bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
B-lines by lung ultrasound in cardiology
Authors: Torres Marco Antonio Rodrigues , de Quevedo Natália Moraes
Published: November 2024

Pulmonary congestion is a key determinant of heart failure, but for a long time it has been an elusive target for the clinical cardiologist in the pre-B-line era, despite research efforts of Carlo Giuntini, a pneumologist who attempted the quantification of lung water in the seventies with too insensitive chest X-ray lung water score, too cumbersome nuclear medicine, and too complex invasive thermodilution techniques. Daniel Lichtenstein, is a French intensivist who first discovered lung ultrasound as a sign of extravascular lung water in 1997. B-lines (also known as ultrasound lung comets) detectable by lung ultrasound arise from the pleural line, extend towards the edge of the screen, and move synchronously with respiration. In cardiology, B-lines were introduced in 2004 and are now the dominant technique for research applications and clinical purposes. B-lines showed a prognostic value in several clinical scenarios, largely independent and additive over echocardiographic predictors such as ejection fraction. The methodology became user-friendly in the last years, with a reduction of the scanning sites from the original 28 to a simplified 4-site scan now extracting information on lung water in < 1 minute. More recently, B-lines were also studied during physical and pharmacological stress. Signs of pulmonary congestion are found during stress in 1 out of 3 all-comers with normal findings at rest. Artificial intelligence applied to ultrasound and clinical data allows for the detection of B lines, their quantification, and the assessment of their nature. The B-lines phenotype can cluster around different endotypes: dry (in systemic sclerosis and lung interstitial fibrosis); wet (water); sterile (as in cardiogenic edema); infective (as in COVID-19 and interstitial pneumonia); right heart-sided (as in pulmonary arterial hypertension); left-heart sided (as in heart failure or valvular heart disease). Artificial intelligence B-lines and pocket-size insonation of the B-lines-driven decongestion therapy are now on the horizon.
Ciencia abierta y universidad
Authors: González Hernández Walfredo
Published: November 2024

La ciencia abierta es uno de los paradigmas acerca de su difusión. Al mismo tiempo, las universidades son las organizaciones llamadas a preservar, producir y difundir las producciones científicas en la actualidad. En este artículo se propone un sistema de acciones para implantar los principios de la ciencia abierta en las universidades. En un primer momento se toma partido acerca de los principios fundamentales de la ciencia abierta y sus ventajas, así como los retos y sus perspectivas. Por último, se organiza el sistema en seis actividades fundamentales, cada una con sus actividades de apoyo.
Dilsiz Kaval Metodu II
Authors: Aydın Aytunç
Published: November 2024

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Особенности получения термообратимых гидрогелевых чернил для 3D-печати на основе йота-каррагинана
Authors: Захарова Василина Александровна , Антипова Кристина Георгиевна , Крашенников Сергей Владимирович , Кильдеева Наталия Рустемовна
Published: November 2024

3D-печать является одной из самых быстроразвивающихся современных технологий, оказывающих революционное влияние на изготовление изделий целевого назначения с заданными размерами, формами и свойствами. Полученные с использованием аддитивных технологий персонифицированные изделия востребованы в широком спектре областей применения: пищевой промышленности, косметологии, медицине. Одним из актуальных направлений, способствующих стремительному развитию технологий 3D-печати, является поиск новых материалов, пригодных для использования в качестве «чернил». В процессе развития аддитивных технологий появилась возможность использовать в качестве «чернил» концентрированные растворы полимеров или гидрогели с гибкими и организованными сетками. Гидрогелевые «чернила» для 3D-печати на основе полисахаридов представляют собой уникальный материал, способный связывать большое количество воды, позволяя напечатанным структурам имитировать мягкие ткани и обеспечивать непрерывное поступление питательных веществ. В данной работе рассмотрены особенности процесса температурно-индуцированного гелеобразования водных растворов йота-каррагинана и их влияния на получение гидрогелевых «чернил» для инжекционной 3D-печати.
Technological scheme of obtaining urea with controlled release of nutrients process
Authors: Fufaeva V. M. , Taran Yu. A.
Published: November 2024

A technological scheme for the industrial production of urea with controlled release of nutrients is proposed. The main elements of the scheme presented are the units for the urea melt production, granulation and encapsulation. Prototypes were obtained and examined, and the main indicators of product quality were analyzed. Solubility curves for encapsulated urea of different dispersities were plotted, confirming the expediency of using narrow fractions of granular fertilizer at the encapsulation stage and the need to introduce an additional classification stage into the technological scheme.
Методика расчета выделения вредных веществ от технологического оборудования в цехах обувных и кожгалантерейных предприятий
Authors: Седляров Олег Иванович , Бородина Елена Сергеевна , Кочуа Данил Рамазович , Ляхов Максим Викторович , Мишина Анастасия Александровна
Published: November 2024

В статье рассматривается современное состояние нормативной базы в сфере оценки качества воздуха рабочей зоны. Отмечено, что в настоящее время установлены нормативные показатели качества воздуха рабочей зоны, к которым относятся предельно допустимые концентрации (ПДК) вредных веществ в воздухе рабочей зоны. Однако, отмечается, что действующие нормы проектирования систем вентиляции и кондиционирования не могут в полной мере гарантировать выполнения установленных нормативных показателей для каждой точки производственного помещения, что связано с усреднённой оценкой концентрации вредных веществ для помещения в целом.
На примере технологических операций обувного производства разработан «полевой» метод расчета, позволяющий вычислить концентрации вредных веществ и параметры микроклимата в любом месте производственного помещения в любой момент времени.
В статье представлены существующие требования к определению расхода и температуры приточного воздуха в центральных системах вентиляции и кондиционирования, а также предложен метод расчета удельных показателей пылевыделений от оборудования механической обработки в производстве обуви и кожгалантерейных изделий, что необходимо для дальнейшего моделирования.
Strategi Public Relations Garda Pangan dalam Mensukseskan Pelaksanaan Program Food Rescue
Authors: Shania Louisa Vanessa , Edelweis Putri Prima
Published: November 2024

Sampah makanan sisa saat ini menjadi salah satu persoalan serius di Indonesia yang perlu ditangani dengan serius. Program Food rescue memiliki manfaat yang baik dalam mengurangi limbah pangan dan dampak negatif terhadap lingkungan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana strategi Public Relations yang dilakukan organisasi dalam memperkenalkan dan mensukseskan program Food rescue terhadap masyarakat. Garda Pangan menggunakan Strategi yaitu Strategy of publicity dengan melakukan kampanye, social media, bekerja sama dengan media massa untuk menyebarkan informasi kepada masyarakat. Garda Pangan mempraktikkan tujuh jenis Public Relations, termasuk publikasi, event, news, corporate identity, community involvement, lobbying and negotiation, serta social responsibility. Mereka juga menerapkan Two Way Symmetrical yang menekankan dialog terbuka, transparansi, dan saling pengertian antara organisasi dan publiknya.
Expansión urbana reciente de la aglomeración Gran Buenos Aires: ¿hacia un cuarto proceso de suburbanización?
Authors: Domínguez Roca Luis , Sabassi Fabián , Apaolaza Ricardo
Published: November 2024

Existe consenso en que la aglomeración Gran Buenos Aires ha observado una acelerada expansión física durante las últimas dos décadas. Sin embargo, lejos de responder a un único fenómeno, este crecimiento involucra una diversidad de formas de producción de espacios urbanos periféricos, entre los que se destacan los usos residenciales de las urbanizaciones cerradas; pero intervienen también, por ejemplo, la vivienda social periférica y los nuevos barrios populares, producto tanto de loteos irregulares como de tomas de tierra. Frente a esta complejidad, se retoman los clásicos trabajos de Horacio Torres, quien estudió el crecimiento de la ciudad entre 1869 y 2001, e identificó tres períodos de expansión acelerada, a los que analizó bajo la idea de suburbanización. A partir de esta interpretación, el artículo se propone actualizar la serie histórica, mediante el análisis de la expansión reciente de la aglomeración y la clasificación de sus usos residenciales periféricos, para reflexionar sobre las tendencias que podrían estar alimentando un cuarto proceso de suburbanización.
Study on prevalence of suicidal ideation and risk factors of suicide among industrial workers in West Tehran
Authors:   Department of Occupational Health and Safety Engineering, Faculty of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran, Aghazadeh Seyed Reza , Sadeghi Ahmad ,   Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, College of Engineering and Technology, Central Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran, Biuki Reihaneh Amrollahi ,   Western Health Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Kasani Golsa ,   Western Health Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Published: November 2024

Suicide is one of the most important and complex issues in today's society, which causes many concerns and discussions at the global level. According to the statistics of Iran's police force, an average of 4183 people committed suicide between 2014 and 2018. Studies have shown that various factors contribute to the increase in suicide rates among workers. Considering the importance of the subject, in the present study, we examined suicidal thoughts among industrial workers in west Tehran. In this study, 120 workers working in industries in west Tehran were selected by simple random sampling method. Data collection was done using a semi-structured interview and the Beck Scale for Suicidal Thoughts (BSS) as well as a researcher-made questionnaire related to social, economic and political problems. According to the results of this study, economic problems have a significant relationship with suicidal thoughts. The results of this study showed that the Beck scale score for 28.4% of workers in the condition of suicidal thoughts is low to high and the need for intervention in this field is fully felt. Also, most of the suicides are currently done by decision and due to economic problems. According to the results of this study, the discussion of improving the economic situation will be the main way to reduce the desire to commit suicide among the workers, but due to the lack of authority and control of the employers in improving the economic situation and the impact of making major political and economic decisions in this regard, It is suggested that in the short term, psychological interventions in the environment of industrial companies, especially the use of psychological experts in the form of regular weekly meetings and holding private counseling sessions in industries, should be given special attention.
Revolutionizing Ocean Currents and Tsunami Early Warning Systems through the Utilization of the Doppler Effect and ADCPs
Authors: Shetty Sannidh , Singh Ishaan
Published: November 2024

Understanding the ocean currents and their impact on coastal ecosystems has been an issue that has gained wide importance in the limelight during the last couple of decades. The increasing incidence of natural calamities, such as tsunamis, which may pose direct threats to human lives and infrastructures, extends the need for monitoring systems. Employing these advanced technologies,including the Doppler Effect, would permit researchers to visualize currents with precision and also help improve early warning systems. The Doppler Effect gives, for the first time, a new approach to studying the currents of the ocean due to its characteristic of frequency change with respect to the place of the observer. As a matter of fact, this novel technique further improves the conventional techniques used for monitoring and offers real-time data acquisition capability that is highly important in terms of disaster preparedness and response. Eventually, this will integrate the Doppler- based systems, which have the potential to revolutionize oceanic research and greatly reduce some of the risks emanating from tsunami events.
Deep Learning Architectures Enabling Sophisticated Feature Extraction and Representation for Complex Data Analysis
Authors: Yemi Hussain Nurudeen
Published: November 2024

Analyzing complex data from domains such as computer vision, natural language processing, and time- series data presents numerous challenges due to the high- dimensional and abstract nature of these datasets. Traditional machine learning approaches often require extensive feature engineering to extract meaningful representations. Deep learning architectures have emerged as powerful tools for automatically learning rich hierarchies of features and representations directly from raw data in an end-to-end manner. This paper reviews several widely used deep learning models and their application to feature extraction and representation learning for complex dataset analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are effective for visual feature extraction tasks. CNNs leverage convolutional and pooling layers to learn hierarchies of local patterns, transforming raw pixel values into high-level abstract visual concepts. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as LSTMs and GRUs are well-suited for modeling sequential data through their ability to maintain long- term temporal dependencies. They have achieved state- of-the-art performance on tasks involving audio, text, and time-series data. Autoencoders provide an unsupervised framework for learning compressed representations of data through reconstruction. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown success in learning the underlying distributions of datasets to synthesize new samples. These deep learning architectures are applied to problems across domains using standard preprocessing, training procedures, and evaluation metrics. CNN- extracted image features outperform handcrafted counterparts on image classification benchmarks. RNN- learned word embedding capture semantic and syntactic relationships compared to bag-of-words methods. Visualizations of intermediate CNN and RNN layers reveal their discovery of progressively higher-level patterns. Auto encoders learn disentangled latent spaces separating essential factors of variation in data. Deep models provide performance gains over traditional pipelines through their automatic extraction of layered, abstract representations optimized directly for predictive tasks. Their learned features also enhance human interpretability and dataset insights. While deep learning has revolutionized representation learning, open challenges remain around model interpretability, training data efficiency, and scalability to massive, heterogeneous datasets. Therefore, deep architectures represent a transformative development in automated feature engineering for analyzing complex data.
The impact of liquidity constraints on the effectiveness of fiscal policy: evidence from Poland
Authors: Krajewski Piotr , Piłat Katarzyna
Published: November 2024

The aim of the paper is to estimate the impact of the rapid worsening of households’ access to credit in Poland on the effects of fiscal policy. The novelty of our study is that it extends the analysis of liquidity constrained households’ impact on fiscal multipliers to Central and Eastern European country, where households access to credit is relatively limited and therefore the potential impact of liquidity constrained households on fiscal multipliers is stronger than the existing literature for highly developed economies indicates. The empirical analysis is based on the theoretical model with heterogenous households. We found that the increase in the percentage of liquidity constrained households led to the substantial rise in fiscal multipliers, and thus the increase of effectiveness of Polish fiscal policy. The study indicates that before the worsening of households’ access to loans, the contemporaneous government spending multiplier was relatively low, whereas after a sharp increase in interest rates, contemporaneous government multiplier exceeded one. What is more, our study shows that a sharp increase in interest rates also strengthens medium term fiscal policy impact on GDP in Central and Eastern European economy.
Prominent Mid-infrared Excess of the Dwarf Planet (136472) Makemake Discovered by JWST/MIRI Indicates Ongoing Activity
Authors: Kiss Csaba , Müller Thomas G. , Farkas-Takács Anikó , Moór Attila , Protopapa Silvia , Parker Alex H. , Santos-Sanz Pablo , Ortiz Jose Luis , Holler Bryan J. , Wong Ian , Stansberry John , Fernández-Valenzuela Estela , Glein Christopher R. , Lellouch Emmanuel , Vilenius Esa , Kalup Csilla E. , Regály Zsolt , Szakáts Róbert , Marton Gábor , Pál András , Szabó Gyula M.
Published: November 2024

We report on the discovery of a very prominent mid-infrared (18–25 μm) excess associated with the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet (136472) Makemake. The excess, detected by the Mid-Infrared Instrument of the James Webb Space Telescope, along with previous measurements from the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes, indicates the occurrence of temperatures of ∼150 K, much higher than what solid surfaces at Makemake’s heliocentric distance could reach by solar irradiation. We identify two potential explanations: a continuously visible, currently active region powered by subsurface upwelling and possibly cryovolcanic activity covering ≤1% of Makemake’s surface or an as-yet-undetected ring containing very small carbonaceous dust grains, which have not been seen before in trans-Neptunian or Centaur rings. Both scenarios point to unprecedented phenomena among trans-Neptunian objects and could greatly impact our understanding of these distant worlds.
Analysis of Enceladus’s Time-variable Space Environment to Magnetically Sound its Interior
Authors: Saur Joachim , Duling Stefan , Grayver Alexander , Szalay Jamey R.
Published: November 2024

We provide a comprehensive study of Enceladus’s time-variable magnetic field environment and identify in measurements of the Cassini spacecraft signatures that appear to be consistent with induced fields from the moon’s interior. Therefore, we first analyze the background field Enceladus is exposed to within 21 flybys and 50 crossings of the moon’s orbit by the Cassini spacecraft. Considering magnetic field variability due to Enceladus’s eccentric orbit, Saturn’s planetary period oscillations, and local time effects within the magnetospheric current sheet, we construct predictive, time-variable background fields near Enceladus with a correlation coefficient of 0.75 and larger compared to the measured background fields. Subsequently, we build a geophysically based electrical conductivity model of Enceladus’s ocean from the equation of state for saline water and mixing laws for a porous core permeated by water. Using this conductivity model and the derived time-variable fields, we calculate expected induced fields. For close flybys, we identify within mostly plume-dominated magnetic field perturbations of 10–30 nT much smaller perturbations of 1–3 nT, which could be consistent with induction. The flybys over Enceladus’s north pole are best suited for induction studies, and the associated measurements suggest that a conductivity of the ocean with 1–3 S m–1 is not sufficient to produce an adequate induction response, but they support a highly conductive, porous core of 20–30 S m–1 and/or a more conductive ocean. Our study also provides strategies for future magnetic sounding of Enceladus.
Bees of the IMBE collection in Marseille: new data for southeastern France (Hymenoptera)
Authors: Schneider Louhane , Lossouarn Charlène , Geslin Benoît , Jaworski Coline , Schurr Lucie , Ropars Lise , Bouchot Claire , Zakardjian Marie , Flacher Floriane , Aubert Matthieu , Genoud David , Dufrêne Éric , Leclercq Vincent , Neve Gabriel
Published: November 2024

The spectacular decline in pollinators and their prominent role in pollination of natural and cultivated plants has stimulated research on pollinating insects. Over the last ten years, many ecological researches have been carried out on bees, often generating a large volume of specimen capture and increasing the importance of entomological collections. Here we present the bee collection of the IMBE laboratory (Marseille, France), after ten years of study of plant-pollinator networks.

We provide distribution data on 2180 specimens belonging to 244 species of bees, mainly from Mediterranean France. Two of the recorded species, Lasioglossum soror and Nomada italica, are classified as "endangered" at the European level, while 44 of the recorded species are currently data deficient following the 2014 European bee red list. The data presented here are a part of a global effort to improve knowledge about the bees of France, within the framework of the French Pollinator Plan, and with the goal of the production of a national red list. Within this framework, bees of the Mediterranean region, where the highest species diversity is found in mainland France, are particularly of interest.
Taxonomic notes on the genus Chaitoregma (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Hormaphidinae), with description of a new species from China
Authors: Wang Yizhe , Huang Xiaolei
Published: November 2024

A new aphid species, Chaitoregma kirliasp. nov., from Fujian and Guangdong, China, is described, which feeds on bamboo. The diagnostic morphological characteristics of the new species are described and illustrated. A key to apterous viviparous females of Chaitoregma species is provided. The COI barcode sequence of this new species is also provided. Due to its unique morphological characteristics, the diagnosis of the genus has been revised. Other species within the genus are also reviewed and discussed.
The southernmost record for a symphylan: Hanseniella guerreroi sp. nov. (Myriapoda, Scutigerellidae), an inhabitant of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago
Authors: Porta Andrés O. , Parra-Gómez Antonio , Poy Dante , Kreps Gaston , Mackenzie Roy , Martínez Pastur Guillermo , Fernández Leonardo D.
Published: November 2024

A new species of Symphyla, Hanseniella guerreroisp. nov., is described from specimens collected during expeditions to the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, including Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados in Argentina, as well as Isla Navarino in Chile. To the best of our knowledge, this new species represents the southernmost record for a myriapod of the class Symphyla. The morphological affinities of this species with other Hanseniella species from Gondwanan landmasses are discussed, highlighting its potential for studying the impact of the last Quaternary glaciation on soil arthropods in the far south of the continent. This discovery provides important insights into the biogeographic and evolutionary history of soil arthropods in these remote and climatically challenging regions. H. guerreroisp. nov. is an exemplary species adapted to the harsh environmental conditions of subantarctic ecosystems and contributes significantly to our understanding of biodiversity and ecological dynamics in such challenging habitats.
Global stability for a mosquito-borne disease model with continuous-time age structure in the susceptible and relapsed host classes
Authors: Vazquez-Peña Maria Guadalupe , Vargas-De-León Cruz , Velázquez-Castro Jorge
Published: November 2024

Mosquito-borne infectious diseases represent a significant public health issue. Age has been identified as a key risk factor for these diseases, and another phenomenon reported is relapse, which involves the reappearance of symptoms after a symptom-free period. Recent research indicates that susceptibility to and relapse of mosquito-borne diseases are frequently age-dependent. This paper proposes a new model to better capture the dynamics of mosquito-borne diseases by integrating two age-dependent factors: chronological age and asymptomatic-infection age. Chronological age refers to the time elapsed from the date of birth of the host to the present time. On the other hand, asymptomatic infection age denotes the time elapsed since the host became asymptomatic after the primary infection. The system of integro-differential equations uses flexible, unspecified functions to represent these dependencies, assuming they are integrable. We analyzed the global stability of both the disease-free and endemic equilibrium states using the direct Lyapunov method with Volterra-type Lyapunov functionals. Additionally, the paper explores several special cases involving well-known host-vector models.
El redescubrimiento de un tapiz del Triunfo Del Amor según Petrarca
Authors: Bardoz Marie Cécile
Published: November 2024

Este artículo presenta un estudio dedicado a una tapicería bruselense del siglo xvi sobre los Triunfos de la cual un ejemplar perteneció a la colección de Isabel la Católica y a la que también pertenece un tapiz conservado en el Departamento de Artes Decorativas del Museo del Louvre, en el que se representa el Triunfo del Amor.
Solbes Borja, Clara: El campo artístico valenciano durante el franquismo: una intervención feminista. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2023, 331 pp., 97 ilus. [978-84-19825-34-6].
Authors: Barcenilla Haizea
Published: November 2024

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The Problem and Countermeasures of Insufficient Digitalization of Customer Service in Chinese Rural Banks
Authors: Li Yunfei , Comite Ubaldo
Published: November 2024

With the progress of society and the rapid development of technology, people’s demand for online and digital banking is also constantly increasing. However, there are factors such as insufficient technology investment and a lack of business technology composite talents in rural banks, which have led to serious deficiencies in the online and digital customer service. In order to solve this problem, this paper analyzes and summarizes the factors that contribute to the insufficient online and digital capabilities of rural banks through literature review. Based on the analysis results, relevant hypotheses are proposed, and Z Rural Bank is taken as an example to collect relevant data through online questionnaires. Multiple linear regression models and data analysis software are used to calculate the collected data. After qualitative and quantitative analysis, the conclusion is drawn that the number of composite talents in the bank, the level of technological investment in the bank, the level of understanding and mastery of digitalization among bank employees, and the strength of bank outsourcing companies have an impact on the insufficient online and digital capabilities of rural banks. Based on the above research conclusions, corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are proposed. Through the research results of this paper, we hope to provide some reference for the online and digital transformation and development of China’s banking and financial institutions, especially rural banks.
Home, Homes and Homeland in “Things”
Authors: Bricout Shirley
Published: November 2024

This article aims to show how the narrative tensions of the short story “Things” complicate the characters’ relation to places and in particular to home and homeland. Such tensions, intensified by the economy of the short story as genre, fashion Lawrence’s ironic commentary of idealism and materialism. While the characters’ interest in Buddhist thought seems to condition their peripathetic lives, their compulsive hoarding of precious furniture and artifacts during their trips to France and Italy challenges the spiritual quest. First a consideration of the significance of the home in Buddhist thought addresses the scope and limits of renunciation and idealism. Multiplicity, signified in the succession of homes the characters dwell in, and the amount of things they amass, is then shown to grow out of a topographical shift from verticality to horizontality, embedded in the narrative. This collapse is emblematic of the characters’ oscillating values, that redefine the quest as events unfold. Finally, the characters’ return to America, their homeland, in the second part of the story, is considered in the light of dialogical tensions created by discrepancies to be found in the status and figurative language of the American couple.
D.H. Lawrence and the Late-Victorian conception of an English Home
Authors: Fleming Fiona
Published: November 2024

As Lawrence travelled the world, moving ever further away from England, his home arrangements and their representation in his writing changed, from the typical farm or collier’s home to the Australian bungalow or Mexican villa. Being childless and a wandering writer, his role and place as a man in the household were necessarily unconventional by nineteenth and early-twentieth century standards. Predictably, his stories reflect such unconventional domesticity and, in my study of Aaron’s Rod, Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Fox, principally, I shall be examining the tensions between Lawrence’s perpetuation of the late-Victorian conception of home as a place of safety and comfort – especially when the English home is recreated abroad – and his rejection of the domestic ideal. Several of Lawrence’s female protagonists express a desire for a fixed, stable home, while male protagonists such as Aaron Sisson, Rupert Birkin and Richard Somers argue against repressive domesticity. This would seem to indicate that, in spite of the foreign settings and unusual marriages, Lawrence’s fiction endorses the sexual division of labour and gendered roles prescribed by authoritative Victorian texts, such as Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies. Lawrence did replicate Victorian models of housekeeping and child-rearing, as well as the division of the home in male and female spheres, with distinct territories and boundaries. This being said, he also at times challenged those rigid, gendered spaces and roles, by imagining domestically inclined husbands and independence-seeking wives.
D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and the Impracticability of Home
Authors: Michelucci Stefania
Published: November 2024

In this paper I intend to discuss the concept of home and homelessness from an anthropological perspective. I will first analyze this concept in the short story “A Little Cloud” from Dubliners by James Joyce. In this story, the house/home becomes a prison which is almost impossible to escape from, undermining any dream. In the second part of my paper, I will compare this prison to the necessary, but problematic homelessness in Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence.
The Impact of Censorship on Lawrence’s Conception of “Home”
Authors: Walker Gregory
Published: November 2024

In 1919, D.H. Lawrence left England and did not settle there again for the rest of his life. The prosecution of The Rainbow in 1915 was a crippling blow for Lawrence’s budding career as an author and it left him intensely disillusioned with his home country and the literary establishment which had condemned his writing. He would have left the country immediately were it not for the interference of the British authorities. Nevertheless, Lawrence remained inextricably tied to the country of his birth; like the characters in his fiction he was never able to completely sever himself from it. In his earliest work, Lawrence had already started to undermine and subvert the bourgeois values of his upbringing; as his career developed, and particularly after the prosecution of The Rainbow, he recognised that these values underpinned the censorship of his work, and he would spend the rest of his career writing back against the climate of censorship in Britain and America.
Le musicien ethnographe à l’épreuve de ses émotions
Authors: Thiébaud Sacha
Published: November 2024

Cet article propose une réflexion méthodologique sur la manière dont les enquêtés peuvent confronter le chercheur à ses propres émotions. Pour mener mon étude sur la culture musicale punk en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, j’ai intégré un groupe de musique en tant que guitariste. Dans ce contexte, les sanctions à l’égard de mon jeu instrumental ont mis en évidence un ensemble de règles de sentiment partagées. Je montre ainsi comment « jouer en surface » des émotions conformes aux attentes des musiciens m’a ouvert l’accès à l’intimité d’un groupe underground et comment la portée heuristique de cette normalisation émotionnelle m’a permis de mieux comprendre le rôle des affects au sein de la culture punk régionale.
Les échos à Hésiode dans l’œuvre d’Hérodote
Authors: Amilien Arnaud
Published: November 2024

Si l’influence d’Homère sur Hérodote a fait l’objet de nombreuses études, celle d’Hésiode a en revanche rarement retenu l’intérêt des spécialistes. Cet article, après avoir dressé un état de la question, examine en détail trois passages de l’Enquête apparemment inspirés du rhapsode. Ceux-ci permettent de mettre en évidence les différentes façons dont l’historien s’approprie son modèle pour servir ses propres finalités. Dans le récit de la vie de Cambyse (3. 5-65), les références à Hésiode créent une composition circulaire, où la fin du récit répond au début, ce qui permet d’une part de mettre en évidence l’effet de la rétribution divine, d’autre part de montrer le changement d’attitude du Roi perse une fois confronté à sa mort imminente. Nous analyserons ensuite l’épisode où les Scythes affrontent leurs esclaves (4. 3-4), qui paraît prendre pour toile de fond le scénario de la Titanomachie (Th., 617-735). Enfin, nous nous pencherons sur le cas intéressant de la description de la tempête détruisant la flotte de Xerxès (8. 12-13), combinant des éléments empruntés à la fois au combat des dieux contre les Titans et de Zeus contre Typhon (Th., 836-880).
Rome [HBO/BBC] et l’art de la contingence historique. Causalité, échelles et intertextualité au sein d’une superproduction sur l’Antiquité
Authors: Barrière Vivien , Faingnaert Victor , Salviani Clément
Published: November 2024

La série Rome (HBO et BBC, 2005-2007), ambitieuse fresque sur la mort de la République romaine, occupe la place de dernier grand péplum du début du xxie siècle. Série la plus chère de l’histoire à sa sortie, pétrie de références aux sources littéraires antiques, Rome est une superproduction très attentive aux détails les plus triviaux de la culture romaine. Peuplée des figures incontournables de l’époque tardo-républicaine, la série se tourne malgré tout vers l’histoire populaire et suit le parcours de deux vétérans, citoyens ordinaires au destin se mêlant à celui des « Grands ». Bouleversant les codes du péplum par son ambition réaliste, sans maniérisme grandiloquent (petit peuple omniprésent, ville grouillante), jouant avec des incontournables du genre (gladiateurs, orgie, vie de palais, théâtralité), Rome offre la vision d’une cité plus vraisemblable que jamais sans abolir le carcan d’un genre difficile à renouveler. Cet article souhaite analyser la place de ces carcans dans la narration, leur rôle dans le jeu d’échelle et de causalité (petite et grande histoire – psychologie - tensions sociales) face à « l’événement » historique.
Les mondes anciens du Parc Astérix : l’anachronisme au croisement d’une promesse d'humour, d’un récit organisationnel et d’une culture du divertissement
Authors: Boittiaux Johan
Published: November 2024

Le Parc Astérix promet une forme d’immersion particulière dans les mondes antiques, inspirée de la déformation anachronique de l’histoire qui fait le succès des voyages d’Astérix. Adaptée à l’espace, cette parodie trouve un écho qui met paradoxalement ses processus d’immersion à distance. Ce surgissement du quotidien dans la mise à distance délibérée de l’histoire est interrogé sur la quête d’un plaisir réflexif déployé par le discours promotionnel et institutionnel du parc et recherché par le public. La co-construction de l’enchantement est analysée à partir d’une approche sémio-pragmatique qui permet d’expliciter comment le présent est projeté sur des signes antiques et l’Antiquité euphémisée au profit d’une culture des parcs entretenue par les professionnels et le public.
Progress in Rotorcraft Design: 1974–2024
Authors: Strauss Michael P. , Scott Mark W.
Published: November 2024

Fundamental advancements in aircraft design over the past 50 years have enabled a range of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) air vehicle conflgurations and have significantly enhanced aircraft performance, safety, and reliability. This summary paper chronicles the evolution of rotorcraft
design from 1974 to 2024. It is segregated into three key pillars of aircraft design preceded by an aircraft design overview. The three pillars are processes and tools, technology, and air vehicle conflguration. The first pillar, on design processes and tools, describes advancements in technology,
methodologies, and computational capabilities such as the transition from design solely by wind tunnel testing, physical models, and hand calculations to computer-aided design/synthesis and simulation in a model-based engineering digital-twin environment. The second pillar, on technology,
focuses on advances in disciplinary technologies and how they have been incorporated into aircraft design. Technologies discussed include composite materials; rotor systems; propulsion systems, ranging from advancements in turbine engines to all- and more-electric propulsion technologies utilizing
various energy storage systems to convertible engines; fly-by-wire systems; avionics and cockpit architectures, including digital displays, navigation aids, and communication equipment; and autonomous and semiautonomous systems. The third pillar, on air vehicle conflguration, focuses on platform
architectures. Major architectures discussed are high-speed VTOLs such as the thrust-vectored aircraft, tiltrotors, lift/thrust compounded helicopters, and all- and more-electric aircraft.
Ownership structure and capital structure dynamics in South African firms
Authors: Naidu Delane
Published: November 2024

Background: The ownership structure can impact capital structure decisions as owners are an influential group that govern the financial decisions of firms. Hence, the ownership structure and the categories of its owners have important implications for the capital structure of firms.Aim: This study investigates the linear and non-linear effects of different ownership types (managerial, foreign, institutional, government, and family) on the debt ratios of firms.Setting: This study includes 267 non-financial firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) from 2004 to 2021, accounting for fluctuation in listings during this period.Method: The fixed effects model is used to estimate the impact of ownership structure on capital structure, while the Sasabuchi-Lind-Mehlum test evaluates non-linearity. Additionally, the Durbin-Wu-Hausman test is employed to detect whether endogeneity is present in this study.Results: The findings indicate that government ownership has a positive linear relation with the total debt and long-term debt ratio, while a non-linear inverse U-shaped relationship is found between institutional ownership and long-term debt, with an optimal level of 34.3%.Conclusion: The study concludes that the ownership structure is an important factor driving capital structure decisions, with government and institutional ownership directly impacting the debt ratios of firms.Contribution: This article expands the limited knowledge of the impact of ownership structure on capital structure and is the first to explore non-linear effects in the South African context. The findings offer valuable insights for boards and management that may aid them in strategically configuring ownership structures that optimise their capital structures.
Involving People in Conservation: Perceptions from Maine, USA
Authors: Soucy Alyssa R. , De Urioste-Stone Sandra , Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran Parinaz , Jansujwicz Jessica , Eitel Karla , Brownlee Matthew
Published: November 2024

Environmental conservation groups involve people in diverse ways. These include participatory spaces where people can participate in decision-making and action and engagement processes, where groups communicate, educate, and conduct outreach to build environmental understanding and involve audiences in conservation activities. We explored the perceptions and experiences of conservation practitioners in Maine, USA, to understand their views of participation and engagement. We interviewed 21 practitioners and analysed the qualitative data using an interpretative phenomenological approach grounded in interviewees’ words and experiences. All interviewees recognised the interconnections between people, places, and the non-human world; however, individuals and the groups they work within thought about the role of people in conservation in diverse ways. Views of public stakeholders and rights holders, individual values, Indigenous knowledge, commitments to place and community, and personal experiences all influence who is involved, how people are involved, why people are involved, and what comes of people’s involvement. We conclude by discussing the implications for equitable conservation that seeks to incorporate diverse voices.
On the sign changes of Dirichlet coefficients of triple product L-functions
Authors: Feng Jinzhi
Published: November 2024

Let f and g be two distinct normalized primitive holomorphic cusp forms of even integral weight
$k_{1}$
and
$k_{2}$
for the full modular group
$SL(2,\mathbb {Z})$
, respectively. Suppose that
$\lambda _{f\times f\times f}(n)$
and
$\lambda _{g\times g\times g}(n)$
are the n-th Dirichlet coefficient of the triple product L-functions
$L(s,f\times f\times f)$
and 
$L(s,g\times g\times g)$
. In this paper, we consider the sign changes of the sequence
$\{\lambda _{f\times f\times f}(n)\}_{n\geq 1}$
and
$\{\lambda _{f\times f\times f}(n)\lambda _{g\times g\times g}(n)\}_{n\geq 1}$
in short intervals and establish quantitative results for the number of sign changes for
$n \leq x$
, which improve the previous results.
COVID-19 infection and inactivated vaccination: Impacts on clinical and immunological profiles in Chinese children with type 1 diabetes
Authors: Xu Zhen-Ran , Xi Li , Wu Jing , Ni Jin-Wen , Luo Fei-Hong , Zhang Miao-Ying
Published: November 2024

BACKGROUND

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been linked to an increased incidence of diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). However, the relationship between COVID-19 infection and progression to type 1 diabetes (T1D) in children has not been well defined.

AIM

To evaluate the influence of COVID-19 infection and inactivated vaccine administration on the progression of T1D among Chinese children.

METHODS

A total of 197 newly diagnosed patients with T1D were retrospectively enrolled from Children's Hospital of Fudan University between September 2020 and December 2023. The patients were divided into three groups based on their history of COVID-19 infection and vaccination: the infection group, the vaccination-only group, and the non-infection/non-vaccination group. Comprehensive clinical assessments and detailed immunological evaluations were performed to delineate the characteristics and immune responses of these groups.

RESULTS

The incidence of DKA was significantly higher in the COVID-19 infection group (70.2%) compared to the non-infection/non-vaccination group (62.5%) and vaccination-only group (45.6%; P = 0.015). Prior COVID-19 infection was correlated with increased DKA risk (OR: 1.981, 95%CI: 1.026-3.825, P = 0.042), while vaccination was associated with a reduced risk (OR: 0.558, 95%CI: 0.312-0.998, P = 0.049). COVID-19 infection mildly altered immune profiles, with modest differences in autoantibody positivity, lymphocyte distribution, and immunoglobulin levels. Notably, HLA-DR3 positive children with a history of COVID-19 infection had an earlier T1D onset and lower fasting C-peptide levels than the HLA-DR3 negative children with a history of infection (both P < 0.05).

CONCLUSION

COVID-19 infection predisposes children to severe T1D, characterized by enhanced DKA risk. Inactivated vaccination significantly lowers DKA incidence at T1D onset. These findings are valuable for guiding future vaccination and T1D risk surveillance strategies in epidemic scenarios in the general pediatric population.
β-Arrestin-2 enhances endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced glomerular endothelial cell injury by activating transcription factor 6 in diabetic nephropathy
Authors: Liu Jiang , Song Xiao-Yun , Li Xiu-Ting , Yang Mu , Wang Fang , Han Ying , Jiang Ying , Lei Yu-Xin , Jiang Miao , Zhang Wen , Tang Dong-Qi
Published: November 2024

BACKGROUND

Glomerular endothelial cell (GENC) injury is a characteristic of early-stage diabetic nephropathy (DN), and the investigation of potential therapeutic targets for preventing GENC injury is of clinical importance.

AIM

To investigate the role of β-arrestin-2 in GENCs under DN conditions.

METHODS

Eight-week-old C57BL/6J mice were intraperitoneally injected with streptozotocin to induce DN. GENCs were transfected with plasmids containing siRNA-β-arrestin-2, shRNA-activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6), pCDNA-β-arrestin-2, or pCDNA-ATF6. Additionally, adeno-associated virus (AAV) containing shRNA-β-arrestin-2 was administered via a tail vein injection in DN mice.

RESULTS

The upregulation of β-arrestin-2 was observed in patients with DN as well as in GENCs from DN mice. Knockdown of β-arrestin-2 reduced apoptosis in high glucose-treated GENCs, which was reversed by the overexpression of ATF6. Moreover, overexpression of β-arrestin-2 Led to the activation of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and the apoptosis of GENCs which could be mitigated by silencing of ATF6. Furthermore, knockdown of β-arrestin-2 by the administration of AAV-shRNA-β-arrestin-2 alleviated renal injury in DN mice.

CONCLUSION

Knockdown of β-arrestin-2 prevents GENC apoptosis by inhibiting ATF6-mediated ER stress in vivo and in vitro . Consequently, β-arrestin-2 may represent a promising therapeutic target for the clinical management of patients with DN.
A Child in the Art Space: A Study in the Perspective of Stanisław Wyspiański’s Work
Authors: Szajda Mariusz
Published: November 2024

The values of the relationship that takes place between a parent and a child can be analyzed on various levels: moral, biological, symbolic, social, legal or artistic. The aim of this study is an attempt to characterize the presence of a child as a subject in the European visual arts, with particular emphasis on the value of fatherhood in relation to the artistic work of one of the greatest Polish painters: Stanisław Wyspiański. Through the identification of values through semiological and iconographic axiology, it becomes possible to read an artistic work as a specific, philosophical record about the essence of understanding the analyzed value. In the case of Wyspiański, the artist’s child portraits will be analyzed, which can be treated as a kind of symbolic record not only of understanding but above all of experiencing the value of fatherhood. In the multidimensional process of raising a child, the father plays an extremely important role, influencing the formation and development of a young person’s personality. But it is not a one-way process, and the child also significantly shapes the parent as a father, friend and companion in everyday life.