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A call to protect patients, correctional staff and healthcare professionals in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Oladeru Oluwadamilola T. , Tran Nguyen-Toan , Al-Rousan Tala , Williams Brie , Zaller Nickolas
Published: July 2020

This editorial describes why surge planning in the community must account for potential infection outbreaks in jails and prisons, and why incarcerated people and those in contact with them, including over 450,000 correctional officers and thousands of healthcare staff working in prisons, are at significant risk of COVID-19 exposure. We then explain how our nation’s jails and prisons will continue to serve as breeding grounds for devastating COVID-19 outcomes and offer specific guidance and a call to action for the immediate development of correctional healthcare strategies designed to protect the health and safety of patients and correctional and healthcare staff and the communities in which they are situated. Correctional officers and correctional healthcare professionals need the nation’s reassurance during this dire time that they will not be abandoned and further stigmatized for responding to the needs of incarcerated people. Our collective health depends on it.
When testing stakes are no longer high: impact on the Chinese College English learners and their learning
Authors: Chen Qiuxian , Hao Chenxian , Xiao Yangyu
Published: July 2020

It is now a consensus that high-stakes testing exerts powerful impact in controlling curriculum and pedagogy, and shaping students’ learning. The power of testing is especially strong in contexts where testing culture prevails. The Chinese educational context is such a context which is dominated by competitive tests. The language testing results from large-scale tests, such as CET-4 (College English Test—Band 4), used to be included as a compulsory prerequisite for undergraduates to get their bachelor’s degree. Such a requirement has been removed recently to reduce testing stakes for leverage purposes. Thus, it is worthwhile to investigate whether the change will possibly help to impact students and their learning in a positive way.

Our study aimed to explore the impact of changes in the stakes of a language test in the Chinese university context. Data were collected through questionnaires from 544 College English students at a university in north-western China. Our analysis via SPSS 2.3 showed that test-taking was still well accepted and practiced; while reducing the stakes helped to redirect the students towards English learning, it had less impact on their English learning motivation and approaches. The findings also show that the test-dominated environment that is deep-rooted in the macro- and micro-contexts decided the students’ responses to this policy change.
A comprehensive survey of anomaly detection techniques for high dimensional big data
Authors: Thudumu Srikanth , Branch Philip , Jin Jiong , Singh Jugdutt
Published: July 2020

Anomaly detection in high dimensional data is becoming a fundamental research problem that has various applications in the real world. However, many existing anomaly detection techniques fail to retain sufficient accuracy due to so-called “big data” characterised by high-volume, and high-velocity data generated by variety of sources. This phenomenon of having both problems together can be referred to the “curse of big dimensionality,” that affect existing techniques in terms of both performance and accuracy. To address this gap and to understand the core problem, it is necessary to identify the unique challenges brought by the anomaly detection with both high dimensionality and big data problems. Hence, this survey aims to document the state of anomaly detection in high dimensional big data by representing the unique challenges using a triangular model of vertices: the problem (big dimensionality), techniques/algorithms (anomaly detection), and tools (big data applications/frameworks). Authors’ work that fall directly into any of the vertices or closely related to them are taken into consideration for review. Furthermore, the limitations of traditional approaches and current strategies of high dimensional data are discussed along with recent techniques and applications on big data required for the optimization of anomaly detection.
Trees of Panama: A complete checklist with every geographic range
Authors: Condit Richard , Aguilar Salomón , Pérez Rolando
Published: July 2020

Background

Central America is one of the most diverse floristic provinces in the world, but comprehensive plant lists for the region are incomplete and need frequent updating. Full geographic ranges of individual species are seldom known. Our detailed forest inventory plots of Panama thus lack a global geographic perspective. In order to provide one, we assembled a thoroughly vetted checklist of all tree species of Panama, along with an estimate of each one’s range size based on published specimen records.

Results

1) Panama has 3043 tree species in 141 families and 752 genera; 57.6% were ≥ 10 m tall and 16.9% were 3-5 m tall.2) The widest ranges were >1.5×107km2, covering the entire neotropics and reaching >30∘latitude; 12.4% of the species had ranges exceeding 107km2. The median range was 6.9×105km2.3) At the other extreme, 16.2% of the species had a range <20,000 km2, a criterion suggesting endangered status.4) Range size increased with a tree species’ height and varied significantly among families.5) Tree census plots, where we mapped and measured all individuals, captured 27.5% of the tree species, but a biased selection relative to range size; only 4.5% of the species in plots had ranges <20,000 km2.

Conclusions

Our checklist of the trees of Panama, based on rigorous criteria aimed at matching plot censuses, is 20% larger than previous. By recording species’ maximum heights, we allow comparisons with other regions based on matching definitions, and the range sizes provide a quantitative basis for assessing extinction risk. Our next goal is to merge population density from plot censuses to add rigor to predictions of extinction risk of poorly-studied tropical tree species.
Optimization of quantitative time-resolved 3D (4D) digital subtraction angiography in a porcine liver model
Authors: Meram Ece , Shaughnessy Gabe , Longhurst Colin , Hoffman Carson , Wagner Martin , Mistretta Charles A. , Speidel Michael A. , Laeseke Paul F.
Published: July 2020

Background

Time-resolved three-dimensional digital subtraction angiography (4D-DSA) can be used to quantify blood velocity. Contrast pulsatility, a major discriminant on 4D-DSA, is yet to be optimized. We investigated the effects of different imaging and injection parameters on sideband ratio (SBR), a measure of contrast pulsatile strength, within the hepatic vasculature of an in vivo porcine model.

Methods

Fifty-nine hepatic 4D-DSA procedures were performed in three female domestic swine (mean weight 54 kg). Contrast injections were performed in the common hepatic artery with different combinations of imaging duration (6 s or 12 s), injection rates (from 1.0 to 2.5 mL/s), contrast concentration (50% or 100%), and catheter size (4 Fr or 5 Fr). Reflux was recorded. SBR and vessel cross-sectional areas were calculated in 289 arterial segments. Multiple linear mixed-effects models were estimated to determine the effects of parameters on SBR and cross-sectional vessel area.

Results

Twelve-second acquisitions yielded a SBR higher than 6 s (p < 0.001). No significant differences in SBR were seen between different catheter sizes (p = 0.063) or contrast concentration (p = 0.907). For higher injection rates (2.5 mL/s), SBR was lower (p = 0.007) and cross-sectional area was higher (p < 0.001). Reflux of contrast does not significantly affect SBR (p = 0.087).

Conclusions

The strength of contrast pulsatility used for flow quantitation with 4D-DSA can be increased by adjusting injection rates and using longer acquisition times. Reduction of contrast concentration to 50% is feasible and reflux of contrast does not significantly hinder contrast pulsatility.
President's Page
Authors: Brook Robert
Published: July 2020

My term on the SEG Board of Directors started at the SEG Annual Meeting in Houston in 2017, immediately after the historic floods caused by Hurricane Harvey. This unprecedented natural event was often described as “apocalyptic” — but it clearly doesn't compare to the events of 2020.
Annual Meeting Update
Authors: Singleton Scott , Caldwell Jack , Hall Carolyn , Beydoun Wafik
Published: July 2020

Last month, Annual Meeting Steering Committee Vice Chair Cengiz Esmersoy and SEG Executive Director John Koehr described two SEG 2020 Annual Meeting panels devoted to preparing geophysicists for the future needs of our industry. This month, we continue with a similar theme of preparing future generations for earth science careers and informing and enlightening oil and gas (O&G) geophysicists about important work outside of their native profession.
Noisy 4D seismic data interpretation: Case study of a Brazilian carbonate reservoir
Authors: Wong Lee Jean , Amini Hamed , MacBeth Colin
Published: July 2020

A legacy seismic data set from 2001 and 2011 was used for time-lapse interpretation over a Brazilian carbonate reservoir in Field-X of Campos Basin. The acquired 4D seismic data set was noisy and initially deemed to be uninterpretable. Pressure data were limited, and the initial simulation model was poorly calibrated. All of these challenges warranted the need to establish an interdisciplinary interpretation workflow. In this paper, we introduce a tiered integrated approach to optimize data value from multiple sources. The results of interwell connectivity from production data analysis were used as a basis for assignment of 4D signal confidence flags, which were later combined with simulation-to-seismic modeling of history-matched realizations, enabling interpretation efforts of the noisy 4D seismic data set. This integrated approach led to identification of the injected water front and a potential sweet spot for an infill well.
Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees resettling in high-income countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Henkelmann Jens-R. , de Best Sanne , Deckers Carla , Jensen Katarina , Shahab Mona , Elzinga Bernet , Molendijk Marc
Published: July 2020

Background

The number of refugees is at its highest since the Second World War and on the rise. Many refugees suffer from anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but exact and up-to-date prevalence estimates are not available.

Aims

To report the pooled prevalence of anxiety and mood disorders and PTSD in general refugee populations residing in high-income countries and to detect sources of heterogeneity therein.

Method

Systematic review with meta-analyses and meta-regression.

Results

Systematic searches (final search date 3 August 2019) yielded 66 eligible publications that reported 150 prevalence estimates (total sampleN= 14 882). Prevalence rates were 13 and 42% (95% CI 8–52%) for diagnosed and self-reported anxiety, 30 and 40% (95% CI 23–48%) for diagnosed and self-reported depression, and 29 and 37% (95% CI 22–45%) for diagnosed and self-reported PTSD. These estimates are substantially higher relative to those reported in non-refugee populations over the globe and to populations living in conflict or war settings, both for child/adolescent and adult refugees. Estimates were similar over different home and resettlement areas and independent of length of residence.

Conclusions

Our data indicate a challenging and persisting disease burden in refugees due to anxiety, mood disorders and PTSD. Knowing this is relevant for the development of public health policies of host countries. Scalable interventions, tailored for refugees, should become more readily available.
When Attitudes Become Platitudes, Live in the Cloud
Authors: Hayden Sarah
Published: July 2020

“New Eelam” is a cloud-based digital subscription housing project offering ideal homes to footloose “global citizens” who practice high mobility, postpolitical utopianism, and minimalist interior design. This article uncovers the political and cultural significance of this dream of dematerialized existence in the work of the artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas. Mapping the dematerialization of the art object onto the dematerializations of cloud computing and minimalist lifestyles, this article addresses two ongoing series: When Platitudes Become Form (2012–) and New Eelam (2016–). First, it explores how New Eelam conscripts its public into imagining itself as the morally and aesthetically superior advance-guard of a new world order. Then, it uses Kulendran Thomas’s submerged invocation of the 1969 exhibition Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form to analyze how this experiment in “digital realty” uses dematerialization to solicit urgent realizations about the relationships between the contemporary art market, mass migration, and geopolitical reality.
Teh Internet Is Serious Business
Authors: de Zeeuw Daniël , Tuters Marc
Published: July 2020

At the fringes of an increasingly hegemonic platform economy, there exists another web of anonymous forums and image boards whose unique “mask culture” the article aims to deconstruct by tracing its roots in the cyber-separationist imaginary of early internet culture, in a way that can be seen to undermine the new “face culture” of social media platforms like Facebook. The practices that characterize this “deep vernacular web” are anti- and impersonal rather than personal, ephemeral and aleatory rather than persistent and predictable, collective rather than individual, stranger-rather than friend-oriented, and radically public and contagious rather than privatized, filtered, and contained. Characterized by its ephemerality and anonymity, and preoccupied with dissimulative identity play, memes, and trolling, the set of subcultural attitudes that characterizes this part of the web can be summarized by the ironic and intentionally misspelled phrase “Teh internet is serious business.” By exploring the vernacular significance of this saying and how it can be seen to articulate an oppositional attitude to the currently hegemonic platform culture, this article simultaneously aims to contribute to contemporary debates on the reactionary turn in internet culture associated with the global rise of the alt-right.
Co-opting the International Writing Program during the Cold War
Authors: Shea James
Published: July 2020

This article examines the Hong Kong writer Gu Cangwu 古蒼梧 (1945–) and his grassroots activism during the Cold War, namely, his appropriation of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (IWP). At the IWP from 1970 to 1971, Gu grew critical of US foreign policy, coedited a newsletter produced in the IWP offices, participated in political demonstrations, and published correspondence in Hong Kong in support of the Baodiao movement. The author argues that Gu's activities co-opted a Cold War institution to promote collective political action among the Chinese diaspora and, importantly, among audiences back in Hong Kong, amplified political resistance against both the United States and the United Kingdom. An examination of Gu's writings, including his correspondence, poems, and 2012 faux memoir Jiu jian 舊箋 (Old Letters), in relation to Kuan-hsing Chen's model of “Asia as method” and minjian society, establishes how Gu's political awakening in the United States and the overall student-led Baodiao movement enlarges Chen's conceptual framework. Rather than arising out of indigenous practices, the transpacific movement began overseas among the Chinese diaspora and, in the eyes of Gu, led to genuine political change in Hong Kong.
Quality of Life, Sexual Functioning, and Physical Functioning Following Perineal Reconstruction with the Lotus Petal Flap
Authors: Hellinga Joke , Stenekes Martin W. , Werker Paul M. N. , Janse Moniek , Fleer Joke , van Etten Boudewijn
Published: July 2020

Background

Lotus petal flaps (LPF) may be used for the reconstruction of extralevator abdominoperineal defects that cannot be closed primarily. Limited data are available on how perineal reconstruction with the LPF impacts on patients’ quality of life (QoL), sexual functioning, and physical functioning.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was performed following perineal reconstruction with the LPF. The QoL of patients having undergone LPF reconstruction was compared with a control group in which perineal defects were closed without flaps. Sexual and physical functioning (presence of perineal herniation and range of motion [ROM] of the hip joints) could only be evaluated in the LPF group. Psychometrically sound questionnaires were used. Physical functioning was evaluated subjectively with binary questions and objectively by physical examination.

Results

Of the 23 patients asked to participate, 15 (65%) completed the questionnaires and 11 (47%) underwent physical examination. In the control group, 16 patients were included. There were no significant differences in QoL between the LPF and control groups. Within the LPF group, 33% of patients were sexually active postoperatively compared with 87% preoperatively. No perineal herniation was found. The ROM of the hip joints was bilaterally smaller compared with the generally accepted values.

Conclusions

Conclusions should be made with care given the small sample size. Despite a supposedly larger resection area in the LPF group, QoL was comparable in both groups. Nonetheless, reconstruction seemed to affect sexual function and physical function, not hampering overall satisfaction.
Social media: a valuable tool to inform shark conservation in Greece
Authors: TAKLIS CHRISTOS , GIOVOS IOANNIS , KARAMANLIDIS ALEXANDROS A.
Published: July 2020

Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea are facing an elevated risk of extinction; several species are considered endangered and some have been reduced to such low population numbers that they are hard to detect through conventional monitoring methods. The recent emergence of new technologies, such as social media, makes it easier to collect and transmit information that may contribute to the conservation of endangered species. From 2017 – 2019 we carried out a project in Greece that searched social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) postings with the aim of collecting data on the occurrence and basic biological parameters of sharks in the country and their interactions with fisheries. We recorded 116 social media postings referring to sharks in Greece, of which, 100 were identified to the lowest taxonomic level; sixty four percent of these postings referred to threatened sharks, while the majority of them referred to species that had not been evaluated for the Greek Red Data Book. Sharks occurred throughout the country, were often involved in negative fishery interactions and were rarely reported to have been released back to the sea. Endangered sharks were often misidentified as commercially valuable species. Our study highlights the importance of social media as a valuable tool in collecting baseline information, while identifying and/or focusing on important conservation issues about sharks in Greece.
Estimating selectivity of experimental diamond (T0) and turned mesh (T90) codends in multi-species Mediterranean bottom trawl
Authors: PETETTA ANDREA , HERRMANN BENT , VIRGILI MASSIMO , De MARCO ROCCO , CANDUCI GIOVANNI , Li VELI DANIEL , BARGIONE GIADA , VASAPOLLO CLAUDIO , LUCCHETTI ALESSANDRO
Published: July 2020

The effect of shifting from a diamond mesh codend (T0) to a 90° turned mesh codend (T90) on the size selectivity of seven commercially important species in the Mediterranean bottom trawl fishery was evaluated. During sea trials conducted in the north-western Adriatic, two experimental codends made of 54 mm nominal mesh size netting that differed only in mesh configuration were alternately mounted on the same trawl. Overall, the size selectivity was significantly improved for all the species analysed, shifting from T0 to T90. The difference in the average expected L50values between T90 and T0 was particularly marked in European hake (Merluccius merluccius, 21.26 vs 11.26 cm total length), common squid (Loligo vulgaris, 12.06 vs 7.88 cm mantle length) and mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis, 20.78 vs 13.35 mm carapace length). Both codends had an excessive size selectivity especially for red mullet (Mullus barbatus), Mediterranean horse mackerel (Trachurus mediterraneus) and whiting (Merlangius merlangus), thus involving a commercial loss. These findings demonstrate the efficiency of the T90 codend tested at excluding undersized specimens, especially of hake, whose average L50was above the minimum conservation reference size of 20 cm. The adoption of this practical and inexpensive solution could help improve the management of the demersal resources targeted by the Mediterranean bottom trawl fishery.
COVID-19 and the HIV care continuum in Uganda: minimising collateral damage
Authors: Kagimu Enock , Martyn Emily M. , Gakuru Jane , Kasibante John , Rutakingirwa Morris  K , Kwizera Richard , Ssebambulidde Kenneth , Williams Darlisha , Ellis Jayne , Cresswell Fiona  V , Meya David B.
Published: July 2020

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has spread across the world within months of its first description in Wuhan, China in December 2019, resulting in an unprecedented global health emergency. Whilst Europe and North America are the current epicentres of infection, the global health community are preparing for the potential effects of this new disease on the African continent. Modelling studies predict that factors such as a youthful and rural population may be protective in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in the World Health Organisation (WHO) African Region, however, with 220 million infections and 4.6 million hospitalisations predicted in the first year of the pandemic alone, fragile health systems could still be placed under significant strain. Furthermore, subsequent disruptions to the provision of services for people living with HIV, or at risk of acquiring HIV, are predicted to lead to an extra 500,000 adult HIV deaths and a 2-fold increase in mother to child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020-2021. Ignoring these predictions may have severe consequences and we risk “stepping back in time” in AIDS-related deaths to numbers seen over a decade ago. Reflecting on our current experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda, we explore the potential impact of public health measures implemented to mitigate spread of COVID-19 on the HIV care continuum, and suggest areas of focus for HIV services, policy makers and governments to urgently address in order to minimise the collateral damage.
Advances in methods for atomic resolution macromolecular structure determination
Authors: Thompson Michael C. , Yeates Todd O. , Rodriguez Jose A.
Published: July 2020

Recent technical advances have dramatically increased the power and scope of structural biology. New developments in high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy, serial X-ray crystallography, and electron diffraction have been especially transformative. Here we highlight some of the latest advances and current challenges at the frontiers of atomic resolution methods for elucidating the structures and dynamical properties of macromolecules and their complexes.
Study protocol for Post Pregnancy Family Planning Choices, an operations research study examining the effectiveness of interventions in the public and private sectors in Indonesia and Kenya
Authors: Charurat Elaine , Kennedy Sara , Qomariyah Siti , Schuster Anne , Christofield Megan , Breithaupt Lindsay , Kariuki Emmah , Muthamia Michael , Kabue Mark , Omanga Eunice , Stekelenburg Jelle
Published: July 2020

Background: Global evidence suggests many postpartum and postabortion women have an unmet need for family planning (FP) after delivery or receiving care following loss of a pregnancy. Post Pregnancy Family Planning Choices, an operations research study, aims to examine the effectiveness of a package of postpregnancy FP interventions, inclusive of postpartum and postabortion FP. The interventions are being implemented in selected public and private facilities in Indonesia and Kenya and focus on quality FP counseling and service provision prior to discharge. This manuscript presents the study protocol, documenting how the study team intends to determine key factors that influence uptake of postpregnancy FP.

Methods: This is a multi-country, quasi-experimental operations research study in Brebes and Batang Districts of Indonesia and Meru and Kilifi Counties of Kenya. Quantitative and qualitative data is collected from multiple data sources and participants through interviews and assessments at multiple time points. Participants include health facilities; antenatal, postpartum, and postabortion clients; and key informants at national, subnational, facility, and community levels. Quantitative study data is collected and managed through the use of REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture). Once data are thoroughly cleaned and reviewed, regression models and multilevel analyses will explore quantitative data. Qualitative study data is collected using audio recordings and transcribed to Microsoft Word, then analyzed using ATLAS.ti. Qualitative datasets will be analyzed using grounded theory methods.

Discussion: The ultimate goals of the study are to generate and disseminate actionable evidence of positive drivers, barriers, and activities that do not yield results with regard to increasing postpregnancy FP programmatic activities, and to institutionalize postpregnancy FP in the public and private sectors in Indonesia and Kenya. We hope these learnings and experience will contribute to global efforts to advance and scale up postpregnancy FP in similar settings beyond these two countries.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03333473
Representation of Places in Etel Adnan’s In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country and Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz)
Authors: Zarif Keyrouz Laure
Published: July 2020

This article will take a close look at two books of Etel Adnan which are strongly tied to the representation of places. References to nature found in both books link the places she is physically present in to her inner-spaces. Additionally, the people she encounters in these locations also become elements with which she weaves different places together. In Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz), the notion of place is particularly enriched by the different qualities of the women she finds in each location, comparing the situation of women in the Orient and the Occident. The shadow of recent wars hangs heavy in the memories of Adnan as she travels between these different places in both books – the thought of which never abandons her.
Enchanted: Aino Kallas’s Legatonland Memoirs of London between the Wars
Authors: Rajamäe Pilvi
Published: July 2020

The Finnish-Estonian writer Aino Kallas lived in London between 1922 and 1934, being the wife of the first Estonian ambassador to the Court of St James’s. In 2011 her memoirs of these years were published in Estonian translation under the title Londoni võlus (Enchanted by London). Being a romantic and a modernist, Kallas in her memoirs combines a heightened sensitivity with the rigours of the modernist style in order to convey in striking images what she recalls about persons and events in London between the wars. The article below will look at some of these characteristic images that convey her vision of London that is full of enchantment.
Metamodern Gaming: Literary Analysis of The Last of Us
Authors: Radchenko Simon
Published: July 2020

Among numerous ways to describe the culture and literature after postmodernism metamodern is becoming more and more popular. Its main features – oscillation, affect, desire for structure and (re)construction etc. – appear in many products of contemporary culture. This article reflects the endeavour to apply metamodernism and its trends to the literary analysis of cybertext. Crucial trends of metamodernism are briefly described and implemented in the analysis of a video game. The features of cybertext that influence the analysis are considered. All these instruments were used to show the metamodern nature of the game by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us (2013). The article attempts to analyze a cybertext through the methods of literary analysis and reveal metamodern ideas in The Last of Us using main metamodern categories as a tool for text study.
Comparatisms Compared: Stirring the Appetite
Authors: Dobrescu Caius
Published: July 2020

Comparative Literature in Europe: Challenges and Perspectives. Edited by Nikol Dziub and Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
Intellectual education of high school students in specialized classes of pedagogical orientation
Authors: Savel'eva Nina , Serova Evgenia
Published: July 2020

The relevance of this problem research is conditioned on the intellectually trained teaching staff shortage and the complexity of organizing pre-professional teacher training in high school.

The purpose of this article is to develop and test the program named "Intellect" for students of pedagogical specialized classes. The content of the program has an intellectual, emotional-value, communicative holistic impact on students:

The leading research method for this problem was the questionnaire survey, that was conducted in 114 high school students and 13 teachers, which allowed to identify positive dynamics in high school students attitude to modern education and pedagogical activity.

The article proves that an expanded psychological and pedagogical intelligence-based education can be the constructing successful life trajectories foundation for high school students

The presented in the article research results indicate that the «Intellect» program implementation give rise to intellectual (cognitive) activity of high school students; pedagogical education professional preferences cultivation; activation of essential in the pedagogical field personal qualities of high school students; students self-development.

Practical relevance of the research results is the ability to use the presented program to organize pedagogical oriented specialized classes.
ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL AND LABOUR RELATIONS POLICIES IN THE ENTERPRISE IN THE CONTEXT OF INNOVATION
Authors: Milyaeva L.
Published: July 2020

The article justifies the relevance of research and management of social and labour relations policy (PSTO) in the enterprise in the context of innovation. A detailed structure of social and labor relations at the enterprise is presented, involving the identification of five constructive and five destructive types of STO, with justification of their key parameters (indicators of types of STO). The conceptual points of the PSTO diagnosis are emphasized, which justify the legality of the identification of three types of policy in accordance with the established structure of social and labour relations: progressive (constructive); regressive (destructive); Transformative (transient) having three varieties. A profile technique based on the use of a Questionnaire and a Diagnostic Map of the PSTO type is proposed and illustrated on conditional examples. The article identifies the application directions of the proposed methodology: analysis of the relief of the PSTO profile; Monitoring of HSS level indicators; Substantiation of targeted management decisions aimed at optimization of the STO structure. The results of pilot testing of the methodology, which support its typical character and justify the legality of replication in the subject-matter publications, are presented and analyzed.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION BRAND MANAGEMENT
Authors: Lapochkina A.
Published: July 2020

The reputation of any organization is an important asset in which they invest the money they value, thanks to which you can attract more customers and set a higher price in the markets for goods and services. In the article, we will analyze the components of the brand of the educational institution, the main stages of its formation, diagnostic and promotion tools, we will also consider how to measure the effectiveness of this process, we will offer a number of universal indicators that can be taken as a basis for organizing this work in any educational institution.

The relevance of this topic is caused by increasing competition between educational institutions for applicants. The choice of an educational institution is based on the established reputation of an educational institution in the educational services market. The conscious policy of the institution regarding the formation and development of its own brand becomes important.
COORDINATION OF PROFESSIONAL REQUESTS OF LABOR MARKET PARTICIPANTS IN THE EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
Authors: Malichenko I. , Cherkasova E.
Published: July 2020

Digitalization and cognitization of modern business processes forms a qualitatively new request for modeling innovatively-oriented concepts for the development of education and consolidated forms of interaction between all participants in the labor market: educational service providers, the business community, graduates and the state, whose goal is unified and associated with effective employment of young specialists, who are the main strategic resource of the modern socio-economic system. However, with a seemingly common interest, for many years young specialists have been the most unprotected category in the labor market. Lack of practical skills and work experience, the need for additional investment in the formation of the so-called “applied competencies” makes the professional development strategies of graduates vulnerable and uncompetitive. In this regard, the article conducted a study on the conformity and consistency of professional requests of labor market participants to the competencies of young professionals in order to combine efforts for their faster adaptation and development in the labor market.
Artificial Intelligence in the Service of the State: Pros and Cons
Authors: Alekseev Roman
Published: July 2020

The purpose of the article is to identify the advantages of introducing artificial intelligence into life and potential threats to its use using the example of leading countries in this field - the USA, China and the UK. Research methods such as case herds and comparative studies have been chosen as the main ones. With their help, the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the field of politics and public administration, domestic and foreign policy and ensuring national security was analyzed. The goals of using artificial intelligence technologies in the power and management sphere of different countries are indicated. The scope of artificial intelligence technologies application is considered. The role of the National Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Russia, adopted in 2019, was noted. Arguments are formulated "for" and "against" the use of artificial intelligence. It is stated that at present artificial intelligence has become an integral element of state and social development. Over time, it will only gain momentum and once again become a topic for discussions of scientists, politicians and public figures, as artificial intelligence technology gradually become part of the life of society.
Postmodernism vs wholeness: socio-political discourse
Authors: Ishutin A.
Published: July 2020

The purpose of the article is to examine the ideological origins and political consequences of postmodernism in the contemporary world. The article uses such methods of scientific research as the comparative method, the retrospective method, and the hermeneutical method. The author of the article claims that in the context of the collapse of the project «Modern» and the idea of a mechanistic man, postmodernism becomes the ideology of Western civilization. At first, postmodernism identified itself only in the narrow world of philosophical circles, but even then it declared itself as a worldview of radical completion of the era of wholeness, «Big projects», «metanarratives» and universality. Prominent representatives of this ideology were the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari, who proclaimed «rhizome» as a new social ideal, in which, as in a mushroom, there are no roots, centers and supports. In the same way, a contemporary man, according to their worldview, should not take root anywhere or in anything: neither in value, nor in culture, nor in spatial terms. A person in society becomes an unrooted nomad who is not able to cognize the world or transform it. As a result, the world is rapidly divided into a nomadic paradise of nomadic Hedonists and a nomadic hell for most of the world's population. According to a European representative of the elite, Jacques Attali, this situation is becoming an irrevocable socio-political reality.
Digital society in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: first results and prospects (comparative analysis of the experience of Russia and Bulgaria)
Authors: Volodenkov S. , Pastarmadzhieva D.
Published: July 2020

This work aims to study the peculiarities of digital society development in Russia and Bulgaria in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to solve this task the authors used a variety of methods, namely comparative analysis, critical analysis, and case-stage method. The article analyzes the experience of the socio-political processes of digitalization in Russia and Bulgaria in the context of the self-isolation regime formation in both countries. The authors put forward a hypothesis that both countries have found themselves in recent months in the conditions of forced digitalization, which has left its mark on the processes of the natural evolution of digital society. The results of the study give ground to conclude that forced digitalization lies mainly in the intensification and randomization of digital communication flows, but not in the qualitative development of a digital society and the emergence of new technological solutions that could contribute to effective and meaningful socio-political development. The practical significance of the work lies in the comprehension of the current processes of the socio-political sphere’s digitalization and identifying key problems and challenges, without which it is impossible to successfully solve the problems of the transition of contemporary society to a new stage of its evolution in the digital environment.
Proximity and the Pox: Pathologizing Infidelity in Marston’s Dutch Courtesan
Authors: Fleck Andrew J.
Published: July 2020

Marston’s Dutch Courtesan links the dangers of sexually transmitted infection and false religious doctrine, both spread by the Family of Love. The play finds dark comedy in the syphilis epidemic that urban sexual promiscuity perpetuated and in ridiculous religious heterodoxy. Both seem to thrive on infidelity. By making the tavern-owning Mulligrubs, the sex worker Franceschina, and her bawd Mary Faugh members of the Family of Love, Marston makes the corporeal dangers of illicit sex during an epidemic even more dangerous when its companion is the contagion of Familism, threatening to spread as efficiently as the syphilis ravaging early modern London.
Sensuality, Spirit, and Society in The Dutch Courtesan and Lording Barry’s The Family of Love (1608)
Authors: Tomlinson Sophie
Published: July 2020

This essay stages a dialogue between The Dutch Courtesan and the comparatively neglected The Family of Love by Lording Barry. It discusses the differing ways Marston and Barry deploy the Familist fellowship that had recently come under fire from England's reigning monarch. I juxtapose the dramatists' representation of sensuality and spirituality across a broad range of characters. By attending to their shared preoccupation with the humoral, excretory body, the essay proposes that these comedies leave us with divergent social visions.
Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill, eds. Early British Drama in Manuscript. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. British Manuscripts 1. Pp. xvi, 376.
Authors: Greatley-Hirsch Brett
Published: July 2020

This review considers Early British Drama in Manuscript.
Collateral Misreporting in the Residential Mortgage-Backed Security Market
Authors: Kruger Samuel , Maturana Gonzalo
Published: July 2020

Securitized mortgage appraisals routinely target pre-specified valuations, 45% of purchase loan appraisals exactly equal purchase prices, and appraisals virtually never fall below purchase prices. As a result, appraisals exceed automated valuation model (AVM) valuations 60% of the time and are 5% higher than AVM valuations on average. High appraisals and indicators of appraisal targeting predict loan delinquency and residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) losses and are priced at the loan level through higher interest rates, but have essentially no impact on RMBS pricing. Selection bias simulations and unfunded loan application appraisals indicate that high appraisals are intentional. The extent to which appraisals exceed AVM valuations varies across loan officers, mortgage brokers, and appraisers, and high appraisals are associated with more repeat business for appraisers, potentially incentivizing appraisers to inflate their appraisals.

This paper was accepted by Tomasz Piskorski, finance.
Modelo matemático para previsão de vendas: Regressão Linear Simples
Authors: Canhanga Pascoal Epandi
Published: July 2020

O presente artigo tem como objectivo apresentar uma das aplicabilidades interessantes da Matemática, bastante simples por meio do modelo de regressão linear simples. Fez-se, por meio do mesmo modelo a previsão de vendas de uma loja.Utilizamos para o problema modelo, os dados colectados no registro de caixa de uma loja para aproveitando a incerteza do seu gerente, fazer previsão das vendas, utilizou-se também a folha de cálculo Excel para elaboração dos gráficos e tabelas que se impõem, bem como os respectivos cálculos.Fez-se uma abordagem explicativa de uma função geral para um modelo econométrico com especificações nas suas variáveis. Passou-se em revistas aos elementos essenciais que nos proporcionam uma melhor análise da regressão linear simples e adaptamo-los às variáveis em estudo que são o custo com publicidade e vendas dos produtos.
IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DA FATORAÇÃO DE CHOLESKY COM ÊNFASE EM SUA REPRESENTAÇÃO VISUAL
Authors: Lau de Almeida Michelle , Fernandes da Silva Vanessa , Oliveira de Souza Isabelle Barbalho , Schots Marcelo , González Arenas Zochil
Published: July 2020

A decomposição ou Fatoração de Cholesky é um método direto de resolução de sistemas lineares, i.e., produz uma solução exata do sistema após um número finito de operações aritméticas. Por se tratar de passos não triviais, o ensino deste método de decomposição pode se tornar desafiador. Neste contexto, representações visuais podem ser uma ferramenta de apoio vantajosa. Objetivando tornar o processo de ensino mais didático, este trabalho apresenta a implementação das etapas da decomposição utilizando a linguagem TuPy. Essa linguagem oferece uma abordagem gráfica que facilita a compreensão do método, já que é realizado o passo a passo da execução. Dessa forma, além de mostrar como funciona o método de fatoração do ponto de vista algorítmico, torna-se possível obter um entendimento mais efetivo através da visualização de cada etapa da decomposição.
Ultrasonography for nasogastric tube placement verification: an additional reference
Authors: Mak Mei Yi , Tam Grace
Published: July 2020

Nasogastric tube (NGT) insertion is a common procedure performed by community nurses, but verifying correct placement can be challenging due to the limitations of conventional methods. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) for verifying NGT placement and to explore the feasibility of using this imaging modality as the first-line reference for NGT placement verification. The validity of the gastric aspirate pH test was also evaluated. This was a single-centre, retrospective, single-blind study using a convenience sample of patients who required NGT placement in home settings. POCUS was performed by a trained community nurse, and the pH test was performed after tube insertion. The results of the POCUS and pH test were compared. A total of 68 patients with a mean age of 82.13±9.43 years were included. The sensitivity and specificity were found to be 95.45% and 100%, respectively, for POCUS, and 90.91% and 100%, for the pH test. POCUS can provide accurate diagnostic imaging of nasogastric tube position and avoid X-ray controls. This imaging modality can complement pH testing in community settings where X-ray scans are not readily available.
Percutaneous atrial septal defect closure using transesophageal echocardiography without fluoroscopy in a pregnant woman: a case report
Authors: Prakoso Radityo , Ariani Rina , Lilyasari Oktavia , Kurniawati Yovi , Siagian Sisca Natalia , Sakidjan Indriwanto , Roebiono Poppy Soerwianti , Rahajoe Anna Ulfah , Lelya Olfi , Sembiring Aditya Agita , Harimurti Ganesja Moelia
Published: July 2020

Transcatheter closure is the treatment of choice for atrial septal defect (ASD); it has good efficacy and minimal complications. However, this approach in a pregnant woman is limited due to the risk of radiation exposure. A novel fluoroscopy-free technique has been introduced to reduce x-ray exposure. This case reported the experience of an ASD transcatheter closure in a pregnant woman without fluoroscopy guidance. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first successful fluoroscopy-free technique for transcatheter closure in Indonesia. The case is a 26-year-old primigravida at 26 weeks’ gestational age with secundum ASD and pulmonary hypertension. Transcatheter closure was successfully performed with a Cera ASD occluder (Lifetech Scientific Corporation) no. 28 mm guided by transesophageal echocardiography. During the procedure, transient supraventricular tachycardia was developed. There were no other major or minor periprocedural complications. ASD transcatheter closure in a pregnant woman without fluoroscopy is feasible, safe, and effective.
Zika, chikungunya, and dengue viral infections in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells: cell susceptibility and gene expression
Authors: Alkaff Ahmad Husein , Yohan Benediktus , Tambunan Usman Sumo Friend , Sasmono R. Tedjo
Published: July 2020

BACKGROUND Infections of Zika (ZIKV), dengue (DENV), and chikungunya viruses (CHIKV) are presented with similar clinical symptoms; these often lead to misdiagnosis. Viremia levels and host immune responses may contribute to disease severity. This study was aimed to characterize the ability of ZIKV, CHIKV, and DENV to infect human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and assess the expression of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-10, and interferon gamma-induced protein (IP)- 10 genes in response to the viral infections. 
METHODS PBMCs were isolated from healthy donors using gradient centrifugation. Cells were infected with Indonesian isolates of ZIKV, CHIKV, and DENV for 48 hours. Plaque assays were performed to measure viable virus titers, while viral genomic RNA and the gene expression of TNF-α, IL-10, and IP-10 were determined using real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. 
RESULTS The susceptibility of PBMCs to ZIKV, CHIKV, and DENV infection was observed, and the viable virus titer and viral genome quantity were found to be significantly higher in ZIKV and CHIKV. All viruses induced the expression of immune-related proteins. The TNF-α gene was upregulated by all viruses to relatively similar levels. IL-10 expression was highest in response to ZIKV, followed by CHIKV. In contrast, IP-10 expression was highly upregulated in DENV-infected cells and only moderately expressed in ZIKV- and CHIKV-infected cells. 
CONCLUSIONS ZIKV, CHIKV, and DENV clinical isolates infected PBMCs with different levels of virus infectivity. The gene expression of IL-10 was highly upregulated in ZIKV infection and IP-10 in DENV infection.