bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of congenital hypothyroidism in North Macedonia: data from a newborn screening program conducted for twenty years
Authors: Anastasovska Violeta , Pesevska Milica , Zdraveska Nikolina , Zafirova Biljana , Jovcevska Jasmina Meceska , Kocova Mirjana
Published: April 2023

Background. Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is a common endocrine disorder that can be treated if timely detected by newborn screening, optimizing the developmental outcome in affected children. In the present study, we analyze the data of the national newborn thyroid screening program in North Macedonia collected over twenty years, including the CH prevalence as well as its geographical and ethnic variations.
Methods. The thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) was measured on a filter paper blood spot sample using the DELFIA fluoroimmunometric assay. A TSH value of 15 mIU/L whole blood was used as the cutoff point until 2010 and 10 mIU/L thereafter.
Results. Out of 377,508 screened live births, a total of 226 newborns with primary CH were detected, providing an overall prevalence of 6.0 per 10,000. Lowering the TSH cutoff led to an apparently increased prevalence of the transient CH, from 0.2 to 2.4 per 10,000 live births (p < 0.0001) with an impact on the overall prevalence of primary CH (from 4.0 to 7.1 per 10,000, p=0.0001). Taking ethnicity into account, the significantly highest primary CH prevalence of 11.3 per 10,000 live births was observed among the Roma neonates, with a predominance of permanent CH (75.5%). There were also regional differences in the prevalence of primary CH. The highest primary CH prevalence of 11.7 per 10,000 live births was observed in the Vardar region, together with the highest regional prevalence of the transient CH (3.2 per 10,000). The highest prevalence of permanent CH was observed in the Pelagonia region (6.6 per 10,000) where the largest percentage of the Roma population lives.
Conclusions. The overall CH prevalence is high in North Macedonia, with substantial ethnic and geographical variations. Further analysis to elucidate the causes for the significant variations in the CH prevalence including environmental factors is warranted.
Speculative Pragmatism and Minor Practices in Palestine: The Art of Living and the Cultivation of Futures
Authors: Van Emmerik Corine
Published: April 2023

This paper considers the aesthetic-political dimension in Palestine and in particular looks at how possible Palestinian futures that emerge from it are evident in what I call ‘minor practices’. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of minor literature, minor practices work within the interstices of the occupation and draw upon what is around them in a radically creative way. Aesthetics then is not only a subjective realm linked to an art object or beauty but can be understood as a way of grasping and feeling the world. Whereas the dominant literature on aesthetics and politics reads the art object backward to the intentions of the artist and focuses on the visual, this paper aims to attend to the generative and forward-moving forces that come together in the process of making. By taking the example of a women’s embroidery co-operative in the West Bank, it demonstrates that speculative pragmatism enables us to attend to the moreness in minor practices, aesthetics, and life itself, and how it can vector alternative futures. A speculative pragmatist approach makes perceptible how minor practices can offer space for people to release new energies and forms of creativity, that themselves can produce new potentialities and the soul of a new society. Aesthetics is thus capable of making the potentialities of life felt not only through fine art, but perhaps most keenly, through minor practices that, stitch by stitch, instaurate new arts of living.
 
Article received: April 25, 2020; Article accepted: June 6, 2020; Published online: October 15, 2020; Original scholarly paper
Toward a Speculative-Pragmatic Sublime: A Narratological Analysis of the Toxic Sublime and the Unnarrated in Contemporary U.S. Literature
Authors: Lombard David
Published: April 2023

This paper provides a close narratological and comparative analysis of Rachel Carson’s short story “A Fable for Tomorrow” (1962) and Susanne Antonetta’s memoir Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir (2001), which both highlight the pragmatic and ecocritical potential of literature as a source of cultural responses to the Anthropocene challenge. Engaging in a critical dialogue with Brian Massumi’s concept of speculative pragmatism as presented in his Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (2011) and, more precisely, its aesthetic-political approach, the literary readings in this article build on other notions such as the unnarrated and the toxic sublime which complicate and enrich the literary discourse on environmental disruption. The literary works of environmental (non)fiction studied offer examples of how literature negotiates the (in)visibility, (un)representability, and (non)narratability of forms of environmental pollution through the use of the trope of the sublime as well as of olfactory and gustatory perception while they both portray the authors’ evident rhetorical intention to foster ecological awareness and responsibility.   Article received: April 23, 2020; Article accepted: May 30, 2020; Published online: October 15, 2020; Original scholarly paper
Like Electronic Techno Music: The Accelerating Rhythms of Collapsing Cryospheric Auralities
Authors: Hill Rachel
Published: April 2023

With its mutating cracks, bleeps, and booms, the contemporary cryosphere speaks in accelerating volumes. A number of contemporary artists transform these sounds of collapsing, disappearing ice into broadcastable frequencies. Rather than a remote distance beyond the reach of relevance, these artworks translate the effects of Antarctica’s melting ice into galvanizing sonic affects. These strange sonics make the pre-existing, myriad connections between ice shelves and human selves apparent. This essay surveys the work of artists Andrea Polli, Adrian Wood (in collaboration with glaciologist Grant MacDonald), Luftwerk, and Himali Singh Soin, in order to think through a phenomenon which I call ‘collapsing cryospheric auralities’. More than purely doom-laden dictatics, these sonic artworks strive to propagate hope in equal measure: gestating new trajectories and other futures beyond the seemingly intractable impasses of the present.
 
Article received: April 20, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
“I believe a cage is a cage and no one deserves to be put in one”: Animal Liberation in Contemporary Film
Authors: Petković Danijela
Published: April 2023

The paper analyses diametrically opposite portrayals of animal liberation in four contemporary films (Denis Henry Hennelly’s Bold Native (2010); Kornél Mundruczó’s White God (2014); Chris Renaud’s The Secret Life of Pets (2016), and Joon-ho Bong’s 2017 Okja). The discussion of the films’ “politics of visibility” and its role in animal liberation is informed by the theoretical work being done in the field of critical animal studies (CAS). In CAS, animal liberation, also known as abolitionism, refers to the ethical and political position which rejects all kinds of human use of nonhuman animals; as such, it is at the basis of the animal rights movement and various forms of related activism, primarily the “direct action” of physically rescuing animals from factory farms and research laboratories. Dedicated to animals’ liberty, abolitionism is nonetheless human-centered and is obviously treated as such in Bold Native and Okja, which both romanticize and explore the pitfalls of militant animal rights activism, while deploying the images of nonhuman animals mainly, though not exclusively, as victims. Yet the phrase “animal liberation” in this paper also refers to to the state in which former pets find themselves once they are liberated from generally abusive human ownership. Former pets no longer under human supervision are either ridiculed, as exemplified by Renaud’s Flushed Pets, or, as in White God, depicted as monstrous and bloodthirsty. These portrayals, it is argued, convey the danger and threat a liberated animal poses to the anthropocentric order.
 
Article received: April 22, 2021: Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
Between Impure and Pure: The Sketch for a History of Blotch
Authors: Novaković Milovan
Published: April 2023

Throughout the history of Western painting the blotch often exposed its capacity to operate in seemingly opposite directions, to be simultaneously engaged in engendering material impurity and optical purity. While in earlier instances it mostly obtruded on the picture's integrity, with the rise of non-mimetic painting blotch became the main vehicle of purity and cohesion. However, its unstable and versatile nature is revealed in a vetero-testamentary passage, where the purity or impurity of blotch is measured according to whether it invades the whole or just a part of the infected surface. In this brief sketch, the bipolarity of painterly macchia is described by pointing to its predominantly blemishing function from the Renaissance to 18th century; to growing acceptance of its material and formless impurity, and its consequent purification during the formation of pictorial formalism; and finally, to its revived uncleanness in the artistic interventions of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. The survey ends with the conclusion that the being of blotch resides in its itinerant, ever-shifting character, and that our experience of it as pure or impure depends on its quantity and pervasiveness.   Article received: April 25, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
Nuclear Soundscapes: Exploring Sound in Radioactive Environments
Authors: Pantsidou Maria , J. Li Jade
Published: April 2023

Just after World War II, mounting evidence marked the dawn of the geological epoch dubbed the Anthropocene. Nuclear explosions deposited radioactive debris in the geological strata, combined with an acceleration in resource extraction, population growth and energy consumption. In this light, this paper aims to explore the affective dimensions of the multiplicities of sounds that are interconnected to nuclear materialities. We argue that mediations of nuclear sounds in these forms of audio instances render nuclear sounds comprehensible and challenge existing representations of nuclear power. This paper will bring into conversation an archive of soundscapes of the nuclear epoch – for example the sound of beeping in a nuclear power plant that produces electricity, the Geiger-Müller counters that civilians used following the Fukushima-Daichii plant explosion, and the music composition by JLiat of the sonic representation of atomic testing on Bikini Atoll in 1946.
Engaging with these sounds serves to make sense of the nuclear sublime and offer a possibility of connecting with the “otherness” of nuclear materials. These sonic instances also bind people in collective ecological experiences, whilst making us more attuned to voicing the modalities of a damaged planet. Sound can serve as an articulation of affects that emerge between human and non-human materialities in a damaged planet. These conceptualizations of sound are used to articulate the ways individuals or groups embody their relationships to ecological environments. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the paper aims to explore the mechanics of sound in nuclear infrastructures and devices to challenge common metaphors about nuclear energy. Through the analysis of these soundscapes, we demonstrate that exposing these entanglements between human and nuclear materialities can help us make sense of the sociocultural dimensions of living in a radioactive planet.
 
Article received: April 15, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
The Aesthetics of Gilda de Mello e Souza in Writings on Fashion and Brazilian Painting
Authors: Siqueira Franco Juliana
Published: April 2023

This article aims to briefly present the aesthetic thought of Gilda de Mello e Souza, a Brazilian art critic, essayist and the first professor of aesthetics in the Philosophy course of Universidade de São Paulo in the 20th century. For this, it brings some excerpts from her works O Espírito das Roupas, that defends fashion as an art, and Pintura brasileira contemporânea: os precursores, focusing on Almeida Júnior’s paintings. Through these texts, it will also be possible to understand how her aesthetic thought is entwined with other areas of knowledge, when discussing anthropological, sociological and art history issues through the analyses of a singular object of art.
Article received: April 19, 2021; Article accepted: June 23, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
How to cite this article: Franco, Juliana Siqueira. "The Aesthetics of Gilda de Mello e Souza in Writings on Fashion and Brazilian Painting." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 31-40. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.467
Of Adversity We Live: Hélio Oiticica, Decolonized Avant-Garde and Global Art
Authors: De Ávila Duarte Miguel
Published: April 2023

This article discusses the works and writings of Brazilian visual artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) as a way to rethink the notions of global art, especially through the lens of the artist’s unique vision of a decolonial avant-garde, against the background of Arthur Danto’s and Hans Belting’s theories concerning the end of art history. Oiticica's entire work is set against the double trap that haunts artists in the geopolitical silent zones of the art world: submission to the international art trends, at risk of becoming mere epigones following the footsteps of what is current in the art world’s centers, or the equally melancholic condemnation to a nativist art that doesn’t transcend it’s local status and can only come in to the international spotlight as the object of some form of “white savior” primitivism.
 
Article received: April 23, 2021; Article accepted: June 23, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
How to cite this article: de Ávila Duarte, Miguel. "Of Adversity We Live: Hélio Oiticica, Decolonized Avant-Garde and Global Art." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 41-52. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.468
The Tropicália-Movement and the Challenges to Brazilian Art in the Age of Culture Industry
Authors: Duarte Pedro
Published: April 2023

This article analyzes the original way in which the Brazilian cultural and musical movement Tropicália, led by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil in the late 1960s, dealt with the constant imminence of seizure by the culture industry. Instead of seeking isolation from this modern reality of the market, Tropicália strove to critically amalgamate it, in addition to its technological innovations. In doing so, it established a language that brought together erudition and popular elements, as well as foreign influences and the Brazilian subject matter. Tropicália was not about using aesthetical autonomy as an alibi for shunning the world, but about accepting the challenges of artistic communication in a mass society, especially by means of popular music. It thereby introduced to Brazil the possibility of having vanguard art done while harnessing new media forms.
 
Article received: April 20, 2021; Article accepted: June 23, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Original scholarly article
How to cite this article: Duarte, Pedro. "The Tropicália-Movement and the Challenges to Brazilian Art in the Age of Culture Industry." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 63-70. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.470
Critical Potential and Subversiveness of Young Emerging Artists Working Alongside Art Institutions: Milena Ivić What are we supposed to do with all this freedom [Šta da radimo sa svom ovom slobodom]
Authors: Samardžić Milan
Published: April 2023

This study concerns the concept of freedom, radically questioning the autonomy of contemporary art and institutions. The issue of freedom of expression, freedom of speech and artistic freedom will be considered through a particular artistic event that serves as a case study. This event happened in October of 2020 in Banja Luka, BiH (Bosnia and Herzegovina). It was a solo exhibition by contemporary artist Milena Ivić from Banja Luka, organized and curated by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (MSURS) entitled What are we supposed to do with all this freedom [Šta da radimo sa svom ovom slobodom]. It successfully opened one evening, and by the following day it had to be withdrawn and closed to the public. The text in the first part presents an insight into the context of the mentioned exhibition and the structure of the MSURS as the main art institution in this part of BiH. The second part of the text offers a look at certain patterns within the paradigm of contemporary art, with a look at the feminist framework of the artist. The third and final part points out the paradoxical principles of the autonomy of art and shows how the institution transforms subversiveness and obstructs progressiveness by perpetuating the status quo.
 
Article received: December 24, 2021; Article accepted: February 1, 2022; Published online: April 15, 2022; Review article
On the Evolution of Art and Nature Relationship: Bio-Informed Art
Authors: Avinç Güneş Mutlu , Selçuk Semra Arslan
Published: April 2023

Scientific and technological developments triggered creative thinking and the emergence of innovative products in many fields such as art, architecture, engineering, nanotechnology, and medicine. The main reason behind this might be the formation of new dynamics by blurring the sharp distinctions between disciplines. Different meanings and concepts with the changing dynamics also lead to the reshaping of interdisciplinary relations. The effects of bio-inspired/bio-informed paradigms in many disciplines including art have been analyzed. The first part of this study presents the traces of the environment with examples from the prominent movements in the art of painting developed in the period from the first works of humanity to the middle of the 20th century. Second, paintings, sculptures, and installations shaped by the understanding of bio-art that has become widespread in recent years are included. It was understood that art has experienced paradigmatic shifts as a result of interdisciplinary relations with fields such as technology, biology, synthetic biology, and biotechnology, and this interaction with established connections led to the development of innovative approaches in art.
 
Article received: December 12, 2021; Article accepted: February 1, 2022; Published online: April 15, 2022; Original scholarly article
Revisiting the Anthropo(S)Cene: Theatrical Practices Beyond the Human Stage?
Authors: Wehren Michael
Published: April 2023

This article outlines the specifically modern understanding of an anthroposcenic theatre by (among others) referring to August Wilhelm Iffland’s concept of the “Menschendarsteller” and takes a closer look at Max Herrmann’s article “Das theatralische Raumerlebnis”. As I will show in my reading of Herrmann’s now canonical text, the early discourse of theatre studies not only reproduces the anthroposcenic dispositive of theatre but also already hints at its limits and the breaking up of the closed and privileged scene of the Anthropos. The article tries to show how, by asking and focusing the question of space and theatrical transformation, while still focusing on the human actor, his actions and the mimetic relationship between actor and audience, Herrmann decenters and denaturalizes the anthropocentric, universalized, and naturalized framings of theatre.
 
Article received: December 12, 2021; Article accepted: February 1, 2022; Published online: April 15, 2022; Original scholarly article
Tüketici Finansal Sağlığı: Bibliyometrik Analiz
Authors: ALKAÇ ÖZDEMİR Gülsen
Published: April 2023

Birleşmiş Milletler, 2015 yılında "sürdürülebilir kalkınma amaçları" ile yoksulluğun ortadan kaldırılması, insanların barış ve refah içinde yaşamasını sağlamak, eşitsizlik ve adaletsizlikle mücadele gibi çeşitli amaçları içeren bir eylem planı ortaya koymuştur. Sürdürülebilir kalkınma amaçları kapsamında yoksulluğun azaltılması için ülkelerin, bireylerin finansal sağlıklarının iyileştirilmesi konusunda alacağı tedbirler önemlidir. Bu bağlamda sürdürülebilir kalkınma amaçlarını birbirine bağlayan ortak nokta tüketici finansal sağlığı kavramıdır. Bu çalışmanın amacı tüketici finansal sağlığı ile ilgili bibliyometrik analiz yöntemleri kullanarak konunun gelişme yönünü, en çok yayın yapılan dergileri, öncü olan yazarları, kavramsal yapıları, akademik işbirliklerini, konunun zaman içindeki gelişim yönünü ortaya koymaktır. Araştırmada 1981-2022 tarihleri arasındaki WOS veri tabanındaki çalışmalar taranmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda bu konudaki yayınların özellikle son birkaç yılda oldukça fazla olduğu, yayın ve alınan atıf sayısında ABD’nin ve ABD’deki üniversitelerin önde olduğu bulunmuştur. Ayrıca içerik analizi sonucunda ilk üç anahtar kelimenin finansal sağlık, finansal okuryazarlık ve finansal tatmin olduğu bulunmuştur. Finansal sağlıkla ilgili olarak, 2014 yılında mutluluk kavramının, 2017-2018 yılları arasında sübjektif iyi olma, yaşam tatmini, eşitsizlik, yaşam kalitesi ve gelir gibi konuların öne çıktığı, 2021 ve 2022 yıllarında ise Covid-19’un diğer konulara göre çok daha fazla çalışıldığı bulunmuştur.
Biología de Copturomimus hustachei Kissinger, 1957 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), barrenador de tallos y ramas de aguacate (Persea americana) en Colombia
Authors: Moreno-Gaviria Julián , Díaz-Grisales Valentina , Carabalí-Muñóz Arturo
Published: April 2023

El género Copturomimus Heller, 1895 se distribuye en Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, México y Panamá, e incluye algunas especies que en su estado larval barrenan tallos y ramas de Persea americana Mill. En Colombia, la especie asociada al daño de tallos y ramas de aguacate en cultivos comerciales y plantas de vivero ha sido identificada tradicionalmente como Copturomimus perseae Hustache, 1947; sin embargo, el nombre válido de la especie es Copturomimus hustachei Kissinger, 1957. Con el objetivo de actualizar la información sobre esta especie en Colombia, se determinó el ciclo biológico sobre ramas de aguacate cultivar Lorena y se describieron sus hábitos y estados de desarrollo. El tiempo total desde el huevo hasta la emergencia del adulto fue de 86,78 ± 25,41 días. La duración de los estados de desarrollo fue de 9,29 ± 1,22 días para el huevo, 66,18 ± 10,86 días para el desarrollo larvario y 13,08 ± 3,99 días para la pupa; la longevidad del adulto varió entre 15 y 49 días. La descripción de los hábitos, tiempos de desarrollo del ciclo biológico y la documentación fotográfica aportada pueden contribuir a mejorar el diagnóstico de C. hustachei para generar esquemas de manejo de sus poblaciones en cultivos de aguacate.
Some Specificities of Regionalization of Input-Output Models: Information Aspects
Authors: Ershov Yu. S. , Temir-ool A. P.
Published: April 2023

The article discusses the problems of constructing and using regional input-output tables, describes the features of disaggregating economic activities, and shows the most complex, missing in statistics, information arrays necessary for constructing regional input-output tables. A brief overview of the main methods of regionalization of intersectoral models used in domestic and foreign practice is made. The necessity of combining direct assessment methods necessary for the construction of tables and models of indicators and methods based on the use of indirect data is noted. The necessity of using production and distribution balances in natural indicators as the most important direction of improving national economic and regional input-output tables is shown, since the available natural indicators, as a rule, reflect the volume of production and consumption of products in full, and not only the part of it that is marketable. The special importance of increased requirements for information reflecting the current state of the economy of the country and regions is emphasized. The main applied results obtained with the help of intersectoral models as a tool for long-term forecasting of the national economy are presented. The features of modeling intersectoral relations of small regional economies and limitations of the use of regional input-output tables for assessing multiplicative effects arising in economies of this type (on the example of the Republic of Tyva) are considered.
Issues of Assessing the Possibilities of Full Import Substitution in the Engineering Industry
Authors: Sokolov A. V. , Bazhanov V. A.
Published: April 2023

The article attempts to determine the required investment in the implementation of a possible full import substitution in shipbuilding, space and aviation engineering. Data on the activities of state corporations representing the aircraft industry, the rocket and space industry, shipbuilding, as well as the closely related engine building, are analyzed. The main directions of activities for import substitution and the results as of 2020 are shown, as well as the problems of implementing the import substitution policy in the sectors under consideration under the new sanctions. The methodological basis for calculating the required investments was a simplified modified model of the input-output balance built on the input-output tables for 2019. The authors made an attempt to assess the impact of a potential increase in the volume of mechanical engineering as a result of import substitution and localization in Russia on the output and use of products related to activities and identification of necessary investment resources.

The results of the calculations are mainly illustrative, showing the possibility of using input-output tables to analyze and evaluate the consequences of major government decisions.
Tabular information recognition using convolutional neural networks
Authors: Vinokurov Igor Victorovich
Published: April 2023

Показана актуальность выявления табличной информации и распознавания
её содержимого для обработки отсканированных документов. Описано
формирование набора данных для обучения, валидации и тестирования
нейронной сети глубокого обучения (DNN) YOLOv5s для обнаружения простых
таблиц. Отмечена эффективность использования этой DNN при работе
с отсканированными документами. С использованием Keras Functional API
сформирована свёрточная нейронная сеть (CNN) для распознавания основных
элементов табличной информации — цифр, основных знаков препинания и букв
кириллицы. Приведены результаты исследования работы этой CNN. Описана
реализация выявления и распознавания табличной информации
на отсканированных документах в разработанной ИС актуализации информации
в базах данных системы ЕГРН Росреестра.
Neurosurgical emergencies during pregnancy – Management dilemmas
Authors: Choudhary Deepika , Mohan Vaishali , Varsha Arla Sai , Hegde Ajay , Menon Girish
Published: April 2023

Background:

Neurosurgical emergencies in the obstetric setting pose considerable challenges. Decision-making involves deliberations on the gestational age, critical nature of the illness, timing of surgery, maternal positioning during neurosurgery, anesthesiologic strategies, monitoring of the pregnancy during surgery, and the mode of delivery. The present study discusses the management and ethical dilemmas encountered during the management of six obstetric patients with neurosurgical emergencies.

Methods:

A retrospective review of all neurosurgical operations performed between January 2016 and December 2022 were included in the study.

Results:

This study includes a series of six pregnant women who presented with neurosurgical emergencies, secondary to freshly diagnosed pathologies in the period 2016–2022. The mean maternal age was 31.33 years. Four of the six patients were in the third semester and two were in the second trimester. The underlying etiologies were as follows: spontaneous intracerebral hypertensive hemorrhage (1), obstructive hydrocephalus due to shunt malfunction (1), brain tumor (02), and compressive spinal cord myelopathy due to tumors (02). Three patients who were near term underwent lower cesarean section followed by emergency neurosurgical procedure in the same sitting. Two second trimester patients continued their pregnancy after the emergency neurosurgical operation. In one patient, in whom a brain tumor was diagnosed near term, underwent neurosurgery 1 week after successful cesarean section. All the six mothers and fetus recovered well, ex3cept two patients who have persisting residual deficits.

Conclusion:

Treatment of neurosurgical emergencies during pregnancy needs to be customized depending on the clinical condition of the pregnant woman, prognosis of the disease, gestational age and the status of the pregnancy. With careful planning, timely intervention, consultative decision making and it is possible to achieve the ultimate goal – which is to protect and safeguard the mother and preserve and deliver a viable fetus.
Digital technology and artificial intelligence issues in scientific works
Authors: Timokhovich A. N. , Samokhodkina E. G. , Samokhodkin E. V. , Elzon A. A.
Published: April 2023

The article presents the results of a study to identify trends in the coverage of digital technology and artificial intelligence in scientific papers. Semantic units reflecting aspects of digitalization, artificial intelligence, augmented reality are revealed. The main semantic units, reflecting different aspects of the research field are digitalization; artificial intelligence (additional semantic units: knowledge representation, theorem proving, computer vision, robotics, machine learning, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence tools); neural networks (additional semantic units: learning with a teacher, learning without a teacher, input data); strong or general artificial intelligence, weak or applied artificial intelligence; Marusya voice assistant, Alisa voice assistant, Siri voice assistant, Bixby voice assistant, Google Assistant; speech recognition, fingerprint recognition, human face identification. Quantitative changes in the coverage of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, augmented reality elements in scientific papers of scientists for the period from 2016 to 2021 are presented and graphically visualized. The analysis of quantitative characteristics of materials and content component of semantic units on the indicated theme is given. The subject of the study is the publications of Russian and foreign authors, dealing with the issues of digitalization and artificial intelligence, included in the database of the Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI RAS) for the period from 2016 to 2021.
The use of cartoon characters in brand advertising communications
Authors: Dovzhik G. V. , Arzhanova K. A. , Dovzhik V. N.
Published: April 2023

The authors of the article explore how the cartoon characters are perceived in advertising products of famous brands among young people. To study this issue, focus groups were held, in which representatives of the youth audience took part. To demonstrate the stimulus material, 22 characters from animated films were selected (cartoons of the Soviet period, Disney studios cartoons and other foreign cartoons). For a large number of products, especially for children, the use of cartoon characters is logical and relevant in most cases. The level of popularity of Soviet cartoons is quite high, which gives brands the opportunity to use their characters in advertising communications. The most popular are the heroes of foreign cartoons (Disney studios and others). According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the use of cartoon characters in advertising communications of the brand contributes to its successful promotion, makes advertising bright and memorable, such advertising attracts the attention of the target audience and arouses its interest. At the same time, the authors point out that it is impossible to take the character out of the context of the cartoon, his image should be exactly the way people used to see him. In this case, advertising communication will be really successful. The results of the study can be used by brands when promoting goods and services using cartoon characters.
Neighborhood group chats as a subject of offline sociology
Authors: Ivanov K. A.
Published: April 2023

Neighborhood group chats have become an inseparable attribute of most urban localities. Despite their significant role in the processes of neighborhood communication and the construction of local communities, this phenomenon has been little comprehended by social science. The purpose of this article is to offer variants of adaptation of some sociological approaches to the analysis of the phenomenon of neighborhood chats. The nature of neighborhood chat as an institutional and communication-oriented tool for information exchange is described. The classification of neighborhood chats according to the level of their closeness is given. The forms of control in the selection of participants in closed versions of neighborhood chats are explained. The communicative side of neighborhood chat is proposed to be considered through the prism of E. Goffman’s “dramaturgy”. Conceptualizations of the basic concepts of “dramaturgy” in the context of digital neighborhood interaction are proposed. The complicated nature of neighborhood chat as a technological and social phenomenon is analyzed using the actor-network theory approach. The identification of neighborhood chat as an “actor-network” has been substantiated. The functional side of neighborhood chat as a mechanism of assemblage of neighborhood communities is considered in correlation with R. Oldenburg’s concept of the “third place”. It is shown that the neighborhood chat, being rather a digital simulation of the “third place”, can potentially compensate for the lack of real public spaces in the conditions of typical development, launching and supporting the processes of integration on the locality.
Digitalization of public administration: expert reflection on problems and challenges
Authors: Boev E. I. , Zotov V. V. , Vasilenko L. A.
Published: April 2023

In the article, the authors identified a set of conditions and factors that both hinder and facilitate the transformation of public administration as a public-state system for coordinating and realizing the interests of representatives of stakeholders through the use of the potential of digital and information and telecommunication technologies. In the course of the study, the following tasks were solved: the role of digitalization for the public administration system was assessed, the problems of this process were identified, the possibilities of electronic online platforms in the organization of social networking in the “governance – society” dyad were evaluated. The article presents the results of a focused group semi-formalized online interview in the format of video conferencing on the Zoom platform, conducted in December 2021 among 20 experts. The experts were representatives of public authorities at the federal, regional and local levels, state corporations, civil society structures, business structures, the scientific community, as well as the Russian Regional Management Center. Based on the analysis of the results of the expert survey, the authors conclude that the digitalization of the activities of the authorities gives a good increase not only in improving the quality of service provision to the country’s population, but also in improving the feedback mechanism, increasing the involvement of the population in the process of solving socially significant issues. This gives hope that the resolution of problems associated with the introduction of digital technologies into the work of government bodies with the population will contribute to the transition from informing and servicing citizens to interactive communication with them.
Sociology of values: experience of building a taxonomy by using natural language analysis technology
Authors: Kashina M. A. , Tkach S.
Published: April 2023

Modern research in the field of sociology of science is becoming more complicated due to the constantly growing publication activity of authors. To track trends in sectoral sociology, scientists turn to scientometric methods, but they are not enough. Trends in the development of the sociology of values as a branch of sociology are the subject of the study. The purpose of the work is an assessment of the possibilities of using natural language analysis methods (NLP/NLA) for thematic and theoretical clustering of research in the sociology of values. The design of the study was quantitative and qualitative, it was carried out in two stages. At the first stage, 121 abstracts of a scientific articles were analyzed using text mining, after which their total array was divided into clusters. At the second stage, the results of machine clustering were examined by the method of qualitative text analysis, on the basis of which the limitations and capabilities of the NLP/NLA method were identified for solving the problem of clustering scientific texts. It was found that articles with a more conservative core of theoretical categories (gender studies, migration studies, the theory of globalism) are more amenable to clustering, while theories with a loosely structured and fluid theoretical core (theories using environmental terminology, theories of inequality) are much less amenable to explicit clustering. The results obtained allow us to form a new direction of work with large arrays of scientific texts, associated with their clustering using NLP/NLA. Building clusters enables researchers to work with all texts in a given subject area, and not just with the most cited ones. This, in turn, provides the visibility of all scientific ideas, including those that have not gained popularity/notability.
Organization of minors’ protection from destructive information environment: Russian federal cities case study
Authors: Titor S. E.
Published: April 2023

The relevance of protecting minors from destructive information is quite high, since in the modern world technology has taken a leading position in human life, including children’s, replacing not only live communication, but also transferring a person’s entire life to the Internet space. The information environment affects the upbringing of children, as they spend a lot of time in global networks. Based on the meaning of international norms and national legislation, the protection of children from destructive information should be organized, including at the regional level. Features of Russian cities of federal significance can serve as a basis for a separate study of their experience in organizing the protection of minors from a destructive information environment. This study analyzes such work in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Sevastopol. The article uses the comparative legal method, the method of analysis, the formal legal method, the sociological method, the method of generalization. Cities of federal significance have been studied from the standpoint of the criminalization of minors. The regional legislation governing the protection of minors from the destructive information environment has been studied. The law enforcement practice on improving the media literacy of minors, educational work, extracurricular work with children and adolescents is analyzed. In conclusion, findings about the features of ensuring the protection of minors from destructive information in Russian cities of federal significance are drawn.
Higher education, internet usage, and Chinese female’s identification with patriarchal perspective: An empirical analysis considering moderating effect
Authors: Gao Jiacheng , Liu Yue
Published: April 2023

Based on data from a sample of 377 females in the 2018 Chinese General Social Survey, this study constructs a logit model considering moderating effect to estimate the effect of receiving higher education on the patriarchal perspective held by Chinese females, and examines the moderating effect of internet usage on the relationship between receiving higher education and the patriarchal perspective. As a result of the study, the authors came to the following conclusions. Firstly, receiving higher education will have a direct and significant improvement effect on the patriarchal perspective held by Chinese females, reducing their identification with the patriarchal perspective, especially for Chinese rural females. Secondly, internet usage will not directly have a significant effect on the patriarchal perspective held by Chinese females, but it will indirectly have a significant moderating effect on the patriarchal perspective held by Chinese rural females by receiving higher education. The more frequently Chinese rural females use the Internet, the weaker the effect of receiving higher education on their patriarchal perspective. Ultimately, when Chinese rural females use the Internet very frequently, receiving higher education will make them identify with the patriarchal perspective. Thirdly, the act of marriage will significantly strengthen the identification with the patriarchal perspective for both Chinese urban and rural females. However, engaging in household investment activities will significantly reduce the patriarchal perspective of Chinese urban females, while Chinese rural females will only gradually identify more with the patriarchal perspective as they grow older.
Parametrically Managed Activation Function for a Fitting a Neural Network Potential with Physical Behavior Enforced by a Low-Dimensional Potential
Authors: Badichi Akher Farideh , Shu Yinan , Varga Zoltan , Bhaumik Suman , Truhlar Donald
Published: April 2023

Machine-learned representations of potential energy surfaces generated in the output layer of a feedforward neural network are becoming increasingly popular. One difficulty with neural-network output is that it is often unreliable in regions where training data is missing or sparse. Human-designed potentials often build in proper extrapolation behavior by choice of functional form. Because machine learning is very efficient, it is desirable to learn how to add human intelligence to machine-learned potentials in a convenient way. One example is the well understood feature of interaction potentials that they vanish when subsystems are too far separated to interact. In this article, we present a way to add a new kind of activation function to a neural network to enforce low-dimensional constraints. In particular the activation function depends parametrically on all the input variables. We illustrate the use of this step by showing how it can force an interaction potential to go to zero at large subsystem separations with either inputting a specific functional form for the potential or adding data to the training set in the asymptotic region of geometries where the subsystems are separated. In the process of illustrating this, we present an improved set of potential energy surfaces for the 14 lowest 3A´ states of O3. The method is more general than this example, and it may be used to add other low-dimensional knowledge or lower-level knowledge to machine-learned potentials. In addition to the O3 example, we present a greater-generality method called parametrically managed diabatization by deep neural network (PM-DDNN) that is an improvement on our previously presented permutationally restrained diabatization by deep neural network (PR-DDNN).
Improving the molecular spin qubit performance in multivariate zirconium MOF hybrids by mechanochemical dilution and fullerene encapsulation
Authors: Vujević Lucija , Karadeniz Bahar , Cindro Nikola , Krajnc Andraž , Mali Gregor , Avdoshenko Stanislav M. , Popov Alexey A. , Žilić Dijana , Užarević Krunoslav , Kveder Marina
Published: April 2023

Enlarging the quantum coherence times and gaining control over quantum effects in real systems are fundamental for developing of quantum technologies. Molecular electron spin qubits are particularly promising candidates for the realization of quantum information processing due to their modularity and tunability, but there is a constant search for tools to increase their quantum coherence times. Here we present how mechanochemical dilution of active spin qubits in the diamagnetic zirconium-MOF matrix, in synergy with controlled encapsulation of fullerene guest, results in a significant increase in relaxation times and better qubit performances of the moderately porous MOF qubit array candidate. 10% diluted copper(II)-porphyrins as potential molecular spin qubits were incorporated in polymorphic PCN-223 and MOF- 525. Spin properties of this hybrid molecular spin qubit frameworks were studied by continuous-wave and pulse electron spin resonance/electron paramagnetic resonance (ESR/EPR) spectroscopy, showing that both spin-lattice and phase memory electron spin relaxation times, T1 and Tm, respectively, increased by the encapsulation of fullerene molecules into the MOF matrix. Specifically, PCN-223 with a larger filling of fullerene shows better performance in both relaxation times compared with the previously surpassing MOF-525 molecular spin qubit framework.
Long Range Electron Transport Rates Depend on Wire Dimensions in Cytochrome Nanowires
Authors: Kulke Martin , Olson Dayna , Huang Jingcheng , Kramer David , Vermaas Josh
Published: April 2023

The ability to redirect electron transport to new reactions in living systems opens possibilities to store energy, generate new products, or probe physiological processes. Recent work by Huang et al. showed that 3D crystals of small tetraheme cytochromes (STC) could transport electrons over nanoscopic to mesoscopic distances by an electron hopping mechanism. Such protein-based structures with multiple localized electron carriers are promising materials for nanowires. A potential barrier to protein nanowire adoption for handling long-range electron transport is that fluctuations at room temperature may distort the nanostructure, hindering efficient electron transport. To study these fluctuations at the nano- and mesoscopic scales, we carry out classical molecular dynamics simulations for a small fragment of a STC nanowire and measure the effective distance distribution between electron carriers. From distance distributions, we develop a graph network representation for electron transport along nanowires with varying dimensions, and through stochastic methods determine the maximum electron flow that can be driven through these STC wires. Longer nanowires were capable of carrying fewer electrons than shorter nanowires with the same diameter, as long electron transfer distances that occasionally arise reduce the efficiency for electron transport. Thicker nanowires permit more alternative transport pathways, increasing electron transport beyond the increase in cross-section. Thus, this model implies that the design of protein-based nanowires that depend on electron hopping between charge carriers must consider control of the inherent protein flexibility, as more flexible protein-protein interfaces impose a limit on the required minimum diameter to carry currents commensurate with conventional electronics.