bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Study of vertebrate animals of the Barabin and Ishim forest steppe and Kulunda steppe for preparation of the third edition of the Red book of the Omsk region
Authors:   Omsk State Pedagogical University, Sidorov Gennady N. , Odintsev Oleg A. ,   Omsk State Pedagogical University, Kislyi Alexander A. ,   Omsk State Pedagogical University, Odintseva Antonina A. ,   Omsk State Pedagogical University
Published: September 2022

The article presents the results of monitoring of the conditions of vertebrate populations included in the Red Book of the Omsk Region (2015) in the territories of the Azov German National, Gorkovsky, Kalachinsky, Kormilovsky, Nizhneomsky, Okoneshnikovsky, Omsk, and Cherlaksky municipal districts within the area of ​​24 000 square km. 97 respondents with an average experience of observing animals and working in nature for 27 years were interviewed. 67 key sites were surveyed by scientific methods. Monitoring was carried out to search for all 107 species recorded in the Red Book (2015) in the mentioned area and species left in that area by 2021. 79 species of animals were found. After examining its entire territory, it is proposed to exclude the following species from the Red Book of the Omsk region: siberian loach, siberian sculpin, common crane, black woodpecker and the gray shrike. The status of protection of the savka and bustard should be changed to the first category, the little bittern, white-eyed pochard and the Eurasian hoopoe - to the second category, the red-necked grebe, Siberian salamander and the gray-cheeked grebe, Siberian salamander and the greater spotted eagle - to the fifth category of rarity status.
The study of the thermoregulatory behavior of reptiles during subcutaneous implantation of thermorecorders
Authors:   Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Chetanov Nikolai A. , Litvinov Nikolai A. ,   Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Ganshchuk Svetlana V. ,   Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Galiulin Danila M. ,   Perm State University
Published: September 2022

The article presents an attempt to characterize the thermoregulatory behavior of reptiles without direct observation of them by comparing the data of two thermal recorders: one sewn subcutaneously to the object of study and one placed in the biotope. The main difficulties that arise in the course of such studies are identified, and the most important conditions for successful implementation are identified. Based on the analysis of our own data, five main forms of thermoregulatory behavior in reptiles are identified and described.
The microbiome state of lower parts of the reproductive tract in pregnant women infected with Ureaplasma urealyticum depending on the colonization degree
Authors:   E.A. Vagner Perm State Medical University, Afanasievskaya Elizaveta V. , Melnikova Tatiana A. ,   Clinical Multidisciplinary Medical Center of Perm State Medical University named after Academician E.A. Wagner, Gorovitz Eduard S. ,   E.A. Vagner Perm State Medical University, Nikolaeva Nina V. ,   E.A. Vagner Perm State Medical University
Published: September 2022

Assessment of the microbiome state of the lower parts of the reproductive tract in pregnant women infected with various concentrations of Ureaplasma urealyticum. Bacterioscopic and bacteriological tests of the vaginal secretions of 112 pregnant women infected with Ureaplasma urealyticum were performed using traditional methods. Isolated microorganisms were identified mainly up to the genus level. Ureaplasma urealyticum was isolated by the generally accepted quantitative variant of the bacteriological test. In 85.7% of pregnant women infected with U. urealyticum, coccoid and mixed morphotypes of bacteria prevailed in smears, whereas in conditionally healthy ones they were detected in 12.5% of samples. They were most often found to have an inflammatory reaction, key cells and a positive amine test. Changes in the qualitative and quantitative composition of the microbiome of the vaginal biotope—a decrease in the titer of resident microorganisms and an increase in the spectrum and number of opportunistic pathogens—were recorded in more than 80% of infected pregnant women. These disorders were more significant in the subgroup of pregnant women with high genital colonization with U. urealyticum. As a result, bacterial vaginosis and vaginitis were statistically significantly more common in infected women. Normocenosis was registered in 47.6% of cases, compared to 77.5% in the comparison group. U. urealyticum infection of the lower parts of the reproductive tract in pregnant women leads to significant violations of the microbiome of the vaginal biotope accompanied by the development of bacterial vaginosis (BV) and vaginitis. The probability of their development increases with a rise in the titer of ureaplasmas.
Influence of temperature stress on the spectrum of fatty acids of Vibrio cholerae strains
Authors:   Rostov-on-Don Antiplague Research Institute, Shipko Elena S. , Duvanova Olga V. ,   Rostov-on-Don Antiplague Research Institute
Published: September 2022

Under conditions of simulated temperature stress gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry was used to study the spectrum of fatty acids of strains of Vibrio cholerae O1, O139, non O1/non O139 serogroups with a different set of pathogenicity determinants isolated from patients and from water samples of surface water bodies. Significant differences in the composition of fatty acids under cold and heat stress in the cells of the causative agent of cholera relative to control samples were revealed. The strains isolated from the water of surface reservoirs differed in the spectrum of fatty acids under cold stress from the strains isolated from patients. In strains isolated from water, a decrease in cultivation temperature to 23 °C was accompanied by the synthesis of docosanoic, tetracosanoic and hexacosanoic acids and to 4 °C - an increase in the amount of tetradecanoic and hexadecanoic acids. While in strains isolated from patients, a decrease in cultivation temperature caused a regular increase in hexadecenoic acids. and octadecenoic acids. The reaction to heat stress in most of the studied strains regardless of the set of pathogenicity determinants and the source of isolation had a general trend: an increase in the total amount of saturated fatty acids, the synthesis of trans-isomers of unsaturated fatty acids and the appearance of ω-alicyclic and iso-branched fatty acids. In addition to the remodeling of the fatty acid composition of the membrane under the influence of temperature stress, the synthesis of oxylipins, phenylpropanoids and terpenoids, possibly playing the role of adaptogens, was noted.
Conditions and reproduction of Lower Don populations of Hedysarum grandiflorum Pall. (Fabaceae)
Authors:   Southern Federal University, Karasyova Tatiana A. , Ermolaeva Olga Yu. ,   Southern Federal University, Bakulin Semyon D. ,   Southern Federal University, Pukalov Mikhail E. ,   Southern Federal University
Published: September 2022

The article presents the results of the monitoring research of Hedysarum grandiflorum Lower Don basin populations (Rostov Region). Eight new populations of the species are revealed in the region, their habitat conditions are described. Quantitative characters of populations studied and coenotic role of H. grandiflorum are lower than it is observed in optimal conditions. In relation to their ontogenetic structure, the populations are normal, mostly incomplete, having right-sided or centered ontogenetic spectrum. According to delta-omega classification, they belong to mature and ripening; according to replacement index, most of them are unstable or rarely perspective. The principal limiting factors in populations observed are an anthropogenic impact, mainly grazing, and partially discordance between climatic conditions of the region and ecologic requirements of the plant species. H. grandiflorum coenopopulations of the Aksay District are characterized by extremely low number and proportion of the viable seeds per fruit because of seed developmental disorder. Actual seed productivity values vary significantly between years that may condition fluctuations of total seed productivity per individual plant and cause an irregular renewal by seed. In years good for seed maturing, seed productivity of H. grandiflorum may be considered satisfactory.
Argentine Literature on Both Sides of the Ocean: Julio Cortázar and Manuel Puig
Authors:   Perm State University, Chagina Anastasia P.
Published: September 2022

The article analyzes and compares two Argentine novels of the mid-twentieth century, Rayuela (Hopscotch), 1963, by Julio Cortázar and Traición de Rita Hayworth (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth), 1968, by Manuel Puig. The writers are similar in their innovativeness, a thirst for experimentation. Both of them mainly worked outside Argentina, which also influenced the poetics of the novels. The parallelism between the creative searches and the life situations provides a basis for comparing these Latin American authors. We show that that J. Cortázar creates a complex intellectual work. Together with the heroes, the author reflects on the future of the novel as a genre and the possibility of creating an antinovel, while at the same time embodying some of the ideas of the Nouveau Roman writers (N. Sarrott, A. Robbe-Grillet, etc.) in practice: he destroys the usual forms of narration and involves the reader in the process of the novel-creation. M. Puig turns to pop art and mass culture. Following the Nouveau Roman writers, he discards the plot and the main character. On the pages of the novel, Puig captures the image of a typical provincial town with the precision of a movie camera; remaining ‘behind the lens’, he ‘disappears’ from the narrative and allows the characters to tell the story themselves. The article concludes that both novels are complex postmodern works in which the influence of deconstructivism and poststructuralism is obvious. J. Cortázar and M. Puig adhere to different approaches to the novel, but both strive to find new forms of narration, to take a different look at the novel as a genre, which indicates a certain unity of Argentine literature created outside Argentina.
Barthes’ Semiotic Analysis: Advantages, Limitations and Prospects
Authors:   Perm State University, Vetrova Kristina O.
Published: September 2022

The article provides an overview of semiotic analysis offered by Roland Barthes, its advantages and limitations. The author argues that the methodology presented by Barthes in his work The Rhetoric of the Image (1964) could become a basis for a more complex methodology of multimodal texts analysis in the field of advertising. In The Rhetoric of the Image Barthes demonstrates how to distinguish and analyze advertising messages based on the advert of the Italian pasta ‘Panzani’. Barthes’ methodology includes identification of advertising messages and their meanings. Barthes provides a description of the images and messages that the ‘Panzani’ advert contains. Those messages are linguistic, connoted and denoted. The methodology of semiotic analysis enables one to explore denoted and connoted meanings of the advertising message of a multimodal advertising text. According to Barthes, the connoted meaning is derived from the denoted meaning of the advertising message. This aspect makes the most valuable advantage of Barthes’ approach. The idea of connoted meaning also relates to another Barthes’ concept of myth integration. Myths might be integrated into advertising and thus convey a deeper meaning of it. The proposed methodology might be applied to analysis of multimodal advertising texts as their structure is formed by elements from different semiotic systems. However, the elimination of a recipient outlines one of the limitations of the proposed methodology since it makes one focus only on the linguistic features and ignore the perception process. Cognitive approach to multimodal texts could help to overcome this limitation. Due to analysis of conceptual domains of different structural components of a multimodal text it might be possible to explore interconnection mechanisms between the components.
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Little Tragedies: the Category of the Tragic in ‘The Monk’s Tale’
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Ibragimova Karina R.
Published: September 2022

The article examines the implementation of the category of the tragic in The Monk’s Tale, which is part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The purpose of this work is to clarify the concepts ‘tragedy’ and ‘the tragic’ in the culture of the Late Middle Ages, as well as their interpretation in Chaucer’s oeuvre. The focus is on the specific understanding of these terms in the Middle Ages: since the genre of dramatic tragedy became a thing of the past along with Antiquity, the word ‘tragedy’ began to be used by poets and scribes of the Middle Ages to specify a distinct type of narration that deals with the power of fate as the main theme. The need to identify what works Chaucer used as examples to follow, as well as to study the peculiarity of the category of the tragic in The Monk’s Tale, determined the choice of methods for the analysis of the material. The research employs culture-historical, comparative-typological, and biographical methods of analysis. It has been established that, relying on the Latin (Boethius) and Italian models (Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio), Chaucer perceived ‘tragedy’ as a variation of the ‘fall of princes’ story. Both Chaucer and Boccaccio were interested in the study of earthly life, the search for a connection between human behavior and human fate, and the image of Fortune. However, the Italian poet did not call his works ‘tragedies’, while Chaucer did: his character, the Monk, tells seventeen stories about the victims of Fortune, among which there were both sinners and relatively innocent people. Our analysis has shown that the main point in Chaucer’s understanding of the category of the tragic is the fundamental incomprehensibility of the ways of fate. Focusing on the category of the tragic, Chaucer receives the opportunity to explore the irrationality of human existence.
Personification in the Speech of a Child Narrator (a Case Study of Novels ‘Room’ by E. Donoghue and ‘All the Lost Things’ by M. Sacks)
Authors:   Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Nikolina Natalia N.
Published: September 2022

The article examines personification in the speech of a child narrator. Along with other grammatical and lexical features of a child’s speech, the use of personification by children is distinguished. Personification in a child’s speech, as well as in human speech, can be explained by metaphorical nature of human thinking as well as anthropocentrism of human thinking and speech. Personification can be a characteristic of the speech of a child narrator in fiction intended for adult readership. It is worth noticing that the use of a child narrator as a device is not new in literature. In the course of research, we conducted an analysis of two modern novels written in English: Room by Emma Donoghue (2010) and All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks (2019). The two novels tell the reader about a traumatic experience that happened to the children or their significant others. The novels discuss the topics of abuse (physical and psychological), abduction, isolation, lying and memory. The narrators in the chosen novels are children of preschool and primary school age (5 and 7 years old). The analysis of the narrators’ speech allowed us to find numerous examples of personification, expressed by different parts of speech. All the found examples can be divided into groups according to the object of personification: household items and objects of the world, parts of the human body, animals, abstract notions, plants, and inorganic nature. The analysis showed that personification as a characteristic of speech can fulfill several functions: make the narrator more plausible, express the narrator’s emotions, communicate the reader the information that is crucial for the understanding of the plot.
DIGITAL NATIVES AS A NEW CONSUMERS: THE EFFECT OF ROLE MODEL ON BEHAVIROURAL INTENTION IN GENERATION Z
Authors: YASA Yesevi Alperen , KUŞ Ahmet Salim , SAYAN Nilay
Published: September 2022

Generation Z, called digital natives, differs in many ways from other generations. Examining the effects of role models on the behavioural intentions of Generation Z helps develop correct marketing strategies. Individuals regard their family, celebrities, respected people, business people, friends, teachers and many different people from different segments of the society as role models and are affected by them. In this context, it is important to understand who Z generation takes role models and how they are affected by role models in the digitalized world. The aim of this study is to determine the examine of role model structure on behavioral intention on generation Z. The data were collected from 415 participants via questionnaire forms, using the convenience sampling method. The data were analysed by using SPSS 26 package program and SPSS Process macro. Results show that brand loyalty, WOM, product switching and complaint behaviour have a positive effect on role model.
Anatomy of a New Copyright Librarian
Authors: Kendall Susan K.
Published: September 2022

My journey to working with copyright at the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries began with images for medical education. I was Coordinator for Health Sciences at the Libraries, during which time instructors creating a new online curriculum asked for clear guidance on images they could include.  Over a period of years, I negotiated licenses with major medical publishers to allow image use from our subscription resources for this purpose.  Through this project, I grew my expertise and knowledge about copyright issues, which gave me confidence to propose taking on the part-time copyright librarian position when the existing copyright librarian retired. I’m now in the position and enjoy collaborating with people across the MSU Libraries and across subject areas to promote understanding of copyright for teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Being a Copyright Professional in Museum and Library Land
Authors: Hammons Kiowa
Published: September 2022

A big lesson I’ve learned in my career as a copyright specialist is that copyright is an inevitable and essential factor for collecting institutions, but is often overlooked. I attended the Pratt Institute in New York for an MLIS with the intention of working as a librarian in a museum or public library, but as I neared graduation I found the job market and my focus wavering. An internship at Exit Art Gallery digitizing their archives showed me the growing importance of digitization for preservation and access. This internship led me to a job at The Whitney Museum in their Rights and Reproductions department: licensing images and contacting rights holders for permission to use their work. I was finding a unique pathway to archives and collections through copyright research, and the desire of cultural institutions to make these collections more accessible was one I believed in. These skills coalesced when I started at The New York Public Library as a Rights Coordinator, and later as a Manager leading a team to facilitate digitization. The library offered vast collections with copyright webs to untangle, and gave me the chance to utilize my degree as a library specialist in copyright.
Copyright Buddies: Cultivating Teamwork to Support Our Copyright Journey
Authors: Beck Susan E. , Lee Norice
Published: September 2022

Our journey to gaining copyright competence started many years ago but from two different points. Susan was teaching an information literacy course and needed to quickly come up to speed to present a unit to her students on copyright and fair use. This led to a book chapter on using fair use cases in the classroom, to taking courses on copyright, attending copyright conferences, and working with New Mexico State University (NMSU) general counsel on an all-campus copyright compliance module. As a newly minted Access Services department head at NMSU Library, Norice traveled down the copyright road from a library services management perspective, developing copyright policies for interlibrary loan, e-reserves, and copy center services. In time, she partnered with the university’s general counsel and others to present copyright sessions across campus. She now regularly teaches copyright to medical students at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (Burrell) and has led the development of that college’s copyright policy and guidelines. Our U.S.-Mexico border region is somewhat of a information resource desert, with few academic libraries and librarians nearby to learn from and lean on. We soon became copyright buddies, developing a tag-team approach to helping each other navigate perplexing copyright questions, bouncing ideas and scenarios off one another to support and help each other grow and gain expertise.
Dietary molybdenum may stimulate the growth of colonic sulfur reducing bacteria, increasing hydrogen sulfide levels in the human colon and the possible health effects of an excess of colonic sulfides
Authors: Brian James Grech
Published: September 2022

Molybdenum is a trace mineral needed in small quantities by most life forms. In living organisms, a molybdenum atom is found within molybdenum-dependent enzymes or molybdoenzymes. Molybdoenzymes catalyze reactions in carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen metabolism. Only four molbdoenzymes have been identified in humans. Most of the known molybdoenzymes are found in bacteria. Dietary molybdenum can be administrated to humans, to treat Wilson disease and tungsten poisoning; and it may be useful in arthritis. Sulfur-reducing bacteria are the bacterial group that reduces certain sulfur molecules to hydrogen sulfide. These bacteria can inhabit anaerobic parts of the gastrointestinal tract of mammals and are the predominant producer of hydrogen sulfide in the human colon. Hydrogen sulfide plays a major role in the malodor of human flatus. Some individuals have reported an increase in foul odoriferous gases from the colon after molybdenum supplementation. The underlying mechanism as to how this occurs is currently not known. Possible bacteria that are involved could be sulfur-reducing bacteria and methionine dissimilating bacteria. Supplementing sheep with molybdenum and with sulfur exclusively in the form of methionine can stimulate the growth of sulfur-reducing bacteria and increase the level of sulfides in the rumen. The molybdoenzyme, thiosulfate reductase, is found in sulfur-reducing bacteria and catalyzes the reduction of thiosulfate to hydrogen sulfide. The source of thiosulfate could be from ruminal epithelial cells detoxifying methanethiol, produced by methionine dissimilating bacteria, degrading the dietary methionine to methanethiol. Therefore, the molybdenum could be activating thiosulfate reductases of sulfur-reducing bacteria in the rumen of these animals. The human colon can also harbor sulfur-reducing bacteria, and dietary molybdenum and methionine can reach this organ. Therefore, dietary molybdenum may be stimulating the growth of sulfur-reducing bacteria in some individuals. Sulfides in the human colon could have beneficial and detrimental effects on health. Such effects could include the already mentioned malodor of flatus, the stabilizing of the microbiome-mucosa interface in an intestinal dysbiosis, the treatment of hypertension and the promotion of inflammation in ulcerative colitis.
Molybdenum supplementation may increase sulfides in the human colon
Authors: Brian James Grech
Published: September 2022

I have observed what seems to be a rare but novel symptom that has not been documented in the medical literature, in a subject that I have been studying. The observation was a worsening of flatus and stool odor in this subject, a few days after the subject started an unphysiologically high dose of dietary molybdenum.
An Investigation on the Safety Management Policy and Characteristics of Domestic Plasma-derived Medicinal Products
Authors:   The Pharmaceutical Society Of Korea, Kim Ji Yeon , Choi Min Joung , Ki Sung Hwan , Lee Wonjae
Published: September 2022

Plasma-derived medicinal products (PDMPs) are pharmaceuticals prepared using proteins in plasma, a liquid component of blood. Regarding the use of human blood as a raw material in PDMP manufacturing, it has unique characteristics unlike other pharmaceuticals (for example, limitations of scientific identification, finiteness of blood, and risk of infection through disease pathogens, such as the human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus in the blood). The safety management policy of PDMPs in Korea started with the enactment of the Blood Management Act in 1970. After that, the current safety management system was established through product approval management according to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act in 2006, higher standards of safety management for imported source plasma in 2009, and expansion of management standards for source plasma in 2012. The safety management of PDMPs involves several important policies. Public management has been carried out by the Korean Red Cross and national government, and domestic plasma should be used first, while imported plasma may be used only if there is not enough. Additionally, to ensure blood products safety, plasma testing, inventory hold, and plasma master file reporting obligations are being implemented. In addition, it is managed as a subject of national lot release, which should also be quality-confirmed by the country. Because the supply of domestic source plasma, which is the raw material of PDMPs, has shown a decreasing trend in recent years, continuous monitoring and preparation is required. In this study, we describe the history of safety management policies, including the definition and classification of PDMPs, product status, usage status of source plasma, and the related policy guidelines and characteristics.
Title: Ultrasound-Guided Dry Needling versus Traditional Dry Needling for patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial v1
Authors: C.Y. Pang Johnson
Published: September 2022

Abstract OBJECTIVE: To compare the effect of ultrasound (US)-guided dry needling (DN) with traditional DN in the treatment of pain and dysfunction for patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). DESIGN: A double-blind, randomized controlled trial. METHODS: Patients (25 male and 65 female), age 50-80 years diagnosed with KOA were recruited and randomly assigned to one of three groups in a 1:1:1 ratio for intervention: real US-guided DN with exercise therapy (G1), placebo US-guided DN with exercise therapy (G2), and exercise therapy solely (G3). G1 and G2 were blinded to the application of real or placebo US guidance by turning the monitor of US imaging out-of-view from participants’ vantage points. The effectiveness of blinding was evaluated by asking the participants whether they had received real-US guided DN. The responses were assessed by Chi-square test. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Knee injury, and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) subscales (KOOS-pain, KOOS-symptoms, KOOS-quality-of-life (QoL)) were collected at baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks by a blinded assessor. Data were analyzed by mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni correction. RESULTS: Eighty-four participants (61.26±5.57 years) completed the study. G1 achieved significant improvement in VAS at 8 weeks compared to G2 and G3 (G1 vs. G2: MD=-15.61, 95% CI [-25.49, -5.51], p=0.001; G1 vs. G3: MD=-19.90, 95% CI [-29.71, -10.08], p< 0.001). G1 achieved significant improvement in KOOS-pain at 8 weeks compared to G2 and G3 (G1 vs. G2: MD=9.76, 95% CI [2.38, 17.14], p=0.006; G1 vs. G3: MD=9.48, 95% CI [2.31, 16.66], p=0.010). KOOS-symptoms and KOOS-QoL were not statistically significant between groups. G2 had no significant difference of the perceptions as G1 with p=0.128. G2 were successfully blinded to placebo US-guided DN. CONCLUSION: US-guided DN with exercise therapy may be more effective than traditional DN with exercise therapy or exercise therapy alone in reduce pain of KOA.
Quick DNA Extraction for Fungal Barcoding (X-Amp) v2
Authors: Douglas Russell Stephen
Published: September 2022

Below you will find a simple and fast two-step DNA extraction protocol that works well with many different groups of fungi. This protocol can be utilized in preparation for DNA barcoding of fungi utilizing Oxford Nanopore MinION. Time required: Varies depending on the use case. My samples generally have the metadata and images stored on iNaturalist. For each sample, I go to the iNaturalist observation, validate that the specimen matches the metadata and images, include a unique lab code in the "Voucher Number(s)" observational field, record the lab code on the sample packet with a marker, and record the lab code on the associated spreadsheet in the correct cell number. If all of these actions need to be performed, it can take 3-5 hours per 96 samples to load. If the iNaturalist observations have already been validated, the lab numbers have been assigned, and all that is required is to put a small amount of tissue in each cell for each sample, then the time outlay can be less than 2 hours per 96 samples.
Stereology-mediated cell count using StereoInvestigator v1
Authors: not provided miquel.vila
Published: September 2022

Protocol for cell counting using StereoInvestigator software
ONT Flongle Flowcell Loading with Q20+ (V12) Chemistry v2
Authors: Douglas Russell Stephen
Published: September 2022

Overview: This protocol describes the steps used to load a Flongle flowcell utilizing the Q20+ (V12) Ligation Sequencing Kit from ONT. This protocol has been tested with Flongle R9.4.1 flowcells. Time required: 10 minutes
cDNA synthesis v1
Authors: not provided miquel.vila
Published: September 2022

High-Capacity cDNA Reverse Transcription Kits(#4368814, Applied Biosystems - ThermoFisher)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings and Accompanying Malformations in Pediatric Patients with Gray Matter Heterotopia
Authors: EROĞLU Yeşim , AĞLAMIŞ Serpil
Published: September 2022

AbstractObjective: The aim of the study is to classify gray matter heterotopias detected in pediatric patients according to magnetic resonance imaging findings and to define the accompanying cerebral malformations.Material and Methods: Images of all pediatric patients who were detected to have heterotopia in brain magnetic resonance imaging between January 2012 and June 2020 were retrospectively evaluated. The type, location of heterotopia, and accompanying cerebral anomalies were analyzed.Results: A total of 42 patients, 22 male, and 20 female, with a mean age of 7.80±4.53 years (2-16 years) with gray matter heterotopia were included in the study. Of the patients 33 (78.6%) had subependymal, 7 (16.7%) had subcortical, and 2 (4.7%) had band heterotopia. Twenty-four patients had epilepsy.Conclusion: According to our study, subependymal heterotopia was most common in pediatric patients. The subependymal heterotopias were most commonly located in the trigon region of the lateral ventricles. All of the subcortical heterotopies were located in the frontal and unifocal. Band heterotopias were located symmetrically in the subcortical region of the bilateral cerebral hemispheres. The main accompanying anomalies were Chiari II malformation, and corpus callosum agenesis. Defining the type of heterotopia and associated anomalies in pediatric patients is important for patient management.
Burnout in Medical Oncology Staff: Confronting National Facts
Authors: KAMA BAŞCI Özge , EKİNCİ Ferhat , ERDOĞAN Atike Pinar , ESER Erhan
Published: September 2022

Objective: This study aimed to reveal the prevalence of burnout syndrome among physicians, nurses and biologists working in oncology clinics in Turkey.
Sociodemographic factors affecting burnout were revealed. The adequacy of institutional measures was questioned and their participation in solution proposals
was examined.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectionally designed study aimed to reach all actively working medical oncology staff in Turkey. 323 of them agreed to
participate in the study. Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used to measure the burnout status of the participants. The scale consists of three subscales:
Emotional Exhaustion (EE), depersonalizaiton (DP) and the sensation of reduced personal accomplishment (PA). Clinical burnout reduction solutions were
also questioned. The burnout prevention questions were prepared. Statistical significance was considered, and all statistical tests were two-sided (p<0.05).
Results: Of 323 participants, 38% were medical oncologists, 58% were nurses and 4% were biologists. The median age was 37±9 years. According to
the MBI subscales, the mean±SD burnout levels of the oncology staff are 19.7±7.8 (high) for EE, 6.0±4.3 (moderate) for DP and 20.9±5.1 (high) for PA.
Respondents under 41 age has higher risk. The participants who are having a hobby, good sleep pattern, making regular exercises has significantly lower
burnout scores.
Conclusion: Burnout syndrome was detected in more than half of oncology workers. Personal factors such as young age, family type, sleep, exercise and
having a hobby affect burnout. Preventive measures and interventions are required for health workers
Diarios de la pandemia
Authors: López López Juan de Dios , Alcalde Sánchez Ignacio
Published: September 2022

En el presente trabajo se analizan los diarios reflexivos de 63 estudiantes universitarios escritos en el segundo semestre del curso 2019/2020. Dichos diarios fueron escritos como parte del trabajo del alumnado en dos asignaturas relacionadas con el patrimonio etnológico en la Universidad de Córdoba (España). Nuestro objetivo es doble: mostrar las ventajas del uso del diario como instrumento de evaluación en la educación superior y hacer un primer análisis de las emociones expresadas por el estudiantado en sus diarios derivadas de la situación de emergencia sanitaria y confinamiento que se vivió en España, y en buena parte del mundo, a partir de marzo de 2020.
"Salir al fresco" en Vallfogona de Balaguer (Lleida)
Authors: Tahull Fort Joan
Published: September 2022

El presente artículo describe y analiza desde una perspectiva antropológica la tradición de "salir al fresco" en Vallfogona de Balaguer (Lleida). Lleva realizándose desde tiempo indeterminado, desconociendo el origen, aunque los informantes consideran el inicio en la primera casa del pueblo, en 1764. En el pasado, durante el siglo XX, la mayoría de los vecinos participaban activamente, saliendo las noches de verano. Actualmente todavía es un acto social destacado y un número significativo de vecinos toman el fresco nocturno. Se han realizado diversas entrevistas en profundidad a diferentes personas para conocer sus experiencias, vivencias y reflexiones sobre el tema; además, el investigador, en diferentes años, ha observado y participado activamente en la costumbre de "salir a la fresca".
ASSESSING THE TRANSLATION OF COLLOCATIONS IN LITERARY TEXTS BASED ON JULIANE HOUSE’S MODEL (1997) OF TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT
Authors: Obeidat Adham Mousa , Ayyad Ghada Rajeh
Published: September 2022

The purpose of this study was to assess the translation of collocations from Arabic into English in literary texts, which are considered as a rich source of culture and fixed expressions. The methodology of this study is a descriptive- interpretive analysis of the source text (ST), which is the Arabic novel “Awlad Hartna” and the target texts (TTs), which are the English translations “Children of Gebelawi” and “Children of the Alley”. The author applied House’s (1997) model of translation quality assessment. The analysis was divided into two sections, (1) analyzing the ST and TTs according to their register and genre to find the overt errors, and (2) examining the translation of collocations to find the covert errors. The result of the study revealed that that the two translations have many mismatches at the level of field, tenor and mode, such as the lexical, cultural, linguistic and syntactic mismatches. The findings also reveal that translators have committed 106 collocational errors which were divided into four categories: not translated, slight change in meaning, significant change in meaning and distortion of meaning. The findings of the study have pedagogical implications for translators in general, translators of literature, translations students and teachers.
MEDIA FRAMING ON COVID-19 BOOSTER SHOTS NEWS REPORTING IN MALAYSIA: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE STAR ONLINE
Authors: Lai Hoon Lim
Published: September 2022

As of May 2022, the death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia reached more than 35,000. To battle the pandemic, since February 2021, Malaysia accelerated its vaccination program nationwide and has become one of the countries with the highest vaccination rate. However, the new Omicron variant set the alarm to the country again for a new wave is approaching. People in the country who have completed two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were urged for the booster shot. As most people get to know public health and policy information from mediated sources, news media play a crucial role in communicating the importance and the urgency of booster shots. This study examined the salient news themes and the media framing on booster shot news reporting in the highest circulated newspaper in Malaysia, The Star Online. The news about booster shots were content analysed from 1 August to 31 December 2021 where the extensive stories were covered within these 5 months. This study aimed to advance knowledge on Covid-19 booster shot news coverage from a framing perspective. Based on the principle that media have a momentous effect, frames enable audiences to discover a particular point of view in a given situation that was set more noticeably. It takes an inductive approach to the analysis. The findings revealed vaccine information is the dominant news theme where the framing generally carried an urging tone. It concluded media framing of the Covid-19 booster shot transformed the infodemic into informing, assuring, and urging modes in confronting the new wave of a health crisis.
THE ROLE OF EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND THE INTENTION TO STAY
Authors: Sencherey Richmond Baffour , Mohammed Kamil Naail , Zakari Mariama , Xemalordzo Enya Ameza
Published: September 2022

The study attempted to examine critically the influence of employee commitment on organizational performance and intention to stay at Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Kumasi – Ghana. A quantitative research methodology was employed in this study where two hundred and eleven (211) respondents were selected for the study using random sampling. The population consists of civil servants and other categories of work at Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly in Ghana. The questionnaires were distributed to respondents for data collection. Data were analyzed using SPSS. The study found that affective commitment and normative commitment significantly influence organizational performance. The study further found that affective commitment and normative commitment and continuance commitment significantly employees’ intention to stay. In practice, the management of KMA needs to take effective initiatives to increase employee commitment to the organization. Management can provide employees with training, and career development programs and increase their compensational packages. This will influence employees to remain loyal to the organization. This will also reduce employee turnover and intentions to stay in the organization. Also, the study recommends that the Management of KMA and other institutions alike should create value for the work activities and duties carried out by each employee in the organization. Creating value by recognizing individual efforts and rewarding positive behaviors will cause the employees to remain members of the organization because of the perception that they cannot secure better job opportunities elsewhere.
PERANAN TUN ABDUL RAZAK (MALAYSIA) DAN ADAM MALIK (INDONESIA) DALAM MENAMATKAN ERA KONFRONTASI MALAYSIA-INDONESIA
Authors: Ibrahim Mohamad Akmal
Published: September 2022

Konfrontasi Malaysia dan Indonesia yang berlaku pada tahun 1963 telah menjadi sejarah hitam buat negara serumpun. Kesan konfrontasi menyebabkan hubungan politik dan ekonomi terjejas sehingga merugikan kedua-dua negara. Ini menyebabkan proses pemulihan untuk menamatkan konfrontasi terus dilakukan bagi memastikan hubungan kedua-dua negara pulih semula. Ketika era konfrontasi Malaysia dan Indonesia berlaku, dua watak penting dalam pemulihan semula hubungan Malaysia dan Indonesia adalah Tun Abdul Razak (Malaysia) dan Adam Malik (Indonesia). Perubahan pemerintahan Indonesia daripada Presiden Sukarno kepada Presiden Suharto telah merubah persekitaran luar Indonesia yang membolehkan langkah awal pemulihan hubungan Malaysia dan Indonesia. Kajian akan mengkaji peranan dan sumbangan kedua-dua tokoh iaitu Tun Abdul Razak dan Adam Malik dalam memulihkan semula hubungan diplomatik Malaysia dan Indonesia. Kaedah metodologi yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dan pendekatan analisis sejarah untuk mengenal pasti peristiwa dan kronologi berpandukan analisis dokumen. Data yang digunakan adalah data yang diperolehi melalui sumber primer dan sekunder. Kajian mendapati bahawa pandangan dan ideologi dasar luar yang lebih neutral dan berkecuali dalam isu hubungan antarabangsa oleh keduadua tokoh ini menjadi asas penting kepada persamaan dasar dalam pemulihan hubungan dan penamatan konfrontasi Malaysia dan Indonesia. Kajian ini memberikan pengetahuan mendalam hubungan Malaysia dan Indonesia terutama berkaitan peristiwa konfrontasi selain dapat membantu meningkatkan dasar hubungan dua hala Malaysia-Indonesia.
Analysis of the regression of transient neurological symptoms in newborns during physiological childbirth
Authors: Petrova A. V. , Morozova E.   A. , Khasanov A.  A.
Published: September 2022

The authors of the article substantiate the high significance and prognostic value of transient neurological symptoms in newborns. The study showed a greater variety and a lower rate of symptoms regression in the part of neurological disorders during physiological childbirth in the second position of the fetus. There are data on a higher frequency of some variants of torticollis in the second position of the fetus, cephalohematoma during childbirth in the second position was also significantly more often found. The findings are important for the prevention of neurological disorders and revision of some aspects of obstetric tactics.
Information and psychological security of a person in the hybrid warfare conditions
Authors:   Ivan Chernyakhovsky National University of Defense of Ukraine, Aleshchenko V.
Published: September 2022

The article reveals the actualization of the problem of information and psychological security of the individual in a hybrid war. The normative and legal bases of information security as an important component of state security are given. The concepts of security, national security, information security, information-psychological, psychological security are analyzed. The basic criteria of psychological security of the person taking into account information influence are opened. External and internal factors of psychological mechanisms of informational influence on the individual, society, the state as a whole are considered. The main subjects and objects of information and psychological influence are identified. The issue of transformation of psychological security of the individual as a consequence of long-term information and psychological influence is actualized. The structural and functional model of information and psychological security of the individual is given. Theoretical and applied aspects of work with servicemen in the conditions of destructive information influences are summarized and considered. The directions of information and psychological attacks against Ukraine are singled out and the classification of information and psychological threats is given. The negative consequences of information-psychological influence on the psyche are determined and effective ways of counteracting the negative influence of information flows are given. It is emphasized that the control of the information environment, teaching the population the basics of media literacy, taking measures to protect the information environment from external negative influences, etc. contribute to improving the information and psychological security of the individual.
Mentality as a subject of research and development in the hybrid threats context
Authors:   National Technical University of Ukraine ", Voloshina N. ,   Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Pampukha І. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Zhohina L. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Published: September 2022

The article substantiates the relevance of the essence, content and structure of the mentality of the Ukrainian people, analyzes the different approaches of domestic and foreign authors to the essence, content components, structure of the mentality. The history of the formation of scientific research of world scientists is considered, the connection of mentality with archetype – storage of latent layers of human memory, which are a form of collective unconscious (suprapersonal-transpersonal beginning of the human psyche). Shown that culture, ethnic and social conditionality of the way of thinking, stereotypes of behavior, to identify those phenomena of social life that are often difficult to explain rationally. The author's understanding of mentality is offered: it is a stable system of internal conscious and subconscious sociocultural attitudes of human community formed throughout human history, which is formed and changed both under external influence of economic, political, social, cultural factors and through genetically determined human self-development or a large social group at the level of automatism. It is shown that the manifestation of the mentality of a particular ethnic group is the ethnomental mentality which contains the following basic elements: collective memory; social ideas, attitudes and relationships; collective emotions, feelings and moods that reinforce them; norms, values and ideals; ethno-national character and temperament; language; mental representations of culture style of thinking and social perception behavioral patterns; ethnic and national identity. The structure of mentality is considered, which contains the following components: a) socio-cultural component; b) psychological component at the level of social psychology ("national" and "social" nature) and at the level of individual psychology (specific manifestation of socio-psychological, national attitudes of each individual); c) the civilizational component, which is the intellectual support of civilization.