bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The departure from mixed-layer similarity during the afternoon decay of turbulence in the free-convective boundary layer: results from Large-Eddy Simulations
Authors: Elguernaoui Omar , Reuder Joachim , Li Dan , Maronga Björn , Bakhoday Paskyabi Mostafa , Wolf Tobias , Esau Igor
Published: July 2023

We investigate the departure from mixed-layer similarity during the afternoon decay of turbulence. More specifically, we aim to characterize the time-development of the departure of the velocity-variances profiles from their mixed-layer similarity reference state, for vastly-different idealistic shapes and time scales of the prescribed surface heat flux decay. For that purpose, we carry out idealized large-eddy simulations of the homogeneous free-convective boundary layer, where the prescribed surface kinematic heat flux (H) follows a sinusoidal or an exponential decay. The duration between the maximum and the zero surface heat flux, τf, is taken equal to 6 h or 2 h. A reference simulation with prescribed constant surface heat flux is also performed in order to derive the mixed-layer similarity profiles (self-similar profiles) for the vertical and horizontal velocity variances. The methodology is based on analyzing the collapse of the normalized velocity-variances profiles from different runs, while they depart from the self-similar profiles. Within the descriptive frames where the time is tracked solely by either one of the forcing time scales τf or τf _tilde = (1/H.dH/dt)-1, we find that the velocity-variances profiles from different runs do not collapse while they depart from the self-similar profiles, suggesting that the departure is dependent on the shape of the surface heat flux decay. As the mixed-layer similarity relies on the assumption that the CBL is in a quasi-equilibrium, which is maintained as long as the adjustment time scale of the largest eddies (i.e. the convective eddy-turnover time scale, t*) is much smaller than the characteristic time scale of the surface heat flux decay, we successively consider the ratios r = τf / t* and r_tilde  = τf _tilde / t* (instead of the forcing time scale alone) for tracking the time and characterizing the departure from mixed-layer similarity. As the velocity-variances profiles from different runs depart from mixed-layer similarity, we find them to collapse in the only case where the parameter r_tilde is used for tracking the time, supporting the independence of the departure from the shape of the surface heat flux decay. As a consequence of this result, the knowledge of r_tilde is sufficient to predict the velocity variances and evaluate their departure from the quasi-steady state, irrespective of the shape of the surface heat flux decay.
The influence of aftershocks on seismic hazard analysis: A case study from Xichang and the surrounding areas
Authors: Wu Qing , Lai Guijuan , Wu Jian , Bi Jinmeng
Published: July 2023

Abstract. In some instances, a strong aftershock can cause more damage than the mainshock. Ignoring the influence of aftershocks may underestimate the seismic hazard of some areas. Taking Xichang and its surrounding areas as an example, and based on the Seismic Ground Motion Parameter Zoning Map of China (GB18306-2015), this study used the Monte Carlo method to simulate the synthetic mainshock sequences. Additionally, the Omi-Reasenberg-Jones (Omi-R-J) aftershock activity model is used to simulate the aftershock sequences that follow mainshocks above a certain magnitude threshold. Then, the mainshock and the aftershocks are combined to calculate the regional seismic hazard using ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs). Finally, the influence of aftershocks on seismic hazard analysis is examined and considered. The results show that in areas with moderate to strong seismic backgrounds, the influence of aftershocks on probabilistic seismic hazard analysis can exceed 50 %. These results suggest that the impact of aftershocks should be properly considered for future probabilistic seismic hazard analyses, especially in areas with moderate to strong seismic activity backgrounds and in areas prone to secondary disasters such as landslides and mudslides.
Micelles-based systems and their versatile application in different industries
Authors: S. Honarmand S.
Published: July 2023

Polymeric Micelles with their special chemical conformations which pose both hydrophobic and hydrophilic structures, provide valuable properties that enable them to be used in various applications either academic sciences or industrial aspects. They can offer useful features, such as increasing the solubility, stability, bioavailability, and compatibility for a wide category of materials. In this review, the important types of micelles including normal, reverse, and unimolecular micelles were first mentioned, and then their popular applications in medicine, cosmetics, detergents, agriculture, environment, food, district heating/cooling fluids, and oil and petroleum were discussed. Among different applications, micellar systems are appropriate systems to be served as significant vehicles in the delivery of various ingredients and biomolecules. Their applications are more common in the medical, food, cosmetic, and detergent industries. However, by improving their physicochemical properties with novel methods there is a hope to introduce new generations of smart micellar systems with more applications.
Effectiveness of Physical Activity on Cognitive Performance in Older Adults
Authors: Shanmugaraja Ashwini , R Vishnupriya , Dhasaradharaman Kannan
Published: July 2023

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Ageing refers to change in the ability to think, learn and remember that occur as individuals age. Resistance exercise and Tai Chi exercise program for older adults undergoing cognitive aging and to examine the effectiveness of physical activity on cognitive performance in older adults.
AIM: The aim of the study was to the effectiveness of physical activity on cognitive performance in older adults.
METHOD: A sample of 30 patients within age group of 50-70 years were randomly divided into two groups, Group A was 15 subjects and Group B was15 subjects which were taken on basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria and method of quasi randomized sampling. The subjects in group A were treated as control group followed by any kind of activities as they want to do, group B treated with resistance exercise and Tai Chi exercise for 5 months. The subjects’ cognitive performance was assessed by Time Up and Go and Mini Mental State Examination. The pre and post-test result were tabulated and assessed.
RESULTS: The study concluded that after 5 months the Resistance exercise and Tai Chi exercise program were significantly improving the cognitive performance in older adults.
CONCLUSION: The result of the study suggested that physical activity shows improvement in cognitive performance apparently caused positive effects improved in cognition flexibility, working memory, verbal fluency and learning and avoiding negative impacts on quality of life, sleep quality and possibly on muscular strength and mental confusion in older adults.

Key words: Resistance exercise, Tai Chi exercise, Time Up and Go (TUG) and Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE).
Application of Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica) Leaf Ethanol Extract Gel Reduces Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 and Increases the Amount of Collagen in Male Wistar Rats Exposed to Ultraviolet B Light
Authors: Diah Hadiningrat Dewa Ayu Agung , Wiwiek Indrayani Agung , Winaya Ketut Kwartantaya
Published: July 2023

Introduction: This study aims to determine the effect of arabica coffee leaf ethanol extract gel on decreasing MMP-1 expression and increasing the amount of collagen in the skin of male Wistar rats (Strains) exposed to UV-B light.
Methods: This is a post-test only control group design experimental study using male rats as subjects. Each group was exposed to UV light and smeared with 5% coffee leaf ethanol extract cream every day. Then the back skin tissue was taken and the amount of collagen was examined by Picro Sirius Red staining and MMP1 levels were examined by ELISA staining.
Results: The mean MMP-1 levels in groups N, K, P1, P2, and P3 were 1.023±0.018 ng/ml, 1.578±0.28 ng/ml, 1.001±0.027 ng/ml, 0.775±0.042 ng/ml, and 0.595±0.076 ng/ml. The average percentage of collagen in groups N, K, P1, P2, and P3 was 75.63 ± 2.92%, 66.43 ± 1.67%, 72.83 ± 3.13%, 76.02 ± 3 .78, and 80.43 ± 2.12%. MMP-1 levels decreased with increasing doses of arabica coffee leaf extract gel. The mean percentage of collagen increased with increasing doses of arabica coffee leaf extract gel in experimental animals.
Conclusion: Arabica coffee leaf ethanol extract gel inhibited the increase in MMP-1 levels in male rats exposed to UV-B light. Administration of arabica coffee leaf ethanol extract gel can increase the amount of collagen in male rats exposed to UV-B light.

Keywords: Arabica coffee, metalloprtoeinase-1, collagen, UVB.
The Relationship of Exclusive Breastfeeding History to Children's Mental-Emotional Development Age 3-4 Years in Working Area Bungus Health Center Padang City in 2023
Authors: Rahmadahani Aulia Echi , Akmal Mayetti , Basyir Vaulinne
Published: July 2023

Background: Approximately 9% to 15% of behavioral and emotional disorders are common in children such as anger, aggression, and disobedience. If this problem is accompanied by significant functional impairment or stress, then the child will try to hurt people, even himself, or damage things. One of the child's emotional and mental development is strongly influenced by nutrition, and mother's milk. The purpose of this study was to see the relationship between a history of exclusive breastfeeding and the emotional and mental development of children aged 3-4 years in the working area of ​​the Bungus Public Health Center, Padang City in 2023.
Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design. The sample in this study consisted of 58 children who were selected using the probability sampling technique with the simple random sampling method. Data analysis used bivariate analysis with chi-square. Data analysis using the SPSS program.
Results: Children who get exclusive breastfeeding (62.1%). The results of the study based on the chi-square statistical test showed that there was a relationship between a history of exclusive breastfeeding and the emotional and mental development of children aged 3-4 years (p-value = 0.002), which means that the p-value was > 0.05.
Conclusion: The results of this study revealed that there was a significant relationship between the history of exclusive breastfeeding and the emotional and mental development of children aged 3-4 years in the working area of ​​the Bungus Public Health Center, Padang City.

Keywords: [Exclusive breastfeeding, emotional mental development, children aged 3-4 years].
Malnutrition in Children with Helminthiasis:
A Review Article
Authors: Wardiyah Husnil , Welan Rahmani , Tsania Zhuhra Rahma
Published: July 2023

Various factors strongly influence the development and growth of children. One of the factors that influence this is the nutritional status of children. The child’s nutritional status is also influenced by how the child eats and whether there is an infection. One of the conditions that affect illness is helminthiasis. Helminthiasis caused by intestinal parasites, mostly soil-transmitted helminthes, a particular species of worm that requires soil as media for its spreading. These parasitic infections are more common in school-age children due to lack of hygiene awareness, such as not using appropriate footwear, keeping the long and dirty nails, and not washing hands before eating - water, sanitation, and hygiene influence risk factors in developing countries and worm prevalence rates.
The incidence of soil transmitted helminthes is evenly distributed worldwide, mainly among school-age children. These worms can affect the absorption of food, interfere with the number of calories, and cause blood loss. Children who suffer from worms will look thin, tired, weak, easy to get sick, and have decreased in learning concentration, thereby reducing academic performance. This worm infection is chronic, so complaints are initially unknown and felt, most of complaints are realized too late and have far-reaching effects. In general, this worm affects children in almost all parts of the world, affecting nutritional status, anemia, and IQ. Research in Indonesia shows a relationship between the incidence of helminthiasis and nutritional status disorders, such as malnutrition. Helminthiasis affect all digestive pathways, intake, absorption, and metabolism of food.

Keywords: malnutrition, helminthiasis, children.
Assessment of Reading Comprehension Skills of Senior High School ALS Learners: Basis for School Reading Progress Program
Authors: E. Tambis Donnel Jay , Panis Jr Danilo V. , D. Mocorro Kyle Vincent
Published: July 2023

The general purpose of this study was to assess the reading comprehension skills of the Biliran National Agricultural High School Senior High School Alternative Learning System (ALS) learners, specifically Grade 11. This study utilized a descriptive research design and employed purposive sampling to gather 40 respondents.
In assessing the word reading level and comprehension level of the ALS Learners, the Philippine-Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) Manual Tool was the foundation for this investigation, provided by the Department of Education. Furthermore, after the assessment of reading level and comprehension level, a follow-up survey questionnaire adapted from Tong and Ming-hao (2017) was distributed among the respondents to identify the barrier factors to their reading comprehension difficulty.
As revealed by the study, the majority of respondents were male and were 19 years old. Furthermore, it is evident that ‘mispronunciation’ was the most common miscue committed by the ALS Learners. Meanwhile, 85% of the respondents were under the frustration level, and the rest belong to the instructional level, thus construed to signify extensive remediation, teacher guided instruction for learners under the frustration level, and teacher-directed instruction for the instructional level.
In addition, it can be noted from the survey questionnaire that there were barriers to reading comprehension among the ALS learners, and the following were identified: Reading habit factor, Reading Strategies Factor, Psychological factors, Cultural background barriers, Reading interest factor, Discourse barriers, Grammar barriers, and Vocabulary barriers, respectively.
Considering these findings, this study recommends utilizing the intervention scheme to improve the school reading program.

Keywords: Alternative Learning System Learners, Reading Comprehension Skills
A educação ambiental na visão dos alunos do ensino médio no município de Sumé, Paraíba.
Authors:   , Araújo Chaves Elaine
Published: July 2023

A Educação Ambiental se apresenta atualmente como uma eficaz estratégia pedagógica de prevenção às inúmeras crises ambientais que danificam o plane ta Terra. Logo, a introdução dessa temática nas escolas de ensino médio no M unicípio de Sumé PB é necessária, pois contribuirá para um futuro mais sustentável. Sendo a Educação Ambiental um instrumento de mudança de consciência dos estudantes, essa pesquisa traz como objetivos fundamentais a visão dos estudantes do 3° ano do ensino médio quanto ao ensino ambiental ofertado pela Escola Estadual Prof. José Gonçalves de Queiroz e pelo Instituto Educacional Imaculada Conceição; a existência de disparidad e de conhecimento ambiental entre os alunos e as possíveis causas dessa disparidade no preparo dos estudantes para uma consciência ambiental futura. Essa pesquisa foi realizada através de um estudo exploratório de caráter quantitativo e qualitativo. Para t anto, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica, trabalho de campo, com observação “in loco” da realidade vivenciada pelos estudantes, sendo feita uma coleta de dados por meio de questionários. A presente pesquisa se mostrou fundamental, pois os dados apres entados desmistificam o senso comum de que existe uma elevada disparidade de conhecimentos entre os estudantes das escolas pública e privada, além de apresentar um necessário investimento por parte dos gestores das escolas em infraestrutura, projetos e aul as ligados a Educação Ambiental e maior participação dos atores educacionais na formação ambiental dos estudantes. Sendo assim, possibilitará aos estudantes as condições necessárias para uma formação cidadã, crítica, consciente ambientalmente e multiplicad ores das práticas sustentáveis.
A ação do policymaker da segurança pública no cariri paraibano.
Authors:   , Pereira de Oliveira Mezzofani
Published: July 2023

A temática segurança pública nunca esteve tão em voga. Temos assistido e muitas vezes presenciado uma escalada assustadora da violência, estando a criminalidade homicida, uma das principais variáveis que compõe o espectro da segurança pública, em níveis inimagináveis. A população mundial cresce, aumentam as relações de consumo, as informações circulam com rapidez, estamos de fato num mundo globalizado e, cresce também, acompanhando essa tendência natural, a insegurança, principalmente nos países subdesenvolvidos que não dispõe de estruturas de atuação eficientes em suas gestões públicas. Não obstante, levando-se em consideração o Estado da Paraíba, buscou-se responder a seguinte hipótese: O aumento da criminalidade tem em sua essência como causa principal, a falta de atuação efetiva do “Estado” no cumprimento do seu papel de ofício que é prover a segurança pública, agravada pela impunidade institucionalizada. Foi utilizado, para tanto, o referencial teórico-literário disponível sobre o tema a partir de dados secundários e o resultado de estudos e pesquisas de científicas na área. A ação do gestor da segurança pública é fundamental para o controle e combate à violência e ao crime.
A desresponsabilização do Estado Brasileiro face às Políticas Públicas Educacionais nos governos FHC e Lula (1994 – 2010).
Authors:   , Beserra de Queiroz Daniel
Published: July 2023

O presente estudo objetiva analisar as políticas educacionais nos governos FHC e Lula, buscando identificar a desresponsabilização de ambos os governos no que se refere a assegurar uma educação pública de qualidade. Propôs conhecer alguns programas educacionais criados no governo FHC e no governo Lula. Como objetivo principal, identificar nos eixos centrais dessas políticas a lógica do capital, e analisar a transferência de parte da responsabilidade que, ora seria do governo federal, para a sociedade civil e para a iniciativa privada. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica da temática, tendo como referências estudiosos das áreas de educação, ciências sociais, serviço social e políticas públicas, dentre eles: Anderson (1995), Laurell (2002), Scheibe (2003), Oliveira (2009), entre outros. Esse estudo buscou assegurar à presente pesquisa um suporte teórico para a discussão das políticas educacionais no país. Também foi feita a análise de documentos legais que definem tais políticas nos dois governos: Constituição Federal (BRASIL, 1988), Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (BRASIL, 1996), dentre outros. Espera-se com essa pesquisa contribuir para a ampliação do debate acerca das políticas educacionais no país e na percepção de seus avanços ou retrocessos que elas tiveram a partir do governo de FHC.
Consórcios públicos e o atendimento à política nacional de resíduos sólidos por municípios do cariri paraibano.
Authors:   , Emanoela Sousa Pereira Quirino Flávia
Published: July 2023

A Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos - PNRS foi instituída pela Lei Federal nº 12.305/2010, e estabelece as diretrizes do gerenciamento adequado dos resíduos sólidos. Já se passaram mais de sete anos da regulamentação e os municípios que são os responsáveis pela gestão dos resíduos dentro de seus territórios pouco fizeram para atender às determinações. Buscando soluções que facilitem o atendimento às normas, este trabalho tem como objetivo central analisar a possível viabilidade de criação de um consórcio de gestão de resíduos sólidos em municípios do Cariri Paraibano. Dentre os procedimentos metodológicos, utilizou-se da coleta de dados primários a partir da aplicação de questionário em 10 municípios localizados na região do Cariri Paraibano, com a intenção de identificar, considerando o período de janeiro a agosto de 2017, a atual situação dos resíduos, avaliar as capacidades financeiras, bem como as possibilidades de investimento; na aquisição de dados secundários, foram realizadas ainda, consultas ao site do Tribunal de Contas do Estado da Paraíba e ao SAGRES Cidadão. Como resultado da pesquisa, verificou-se que os municípios não evoluíram no que diz respeito ao atendimento a PNRS, e que a maioria não possui capacidade financeira para realizar investimentos na área. Conclui-se, portanto, que a formação de um consórcio público é uma alternativa viável à promoção do atendimento à Lei 12.305/2010 para a maioria dos municípios pesquisados.
Análise do panorama do emprego formal no primeiro governo Dilma Rousseff: ajuste fiscal e mercado de trabalho.
Authors:   , de Sousa Santos Suzana
Published: July 2023

A geração de emprego e renda está diretamente relacionada ao processo de desenvolvimento, assegurando a qualidade de vida, diminuição das desigualdades e bem-estar da população. Diante da afirmativa, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o panorama do emprego formal no primeiro governo Dilma Rousseff com foco no ajuste fiscal e no mercado de trabalho. De forma mais especifica, busca-se compreender as disparidades entre o emprego e a atividade econômica, ou seja, como o emprego formal avançou ante a desaceleração da economia. Para ratificar, serão expostos os dados do emprego formal em 2014 através dos dados obtidos na Relação Anual de Informações Sociais. Como apreciação, pode ser destacado que apesar da queda do Produto Interno Bruto no período, especialmente, decorrente da retração da indústria de transformação, o mercado de trabalho foi favorecido pelos estímulos fiscais macroeconômicos como o aguilhoamento do crédito, a expansão da demanda doméstica e do setor de comércio e serviços que proporcionou o crescimento do salário real. Em um cenário geral, pôde ser constatado que as políticas públicas de emprego e renda permitiram a geração de mais postos formais por meio de investimentos em setores estratégicos para esse fim; houve o fortalecimento do sistema público de emprego, trabalho e renda, de forma a integrar as políticas de qualificação profissional, de intermediação de mão de obra e de seguro-desemprego; ocorreu o fortalecimento da proteção social aos trabalhadores e suas famílias; e de políticas que possibilitem a transição da informalidade para as atividades formais, bem como, uma maior distribuição de renda.
Compras sustentáveis: um diagnóstico na universidade federal de Campina Grande (UFCG).
Authors:   , Severo Filho João
Published: July 2023

O poder público tem um papel preponderante na promoção de políticas públicas que contribuam para o desenvolvimento sustentável; e uma das estratégias é utilizar o seu poder de compra para adquirir bens, obras e serviços com a adoção de critérios de sustentabilidade nas licitações públicas, com vistas a interferir na mudança de comportamento da produção e do consumo dos mercados. Assim, o objetivo da nossa pesquisa foi fazer um diagnóstico das compras públicas sustentáveis na Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), analisar os aspectos envolvidos e os principais empecilhos no avanço desse processo. Para o levantamento dos dados utilizou se de pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e exploratória, combinadas. Os principais achados foram que, apesar da existência de um marco legal definido, ainda é muito baixo o índice de compras com sustentabilidade ambiental na UFCG, com predominância para a variável econômica e em alguns casos social; não existe uma política de compra sustentável claramente definida na maioria das instituições, e que as ações que existem são pontuais e pouco planejadas; falta uma política de capacitação continuada de pessoal e tomada de decisão de gestão, entre outras.
Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Bekasi Timur Melalui Budi Daya UMKM Usaha Ikan Lele
Authors: Yani Ari Soeti , Basuki Kustiadi , Suryono Imam
Published: July 2023

This Community Service Program aims to determine the Empowerment of the East Bekasi community through Cultivating MSME in the Catfish Business Bekasi so that it is right on target. Catfish is a favorite food in Indonesia and is a factor that needs to be considered in view of the large number of people who consume catfish, the amount in the market, the proximity to raw materials, the availability of facilities and transportation costs and the availability of places to expand their business. While its special use for the people of East Bekasi is to increase the nutrition of the surrounding community so they don't experience malnutrition and so on. Frequent consumption of fish can improve thinking for the better, especially for children who are in their infancy. Clean catfish farm locations increase sales profits and attract more buyers to shop for catfish. While the benefits for partners are getting a work partner, in addition to this what the lecturer gets adds new insights that will be used in further learning about entrepreneurship.
Water through the ages
Authors: Gleick Peter , Boccaletti Giulio
Published: July 2023

In the special event of the Nature Water Talks series, we’ll talk to two researchers who strive to reach out to wide audiences. Fabio Pulizzi will ask Peter Gleick (author of "The three ages of water") and Giulio Boccaletti (author of "Water, a biography") about their vision for the future of water based on what we have learned from history, as well as the excitement and challenges of writing books that will be read by audiences beyond the research community.

The webinar is supported by the Environmentor WeChat channel.
BITCOIN, CURRENCY OF THE FREE MARKET
Authors: UDREA Dragoș-Iulian
Published: July 2023

The purpose of this article is to present Bitcoin as a possible solution to many of the issues caused by having money administered by a monopoly. The introducing chapters of this article focus on demonstrating why monopolistic control over money will always limit freedom. Specifically, in regards to how the government has control over individual freedom through money. History has shown that people have sought ways to curb this kind of intervention on markets and in their lives - with Bitcoin being a result of their efforts. In the later chapters we aim to demonstrate why Bitcoin is such a significant step towards achieving a higher degree of individual freedom and we will support these claims through a series of technical, economical and philosophical arguments.
„CONTRADICȚIA UNILATERALĂ” ȘI PRACTICA ARGUMENTĂRII
Authors: STANCIULESCU Catalin
Published: July 2023

Starting from some of C. Noica’s reflections on what he calls `unilateral contradiction`, this material tries to answer two questions: What is, argumentatively and rehetorically, unilateral contradiction? and What roles does it play in the practice of argumentation? Six study cases explore (i) how unilateral contradiction has argumentatively been used in sustaining a claim by criticizing a disjunction, and (ii) how it may be used as a way of reconstructing a case.
VARIETĂȚILE ANALIZEI ÎN FILOSOFIA ANALITICĂ
Authors: STOENESCU Constantin
Published: July 2023

I agree that the unity of the method of analytic philosophy is an illusion and, as a result, I intend to discuss about the varieties of analysis in analytic philosophy. My strategy is to argue that the so called “linguistic turn” was followed by several attempts to develop a method in analitic philosophy and to assure at least its methodological identity. Therefore, I think that the decompositional analysis is, in the same time, in continuity with traditional philosophy and also the first way to perform in analitic philosophy. The logical analysis proposed by Frege become the main paradigm of analysis and, historically, it had some forms as logical reduction, logical contruction or rational reconstruction. The other main paradigm is the conceptual analysis developed by Wittgenstein in Philosophical investigations. I think that a historical concept of analytic philosophy is useful for a better understanding of this variety of analyical method.
ANÁLISIS SOBRE LA RESPONSABILIDAD PERSONAL COMO FACTOR PREDICTOR DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD RELACIONAL EN ALUMNADO UNIVERSITARIO ESPAÑOL
Authors: FERNANDEZ ESPINOSA Verónica , OBISPO DÍAZ Belén
Published: July 2023

Responsibility is an important factor in educating students for freedom or self-determination. Our actions have repercussions not only on ourselves but also on others. Forming in this dimension can also lead to know how to make commitments with others. This article seeks to validate a scale that helps measure the self-perception of personal and relational responsibility in young university students that can help train them in this double dimension and to see, if personal responsibility, is predictor of relational responsibility. The scale was applied to 403 university students (114 men and 289 women) between 18 and 23 years old, selected through a simple random sampling at the Francisco de Vitoria University (Madrid). Internal consistency analysis, parallel analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were performed. The scale is made up of a total of 9 items, grouped into two dimensions (relational responsibility and personal responsibility). The scale presented adequate indicators of internal consistency (α = .678; ω = .740) and goodness of fit (CFI = .953; IFI = .954; RMSEA = .047; χ2 / gl = 1.871). In addition, it was observed that personal responsibility predicts 12.6% of relational responsibility. In a complementary manner, significant differences were observed in relational responsibility in favor of women. This study presents a scale, in Spanish, with reliability and validity indicators to measure the Self-perception of personal and relational responsibility of university students. In addition, evidence was obtained on the predictive capacity of personal responsibility in their relational responsibility
TOWARDS AN APPLIED ETHICS IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: A TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE ON RESPONSIBILITY
Authors: HAGIU Adrian , BORTOȘ Sergiu
Published: July 2023

In this article, we proposed an ethical analysis of the actors involved in digital communication, starting from the communication model developed by David Berlo. Thus, we identified the sources of transmission of a message, the characteristics of the message, the channels through which it is transmitted and which are the possible recipients, asking ourselves, through an exercise of applied ethics, what the responsibility of each one is. We argued that there are several ethical issues for each component of Berlo's model which can influence digital communication. Considering that ‘digital ethics’ is still a fairly narrow field, the transdisciplinary approach we proposed in this article has the advantage of opening up the area of applicability of ethics in the field of digital communication.
REMINISCENCE THEORY AND IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL: SOME MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO
Authors: LÓPEZ-ASTORGA Miguel
Published: July 2023

This paper focuses on a particular discussion Plato describes in Phaedo. That is the discussion between Socrates and Cebes about the preexistence and immortality of the soul. The paper does not try to clarify or better understand the discussion. It is only intended to show that the mental representations underlying the arguments both Socrates and Cebes give are consistent with the possibilities the theory of mental models attributes to human reasoning. In this way, the present paper attempts to support the basic theses of that theory.
TEOLOGIA CA PARADIGMĂ COGNITIVĂ AUTONOMĂ
Authors: NEACȘU Adriana
Published: July 2023

This paper argues that cognitive approaches made in science andtheology, and their results are only apparently divergent or in conflict, andthat, in fact, they are complementary. Therefore the two forms of culturemake a contribution equally important to man’s attempt to understand thereality, at its various levels, and discover the truth about himself, about theworld and what lies beyond the strictly physical environment of theexistence. The paper advocates the idea that the most profitable attitude, bothfor science and for theology is to know each other increasingly better and todialogue with one another, proceeding to a continuous exchange,professionally and in good faith between concepts, views, assumptions andtheir theories.
SENECA MEDICUS. PRACTICI TERAPEUTICE ȘI PROTREPTIC FILOSOFIC ÎN CONSOLATIO AD HELVIAM
Authors: MIHAI Constantin-Ionuț
Published: July 2023

In this article, I pursue two aims. First, I will discuss some therapeutic techniques and strategies Seneca made use of in his Ad Helviam, focusing on the philosopher’s role qua medicus. I will explore to what extent the acquaintance with the tradition of philosophical therapy allowed Seneca to portray himself as a ‘physician of the soul’ with moral and intellectual authority, relating his text to other works of ‘ancient psychotherapy’. The second aim is to provide a close analysis of Ad Helviam, 17, 1-18, 1, in which we find an encouragement to the study of the liberal arts and philosophy. As I intend to demonstrate, Seneca’s main concern here was to show his audience the value of a life dedicated to moral improvement, in other words, to persuade his would-be readers to convert to philosophy. The content and the rhetorical structure of the text invite comparison with other philosophical writings of protreptic intent from Greco-Roman antiquity. Such an approach will allow us to readdress not only the question of the genre of Seneca’s text but also that of its intended audience.
SCHLEIERMACHER: CONCEPTS THÉOLOGIQUES LIBÉRAUX
Authors: CUCU Marius , LENȚA Oana
Published: July 2023

F.D.E. Schleiermacher’s inauguration of hermeneutics as a philosophical discipline took place in the broad cultural frameworks offered by German Romanticism. The re-evaluation of theological and philosophical concepts benefited, in the case of Schleiermacher’s works, from the context of the renewals imposed by the liberal vision proposed by the axiological perspective of romanticism as a relevant event for the nineteenth century and its extensions in the twentieth century. The present text aims to capture some landmarks of the symbiosis between Schleiermacher’s preoccupations in the inauguration of philosophical and thematic hermeneutics such as the interdependence between the finite human and the infinite divine consciousness, the dialectical progress of religious consciousness, the finiteness of gnoseological approaches to the divine meta-presence, the need of another interpretation of Christian soteriology, the re-evaluation of the relationship between dogma and the individual experience of faith. The interval of this symbiosis may measure the value of Schleiermacher’s work and the level of cultural topicality of his subjects.
ROMAN INGARDEN’S AESTHETICAL THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Authors: SHEVCHUK Kateryna , SHEVCHUK Dmytro
Published: July 2023

The article is devoted to the main aspects of Roman Ingarden’s aesthetic theory that concern contemporary art. Modern discussions on Ingarden’s aesthetic axiology are dedicated, in particular, to the question of the possibility of using his theory to analyze contemporary art. In this article, the authors seek to demonstrate that the main ideas and categories of Roman Ingarden's aesthetic theory are adequate and suitable for analyzing not only classical art but also contemporary art. Ingarden's aesthetic theory is an open system (which is the general characteristic of phenomenology).
MEMBRANELE IUBIRII LA SARAMAGO
Authors: NIȚĂ Adrian
Published: July 2023

From a multi-disciplinary point of view, philosophy and literature, the paper proposes an analysis of literature elaborated by Portuguese novelist Saramago, and especially of his famous Memorial of Mafra. As a mixt from reality and fiction, nature and culture, with many membranes of comprehension, the Memorial of Mafra will show: angelic condition (in the first part), Blimunda and membranes of love (in the second part) and a discussion on soul-reason-spirit (in the third part).
De la imaginarul religios la hermeneutica simbolurilor. O incursiune în lumea semnelor şi arhetipurilor
Authors: BĂLAŞA Ariana
Published: July 2023

Structurată în două mari secţiuni, Imaginarul religios la Mircea Eliade şi Hermeneutica simbolurilor, precedate de o Prefaţă a doamnei Prof. univ. dr. Ana Bazac, cercetător la Academia Română, urmată de un Studiu introductiv: imaginar şi raţionalitate şi de o Bibliografie generală, cartea mărturiseşte despre preocupările autorului de-a lungul timpului, cartea reuneşte în paginile ei mai multe articole şi studii ale sale concentrate în jurul aceleiaşi problematici.
The Harmful Effects of Pesticides on the Environment and Human Health: A Review
Authors: Mahmood Ali Israa
Published: July 2023

The population inflation that countries are witnessing during this century, makes it imperative to provide sufficient quantities of agricultural products to meet their urgent needs. Therefore, it became very necessary to use pesticides to improve agricultural crop productivity and reduce losses resulting from agricultural pests. The indiscriminate use of pesticides causes severe risks not only on agricultural fields, but also workers in their manufacturing processes and individual use in homes and institutions. The main adverse effects of utilizing pesticides on human health, soil, microorganisms of soil, surface water and groundwater have been covered in this review. This investigation is aiming to elevate environmental awareness, highlight the serious harms of pesticides and provide guidance for implementing a serious solution from the people and authorities. In addition, the most important strategies to reduce the pesticides risks have been summarized.
Other Knows Best
Authors: Baer Ben Conisbee
Published: July 2023

This article reflects on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline (2003) twenty years after its first publication. The discipline of Comparative Literature was not reborn in line with Spivak’s elegiac imperatives. Yet Death of a Discipline’s argument—that literary reading may affirm a certain vagueness and non-knowledge in the outlines of alterity—remains a compelling resource in a world of STEM, calculable probability, and the power of averages. In excess of its topical institutional intervention, Death of a Discipline indicates a range of enveloping generalities that both contain and make room for the future development of new practices in the Humanities. These point beyond the politics of identity and the power of an ideological average, suggesting work to come.
Spivak’s Death of a Discipline: An Anthropologist Tries to Respond
Authors: Morris Rosalind C.
Published: July 2023

This article explores Spivak’s long-standing engagement with anthropology, and reads Death of a Discipline as the third volume of a trilogy encompassing A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and Imperatives to Reimagine the Planet. In treating DoD as the third and “pragmatic” supplement to the first two texts, it explores the ways in which Spivak’s thought engages the problems bequeathed by Immanuel Kant’s own critical trilogy: the native informant, the regulatory ideal and cosmopolitical ethics, and the need to supplement the concept of “world” (or “globality”) with a non-substantive intuition of the transcendental in the form of the earth and/or the planetary.
Responding toThe Great Gatsby:Can the Reading Process Itself Reinforce Racist Assumptions?
Authors: Steenis Jacob
Published: July 2023

In recent decades, The Great Gatsby has become a centerpiece of American culture and pedagogy as many high school students find it on their reading lists. Common Core standards used in public schools often dismiss the reader as a key component in the production of a novel’s meaning. This approach urges students to think more about what a text “is” and “means” rather than considering how meaning relies on the reader’s individual personal experience. By applying reader-response theory to Gatsby, we can assess the impact of our beliefs—specifically those involving race—on our reception of characters and scenes. In contrast with other, more racially controversial novels frequently taught in high schools (e.g., Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), The Great Gatsby can be a comparatively uncontroversial vehicle for students to explore their own engagement with what Barbara and Karen Fields term “racecraft.” This perspective utilizes the status of Gatsby as a cultural fixture and transforms it into a tool for students and lay readers alike to assess critically their own participation in the reproduction of racial structures. Such analysis opposes the recent movement to remove critical race theory from public schools, a movement that threatens to debilitate students’ abilities to navigate the often complicated and confusing contours of American racecraft.
Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” in Two 1922 Magazines: An Intermedial Nostalgic Reading
Authors: Sieweke Lara Rodríguez
Published: July 2023

This article employs an intermedial approach to explore the interpretative possibilities that arise from the interactions of different media types in two 1922 magazine versions of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams.” Intermediality studies the relationship between media with close consideration of their characteristic possibilities and limitations. The magazine, a media product, combines media types such as narrative texts, illustrations, and advertisements, a combination that creates a reading experience of “Winter Dreams” that differs from experiencing it in a collection or anthology. Arthur William Brown provided the illustrations for both publications in question, the New York-based Metropolitan magazine and the Canadian magazine MacLean’s. Despite having the same illustrator, the first page of each highlights a different aspect of the story: in MacLean’s, the combination of media types teases the reader with a potential love triangle, while in Metropolitan, it anticipates the doomed relationship between Dexter Green and Judy Jones. This article primarily focuses on how these media types engage with the story’s nostalgic theme and mood, and on a contextual level, with the nostalgia that characterized the youth-idealizing Jazz Age. Youth is one of nostalgia’s primary tropes, with the flapper an emblem of ephemeral beauty. In both versions of “Winter Dreams,” the advertisements’ emphasis on youth and aging echoes Dexter’s distress at discovering Judy’s faded looks, and they reflect the collective worship of youth culture in the 1920s.
Combined methods at low temperature to minimize quality loss in acerola and jaboticaba: immersion in CaCl2, freezing, and freeze-drying acerola and jaboticaba at low temperatures
Authors: BORGES Rhinery Beatriz Rocha , MEIRA Ana Cristina Freitas de Oliveira , DAMIANI Clarissa , RESENDE Jaime Vilela de
Published: July 2023

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of combined processes at low temperature on the quality of acerola (Malpighia punicifolia L.) and jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora Berg). Acerola and jaboticaba were subjected to different combined treatments: infusion in calcium chloride, freezing at different temperatures (-20 and -80 °C) and freeze-drying. Physicochemical, colorimetric, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and texture (firmness) analyses were conducted for acerola and jaboticaba fruits, and rheological behavior was analyzed in jaboticaba pulp. According to the results, for acerola, infusion in CaCl2 interfered with microstructural analysis, freezing at -20 °C damaged the fruit, and freeze-drying with freezing at -80 °C yielded fruits with the most satisfactory quality. For jaboticaba, CaCl2 infusion significantly changed the microstructure and pulp viscosity, and freezing at -20 °C further damaged the fruit; the best colorimetric results were obtained for freeze-drying with freezing at -80 °C.
Mechanical properties and integrity of stored corn grains after continuous and intermittent drying
Authors: MABASSO Geraldo Acácio , SIQUEIRA Valdiney Cambuy , RESENDE Osvaldo , QUEQUETO Wellytton Darci , GONELI André Luís Duarte , MARTINS Elton Aparecido Siqueira , TAKAGI Allan Dellon Alegre
Published: July 2023

This study aimed to evaluate the influence of continuous and intermittent drying during the storage time on mechanical properties and integrity of corn. For intermittent drying, five rest times (0, 4, 8, 12, and 16 h) and four storage times (0, 90, 180, and 270 days) were used. The corn grains harvested at a moisture content of 0.34±0.001 kg kg-1 dry basis (db) were dried in a fixed-layer experimental dryer set at a temperature of 100 °C and an air flow rate of 1.5 m3 min-1 m-2 until they reached a moisture content of 0.16±0.03 kg kg-1 db. For intermittent drying, the process was interrupted at a moisture content of 0.22±0.02 kg kg-1 db and resumed after resting. Tests for electrical conductivity, rupture force, deformation, energy required for rupture, and modulus of toughness and hardness were conducted. Grain integrity is better maintained when the grain has been dried with a longer rest time and stored for short periods; compressive strength exhibits the same behavior as integrity, but hardness, energy for rupture, and the modulus of toughness are not influenced by storage time, and grain deformation was not affected by the rest and storage times.
Hibrid – concept definitoriu al războaielor, operațiilor și amenințărilor specifice secolului 21
Authors: Georgiana-Daniela LUPULESCU
Published: July 2023

Amenințările hibride, precum și războiul hibrid au devenit o constantă a secolului în care trăim, primind  de-a lungul timpului numeroase definiții, care clarifică într-o măsură mai mică sau mai mare aceste concepte, caracterizate, în principal, de ambiguitate atât în ceea ce privește mijloacele, cât și forțele implicate sau zona geografică de ducere a luptei. Ideea de a încerca să definești un concept apărut din necesitatea de a îngloba tot ceea ce este cunoscut în materie de tehnici, mijloace, metode și instrumente, dar și ceea ce va apărea în viitorul nu foarte îndepărtat, grație fulminantei evoluții tehnologice, folosite de actori statali și nonstatali în încercarea de a-și atinge scopuri dintre cele mai diverse, militare, politice, sociale sau chiar economice, poate fi cel puțin derizorie.Lucrarea de față își propune să realizeze o scurtă prezentare a literaturii relevante în legătură cu amenințările, operațiile și războaiele hibride, pornind de la prima încercare de a le defini și până la noi atribute, adăugate între timp. Vom analiza caracteristici, tipuri, actori implicați și obiective urmărite de aceștia, rezultate din combinarea mai multor tehnici, metode sau instrumente.
Noile tehnologii şi impactul lor asupra domeniului militar
Authors: Stanciu Cristian-Octavian , GIMIGA Silviu-Iulian
Published: July 2023

Genii militare, precum Hannibal, Cezar, Suvorov sau Napoleon, au dovedit lumii întregi cum armate relativ mici s-au impus prin strategii de luptă complexe, prin ingeniozitate și curaj, prin cunoștințe științifice și militare care pot face diferența. Progresul tehnologic, realizat, în ultimele sute de ani, pe baza descoperirilor tehnico-științifice, a condus lupta armată către un nivel atât de ridicat încât supremația tehnologică, raportul de forțe și tehnică militară sunt extrem de importante în asumarea unui conflict militar. Totuși, îmbinarea mijloacelor de luptă convenționale cu cele moderne, utilizarea unor forme și procedee de luptă combinate sunt încă probleme de interes general, care necesită strategii adaptabile și, nu în ultimul rând, ingeniozitatea, flerul și exuberanța conducătorilor. Impactul noilor tehnologii asupra domeniului militar rămâne încă o problemă care nu va fi clarificată, probabil, niciodată, tocmai din cauza provocărilor constante, care sunt din ce în ce mai complexe și diferite.