bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Paradigm of Nazi propaganda during the Great Patriotic War
Authors: Maksimov Konstantin
Published: April 2024

Today, in a number of countries, including in the post-Soviet space, the reincarnation of Nazism is taking place, and historical revisionism is openly manifested, primarily in the assessment of the past World War. The decisive role of the Soviet people in the victory over fascism is being questioned, falsified, and used as a tool for various purposes. In the formation of an objective history of the Great Patriotic War, its study in a broader historical context, and the protection of historical truth, the main support is provided by archival materials. The periodical press occupies an important place in the source base of the history of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War. In this article, the subject of the study is front-page articles of the newspaper "Svobodnaya Zemlya”, the press organ of the temporary Nazi occupation authorities in Kalmykia, which operated from mid-August 1942 to early January 1943.
Development of renewable energy sources in China in 2000s – 2010s: economic and legal aspects
Authors: Kolesnikov Ilya , Kasparyan Konstantin , Kobysheva Elena , Tsaturyan Tamara
Published: April 2024

This article is devoted to the analysis of the formation and development of the process of exploitation of alternative energy sources in the People's Republic of China in the first decades of the 21st century. The authors consider the specificfeatures of the Chinese national economy in the 2000s - 2010s, which largely determined the new vector of the PRC's energy strategy. The legislative framework developed by Chinese legal scholars, which has accelerated the process of introducing renewable energy sources into Chinese industry, is being studied.
Homonymic relations of a compressive unit in slang lexicon
Authors: Miao Sun
Published: April 2024

The paper contains an analysis of the specificity of homonymic relations of slang univerbats. The aim of the paper is to reveal the structural derivational specificity of slang morphemic and non-morphemic univer-bation, and to deepen the understanding of their linguistic and cognitive nature. The emergence of slang lexical homonyms is associated with the implementation of nominative-compressive and expressive functions of derivation in slang.
The origins of musical education at Tengchow College
Authors: Daofeng Si
Published: April 2024

Through inquiring and collating the historical data of schools and related music courses which were opened by foreign missionaries in China in the 1930s and 1940s, the author believes that under the influence of the skill imparting and advanced educational concepts of western musicians, the music course, music theory course, instrumental performance and singing course opened by western missionaries, especially the music textbook “Music Theory Enlightenment” compiled by Tengchow College, and ten classic songs of “Excerpt of Songs of Tengchow College” have played a very important role in promoting the enlightenment and development of modern higher musical education in China.
The history of the development of educational cooperation between Russia and China through the prism of “soft power”
Authors: Leping Xiong , Yawen Tan
Published: April 2024

The theory of “soft power” appeared in the late 20th century. Since the 21st century, China began to actively develop “softpower” and achieved satisfactory results. Modern Russia has not only inherited the rich soft power resources of the Soviet Union, but also continues to promote cultural diplomacy. China and Russia, as close neighbors, have a long history of educational exchanges. Nevertheless, at the present stage in China-Russia educational exchanges there are some problems, which should be solved by the joint efforts of both countries.
Statelessness and Poverty Reduction through the Lens of Structural Violence: A Short Essay
Authors: Tucker Jason
Published: April 2024

To better understand and tackle poverty amongst stateless people it is proposed here that statelessness be considered through the lens of structural violence.
Current age and language use impact speech-in-noise differently for monolingual and bilingual adults
Authors: Bieber Rebecca , Phillips Ian , Ellis Gregory Matthew , Brungart Douglas S.
Published: April 2024

Purpose: Some bilinguals may exhibit lower performance when understanding speech in noise (SIN) in their second language (L2) compared to monolinguals in their first language. Poorer performance has been found mostly for late bilinguals (L2 acquired after childhood) listening to sentences containing linguistic context, and less so for simultaneous/early bilinguals (L2 acquired during childhood) and when testing context-free stimuli. However, most previous studies tested younger participants, meaning little is known about interactions with age; the purpose of this study was to address this gap.Method: Context-free SIN understanding was measured via the Modified Rhyme Test (MRT) in 3836 young and middle-aged bilingual and monolingual adults (ages 18–57; 19.5% bilinguals, all L2 English) with normal to near-normal hearing. Bilingual adults included simultaneous (n = 466), early (n = 185), and late (n = 97) bilinguals. Performance on the MRT was measured with both accuracy and response time. A self-reported measure of current English use was also collected for bilinguals to evaluate its impact on MRT performance.Results: Age impacted MRT accuracy scores differently for each listener group. Relative to monolinguals, simultaneous and early bilinguals showed decreased performance with older age. Response times slowed with older age at similar rates for all groups, despite faster overall response times for monolinguals. Among all bilingual listeners, greater current English language use predicted higher MRT accuracy. For simultaneous bilinguals, greater English use was associated with faster response times. Conclusions: Speech-in-noise outcomes in bilingual adults are impacted not only by fixed features of their language history (i.e. age of acquisition) but also by language practices which can shift over time (i.e. current language use), supporting routine querying of language history and use in the Audiology clinic.
A computer-based examination of the quality of resuscitation measures based on device data
Authors: Hobl Lukas , Orlob Simon , Prause Gerhard
Published: April 2024

Sudden cardiac arrest represents a critical medical emergency where the quality of resuscitation measures is crucial for favorable outcomes[1,2]. The quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be assessed through the analysis of data recorded by the defibrillator during CPR. The data is routinely recorded at the base of the emergency medical vehicles at the University Hospital of Graz.

To assess CPR quality, algorithms were implemented to identify chest compressions based on the chest impedance and ventilations using the capnography signals. With these algorithms, parameters for CPR quality can be determined. A dataset with 522 cases was used, of which 97 cases were automatically discarded as they contained no or no relevant impedance signals.

The mean chest compression rate of the cases is 116.3 ± 9.1 compressions per minute, which is within the target range of 90 – 120. However, in 31% of cases, the rate was found to be too high. The proportion of minutes without an adequate mean chest compression rate was 29.2 ([6.2; 60.4]) %.

The mean ventilation frequency of all cases with capnography signal (150 cases) was 13.5 ± 3.6 ventilations per minute and, therefore, within the target range of a maximum of 15 ventilations. However, in 34% of cases, the ventilation frequency was too high.

This work shows that a systematic and automated evaluation of defibrillator recordings is suitable for assessing the quality of resuscitation measures. The determined parameters produced plausible results and are consistent with the results of preliminary studies at the Medical University of Graz, which were carried out manually on significantly smaller datasets.
Intersectoral Financial Flow of Funds in the Nepalese Economy with Particular Reference to Industrial Corporate Sector
Authors: Mahat R.S.
Published: April 2024

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The Multinational Corporation as an Instrument of Development
Authors: Ranis Gustav
Published: April 2024

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The Choice between Alternative Strategies of Growth and Industrialization
Authors: Poudyal Sriram
Published: April 2024

Not Available.
Rural Development in Nepal: Some Thoughts in its Approach
Authors: Pradhanang A.L. , Chhetry P. B.
Published: April 2024

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Mutual Deviation: A Measure of Dispersion
Authors: Gautam Shiva
Published: April 2024

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Reaganomics
Authors: Amatya Daman B.
Published: April 2024

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The Critical in Critical Pedagogy: The Interface between Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Panthi Badri Narayan
Published: April 2024

The paper aims at examining the fundamental premises of critical pedagogy as advocated by key theorists among others Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and bell hooks. In doing so, it examines the major pitfalls and opportunities of critical pedagogy in the classroom context. The paper also examines the current scenario of higher education with the neoliberal hegemony. Finally, the paper examines the present state of quality education in Nepal. The paper concludes that implementation of critical pedagogy principles in the classroom can foster a learning environment that prioritizes student agency and empowerment. By encouraging students to question dominant narratives and perspectives, the teacher in this study created opportunities for students to express their own perspectives and develop their own critical thinking skills. The teacher also fostered a strong sense of community in the classroom, with students and the teacher collaborating and supporting each other in their learning.
Challenges in English Listening Comprehension: A Study of Public Schools in Rupandehi
Authors: Bhandari Bhim Lal
Published: April 2024

One of the four fundamental and inseparable language skills that most language learners strive to acquire to communicate successfully in a variety of circumstances is listening. However, listening skills are neglected in school education. This study aimed at examining problems faced by students in listening comprehension in English classes. I selected 60 students as respondents using a random sampling procedure from six public schools studying English in Rupandehi. Three sets of closed-ended questionnaires with 25 items on students’ problems with listening comprehension were administered to elicit the data from them. To carry out the study, I employed a survey research design as a research method. The study indicated that the content of the listening text (e.g., unfamiliar vocabulary and too long and complex listening text) was the major problem with listening faced by the students. The second problem related to the listener included a lack of concentration with long listening texts and the existence of noise in the place. The third listening problem was associated with the speaker and the physical setting, which was concerned with the speaker’s speed of speech and different accents. The results indicated that the majority of respondents sometimes suffered from problems related to the content of the listening text, the listener and speaker, and the physical setting. The findings of this study can enhance teachers’ and students’ knowledge of the issues with listening comprehension.
Implementation of Plea Bargaining in the Indonesian Criminal Justice System
Authors: Nurana Desi
Published: April 2024

There is a need for a new system in the Indonesian Criminal Justice System that is thought to make case handling more efficient, specifically by adopting plea bargaining as a problem-solving method for the Indonesian criminal justice system. In this study, the issue formulation is how to implement plea bargaining in the present criminal justice system and the urgency of plea bargaining in the renewal of the Indonesian criminal justice system. The Normative Juridical Research technique was employed to generate this research. Normative Juridical Research is a type of legal research that involves literature study or just secondary information. The regulation on the application of Plea Bargaining in the current criminal justice system is not based on the value of justice, as Article 4 paragraph (2) of Law No. 48 of 2009 concerning Judicial Power mandates that the judicial process must be carried out quickly. At a low cost, but based on the problems that the author described in the previous sub-chapter, the criminal justice process has not been able to reach a simple judicature to this day. The complexity of the criminal justice process in Indonesia now prevents simple, quick, and low-cost judicial implementation from being accomplished in the criminal justice process in Indonesia. In this case, there is a need for a renovation of Indonesia's criminal justice system. This is the legal basis for the urgent need to establish Plea Bargaining in Indonesia.
Pemeliharaan Anak Setelah Perceraian
Authors: Budiman Fernanda Akbar , Salam Abdul
Published: April 2024

Child care involves parents, namely father and mother, as parties who have responsibility for their children. As time goes by, sometimes disputes occur between husband and wife which result in divorce. The purpose of this writing is to find out about child maintenance after divorce according to statutory regulations. Child care after divorce is regulated in Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning Child Protection and Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning Marriage. Child maintenance after marriage in the case study of Decision Number 395/Pdt.G/2021/PN Jkt.Utr. It started with the Plaintiff (Wife) and the Defendant (Husband) who divorced, they had two sons, namely Brother A and Brother B. In this case there has been a divorce, then the parents, either father or mother, are obliged to provide maintenance for their children. until they are adults or able to stand on their own. These children's rights are supported by Article 14 of the Child Protection Law where children have the right to meet directly or have personal contact with their parents, children have the right to receive care, maintenance, education and protection for the growth and development process from their parents according to their abilities, talents and interests, the right to receive living expenses from both parents, and the right to obtain other children's rights. So that the two children of the Plaintiff and Defendant are entitled to receive maintenance in the form of a place to live with the mother because she is the closest person to the child and receives support and education from father to adult.
THE DEFINITION OF PROTECTED GROUP IN THE CONTEXT OF APPROACH TO GENOCIDE UNDER INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW AND POLISH CRIMINAL LAW
Authors: Kulik Marek
Published: April 2024

The study seeks to define the group of people protected under the provisions on genocide both in the Polish criminal law and international criminal law. The provisions of the Convention of 9 December 1948 on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Statutes of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda contain a very similar definition of genocide. Killings and other acts listed in that legislation, committed in order to exterminate all or part of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups as such are prohibited as genocide. Similar conduct was prohibited in the provision of Article 118 of the Polish Penal Code. However, the protected group has been identified differently. It has been defined much more widely in Polish criminal law than in international law. A perpetrator of genocide acts with the purpose to exterminate all or part of a national, ethnic, racial, political or religious group or a group with a specific worldview. There are two important differences: the first is that international law acts prohibit intentional conduct while Article 118 prohibits purposeful conduct. The second difference is a much narrower definition of groups protected by international regulations. They do not protect a political group and a group with a certain worldview. This study analyses the consequences of this distinction, in particular the possibility of classifying the conduct aiming against a political group and a group with a particular worldview.
GENERAL DIRECTIVES OF JUDICIAL SENTENCING FOR A CRIMINAL OFFENCE FOLLOWING THEIR LATEST REVISION
Authors: Majewski Jarosław
Published: April 2024

The provision of Article 53(1) of the Polish Criminal Code sets out directives that guide the court in deciding on the severity of the penalty in each individual act of sentencing. These directives are referred to as “general directives of judicial sentencing”. Four such directives are generally derived from this provision: the directive of the degree of culpability, the directive of the degree of social harm, the directive of individual (specific) prevention and the directive of general positive prevention. The amending act of 7 July 2022 introduced new wording to Article 53(1) of the Criminal Code. Changes were also made to Article 85a of the Criminal Code, which sets out general directives of judicial sentencing in the case of aggregate penalties. The author takes a critical look at the changes introduced in the respective provisions. The aim of this examination is to determine the extent to which the content of the general directives of judicial sentencing, as defined in the amending act of 7 July 2022, differs from their previous formulation, and to what extent the introduced amendments can be considered justified.
ON THE PURPOSE AND FUNCTIONS OF LEGAL‑DOGMATIC RESEARCH (CONTINENTAL TRADITION)
Authors: Vachev Valeri
Published: April 2024

The present text discusses the role of a special kind of research into criminal law in the continental legal tradition, for which the term “legal-dogmatic research” has been adopted and used by many scholars from outside the common law system and which is described in more detail below, its place among other scholarly disciplines, and its significance for legal practice. The concept of this “legal-dogmatic research” can be understood in two ways. Based on the first approach, it is perceived as an abstract study of law independent on the legal rules in force at a given time and place. In this sense, it appears as synonymous to terms used in the German language: Doktrin or Lehre (study). In the second sense, this research is seen as a study of existing law (lex lata) – and nothing else. It differs from other areas of jurisprudence in that it does not strive to be universally valid, but is confined to a time and place. The article presents a point of view in the light of which this research aims to render the normative system coherent and comprehensible, i.e. to establish the correct meaning of the law by clarifying and systematizing it. In this context, the author shows that the purpose of legal scholarship is to reveal and subsequently to conceptualize reality. At the same time, the importance of investigation of the law as it is (legal-dogmatic research) is by no means limited to the hermeneutical analysis of the legal text, but that it faces equally ambitious tasks, such as the development of criminal law and the need to find material legitimacy for the use of coercion by the state against citizens.
TIME PERIODS FOR EXPUNGEMENT OF CONVICTIONS INVOLVING FINES AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY
Authors: Zientara Anna
Published: April 2024

The subject of the article is the problem of limitation periods for expunging a conviction in Polish criminal law in a situation where a fine or restriction of liberty was imposed. The study evaluates the current state of the law, which provides for expunging a conviction imposing a fine with the lapse of one year from the enforcement of the penalty, its remittance or the expiration of the limitation period for its enforcement, and for the penalty of restriction of liberty with the lapse of three years. The Ministry of Justice’s proposals to amend Article 107 of the Penal Code were also analyzed. In addition, the article discusses the problem of expunging a conviction when cumulative punishments are imposed – a fine or a sentence of restriction of liberty in addition to imprisonment. It was noted that the Penal Code lacks rules for expunging this type of conviction. The article assumes that in a situation where a conviction consists of more than one penalty, the conditions for expunging the conviction of all these penalties must be jointly met in order for such a conviction to be expunged.
CHANGES IN THE MODEL OF PENAL LIABILITY OF COLLECTIVE ENTITIES IN THE POLISH LEGAL SYSTEM – A REAL BREAKTHROUGH OR A MANIFESTATION OF OPPORTUNISM?
Authors: Błaszczyk Magdalena
Published: April 2024

The model of liability of collective entities for acts prohibited under penalty, introduced into the Polish legal system by the Act of 28 October 2002 (consolidated text, Journal of Laws of 2020, item 358, as amended), which entered into force on 28 November 2003, was criticized from the beginning. Time has shown that the scepticism of the representatives of the legal commentary regarding the solutions adopted at that time was fully justified. After nearly 20 years of this act being in force – systemically important yet playing a marginal role in practice – the time has come for radical changes in the model of penal liability of collective entities. The model of the so-called consequential liability of a collective entity, which depends on a preliminary ruling, i.e. on prior confirmation by a final judgment that an offense or a fiscal offense has been committed by a specific natural person, is replaced by direct liability. This was reflected in the changes introduced to the Act of 2002, which entered into force on 1 September 2022. An analysis of these changes will be used to assess the new model of criminal liability of collective entities for acts prohibited as offenses against the environment, in the normative and practical aspect.
Breathing New Legacies Forward
Authors: Roberts Diane , Georgeson Rosemary , Sircar Lopa , Trentham Gerry , Wong Jude , Roberts Joanne
Published: April 2024

This article unravels the meaning, purpose, and working philosophy underpinning Arrivals Legacy Voice, which is an emerging practice coming out of the Arrivals Legacy Project=. Arrivals Legacy Project founder Diane Roberts (Garifuna, Caribbean Canadian) engages her collaborators in reflection on specific moments of discovery and emerging themes and/or collisions that have influenced and continue to influence the ongoing development of our shared practice. The voices of storyteller and film-maker Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish), voice and speech instructor and Rolfer Lopa Sircar (Bengali, Canadian), voice/movement educator and inter-arts creator/performer Gerry Trentham (Scottish, English), and facilitator, writer, and systemic and experiential therapist Jude Wong (Chinese, German, Danish) address the central question: What new legacies breathe us forward, and what must we leave behind? Using the generative methodology of Legacy Voice, Diane and her collaborators draw on the personal to reveal their passion for un/recovering root cultural practices as a liberation from colonial performative inheritances.
Voice Coaching at the Stratford Festival: A Vocation of Service
Authors: de Jong Paul , MacKinnon Cathy , Pearson Janine , Wilson Danielle
Published: April 2024

On Saturday, 22 October 2022, longtime Stratford voice and text coaches Paul de Jong, Cathy MacKinnon, and Janine Pearson discussed and reflected on the role of the voice coach at the Stratford Festival with Danielle Wilson. The Stratford festival is the only festival in Canada with a coaching team, and the coaches share their thoughts on the history, value, role, and purpose of voice coaches at the festival and in what ways they serve the work of the actor. The coaches also reflect on how voice work is evolving and how we might encourage the next generation of voice coaches to enter the profession.
Reflections on Canadian Soundings: Plumbing the Depths of Voice in Canadian Theatre/Profondeurs de la Voix du Théâtre Canadien
Authors: Elliott Michael , Kovacs Sasha
Published: April 2024

This contribution surfaces some of the key research provocations voiced through Canadian Soundings, a collaborative research effort that spanned 2020 through 2022, and which culminated in the organization of the symposium Canadian Soundings: Plumbing the Depths of Voice in Canadian Theatre/Profondeurs de la Voix du Theatre Canadien, hosted in digital and in-person formats across the fall of 2022 at the University of Victoria. This event brought together a network of scholars and practitioners to deepen the understanding of voice as a central conduit for the charting of Canadian theatre’s past, present, and future. This contribution first introduces and overviews the activities that constituted that event before surfacing the organizer’s reflections on the workshops, round table discussions, and activities programmed as part of the symposium.
Extending Voice Work
Authors: Colman Athena V.
Published: April 2024

“Extending Voice Work” documents a 2018 transdisciplinary research project (with an actor, director, musician, and philosopher), which explored the rehearsal space as feminist praxis and culminated in a production of the one-woman show Sabina’s Splendid Brain, by Canadian playwright Carol Sinclair. The rehearsal process included an extended or expanded voice workshop by Fides Krucker. The article traces a first-person, first-time experience of undergoing a voice workshop. It draws on a thick description of this experience to argue that voice work revolutionizes an understanding of key feminist philosophies of embodiment. In allowing a person to unearth and tangibly connect to preverbal bodily memories, voice work enables an experience of aspects of these feminist theories in practice. However, the article claims voice work also illuminates the limitations of these feminist concepts in their overall theorization of embodiment and the voice. An attentiveness to the practice of voice work demonstrates the inadequacy and undesirability of any one or any final theorization of embodiment. Instead, the article claims, voice work opens up a space for an ongoing rethinking of the intertwining of meaning and embodiment. It concludes that voice work can be a practice that allows us to connect with, write, resist, and rewrite the ever-emerging stories of our own, always embodied experience.
Motivaciones de la migración de retorno de España a Uruguay
Authors: Koolhaas Martín
Published: April 2024

Este trabajo contribuye a la literatura que estudia la migración de retorno de latinoamericanos procurando comprender la heterogeneidad de motivaciones para regresar esgrimidas por personas uruguayas retornadas de España. Con base en el análisis de 37 entrevistas semiestructuradas a migrantes de retorno que residieron en el país ibérico, se corrobora el carácter multifacético de las razones para el retorno y la interrelación entre éstas. El análisis confirma que el retorno se encuentra menos ligado a  aspectos económicos y más a factores familiares que la primera migración, aun en excepcionales contextos inversos a los que dieron origen a los flujos migratorios, pautados por el grave deterioro de las condiciones de empleo en España y por condiciones extraordinariamente favorables en Uruguay.
La vía al mediterráneo : un recorrido paisajístico por la provincia de Alicante
Authors: Mestre Martí María
Published: April 2024

Como conmemoración del 150 aniversario de la primera vía ferroviaria que conectó la capital de España con el Mar Mediterráneo, la presente publicación investigó la posible recuperación del paisaje de la línea Madrid-Alicante y de su patrimonio ferroviario mediante la propuesta de realización de una vía de senderismo, a modo de recorrido lúdico-cultural, por los lugares más emblemáticos de la provincia de Alicante por los que ha circulado a lo largo de más de un siglo el ferrocarril. El presente trabajo centra la atención en: 1) Un repaso histórico-analítico de la construcción de la vía férrea Madrid-Alicante a su paso por la provincia de Alicante; 2) el estudio de la ingeniería del trazado de las vías y de aquellos hitos patrimoniales más importantes de la arquitectura del transporte (estaciones, puentes y túneles) de la provincia de Alicante y 3) una propuesta de diseño paisajístico que busca poner en valor y dar a conocer la riqueza del patrimonio ferroviario alicantino
Equipos docentes: nuevos escenarios (2015-2016)
Authors: Herrero Martín Ruth
Published: April 2024

El proyecto equipos docentes se materializó en el curso 2009-2010 dentro del Programa de Redes de Investigación en Docencia Universitaria del Vicerrectorado de Ordenación Académica de la UPCT. Desde entonces, este proyecto ha sido el impulsor de múltiples iniciativas de fomento de la calidad docente, elaborando manuales y recomendaciones orientadas al logro de un proceso formativo efectivo y de calidad. Este libro recoge una parte de los resultados de los equipos docentes que han trabajado durante el curso 2015-2016, con tres temáticas principales: acciones de mejora de la calidad de las titulaciones, diseño de cursos y actividades formativas online y elaboración de un corpus de términos y frases para la docencia en inglés
Fundamentos de metrología, tolerancias y ajustes en fabricación mecánica
Authors: López Rodríguez Joaquín
Published: April 2024

El objetivo fundamental de este libro es abordar los aspectos más relevantes de la Metrología dimensional en el ámbito de la fabricación mecánica. En concreto se expondrán las técnicas metrológicas básicas para la calibración de instrumentos de medida y la medición de piezas fabricadas, se estudiarán las tolerancias dimensionales para la verificación y el montaje de piezas y finalmente se hará un breve análisis de las tolerancias de acabado superficial. A lo largo del texto se irán resolviendo ejercicios prácticos de aplicación a medida que se vayan exponiendo los distintos contenidos teóricos. Al final del texto se incluyen diversas prácticas de laboratorio, una colección de cuestiones y ejercicios prácticos que cubren todos los contenidos teóricos expuestos en el libro y las referencias bibliográficas más relevantes. Aunque el texto sirve de base para impartir gran parte de los contenidos de la asignatura “Fundamentos de Fabricación” de 2º curso en el Grado de Ingeniería en Tecnologías Industriales de la Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, también será utilizado por alumnos de otros grados de ingeniería en asignaturas relacionadas impartidas por el Área de Ingeniería de los Procesos de Fabricación.
Resolución de problemas de ingeniería geotécnica mediante plaxis 2D
Authors: García Ros Gonzalo , Jiménes Valera José Antonio , Alhama Manteca Iván , Martínez Moreno María Encarnación
Published: April 2024

El libro consta de siete ejercicios, cada uno de ellos fácil de identificar y relacionar con las diferentes unidades temáticas que los alumnos estudian a lo largo de su formación en ingeniería del terreno: factores de seguridad en desmontes y terraplenes, consolidación de suelos, redes de flujo bajo estructuras de retención, cimentaciones superficiales, muros pantalla y cimentaciones profundas. El libro está concebido para aprender el manejo del programa PLAXIS 2D de manera gradual, con lo cual un usuario sin experiencia previa con el programa debería seguir el orden en el que aparecen los ejercicios en el texto. Este libro y su contenido tienen únicamente un fin educativo. La elaboración de este ha sido autorizada por la marca PLAXIS, propiedad de la compañía Bentley Systems
DYNAMICS ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
Authors: Kushnir Yurii A.
Published: April 2024

The aim of the study. To determine the dynamics of the psychopathological structure and severity of negative symptoms depending on the stage of the disease in patients with negative symptoms in schizophrenia in order to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with schizophrenia.
Materials and methods: 252 patients with negative symptoms of schizophrenia took part in the study: 83 patients with the first episode of schizophrenia, 88 patients with schizophrenia in a state of exacerbation, and 81 patients with schizophrenia in a state of remission. A comprehensive approach, which consisted from clinical-psychopathological, psychometric (Scale for Evaluating Negative Disorders, G.V. Logvinovych, 1990) and statistical research methods, were used in the study.
Results. Features of the dynamics of negative symptoms in patients with negative symptoms in schizophrenia at different stages of the disease were established: patients with the first episode of schizophrenia were characterized by mild quantitative and qualitative impairments in the emotional sphere, slight quantitative and qualitative changes in the associative sphere, and mild quantitative impairments in the volitional sphere in combination with moderate qualitative changes in the volitional sphere. Patients with schizophrenia in a state of exacerbation were characterized by moderate quantitative impairments of the emotional sphere and manifested distortion of the emotional sphere, manifested quantitative and qualitative impairments in the associative sphere and minor quantitative and qualitative impairments of the volitional sphere. Patients with schizophrenia in a state of remission were characterized by moderate and manifested quantitative and qualitative impairments in the emotional-volitional sphere and moderate quantitative and qualitative impairments in the associative sphere.
Conclusions. The obtained data can be used to establish diagnostic criteria for patients with negative symptoms in schizophrenia, depending on the dynamics of the disease.
ADJUSTMENT OF THE FUEL SUPPLY PROCESS DURING USE OF DIFFERENT FUELS IN MARINE DIESELS CONTAINS SULFUR
Authors: Сагін А.С.
Published: April 2024

Морський транспорт є ключовою складовою транспортної логістики, забезпечуючи вантажні потоки між країнами на різних континентах. Перевезення готової продукції, сировини, зерна, нафти та газу між Південною та Північною Америкою, Азією, Африкою та Європою неможливе без використання різних за вантажопідйомністю та призначенням морських суден. Сучасні морські судна обладнані двигунами внутрішнього згоряння, які є найпоширенішими тепловими двигунами та головним елементом енергетичних установок суден
Deep learning-based cervical lesion segmentation in colposcopic images
Authors: Mukku Lalasa , Thomas Jyothi
Published: April 2024

Artificial intelligence assisted cancer detection has changed the ream of diagnosis precision. This study aims to propose a segmentation network using artificial intelligence for accurately segmenting the cervix region and acetowhite lesions in cervigram images, addressing the shortage of skilled colposcopists and streamlining the training process. A computational approach is employed to develop and train a deep learning model specifically tailored for cervix region and acetowhite lesion segmentation in cervigram images. A dataset acquired in collaboration with KIDWAI memorial cancer research institute is used for building the model. Cervigram images are collected for training and validation, and a deep learning architecture is constructed and trained using annotated datasets. The segmentation network  based on efficientnet architecture and atrous spatial pyramid pooling is designed to accurately identify and delineate the target regions, with performance evaluation conducted using precision, accuracy, recall, dice score, and specificity metrics. The proposed segmentation network achieves a precision of 0.7387±0.1541, accuracy of 0.9291, recall of 0.7912±0.1439, dice score of 0.7431±0.1506, and specificity of 0.9589±0.0131, indicating its reliability and robustness in segmenting cervix regions and acetowhite lesions in cervigram images. This research demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of using artificial intelligence-based computational models for cervix region and acetowhite lesion segmentation in cervigram images. It provides a foundation for further investigations into classifying cervix malignancy using AI techniques, potentially enhancing early detection and treatment of cervical cancer while addressing the shortage of skilled professionals in the field
Artificial Intelligence in Graphic Design: the Case of Generative Neural Networks
Authors: Gerenko Sofia
Published: April 2024

The purpose of the article is in finding out the level of influence of Artificial Intelligence on the graphic design on the example of operationalization of neural networks, which made generative graphics possible, allowed for a high variability of parameters, as well as adjusting the color scheme, contrast, and geometric proportions of the objects being created. Research methods. The empirical method, the method of analysis and synthesis, as well as qualitative research methods were used, which, in particular, include the study of scientific, popular and web sources on the use of generative networks and AI in graphic design; the features and functional parameters of individual neural networks in the context of the topic of the article were analyzed. In addition, along with a review of the latest research on the topic, the relationship between experimental and scientific research in graphic design today and the development of generative design as a promising technology with a wide range of applications and a method for designing functional structures of graphic design, UI/UX design, animation, etc. is clarified. Scientific novelty. The article presents for the first time a comprehensive approach to the problem of applying AI and generative neural networks in graphic design, and considers, in particular, the potential, advantages, and disadvantages of specific neural networks, such as DALL-E, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, and Craiyon, when generating compositional and graphic solutions. Conclusions. It was found out that generative neural networks are one of the most popular types of AI in the design industry in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Neural networks such as DALL-E, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, and Craiyon, or professional programs such as InDesign or Illustrator, have definitely become indispensable for many graphic designers today, who use them to reproduce, transform, and synthesize images, manipulate elements according to the needs of users, improve and edit variations of generated images, as well as adjust geometric proportions, color and contrast of objects, and use a high variability of parameters.
Animalism in the Design of Clothes of the ХХ and Early XXI Centuries
Authors: Kyselova Kateryna
Published: April 2024

The article presents an overview and systematisation of fashion design projects using animalistic motifs. The purpose of the study is to identify the manifestations of animalistic images in costume and the differences in their meanings in different historical periods. The research methodology is based on the application of methods of source, art, aesthetic, structural and compositional analysis. The scientific novelty lies in highlighting the stages of animalism development in the twentieth – early twenty-first centuries and identifying its main manifestations in costume. The results of the study are based on empirical material from designers and fashion houses that actively used and developed animalism in their work. Conclusions. As a result of the study, we conclude that there are various ways of manifesting animalism in fashion design, from copying animal images entirely to introducing their individual parts into the design or using photographs and artistic images. And while in the early twentieth century, costumes used mostly elements of animal skin, fur and feathers, and exotic animals and birds emphasised the status of the elite strata of society, with the development of technology and the spread of mass production of clothing, imitation gradually became popular. The destruction of the natural environment and the dominance of the artificial one led to the spread of fashion inspired by wildlife. Gradually, a style direction in fashion design was formed, which is now considered «fantasy classics». Over time, animalistic motifs have become visual carriers of «eco-fashion» and «eco-consciousness», reminding us of the need for significant transformations in the global consciousness of humanity. The flourishing of animalism in recent decades reflects the socio-cultural trends in society. The symbolism and interpretation of animalistic images in costume design reflects the care and desire to preserve the natural heritage in a world that is increasingly influenced by technological development.
Avant-Garde Inspirations in the Art of Ukrainian Monumentalists of the 1960-70s:
Authors: Budnyk Andriy , Snisarenko Vyacheslav , Snisarenko-Yerzhykovska Anastasiia
Published: April 2024

The purpose of the research is to introduce into scientific circulation the results of documentary reconstruction and art analysis of the lost monumental panel, which was created by a tandem of talented artists in the Palace of Culture of the BilotserkivMAZ plant in Bila Tserkva. The research methods involve a combination of art analysis with methods of documentary reconstruction and interviews with the author of the studied artifacts. Scientific novelty consists in the introduction into scientific circulation of a previously undescribed and destroyed monument of monumental art – a panel in the Palace of Culture of the BilotserkivMAZ plant in Bila Tserkva. For the first time, the stylistics of the execution of an unexplored object of monumental and decorative art were analyzed. Through a personal interview with Oleg Yerzhikivskyi, a direct participant in the process, the circumstances of the order and execution of the work were recorded. For the first time, a photo from a private family archive was made public, and an attempt was made to reconstruct the panels based on individual photos. Conclusions. As a result of the artistic analysis of the work, the ideological inspirations that manifested themselves during the execution of the large-scale panel were established. Despite the isolation of the Soviet artistic environment from world artistic currents, the dosage of information coming from the West was enough for Ukrainian artists to create their own interpretations of seen foreign or banned domestic samples. Sensing this on an intuitive level rather than being in the full context of theoretical and art history discourse, the best representatives of the process managed to create a work of decent quality, the execution of which was financed by the state of that time. Despite the presence of Soviet symbols in the work (as a tribute to the totalitarian system for the opportunity to work in the field of art at all), the monumental panel is made at a high artistic level and is valuable for its innovative approach. As it follows from the results of the research, the effort to adapt samples of Western European art to the realities of the orders of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR was not the least important in this process. This became possible thanks to the high level of specialized art education in higher educational institutions, as well as the personal self-improvement of each author-performer and his personal giftedness. In addition, the mentioned works were created by Ukrainian artists on Ukrainian territory and they are far from glorifying the regime.
Practical multi-party private set intersection cardinality and intersection-sum protocols under arbitrary collusion1
Authors: Chen You , Ding Ning , Gu Dawu , Bian Yang
Published: April 2024

Private set intersection cardinality (PSI-CA) and private intersection-sum with cardinality (PSI-CA-sum) are two primitives that enable data owners to learn the intersection cardinality of their data sets, with the difference that PSI-CA-sum additionally outputs the sum of the associated integer values of all the data that belongs to the intersection (i.e., intersection-sum). However, to the best of our knowledge, all existing multi-party PSI-CA (MPSI-CA) protocols are either limited by high computational cost or face security challenges under arbitrary collusion. As for multi-party PSI-CA-sum (MPSI-CA-sum), there is even no formalization for this notion at present, not to mention secure constructions for it. In this paper, we first present an efficient MPSI-CA protocol with two non-colluding parties. This protocol significantly decreases the number of parties involved in expensive interactive procedures, leading to a significant enhancement in runtime efficiency. Our numeric results demonstrate that the running time of this protocol is merely one-quarter of the time required by our proposed MPSI-CA protocol that is secure against arbitrary collusion. Therefore, in scenarios where performance is a priority, this protocol stands out as an excellent choice. Second, we successfully construct the first MPSI-CA protocol that achieves simultaneous practicality and security against arbitrary collusion. Additionally, we also conduct implementation to verify its practicality (while the previous results under arbitrary collusion only present theoretical analysis of performance, lacking real implementation). Numeric results show that by shifting the costly operations to an offline phase, the online computation can be completed in just 12.805 seconds, even in the dishonest majority setting, where 15 parties each hold a set of size 2 16 . Third, we formalize the concept of MPSI-CA-sum and present the first realization that ensures simultaneous practicality and security against arbitrary collusion. The computational complexity of this protocol is roughly twice that of our MPSI-CA protocol. Besides the main results, we introduce the concepts and efficient constructions of two novel building blocks: multi-party secret-shared shuffle and multi-party oblivious zero-sum check, which may be of independent interest.
Dissimilarity functions co-symmetry property: a focus on probability distributions with involutive negation
Authors: Ensastegui-Ortega Maria Elena , Batyrshin Ildar , Cárdenas–Perez Mario Fernando , Kubysheva Nailya , Gelbukh Alexander
Published: April 2024

In today’s data-rich era, there is a growing need for developing effective similarity and dissimilarity measures to compare vast datasets. It is desirable that these measures reflect the intrinsic structure of the domain of these measures. Recently, it was shown that the space of finite probability distributions has a symmetric structure generated by involutive negation mapping probability distributions into their “opposite” probability distributions and back, such that the correlation between opposite distributions equals –1. An important property of similarity and dissimilarity functions reflecting such symmetry of probability distribution space is the co-symmetry of these functions when the similarity between probability distributions is equal to the similarity between their opposite distributions. This article delves into the analysis of five well-known dissimilarity functions, used for creating new co-symmetric dissimilarity functions. To conduct this study, a random dataset of one thousand probability distributions is employed. From these distributions, dissimilarity matrices are generated that are used to determine correlations similarity between different dissimilarity functions. The hierarchical clustering is applied to better understand the relationships between the studied dissimilarity functions. This methodology aims to identify and assess the dissimilarity functions that best match the characteristics of the studied probability distribution space, enhancing our understanding of data relationships and patterns. The study of these new measures offers a valuable perspective for analyzing and interpreting complex data, with the potential to make a significant impact in various fields and applications.