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LOW-CALORIE, HIGH-PROTEIN, LOW-CARBOHYDRATE DIET IS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD OF REDUCING EXCESS BODY WEIGHT
Authors:   State Scientific Institution “Center for Innovative Medical Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Todurov I.M. , Kalashnikov O.O. ,   State Scientific Institution “Center for Innovative Medical Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Kosiukhno S.V. ,   State Scientific Institution “Center for Innovative Medical Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Plehutsa О.І. ,   State Scientific Institution “Center for Innovative Medical Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Potapov O.А. ,   State Scientific Institution “Center for Innovative Medical Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Khorevina K.M. ,   State Scientific Institution “Center for Innovative Medical Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: July 2022

The aim of our study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a 2-week ultra-low-calorie, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet to reduce body weight, left liver volume, and correct biochemical parameters in patients with planned bariatric surgery. A retrospective analysis of the treatment of 32 patients (23 men and 9 women) with morbid obesity who were in the surgical department from 2018 to 2021. They underwent preoperative preparation followed by laparoscopic hose resection of the stomach. The mean age of patients was 43.8 ± 11.7 years, body weight - 175.5 kg (167.5-193.8 kg), body mass index (BMI) - 58.8 ± 10.3 kg/m2, area left lobe of the liver - 80.9 ± 18 cm2, the average thickness of subcutaneous tissue - 36.5 (25-40) mm, the average level of ALT - 45.8 (41.4 - 61.8) μmol/l, AST - 42, 4 (34.8 - 52.5) μmol/l, total cholesterol - 6.09 ± 0.79 mmol/l, HDL-cholesterol - 0.93 ± 0.22 mmol/l, LDL-cholesterol - 3.75 ± 0.99 mmol/l and triglycerides - 2.09 ± 0.66 mmol/l. 2 weeks after the start of the diet, the percentage of weight loss (% BMD) reached 9.9 ± 2.7% (5.6-16.5%), body weight - 164.5 kg (153.8-184.3 kg) and the average value of BMI - 55.4 ± 9.7 kg/m2, the area of the left lobe of the liver - 69.6 ± 17.5 cm2, the average thickness of subcutaneous tissue - 31.5 (22-37) mm, the average level of ALT - 42.8 (28.8 - 49.2) μmol/l, AST - 29.3 (22.9 - 37.7) μmol/l, total cholesterol - 5.24 ± 0.83 mmol/l, HDL -HS - 1.19 ± 0.2 mmol/l, LDL-cholesterol - 4.57 ± 0.87 mmol/l and triglycerides - 1.65 ± 0.78 mmol/l. Thus, prescribing an ultra-low-calorie, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet is a safe and effective way to reduce excess weight, reduce anterior abdominal wall thickness, reduce left liver size, and correct biochemical parameters in high-risk patients before bariatric surgery.
Estratégias de coping adotadas pelos profissionais de saúde durante a pandemia da COVID-19
Authors: Couto Ricardo Neves , Fonsêca Patricia Nunes da , Castro Jefferson Luiz De Cerqueira , Guimarães Clara Lohana Cardoso , Medeiros Emerson Diógenes de
Published: July 2022

Objetivo. Objetivou-se conhecer as estratégias de coping adotadas pelos profissionais de saúde durante a pandemia da COVID-19. Método. Pesquisa de desenho exploratório. Participaram 155 profissionais de saúde do nordeste brasileiro, em sua maioria do Piauí (39.1%) e Ceará (22.5%), com idade média de 33.26 anos (DP = 7.94) e do sexo feminino (68.2%). Resultados. Por meio de uma Classificação Hierárquica Descendente (CHD), o corpus principal se segmentou em duas ramificações: “Classe 1: suporte socioemocional e espiritualidade” e “Classe 2: atividades de entretenimento”, mostrando que os profissionais utilizavam estratégias de coping com foco no problema e na emoção. Aponta-se a importância do contato social, espiritualidade e entretenimento para o bem-estar emocional.
Study of Health Dimensions
Authors: Terzieva Galena
Published: July 2022

Good health is determined by achieving a balance in the interrelated dimensions of health.
The goal of this article is to study the physical, social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and environmental health of students from the Faculty of Education of Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. A survey was conducted using questionnaire "How healthy are you?". The targeted group included 557 students from different specialties in the Faculty of Pedagogy were interviewed.
The results show that the social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual health of the respondents is good. Physical and environmental health indicators have deteriorated.
3D Printing as an Innovative Technology
Authors: Manolova Nikol
Published: July 2022

The project presents the application of 3D printing in the creation of prototypes of real objects with their implementation in the industry. The process of building a three-dimensional model is substantiated, as well as the advantages and innovation of the three-dimensional printing technology. The author's project of a 3D model of a Mini Cooper car, created with Autodesk 3ds Max, as software for three-dimensional modeling, is presented. Suggested variants for product realization of the considered project are in the production of toys, car aerodynamics tests and STEAM education with the idea of developing key skills and knowledge as part of the interdisciplinary model of training.
Household income inequality in Poland between 2005 and 2019: A decomposition of the Gini coefficient by income sources
Authors:   Department of Economics II, Department of Institutional and Political Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, Graca-Gelert Patrycja
Published: July 2022

The aim of this paper is the empirical analysis of the Gini coefficient decomposition by income sources in Poland between 2005 and 2013. The decomposition was used to assess the contribution of income components to the overall income inequality in Poland. The empirical analysis was based on non-identifiable, individual household budget survey data collected by the Central Statistical Office of Poland. The method of decomposition by income components applied in this study was the approach of Lerman and Yitzhaki (1985). The study revealed that employment income contributed to the greatest extent to overall income inequality in Poland during the analysis period. At the same time, this income source showed a significant increase in explaining inequality, reaching almost 64% in 2019. Apart from employment, among all of the income sources analysed, only the contribution of social security benefits to income disparities changed significantly, dropping from almost 19% in 2005 to 7% in 2019. Income from self-employment explained about 15% of inequality in Poland throughout the analysed period. The contribution of the rest of income sources to income inequality was also relatively stable, though less significant. The only income category that contributed negatively to inequality was the other social benefits component. The largest impact of a marginal change in income components on overall inequality was due to income from employment (positive effect) and social security benefits (negative effect). A negative impact of a marginal change in specific income sources on inequality was observed in the case of social security benefits, other social benefits, and other income.
Transformation of the energy sector and its impact on the European Union’s external trade in energy raw materials in 2000–2020
Authors:   Vincent Pol University in Lublin, Poland, Mucha-Leszko Bogumiła , Wojtas Monika ,   Chair of World Economy and European Integration /Institute of Economics and Finance, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Published: July 2022

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the multifaceted impact of the transformation of the energy sector on domestic economies and international economic relations under the conditions of growing global interdependence. The authors formulate the following research question: What were the changes in the consumption and structure of generating energy, as well as the structure of exports and imports of energy sources, resulting from the transformation of the energy sector in the EU? The following methods were used. The theoretical analysis of the energy sector transformation is based on an interdisciplinary approach proposed by representatives of the International Political Economy. The empirical analysis uses the following indicators: growth rates of energy consumption, shares of selected countries and the EU in the global energy consumption, shares of major sources in the consumption of energy in selected economies, shares of major energy sources in exports and imports of the EU and its member states. Considering the achievements of the EU’s energy policy focused on decreasing the consumption of energy and departing from traditional sources (especially coal) to renewables, the authors concentrate on the results and consequences of the energy policy in the EU. It revealed that the EU had better results on the global scale in limiting energy consumption in 2000–2020. However, the transformation of the energy sector that leads to greater use of renewables is still in the initial stages. Oil and natural gas remain the main sources of energy consumption. When evaluating the impact of transformation on EU energy trade, the dependence on high energy imports in the EU is notable, which actually increased in 2000–2019 from 56.3% to 60.7%. The structure of the imports remained basically the same. The share of oil and natural gas increased slightly, from 88.7% to 89.8%, and the share of renewables climbed from 0.1% to 1.4%. An unfavourable change from the point of view of EU energy policy is the growing share of solid fossil fuels, which was, for the most part, caused by imports to Poland, Slovakia, Czechia and Germany. The structure of exports was quite stable, with oil and natural gas as dominant sources (73.5% and 13.3%, respectively). However, the share of solid fossil fuels in EU exports decreased from 8.8% to 2.8% (2000–2019), which is a positive trend.
Weaving Urban Webs: Representations of Urban Space in the First Four Issues of Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man
Authors:   ,   Portland State University, Albertson Cordelia
Published: July 2022

As the anthology Comics and the City explores, cities have been central to comics since the beginning of the modern medium. Yet, scholars have remarked little on the relationship between superhero identities and urban space. Peter M. Coogan's article, "The Hero Defines the Genre, The Genre Defines the Hero," in the anthology What is a Superhero?, cites an urban setting as a secondary identifier of the superhero genre and the superhero identity, but he makes no other remark on this facet in the article or his other work. Much of the works existing on the subject of urbanism and the superhero identity in comics studies only relate to the subject tangentially. Due to the limitations of this thesis project, I use a singular superhero comic as an initial case study, if you will, to provide a launch point for future research. Investigating the first four issues of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, words by Brian Michael Bendis and art by Sara Pichelli, I find that Miles Morales's identity as Spider-Man is heavily defined in how he is depicted in relationship to crowds, how his powers allow him to traverse the city, and how crucial moments in his character development inhabit marginal spaces both in his version of New York and in the comics as a medium. Ultimately, my findings suggest that the urban space and the comics medium provides the visually demonstrable liminal spaces that define key aspects of Miles's superhero identity.
Conversion of model C6–C9 alkanes and straight-run gasoline over Pt(0.1%)-Fe(5%)/Al2O3 catalysts promoted with various additives
Authors: Zhumabekova Arai K. , Tastanova Lyazzat K. , Orynbassar Raigul O. , Aubakirov Yermek A. , Zhunusova Elvira B.
Published: July 2022

Growing demand for hydrogen promotes the research devoted to the development of new catalysts for hydrocarbons processing in absence of H2 or at its low concentration. In the present work, it was shown that during the conversion of straight-run gasoline on a zeolite-containing polyfunctional catalyst in a hydrogen-free environment cracking, dehydrogenation, isomerization and alkylation take place due to the redistribution of H2 between initial and formed products directly on the catalyst surface. Fine particles (≤50 Å) localize in zeolite cavities and pores of aluminum oxide, while larger ones are on their outer surface.
Phytochemical screening and properties of botanical crude extracts and ethyl acetate fractions isolated by deep eutectic solvent
Authors: Aboushanab Saied , Shevyrin Vadim , Kamel Mustapha , Kambele Jonas , Kovaleva Elena
Published: July 2022

Botanicals, being safe because of their natural origin, are associated with potential health benefits due to their isoflavones-rich content. Isoflavones as plant-generated secondary metabolites are formed to defend against environmental stress such as UV radiation, mechanical damage, or any other attack from the surroundings. Kudzu (Pueraria roots and flowers), red clover (Trifolium pratense), and soy (Glycine max) are of significant importance in the medical field. Isoflavones were reported to exhibit a variety of biological functions, e.g., antiaging, anticancer, and microbiome modulations. This study focuses attention on the extraction and quantification of isoflavones from kudzu roots (KR), kudzu flowers (KF), red clover (RC), and soy molasses (SM), and determining their total polyphenols (TPC), flavonoids (TFC), and antioxidant activity (AOA). Novel green ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) technology was developed to extract and quantify the isoflavones. The results showed the quantity of isoflavones in KR, KF, RC, and SM crude extracts to be 1.01%, 2.9%, 0.70% and 0.67%, respectively. The fractionation using ethyl acetate (EA) improved the yield that became 1.48%, 2.5%, 1.3% and 0.89% in the KR, RC and SM extract fractions, respectively. This investigation eventually showed that our green UAE methodology is a safe and efficient method for recovering isoflavones. The total isoflavone contents were recorded as follows: KFKRRCSM. We concluded that these botanicals are a crucial source of isoflavones that exhibit strong antioxidant properties.
Artificial Intelligence Scheme for Medical Images Classification and Prediction
Authors: Al-Kasasbeh Basil
Published: July 2022

Medicine is the industry where smart technologies and artificial intelligence are most commonly used. Medical imaging is usually used for tumor diagnosis; this includes Computer Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Early tumor detection in various organs based on such images is important. This study intended to present an Adaptive Convolution Neural Networks (ACNN) based method for tumor detection in the brain. The ACNN will utilize a modified stochastic gradient descent (MSGD) training algorithm with adaptive momentum and learning rates to speed up the convergence of the error, which will speed up the classification process and improve the accuracy. MSGD is implemented such as when the loss increases, the learning rate increase, and vice versa. The proposed modifications allow the network to increase the learning rate at the beginning of the training process and slow down as the network outcomes reach stabilized conditions. The proposed method results were compared against the performance of several conventional combinations of CNN with several machine learning classifiers. The test results show that the proposed method outperformed the performance of the CNN with all the above-said adaptations. Accordingly, the contributions of this study are (1) improving the ACNN training algorithm for the tumor classification problem and (2) proposing original CNN architectures specialized for tumor classification. Keywords: artificial intelligence; convolution neural network; medical images processing; tumor classification, tumor detection.
Novel Approach for Augmented Reality using Convolutional Neural Networks
Authors: Oufqir Zainab , EL ABDERRAHMANI Abdellatif , Satori Khalid
Published: July 2022

In this paper, we will exploit the potential of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in augmented reality. Our work combines existing approaches and produces a new method for aligning a virtual object in the real world and in real time. Our method consists in detecting 2D objects of one or more classes present in the real world with CNN algorithms, then using the output of the network to calculate the position of the camera with the PnP algorithm in order to augment the detected object with additional information. The lightness of the MobileNet convolutional neural network combined with the speed of the Single Shot multibox Detector (SSD) framework allows to analyze the acquired images in real time and to use devices with limited resources and performance. We use a trained model that detects 20 different classes, the network receives as input an image sequence acquired in real time. The output of the network provides the set of detected classes as well as the coordinates of the corners of the surrounded rectangle on the object of this class. The coplanar coordinates of this rectangle are used to calculate the camera position and to align a 3D virtual object in the middle of the bounding box surrounding the detected object. The results obtained in the experimental part show the importance and the robustness of the method. Keywords: augmented reality; camera pose estimation; convolution neural network; MobileNet-SSD
A bibliometric analysis of the International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and its Applications: Research influence and Contributions
Authors: Jaradat Yousef , Alia Mohammad , Masoud Mohammad , Manasrah Ahmad , Jebreil Iqbal , Garaibeh Alaa’ , Al-Arasi Sarah
Published: July 2022

The International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and its Applications (IJASCA) is a rapidly growing academic journal published by Al-Zaythoonah University of Jordan (ZUJ). IJASCA publishes original contributions on soft computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and other current science and technological trends. This study uses different bibliometric analysis tools to analyze the IJASCA published research papers between 2009 and 2021. The analysis includes annual publication growth, citation patterns, most prolific authors, institutions and countries, co-citation and co-occurrence networks analysis. A total of 317 published papers have been studied. The results show that IJASCA has grown in research contributions from 12 papers in 2009 to 40 papers in 2021, and citations have grown drastically to 2253. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, is the institution that contributed the most to IJASCA publications with 109 papers. Malaysia is the country that was cited the most with 794 citations. Thematic analysis shows that the most important author keywords are soft computing, optimization, machine learning, big data and cloud computing. Overall, the findings are beneficial to the IJASCA editorial board. Its retrospective review will most likely encourage journal readers and assist the editorial team in developing research strategies that will allow research scientists to contribute high-quality research papers to the IJASCA. Keywords: IJASCA, Bibliometric analysis, co-citation analysis, co-occurrence analysis, thematic analysis, Scopus
A multi-scale insight into gas transport in a deep Cenozoic clay
Authors: Gonzalez-Blanco Laura , Romero Enrique
Published: July 2022

The migration of gases is crucial to ensure the long-term feasibility of argillaceous formations for the deep disposal of radioactive waste. This paper presents an experimental investigation with a multi-scale perspective on the response to gas transport of initially saturated Boom Clay (Belgium). Gas injection tests have been performed under oedometer conditions at different controlled-volume rates, constant total vertical stress and different sample orientations (flow orthogonal or parallel to bedding planes). The results confirm soil expansion and consequent degradation during injection that has a significant impact on the aperture of localised gas pathways (fissures) and increases intrinsic permeability during the gas pressure dissipation stage. The analyses with complementary techniques (mercury intrusion porosimetry, field-emission scanning electron microscopy and X-ray micro-tomography) confirm the opening of fissures with different apertures and separations at the microstructural scale. Large-aperture fissures develop along the weaker bedding planes. These techniques allow the volume of fissures to be quantified, which does not significantly depend on gas flow direction, as also measured in the isotropic response of the gas effective permeability. A scalar damage variable derived from the fissured fraction has been used to assess the gas-entry pressure reduction and the intrinsic permeability increase after the gas tests in both directions.
A retrospective cohort study of new‐onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE): clinical features, timing of immunotherapy and outcomes
Authors: Werbaneth Katherine , Mausolf Melissa , Seliger Jordan , Le Scheherazade
Published: July 2022

Objective. To describe clinical characteristics associated with immunotherapy in patients with new‐onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) and assess its timing and effect on outcomes at hospital discharge after six and 12 months of follow‐up. Our secondary aim was to apply the cryptogenic NORSE (C‐NORSE) score to subjects in order to evaluate its utility in identifying C‐NORSE in our cohort.

Methods. This was a retrospective single university hospital cohort study (2004‐2021) of adults and children with NORSE. First‐line immunotherapy was defined as corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), and plasmapheresis (PLEX). Early immunotherapy was defined as administration of a first‐line agent within seven days of presentation.

Results. Twenty‐one subjects with NORSE were identified between 2004 and 2021, which was cryptogenic in 18 and immune‐mediated in three. All patients received immunotherapy. Seventeen patients received early immunotherapy (81%). There was no significant difference between early versus late immunotherapy regarding “good or favorable” outcomes (mRS 0‐2) at hospital discharge or during follow‐up. For cryptogenic NORSE patients, 7/11 (64%) achieved good outcomes at six months, 9/11 (82%) at 12 months, and 8/10 (80%) at the last follow‐up visit at >13 months. For immune‐mediated NORSE patients, 3/3 (100%) achieved good outcomes at six months and 2/2 (100%) at the last follow‐up visit at >13 months. In our cohort, a C‐NORSE score of ≥5 was obtained in 12/18 (67%) of cryptogenic cases and a score <5 in all three immune‐mediated cases.

Significance. There is a paucity of published data on the timing of immunotherapy for NORSE. Although at our institution early administration of immunotherapy is feasible, more research is needed to determine which patients may benefit from immunotherapy and if the timing of immunotherapy affects short and long‐term outcomes. Among the patients who survived hospitalization, long‐term follow‐up of our NORSE cohort demonstrated that a subset achieved good mRS (0‐2) scores.
Újabb töredék a Zalka-antifonáléból
Authors: Hende Fanni
Published: July 2022

A középkori Magyar Királyság területén használt és fennmaradt kódexek mellett a kódextöredékek is kiemelkedően fontos forráscsoportot jelentenek a magyar középkori művelődéstörténet, könyvkultúra, liturgiatörténet és zenetörténet jobb megismeréséhez. A töredékek egy-egy kódexet jelenítenek meg, és kiemelkedő alkalom, amikor egy fragmentum által jelölt egykori kódexnek további levelei azonosíthatók. A díszes kivitelű váradi kódexsorozat (antiphonale, graduale) számos töredéke került elő több hazai és határon túli gyűjteményben, többnyire mint lefejtett vagy jelenlegi könyvkötés. A kódexcsaládból a Váradi Antifonále ’temporale’ és ’sanctorale’ kötetének Győrött fennmaradt részét 1872-ben Zalka János győri püspök restauráltatta és köttette egybe. Az ismert és Győrött őrzött anyakódex mellett már az 1970-es években elkezdődött az antifonále két kötetéből kivágott darabok azonosítása, amelyek általában könyvkötésként maradtak fenn.Jelen közleménnyel az antifonále töredékeinek impozáns listáját kívánom bővíteni egy eddig nem ismert darabbal.
Kolozsvári-Sillye Béla a középkori zenei fragmentológia magyar előfutára?
Authors: Szoliva Gábriel
Published: July 2022

A Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem Egyházzene Tanszékének kutatókönyvtára őriz egy középkori antifonále-töredéket, amelynek legújabb vizsgálata során – az említett módszertani lépéseket követve – nem várt eredményre jutottam.1 Bár a középkori tartalom értelmezését a töredék korábbi kutatóinak következtetéseihez képest csak kismértékben árnyalhattam, újkori bejegyzései olyan tudománytörténeti eredményt szolgáltattak, amely megérdemel egy önálló ismertetést. A szóban forgó fragmentum valószínűleg az 1970-es évek elején került Forrai Magdolna M. Gregoria iskolanővértől Szendrei Janka tulajdonába, majd az ő halála után 2019-ben a Zeneakadémia Egyházzene Tanszékére. Szendrei Janka a forráskatalógusában F 337 alá sorolt töredéket 14. századi eredetűnek vélte, notációja alapján pedig magyarországi, erdélyi provenienciát valószínűsített.
TÓTH Ferenc, Varia Sancti Martini: Saint Martin dans son pays natal, Éditions Saint-Léger, 2021 (Les Acteur du Savoir)
Authors: Tüskés Anna
Published: July 2022

A könyv a 17–18. századi magyar–francia kapcsolatok történetét kutató Tóth Ferencnek az elmúlt huszonöt évben született, a nyugat-magyarországi Szent Márton-kultuszhoz kapcsolódó francia nyelvű írásait tartalmazza huszonkét színes képpel illusztrálva. A 2019-ben a francia Akadémiai Pálmarend lovagi fokozatával kitüntetett szerző a Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézetének tudományos tanácsadója. A Tours mellett székelő Saint-Léger Kiadó Les Acteurs du Savoir című sorozatában megjelent kötethez Székely János püspök úr írt előszót. A könyvet a szerző a közelmúltban elhunyt művészettörténész, Zsámbéki Monika emlékének ajánlotta. A kötet hét fejezete végigkalauzolja az olvasót Szent Márton szombathelyi és nyugat-magyarországi tiszteletének mintegy ezerhétszáz évén. Fő célja történeti szempontból bemutatni a kultusz előzményeit, folyamatát és a változások kiváltó okait. A fejezetek korábban kivétel nélkül elhangzottak konferenciákon és/vagy megjelentek tanulmánykötetekben, folyóiratokban magyarul és/vagy franciául.
Szepesi Zsuzsanna, A Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Zenetudományi Intézet Könyvtárának Rácz Aladár hagyatéka, Budapest, ELKH BTK ZTI, 2021
Authors: Monok István
Published: July 2022

Szepesi Zsuzsa a most ELKH BTK, egykor az MTA Zenetudományi Intézet Könyvtárának Rácz Aladár-hagyatékát dolgozta fel. A hagyatékot a neves cimbalomművész, zeneszerző özvegye két részletben (1983 és 1990) adta át a ZTI Könyvtárának, úgy, hogy maga is rendezett irategyüttesként kezelte. A mostani rendező munka olyan tekintetben is historizál, hogy igyekezett nem lerombolni azt a rendszert a hagyaték rendezésében, amelyet az özvegy hozott létre. Ugyanakkor a könyvtári hagyományhoz idomította a besorolásokat.
A Poisson “Half-Summation” Formula
Authors: R Rosenfelder
Published: July 2022

A generalization of Poisson’s summation formula is derived – in a non-rigorous way – allowing evaluation of sums from 1 (or any finite integer) ∞ instead of the usual range -∞+∞. This is achieved in two ways, either by introducing a converging factor in a geometric series of exponential functions and letting it approach zero in a controlled way or by applying a Hilbert transform to the series. Several examples illustrate its usefulness in the evaluation of series and specific applications.
Border Reconfiguration, Migration Governance, and Fundamental Rights: A Scoping Review of EURODAC as a Research Object
Authors: Bredström Anna , Krifors Karin , Mešić Nedžad
Published: July 2022

This article scrutinises the European Asylum Dactyloscopy Database (EURODAC) as a research object for social science. EURODAC serves as an important part of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) infrastructure by registering dig‐ italised fingerprints of asylum seekers, which facilitates the allocation of responsibility following the Dublin Regulation. In this article, we explore the role of EURODAC from its implementation in 2003 until April 2021 through a scoping review that maps and analyses existing social science research in the field. In total, 254 scholarly publications—identified in Scopus, Academic Search Complete, and Web of Science—were reviewed. The article seeks to answer three research questions: What is the accumulated knowledge within social science research on EURODAC? What gaps and trends exist in this research? What are the possible implications of this knowledge, gaps, and trends for other areas of the CEAS such as asylum evaluations and reception of asylum seekers? Based on a qualitative thematic analysis, our review shows that research on EURODAC can be divided into three broad categories: research that focuses on the reconfiguration of borders; research that focuses on migration governance and resistance; and research that emphasises fundamental rights and discrimination. In our final discussion, we highlight the lack of ethnographic studies, of gender and intersectional perspectives, and of in‐depth studies on national legal frameworks including asylum evaluations and reception practices across the EU. The article concludes that social science needs to address the socio‐political underpinnings of EURODAC and acknowledges its centrality to all areas of the CEAS.
Cancer-testis genes mRNA presence in tumor lesion and peripheral blood of endometrial cancer patients
Authors: Kalugin A. V. , Novikov D. V. , Mamaeva M. E. , Alyasova A. V. , Arioua Kh. M. , Novikov V. V.
Published: July 2022

Background. Cancer-testicular (CT) genes express in tumor cells in many cancers, including endometrial cancer (ER). CT genes mRNA was detected in the blood of patients with neoplasms, which determines the prospects of using CT gene mRNA as tumor-associated biomarkers. In the peripheral blood of patients with ER, the expression of CT genes has not been studied before.

Objective. Аssessment of occurrence of mRNA of the CT genesMAGEA1–MAGEA6 (MAGEA(1–6)), SSX1, 2, 4, XAGE1, MAGEC1, NY-ESO1in the tumors and peripheral blood of patients with ER.

Materials and methods. The work used 52 samples of tumor and 54 samples of whole peripheral blood of patients 39–79 years old diagnosed with RE who were treated in clinics in Nizhny Novgorod, as well as the blood of 30 healthy volunteers. In blood and tumors, the frequency of occurrence of mRNA of 12 CT genes was determined using multiplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.

Results. It has been shown that the mRNA of the tested CT genes is detected in ER not only in tumors, but also in the peripheral blood of patients. The most common mRNA isMAGEA(1–6). At the same time, both in tumors and in the peripheral blood of patients, high heterogeneity in the expression of CT genes detected. Moreover, cases ofMAGEA(1–6), SSX1, 2, 4, XAGE1, NY-ESO1, MAGEC1mRNA detection in tumors were revealed in the absence of their detection in the peripheral blood and conversely. The total frequency ofMAGEA(1–6), SSX1, 2, 4, XAGE1, NY-ESO1, MAGEC1mRNA occurrence in tumors was 75.0 %, and in peripheral blood – 44.6 %. As in tumors, most blood samples showed expression of only one CT gene. Only in some cases the expression of two or three genes was recorded. Note that in all blood samples of healthy volunteers mRNA CT genes was not detected. Additionally, mixed form of macroscopic growth (both exophytic and endophytic), growth along the uterine fundus and walls, as well as low degree of differentiation were followed by a higher mRNA CT genes occurrence in the blood and tumors.

Conclusion. In ER mRNA CT genes occur in the blood and tumors of patients. A more severe course of ER is associated with an increase in the incidence of mRNA CT genes.
Breast cancer molecular subtypes and bone marrow immune system in patient’s prognosis
Authors: Berdova F. K. , Grigorieva T. A. , Vorotnikov I. K. , Tupitsyn N. N.
Published: July 2022

Backgrоund. Breast cancer molecular subtypes serve as a basis for combined treatment of the disease. Some of them (e. g. triple negative subtype) are prognostically unfavorable. Recently, we’ve demonstrated role of bone marrow B-cells in breast cancer prognosis. Correlation between these parameters (molecular subtypes and bone marrow lymphocyte subpopulations) have not yet studied.

Aim. To investigate prognostic role of breast cancer molecular subtypes and to see the relationships between these subtypes and subpopulational composition of bone marrow lymphocytes.

Materials and methods. Detailed study of bone marrow has been performed in all 107 patients treated in breast cancer department of N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology in 2013–2016 years. Distribution of patients according to molecular subtypes were as follows: Luminal A – 36 (33.6 %) pts, Luminal B HER2-negative – 38 (35.5 %), Luminal B HER2-positive – 15 (14 %), subtype with Erb-B2 hyper-expression – 5 (4.4 %), triple negative – 13 (12.1 %). Comparison of molecular subtypes with immunological parameters was done for the following bone marrow B-lymphocyte subpopulations: CD19+, CD19+CD10+, CD19+CD38+, CD19+CD5+. The following survival data were analyzed: overall survival, relapse-free survival, progression-free survival, metastasis-free survival.

Results. Breast cancer molecular subtypes were not related to overall survival of patients but influenced relapse-free survival, progression-free survival and metastasis-free survival. There were no correlation between molecular subtypes and bone marrow B-lymphocyte subpopulations CD19, CD19+CD10+, CD19+CD38+. B1-lymphocytes were related to molecular subtypes, the levels of B1 cells were significantly higher in Erb-B2 subtype compared to triple-negative subtype (p = 0.039).

Conclusion. Breast cancer molecular subtypes are different in prognosis – relapse-free survival, progression-free survival and metastasis-free survival. The most prognostically unfavorable is triple-negative subtype. There are some relationships of bone marrow subpopulations and molecular subtypes of breast cancer: levels of B1-cells are much higher in Erb-B2 subtype compared to triple negative subtype (p = 0.039).
ORGANISATION OF STUDENT-CENTRED LEARNING FOR STUDENTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Lazorenko Liudmyla , Krasnenko Oksana ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Published: July 2022

The article studies the problems and ways to use student-centred learning (SCL) for students of IT specialities. In today's competitive conditions of labour market development, university graduates must be well-prepared for future professional activities. The article presents the experience of theoretical research on the student-centred approach to learning. The authors dwell on the difficulties of acquiring a new pedagogical paradigm, which states the change "from teaching to learning" in the didactics of higher education. The paper emphasises the need for complex systematic work related to the development of strategies for digitising education. The focus is on learning outcomes in terms of communicative competencies development. It is necessary to introduce SCL based on a competency approach to teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) as it introduces personal meaning to the educational process. It puts in the first place not human knowledge but the ability to solve problems in different life situations. The study has proved that SCL provides student personal and cognitive growth, stimulates leadership and interpersonal communication. With this approach, students are involved in creating their learning experience; they are independent in choosing ways to acquire knowledge. The article demonstrates tasks for IT students that show how SCL stimulates them to think, analyse, synthesise, criticise and apply their knowledge in real-life situations. In the student-centred paradigm, the development of the subjects of the educational process focuses on modern humanistic knowledge, such categories as "subject", "freedom", "self-development", "integrity", "dialogue". Teachers foster positive outcomes for their students and increase their engagement. The authors show examples of such teaching methods as online investigation, Web-quest, Project method, a Problem-solving method, Flipped learning. They generate student motivation and engagement, increase collaboration and team productivity, foster communication and knowledge sharing, and enhance critical thinking and creativity. As a result, students gain practical experience and become self-confident and lifelong learners in the 21st century.
ABOUT POSSIBLE SOURCES OF TADEUSZ CZACKI'S DATA ON OLD BELIEVERS IN POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH
Authors:   Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Morozova Nadežda
Published: July 2022

Traditionally it is held that the first polish secular (i.e. not from Old Believers milieu) source about the Old Believers in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a short note by Tadeusz Czacki in his study "O litewskich i polskich prawach…" (1800). Nevertheless, neither its content nor its sources have never been a topic of a special study. The aim of the present article is to find out which sources T. Czacki could have used while writing his note on Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Old Believers and what kind of a book "of proofs, testimonies, and investigation" he mentioned. T. Czacki report on Old Believers (philippons) consists of two parts. In the first part, he repeats the common information about patriarch Nikon's reform, special tax for wearing long beard, and division into two denominations: popovtsy and diakonovtsy. In the second part, he gives some account on the Old Believers in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and admits that during the reign of John III Sobieski a special investigation was undertaken and a book of "proofs, testimonies, and investigation" was compiled. In order to clarify possible sources of the mentioned note, we needed to study T. Czacki's biography and to investigate what kind of sources on Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Old Believers he could have at his disposal at the end of 18th c. while he was preparing his research about Statutes of Lithuania. The current research revealed that T. Czacki due to his professional undertakings could have known P. Polttiew's 1690 report about the creed, way of life, and origins of the old believers, and also lost miscellany "Historya o bezbożnych filipowcach" that was written in Polish and belonged to Zaluski library in Warsaw. It is very likely that latter was the very book "of proofs, testimonies, and investigation" about philippons he mentioned.
SEMANTIC CONCEPT SPACE AS A SOURCE OF ITS CONTENT INTERPRETATION
Authors:   Institute of Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Diachuk Vira
Published: July 2022

It has been acknowledged that concept consists of verbal and semantic spaces. Verbal space represents concept in speech when semantic space keeps all its meanings. The purpose of this research is to analyze the semantic concept space as a system of meanings. Also, it aims to represent role and significance of the semantic concept space for concept and linguistic world-image investigations, that declares main points of national worldview. Using theoretical, synthesis, descriptive and comparative methods, this study analyzes the structure of semantic concept space and also explores its distinguishing characteristics. In addition, a review of the literature shows main issues of the correlation between semantics and culture. The results of this study describe the principles of semantic concept space internal organization. They show that the semantic concept space is formed by semantic fields which are vocabulary groups, combined by common content, conceptual, subject or functional similarity of their phenomena. The semantic field reflects the content of the concept, reveals the degree of the word cultural semantics "antiquity". In addition, it represents the process and principles of surrounding reality cognition, because semantics is closely related to the process of naming, which is carried out at different stages of cognitive processing. The basis of the denotation nomination is its one or more relevant features that differ the denotation from other similar ones. This study definitely answers the questions regarding the correlation between semantics and ethnos worldview, semantics and nomination principles. The detailed analysis of semantic concept space makes it possible to understand linguistic world-image peculiarities and principles of a cultural phenomenon assessment.
TO THE DISCOURSE OF CONCLUDING A COLLECTION OF FAIRY TALES: TRADITION AND SEARCH FOR ORIGINALITY
Authors:   Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Karpenko Svitlana
Published: July 2022

The issue of compiling a collection of fairy tales has not lost relevance since the publication of "Notes on Southern Russia" by P. Kulish. For a long time, the method of fixing and options for ways to present to readers a folk tale as a folk genre were formed. The article provides a structural analysis of some of these publications in order to clarify the mandatory and variable components of collections of folk tales, as well as the possibility of their further use. One of the important indicators of certification of fairy tales is the establishment of their codes, in accordance with the international indicators of motives (SUS and ATU). This issue is being resolved. The vast majority of modern storytellers try to study the so-called "white spots" of science, to promote the publication of academic or private archives. The article highlights the works of scholars of the early and late 20th century, as well as contemporaries in order to trace the genesis of the issue of perfection of folk prose. In particular, the publication of M. Levchenko's fairy tales "Fairy tales and stories from Podillya: in the records of 18501860" (1928), L. Dunaevskaya "From a living source. Ukrainian Folk Tales in Records, Traditions and Publications of Ukrainian Writers" (1990), I. Khlanta "Fairy Tales and Legends from Khust Castle" (2016), I. Gryshchenko "Interethnic Relations in Ukrainian Folk Tales" (2009), "Kalinova flute: an anthology of Ukrainian folk prose" (1998) O. Britsina, G. Dovzhenok, S. Myshanych. Emphasis is placed on the use of not only archival funds, but also modern folklore records, which testifies to the life of the fairy-tale tradition of our people. Aspects of the use of methods of historical and comparative schools in order to arrange collections of folk tales, their universal use are traced.
Seismic Tomographic Modeling of the Crust and Upper Mantle beneath Israel and the Middle East: Improved Resolution through Optimized Model Parameterization
Authors: Babikoff Jordyn , Begnaud Michael L. , Rowe Charlotte A. , Young Brian , Myers Stephen C.
Published: July 2022

Accurate regional seismic travel-time (RSTT) predictions rely on regional phases (e.g., Pg, Lg, Pn, Sn) to account for 3D effects in the crust and upper mantle that are not captured by 1D models traditionally used for real-time location. The RSTT prediction model accounts for regional-scale crust and upper mantle structure globally by incorporating regional seismic phases into its travel-time calculations. Previous versions of the RSTT model have used a constant grid cell size of 1°. To improve the tomographic accuracy of recovering velocity structure at regional scales, we perform data-driven grid refinement on the RSTT model down to a 0.125° grid (∼14 km) in pursuit of two main goals: (1) to test the limits of RSTT capability and accuracy of determined velocity structure through variable grid refinement and (2) to image smaller structures in Israel and the Middle East and illuminate upper mantle dynamics operating in this complex tectonic area. We investigate the effects of model parameterization as grid cell size decreases and the trade-offs between recovered velocity structures. Our final dataset includes 4751 events and 499 stations that recorded 79,344 Pn and 7489 Pg. The variable grid refinement method allows recovery of finer-scale velocity structures and reduces travel-time residuals in areas with the highest data coverage. At smaller grid cell sizes, longer paths need to be upweighted to stabilize the inversion. Results illuminate tectonic features undefined in coarser grid-size models; in particular, we observe mantle perturbations related to the subduction zone around the Cyprian arc and crustal anomalies near the Dead Sea fault and throughout the Anatolian plate.
pyCSEP: A Python Toolkit for Earthquake Forecast Developers
Authors: Savran William H. , Bayona José A. , Iturrieta Pablo , Asim Khawaja M. , Bao Han , Bayliss Kirsty , Herrmann Marcus , Schorlemmer Danijel , Maechling Philip J. , Werner Maximilian J.
Published: July 2022

The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) is an open and global community whose mission is to accelerate earthquake predictability research through rigorous testing of probabilistic earthquake forecast models and prediction algorithms. pyCSEP supports this mission by providing open-source implementations of useful tools for evaluating earthquake forecasts. pyCSEP is a Python package that contains the following modules: (1) earthquake catalog access and processing, (2) representations of probabilistic earthquake forecasts, (3) statistical tests for evaluating earthquake forecasts, and (4) visualization routines and various other utilities. Most significantly, pyCSEP contains several statistical tests needed to evaluate earthquake forecasts, which can be forecasts expressed as expected earthquake rates in space–magnitude bins or specified as large sets of simulated catalogs (which includes candidate models for governmental operational earthquake forecasting). To showcase how pyCSEP can be used to evaluate earthquake forecasts, we have provided a reproducibility package that contains all the components required to re-create the figures published in this article. We recommend that interested readers work through the reproducibility package alongside this article. By providing useful tools to earthquake forecast modelers and facilitating an open-source software community, we hope to broaden the impact of the CSEP and further promote earthquake forecasting research.
Seismoacoustic Study of Thunder and Lightning Using the AlpArray
Authors: Novoselov Artemii , Dorninger Manfred , Diendorfer Gerhard , Bokelmann Goetz ,   the AlpArray Working Group
Published: July 2022

We obtain a large dataset of seismic data from the temporary seismic network AlpArray in Europe and a large dataset of lightning data from the lightning location system Austrian Lightning Detection and Information System and focus on the investigation of thunder signals recorded with seismic stations in a frequency range of 10–49 Hz if no other frequency band is specified. We try to establish whether important information about a lightning flash can be determined independent of optical and electrical measurements through the means of seismic analysis. Seismic data provide useful information on thunder and lightning, and we observe a correlation between lightning peak current and maximum ground displacement induced by the thunder for positive cloud-to-ground flashes of lightning.