variance in binge eating symptoms than BMI. Particularly concerning was the fact that the youngest participants showed the greatest anxiety. Targeting anxious adolescents and females is important from a health perspective because it can impact the physical and mental health of the population in the long term.
Качественный и количественный анализ упругопластического состояния вращающегося тонкого диска
Authors: СЁМКА ЭЛЕОНОРА ВИКТОРОВНА
Published: December 2022

Рассмотрена задача о вращающемся диске с неизменной малой толщиной, находящемся под действием равномерно распределенного давления по его контуру. Полные деформации равны сложению упругих и пластических, так как деформации достаточно малы. Пластические деформации и напряжения взаимосвязаны законом пластического течения. Рассматривается пластически несжимаемое изотропное тело. Выполняется условие непрерывности функции пластичности. Векторы напряжений и перемещений непрерывны на границе раздела упругих и пластических зон. При определении пластических зон в зависимости от внешних параметров рассмотрены все возможные режимы условия пластичности максимального касательного напряжения. Представлены аналитические выражения для внешних параметров, при которых происходит зарождение пластических зон. Графики годографа напряжений, представленные в работе, дают наглядное представление развития пластических зон.
Patient anxiety towards dental treatment: A scoping review
Authors:   Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Porto, Portugal, Couto Beatriz , Couto Germano ,   Escola Superior de Saúde Fernando Pessoa, FP-I3ID, CINTESIS, Porto, Portugal, Sampaio Francisco ,   CINTESIS@RISE, Nursing School of Porto, Porto, Portugal,   Nursing School of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Published: December 2022

Objectives: Anxiety related to dental treatment is a common problem, so it is essential to identify its potential protective and enhancing factors and consequences. Anxiety is an emotion with negative impacts that may hinder the ability to make decisions and perform daily tasks. The objective is to map the scientific literature on anxiety about dental treatment in adults. Methods: This study used a scoping review registered in the Open Science Framework. The article writing was structured according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. Results: 465 articles were identified, of which 19 were included for analysis. In these, anxiety- enhancing factors, such as the use of turbinates on teeth and previous negative experiences, anxiety-protecting factors, such as regular visits to the dentist and the dentist being calm, showing empathy, and providing emotional support, and actual and/or potential consequences of anxiety, such as postponing or rescheduling appointments and poor oral health, were identified. Conclusions: The results of this study may contribute to assisting dentists in their clinical practice by anticipating anxiety situations, which may allow them to adopt preventive strategies by introducing previous assessment methodologies.
Financing Russia's transport infrastructure using public-private partnership facilities: Current challenges and prospects
Authors: KULICHENKOV Nikita P.
Published: December 2022

Subject. This article examines the main ways and legal forms of implementation of transport infrastructure projects in the Russian Federation, the challenges associated with financing, and the prospects for the development of the public-private partnership (PPP) mechanism when implementing transport projects.
Objectives. The article aims to substantiate the effectiveness of the use of PPP mechanisms when implementing transport infrastructure projects in Russia to ensure the long-term development of the country.
Methods. For the study, I used analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, statistical and graphical analyses, and comparison.
Results. The article assesses the role of PPP facilities in project financing to encourage the inflow of investments in the field of transport infrastructure and determines the main organizational and legal framework for the implementation of transport projects.
Conclusions. The State's participation in project financing through PPP mechanisms when implementing transport infrastructure projects in Russia can help improve the attractiveness of long-term projects with high capital expenditures due to a more efficient and flexible distribution of risks and responsibilities among the key partners, and it also contributes to the achievement of national transport objectives significantly.
Contradictions as a potential for the development of a human-oriented economy
Authors: NASYROVA Svetlana I.
Published: December 2022

Subject. Contradictions in the economic system are in close interaction and interrelation, they are a kind of potential for appropriate transformations. The starting point for progressive development of the economic system is identification of contradictions in a human-oriented economy and their timely resolution.
Objectives. The study aims to identify contradictions arising between the two-component cores of each type of human-centered economy in order to determine possible mode of interaction between the dominant spheres, and to form a direction for further development of the entire economic system.
Methods. The study draws on content analysis, a simple model of a compensatory homeostat.
Results. The paper presents a universal simple model of a compensatory homeostat in a human-oriented economy, reveals the most relevant contradictions within the human-centered economy, when one of the opposite components is the creatosphere, describes interaction modes between components based on types of cross feedback, defines development trajectories of a human-oriented economy in accordance with the modes of interaction between the spheres of the economy, i.e. regressive, isogressive, and progressive branches of development.
Conclusions. The findings enable to diagnose the current state of the human-centered economy, the branches of its development, and formulate a management concept for the economic system transition to a higher level of system complexity. The practical significance of the study is a possibility to make managerial decisions to implement the intended trajectory of human-oriented economy development.
Foresight: Diversification of agriculture for sustainable rural development
Authors: VANCHIKOVA Elena N. , SANGADIEVA Iraida G. , PERINOV Sergei B. , ISHIGENOV Ivan V. , LOGINOV Ivan S.
Published: December 2022

Subject. The article addresses the organization of foresight sessions to take into account the opinion of residents of rural areas when choosing areas of agricultural diversification that contribute to increasing the sustainability of the development of the territory of residence. Objectives. The aim is to investigate the perception of the concept of "ideal village" by the residents of a rural municipality; to test the research methodology for choosing the directions of diversification of the agricultural economy to increase the sustainability of rural development. Methods. The study employs methods of logical analysis, the communication technology of designing the image of the future. The data for the study were obtained during a foresight session by means of moderation. Results. On the territory of the "Kurumkansky district" municipality of the Republic of Buryatia, the main issue is employment of the population. Residents consider various social infrastructure facilities, like schools, kindergartens, as the main areas of employment. Among possible directions of agricultural diversification, those related to tourism, primary processing of agricultural products, landscape gardening and improvement of rural areas are highlighted. Entrepreneurship is practically not considered as a source of job creation and additional income. Conclusions. The study establishes that people choose areas of agricultural diversification that do not violate the ecology of the place of residence, enable expansion of sales markets through unrelated areas of diversification, such as tourism, primary processing of agricultural products.
Special features of territorial tax incentives to accelerate economic growth
Authors: BOGACHEV Sergei V.
Published: December 2022

Subject. The article addresses special aspects of territorial tax incentives to accelerate economic growth
Objectives. The aim is to identify the specifics of territorial tax incentives for economic growth and develop proposals to use them.
Results. The study reveals features of territorial tax incentives for economic growth. The benefits are provided from own sources of budgets of subjects of the Federation and municipalities, i.e. property taxes (corporate property tax, land and transport taxes) and income tax. The privileges are available in preferential territories (SEZ, TASED, TAD) and are granted to industrial parks, technology parks, and those implementing regional investment projects (RIP) and special investment contracts (SPIC). The paper presents recommendations for using the identified specifics. They include a differentiated approach to the development of territorial tax incentives within non-subsidized and subsidized regions; assessment of the possibility of increasing the number of non-subsidized and low-subsidized budgets based on the principles of fiscal federalism; improving the administration and control, including the use of digital technologies, to ensure an accurate assessment of tax expenditures (lost income) of the property tax budget when making decisions on the application of territorial tax incentives.
Conclusions. The recommendations are addressed to regional authorities and local self-governments for consideration and approval of projects of residents of preferential territories, business entities, RIP and SPIC that contribute to the acceleration of economic growth, specialists developing and improving tax incentives for economic growth.
Applying the innovative tools in the activities of tax authorities
Authors: AGUZAROVA Fatima S. , TSIRIKHOVA Agunda R.
Published: December 2022

Subject. The article considers innovative tools used in the work of tax authorities.
Objectives. The purpose is to increase the effectiveness of control activities of tax authorities through the use of innovative tools.
Methods. The study employs general scientific methods, like observation, system-functional, scientific abstraction.
Results. The study revealed that the use of innovative tools in the activities of tax authorities enabled to work with big data, reduce the cost of administrative and control measures, increase labor productivity, accelerate and streamline the entire tax proceedings process, and ultimately enhance the quality of operation. The findings can be used by practitioners in the work of tax authorities, and in the educational process of universities.
Conclusions. In the course of the study, we identified some problems in the activities of tax authorities, i.e. unstable and contradictory tax legislation, work with large volumes of data, high physical load of employees, corruption component of tax authorities, etc. The paper proves that innovative technologies will help solve these problems, as they may improve work efficiency and ensure timely budget receipts.
Evaluation of acute ischemic stroke in the emergency department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a retrospective study
Authors: Alhamdan Qais , Alhussain Zead , Alshalhoub Khalid , Alalkami Mohammed , Alshehri Mohammed , Alali Ridha , Alyaseen Abdullah , Alshayeb Turki
Published: December 2022

Background: Stroke is a severe illness that can cause death and significant disability. Age is a factor in the incidence of ischemic stroke. In our study, we aimed at contributing the acute stroke data in Saudi population by defining the etiological, epidemiological, demographic, and clinical characteristics of individuals with acute ischemic stroke (AIS).
Method: A retrospective descriptive was conducted involving patients admitted to the adult emergency department due to an AIS at King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between March 1, 2020 and August 31, 2020. Data preparation and statistical analysis were done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 24 and Microsoft Excel, respectively.
Results: Among the study participants, 55.2% (n = 144) were men with an average of 65.8. Among the AIS patients, 34.2% of the patients had coronary artery disease, 30.3% had diabetic mellitus, and 61.9% had hypertension (HT) history.
Conclusion: The incidence of AIS was statistically significantly higher in older age groups, with 72.5% of patients between the ages of 60 and 89. The distribution of HT, diabetes mellitus, and atrial fibrillation by gender in patient backgrounds was found to be significant (p < 0.05).
The effect of social media use on dermatologists and their practices in Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Authors: Aleissa Abdulellah , Abualnaja Suhail , Rajab Abdullah , Alnouri Loai , Badawoud Hassan , Aleissa Saud
Published: December 2022

Background: Websites and applications emphasizing communication, content-sharing, and collaboration are collectively referred to as social media. We aim to assess the relationship between dermatologists' use of social media and its effect on their practice in Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from August to September 2022 in selected private and government dermatological clinics in different areas in Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. All participants were dermatologists who completed a self-administered questionnaire. We used IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 26.0 (Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.) for statistical analysis.
Results: Sixty-eight dermatologists participated in this study. Forty-seven (69.1%) stated that they used social media in their daily practice and 21 (30.8%) stated that they did not. The most common platform used was Twitter, used by 68%. Patients who used social media had increased expectations compared to patients of dermatologists that did not. Of the 47 social media users, 27 (57%) use it daily for 3-4 hours. Education was the most common purpose of using social media (n = 19; 40%).
Conclusion: The results did not show a significant difference in monthly income between dermatologists who use social media and those who do not. However, more research is necessary to fully understand how social media and digital communication affect dermatology and how it could be implemented in the healthcare setting.