bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Conclusion
Authors: Doucet Brian , Filion Pierre , van Melik Rianne
Published: January 2022

This chapter reflects on how addressing the structural inequalities rendered visible during the COVID-19 pandemic requires centering the lived experiences of poverty, housing precarity, and discrimination within planning and policymaking. It emphasizes how planning and policymaking that center on disadvantaged citizens and minority groups are necessary in order to shape a more equitable and socially-just urban future. It also points out how the pandemic amplified and magnified existing economic, social, spatial, and racial inequalities, particularly when it comes to housing. The chapter highlights how COVID-19 tore back the curtain on many of the pre-existing inequalities. It stresses that many of the solutions that scholars and advocates have been calling for many years, such as new social housing, banning unjust evictions, rent controls, and curbing property speculation, are just as relevant in the age of COVID-19 as they were before.
Pandemic-and Future-Proofing Cities: Pedestrian-oriented Development as an Alternative Model to Transit-based Intensification Centers
Authors: Leanage Neluka , Filion Pierre
Published: January 2022

Many official smart growth inspired Canadian plans limit sprawl by mixing land uses, transportation modes, jobs and residents to create compact, transit-oriented, multi-functional, intensification centres enriched with amenities and highly designed public spaces. However, these intensification strategies, built on new or expanded public transit systems at metropolitan, regional and local planning scales, face challenges amid the 2020 pandemic. Recovery from the combined COVID-19-induced loss of commercial activity in intensification centres and confidence in public transit could take years, and combined with an increased reliance on private vehicles, could undo decades of planning efforts at shifting unsustainable land use-transportation dynamics. This chapter proposes as an alternative, or complementary, intensification approach, a pedestrian-oriented development (POD) model inspired by the ‘15-minute city’ being considered across the world.
Highly sensitive biosensor based on an all-dielectric asymmetric ring metasurface
Authors: Chai Fumei , Fang Bo , Li Chenxia , Hong Zhi , Jing Xufeng
Published: January 2022

We propose an all-dielectric asymmetric ring-cylindrical metasurface. Based on the analysis of transmission characteristics and the calculation of electromagnetic field distribution of the metasurface with this element structure, it is found that the high

Q

resonance of the ultra-narrowband can be realized when the symmetry of the ring-cylindrical structure is broken. Meanwhile, it is found that the degree of asymmetry of the ring, the refractive index of the material, the radius of the ring, and the substrate have great influence on the

Q

value and resonant frequency of the metasurface. Our proposed metasurface structure is applied to the detection of biological molecules based on the change in refractive index of biomolecular solutions. The designed metasurface with high sensitivity to detect biomolecules with different refractive indices, the

Q

value can reach 365.03, and the sensitivity is increased by 90.36 GHz/RIU compared to that without substrate, while the figure of merit value is as high as 100.56, providing label-free detection of biomolecules.
Maximizing energy utilization in DMD-based projection lithography
Authors: Deng Ming-Jie , Zhao Yuan-Yuan , Liang Zi-Xin , Chen Jing-Tao , Zhang Yang , Duan Xuan-Ming
Published: January 2022

In digital micromirror device (DMD)-based projection photolithography, the throughput largely depends on the effectiveness of the laser energy utilization, which is directly correlated to the diffraction efficiency of DMD. Here, to optimize the DMD diffraction efficiency and thus the laser energy utilization, we calculate the diffraction efficiencies Ediffraction of DMD with various pitch sizes at wavelengths ranging from 200 nm to 800 nm, using the two-dimensional blazed grating diffraction theory. Specifically, the light incident angle is optimized for 343 nm laser and 7.56 μm pitch-size DMD, and the maximum single-order diffraction efficiency Ediffraction is increased from 40% to 96%. Experimentally, we use the effective energy utilization ηeff = Ediffraction,(m,n)/Σ[Ediffraction,(m,n)] at the entrance pupil plane of the objective to verify the effectiveness of the optimized illumination angle in a lithography illumination system with parallel beams of two wavelengths (343 nm and 515 nm). The ηeff of a “blaze” order at a 34° angle of incidence can be optimized up to 88%. The experimental results are consistent with the tendency of the calculated results, indicating that this optimization model can be used to improve the energy utilization of projection lithography with the arbitrarily designable wavelengths and the DMD’s pitch size.
Directional coupling with parity-time symmetric Bragg gratings
Authors: Hao Tianyi , Berini Pierre
Published: January 2022

Parity-time symmetric Bragg gratings produce unidirectional reflection around the exceptional point. We propose and explore directional coupling of gain and loss modulated waveguide Bragg gratings operating at around 880 nm with long-range surface plasmon polaritons. Step-in-width modulation of a Ag stripe supporting long-range plasmons combined with a periodic modulation of the cladding were used to balance the real and imaginary index perturbation of the gratings. IR140 dye molecules in solvent forms a portion of the uppercladding, providing gain under optical pumping. We investigate directional coupling between a pair of parity-time symmetric waveguide Bragg gratings operating near their exceptional point, arranged in various configurations - duplicate, duplicate-shifted and duplicate-flipped. We also investigate coupling to a bus waveguide and to a conventional waveguide Bragg grating. Unidirectional multi-wavelength reflection and coupled supermode conversion are predicted.
Photoluminescence enhancement in monolayer MoS2 and self-assembled 3D photonic crystal heterostructures
Authors: Wu Xijun , Zhang Chunyao , Ge Hongxin , Liu H. , Shang Zhencheng , Niu Yudong
Published: January 2022

Self-assembled photonic crystals (PCs) have promising applications in enhancing and directional manipulation of the photoemission due to their photonic bandgaps. Here, we employed self-assembled 3D polystyrene PCs to enhance the photoluminescence (PL) of monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Through tuning the photonic bandgap of the polystyrene crystals to overlap with the direct emission band of monolayer MoS2, the MoS2/3D-PC heterostructure showed a maximum 12-fold PL enhancement, and Rabi splitting was also observed in the reflection spectrum. The heterostructure is expected to be useful in nanophotonic emitting devices.
Low quantum defect random Raman fiber laser
Authors: Zhang Yang , Li Sicheng , Ye Jun , Ma Xiaoya , Xu Jiangming , Yao Tianfu , Zhou Pu
Published: January 2022

The random Raman fiber laser (RRFL) has attracted great attention due to its wide applications in optical telecommunication, sensing, and imaging. The quantum defect (QD), as the main source of thermal load in fiber lasers, could threaten the stability and reliability of the RRFL. Conventional RRFLs generally adopt silica fiber to provide Raman gain, and the QD exceeds 4%. In this letter, we propose and demonstrate a phosphosilicate-fiber-based low-QD RRFL. There is a strong boson peak located at the frequency shift of 3.65 THz in the phosphosilicate fiber we employed. By utilizing this boson peak to provide Raman gain, we demonstrated an 11.71 W temporally stable random Raman laser at 1080 nm under a pump wavelength of 1066 nm. The corresponding QD is 1.3%, less than one third of the QD of the common silica-fiber-based RRFL. Compared with the full-cavity low-QD Raman fiber laser, this cavity-less low-QD RRFL has lower and flatter noise in the high frequency area (>100 kHz). This work provides a reference for suppressing thermal-induced effects, such as thermal-induced mode instability, thermal noise, and even fiber fusing in RRFLs.
High-power yellow DSR pulses generated from a mode-locked Dy:ZBLAN fiber laser
Authors: Luo Saiyu , Gu Han , Tang Xiao , Geng Xiang , Li Li , Cai Zhiping
Published: January 2022

Ultrafast yellow lasers are in high demand in recent biomedical and medical applications; however, direct emission of mode-locked pulses in yellow at the high-power level still presents a huge technical challenge to date. By integrating the nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) scheme into a Dy:ZBLAN fiber laser, dissipative soliton resonance pulses at ∼575 nm are demonstrated for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The average output power reaches ∼240 mW at maximum, which is an improvement of almost two orders of magnitude over those reported from the latest mode-locked visible fiber lasers. The laser scheme combines a piece of large-core Dy:ZBLAN gain fiber and free-space NPR components designated at the yellow bandwidth. The maximal pulse energy is 2.4 nJ at the repetition rate of ∼100 MHz and the minimal pulse duration is 83 ps. The achieved wavelength of 575 nm is the shortest ever reached from a fiber-based mode-locked laser to date.
Characterization of Alternaria porri causing onion purple blotch and its antifungal compound magnolol identified from Caryodaphnopsis baviensis
Authors: Kim Min Young , Han Jae Woo , Dang Quang Le , Kim Jin-Cheol , Kim Hun , Choi Gyung Ja
Published: January 2022

Alternaria porri (Ellis) Clf. causes purple blotch disease on Allium plants which results in the reduction of crop yields and quality. In this study, to efficiently find natural antifungal compounds against A. porri, we optimized the culture condition for the spore production of A. porri and the disease development condition for an in vivo antifungal assay. From tested plant materials, the methanol extracts derived from ten plant species belonging to the families Cupressaceae, Fabaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Apocynaceae, Lauraceae, and Melastomataceae were selected as potent antifungal agents against A. porri. In particular, the methanol extract of Caryodaphnopsis baviensis (Lec.) A.-Shaw completely inhibited the growth of A. porri at a concentration of 111 μg/ml. Based on chromatographic and spectroscopic analyses, a neolignan compound magnolol was identified as the antifungal compound of the C. baviensis methanol extract. Magnolol showed a significant inhibitory activity against the spore germination and mycelial growth of A. porri with IC50 values of 4.5 and 5.4 μg/ml, respectively. Furthermore, when magnolol was sprayed onto onion plants at a concentration of 500 μg/ml, it showed more than an 80% disease control efficacy for the purple blotch diseases. In terms of the antifungal mechanism of magnolol, we explored the in vitro inhibitory activity on individual oxidative phosphorylation complexes I–V, and the results showed that magnolol acts as multiple inhibitors of complexes I–V. Taken together, our results provide new insight into the potential of magnolol as an active ingredient with antifungal inhibitory action to control purple blotch on onions.
How to perform Blackness: Creating possibilities through costume design
Authors: dos Santos Andreina Vieira
Published: January 2022

The creation of costumes for a Black body in performances that deal with Blackness always evokes the conflict in presenting complex facets of a socially stigmatized body, in face of a tool (costume) that usually works to categorize bodies onstage. In this article, I initially analyse how the Black body has been represented, for decades, on the stages of Brazilian theatre. I also try to understand how the theatre, in a structurally racist context, has become a place of resistance for the Brazilian Black Movement, as well as a political space to redefine what it means to be Black. Bringing in references from my own artistic research and practice as a costume designer in the performances Unrestricted Contact (Grupo Oito, 2017) and Black Memories on White Bones (Ricardo de Paula, 2019), I conduct this research that deals with the complexity of narrating Blackness through costumes that, together with the body, convey a process of deconstruction and decolonization within the performance.
Olhando o futuro no sexagésimo aniversário de Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit
Authors: Esteves João Pissarra , Borges Susana
Published: January 2022

É discutível que Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit seja a obra maior de Jürgen Habermas. Mas parece inquestionável ser este seu trabalho aquele que alcançou uma maior projeção pública (e também no meio académico e da ciência). A imagem correspondente é a de Habermas como o grande teórico do espaço público – por muito que ao próprio autor este rótulo se mostre menos adequado e, talvez até, pouco verdadeiro.
Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region
Authors: Jussila Jaakko , Nagy Emil , Lähtinen Katja , Hurmekoski Elias , Häyrinen Liina , Mark-Herbert Cecilia , Roos Anders , Toivonen Ritva , Toppinen Anne
Published: January 2022

Climate change sets high pressures on the construction industry to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Due to the carbon storage properties and potential to use renewable resources efficiently, wooden multi-storey construction (WMC) is an interesting alternative for the construction industry to enhance sustainable development combined with the aesthetic and well-being benefits of wood perceived among many consumers. For forest industry firms, industrial wood construction is a possibility to seek for business opportunities and bring socio-economic benefits for local economies. Despite positive drivers, WMC still remains a niche even in the forest-rich countries.The purpose of our study is to add understanding on the WMC market development by conducting a systematic literature analysis on international peer-reviewed studies from the past 20 years. Our special focus is on the role of WMC in the housing markets studied from the perspectives of the demand, supply and local governance factors. As specific aims, we 1) synthesize the key barriers and enabling factors for the WMC market growth; 2) identify the actors addressed in the existing studies connected to the WMC market development, and 3) summarize research methods and analytical approaches used in the previous studies. As a systematic method to make literature searches in Web of Science and Scopus for years 2000â2020, we employed PRISMA guidelines. By using pre-determined keywords, our searches resulted in a sample of 696 articles, of which 42 full articles were after selection procedure included in-depth content analysis. Our results showed cost-efficiency gains from industrialized prefabrication and perceived sustainability benefits by consumers and architects enabled a WMC market diffusion. The lack of experiences on the WMC, and path dependencies to use concrete and steel continue to be key barriers for increased WMC. Although our research scope was the global WMC market development, most of the literature concerned the Nordic region. The key actors covered in the literature were businesses (e.g., contractors, manufacturers and architects) involved in the wood construction value-chains, while residents and actors in the local governance were seldomly addressed. Currently, case studies, the use of qualitative data sets and focus on the Nordic region dominate the literature. This hinders the generalizability of findings in different regional contexts. In the future, more research is needed on how sustainability-driven wood construction value-chains are successfully shaping up in different geographical regions, and how they could challenge the dominant concrete-based construction regime.
Dostojność i codzienność akademickiego życia – wprowadzenie do wiodącej tematyki tomu
Authors: Drozdowicz Zbigniew , Sztajer Sławomir
Published: January 2022

Dostojność i codzienność akademickiego życia – wprowadzenie do wiodącej tematyki tomu
Patrón de asentamiento tardío y ecología cultural del alto Qaracha
Authors: Taquiri González Marco , Tello Quito Juan , González Alvarado Ricardo
Published: January 2022

El presente artículo muestra los resultados del poblamiento prehispánico tardío de la cuenca alta del Qaracha en la meseta altiplánica disectada de la región central de Ayacucho (3000 – 4000 m s. n. m.). El registro arqueológico permitió evaluar la extensión y diversidad de la ocupación territorial altoandina a una escala local y su relación con el medio ecológico. El poblamiento tardío de este territorio estuvo concentrado en grandes aldeas que generalmente suelen tener un núcleo central habitable con arquitectura de piedra. Los núcleos habitables presentan patrones homogéneos de tecnología constructiva y diseño espacial de grandes conjuntos de viviendas con corrales, terrazas y estructuras funerarias. Se discute la función te rritorial de las aldeas y se propone que este tipo de asentamientos constituyen una evidencia tangible para caracterizar un modelo de vida aldeana y la dinámica territorial prehispánica a una escala local, en un periodo de latente conflicto.
Comparison of frontostriatal circuits in adolescent nicotine addiction and internet gaming disorder
Authors: von Deneen Karen M. , Hussain Hadi , Waheed Junaid , Xinwen Wen , Yu Dahua , Yuan Kai
Published: January 2022

Background

Recently, there has been significantly increased participation in online gaming and other addictive behaviors particularly in adolescents. Tendencies to avoid social interaction and become more involved in technology-based activities pose the danger of creating unhealthy addictions. Thus, the presence of relatively immature cognitive control and high risk-taking properties makes adolescence a period of major changes leading to an increased rate of emotional disorders and addiction.

Aims

The critical roles of frontostriatal circuits in addiction have become the primary focus associated with reward in the striatum and cognitive control in the PFC. Internet gaming disorder (IGD) and nicotine addiction are currently becoming more and more serious.

Methods

In the light of neuroimaging, the similarity between brain mechanisms causing substance use disorder (SUD) and IGD have been described in previous literature.

Results

In particular, two distinct brain systems affect the way we act accounting for uncharacteristic neural function in addiction: the affective system comprises of the striatum driven by emotional, reward-related, and internal stimuli, and a cognitive system consisting of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) supporting the ventral affective system's actions via inhibitory control.

Discussion and Conclusion

Therefore, as a novel concept, we focused on the implication of frontostriatal circuits in nicotine addiction and IGD by reviewing the main findings from our studies compared to those of others. We hope that all of these neuroimaging findings can lead to effective intervention and treatment for addiction especially during this critical period.
Functional connectivity between the parahippocampal gyrus and the middle temporal gyrus moderates the relationship between problematic mobile phone use and depressive symptoms: Evidence from a longitudinal study
Authors: Zou Liwei , Wu Xiaoyan , Tao Shuman , Yang Yajuan , Zhang Qingjun , Hong Xuedong , Xie Yang , Li Tingting , Zheng Suisheng , Tao Fangbiao
Published: January 2022

Background and aim

Problematic mobile phone use (PMPU) is prevalent and increases the risk for a variety of health problems. However, few studies have explored the neural mechanisms that might render adolescents more or less vulnerable. Here, we aimed to identify whether PMPU is associated with depressive symptoms and whether this relationship is moderated by intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) which is associated with PMPU.

Methods

In this longitudinal study, we included 238 students (mean age = 19.05, SD = 0.81) that came from a university in Hefei, China. They all finished MRI scans at baseline and completed questionnaires both at baseline and 1 year later. A self-rating questionnaire for adolescent problematic mobile phone use and depression anxiety stress scale-21 were used to assess PMPU and depressive symptoms. We first assessed the relationship between PMPU and depressive symptoms using an autoregressive cross-lagged model. Then, we detected the brain regions that were associated with PMPU. Moreover, the neuroimaging results were extracted to explore whether the iFC of these brain regions moderated the relationship between PMPU and depression.

Results

Consistent with our hypotheses, PMPU was positively associated with depressive symptoms, and the relationship between PMPU and depressive symptoms was moderated by iFC of the left parahippocampal gyrus-right middle temporal gyrus both at baseline and after 1 year (β = 0.554, P = 0.003; β = 0.463, P = 0.016, respectively).

Conclusions

These results advance the understanding of PMPU and suggest that iFC of the left parahippocampal gyrus-right middle temporal gyrus may be a neurobiological contributor to its relationship with depressive symptoms.
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Published: January 2022

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Studying yawning behavior in preterm neonates before and after feeding v1
Authors: Menin Damiano , Dondi Marco
Published: January 2022

This protocol can be used to study yawning behavior in preterm neonates hospitalized in NICUs.
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Big data analytics for proactive industrial decision support
Authors: Atzmueller Martin , Klöpper Benjamin , Mawla Hassan Al , Jäschke Benjamin , Hollender Martin , Graube Markus , Arnu David , Schmidt Andreas , Heinze Sebastian , Schorer Lukas , Kroll Andreas , Stu Gerd
Published: January 2022

Big data technologies offer new opportunities for analyzing historical data generated by process plants. The development of new types of operator support systems (OSS) which help the plant operators during operations and in dealing with critical situations is one of these possibilities. The project FEE has the objective to develop such support functions based on big data analytics of historical plant data. In this contribution, we share our first insights and lessons learned in the development of big data applications and outline the approaches and tools that we developed in the course of the project.
Einheitliches Engineering für Laufzeitumgebungen
Authors: Wagner Constantin , Grothoff Julian , Epple Ulrich , Grüner Sten , Wenger Monika , Zoitl Alois
Published: January 2022

Ein Ziel von Industrie 4.0 ist die Steigerung der Flexibilität der industriellen Produktion. Gleichzeitig existiert eine Reihe von heterogenen Engineering- und Laufzeitsystemen, die das Rückgrat der heutigen Automatisierungssysteme bilden und nicht austauschbar sind. In diesem Kontext stellt sich die Frage: Wie können Engineeringsysteme mit unterschiedlichen Laufzeitumgebungen interagieren? Für die Lösung dieser Fragestellung muss sowohl die Kommunikation zwischen Engineeringsystemen und Laufzeitsystemen vereinheitlicht werden, als auch eine harmonisierte Vorstellung des zu bearbeitenden Systems erreichtwerden. In diesem Beitrag wird, unter Berücksichtigung von bestehenden Ansätzen, ein Metamodell für die Beschreibung von Softwareapplikationen vorgestellt, das von domänenspezifischen Implementierungen abstrahiert. Die einheitliche Schnittstelle für das Engineering führt dazu, dass in verteilten Systemen mit einer heterogenen Systemstruktur Engineeringsysteme mit unterschiedlichen Laufzeitumgebungen interagieren können. Der Beitrag schließt mit einem Mapping des vorgestellten Metamodells auf die Modelle der beiden im Forschungsprojekt BaSys 4.0 (Basissystem Industrie 4.0) verwendeten Systeme Eclipse 4diac und ACPLT/RTE.
Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy
Authors: Karsch Nicholas
Published: January 2022

The electrical impedance measurement of a suspension is a valid method to monitor crystallization processes. As it allows measurement of conductivity and permittivity it enables the characterization of non-conductive suspensions. The results obtained show that the concentration of an organic compound of interest can be determined by evaluating its electrical and thermal properties. As the analytical analysis of independent process parameters is a challenging task, a machine learning approach is investigated to extract essential parameter dependency for automated process control purposes.
Modulare Anlagenpraxis
Authors: Braun Roland , Stark Katharina , Kotsch Christoph , Makarov Oleg
Published: January 2022

Der vorliegende Artikel geht auf die Fragen der Interoperabilität zwischen Komponenten einer modular gestalteten Prozessautomatisierungsanlage mit dem Schwerpunkt Kommunikation über OPC UA ein. Die Richtlinie VDI/VDE/NAMUR 2658-5.1 ist technische Grundlage, deren praxisnahe Umsetzung hier erläutert werden soll.
Alternative für eine 4. Reinigungsstufe
Authors: Fryda Matthias , Behrendt-fryda Barbara , Heesch Linda , Bayer Anne , Sengl Manfred , Letzel Marion
Published: January 2022

Täglich gelangen Arzneimittel und andere Spurenstoffe in die Kläranlagen, wo sie nur unzureichend eliminiert werden. Um deren Eintrag ins Gewässer zu minimieren, werden derzeit Verfahren wie Ozonung und Aktivkohleadsorption eingesetzt. Diese entfernen jedoch selektiv nur bestimmte Stoffe. Im Projekt RISK-IDENT wurde daher untersucht, ob die Spurenstoffe mit elektrochemisch erzeugten Hydroxylradikalen unselektiv oxidiert werden. Das Verfahren zeichnet sich durch hohe Energieeffizienz und einfaches Handling aus. Erstes Ziel war die Entwicklung optimaler Einstellungen zur guten Elimination verschiedenster Spurenstoffe und geringer Bildung von Elektrolysenebenprodukte. Damit wurde im Laborversuch die ökotoxikologische Wirkung eines Kläranlagenablaufs bis unter die Nachweisgrenze gesenkt. Das getestete Verfahren ist eine vielversprechende Methode.
Biofilmverfahren mit hohem Nitrifikationspotenzial bei Abwassertemperaturen unter 12 °C
Authors: Steinbrenner Christine , Fichtner Nicole , Röske Isolde
Published: January 2022

Bei Temperaturen unter 12 °C bereitet die Nitrifikation bei einigen Verfahren zur Abwasserreinigung Schwierigkeiten. Das Wirbel-Schwebebett-Biofilmverfahren zeichnet sich durch eine stabile Nitrifikationsleistung auch bei Temperaturen unter 12 °C aus. Anhand von Messungen des Ammoniumumsatzes und des Ammoniumoxidationspotenzials konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass die Nitrifikation bei diesem Verfahren unabhängig von der Temperatur auch bei einer Schlammbelastung bis BTS = 0,5 kg BSB5/(kg TS · d) noch abläuft. Untersuchungen mittels Fluoreszenz in situ Hybridisierung zeigten, dass Ammoniumoxidierer unter diesen Bedingungen im Biofilm noch in ausreichender Zahl vorhanden sind.
Remixing News: Appropriation and Authorship in Finnish Counter-Media
Authors: Seuri Olli , Ramstedt Kim
Published: January 2022

This article outlines a first attempt at analysing counter-media publishing through the lens of remix theory. We concentrate on two key concepts—appropriation and authorship—which have a permanent standing in the remix research literature. To support our theoretical analysis, we investigate the coverage of two cases in the Finnish right-wing counter-media online publication MV-lehti. Our findings enable new readings on the nature of both counter-media work and remix culture. In fact, counter-media publishing leans more in the direction of remix culture—which is based on the act of using pre-existing materials to produce something new—than towards traditional journalistic convention, with its rules and ethical guidelines. MV-lehti’s practice of combining and layering different material is discernibly political, often resembling media activism. Our study provides the argument that counter to the utopian democratising assumptions of remix culture, the proliferation of remix practices has also given antidemocratic actors the means to challenge collectively and institutionally supported ideas of knowledge and justice. Counter-media publishing is perhaps democratising in that it offers the means to participate, but these antagonistic actors also remix news to undermine liberal-democratic ideals and social justice. Evidently, remix practices can be co-opted for a reactionary agenda.
Why Do People Return to Video Platforms? Millennials and Centennials on TikTok
Authors: Cuesta-Valiño Pedro , Gutiérrez-Rodríguez Pablo , Durán-Álamo Patricia
Published: January 2022

While some social networks like Facebook are losing interest among digital influencers, TikTok continues to grow, capturing and impacting centennials and millennials alike. This situation highlights the new generations’ increasing interest in short video formats, which are also becoming a new window of communication between companies and consumers. TikTok allows users to create, share, and discover short, user-generated videos in hopes of attracting viewers. But it is necessary to understand the variables that attract and engage users of these particular social networks. This article analyses the variables of continuance motivation, video sharing behaviour, and video creation capabilities, which allow users to enjoy such networks, and service providers and companies to obtain results from them. The aim is to understand how these variables motivate social media users to return to and spend more time on this video-sharing platform. This is measured through the stickiness variable. In this context—and due to the particular relevance of the topic—the authors also aim to reveal any potential differences in the behaviour of centennials and millennials when using TikTok. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was conducted through a questionnaire answered by 2,301 millennials and centennials who use TikTok. The data were analysed through a structural equation model to measure the relevance of each of the variables to stickiness. The results provide guidelines for improving research on video social media platforms, as well as an opportunity to explore the importance of the selected variables to the stickiness variable across different user segments.
Early and late postoperative complications of robot-assisted radical subcutaneous mastectomy with endoprosthesis
Authors: Kvetenadze G. E. , Shivilov E. V. , Arslanov Kh. S. , Zhukova L.  G. , Khatkov I.  E.
Published: January 2022

Over the past two decades, the surgical treatment of breast cancer (BC) has changed from standard radical mastectomies to organ-preserving and reconstructive plastic surgeries using endovideosurgical and robotic technologies.  Robot-assisted radical subcutaneous mastectomy, as a minimally invasive method of surgical treatment  of BC in the early stages, is recognized as safe and effective.

The results of robot-assisted radical subcutaneous mastectomy and radical subcutaneous mastectomy with endoprosthesis in 27 patients with histologically verified BC are presented. A comparative assessment of postoperative complications of robot-assisted radical subcutaneous mastectomy with endoprosthesis and radical subcutaneous mastectomy with endoprosthesis was performed. It was found that the postoperative period in robotic interventions is more favorable, which confirms the low need for analgesics, the absence of signs of the formation of hematomas of the surgical wound, as well as a decrease in the frequency of inflammatory infiltrates and gray soft tissues in the area of the postoperative suture. Performing a robot-assisted radical subcutaneous mastectomy with endoprosthesis can significantly improve the surgical and aesthetic results of BC treatment in the early stages of this disease.
RSSi-Based Visitor Tracking in Museums via Cascaded AI Classifiers and Coloured Graph Representations
Authors: Onofri Elia , Corbetta Alessandro
Published: January 2022

Individual tracking of museum visitors based on portable radio beacons, an asset for behavioural analyses and comfort/performance improvements, is seeing increasing diffusion. Conceptually, this approach enables room-level localisation based on a network of small antennas (thus, without invasive modification of the existent structures). The antennas measure the intensity (RSSi) of self-advertising signals broadcasted by beacons individually assigned to the visitors. The signal intensity provides a proxy for the distance to the antennas and thus indicative positioning. However, RSSi signals are well-known to be noisy, even in ideal conditions (high antenna density, absence of obstacles, absence of crowd, ...). In this contribution, we present a method to perform accurate RSSi-based visitor tracking when the density of antennas is relatively low, e.g. due to technical constraints imposed by historic buildings. We combine an ensemble of "simple" localisers, trained based on ground-truth, with an encoding of the museum topology in terms of a total-coloured graph. This turns the localisation problem into a cascade process, from large to small scales, in space and in time. Our use case is visitors tracking in Galleria Borghese, Rome (Italy), for which our method manages >96% localisation accuracy, significantly improving on our previous work (J. Comput. Sci. 101357, 2021).
A comparative analysis of genetic diversity of natural elk (Alces alces L.) populations from European Russia and Sumarokov elk farm population
Authors: Makeeva Vera M. , Smurov Andrey V. , Kaledin Anatoliy P. , Ostapchuk Artem M. , Alazneli Ivan D. , Snegin Eduard A.
Published: January 2022

AIM: The aim of the study is to compare the genetic diversity of two natural elk populations from the hunting farms in adjacent regions (Kostromskaya and Yaroslavskaya oblasts) with that of the man-made population of an elk farm.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The genetic diversity analysis was carried out using DNA-markers represented by nine microsatellite loci (169 samples).
RESULTS: The genetic diversity level in the wild populations is reliably higher than in the elk farm population: the average allele-per-locus numbers (NA) for the natural populations are 9.0 and 8.6 respectively, for the elk farm population 5.9. All the populations studied do not differ in average heterozygosity level. The allele frequency heterogeneity test shows that all the populations differ in 6 loci and a sum of 9 loci, the natural populations differ in 5 loci, and the elk farm population differs from both the natural ones in the same 3 loci. The inbreeding coefficient for the Yaroslavskaya population (0.167) is way higher than for the Kostromskaya population (0.053), it is 0.165 for the elk farm population. With the identified gene flow (Nm = 16.7), the genetic divergence of the wild populations persists, so they do not stem from a single population.
CONCLUSIONS: The slump found in the genetic diversity of natural elk population points to the necessity of gene pool enrichment, and the high inbreeding in wild populations implies that control over gene pool is needed.
Direct Estimation of Explosion Pn Green’s Functions Applied to Teleseismic P-wave Intercorrelations for North Korean Nuclear Tests
Authors: Lay Thorne
Published: January 2022

Seismic yields and explosion source time functions for the six declared underground nuclear tests at the North Korean test site are estimated using teleseismic waveform equalization (intercorrelation) incorporating improved source structure inferred from regional distance Pn phases. Explosion source time functions estimated by previous modeling efforts are deconvolved from the broadband Pn observations to extract direct estimates of the Pn Green’s functions. Very consistent signals are found for station MDJ (to the north) for all but the 2006 event, and a 1D layered elastic model is determined that matches the corresponding pPn signals for the larger events. The much simpler Pn Green’s functions found for INCN (to the south) are well modeled using a half-space structure. The 1D structures are incorporated into intercorrelations for teleseismic P observations. Very similar results are found using the layered MDJ model for all azimuths, or when azimuthally varying the source velocity model to have a half-space structure for stations to the south, and/or using a half-space structure for the 2006 event at all azimuths. The relative yield estimates from intercorrelation are thus stable with respect to specific 1D source structures; the full effects of 3D elastic and nonelastic structures are yet to be considered.
Assessing Judges' Perceptions of the Quality of Competence to Stand Trial Reports
Authors:   , Tansey Aislinn , DeMatteo David S.
Published: January 2022

Competence to stand trial evaluations (CST) are the most commonly conducted forensic mental health assessment (FMHA). Thus, it is crucial to examine components of CST evaluations under the guidelines of best practices. CST evaluations typically result in a written report, and prior research has indicated that these reports are highly influential to judges presiding over CST hearings. After Heilbrun (2001) published 29 principles of FMHA, Heilbrun et al. (2009) published an expanded list of 38 principles of FMHA that are meant to steer forensic evaluators through the process of FMHA and provide best practice guidelines. This study aims examined the impact that Heilbrun's principles of FMHA have on judges' perceptions of CST reports. The participants were split into three groups, one group receiving a high principle adherence report, one group receiving a moderate principle adherence report, and one receiving a low principle adherence report. The judges then rated the quality of the reports. The results demonstrated that there was no significant relationship between the level of adherence to the principles of FMHA and judges' perceptions of the quality of the report. Findings indicate that judicial decision makers do not hold forensic mental health reports to the same standards that psychologists do.
Innovation in Corporate Finance
Authors:   , Sperling Polina , Lowry Michelle B
Published: January 2022

This dissertation focuses on corporate innovation. The three essays explore different aspects of how corporations manage, motivate, and use their innovation. The first essay explores patent litigation as a competitive tool used either by large corporations with declining innovation capabilities or by corporations facing greater competition from innovative industry rivals. Results suggest that large firms are more likely to pursue patent litigation to deter competition from startups that tend to generate patents with more forward citations. The second essay focuses on a firm's decision to pursue innovation and lobbying to form competitive barriers. The essay finds that the largest firms produce most of the knowledge output within an economy as measured by firm-year forward citations. Similarly, lobbying is shown to be predominant among the largest firms. The essay further studies a specific type of innovation, Clean Technology, and how large corporations' success in clean technology development influences their decision to pursue lobbying activities. Overall, the findings suggest that firms' engagement in lobbying depends on the success of their innovation activities. This finding is consistent the protectionist role of lobbying when firms pursue lobbying to protect the status quo. Lastly, the third essay looks at how firms motivate innovation through the board of directors. The essay examines director equity compensation as a mechanism used to align the boards' incentives with the incentives of shareholders. Results support the incentives alignment mechanism, and they highlight the important role that the board of directors plays in the pursuit of corporate innovation
INTEGRATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND STARTUPS IN THE LIGHT OF THE SINGULARITY AND LIMITED RATIONALITY
Authors: Lacerda Rogerio Tadeu de Oliveira , Bernardes Mayara Lucia , Ribeiro Ana Maria Simões , Simon Bianca dos Santos , Camargo Anelise Stangarlin de
Published: January 2022

The article aims to answer the following research questions: What challenges does the academy face to improve the critical thinking of its entrepreneurial students using the action learning approach? And, what are the reactions and alternatives that students present to the singularity and limited rationality when solving a problem? To this end, a qualitative approach is used through participant observation in three case studies of companies participating in an interdisciplinary project developed at one of the best Brazilian federal university. From the cases, it is possible to perceive points such as: Prevalence of fear of failure by students; Initial research using an optimal and generic solution from the scientific literature or similar examples; Students' understanding that internal organization and learning management are more important than the technical solutions; The singularity of the startup problem, coupled with the limitation of facts and data, led the group to decide more on startup studies  than generic bibliographic research on the problem or the benchmarking; and The solution validation process was carried out by the legitimacy of the entrepreneur, instead of statistical or economic validation.
Hybrid Corporeality and the Multiplicity of Human Death: A Post-Anthrocentric Perspective
Authors: Sokolovskiy Sergei
Published: January 2022

Rapid development of cognitive and neurosciences undermined the Cartesian view on the human body as a bounded and autonomous entity. A plethora of publications on enhanced memory, external cognition, extended mind, embodied self, or distributed corporeality confirms the view that the human body and mind are not self-contained entities, producing the world as a prosthetic set of “extensions” or parts of hybrid wholes, which we interpret as cyborganic assemblages. However, in this abundance of documented entanglements of bodies and minds with their surrounding settings, of fusions of corporeality with inert matter, there is scarce, if any, reflection on the posthumous fate of these hybrids and on the multiple forms of their deterioration, that establish what the author provisionally describes as multiplicity of human death. The paper presents the analysis of various forms of human body and inanimate matter integration and their posthumous persistence or deterioration. The view on the human body as multiple provides corollary of its death as a multimodal, manifold set of events, distinguishing biological, lived, and social bodies and their heterochronous deaths. The heterochronicity of human death is illustrated with the description of private commemorative practices that form a geography, distinct from the usual public commemoration places.
The Association Between Educational Attainment and Mortality: Examining Absolute and Relative Effects by Race/Ethnicity
Authors: Brite Jennifer
Published: January 2022

Objectives: To determine whether the as­sociation between educational attainment and mortality varies by race/ethnicity on the absolute and relative scales, including among understudied races/ethnicities.Methods: Data were obtained from the US National Longitudinal Mortality Study (1983-1984). Hazard models for adults aged ≥25 years (n=725,756) with race/ethnicity by educational interaction terms were used to test relative interaction; linear bino­mial models were used to test for absolute interaction.Results: For the most part, educational gradients in mortality did not differ across race/ethnicity on the multiplicative scale. Conversely, additive interactions appear to be significant. Blacks gained more in terms of reduced mortality rates for each additional year of schooling. The educa­tional gradient in Whites is also notable as the lowest educated Whites have similar absolute numbers of expected deaths as Blacks similarly educated. At higher levels of education, Whites gain substantially in terms of longer longevity. The educational gradient in Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans is narrower compared to both Whites and Blacks.Conclusions: The association between educational attainment and mortality does not function uniformly across race/ethnicity. Ethn Dis. 2022;32(1):1-10; doi:10.18865/ed.32.1.1
Navigating Access to Cancer Care: Identifying Barriers to Precision Cancer Medicine
Authors: Cooper Kayla E. , Abdallah Khadijah E. , Angove Rebekah S.M. , Gallagher Kathleen D. , Bonham Vence L.
Published: January 2022

Objective: Precision medicine is revolu­tionizing cancer treatment. However, there has been limited investigation of barriers patients endure to access precision cancer medicine. This study aims to report the experiences of underserved patient popula­tions with limited access to genomic testing, clinical trials, and precision cancer treat­ment.Methods: A mixed-method study was employed to quantitatively evaluate patients (N=300) seeking precision cancer medi­cine between January 2014- August 2017. Qualitatively, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight case managers who navigate the health care and health insur­ance systems to provide patients with access to precision cancer medicine care. All inter­views were analyzed to identify themes.Results: Within our patient cohort, 69% were diagnosed in stage I of cancer disease. Overall, 27 patients (9%) were denied treat­ment as a final outcome of their case due to insurance denials, 35 patients (12%) died before gaining access to precision cancer medicine, and 6 patients (2%) received precision cancer medicine through clinical trials. Four broad thematic areas emerged from the qualitative analysis: 1) lack of patient, provider and insurer knowledge of precision cancer medicine; 2) barriers to clinical trial participation; 3) lack of patient health literacy; and 4) barriers to timely access to care.Conclusion: Our combined analyses sug­gest that both system-level and patient-level barriers limit patient access to precision cancer medicine options. Additionally, we found that these barriers may exist not only for traditionally underserved patients, but also for resourced and insured patients trying to access precision cancer medicine. Ethn Dis. 2022;32(1):39-48; doi:10.18865/ed.32.1.39
Bohaterowie serialu Netflixa „Szkoła dla elity” między transgresją a tragizmem
Authors: Rawski Jakub
Published: January 2022

The main objective of the text is to analyze the character creations in the Netﬂix series Elite through two reading models: transgression and tragedy. Both concepts are so broad that they became the starting point for subsequent levels of interpretation. Research categories from methodological ﬁelds such as anthropology of culture (theory of abjection), the semiotics of popular culture, mythographic criticism, and hermeneutics of suspicion also turned out to be useful. The methodological eclecticism used allowed us to present as broadly as possible the cognitively attractive fate of the characters of Elite.
Feministyczne tropy w „Obiecującej Młodej Kobiecie” Emerald Fennell
Authors: Klan Maria
Published: January 2022

The article is an attempt to analyze the ﬁlm Promising Young Woman directed by Emerald Fennell. It contains references to feminist ﬁlm criticism and other works on this subject. It largely focuses on the visual and musical layer of production.
Różowe lata sześćdziesiąte. Kulturowy pejzaż dekady w filmach „sexploitation”
Authors: Christ Rafał
Published: January 2022

Reading sexploitation through the most important socio-political contexts of the 1960s, the article shows the myriad of meanings that arise at the intersection of the threat of censorship, the low cultural status of these movies and the language based on the tension between manifestation of the sexual revolution and the moral panic that came with it. The author looks for the value of these cheap, poorly made productions by using the theory of sexual mimetic aspects to show the way in which these movies affected viewers. In this take, sexploitation becomes a portrait of the decade of cultural transformation of US society.