bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Sex differences in self-report anxiety and sleep quality during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders
Authors: Bigalke Jeremy A. , Greenlund Ian M. , Carter Jason R.
Published: October 2020

Background

COVID-19 and home isolation has impacted quality of life, but the perceived impact on anxiety and sleep remains equivocal. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders on self-report anxiety and sleep quality, with a focus on sex differences. We hypothesized that the COVID-19 pandemic would be associated with increased anxiety and decreased sleep quality, with stronger associations in women.

Methods

One hundred three participants (61 female, 38 ± 1 years) reported perceived changes in anxiety and sleep quality due to stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic and were administered the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). Chi-square and T test analyses were utilized to assess sex differences in reported anxiety and sleep. Analysis of covariance was used to compare the associations between reported impact of COVID-19 and anxiety/sleep parameters.

Results

Women (80.3%) reported higher prevalence of increased general anxiety due to COVID-19 when compared to men (50%; p = 0.001) and elevated STAI state anxiety compared to men (43 ± 1 vs. 38 ± 1 a.u., p = 0.007). Despite these differences in anxiety, the perceived impact of COVID-19 on PSQI was not different between sexes. However, when stratified by perceived changes in anxiety due to COVID-19, participants with higher anxiety responses to COVID-19 had higher ISI compared to those with no perceived changes in anxiety (9 ± 1 vs. 5 ± 1 a.u., p = 0.003). Additionally, participants who reported reduced sleep quality due to COVID-19 reported higher state anxiety (45 ± 1 a.u.) compared to those that perceived no change (36 ± 2 a.u., p = 0.002) or increased (36 ± 2 a.u., p < 0.001) sleep quality.

Conclusion

COVID-19 and state-ordered home isolation was associated with higher anxiety and reduced sleep quality, with a stronger association in women with respect to anxiety.
COVID-19 in pastoral contexts in the greater Horn of Africa: Implications and recommendations
Authors: Griffith Evan F. , Pius Loupa , Manzano Pablo , Jost Christine C.
Published: October 2020

COVID-19 is a global pandemic that continues to spread around the world, including to Africa where cases are steadily increasing. The African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is leading the pandemic response in Africa, with direction from the World Health Organization guidelines for critical preparedness, readiness, and response actions. These are written for national governments, lacking nuance for population and local differences. In the greater Horn of Africa, conditions unique to pastoralists such as inherent mobility and limited health and service infrastructure will influence the dynamics of COVID-19. In this paper, we present a One Health approach to the pandemic, consisting of interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration focused on the determinants of health and health outcomes amongst pastoralists. Our contextualized public health strategy includes community One Health teams and suggestions for where to implement targeted public health measures. We also analyse the interaction of COVID-19 impacts, including those caused directly by the disease and those that result from control efforts, with ongoing shocks and vulnerabilities in the region (e.g. desert locusts, livestock disease outbreaks, floods, conflict, and development displacement). We give recommendations on how to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its secondary impacts on pastoral areas. Given that the full impact of COVID-19 on pastoral areas is unknown currently, our health recommendations focus on disease prevention and understanding disease epidemiology. We emphasize targeting pastoral toponymies with public health measures to secure market access and mobility while combating the direct health impacts of COVID-19. A contextualized approach for the COVID-19 public health response in pastoral areas in the Greater Horn of Africa, including how the pandemic will interact with existing shocks and vulnerabilities, is required for an effective response, while protecting pastoral livelihoods and food, income, and nutrition security.
A Fugitive Christian Public: Singing, Sentiment, and Socialization in Colonial Korea
Authors: Chang Hyun Kyong Hannah
Published: October 2020

Well-known songs of colonial Korea such as “Kagop’a” and “Pongsŏnhwa” appear to be secular songs, but their origins lie in the complex intersection of North American Christian missions, Korean cultural life, and Japanese colonial rule. This article explores the historical significance of secular sentimental songs in colonial Korea (1910–45), which originated in mission schools and churches. At these sites North American missionaries and Christian Koreans converged around songwriting, song publishing, and vocal performance. Missionary music editors such as Annie Baird, Louise Becker, and their Korean associates relied on secular sentimental songs to cultivate a new kind of psychological interior associated with a modern subjectivity. An examination of representative vernacular song collections alongside accounts of social connections formed through musical activities gives a glimpse into an intimate space of a new religion in which social relations and subjective interiors were both mediated and represented by songs. The author argues that this space was partly formed by Christianity’s fugitive status in the 1910s under the uncertainty of an emergent colonial rule and traces the genealogy of Korean vernacular modernity to the activities of singing in this space, which she calls a fugitive Christian public.
The Student’s Hand: Industrial Education and Racialized Labor in Early Korean Protestantism
Authors: Huh Jang Wook
Published: October 2020

In the 1900s American missionaries used the industrial vision of the African American leader Booker T. Washington to instill the idea of economic progress in Koreans. Inspired by this uplift model, the Korean intellectual Yun Ch’i-ho (Yun Ch’iho) and US Southern Methodists founded the Anglo-Korean School in 1906, where students would later produce textile products called “Korea mission cloth” for global sale. This article examines the promotion of manual labor in the intersection of religious propagation and educational reform during the early twentieth century. The author argues that the idealization of industrialization by American and Korean Protestant leaders was a vehicle to both disseminate American discourses of race and institutionalize a system of capitalism in the name of modernizing Korea. This early history of Korean Protestantism has influenced the hierarchical conceptualizations of the white, black, and Asian races, which has been obscured by the benevolent achievements of missionary work.
Gut and intestinal biometrics of the giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis, fed an experimental diet with difference sources of activated charcoal
Authors: Firdus Firdus , Samadi Samadi , Muhammadar Abdullah A. , Sarong Muhammad A. , Muchlisin Zainal A. , Sari Widya , Batubara Agung S.
Published: October 2020

Background:The giant trevally,Caranx ignobilis, is a commercially important marine fish in Indonesia. This species was initially cultured in Aceh Province. Previous reports showed that charcoal has a positive effect on survival and feed utilization of the giant trevally. However, the effects of adding charcoal to the diet on gut and intestine biometrics has, to our knowledge, never been described.

Methods:Four activated charcoal sources were tested in this study using a completely randomized experimental design; coconut shell charcoal, mangrove wood charcoal, rice husk charcoal, and kernel palm shell charcoal. All treatments were performed with four replications. Juvenile giant trevally (average body weight, 16.52 ± 3.12 g; and average total length, 10.26 ± 0.64 cm) were stocked into the experimental tank at a density of 15 fish per tank. The fish were fed an experimental diet twice daily at 7 AM and 5 PMad satiationfor 42 days.

Results:Analysis of variance showed that adding charcoal to the diet had significant effects on the length and width of the foveola gastrica and villous intestine (P < 0.05). The greatest length and width of the foveola gastrica was recorded in fish fed an experimental diet of rice husk charcoal with average values of 311.811 ± 9.869 µm and 241.786 ± 10.394 µm, respectively. The greatest length of intestinal villous was found in fish fed the mangrove wood charcoal diet, with a value of 135.012 ± 5.147 µm, but this length was not significantly different to that in fish fed rice charcoal and kernel palm shell charcoal. However, the greatest width of intestinal villous was recorded in fish fed the control diet (without charcoal; P < 0.05).

Conclusion:The optimal sizes of the foveola gastrica and villous intestine were found in fish fed an experimental diet with rice husk charcoal.
The lichens of the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland in the limits of St. Petersburg, Russia – diversity on the edge of the megapolis
Authors: Stepanchikova Irina , Himelbrant Dmitry , Kuznetsova Ekaterina , Motiejūnaitė Jurga , Chesnokov Sergey , Konoreva Liudmila , Gagarina Ludmila
Published: October 2020

We present a lichen checklist for the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland in the limits of St. Petersburg, Russia. This area has diverse lichen biota within the city limits, and has been comprehensively studied since 1893, which gives a good base for analysis of historical changes in lichen diversity. The documented lichen biota comprises 469 species (430 lichenized, 24 lichenicolous, 3 facultatively lichenicolous, and 12 non-lichenized saprobic fungi), of them 191 species are known from herbaria and literature for the period before 1991, and 436 species were recorded since 1991 to 2019. Thirty-three taxa were excluded from the lichen list of the study area as erroneous or dubious records. Altogether 48 species are new to St. Petersburg, including: Lecidea malmeana and Micarea czarnotae – new to Russia; Caloplaca lucifuga, Gyalecta nigricans, Micarea soralifera – new to European Russia; Agonimia flabelliformis, Endococcus verrucosus, Lecania turicensis, Micarea fallax, M. tomentosa, Xanthomendoza huculica – new to Northwestern European Russia; Lichenoconium lichenicola, Ramalina europaea, Sarcogyne hypophaea – not known also from the Leningrad Region. The studied lichen biota is moderately rich compared to other city territories. The history of economic development of the region has caused its serious transformation, degradation of natural habitats and therefore partial loss of lichen diversity. At the same time, human-made substrates and anthropogenic plant communities are inhabited by lichens, including species unknown in the natural habitats of the study area. However, 44 species recorded in the study area are red-listed in St. Petersburg, with 13 of them known only from historical collections. Forest communities, as well as historical parks, in NW part of St. Petersburg are important source of biodiversity on regional level nowadays and hopefully in future, and deserve protection.
The lichens and allied fungi of forest rocky communities of the Vysokaya (Volda) Mountain (Windy Belt Ridge, Arkhangelsk Region, NW Russia)
Authors: Tarasova Viktoria , Sonina Angella , Androsova Vera , Valekzhanin Andrei , Konoreva Liudmila
Published: October 2020

The paper presents the results of continuing research of lichen diversity in rocky communities of Windy Belt Ridge (Arkhangelsk Region, NW Russia). Using the method of sample plots and linear routes, the communities of the mountain Vysokaya (Volda) were examined, and 270 species and 2 subspecies of lichens and allied fungi were recorded there. A total of 18 lichens are new for the mainland area of Arkhangelsk Region, 35 species are new to the Vodlozersky National Park (Arkhangelsk part) and 9 species are in the Red Data Book of Arkhangelsk Region (2020). Within sample plots (altogether 0.2 ha), 230 species were found, with 41–50% of total species number being presented within one sample plot (0.04 ha). Along the linear route (2 km), 190 taxa were recorded: 43 species were found only on the route (outside the sample plots), which is 16% of the total lichen species number in studied communities. Comparative analysis of the lichen diversity between currently studied mountains (Olovgora, Muroigora, Vysokaya) of the Windy Belt Ridge showed that the high degree of community conservation, rocky type of communities with significant rocky outcrops, as well as landscape heterogeneity determine conditions for a high species diversity of lichens. In total, 343 species of lichens and allied fungi have been found for the studied mountains of the Windy Belt Ridge.
Mastering the Skills of Semantic Reading As a Result of Teaching Younger Schoolchildren
Authors: Vinogradova Natalya
Published: October 2020

The article describes the semantic reading, considered as the main component of communicative functional literacy, the mastery of which includes both subject and meta-subject learning outcomes of primary schoolchildren. The features of the methodology of teaching semantic reading at different stages of school education are revealed. Examples of tasks that contribute to the development of semantic reading skills in schoolchildren studying in the first and second grades are given.
Breaking thermaxBarrier: Enhanced Approximation Algorithms for Partial Set Multicover Problem
Authors: Ran Yingli , Zhang Zhao , Tang Shaojie , Du Ding-Zhu
Published: October 2020

Given an element set E of order n, a collection of subsets [Formula: see text], a cost cSon each set [Formula: see text], a covering requirement refor each element [Formula: see text], and an integer k, the goal of a minimum partial set multicover problem (MinPSMC) is to find a subcollection [Formula: see text] to fully cover at least k elements such that the cost of [Formula: see text] is as small as possible and element e is fully covered by [Formula: see text] if it belongs to at least resets of [Formula: see text]. This problem generalizes the minimum k-union problem (MinkU) and is believed not to admit a subpolynomial approximation ratio. In this paper, we present a [Formula: see text]-approximation algorithm for MinPSMC, in which [Formula: see text] is the maximum size of a set in S. And when [Formula: see text], we present a bicriteria algorithm fully covering at least [Formula: see text] elements with approximation ratio [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a fixed number. These results are obtained by studying the minimum density subcollection problem with (or without) cardinality constraint, which might be of interest by itself.
Leveraging the Numerosity Effect to Influence Perceived Expensiveness of Virtual Items
Authors: Huang Yunhui , Lim Kai H. , Lin Zhijie
Published: October 2020

Selling virtual items is one of the major revenue sources for online game operators. Therefore, the design of game currency systems is important. This research shows that the game currency exchange rate (e.g., $1 = 1,000 game currency is a higher rate than $1 = 10 game currency) affects price perception of virtual items. When the rate is not prominent in players’ minds (e.g., the rate is not mentioned or players have sufficient game currency in their account), players consider a virtual item as more expensive if the rate is higher. In contrast, when the rate is prominent in players’ minds (e.g., the rate is mentioned and no additional information indicates that players already have sufficient game currency, and thus it is irrelevant), players consider a virtual item as cheaper if the rate is higher. In the latter case, higher rate leads to stronger purchase intention of nonsocial, but not social, virtual items. Our findings show currency system design can affect players’ willingness to spend on virtual items thus affecting the revenue of game operators. Moreover, reminders of the actual monetary value of virtual items might help to reduce players’ overspending driven by the biasing effect of the game currency exchange rate.
Role of pH level on the morphology and growth rate of myelin figures: publisher’s note
Authors: Panahi Marzieh Allah , Tahmasebi Zahra , Abbasian Vahid , Amiri Mohammad , Moradi Ali-Reza
Published: October 2020

This publisher’s note contains corrections to Biomed. Opt. Express 11, 5565 (2020)10.1364/BOE.401834.
Red blood cell classification in lensless single random phase encoding using convolutional neural networks
Authors: O’Connor Timothy , Hawxhurst Christopher , Shor Leslie M. , Javidi Bahram
Published: October 2020

Rapid cell identification is achieved in a compact and field-portable system employing single random phase encoding to record opto-biological signatures of living biological cells of interest. The lensless, 3D-printed system uses a diffuser to encode the complex amplitude of the sample, then the encoded signal is recorded by a CMOS image sensor for classification. Removal of lenses in this 3D sensing system removes restrictions on the field of view, numerical aperture, and depth of field normally imposed by objective lenses in comparable microscopy systems to enable robust 3D capture of biological volumes. Opto-biological signatures for two classes of animal red blood cells, situated in a microfluidic device, are captured then input into a convolutional neural network for classification, wherein the AlexNet architecture, pretrained on the ImageNet database is used as the deep learning model. Video data was recorded of the opto-biological signatures for multiple samples, then each frame was treated as an input image to the network. The pre-trained network was fine-tuned and evaluated using a dataset of over 36,000 images. The results show improved performance in comparison to a previously studied Random Forest classification model using extracted statistical features from the opto-biological signatures. The system is further compared to and outperforms a similar shearing-based 3D digital holographic microscopy system for cell classification. In addition to improvements in classification performance, the use of convolutional neural networks in this work is further demonstrated to provide improved performance in the presence of noise. Red blood cell identification as presented here, may serve as a key step toward lensless pseudorandom phase encoding applications in rapid disease screening. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of lensless cell identification in single random phase encoding using convolutional neural networks.
Coulomb-induced ionization time lag after electrons tunnel out of a barrier
Authors: Xie Xuejiao , Chen Chao , Xin Guoguo , Liu Jie , Chen Yanjun
Published: October 2020

After electrons tunnel out of a laser-Coulomb-formed barrier, the movement of the tunneling electron can be affected by the Coulomb potential. We show that this Coulomb effect induces a large time difference (longer than a hundred attoseconds) between the tunneling-out time at which the electron exits the barrier and the ionization time at which the electron is free. This large time difference has important influences on strong-field processes such as above-threshold ionization and high-harmonic generation, with remarkably changing time-frequency properties of electron trajectories. Some semi-quantitative evaluations on these influences are addressed, which provide new insight into strong-field processes and give suggestions on attosecond measurements.
Large area liquid crystal lenses for correction of presbyopia
Authors: Jamali Afsoon , Bryant Douglas , Bhowmick Amit K. , Bos Philip J
Published: October 2020

Presbyopia is the failure of the eye lens to accommodate. The widely used presbyopia correction method involves wearing bi/trifocal or progressive glasses, which limits the field of view due to division of lens area into sections of different optical power. A large aperture focus tunable liquid crystal lens has the potential to correct human eye accommodation failure and provide a wide field of view. In this paper, we present characterization and demonstration of a segmented phase profile liquid crystal lens, which has the characteristics of a large area (diameter: 20 mm), being flat and thin (<2 mm), and having continuous focus tunability (1.5 D to 0 D), fast response time (<500 ms), low operating voltage (<5 V), and on-axis diffraction-limited performance (for a 5mm aperture). Considering all these properties, our lens provides performance details of an approach for presbyopia correction. We have tested the minimum resolution and visual acuity of 20 subjects using the designed lens and compared the results with a reference glass lens of the same optical power.
Modelling and correction for polarization errors of a 600 mm aperture dynamic Fizeau interferometer
Authors: Miao Xinyu , Ma Jun , Yu Yifan , Li Jianxin , Wei Cong , Zhu Rihong , Chen Lei , Yuan Caojin , Wang Qing , Zheng Donghui
Published: October 2020

The polarization errors of large aperture dynamic interferometers based on the polarization phase shifting method are mainly coming from the effects of imperfect polarized elements and birefringence of large elements. Using the Lissajous ellipse fitting algorithm to correct the influence of the polarized device can effectively eliminate single and double frequency print through errors. We develop a wave plate model for analyzing the birefringence effect, and on this basis, we establish the relationship between the calculated phase and the ideal phase distribution. Experiments are carried out on a 600mm aperture Fizeau interferometer and then compared with the result acquired through the wavelength tuning method. The difference between PV is only 0.002λ.
Anamnesis e syngeneia: a proposito di Menone, 81c-d
Authors: Ferrari Franco
Published: October 2020

The heristic argument with which Meno questions the possibility of inquiry and knowledge is tackled by Socrates through the reference to an archaic and religious doctrine, according to which the soul is immortal and has seen all things. Through this reference Socrates actually wants to affirm the affinity between the soul and the world of forms. So behind the myth of the prenatal vision of forms by the soul Plato intends to assert the ontological condition of the soul, that is, its affinity to forms.
Productivity of harvesting and clearing of brushwood alongside forest roads
Authors: Laitila Juha , Väätäinen Kari
Published: October 2020

Expertise in the cost-efficient utilization and treatment of brushwood on forest roadside sites is limited. In the present study, the productivity of brushwood clearing and harvesting on forest roadside sites was defined by creating time-consumption models or parameters for the aforementioned working methods. Compiled time consumption models and parameters for the brushwood clearing and harvesting can be used as a basis for evaluating alternative management practices and to determine when brushwood biomass should be harvested and when it should be left to decay. The harvesting of brushwood was based on the harwarder system and the clearing of brushwood was done with a spiral cutter, which is a novel accessory for cutting roadside vegetation. Based on the study results, the average volume of harvested brushwood and forwarding distance are the key elements that have an effect on harvesting productivity with harwarders. Correspondingly, stump diameter has a strong impact on the clearing productivity of brushwood. The plot-wise productivity of the spiral cutter in brushwood clearings varied in the range of 0.19â0.61 ha per PMh. An increase in stump diameter slowed down the clearing productivity of the spiral cutter and there was a clear step downward in clearing productivity as the average diameter increased from 30 mm to 40 mm. The machinery under study operated well and there were no interruptions due to machine breakdowns.
Repolitizar los territorios. Reflexiones sobre los conceptos de territorio y poder en la extensión universitaria
Authors: Erreguerena Fabio Luis
Published: October 2020

En este artículo nos proponemos hacer un breve repaso por los distintos significados e implicancias de la categoría de “territorio”, categoría de uso cotidiano en el campo de la extensión universitaria y que, desde hace ya más de cuatro décadas y con una participación relevante de autores latinoamericanos, ha tenido importantes resignificaciones. Teniendo en cuenta que para los autores que desarrollaremos, y para nuestra propia perspectiva, el territorio constituye un espacio social y culturalmente producido que expresa relaciones de poder, indagaremos distintas nociones sobre el poder implicadas, dado que las mismas arrojarán diferentes concepciones acerca del territorio. Por otra parte, fundamentaremos el rol clave que juega la dimensión territorial en la constitución e identidad de los actores, organizaciones y movimientos sociales en Latinoamérica, una característica diferencial de la acción colectiva en nuestro continente. Finalmente, intentaremos reflexionar acerca de la necesidad de no descuidar las dinámicas políticas y de conflicto presentes, explícitas o implícitamente, en las prácticas extensionistas tanto dentro del territorio universitario como en el extrauniversitario.
L’Espace Expérientiel (E²) : une pédagogie interactive
Authors: Bédard Denis , Bibeau Jean , Pilon Catherine , Turgeon Andréanne
Published: October 2020

Ce texte présente la pédagogie de l’Espace Expérientiel (E2). L’E² est une invitation à repenser l’espace d’apprentissage des apprenants et, aussi, des enseignants. La réalisation d’un projet, la résolution d’un problème, la compréhension d’un cas et la transmission des savoirs afférents sont ainsi reléguées au deuxième plan de l’action d’enseigner. De cela, le développement de l’individu, par l’interaction avec ses pairs, devient le centre autour duquel les méthodes se déploient et se transforment. Après avoir situé l’E² parmi les pédagogies actives, nous présentons la problématique et le contexte de la collecte de données. La présentation de premiers résultats de la mise en pratique de l’E2 permet de relever certains constats soulignant les forces et les limites de l’E2 dans la discussion et la conclusion.
Агония „красного человека”: сложные дилеммы Светланы Алексиевич
Authors: Poliszczuk Jarosław
Published: October 2020

The article is dedicated to the Svetlana Alexievich literary works in the cultural and social context of our time. As the writer has recognized, she writes about the end of the epoch which was called homo sovieticus. She paid a great attention to the traumatic experience regardless of to whom it belongs: to the Soviet servants or theirs victims – the ones who were repressed and called dissidents. Humanistic pathos is one of the main features of Svetlana Alexievich’s writings. It overestimates the value of individuality and private life in the contemporary society.
Произведения Александра Марданя в контексте „новой драмы”
Authors: Sibirnaja Maria
Published: October 2020

The article attempts to allocate and analyze the most essential characteristics of plays by A. Mardan's, a popular Russian-speaking Ukrainian playwright, and to inscribe his work in the context of the dynamics of the phenomenon of the new drama. The attempt of the author is to understand a complex post-Soviet reality in order to reflect it in the artistic space of the drama. The plays demonstrate the destruction of habitual human values, including moral, ethical, aesthetic, and other norms that guide people in life. At the same time, his plays exploit the techniques and elements of various genres of mass culture. One may say that certain principles have become an integral quality of Mardan's plays such as the approach of the plays to the truth of life, the external everydayness, the use of elements of documentary theater and the theater of absurd, the construction of the plot with an eye for entertainment or scandalous intrigue, philosophical overtones and the author's attitude to the depicted world. This indicates that his plays may be regarded as works of ‘the new drama’ that occupy a worthy place in the contemporary Russian-language drama of the post-Soviet period.
Werbalizacja metafory kognitywnej MYŚLENIE TO PODRÓŻ na przykładzie polskiego tłumaczenia monografii J. D. Apresjana
Authors: Węglowska Anna Maria
Published: October 2020

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the cognitive metaphor verbalization of THINKING IS A JOURNEY on the examples from Lexical semantics by J.D. Apresjan. Basing on the theory of cognitive metaphor by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, the author of the article attempts to analyze and present the role of the abovementioned metaphor in scientific texts.
Часопростір в образотворчому мистецтві й літературі: експериментувати не можна спростити (контекст doppelbegabungen)
Authors: Moczerniuk Natalia
Published: October 2020

The article deals with the issue of the chronotope distinguishing features both in literature and in fine arts. The artists' attempts to include the category of time into painting and their speculations on the problem have been highlighted in the paper. Such concepts as sujet and rhythm, their relevance to fine arts have been brought into focus. Being a part of a principal study of the writers-artists’ oeuvres, the current paper contains the collected data on the painters’ transition from fine arts as a spatial one to literature. Their conversion to a new artistic field was caused by the desire to create temporal art and experiment with artistic time continuum.
Радянський джентльмен: український професор супроти викликів історії
Authors: Blashkiv Oksana
Published: October 2020

The emphasis is placed on the main character’s personal, national and academic identity. A university professor and a linguist, the protagonist constructed his identity through combining the elements of Sovietness, Englishness, and Ukrainianness. While focusing on the protagonist’s identity quest, the author also identifies historical context of the novel, which is rooted in Ukrainian socio-historic reality throughout the 1950s-2010s.
«Дожити до ста»: моделювання героя в романі Володимира Лиса Століття Якова
Authors: Krupka Liubomir
Published: October 2020

The article is devoted to the study of the novel by Vladimir Fox, The Age of Jacob. The main purpose is to analyze ways of modeling identity in the context of the axiological priorities of the protagonist as a collective image of the Ukrainian peasant in the 20th century.
Elementy wizualne w kulturze eksperymentu w ujęciu psychologicznym
Authors: Poczynok Julia
Published: October 2020

In the article there is a whole range of the different examples related to the culture of experiment, especially in the context of the interrelations between literature and visual arts, music and photography. The paper touches upon the questions of mediality, intermediality, the relationship between word and picture, as well as sound and movement. The main aim of the article is to demonstrate the phenomenon of interweaving various types of arts worldwide.
Nabokow w masy: Obrona Łużyna na dużym ekranie
Authors: Popovich Natalia
Published: October 2020

The intellectual prose of Vladimir Nabokov is not easy to be filmed. Thus, filmmakers have made a lot of changes in the original text. The goal of The Luzhin Defence creators’ was to show a completely new interpretation of Nabokov’s novel and present it to the public. This is why they simplified the plot, added some dynamism, made it more epic and attractive (love triangle, Luzhin’s mother’ suicide, erotic scenes, conspiracy, kidnapping, failed wedding). Luzhin’s childhood has been presented as a series of flashbacks. The hierarchy of characters has been changed: two equivalent characters are in the center (Luzhin and Natalia). All other characters have been given their first names and their biography. The film is spiced with feminism: the female character is stronger than in the novel and the story of a chess player (Luzhin) is presented from the feminist director’s point of view. Love story is placed in the center of the plot and it covers the topic of the game of chess. The motif of chess is connected with an extra independent character providing comments about chess to a viewer. Nabokov’s idea about the transcendental nature of arts, madness as the price for being a genius, is not presented in the film. The conflict in the film is not about metaphysics, but about intrigues and envy. Additionally, the plot has been complemented with an epilog to Nabokov’s story. After Luzhin’s suicide Natalia finishes the championship chess match by following his notes about the game and takes a revenge.
Enabling in the Production-Oriented Approach: Theoretical Principles and Classroom Implementation
Authors: Qiu Lin
Published: October 2020

Enabling as the second phase of the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) instruction (Wen, 2015), plays a vital role in determining the quality of productive performance of English language learners. To explore how to apply theoretical principles of enabling to practice, this paper interprets theoretical principles and reports the practice of the classroom implementation of enabling. The paper proposes a definition for enabling, clarifies the confusion between enabling and scaffolding, and clears up some misunderstandings about enabling. It explains three criteria for effective enabling, namely, alignment, gradualness, and variety, and elaborates on the relations among them. Based on the teaching material of Unit 7 of iEnglish, the paper demonstrates how to design and implement enabling activities under the guidance of these three criteria and evaluates the actual effectiveness of the enabling implemented in the classroom.
Role of time-normalized laboratory findings in predicting COVID-19 outcome
Authors: Ferrari Davide , Seveso Andrea , Sabetta Eleonora , Ceriotti Daniele , Carobene Anna , Banfi Giuseppe , Locatelli Massimo , Cabitza Federico
Published: October 2020

Objectives

The pandemic COVID-19 currently reached 213 countries worldwide with nearly 9 million infected people and more than 460,000 deaths. Although several Chinese studies, describing the laboratory findings characteristics of this illness have been reported, European data are still scarce. Furthermore, previous studies often analyzed the averaged laboratory findings collected during the entire hospitalization period, whereas monitoring their time-dependent variations should give more reliable prognostic information.

Methods

We analyzed the time-dependent variations of 14 laboratory parameters in two groups of COVID-19 patients with, respectively, a positive (40 patients) or a poor (42 patients) outcome, admitted to the San Raffaele Hospital (Milan, Italy). We focused mainly on laboratory parameters that are routinely tested, thus, prognostic information would be readily available even in low-resource settings.

Results

Statistically significant differences between the two groups were observed for most of the laboratory findings analyzed. We showed that some parameters can be considered as early prognostic indicators whereas others exhibit statistically significant differences only at a later stage of the disease. Among them, earliest indicators were: platelets, lymphocytes, lactate dehydrogenase, creatinine, alanine aminotransferase, C-reactive protein, white blood cells and neutrophils.

Conclusions

This longitudinal study represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first study describing the laboratory characteristics of Italian COVID-19 patients on a normalized time-scale. The time-dependent prognostic value of the laboratory parameters analyzed in this study can be used by clinicians for the effective treatment of the patients and for the proper management of intensive care beds, which becomes a critical issue during the pandemic peaks.
Zivilgesellschaft re-visited: Emanzipation oder Instrumentalisierung?Das neoliberal-autoritäre Regime der AKP in der Türkei
Authors: Al-Rebholz Anıl
Published: October 2020

Der Aufsatz zeichnet die Einschränkungen des zivilgesellschaftlichen Aktivismus während der sogenannten autoritären Wende in der Türkei nach, die seit 2011 zu beobachten ist und sich insbesondere nach dem gescheiterten Putschversuch vom 15. Juli 2016 weiter verschärfte. In diesem Kontext werden zwei Felder näher betrachtet: Der „Frauen-Aktivismus“ und die sogenannte „Dezentralisierung“. Ersteres beinhaltet Themen wie anti-feministische Diskurse, regierungsfreundliche Frauen-NGOs, vergeschlechtlichte Wohlfahrtspolitiken und Versuche einer Restituierung der patriarchalen Ordnung unter der AKP-Regierung. Der Dezentralisierungstopos betrifft Themen wie das fragwürdige Demokratisierungspotenzial der kommunalen Selbstverwaltungen unter den AKP-Kadern, die regierungsfreundlichen islamisch-karitativen NGOs, das Großprojekt İstanbul-Kanal und die Schirmherrschaften und klientilistischen Politiken der städtischen Governance. Diese Beispiele zeigen, dass die Grenzen zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements unter der AKP-Regierung neu zu vermessen sind. Im letzten Teil wird – in Anlehnung an die Subjektivierungsformen im Zeitalter der neoliberalen Globalisierung nach Michael Hardt und Antonio Negri – der Frage nachgegangen, ob im Falle der Türkei aus einer hegemonietheoretischen Perspektive überhaupt noch von einemprekären zivilgesellschaftlichen Konsensgesprochen werden kann.
Zur Nutzung des Raumes in Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken
Authors: Schuldt Karsten
Published: October 2020

Eine systematische Auswertung der Studien, die in den Jahren 2009 bis 2019 dazu publiziert wurden, wie der Raum Wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken genutzt wird, zeigt einerseits, dass weiterhin das individuelle Arbeiten für akademische Arbeiten überwiegt und andere vermutete Veränderungen nicht in großem Maße stattgefunden haben. Andererseits zeigt sich, dass Bibliotheken vor allem auf sich schauen, Instrumente nicht nachnutzen und fast keine Vergleiche mit anderen Bibliotheken durchführen.
Allergiedaten Analysieren
Authors: Rölke Heiko , Schmid Marco
Published: October 2020

Das Zentrum für Datenanalyse, Visualisierung und Simulation (DAViS) der Partner FH Graubünden und Schweizer Institut für Allergie- und Asthmaforschung bietet Unterstützung in allen Bereichen der Forschung und Anwendung von Maschinellen Lernverfahren, Big Data, Visualisierung und Simulation. Im Artikel wird exemplarisch an einem Forschungsprojekt die Analyse komplexer Daten aus dem Gesundheitsbereich dargestellt.
Impacts and implications of English as the corporate official language policy: A case in Japan
Authors: Ujiie Saeko Ozawa
Published: October 2020

Increasing numbers of corporations are now operating across national borders as a result of globalization. The “language barrier” is the first and foremost challenge they encounter when starting a business in a foreign market, and many companies are trying to solve the problem by adopting a common corporate language. Using English as an official corporate language is the most common solution for those corporations. The present study explored the impacts of English as a corporate official language policy implemented at a company, a rapidly developed high profile IT Company with 20,000 employees, in Japan, a country often perceived to be relatively monolingual and monocultural. When I started studying the company, I first found that the company’s motive to use English as the official corporate language was different from other instances of corporate language policy making I had come across. In previous studies (e.g., Feely & Harzing 2003; Marschan-Piekkari, Welch, & Welch 1999), the companies implemented common corporate language to solve problems caused by language barriers between employees with diverse linguistic backgrounds. However, the company in this study implemented the corporate language policy to prepare for globalization and recruit talents globally. When the company introduced the English-only language policy, most of the employees of the company were Japanese. Therefore, at the time of implementing the language policy, there was no compelling reason for them to use English. The language policy did not work effectively except for a few departments with non-Japanese employees who spoke different first languages. English functioned as a lingua franca in those departments with multinational employees. The findings indicate that for NNESs (non-native English speakers) to communicate with each other in English, the environment has to be more multilingual, less dominated by a single first language. Although almost all Japanese citizens are required to take intensive English courses in compulsory schoolings, the average level of English proficiency is considered to be relatively low in the advanced economies. The present study indicates that it is not for linguistic competence but a lack of interaction with other ELF speakers. Therefore, for learners of ELF in an intensely monolingual society such as Japan to become competent communicators in ELF, providing multilingual learning environments would be more effective than the prevailing teaching practices of classroom learning in L1 Japanese speaker only environments.
Preface for the Number-Theoretic Methods in Cryptology conferences
Authors: Joux Antoine , Pomykała Jacek
Published: October 2020

Number-Theoretic Methods in Cryptology (NutMiC) is a bi-annual series of conferences that waslaunched in 2017. Its goal is to spur collaborations between cryptographers and number-theorists and to encourage progress on the number-theoretic hard problems used in cryptology. The publishing model for the series is also mixing the traditions of the cryptography and number theory communities. Articles were accepted for presentation at the conference by a scientific commitee and werereviewed again at a slower pace for inclusion in the journal post-proceedings.

In 2019, the conference took place at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Sorbonne University,Paris. The event was organized in collaboration with the international association for cryptologic research (IACR) and supported by the European Union’s H2020 Program under grant agreement number ERC-669891. This support allowed us to have low registration costs and offer easy access to all interested researchers.

We were glad to have the participation of five internationally recognized invited speakers who greatly contributed to the success of the conference.

Nutmic 2019 Co-Chairs,

Antoine Joux and Jacek Pomykała
Anthropometric indices and cardiometabolic risk factors in a Ghanaian adolescent population
Authors: Sirikyi Ignatius H. , Eliason Sebastian , Ghartey Frank N. , Ekenam Evans , Pereko Kingsley K. A. , Okai Emmanuel , Yiridong Felix , Hagan Oheneba C. K. , Nsiah Paul
Published: October 2020

Objectives

Adolescent overweight and obesity is a public health concern globally, especially in lower- and middle- income countries where there is an additional burden of undernutrition. The prevalence of adolescent overweight/2obesity has increased markedly over the past three decades. The transition in dietary habits coupled with reduced physical activity has been blamed for the increasing trend. Overweight/obesity in adolescence is complicated by cardiometabolic, respiratory, musculoskeletal and psychosocial disorders. Additionally, adolescent obesity is a predictor of future development of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders. The burden of cardiometabolic risk factors associated with adolescent overweight/obesity in Ghana is lacking, the project, therefore, was undertaken to add to the existing knowledge.

Methods

The study was undertaken in adolescent students of a tertiary institution in Ghana. Two hundred and one students consented to participate in the study. Questionnaires on sociodemographic characteristics, dietary and substance abuse habits were self-administered. Blood pressure, height, weight and waist circumference measures were performed and venous blood drawn for the determination of fasting serum total/LDL/HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. Body mass indices were determined as the weight per square of their heights.

Results

The prevalence of obesity was determined to be 15.81% generally, 27.71% in the females and 7.08% in the males. Diastolic blood pressure was the only cardiometabolic risk factor significantly associated with obesity in our study.

Conclusion

Overweight/obesity is common in Ghanaian adolescents, with the prevalence highest in the female population.
Care of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus in school – An interventional study
Authors: Gurunathan Umamaheswari , Prasad Hemchand Krishna , White Sherline , Prasanna Bala , Sangaralingam Thangavelu
Published: October 2020

Objectives

Paucity of data from India on care of children with Type 1 diabetes in schools. Aims: To study assess the knowledge, attitude, practices and fear of Type 1 diabetes in school teachers and to assess the impact of an educational model on the fear of teachers and care of children in Type 1 DM at school hours.

Methods

A community based study, involving school teachers and the intervention being educating them about diabetes conducted. Data pertaining to basic demography, attitude of teachers towards diabetic children, Hypoglycemia fear factor survey- parent version with worries domain and preparedness of school was collected. An education program was conducted on diabetes care in children. Immediately and after three months, the proforma details and HFSP-W scores reassessed.

Results

Forty two teachers (mean age: 38.7±5.4; M:F ratio 2:40) participated in the study. Post intervention, a higher willingness to have the diabetic child in class (100 vs. 57.1%; p>0.05), better support in daily care (100 vs. 92%; p>0.05), participation in sports activities (100 vs. 7.1%; p<0.05) observed. HFSP-W scores were 38.8±4.5 (pre-intervention), 22.5±4.3 (immediate post intervention) and 29.5±3.2 (at 3months) (p<0.05). To study the determinants of improvement in HFSP-W a regression analysis was performed: presence of glucometer the most likely determining factor (T=1.999, p=0.05).

Conclusion

There is a significant element of fear in the minds of teachers towards hypoglycemia which improves with a structured education program.
Positive solutions for parametric (p(z),q(z))-equations
Authors: Gasiński Leszek , Krech Ireneusz , Papageorgiou Nikolaos S.
Published: October 2020

We consider a parametric elliptic equation driven by the anisotropic

(
p
,
q
)

(p,q)

-Laplacian. The reaction is superlinear. We prove a “bifurcation-type” theorem describing the change in the set of positive solutions as the parameter

λ

\lambda

moves in

ℝ

+

=
(
0
,
+
∞
)

{{\mathbb{R}}}_{+}=(0,+\infty )

.