bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Future Teachers Seek to Avoid Climate Emergency With a Virtual Escape Room
Authors: de Paz Lugo Patricia , Romero García Carmen , Amarilla Natalia Serrano
Published: January 2023

Students often show negative attitudes and emotions towards the study of science. It is important to design learning situations that achieve positive emotions among students, since it has been shown that these favour the learning process. The aim of this study was to implement a virtual escape room in the subject of Knowledge of Natural Sciences in the Degree of Primary Education at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) in an entirely online environment and to analyse the self-perceived emotions of the students and the degree of satisfaction with the learning experience. The results show that the experience has a positive impact on learning, the emotions experienced, and the satisfaction of the students. It is concluded that virtual escape rooms are presented as a way of approaching learning through different creative challenges, which allow for the creation of a positive emotional environment in which the teaching and learning process is more attractive.
Historical Development of Health Tourism
Authors: Baysal Derya , Çimen Hürriyet
Published: January 2023

Being healthy is an essential and indispensable need of people. Health tourism covers people's travels to relieve their physical or mental disorders and relax. It is possible to say that health tourism has an ancient history. This result, in line with the archaeological studies, shows that people have always traveled for health purposes. In ancient times, hot springs formed the destinations for people to seek healing and, simultaneously, fulfilled the requirements of their religious beliefs. The health facilities built during the time of the Sumerians are considered the first health tourism facilities known in history. Today, health trips are made primarily from developed co-developing countries, and health tourism services are offered in many qualified and equipped clinics.
Elderly Tourism Market
Authors: Bakir Ugur , Çakır Sinem Yeygel
Published: January 2023

Today, one of the essential service areas for elderly consumers is health tourism. Considering the basic elements promised to the target audiences within the scope of health tourism, the importance of the market segment formed by the elderly consumers becomes more and more noticable. Fundamentally, this chapter discusses the place, importance, and application forms of health services for elderly consumers, considered as a growing market and increasing its impact in many sectors, especially with regard to health tourism. Within the scope of the chapter, the concepts such as old age and being old are explained, before further elaborating the general characteristics of the elderly population and the consumer identities of the elderly. After creating a baseline with general information about elderly consumers, it is explained with examples how elderly consumers can be handled within the scope of health tourism, what strategies and practices can be developed accordingly.
Health and Travel for Consumers
Authors: Çizer Ece Özer
Published: January 2023

This study examines the evolution of health tourism research in the literature in the last two decades. The study used the R Studio program to perform a bibliometric meta-analysis. The dataset consists of 418 articles selected from the Web of Science database by searching for the keywords “health tourism”. Graphics related to the annual scientific production, country of the responsible author, most cited countries, most relevant sources, word cloud, word tree, trend topics, and the thematic map will be included in the study using the visualization technique. In conclusion, the meta-analysis aims to establish a comprehensive framework for the articles on health tourism published in the last two decades.
The Impact of Health Tourism on Destinations and Attitudes of Local Residents
Authors: Golcheshmeh Süheyla
Published: January 2023

The main purpose of this chapter is to discuss the destinations hosting health tourism and how the locals living there are affected by this situation and what the reasons are. The impacts of tourism on destinations and the attitude of locals towards tourism were discussed. Afterwards, the destinations where health tourism has developed and its impacts on the locals living there were discussed with different examples. As a result of the examinations, the positive impacts of health tourism are seen as contributing to the local economy, employment creation, improving the infrastructure and superstructure, giving importance to education, training qualified health professionals, and providing a better service standard. Its negative impacts are brain drain, supply-demand gap, inequality, ethical and moral problems, exploitative activity in poor countries (such as organ transplants and surrogacy), inflationary pressure, xenophobia, and alienation from tourism. The chapter was concluded with general evaluations, solutions and recommendations, and suggestions for future research.
Travelling for Healthcare
Authors: Medhekar Anita
Published: January 2023

Traveling abroad to seek healthcare services for medical or wellness purposes is a global phenomenon since the start of the 21st century. However, since the pandemic was declared by the World Health Organisation in 2020, due to pandemic related regulations, travel restrictions, and grounded airlines, traveling for health reasons has been negatively impacted, resulting in a decline in demand for overseas travel and healthcare services. There is now a pent-up demand by consumers to travel abroad for health tourism to countries such as Thailand, India, and Turkey. At the same time with opening borders and airline-travel resumed, countries cannot be complacent about health-risk involved. Therefore, safety and wellbeing of the health tourists during and post-pandemic under the new-normal paradigm is important.
Machine Learning Algorithms
Authors: Taherdoost Hamed
Published: January 2023

Machine learning (ML) makes logical patterns out of various types of input data including images, texts, numbers, and any other types of data. Data derived from research will be processes through machine learning ‎algorithms and leads to a prediction that is mainly considered as the output of the machine learning ‎algorithm. Machine learning helps to lower the cost of providing products and services, facilitate business processes and increase the quality of serving customers. In this article, the most popular and commonly used learning algorithms have been reviewed and their specific features are discussed to help select the most appropriate algorithm through comparison in different research projects. Finally, challenges of employing machine learning (ML) for business purposes have been discussed. However, there is not just one practical and efficient method to ‎apply to all data sets, and the appropriate algorithm may differ based on various factors in a study.
Tools and Techniques of Digital Education
Authors: Srivastava Gautam , Bag Surajit
Published: January 2023

Any country's growth and prosperity need universal education. Due to a lack of funding, developing countries are unable to enroll all learners in physical classrooms. One of the possible solutions to this issue is digitalization. The digital revolution has transformed the country, and it has had a huge positive effect on education as well. The way we educate and learn has evolved as a result of digital education. Education is more accessible in remote and rural areas as a result of digitalization, particularly in a country like India where population density is high. This article focuses on determining the educational effect of interactive technologies and techniques. To assess the role of digitalization in improving education, a comprehensive literature review and study were conducted. The various digital technologies and methods that may be used in the education field are explored in depth.
Quantitative Data in Ethnography With Asian Reflections
Authors: Roy Parimal , Chowdhury Jahid Siraz , Wahab Haris , Saad Mohd Rashid Mohd , Biswas Sanjay Krishno
Published: January 2023

This article discusses how ethnographic techniques work to conduct statistical analysis in anthropological research on the Indigenous community. At the same time, it explores how to use statistical techniques to expand anthropology and capacity and other qualitative approaches to research. It limits us in some ways to the questions we may ask in the digital age, between qualitative and quantitative research methods, between science and humanity, and between numbers and understanding. Yet, quantitative ethnography is a 'complement' to a research method that supports our growing data. It will help to understand how we can take our place in the rich world.
Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
Authors: Wang Di
Published: January 2023

Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems have many important application domains, including social networks, manufacturing, and transportation. However, as an NP-hard problem, the traditional CO problem-solvers require domain knowledge and hand-crafted heuristics. Facing big data challenges, can we solve these challenging problems with a learning structure within a short time? This article will demonstrate how to solve the combinatorial optimization problems with the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) that learns the optimal policy over time. Building on Markov decision process, RL has the solid theoretical foundation to obtain the optimal solution. Once parameters of DRL are trained, a new problem case can be solved quickly. Moreover, DRL learns the optimal solution without labels by maximizing the accumulative discounted reward received from the environment. This article will discuss three typical CO problems and present the advantages of DRL over other traditional methods.
Scopoletin
Authors: Meilawati Lia , Dewi Rita Marleta , Tasfiyati Aprilia Nur , Septama Abdi Wira , Antika Lucia Dwi
Published: January 2023

Cancer is considered a leading cause of death worldwide due to its high morbidity and mortality rate. Conventional treatments for cancer therapy, such as chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, have been hampered by their side effects. Natural product-derived plants have been used for decades to treat diseases. Compared to conventional therapy, natural product has the potential to be effective against cancer with fewer side effects. This current review discussed the potential of scopoletin, a coumarin present in many edible plants, which elicits anticancer properties through multiple mechanisms, including modulating cell cycle arrest, inducing apoptosis, and regulating multiple signaling pathways. Understanding these mechanisms highlights the potential of scopoletin as a candidate for chemoprevention and chemotherapy.
Recent advances in prostate cancer: WNT signaling, chromatin regulation, and transcriptional coregulators
Authors: Takahashi Sayuri , Takada Ichiro
Published: January 2023

Prostate cancer is one of the most common diseases in men worldwide. Surgery, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy are effective treatments for early-stage prostate cancer. However, the development of castration-resistant prostate cancer has increased the mortality rate of prostate cancer. To develop novel drugs for castration-resistant prostate cancer, the molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer progression must be elucidated. Among the signaling pathways regulating prostate cancer development, recent studies have revealed the importance of noncanonical wingless-type MMTV integration site family (WNT) signaling pathways, mainly that involving WNT5A, in prostate cancer progression and metastasis; however, its role remains controversial. Moreover, chromatin remodelers such as the switch/sucrose nonfermentable (SWI/SNF) complex and chromodomain helicase DNA-binding proteins 1 also play important roles in prostate cancer progression through genome-wide gene expression changes. Here, we review the roles of noncanonical WNT signaling pathways, chromatin remodelers, and epigenetic enzymes in the development and progression of prostate cancer.
Spectrum of Paediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India
Authors: Divya Gali , Kundal Vijay Kumar , Addagatla Rajasekhar , Garbhapu Anil Kumar , Debnath Pinaki R. , Sen Amita
Published: January 2023

Aim:

To study the profile of paediatric blunt abdominal trauma and to assess the correlation of grade of injury with the outcome.

Materials and Methods:

It is a prospective observational study from January 2015 to December 2020. Children below 12 years with blunt abdominal trauma were included. Patient demographic data, treatment given and the final outcome were recorded. All patients were followed up for a minimum of 6 months to maximum 5 years.

Results:

A total of 68 patients were included in the study. Fall from height was the most common mode of injury (62%) followed by road traffic accidents (35%) and the other causes included in the miscellaneous group (hit by animal and fall of heavy object on the abdomen; 3%). Most commonly injured organ was liver (n = 28, 41%) followed by spleen (n = 18, 26%) and kidney (n = 15, 22%). Other injuries were bowel perforations (jejunal [n = 4], ileal [n = 1] and large bowel [n = 1]; 9%), pancreaticoduodenal (n = 5, 7%), urinary bladder (n = 3, 4%), abdominal vascular injury (iliac vein-1, inferior vena cava-1;3%), adrenal haematoma (n = 2,3%) and common bile duct (CBD) injury (n = 1, 1%). More than one organ injury was seen in 13 cases (19%). Non-operative management was successful in 84% (n = 27) and laparotomy was done in 16% (n = 11). Most of the patients sustained Grade IV injury (n = 36, 53%) and majority of the patients (n = 60, 88%) had good outcome without any long-term complications.

Conclusion:

Profile of paediatric blunt abdominal trauma include solid organ injuries such as liver, spleen, kidney, pancreas, adrenal gland and others like bowel injury, CBD, urinary bladder and abdominal vascular injury. The grade of injury does not correlate with the outcome in a higher grade of injury and these children had good outcome.
Management of Intussusception in Children: A Comparative Study of Hydrostatic Reduction with Saline under Ultrasound Guidance versus Laparoscopic Assistance
Authors: Chandra Naveen , Dey Santosh Kumar , Narwar Parul
Published: January 2023

Introduction:

Intussusception is a common cause of intestinal obstruction in infants and children. Ultrasound-guided hydrostatic reduction (USGHR) with saline is considered the gold standard with a success rate of more than 90%. Hydrostatic reduction with laparoscopic assistance has its own advantage of direct visualisation, assessment of bowel vascularity and controlled distension. The choice of procedure depends on available resources and surgeon’s preference. This study aims to compare the outcomes of the two methods, i.e., laparoscopic-assisted hydrostatic reduction (LAHR) and USGHR under general anaesthesia (GA).

Materials and Methods:

This was a prospective study carried out at two different centres over a 3-year period. All patients of intussusception were managed by either hydrostatic reduction with saline under ultrasound guidance or hydrostatic reduction with laparoscopic assistance. Both the procedures were done in operation theatre under GA. The operating time and amount of fluid used for reduction were noted.

Results:

There were 27 patients in Group 1 (USGHR) and 20 patients in Group 2 (LAHR). The two groups were similar in terms of demographic parameters. The various outcomes such as number of attempts for reduction, fluid required for reduction, time to start oral feeds, complication and length of stay were similar in both the groups. The mean operating time for Group 1 was 19.4 ± 4.5 min and for Group 2 was 34.9 ± 4.8 min (P < 0.001).

Conclusion:

Both the procedures fare equally in terms of outcome except mean operating time, therefore, LAHR is a good alternative to USGHR in resource-poor nations where logistics of intraoperative ultrasound may not be present.
Use of Suture as an Alternative to Stainless Steel Wire for Stabilisation of Open Cap Splint in Paediatric Mandibular Fractures
Authors: Lunkad Piyush , Shah Sonal , Malankar Tanvi , Gangawane Aishwarya
Published: January 2023

The presence of ongoing mandibular growth and tooth buds make it challenging for the treatment of mandibular fracture in paediatric. Most common and widely used method is the use of occlusion splint which are secured with the help of circumandibular wiring. The aim of this technical note was to describe a new method for the treatment of paediatric mandibular fracture in which the occlusion splint was used and stabilized with the help of suture so as to prevent minimal trauma to the soft tissue. Management of paediatric mandibular fracture is challenging and is different then that of adult. Usually this fracture in children are manage with conventional close reduction technique because of the presence of tooth buds and developing stage of mandible. Open reduction and internal fixation is rarely used so as to prevent harm to the developing teeth it is used only if the fracture is severely displaced.
Pediatric Surgery in Rural Government Medical College
Authors: Kumar Vipan , Kumari Nidhi , Parihar Dhiraj
Published: January 2023

Aim:

The aim of the study was the admission pattern of elective and emergency patients admitted in the paediatric surgery department to highlight the importance of paediatric surgery super speciality in the rural regions. Settings
and
Design: The study was retrospective cross-sectional study over a period of 1 year from 1st March 2021 to 28th February 2022.

Materials and Methods:

All the complete records of patients admitted in paediatric surgery (age ≤15 years) from 1st March 2021 to 28th February 2022 were included in the study. The collected data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM SPSS 26.0, Armonk, NY, USA: IBM Corp.). Descriptive and analytical methods were utilised. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant with 95% confidence interval.

Results:

A total of 155 patients were admitted, the mean age was 6.5 (standard deviation ± 4.7) years and male-to-female ratio was 2.5:1. n = 96 were elective admissions while n = 59 were emergency admissions. Most common elective surgery performed was hernias (17%) while most common emergency surgery performed was appendicectomy (9%). Trauma represents 11% admissions. The most common cause of non-operative admission was non-specific abdominal pain abdomen (8.4%). Mean pre-operative stay and total hospital stay for elective surgeries compared to emergency surgeries were statistically significant (P < 0.05). No surgical site infection observed among emergency and elective cases. Conclusions: In our study, the most common causes of admissions were hernia, appendicitis, trauma and non-specific abdominal pain requiring super speciality services in the rural regions.
Improving Patient Handover: A Narrative Review
Authors: Khalaf Zahra
Published: January 2023

Introduction:

The clinical handover process has been directly associated with patient safety. Improving patient handover can improve patients’ safety and ultimate outcomes; therefore, this review was conducted to examine the literature available on interventions that make handovers more effective.

Methods:

MEDLINE (EBSCO) was searched for interventions that improve the efficacy of clinical handovers. Studies were excluded if they were irrelevant, not published in peer-reviewed journals, not published in English, or were based on animal studies. A total of 1087 publications were retrieved and sorted by relevance. The eligibility of the articles was determined by reading through the titles and abstracts then full texts, and reference searching. Six studies were selected for this literature review.

Results:

A number of handover interventions were explored. One intervention was changing the handover location to patients’ bedside; Bradley et al. found that bedside handovers decreased handover time and patient adverse events. Another intervention was providing education on handovers which Sand-Jecklin et al. associated with reductions in adverse events. Moreover, Lee et al. used simulation-based education and found that it significantly improved nurses’ knowledge, performance competence, and self-efficacy. Another intervention was the transforming care at the bedside (TCAB) framework which incorporated multidimensional strategies and emphasized handover as part of patient centeredness; these strategies improved patient safety, yet the results cannot be attributed solely to handover modifications. Meanwhile, Hada et al. implemented a mixture of interventions and found that they improved patient safety and reduced adverse events.

Conclusion:

The interventions explored were bedside handovers, providing education and simulation-based education on handovers, emphasizing patient centeredness as part of TCAB strategies, and implementing a mixture of interventions. All interventions reduced adverse events, although some improvements were not significant. Due to the limited evidence available to support the efficacy of the interventions on improving clinical handovers, the results remain inconclusive.
Paediatric Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair: Level of Disconnection of Peritoneal Cuff – An Observational Study
Authors: Ali Md Mokarram , Rashi Rashi , Sinha Amit Kumar , Kumar Amit , Kumar Bindey
Published: January 2023

Introduction:

Inguinal hernia is a common surgical condition in children. Conventionally, the open approach for inguinal hernia repair has been considered the gold standard. However, in the past two decades, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair has gained popularity among paediatric surgeons as an alternative to the open approach. Apart from good cosmesis and shorter stay at hospital, laparoscopy offers clear-cut advantages of visualising contralateral site and simultaneous repair if it is patent. Many techniques for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair have been proposed. In this retrospective observational study, we are comparing outcomes between proximal and distal disconnection of hernia sac.

Materials and Methods:

Ninety-five patients with inguinal hernia were studied in two groups. Group A included 50 patients in which hernia sac was disconnected from the peritoneal cuff proximal to deep inguinal ring (DIR). Group B included 45 patients in which hernia sac was disconnected distal to DIR. Various sociodemographic parameters and intraoperative findings were compared. Outcomes were analysed in terms of post-operative pain, duration of stay at the hospital and recurrences.

Results:

In group A, there were 46 males and four females with mean age of 4.01 years with standard deviation (SD) of 2.96. Group B included 37 males and eight females with mean age of 5.09 years with SD of 3.56. Excess post-operative pain was observed in 33 patients in Group A with proximal disconnection of hernia sac whereas it was seen in only three patients in Group B with distal disconnection of sac. The P was 0.001 which was highly significant. The duration of stay in the hospital was more in Group A (2.36 ± 1.22 days) as compared to Group B (1.8 ± 0.66 days) with a P of 0.0076 which was significant. Hernia recurrence was seen in four out of 50 patients in Group A (8%) as compared to no recurrence in Group B. However, the difference was not significant.

Conclusion:

The disconnection of hernia sac distal to DIR is associated with less post-operative pain and shorter duration of hospital stay. There is less recurrence seen in distal disconnection of hernia sac as compared to proximal disconnection; however, to achieve the level of significance, a large cohort study is required.
Idiopathic polymyositis in renal transplant recipient
Authors: Yehia Ahmed , Gheith Osama , AbdelMonem Mohamed , Alawady Medhat , Nair Prasad , Sobhy Eslam , Nagib Ayman Maher , Abdeltawab Khaled , Elsayed Zakaria , Abbas Ahmad , Alotaibi Torki
Published: January 2023

Introduction and aim

Myositis is a rare complication following renal transplant and is most commonly the result of a drug-mediated myotoxicity, but the idiopathic cause is still the most common. After kidney transplant, the differential diagnosis of polymyositis includes autoimmune disease, drug-induced viral infections, and rhabdomyolysis associated with electrolyte imbalance. We aimed to report a case of idiopathic polymyositis in a renal transplant recipient and review the literature for similar cases.

Case report

A 31-year-old male patient developed polymyositis three years following live-related kidney transplantation. Electromyography confirmed myopathic changes. The clinical features and course, MRI findings, electromyography features, positive anti-MI-2 antibody, and the response to high-dose steroid therapy are matched with immune-mediated acute polymyositis, especially after excluding viral infections and drug-induced myopathy.

Conclusion

Acute polymyositis may occur after a kidney transplant. Possible mechanisms include viral antigen transmission or a localized graft versus host disease. Muscle biopsy is not mandatory before prompt initiation of high-dose steroid therapy, which leads to clinical and biochemical recovery.
Web calculus and tilting modules in type $C_2$
Authors: Bodish Elijah
Published: January 2023

Using Kuperberg’s web calculus (1996), and following Elias and Libedinsky, we describe a “light leaves” algorithm to construct a basis of morphisms between arbitrary tensor products of fundamental representations for

\mathfrak{sp}_4

(and the associated quantum group). Our argument has very little dependence on the base field. As a result, we prove that when

[2]_q\ne 0

, the Karoubi envelope of the

C_2

web category is equivalent to the category of tilting modules for the divided powers quantum group

U_q^{\mathcal{A}}(\mathfrak{sp}_4)

.
Constructing modular categories from orbifold data
Authors: Mulevičius Vincentas , Runkel Ingo
Published: January 2023

The notion of an orbifold datum

\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}

in a modular fusion category

\mathcal{C}

was introduced as part of a generalised orbifold construction for Reshetikhin–Turaev TQFTs by Carqueville, Runkel, and Schaumann in 2018. In this paper, given a simple orbifold datum

\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}

in

\mathcal{C}

, we introduce a ribbon category

\mathcal{C}_{\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}}

and show that it is again a modular fusion category. The definition of

\mathcal{C}_{\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}}

is motivated by properties of Wilson lines in the generalised orbifold. We analyse two examples in detail: (i) when

\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}

is given by a simple commutative

\Delta

-separable Frobenius algebra

A

in

\mathcal{C}

; (ii) when

\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}

is an orbifold datum in

\mathcal{C} = \operatorname{Vect}

, built from a spherical fusion category

\mathcal{S}

. We show that, in case (i),

\mathcal{C}_{\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}}

is ribbon-equivalent to the category of local modules of

A

, and, in case (ii), to the Drinfeld centre of

\mathcal{S}

. The category

\mathcal{C}C_{\operatorname{\mathbb{A}}}

thus unifies these two constructions into a single algebraic setting.
The FKB invariant is the 3d index
Authors: Garoufalidis Stavros , van der Veen Roland
Published: January 2023

We identify the

q

-series associated to an

1

-efficient ideal triangulation of a cusped hyperbolic

3

-manifold by Frohman and Kania-Bartoszynska with the 3D-index of Dimofte– Gaiotto–Gukov. This implies the topological invariance of the

q

-series of Frohman and Kania- Bartoszynska for cusped hyperbolic

3

-manifolds. Conversely, we identify the tetrahedron index of Dimofte–Gaiotto–Gukov as a limit of quantum

6j

-symbols.
The next-to-top term in knot Floer homology
Authors: Ni Yi
Published: January 2023

Let

K

be a null-homologous knot in a generalized L-space

Z

with

b_1(Z)\le1

. Let

F

be a Seifert surface of

K

with genus

g

. We show that if

\widehat{\operatorname{HFK}}(Z,K,[F],g)

is supported in a single

\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z

-grading, then

\operatorname{rank}\widehat{\textup{HFK}}(Z,K,[F],g-1)\ge\operatorname{rank}\widehat{\textup{HFK}}(Z,K,[F],g).
La via romana e la possibilità di un‘ identità culturale aperta
Authors: Senegačnik Brane
Published: January 2023

Certamente non è facile distinguere l’eredità culturale latina dall’imperialismo romano, poiché in questo caso si tratta di una sorta di espansionismo culturale – nondimeno il filosofo francese Rémi Brague ha cercato, senza trascurare la realtà storica, di definire come suo tratto centrale l’eccentricità, cioè il fatto di trarre la propria identità da una fonte esterna. Partendo dal concetto che la cultura é un elemento acquisito, qualcosa di secondario, la cultura medesima in quest’accezione, che sorge dalla propria alterità rispetto all’altro, acquisisce un ruolo estremamente importante. Quest’atteggiamento viene definito come «via romana» e viene considerato dall’autore una formula specifica che definisce l’evoluzione di tutta la cultura europea. Le sue fonti esterne sono la grecità, che la cultura europea ha ereditato dal paganesimo romano, e la tradizione religiosa ebraica nella quale è radicato il cristianesimo. Sembra che questa formula si sia realizzata nel contesto reale in base a due presupposti: il primo è – aldilà delle inevitabili dinamiche trasformazioni – un minimo nucleo duraturo; il secondo una realtà antropologica che rappresenta un elemento di trascendenza rispetto alle singole realtà culturali, al quale tutte appartengono. Quest’ultimo concetto, che è stato alcuni decenni fa sottolineato da Leszek Kołakowski, pone un’interessante sfida ai paradigmi scientisti della sociologia attuale ed inaugura nuovi aspetti alla discussione riguardo all’imperialismo.
Od nacistične Antigone do »antifašistične« etike svetosti
Authors: Kocijančič Matic
Published: January 2023

Martin Heidegger je svoje branje Sofoklove Antigone razgrnil v dveh znamenitih sklopih predavanj na Univerzi v Freiburgu; prvi sklop, ki ga je študentom predstavil leta 1935, je osemnajst let pozneje s popravki in dopolnitvami objavil v knjigi Uvod v metafiziko (Einführung in die Metaphysik); drugega, ki ga je naslovil Hölderlinova himna »Ister« (Hölderlins Hymne »Der Ister«), je lahko leta 1942, sredi vojne vihre, podal le v okrnjeni različici, v natisnjeni celoti pa je svetovni javnosti postal dostopen šele leta 1984.
Članek preučuje razloge, zakaj je razkritje Heideggerjeve druge obravnave Antigone – ki s prvo vzpostavlja intriganten interpretativni kontrast – odigralo ključno vlogo v osrednjem filozofskem projektu Tineta Hribarja in s tem v širši slovenski recepciji mita o Antigoni od druge polovice osemdesetih let do danes.
Wine, Opium, and Hashish in Georgian and European Symbolism
Authors: Oboladze Tatia
Published: January 2023

The subject of the article “Wine, Opium, Hashish in Georgian and European Symbolism” is the identification of the cultural links between Georgian and European (primarily French and, German) symbolism. Our goal is to determine the role and place of Georgian symbolism in the world literature context and study the cultural-aesthetic ties that have influenced the art of the Georgian symbolist group, the process of forming their aesthetic taste and worldview. In this article, we focus on the genesis of the symbolist theory of the myth, its specific nature and the motivation for the creation of a new mythology. In addition, we consider the theme of wine, opium and hashish in Georgian and European cultural areas, and analyse the conceptual sense and function of this new mythology.
« Je m’attache tristement, amèrement aux lieux que je vais quitter ». L’écriture autobiogéographique dans les Carnets du voyage en Égypte d’Eugène Fromentin
Authors: Sokołowicz Małgorzata
Published: January 2023

“I am sadly and bitterly attached to the places I am about to leave”. Autobiogeographical Writings in Carnets du voyage en Égypte by Eugène Fromentin The present paper analyses Carnets du voyage en Égypte by a French painter and writer, Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876), using the concept of autobiogeography. The concept allows to examine how the author of a geographical description may be seen throughout this description and how s/he is influenced by the space. The paper argues that the personality of Fromentin emerges from his travel notes even though they are focused mainly on the description of the Egyptian space and the forms “I” or “we” appear there rarely. Three aspects of Fromentin’s personality may be seen through the analyses of his geographical descriptions of Egypt: the Orientalist painter enthusiastic towards the space; the traveler marked by his previous travels to Algeria who in Egyptian spaces sees Algerian ones; and the man who feels old and tired, refuses to discover the Egyptian space and who just wants to come back home.
The place of peronism in the history of science in Argentina
Authors: Comastri Hernan
Published: January 2023

This research is part of a larger study aimed at reconstructing the various ways in which professional historiography and other non-academic historical discourses have dealt with the relationship between Science and Peronism in contemporary Argentina. The purpose of this study is to analyze the overly simplistic image of this relationship that still persists in social memory and, to a large extent, continues to influence historical research agendas and the more general political debate. The article provides a bibliographic review and offers a reading key, useful for future research agendas, in which the history of science and that of Peronism intersects, coming from both professional historiography and of the disciplinary histories many times rehearsed by the scientific community itself. These investigations cover a multitude of topics, but for reasons of space and focus, we will focus here mainly on those disciplines that, broadly speaking, we could encompass within the “exact and natural sciences” and engineering. Based on these considerations, it is possible to observe that this field of study still reproduces a set of stereotypes that limit historical knowledge about the period, both with regard to the insertion of Peronism in a long-term reading of state policies in science and technology, as in its insertion in the history of the university in Argentina.
Public administration under the Chilean civil military dictatorship (1973−1990)
Authors: Olate Jorge Olguín
Published: January 2023

The purpose of this article is to analyze the functioning of the public administration of the Chilean dictatorial State between 1973 and 1990. Specifically, based on a methodology based on a series of testimonies of civilian and military officials of the de facto government, the aim is to reconstruct the bureaucracy of the period, especially that of the first lines of command of ministries, undersecretaries and service chiefs. It is proposed that the classic Weberian bureaucratic model that had marked the public administration of the Chilean State had to be related to a new form of public management, coming from the private sphere. Thus, in order to neoliberalize the State, the authorities had to be able to reorient their classic strategic objectives towards the fulfillment of goals by results. Therefore, the new public official that emerged under the dictatorship was a technopolitician who, as a civilian, contributed his organizational culture based on expert knowledge learned in his business and/or academic spheres, as well as the military who, under his authoritarian hierarchical culture, reinforced the traditional way of exercising power within the state institutionality. Both organizational cultures were necessary in order to instrumentalize, through reason and force, the legitimizing principles underpinning neoliberalism.
A Decision Support Model for Prioritization of Safety Five Stars System Elements on Saudi Electricity Company using Integrated AHP and TOPSIS Approach
Authors: AlMutairi Osama Mohammed .
Published: January 2023

Occupation Health and Safety (OHS) become as main parts of every company as the safety of people, machines, equipment and facilities become its goal. In 2015 G Saudi Electricity Company decided to use the Five Star Safety and Health Management System on all its facility around the Kingdom. It is the main purpose for this system to minimize number of accident/injuries and in consists of that it looks for 5 stars rating. However, the Five Stars Safety and Health Managements System have 73 elements to be implemented and evaluated which need a lot of resources, this research aim to identify the highest important elements out 73 elements from Five Stars Safety and Health Managements System that highly affect the company evaluation as well as lead to many accidents. The objective of the current research is to present a prioritization model based on Eight criteria using an integrated Delphi, AHP and TOPSIS approach. The decision main criteria as pairwise comparisons were decided by a group of experts through a Delphi methodology. In addition, the weights of the main was determined using AHP method. the final ranking results have been compared with the last 5 years Evaluations and the root cause for accidents.
Analyzing E-Commerce effectiveness of SMEs Using SERVQUAL Model
Authors: Alsammani Hussam Abdulaziz
Published: January 2023

This paper attempts to aid the E-Commerce influence on SMEs using SERVQUAL methodology and five factors of reliability, assurance, tangibles, empathy, and responsiveness. In Saudi Arabia, according to the survey results, the e-commerce has enhanced the country's service and quality. Safe transactions processing, employee appearance, on-time delivery, attention to customer wants, record keeping, and confidence in staff are the top six areas of improvement following the implementation of e-commerce. Product display, staff help, equipment appearance, delivery time, customer waiting time, and customer care are the six factors listed at the bottom of the improvement after integrating e-commerce. E-commerce has a positive effect on confidence, which was previously at 20.31% and is now at 11.02%, even though several features are found to be in the top before and after the implementation of E-commerce. Prior to e-commerce, it is being noticed that service was more important in terms of customer happiness. Observing the improvement will be easier if the recommendation is implemented and measured again. In the future, we can investigate the performance of the top five E-Commerce platforms in greater depth.
Design and Implementation of Balanced Scorecard for Maintenance Department at Hajj Terminal, King Abdulaziz Airport
Authors: Salem Mohammed , Moreb Ahmad A
Published: January 2023

This report is about the design and implementation of a PAX system, PAX system is a Balance Scorecard (BSC) for maintenance department of PPMDC (Port Projects Management & Development Company) at Hajj Terminals, King Abdulaziz Airport. It monitors customer satisfaction, optimum service availability, the compliance of maintenance practice to GACA quality standards, maintenance department expense, spare part management, and enhancement of employees’ skills, experience, and knowledge. The research uses a descriptive design surveys and formulas to assess scores, future target and suggests crucial initiatives to attain desired goals. Applying BSC, passenger journey satisfaction score indicator is 94.4% and a two-year projection of 96% and 98%. It achieved total quality standards compliance with General Authority of Civil Aviation Service quality standards (GACA) the indicator for current estimate of 4.55/5 Civil and for two successive years are estimated to be 4.60/5 and 4.65/5. The PAX systems availability indicator is 98.8% and projected 99% (for the second year). While internal process indicator was estimated at 94% and projected at 96 % in the sconed year. Department expenses indicator was 97 % for this year, while expected to be reduced at 95 % in the second year. Spare part inventory management measured at 88.3% and projected 90% for the second year. Lastly, for learning and growth indicator, the team’ skills and experience is estimate at 95% and anticipated to grow to 96% in the short term.
Students’ Learning Motivation with Virtual Pedagogy during COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Almazroee Meshal O. . , Taylan Osman .
Published: January 2023

Recently, the education system faced an unpredicted health pandemic (COVID-19) that led to quick actions by governments to transform education from traditional face-to-face learning to modern virtual/distance learning. Due to the transition to a new education environment, learners needed special social care to improve their concentration and motivation for online learning in such a crucial crisis. In the current study, virtual learning is investigated to determine its impact on student’s motivation from teachers' perception. The influence of teachers on students’ motivation is examined by measuring the effects of teachers` gender, age, experiences, and levels of education. The current study also reflects on the influence of obstacles that face virtual education and their impact on student’s motivation. The current study is conducted at the Department of Education in Jeddah Region for teachers in middle and secondary schools. To answer the research questions and discuss their results, the current study followed the descriptive analytical methodology and deployed the social survey method. Afterwards, statistical anis were utilized to analyze the responses to the survey. The results revealed that the motivation of students is directly affected by determinants, such as the age of teachers and the practical experience they possess, since there is a statistically significant relationship between the two variables of virtual learning. Research results also indicate a strong relationship between the obstacles of online learning and the motivation of students.
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Voice-Based Systems: A Comparative Analysis of SAARUSH
Authors: Kurhade Atharva , Mulani Aftab , Parmar Rakesh , Nangude Karan , Kothari Sukhesh
Published: January 2023

In today’s market, AI is taking place globally in the world. The AI and voice system are published multiple times in various movies like IRON-MAN, SKYSCRAPER, etc. Unlike the original origin, artificial intelligence was developed as a system that can think like a human or better than a human and can help directly or indirectly to develop, learn, and perform system-oriented operations like in the movie of Iron-Man is a version of the AI called Jarvis which is an intelligent computer that can perform the system-oriented operations that converses in a large scale with the humans, the AI monitors his lifestyle and helps to build its computer program for his superhero suit. The SAARUSH AI system was inspired by the Jarvis AI system. Saarush is a digital life assistant that primarily leverages human communication methods which establish two-way contact with humans and aid them with chores such as cooking, facebook alerts, and many more. Because we mostly communicate by voice in our project, Saarush is essentially a speech recognition program. The term "speech technology" refers to two technologies: synthesizers and recognizers. The human voice is a signal that contains an endless quantity of data. Jarvis is the name of Tony Stark's assistant in the Superhero films. This one is frequently the result of multiple contributors' overcontribution, such as the usability but also the capability of AIML dynamic merging with portals such as Python [pyttsx] but instead gTTS, which results in the same JARVIS standard, structure with general reusability but little or no maintainability.
CONFIRMAÇÃO DA OCORRÊNCIA DA Panulirus laevicauda (LATREILLE, 1817) NO GRANDE SISTEMA DE RECIFES DA AMAZÔNIA, AMAPÁ, BRASIL
Authors: Cintra Israel , Martins Déborah , Silva Kátia , Sousa Victória , Klautau Alex , Barbosa José Milton , Alves-Junior Flavio
Published: January 2023

The spiny lobsters of the genus Panulirus White, 1847 are widely exploited and commercialized in northern and northeastern Brazilian coastal regions. One of the species, the smoothtail spiny lobster Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille, 1817) had its distribution demarcated from Amapá to Santa Catarina State, but it was dubiously recorded in northern coast from industrial fishing samples, without collected material or photographs for taxonomic identification. Based on this, we report the occurrence of P. laevicauda in the northern region of Brazil (Amapá State) through material collected. The male specimen was collected on November 07th, 2022, at the depth of 84.5m, during commercial fishery operations of the red snapper Lutjanus purpureus (Poey, 1866), at the area of the Great Amazon Reef System (GARS) (04°45’29.849”N; 050°39’41.567”W). The current record confirms the occurrence of the species in Northern Brazil and it is the first report for the GARS.
Deutsch (für Stufen A2-B1)
Authors: Meltonjan Gajane , Soghomonjan Kristina , Diwanjan Naira
Published: January 2023

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch ist für Studenten in den Bachelorstudiengängen von Hochschulen, sowie für Deutschlernende bestimmt, die notwendige Hintergrundkenntnisse in Niveaustufe A1 haben. Das Lehrbuch entspricht den europaweit bestätigten Sprachkompetenzen in Niveaustufen A2-B1, ist also für Lerner der oberen Grundstufe und der Mittelstufe geeignet. Es ist in erster Linie für die Entwicklung der kommunikativen Kompetenz gedacht. Zugleich berücksichtigt das Buch die Methodik zum Erwerb der gründlichen und zusammenhängenden Kenntnisse der deutschen Sprache mit Einsicht in ihr Grammatiksystem. Das Lehrbuch kann sowohl für die Unterrichtsarbeit eingesetzt, als auch von Deutschlernenden und Germanisten benutzt werden.
STUDIES ON THE CELTIS AUSTRALIS L. SEEDS PREPARATION METHODS IN ORDER TO SPEED UP GERMINATION
Authors: Poșta Daniela-Sabina , Rózsa Sándor , Gocan Tincuța-Marta , Mălăescu Ioana-Mihaela
Published: January 2023

Celtis australis L., is a tree up to 20 m tall. The range is Mediterranean to the Caucasus, in Romania it is found sporadically in Banat, Oltenia and Dobrogea, the species being used in green spaces where it is planted in alignment, isolated or in massifs, but also on the Black Sea Coast has adapted very well. The genus includes about 70 species, trees and shrubs widespread in the northern hemisphere, from tropical to temperate regions. The elm-like branch is distichous. The stalk has a broken marrow, made up of very thick blades, asymmetrical leaves with 3 ribs at the base, polygamous, andromonoic flowers, the male ones in bundles at the base of the stalk, the hermaphroditic ones arranged at the base of the petiole of the leaves, usually solitary. Fruits are spherical or ovoid drupes, with a strong stone and a thin, fleshy mesocarp. The purpose of this experiment is to speed up the germination of seeds that have been prepared in the four variants: stratification, wetting with hot water, scarification, wetting with cold water. Biometric measurements were performed on the following morphological features: seedling stem height, stem diameter, number of roots, root length, number of leaves, leaf area. Analyzing the four methods of seed treatment related to chemical treatment (control) it is observed that the best results are at V1 (stratification) for all analyzed characters.