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Merge or Not? Learning to Group Faces via Imitation Learning
Authors: He Yue , Cao Kaidi , Li Cheng , Loy Chen
Published: June 2022

Face grouping remains a challenging problem despite the remarkable capability of deep learning approaches in learning face representation. In particular, grouping results can still be egregious given profile faces and a large number of uninteresting faces and noisy detections. Often, a user needs to correct the erroneous grouping manually. In this study, we formulate a novel face grouping framework that learns clustering strategy from ground-truth simulated behavior. This is achieved through imitation learning (a.k.a apprenticeship learning or learning by watching) via inverse reinforcement learning (IRL). In contrast to existing clustering approaches that group instances by similarity, our framework makes sequential decision to dynamically decide when to merge two face instances/groups driven by short- and long-term rewards. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets show that our framework outperforms unsupervised and supervised baselines.
Integrating Both Visual and Audio Cues for Enhanced Video Caption
Authors: Hao Wangli , Zhang Zhaoxiang , Guan He
Published: June 2022

Video caption refers to generating a descriptive sentence for a specific short video clip automatically, which has achieved remarkable success recently. However, most of the existing methods focus more on visual information while ignoring the synchronized audio cues. We propose three multimodal deep fusion strategies to maximize the benefits of visual-audio resonance information. The first one explores the impact on cross-modalities feature fusion from low to high order. The second establishes the visual-audio short-term dependency by sharing weights of corresponding front-end networks. The third extends the temporal dependency to long-term through sharing multimodal memory across visual and audio modalities. Extensive experiments have validated the effectiveness of our three cross-modalities fusion strategies on two benchmark datasets, including Microsoft Research Video to Text (MSRVTT) and Microsoft Video Description (MSVD). It is worth mentioning that sharing weight can coordinate visual- audio feature fusion effectively and achieve the state-of-art performance on both BELU and METEOR metrics. Furthermore, we first propose a dynamic multimodal feature fusion framework to deal with the part modalities missing case. Experimental results demonstrate that even in the audio absence mode, we can still obtain comparable results with the aid of the additional audio modality inference module.
Evaluation of Implant and Prosthesis Survival Rates Based on Crestal Bone Loss
Authors: Shukri Nor Masitah Mohamed , Duraisamy Revathi , Balasubramaniam Arthi , Ganapathy Dhanraj
Published: June 2022

A dental implant mimics the tooth and restores its function. It has flourished as a replacement of missing natural teeth that has a success rate over 90% over the years. However, this root-form implant has also been associated with some complications after its application. Crestal bone loss, one of the biggest challenges in dental implant placement, occurs around the dental implant neck within a few months post-loading. The aim of this study was to determine survival rates and to measure crestal bone changes after placement of a single crown prosthesis. Data collection was done in a private dental university setting. Data from approximately 296 cases were retrieved after analyzing 86,000 case sheets. The following parameters were evaluated based on dental records: age, sex, implant placement area, implant diameter and length, and presence or absence of exudate. Crestal bone loss was assessed radiographically. Excel tabulation and SPSS version 23 were used for data analysis. Chi-square testing was done to correlate various parameters used in this study. Incipient crestal bone loss was commonly observed. It was seen that the association between crestal bone loss and exudate was statistically significant (Chi-square, p < 0.05). Within the limits of this study, incipient crestal bone loss was observed in most dental implants irrespective of bone density, implant length, implant diameter, and implant placement area.
Reviewing John Wesley and George Whitefield in The Monthly Review and The Critical Review
Authors: McInelly Brett C.
Published: June 2022

The prominent roles played by John Wesley and George Whitefield in the eighteenth-century British book trade has been widely observed by scholars. Scholars, however, have hardly glimpsed how the various works authored by Wesley and Whitefield were discussed and critiqued in the era's leading literary periodicals, the Monthly Review and the Critical Review. As self-appointed – and publicly recognised – arbiters of literary taste, the Monthly and the Critical wielded tremendous influence in the marketplace of books and ideas, informing not only what and how readers read, but shaping public perception of the various issues discussed in the print media of the day. These issues included the two Methodist leaders and the movement they founded, which created its share of controversy throughout the eighteenth century. Although both the Monthly and the Critical routinely registered their antipathy to the Methodist movement in their reviews, their opinions about the revival and its leaders proved more nuanced than most antiMethodist writers, who usually castigated Wesley and Whitefield in unequivocal terms. The reviewers' objective – to offer ostensibly unbiased reviews of newly published books based on objective standards – meant that they did not permit authors, whether pro- or anti-Methodist, to rail without reason or make assertions without backing. The reviewers thus found themselves navigating between their own anti-Methodist sentiment and their critical principles. This process resulted in a relatively balanced strain of anti-Methodist discourse while exposing how politicised the entire project of popular review criticism became when grappling with a complex and controversial topic like Methodism.
'The Greatest Sale of Any Book Ever Printed in England, Except The Bible'? Robert Nelson's Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England – A Neglected Devotional Classic
Authors: Sharp Richard
Published: June 2022

Although interest in the eighteenth-century Church of England has recently undergone a marked revival, little attention has been given to works of theological or devotional exposition. By examining one of the most widely circulated treatises of this kind, first published in 1703/4, this article demonstrates how nonjuring and conforming High Churchmen continued after 1688 to work together in a common defence of orthodox faith and order, sustaining a tradition of patristic scholarship inherited from the Caroline divines to oppose Christological heresies and to uphold teaching on ministry, sacraments and the proper relations of Church and State. The long publishing history of Robert Nelson's Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, which was regularly reprinted during more than a hundred years, also suggests how 'advanced' High Church doctrines regarding episcopacy, apostolic commission, ecclesiastical discipline, and the sacraments, may have been far more influential throughout the pre-Tractarian period than is commonly assumed.
Valentine Green's a Review of the Polite Arts (1782): War for Empire And the Campaigns to Promote Protestant Devotional Art
Authors: Craske Matthew
Published: June 2022

This essay emerges from an investigation into the degree to which one can interpret the works of eighteenth-century reproductive engravers as indicative of their own religious, political and moral values. It is the first account of the print business to claim that the personal values of such men mattered deeply to what they made and sold. Valentine Green, the mezzotint entrepreneur, was selected as a prime example largely because he left a substantial oeuvre of literary works and was also an early politician of the arts. He was deeply involved in the formulation of the policy, with regard to devotional images, which emerged from a succession of competing art institutions. Green's writings and his institutional activities allow us to know in detail his politics and churchmanship. The case here is that he was a High Church Tory who combined a strong sense of the importance of monarchical authority with an understanding that the prime role of the arts was to make a devout and politically obedient national community. In this essay, I claim that it was not just one person who thought this way. I claim, rather, that Green championed a hitherto unnoticed Tory aesthetic theory. This theory had at its core the necessity of breaking down prejudices against making devotional images that lurked in other quarters of Protestantism.
'A Struggle for the Soul of the Anglican Church in Wales'
Authors: Jones David W.
Published: June 2022

From contemporary speeches, newspaper reportage and the plethora of pamphlets produced, it would be reasonable to conclude that the campaign for disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Wales was essentially a binary struggle between churchmen and their supporters, and Nonconformists. Such a hypothesis would fail to acknowledge the existence of another battle, one for the soul of the Welsh Church. A struggle which was manifested, paradoxically, in the actions and careers of two brothers who both served as senior clergy in the Church: Dean H. T. Edwards and Bishop A. G. Edwards.
The Anti-Yahweh Label lassaw' in Jeremiah (Part 2)
Authors: Retief C. Wynand
Published: June 2022

The traditional stance is that לשׁוא in Jeremiah (2:30; 4:30; 6:29; 18:15 and 46:11) denotes futility, mostly translated as "in vain. " This study, the second of a sequel, scrutinises the last two texts (Jer 18:15 and 46:11) in an effort to substantiate and modify a recent hypothesis that the term is instead a reference to the god Baal, "The Vain/Worthless One. " Jeremiah 18:15 has an interpretative tradition that acknowledges לשׁוא as a referent to the (worthless) idols. The present study offers a basis for this interpretation. As Egypt (in Jer 46) can hardly be connected to Baal worship, 46:11 modifies the notion that לשׁוא functions as an identifier of the god Baal per se and confirms the wisdom of ancient translators of Jer 18:15 who labelled לשׁוא as unspecified deities. The traditional stance that לשׁוא denotes futility, could only be refuted in 46:11 by a search for intertextual clues, alertness to connecting metaphors and accompanying gender switches. These are the very same rhetorical devices illustrated in Mary Shields' study of Jer 3:1-4:4. The title of her work harbours the insight that לשׁוא in 46:11, and by implication in all MT Jeremiah texts, serves as a dense metaphor circumscribing the prostitute-in-covenant-relationship with her (collective or individual) overlord/s (ba'al/be 'alïm).
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LDM protocol for estimating plasmid conjugation rates v3
Authors: Kosterlitz Olivia
Published: June 2022

This is a general protocol to implement the LDM approach for estimating plasmid conjugation rates. This version of the protocol was originally submitted with the accompanying manuscript. The recommended version (i.e., the most up-to-date) of the LDM protocol will be linked in the corresponding GitHub repository. To get a conceptual overview of the approach, please read the accompanying manuscript. The protocol is intentionally designed to facilitate proper implementation by explicitly verifying that the modeling assumptions are met. We provide 5 streamlined phases, where the last phase involves executing the LDM conjugation assay. The initial 4 phases are to gather the necessary information for the proper execution of the LDM conjugation assay (i.e., phase 5). Here, we provide a brief description and goals for the initial 4 phases. Phase 1: Minimum inhibitory concentration assay with the transconjugant-selecting medium. The goal is to find a concentration of selective agents (e.g., antibiotics) in the transconjugant-selecting medium that inhibits donors and recipients while simultaneously permitting the growth of transconjugants. Phase 2: Extinction probability assays for selective liquid and agar media. The goal is to check the assumption that the focal cell type will successfully establish a lineage under the appropriate selective conditions. Phase 3: Growth rate assay. The goal is to determine the donor- and recipient-specific incubation times that will ensure the cultures enter exponential growth before initiating the conjugation assay. Phase 4: Finding an incubation time and initial densities for executing the LDM conjugation assay. The goal is to find a combination of incubation time and initial densities such that the probability of a conjugation event occurring is between 0 and 1 (i.e., where there will be a mixture of turbid and non-turbid co-cultures after incubation with transconjugant-selecting medium). Phase 5: LDM conjugation assay. The goal is to gather experimental estimates for the variables in the LDM equation to calculate an estimate of the conjugation rate.
Performance and bone quality of broilers fed diets containing different levels of phosphorus and supplemented with phytase
Authors: Saldanha Mariana M , Pereira Luiz F P , Abreu Anna R C , Castro Fernanda L S , Clímaco Winnie L S , Araújo Itallo C S , Lara Leonardo J C
Published: June 2022

Background: Although phytase has been widely used in poultry nutrition, the effects of the enzyme on broilers fed low levels of phosphorus are poorly understood. Objective: To evaluate the effects of two commercial phytases on live performance and bone quality of broilers fed diets with normal and reduced levels of phosphorus. Methods: Two experiments were conducted with four treatments and six repetitions with 30 birds each, for a total of 24 groups. The first experiment (Exp. I) used a reference level of available phosphorus (AP) with four treatments, as follows: Positive control= 0.45% AP starter diet/0.40% AP grower diet without phytase; Phytase X= 0.35% AP starter diet/0.30% AP grower diet + Phytase X; Phytase Y= 0.35% AP starter diet/0.30% AP grower diet + Phytase Y; and Negative control= 0.35% AP starter diet/0.30% AP grower diet, without phytase. In experiment II (Exp. II) the same treatments were used, but AP levels were reduced by 0.10%. The variables analyzed were: performance from one to 35 days, and bone quality at 35 days of age. Both experiments were analyzed using a completely randomized design. Results: In Exp. I, the positive control resulted in greater body weight gain (2,558 g; p<0,05) compared to Phytase Y (2,470 g) and negative control (2,472 g), and better feed conversion ratio (1.48; p<0,05) than the negative control (1.51). However, when phosphorus was reduced in Exp. II, the positive control and treatments with Phytase X showed better results (p<0.01) for feed intake (3,608 g and 3,593 g, respectively) and weight gain (2,430 g and 2,400 g, respectively) compared to the negative control (2,889 g of feed intake and 1,915 g of weight gain; p<0.01), which also presented low bone ash (36.8%) and phosphorus in the tibia (5.48%; p<0.01). Conclusion: Reducing AP concentration in diets not added with phytase negatively affects weight gain and feed intake of broilers.
Susceptibility to Vancomycin of Biofilm Producing Staphylococci Isolated from Tertiary Care Hospital of Nepal
Authors: Manandhar Sarita , Tuladhar Ratna , Shrestha Raju , Lekhak Sunil , Chaudhary Mahesh , Prajapati Krishna
Published: June 2022

BACKGROUND: Methicillin resistance and biofilm-producing Staphylococci are emerging as multidrug-resistant strains narrowing the efficacy of antimicrobial therapy. Although vancomycin is used as the drug of choice to treat such isolates, different studies worldwide have documented the emergence of strains that are intermediately susceptible or resistant to this antibiotic.
OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of vancomycin to methicillin-resistant and biofilm-producing staphylococci isolated from different clinical specimens.
METHODS: 375 staphylococci isolated from different clinical specimens over one year were included in the study. Biofilm formation was determined by the Tissue culture plate method (TCP), and ica genes were identified by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Antibiotic susceptibility and methicillin resistance were done following Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of vancomycin in all isolates was determined by the agar dilution method.
RESULTS: Among 375 Staphylococci studied, 43% and 57% represented S. aureus and Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci (CNS), respectively. The rate of Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase Negative Staphylococci (MRCNS) were 81.4% and 66.8% respectively and determined by the disc diffusion method. The most potential antibiotics were tetracycline and chloramphenicol showing sensitivity to more than 90% isolates. The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) value of oxacillin for staphylococci ranged from 0.125-32 μg/ml. Oxacillin agar diffusion method showed 51.6% and 79.9% isolates as MRSA and MRCNS, respectively, revealing a very high percentage of S. aureus and CNS isolates as methicillin-resistant. All isolates had susceptible vancomycin MICs that ranged from 0.125-2 μg/ml. Two S. aureus isolated from Central Venous Catheter (CVC) and catheter specimens were detected with intermediate susceptibility to vancomycin. Similarly, three CNS isolated from blood, CVC, and wound/pus (w/p) were intermediately susceptible to vancomycin. Strong biofilm formation was observed in 22.1% of clinical isolates, and the ica gene was detected among 22.9% of isolates. Only one S. aureus detected as a biofilm producer by the TCP method was found to have intermediate susceptibility to vancomycin.
CONCLUSIONS: The increment in vancomycin MIC among methicillin-resistant and biofilm-producing staphylococci is alarming. Strict control measures to prevent methicillin-resistant isolates spread and routine surveillance for vancomycin-resistant isolates must be incorporated in hospitals to prevent antimicrobial treatment failure.
Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings.
Authors: Santiago-Garabieta Maite , García-Carrión Rocío , Villardón-Gallego Lourdes
Published: June 2022

Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learning environments for improving language proficiency is well known. However, the effect of such environments on attitudes towards second languages (L2) has been less studied. This article presents a qualitative study that explores the extent to which the implementation of a particular dialogue-based classroom strategy, named Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLGs), may transform secondary students’ attitudes towards Basque (L2). The DLGs were carried out with 46 secondary education students in the Basque Country. After implementing DLGs, teachers’ interviews and students’ focus groups were conducted and analysed inductively. Results show that participants reported changes in students’ attitudes towards Basque and they related these changes to the dialogical space they experienced during the DLGs, since this created affordances for them to engage in meaningful discussions when speaking in Basque. Implications of the study are discussed.
Mediation Agreements Notarization in Banking Sector
Authors: Arzumanova L. L. , Machkova T. V. , Shollenberg A. D.
Published: June 2022

The paper analyzes the current legislation in the field of mediation and notarization of mediation agreements. It is noted that the agreement became enforceable when, according to the law, the agreement reached by the parties as a result of the mediation procedure conducted without submitting the dispute to the court or arbitration was given the force of an enforcement order provided it was notarized. The emergence of such a mechanism simplified enforceability of mediation agreements and attracted attention of the community, which gave rise to an increase in appeals to the mediation procedure and a simultaneous increase in the cost of the procedure in connection with the notarization of mediation agreements. The authors summarized the experience of conducting bank mediation procedures and identified issues arising during the notarization of mediation agreements. The paper summarizes the practical aspects that, according to the authors, hinder the development of mediation procedures in the banking sector of the economy. The paper formulates proposals aimed at improving the procedure under consideration.
Overcoming Accusatorial Bias of Russian Justice
Authors: Trunov A. P.
Published: June 2022

The paper is devoted to ways to overcome accusatorial bias in Russian courts. The main ways are the provision of courts with worthy personnel and the creation of an independent first instance court, which does not exist now. The author substantiates the thesis that the absence of an independent court of first instance is the main prerequisite for the existence of an accusatorial bias. The factors that undermine the independence of the first instance court are the right of the appellate courts to remand the case for a new trial when the sentence is overturned, and the existing system for assessing the quality of the administration of justice. The Russian judiciary lives in a situation where a judge’s moral certainty does not match the opinion of a higher authority, which causes trouble for him and negatively affects his career. He is forced to adapt to someone else’s opinion. To overcome the accusatorial bias, a new culture of judicial decision-making must be formed. When making a decision, the judge must be independent not only from the executive or legislative power, but also from higher judicial instances. It is proposed to legislatively limit the right of appellate courts to return cases for a new trial and provide for the right of appellate courts to issue a guilty verdict instead of an acquittal.
Possibility of Applying the Means of Ensuring International Security to the Information Space
Authors: Yudina Yu. A.
Published: June 2022

In order to resolve the issue of acceptability of the states’ appeal to existing mechanisms for ensuring safe and systematic development of international relations in the ICT environment, the author determines the main approaches appearing in joint communiqués and agreements issued following the results of conferences and high-level meetings of representatives of the Russian Federation and its partners and the allied bloc of the USA, the countries of the European Union and other states. By interpreting such terms as “information weapons”, “cyber weapons”, “cyber espionage”, the difficulties associated with the process of creating a secure ICT environment are identified. The result of the study is the identification of security tools that are relevant and optimal from the point of view of the current state of international security law in relation to the ICT environment and that can be recommended to be used by states in order to form a secure mode of interaction in the framework of the exercise by states of their functions in the foreign policy arena amid the global information space.
Miejscowy plan zagospodarowania przestrzennego jako warunek zakładania i rozszerzania cmentarzy komunalnych i wyznaniowych
Authors: Koniuszewska Ewa
Published: June 2022

Zakładanie i rozszerzanie cmentarzy komunalnych jest warunkowane wykonaniem zadania z zakresu ładu przestrzennego, polegającego na uchwaleniu miejscowego planu zagospodarowania przestrzennego. Ustawodawca przyjął bowiem, że cmentarze zakłada się i rozszerza na terenach określonych w miejscowych planach zagospodarowania przestrzennego. W związku z tym poddano analizie rozwiązania prawne określające warunki zakładania i rozszerzania cmentarzy komunalnych i wyznaniowych. Zwrócono uwagę na uregulowania dotyczące tych etapów procedury planistycznej, w których zapewniono udział w niej organom współdziałającym oraz uczestnictwo członkom społeczności lokalnej. Przeprowadzona analiza miała służyć ustaleniu, na ile wymóg uchwalenia miejscowego planu zagospodarowania przestrzennego stanowi ograniczenie w zakładaniu i rozszerzaniu cmentarzy. Miała też skłonić do rozważenia, czy konieczność przeprowadzenia wieloetapowej procedury uchwałodawczej daje gwarancję oceny zamierzonego przedsięwzięcia z różnych perspektyw i z uwzględnieniem interesów członków danej społeczności.
Złożoność koncepcji przepisów porządkowych w kanonicznym porządku prawnym w świetle definicji zawartej w kan. 95 § 1 Kodeksu Prawa Kanonicznego z 1983 roku
Authors: Dzierżon Ginter
Published: June 2022

W zaprezentowanym opracowaniu jego tytuł nie został przez Autora określony apriorycznie. Z jednej strony mając na uwadze postulat jednego z konsultorów biorących udział w pracach kodyfikacyjnych, zgodnie z którym przyszła regulacja winna zawierać definicję przepisów porządkowych oraz określić ich walor w kanonicznym porządku prawnym, z drugiej zaś badając elementy składowe definicji ujętej w kan. 95 § 1 oraz zagadnienia poboczne związanych z tą kategorią aktów (przepisy porządkowe a statuty) wykazał, iż kanoniczna koncepcja przepisów porządkowych ma charakter złożony, wykraczając poza ramy definicji. W kanonicznym porządku prawnym bowiem funkcjonują nie tylko przepisy w znaczeniu kan. 95 § 1, ale także regulaminy.

Wskazał też, iż w obowiązującej regulacji nie odniesiono się do kwestii waloru przepisów porządkowych. Zdaniem Autora taka sytuacja wynika z faktu, iż koncepcja przepisów porządkowych jest zbyt złożona (ustawy, akty administracyjne), aby dało się ją ująć w formie normy o charakterze generalnym. Według Autora zaistniały stan jeszcze bardziej komplikuje fakt, iż w systemie kanonicznym funkcjonują też przepisy porządkowe zgromadzeń grup nieformalnych, których moc zobowiązująca ma charakter jedynie moralny.
Study on the potential of silica-available based on types of soil on the productivity of paddy field in West Java Province, Indonesia
Authors: QURROHMAN Budy Frasetya Taufik , SURİADİKUSUMAH Abraham , JOY Benny , SUDİRJA Rija
Published: June 2022

The Si-available (Siap) content in the soil of paddy fields is decreasing, so it will affect decreasing the productivity of paddy fields. Soil type maps can be used to estimate the potential Siap content in paddy fields. The purpose of this study was to assess the productivity of the paddy field in West Java Province based on the Siap potential in each region using maps of soil types and paddy productivity data. This research was conducted in West Java Province. The research was carried out from February 2021 to March 2021. The research method used was the descriptive research method. This research is secondary data analysis so that no field test is carried out. The validation of the data from the analysis was based on the literature from the previous researchers. The parameters measured in this study were: the distribution of paddy fields, the percentage of soil types in each paddy field, the average productivity of paddy field on each type of soil, the distribution of paddy productivity levels, the potential for Siap to paddy productivity and map of the potential distribution of Siap in West Java Province. Secondary data obtained were then analyzed using spatial analysis and descriptive analysis. The results of the spatial analysis show that 77% of paddy fields in West Java have medium Siap potential, 17% low and 7% high. The results of the correlation analysis show that the productivity of paddy plants has a strong correlation (r = 0.99) to the Siap of paddy soil. The soil maps can be used to estimate the potential of Siap and the productivity of paddy plants. The Si application was recommended in paddy fields in the southern region of West Java Province.
The effect of anthropic fires on ant assemblage in the Cerrado of Southeastern Brazil
Authors: Oliveira Tamires Camila Talamonte de , Santos Kenia Aparecida dos , Nascimento Gabriela Bandeiras do , Santiago Graziele Santos
Published: June 2022

The Cerrado is the second largest biome in South America and due to its great species, richness, and environmental degradation, is considered a biodiversity hotspot. Fires in Cerrado can occur both naturally and through anthropic influence. However, due to the latter, the occurrence of fires has been increasingly frequent, as well as its impact on biotic communities. Ants’ colonies are widely used in studies of environmental impacts because of their responsiveness to environmental changes and easiness for their data to be analyzed. Here, the structure of the ants’ community in Cerrado environments at different areas post-fire times (two and four months, and a control area) in Itumirim, Minas Gerais, Brazil, was evaluated. Attractive baits were used as sampling methods, and found 48 species of ants belonging to 18 genera. Species richness was the same in all areas, showing that both two and four months after the fire occurrences seem to be enough to recover the ant population of these areas. Regarding ant composition, there were important differences, especially between the control area and the four months post-fire area. Moreover, vegetal biomass and vegetation covers only influenced ant composition. Here, it was found that species composition seems to be a better indicator of the responses of ant communities to post-fire effects, and can be used as a tool in monitoring programs.
Housing Quality and Perceived Health Effects in Ijebu Ode, Nigeria
Authors: OTTO Edet , OGUNYEMI Kayode , LUYI Oluwasina
Published: June 2022

Despite the mounting compendium of scientific evidence that has clearly documented the link between poor housing quality and health both locally and globally, poor housing quality has continued to be a significant concern in public health, especially in rural and sub-rural areas of emerging nations like Nigeria, where there is slight or no knowledge about the public health consequences of poor housing quality. As a result, the object of this work is to observe the housing quality and the perceived health impacts in Ijebu Ode, Nigeria. The work adopted a descriptive but cross-sectional approach, and data was obtained from four hundred (400) systemically sampled households through structured questionnaires, and analysed descriptively using a statistical tool for social scientists. According to the findings, a significant number of the residents 51.5% had no water in their houses, 44% had two windows in the room; out of which only 32% had windows on the two walls of the room, and 33% of the homes were overcrowded with over two people in a room. The findings further revealed that the vast majority of residents reported having cases of malaria with 67.5%, and cases of typhoid and cough with 15.5% and 4.5%, respectively. Consequently, the study has hitherto concluded that housing quality in Ijebu Ode is poor, which is a major predictor of the perceived health effects experienced by the residents.
Postmodern Elements in Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s Akira (1988)
Authors: Debnath Kunal , Kumar Nagendra
Published: June 2022

Purpose of the Study: This research paper intends to unravel and examine the postmodern elements in Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s anime film Akira (1988). This paper aims to analyze and critically study the postmodern elements as evident in the film and add more knowledge to the existing critical studies available on the film.

Methodology: The primary text for this research is Katsuhiro Ōtomo’s anime film Akira (1988). Close textual analysis has been applied to analyze the text in view of the characteristics of postmodernism. The text is read in terms of postmodernism’s traits.

Main Findings: Akira symbolically summarizes thoughts, ideas, and movements in post-WWII Japan. The film references many disaster texts from the repertoire of Japanese literature, cinema, and popular culture. The film exemplifies many postmodern traits such as discontinuity, pastiche, schizophrenia, hyperreality, cyberpunk, posthumanism, the cyborg et cetera.

Application of the Study: This study will be beneficial to those who are pursuing research on anime and manga studies, cultural studies, popular culture, and postmodernism. Furthermore, this research will add more knowledge to the existing literature available on this anime film.

Novelty/Originality of the Study: Ōtomo’s film Akira has evoked critical studies from a variety of critics and disciplines. However, a broader critical overview of the film’s postmodernism has always been lacking in the critical studies available on the film. Moreover, some specific issues such as posthumanism, the cyborg, postmodern paradoxes, glocalization et cetera have been overlooked by the critics. Therefore, this study will try to fill in the gaps of the previous studies.
Fundamentación normativa de los deberes derivados de la buena fe contractual. Entre el individualismo desinteresado y el altruismo moderado
Authors: Campos Micin Sebastián , Munita Marambio Renzo , Pereira Fredes Esteban
Published: June 2022

Teniendo a la vista el estado actual del derecho de contratos, el presente artículo indaga sobre la justificación normativa de diversos deberes de conducta derivados de la buena fe. Se procura demostrar que algunos deberes encuentran su justificación normativa en un modelo de individualismo desinteresado –que, en términos generales, impone la necesidad de no lesionar los legítimos intereses del otro–, mientras que otros la encuentran en un modelo de altruismo moderado –que, en determinadas hipótesis, impone un deber de sacrificar o poner en riesgo la satisfacción de los intereses propios–. Se concluye que, aunque buena parte de los deberes derivados de la buena fe encuentran su justificación normativa en un modelo de altruismo moderado, la buena fe reposa sobre una fundamentación normativa dual en el estado actual del derecho de contratos.
El “puerto seguro” en los contratos de fletamento en los derechos argentino e inglés: cuestiones centrales y principales similitudes y diferencias
Authors: Castillo Mariano César
Published: June 2022

La seguridad del puerto resulta central en la operación del buque y por ende reviste gran importancia en el ámbito contractual marítimo, especialmente en los fletamentos. Se propone un análisis comparativo entre el derecho argentino e inglés respecto del “safe port”. El artículo parte de la importancia internacional del derecho inglés en materia de fletamentos marítimos, como así también de la aspiración de uniformidad de este derecho. Se analiza comparativamente la jurisprudencia, legislación y doctrina. Se destacan las principales similitudes y diferencias entre el derecho argentino y el inglés respecto al puerto seguro.
Highlighting the Aspects to Support the Complexity of Primary Selection in Children's Alpine Skiing as a Sustainability of their Harmonious Development and Training
Authors: Jurca Maria Oana , Georgescu (Bărțăgui) Carmen Mariana , Iordăchescu (Elena) Marina , Marica Laura , Grigore Elena Sorina , Dragomir Marian
Published: June 2022

The extremely rapid evolution of portable technologies and children's receptiveness to constantly accessing the latest information creates the conditions for a number of new developments in most areas of activity. Moreover, their attraction to real-time visualisation of various events and competitions projects a certain level of perception and imitation of certain behaviours. Therefore, special attention should be paid to them from the earliest stages, i.e., from the time they are selected to play various sports. Also, the complementarity of some sports must be taken into account when it is desired to obtain positive results.
Age group adaptation and the investigation of some of the parameters relevant to different age groups have generated values that can support positive outcomes in the long term and thus increase motivation to participate in sport at a competitive level.
The Artistic Modelling of History in the Aesthetic Consciousness of a Time Period as a Methodological Problem of Postmodernism
Authors: Marchenko Tatiana , Komarov Sergii , Shkuropat Maryna , Skliar Iryna , Bielitska Yevgeniya
Published: June 2022

Created during a certain time period of the world’s art development, fictional history embodies not only a set of individual authorial creative acts, but it is the only "artistic-historical model" conditioned by a number of objective aesthetic and non-aesthetic factors. As such, fictional history represents an integral part of the national worldview. Its exploration requires a combinatorial unity of methods. The article proposes a set of modern methodological principles for studying the processes of artistic modelling of history in the aesthetic consciousness on the synchronous level (a certain time period) and their representation in literary works. The methods of academic literary criticism are combined with the advanced methods of modern interdisciplinary humanities that are based on postmodern philosophy. Thus, in the chosen combination of the scientific approaches, the heuristic potential of the structural-semiotic and structural-typological methods, mythopoetics and myth-restoration, imagology, hermeneutics, and receptive aesthetics, correlates with the methods of systematic and descriptive analysis. Such diverse theoretical combinations, the existence of a kind of "methodological sinusoid" within the study, do not contradict but complement each other.
Fair Competition for Business in the Field of Information and Communication Technologies in the Era of "Postcontemporary Society" Economy
Authors: Mishustina Tetiana , Kravchenko Alla , Poprotskyy Oleksandr , Myhovych Tetiana , Artemchuk Liudmyla , Vasylenko Oksana
Published: June 2022

This article examines the fairness of business competition in the field of information and communication technologies. In the era of "postcontemporary society" economy, the dominant factor of development is the use of information. The share of business in the field of information and communication technologies in the economy is constantly growing. For businesses, its integration into the Internet, which has become an important market for the sale and promotion of goods and services, is becoming increasingly important. Various digital innovations, social networks, mobile applications, information and communication technologies have become commonplace in today's society, which affects the need to study their impact on business. Technology transfer is the basis of innovative activities of small businesses and a means of their sustainable development, a guarantee of profit and social impact. It is noted that in order to win in the competition, personal brand and trademarks, strategic management and balanced business plans are of special importance. A characteristic feature of leading high-tech companies is the use of digital platforms through which they provide their services. Digital platforms are used for interaction in social networks, use of search and payment systems, exchange of information materials. The need for high start-up costs leads to the difficulty of entering this market and the concentration of large amounts of data in the hands of a small number of players, which carries the threat of monopolization in the market of digital platforms.
Aspects of Outlining a Post-Modern Management Necessary for the Physical Training of Military Students
Authors: Enăchescu Valentin Sorin , Dina Nicolae-Adrian , Buciu Gabriel
Published: June 2022

In a postmodern world which is extremely dynamic and anchored in a communication that requires online accesses in almost all fields, the training and preparation of young generations is required to be carried out in such a way that the acquisition of practical skills should be reflected in their future activities. Along with the other forms of training, physical training is a defining part of those who are part of the military environment. There are various aspects when, in the lives of the military, physical training can influence the course of their military career. Moreover, the motivations of behavioral changes, either inner or external, can cause increased attention to this type of training.
Military physical training is a stand-alone activity in the military environment, a basic component of military training programs. We will also highlight physical training through its importance in the context of preparing the military for participation in theatres of operations, facilitating the understanding of its role in modern conflicts and the support it can offer in achieving military tasks and objectives. Moreover, an advanced level of physical training will lead to the maximization of the psycho-moral and physical components of the combative capacities, will support the improvement and maintenance of general physical and mental health and will help to develop the capacity for resistance to stress conditions such as fatigue, fear, panic, hunger etc.
Gender Equity within the Couple – a Postmodern Approach
Authors: Huidu Alexandra
Published: June 2022

This paper is a book review of the volume Bărbatul și femeia. Imaginea unei polemici cu privire la echitatea de gen [The man and the woman. The image of a controversy over gender equity], authored by Iulian Apostu and Cristina Petrescu and published by Lumen Publishing House from Iași, Romania, in 2017. The book addresses issues like the psycho-social dynamic of the marital couple, the emancipation of women within the couple, solidarity and conflict between men and women, while placing the debates at the crossroads of modernity and postmodernity, as social paradigms marking the couple’s formation, evolution and separation.
Evaluation of university students in terms of psychological health brought about by technology
Authors: Bakhtygalievna Imanbekova Gulbarshin , Rizabekovna Yermentayeva Ardakh , Kabidollaevna Bodauova Baktygul , Tokanovna Zhairgazina Nurgul , Abulkhakovna Bolsynbekova  Gulnara
Published: June 2022

Throughout history, society and technology have always in-teracted with each other. It has emerged as a result of development-opments in information and communication technologies (ICT), which is called the Information Revolution in the world. The modern society has been replaced by the information society. The use of the internet, which has become one of the indispensable habits of our age thanks to the developing technologies in the information society, facilitates our lives in many areas such as our daily life, business and education life. In addition to many advantages such as saving time by provid-ing fast communication, reaching sufficient and satisfying in-formation, shortening distances, this technological phenome-non, which brings with it many sociological and psychological negativities when not used consciously, has become more con-troversial in recent years. In this research, it is aimed to determine the opinions of university students in terms of psycho-logical health, one of the disadvantages brought by technology. As a result of the findings obtained from this study, which was conducted with 82 students in the 2021-2022 fall semester, it was concluded that the students are dependent on the use of technological equipment, the duration of use is quite high, and they will not quit even if they know that they will become psychologically ill.
 
Keywords: psychology, technology, university student, adult, technological tool, health
Household environmental safety and perceived stress among uninsured free clinic patients
Authors: Dinehart Claire , Panahi Samin , Kamimura Akiko
Published: June 2022

The purpose of this research project is to examine the association between household environmental safety and stress among uninsured primary care patients who live in poverty. Data were collected from patients of a free clinic using a self-administered survey in Fall 2019. A total of 559 patients participated in the survey. Higher levels of concern regarding environmental issues at home are associated with higher levels of perceived stress. The following demographic characteristics were associated with higher levels of concern regarding household environmental safety issues— higher educational attainment, younger age, and better self-rated general health. Chronic stress concerning an unsafe environment can be a psychological burden and pose health risks to vulnerable populations. Interventions to improve household environmental safety have the potential to reduce the stress-load of uninsured primary care patients.
Keywords: Environmental issues; free clinic; home; perceived stress; safety; social environment.
Advances in Lipotoxicity Research on Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Authors: Wang Quanjun
Published: June 2022

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a fifth most continual diagnosed cancer, acquires large amounts of free fatty acids (FAs) to promote cell growth. But how the cancer avoids lipotoxicity is unknown. Here, we discussed some lip toxicity research in HCC. Targeting molecules related to lipotoxicity could be a promising therapeutic approach for HCC.
The Role of Urban Public Spaces in Managing Displacement in Norway
Authors:   Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Hemmersam Peter , Breivik-Khan Håvard , Ip Morgan , Selmer-Olsen Tone
Published: June 2022

Refugees, temporarily displaced people, and migrants who arrive in Norwegian cities would benefit from equitable access to urban public spaces. Research suggests that the design and management of public urban spaces and local neighbourhood centres can improve migrants’ wellbeing and encourage local cross-cultural interactions. Permanent architectural and urban spaces planned and built for emergency purposes should benefit people who are displaced as well as host communities. To achieve this, urban planning, and migration and displacement management – two mostly separate fields of governance – should collaborate and learn from each other.
Intervención de proyectos de Responsabilidad Social Universitaria en comunidades Mayas de Yucatán
Authors: Domínguez Castillo Rodrigo , Aguilar Soberanis Zulema Noemí
Published: June 2022

Contribuir y clarificar la realidad es sinónimo de crecer y revalorizar acciones tomadas en el seno de toda institución formadora de valores. La Universidad es una de las realidades sociales que en su actividad productiva tiene una inevitable forma de impacto; por lo cual, el propósito de esta investigación fue describir el proceso de implementación de proyectos de responsabilidad social de una asignatura universitaria, vinculada con las necesidades de escuelas en comunidades mayas del oriente del Estado de Yucatán. El enfoque utilizado en la investigación fue el cualitativo, recurriendo a la investigación-acción participativa como estrategia para implementar los proyectos en cuatro escuelas, con una población estudiantil total de 384 alumnos. Entre los principales resultados estuvieron, que los alumnos universitarios lograron aplicar la teoría vista y analizada en sus clases a un contexto real, una vez que se identificaron las principales necesidades en las escuelas de las comunidades mayas. Concluyendo que en dichas escuelas donde se implementaron los proyectos, se socializaron conocimientos para que más adelante los participantes puedan cosechar los frutos del trabajo realizado entre universidad y comunidad, lo cual es uno de los objetivos de la responsabilidad social universitaria; logrando con esto generar conciencia en las futuras generaciones.
Palabras clave: Educación; Responsabilidad social; Compromiso solidario; Universidad; Comunidades.