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THE EFFORT OF ABCGM TO ESTABLISH BUSINESS CULTURE IN WEST JAVA UNIVERSITIES THROUGH BUSINESS INCUBATOR
Authors: Hindarsah Ida , Prabawani Bulan , Suwondo Sulistia
Published: December 2021

Indonesia is a developing country in Asia, whose economic development still depends on foreign investment. MSME is an alternative business unit that can encourage domestic economic growth that can be released from the dependence of foreign investment. The low number of MSMEs compared to other countries in Asia and the vulnerability of MSMEs unable to compete in the market in the era of globalization. Make the government fund various stakeholders to be established and develop business incubators, including universities. With the adoption of this policy, universities in West Java began to create and build business incubators. This article is intended to describe the process of establishing and developing a university business incubator in West Java. The method used in this research is qualitative research with data collection techniques through data observation and literature study. The results of the study that discussed the establishment of a university business incubator in West Java were carried out in collaboration with lecturers with international non-profit organizations.
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL TRANSFER PROGRAM AT PT JASA MARGA (PERSERO) TBK.
Authors: Rusilowati Umi , Budiyana Agus
Published: December 2021

The impact of technological developments and the application of GNNT or Cashless in toll road transactions can trigger company to terminate employment, but the company is not allowed to lay off, this is a challenge for Jasa Marga so that there are no layoffs and operational services in the field continue to run by Government policies and the PUPR Ministerial Decree. In 2017-2019 PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk. made a change by preparing a voluntary Professional Transfer Program (A-Life) for employees. In this process, Jasa Marga Management, the Employees, and Employees Union are committed to jointly leading the change management process in a professional transfer program that takes into account the interests of the Company and the Employees, however should improve the quality of organizational culture as well. The method used a qualitative approach based on a case study to examine the state of natural objects, in which the researcher is the key tool, the data collection technique is performed by triangulation (a combination of observations, interviews, documents), the resulting data tends to be qualitative data, analytical data is inductive/qualitative and research finding of qualitative research is about understanding meaning, understanding unique, construct phenomena and find hypotheses. The conclusion there were the process, obstacles, and effectiveness of change management implementation in the professional transition program (ALife) and organizational culture which has not been implemented optimally.
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES IN VIRTUAL CLASSROOM TO MAINTAIN EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND CLASSROOM CULTURE: A CASE STUDY AT ONE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
Authors: Mardiani Ridha , Nurul Azhar Ridha
Published: December 2021

Effective classroom management supports the teacher classroom teaching profoundly. During Pandemic COVID 19 most classroom teachings are conducted in virtual classroom that have been greatly affected the way how teacher manage his or her own classroom. This causes some challenges for teachers in managing his or her virtual classroom. This study was conducted in the form of a case study in one vocational school in West Bandung region, West Java, Indonesia in which one English teacher was purposively selected as the participant of the research and one class consisted of 27 students. The objectives of this study are: (1) to find out the challenges of teacher in classroom management in virtual classroom (2) to find out what classroom management the teacher used in her virtual classroom. The researchers employed a qualitative case study which used classroom observation and teacher interview as main instrument. Data from classroom observation and interview transcript were analyzed according to the themes, coding and categorizing to answer the research questions. The results indicate that the teacher experienced many challenges in the virtual classroom, such as the students’ unreadiness to join the virtual class, internet connection problem, restricted time so that the teacher immediately taught the core material, students turned off the camera and sound, students learnt unattentively, less interaction and inappropriate class control. Some suggestions are given to the challenges occurred in their virtual classroom such as, by a) joining the virtual classroom earlier; b) checking the students’ attendance first; c) optimizing the teacher-students interaction during whilst- learning and post learning activity; and d) giving quizzes at the end of the lesson to make the students are more enthusiastic in learning. In this study, it is found that the teacher employed a combination of democratic and leisurely classroom management style. This finding leads to the point where a new style for virtual classroom management called Maye’s Conceptualization Model is proposed.
Инициирование детонационных волн в пузырьковой среде при наклонном падении
Authors: Гималтдинов Ильяс , Родионов Артем , Кочанова Екатерина
Published: December 2021

Рассмотрен плоский канал, заполненный пузырьковой (газонасыщенной) и «чистой» жидкостью с границей раздела этих сред, расположенной под углом по длине канала. Изучен процесс инициирования детонационной волны в газонасыщенной жидкости на наклонной границе, исследовано влияние угла наклона границы на давление, необходимое для начала детонации в пузырьковой жидкости. Показана возможность уменьшения амплитуды давления путем изменения угла наклонной границы.
Historicity, Historiography, and Hope
Authors: Santos Almeida Tiago
Published: December 2021

Historicity is a key epistemological component of the definition of “science” proposed by authors such as Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault, and partially accepted by the Brazilian Collective Health builders. What we call the “historicity awareness” of Collective Health is the field’s recognition that there is no knowledge of health without history and that its history interferes with its results, with the conceptualization of its objects, its cognitive and technological practices, and the feasibility of its promises of enhancing the quality of life towards an equal society. This helps explain why Humanities in general and History, in particular, are ubiquitous to Health Education, where they are known as Health and Medical Humanities or, as is more usual in Brazil, Human and Social Sciences in Health. They helped to imagine an equitable health care system of which the concrete manifestation, however imperfect, is the Brazilian Unified National Health System, the SUS. Health Humanities, Medical Humanities, and History of Science and Technology are all interdisciplinary fields that challenge historiography and theory of history to look beyond the borders of our normative understanding of the historian’s professional identity – which legitimacy is achieved through specific academic training – to properly evaluate the multiple expressions of society’s relationships and engagements with history and time.
Between Reception and Reflection
Authors: Becerra Batán Marcela Renée
Published: December 2021

In this work, I propose some notes for a current epistemological evaluation around Whiggism and presentism in the historiographical proposal of Guillermo Boido (1941-2013). In the first place, I will locate the topic proposed in the shared framework from the “Colloquium of Historiography of Science in Latin America (Argentina – Brazil – Uruguay): Reception, Reflection and Production.” Second, I will refer to some aspects of Boido’s academic career and I will place him in what I identify as a “second stage” of the history of science in Argentina. Third, I will dwell on some of Boido’s writings, particularly on those in which he addresses the questions of Whiggism and presentism. Fourth, I will recover some elements on the treatment of these issues in recent works carried out from the perspective of historical epistemology. Finally, in conclusion, I will propose a current epistemological evaluation of Whiggism and presentism between reception and reflection; an evaluation oriented to sustain a “critical” (Loison 2016) and “pluralist” (Chang 2021) presentism, in the face of the epistemological, ethical and political challenges of our current days.
Early Days of the History of Science in Uruguay
Authors: Martínez María Laura
Published: December 2021

In this article, I provide an initial approximation to the establishment and the early stages of the history of science in Uruguay. To do so, I focus on the first courses on the subject dictated in Uruguay and the first figures—both local and foreign—that took part in the process. With this objective, first, I examine the introduction of the discipline into the Río de la Plata—and into Argentina more particularly—via the arrival of European historians. I then analyze the role played by some of the first most significant figures in the history of science in Uruguay in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Finally, I explore and briefly describe the first courses dictated at the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias (School of Humanities and Sciences) of the Universidad de la República (University of the Republic) during the mid-twentieth century.
Figural Co-Production
Authors: Martini María de los Ángeles
Published: December 2021

The aim of this article is to provide a critical revision of the notion of “reception” of academic works in general and of the histories of the sciences in particular. This will broaden the scope of the notion in a way that can include the new and unexpected receptions of the history of science in Latin America. To achieve this, I propose the concept of “figural co-production”, which I understand as a set of situated practices where the available cultural resources are appropriated, and that allows for productive interactions between heterogeneous collectives that aim for the configuration of knowledge. This theoretical proposal enables me to analyze Verónica Tozzi Thompson’s appropriation of the works of Steven Shapin and Martin Kusch in her pragmatist approach to the philosophy of history. This appropriation, I contend, can be seen as a case of reception of the shapinian history of science in Argentina.
Cernuschi vs. Papp
Authors: Queijo Olano Juan A.
Published: December 2021

This paper aims to revisit the intellectual tension in the River Plate region surrounding a dispute between the Hungarian philosopher Desiderio Papp and the Argentine-Uruguayan physicist Félix Cernuschi when they were contenders for the Chair of Scientific Thought at the School of Humanities and Sciences of the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. Their disagreement was personal, political, and philosophical and divided the waters among the emerging community of physicists in the region and a group of actors who, for some time, had been devoted to the History of Science in the universities of the region. The History of Science constituted the battleground out of which it would emerge how science should be understood in a Uruguayan university that, historically speaking, had been remiss in providing an appropriate space for its development. In revisiting this event, this paper seeks to throw light on the present situation of an almost non-existent History of Science in Uruguay.
Some Remarks on the History of the Introduction of Alexandre Koyré in Brazil
Authors: Salomon Marlon
Published: December 2021

This article intends to briefly reconstitute the history of the introduction of Alexandre Koyré’s work in Brazil. I do not seek to make a general analysis but just to focus on two pathways by means of which his work was introduced in this country. I endeavor to reconstitute the history of the translation of his books into Portuguese and identify the main vectors and intellectual contexts responsible for his works’ acclimatation in Brazil. Those two pathways roughly correspond to two distinct geographies and intellectual cartographies; in Rio de Janeiro, interest in his work stemmed from the introduction of French epistemological thinking in the wake of philosophers’ readings Louis Althusser’s works after the 1960s; in São Paulo, it was linked to university institutionalization of the history of science, starting in the late 1950s, initially promoted by scientists. That history enables an understanding of the major lines and forms that the history of science assumed in Brazil. Furthermore, the study permits the comprehension of the logic of the international circulation of ideas and the history of the translation of human sciences books as forms of cultural appropriation.
On the Writing of History of Science in Brazil in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Authors: Barbosa de Vasconcelos Eduardo Henrique
Published: December 2021

The present article is elaborated in two parts. In the first part, we present a survey of authors and their works that throughout the second half of the 20th century, developed significant references for the history of science in Brazil, establishing and consolidating this field of studies in the country, with an exacerbated emphasis on the historical aspects that occurred in Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In the second part of the article, we present a concrete historical experience in the 19th century, in the province of Ceará, totally disregarded by the traditional and the current historiographic production of history of science. This situation ultimately raises the question: What is the history of Brazilian science? What are the determinants of the history of science in Brazil? To what extent is the history of science in Brazil national?
Place of History in the History of Science
Authors: Ribeiro da Silva Vieira Andréa Mara
Published: December 2021

This article aims to reflect on the place of history in the history of science from the perspective of Brazilian historiography of science, mainly according to the thought of the Brazilian physicist and historian of science, Carlos Alvarez Maia. Since the 1990s, Maia (2013) began to question why the history of science became (and still largely remains) a “history of absent historians” in the face of the predominance of history of science in the Natural Science Departments and the absence in History Departments. The dynamic and changing historiography of science itself reaffirms the lack of historical analyses using history’s methodological and conceptual apparatus. Thus, epistemological aspects appear interrelated to political-institutional issues. Consequently, one has a political-epistemological perspective for discussing the place – or non-place – of history in the history of science. The thought of Maia (2013) acts as an essential starting point for reflection. It constitutes a possible opening in constructing a consolidation of discussions about the impacts (of the absence and the presence of the conceptual apparatus of history) in developing new historiography of science conceptually historical.
Hybrid Knowledge and the Historiography of Science
Authors: Bardi Alberto
Published: December 2021

Originating in the field of biology, the concept of the hybrid has proved to be influential and effective in historical studies, too. Until now, however, the idea of hybrid knowledge has not been fully explored in the historiography of pre-modern science. This article examines the history of pre-Copernican astronomy and focuses on three case studies—Alexandria in the second century CE; Baghdad in the ninth century; and Constantinople in the fourteenth century—in which hybridization played a crucial role in the development of astronomical knowledge and in philosophical controversies about the status of astronomy and astrology in scholarly and/or institutional settings. By establishing a comparative framework, this analysis of hybrid knowledge highlights different facets of hybridization and shows how processes of hybridization shaped scientific controversies.
Shozo Motoyama (1940-2021)
Authors: Magalhães Gildo
Published: December 2021

Shozo Motoyama's Obituary
Culture and Knowledge under the Technopoly Regime
Authors: Costa Thiago
Published: December 2021

Book Review

Richmond, Sheldon. A Way through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2020. 221 pp., ISBN: 9781527549227.
Johannes Kepler: The Order of Things
Authors: Goulart de Menezes Luana Paula
Published: December 2021

Book Review

Osterhage, Wolfgang. Johannes Kepler: The Order of Things. Springer Biographies. Springer International Publishing, 2020. 132p. ISBN 978-3-030-46858-3/ e-book. 54,99 USD.
A Personal Review
Authors: Rodrigues Rocha Gustavo
Published: December 2021

Book Review

Matthews, Michael. 2021. History, Philosophy and Science Teaching: A Personal Story. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021. ISBN: 978-981-16-0557-4 - Hardcover Book 139.99, USD, E-book 109.00 USD.
Problems faced by Gen Y in recruitment processes and HRM mistakes
Authors: SARIKAYA Onur
Published: December 2021

The aim of this qualitative study is to draw attention to the problems Gen Y faced in recruitment practices and HRM mistakes committed by businesses in these processes. Web-based interviews held with 12 Gen Y members. Interview notes were subjected to thematic analysis and the main problems encountered during the recruitment processes were identified. Findings show Gen Y encounters ethical, communication, and process management problems in recruitment processes. Recruitment process is the first stage in which employer brand value is perceived, and it needs to be managed carefully. Furthermore, it will be increasingly important to align Gen Y's new knowledge, attitudes, values, and skills with existing work contexts. Results provide some clues to better understand perception of Gen Y and also emphasize the need to update HRM practices.
The policy efficiency evaluation of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei regional government guidance fund based on the entropy method
Authors: Cui Jing , Liang Qiaoqiao , Yin Xianan , Zhang Jun , Yan Hongyan
Published: December 2021

With China's strong support for innovation and development, the policies of government guidance funds are an important driving force for leading innovation and economic transformation, and the effect of its related policies is of great significance. This paper selects 518 policies related to government guidance funds in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region from 2005 to 2018 as the research object and constructs a policy efficiency evaluation indicator system from three dimensions of policy intensity, policy objectives and measures. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and entropy method are used to weight the output level of policy innovation performance and economic performance of government guidance funds, and grey relational analysis (GRA) is used to measure the relationship between policies of government guidance funds and innovation performance and economic performance, and corresponding policy recommendations based on the research results. The results of the research show that the policy efficiency of the government guidance funds in Tianjin and Hebei is relatively high, and the policy efficiency of the Beijing government guidance funds needs to be improved. In general, the policy efficiency of the government guidance funds needs to be further improved.
Deformation and stress theory of surrounding rock of shallow circular tunnel based on complex variable function method
Authors: Wang Guizhen , Zhou Linglong , Alotaibi Reem , Hdeib Roaya
Published: December 2021

After reviewing many literature foundations, the thesis combines the basic methods of elastic mechanics with mathematical knowledge, sets the bipotential stress potential complex function and analyses the relationship between stress component, strain component and stress potential function, and applies the complex variable function. The expression of the relevant stress component is derived, and the displacement boundary conditions of the surrounding rock of shallow circular tunnel are obtained. Furthermore, the paper applies the basic theory of complex variable function to solve the boundary condition complex variable function for common tunnel sections, and obtains the analytical expression of the surrounding rock stress of shallow circular tunnel. The simulation is carried out by finite element method. The establishment of complex variable function has a good application value in solving the stress of surrounding rock of shallow tunnel.
Numerical calculation and study of differential equations of muscle movement velocity based on martial articulation body ligament tension
Authors: Liu Zan , Shao Huiying , Alahmadi Dimah
Published: December 2021

The paper analyses the impact of ligament stretch and tension on the speed of movement in martial arts from the perspective of sports physiology. It establishes the numerical relationship between the peak impact value of the ligament speed and the differential equation of the flexibility of the joints in the initial stage of tension (impact peak). It was found that the differential equation of the ligament tension of the movement is formed after the movement is stable, which cannot reflect the flexibility of the ligament and the mastery of the movement. In this paper, a tension calculation model for ligament equilibrium is established by using a kinetic method of motion. Although it is a static equation, continuous use can obtain dynamic effects. The simulation proves that the initial tension change is more realistic.
Analysing the action techniques of basketball players’ shooting training using calculus method
Authors: Fu Xu , Khadidos Alaa Omar
Published: December 2021

This article uses the calculus method and three-dimensional analysis system to photograph and analyse the action techniques of China's famous basketball players’ shooting training. Combining with the action technical parameters of outstanding male basketball players at home and abroad, this article analyses several main basketball players’ shooting training actions. Quantitative analysis of the calculus method was carried out in the technical link, and the problems existing in the basketball player's movement technology were found. Further, from the comparison of the physical fitness of excellent athletes, the reasons for the gap between the level of basketball in China and the world were discovered, and the physical quality of excellent male basketball players was established. Level evaluation models and standards provide a reliable guarantee for accurately grasping the development of athletes’ physical fitness, clarifying the status of each physical fitness in training, optimally controlling the basketball training process, and achieving scientific basketball training.
Application of multi-attribute decision-making methods based on normal random variables in supply chain risk management
Authors: Zhang Liye , Khadidos Adil Omar , Kharabsheh Radwan
Published: December 2021

For the multi-criteria group decision-making problem where the criterion value is a normal interval number and the weight information is incomplete, the normal interval number and its compromise expected value, compromise mean square error, algorithm, weighted arithmetic average of normal interval number (ININWAA) Operator, the ordered weighted average (ININOWA) operator of normal interval numbers and the mixed weighted average (ININHA) operator of normal interval numbers, and a multi-criteria group with incomplete information based on normal interval numbers is proposed. Decision-making methods. This method uses ININWAA operator and INNHA operator to integrate criterion values, uses the compromise mean square error of criterion values, establishes an optimisation model to solve the optimal criterion weights and uses the expectation variance criterion to determine the order of the schemes. The case analysis shows the effectiveness and feasibility of this method.
Research and application of constructing football training linear programming based on multiple linear regression equation
Authors: Bai YinZhuang , Ren Aizhen , Khadidos Adil Omar , Khder Moaiad Ahmad
Published: December 2021

Based on the factors affecting sports performance, from a more comprehensive and broad perspective, after consulting the literature, 52 factors that affect the outcome of football matches are selected, including technology, tactics, physical fitness and referees’ penalties. By watching the video of the game, 52 influencing factors of 200 games and 400 teams were counted. The original data was statistically processed with correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis, and the statistics of the 26 European Cup games were substituted into the winning formula. To verify the scientific nature and objectivity of the formula, we aim to ascertain the core factors in the winning factors of a football game and the quantitative relationship between these factors and the result of the game, so as to provide a certain reference for football training, game analysis and scientific research. The technical and tactical ability of individuals and teams is the core competitive ability factor that affects the result of the game; from a single factor, 15 factor indicators have a significant impact on the result of a football match; on the whole, 10 factor indicators have a significant effect on the result of a football match. In addition, there is a certain quantitative relationship between these influencing factors and the results of the game; empirical evidence shows that the football game winning formula has a certain degree of science and objectivity.
Comparison of compression estimations under the penalty functions of different violent crimes on campus through deep learning and linear spatial autoregressive models
Authors: Hu Huiping , Huang Xinqun , Suhaim Majed Ahmad , Zhang Hui
Published: December 2021

To reduce the probability of violent crimes, the deep learning (DL) technology and linear spatial autoregressive models (ARMs) are utilised to estimate the model parameters through different penalty functions. In addition, under a determinate space, the influences of environmental factors on violent crimes are discussed. By taking campus violence cases as examples, the major influencing factors of violent crimes are found through data analysis. The results show that campus violence cases are usually caused by the complex surrounding environments and persons. Also, campus security measures only cover a small range, and the security management is difficult. In the meantime, due to the younger ages and lack of self-protection awareness, students may easily become the targets of criminals. Therefore, the results have a positive significance for authorities to analyse the crime rates in a determinate area and take preventive measures against violent crimes.
Verifying the validity of the whole person model of mental health education activities in colleges based on differential equation
Authors: Liu Sha , Alyoubi Khaled H.
Published: December 2021

Based on the differential equation verification method, this study explores the characteristic model of mental health education activities for all employees and provides further research basis for constructing the competency characteristics for all employees in mental health education colleges. The results show that (1) the competence characteristics of all psychological teachers in mental health education colleges include interpersonal understanding and communication, respect for students, student service orientation, self-regulation and control, self-confidence, desire for achievement, influence, promotion of student development, organisation and coordination, 12 characteristics of professional knowledge skills, analytical thinking and reflective ability, (2) these 12 characteristics can be summarised into 4 dimensions: help and service, personal effectiveness, management skills and cognitive dimensions and (3) 12 characteristics of the model. The top 5 in the ranking are interpersonal understanding and communication, self-regulation and control, respect for students, student service orientation and promotion of student development.
Brief psychotic disorder occurring after Covid-19 in a patient with no history of psychiatric diseases - a case report
Authors: Poleszak-Szabat Julita , Romaniuk-Suswał Małgorzata , Krukow Paweł
Published: December 2021

Introduction: Although the typical symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection are respiratory symptoms, it has been shown that the virus can also attack the central nervous system (CNS) causing neurological and psychiatric symptoms.

Aim: The aim of the study was to present a case of a 52-year-old woman, previously untreated for psychiatric diseases, who developed brief psychotic disorder occurring after Covid-19 infection.

Case report: A patient in the biological treatment of asthma, came for a follow-up visit, during which the doctor diagnosed psychopathological symptoms in the form of delusions, never previously observed. The interview showed that the patient was discharged from the Isolation ward 10 days before, where she was hospitalized because of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Discussion: There are several theories regarding the mechanisms of pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric symptoms in the course of Covid-19 infection. Much space in the literature is devoted to pathological immune responses. One of the reasons for the development of delusions in the described patient could therefore be the acute phase of the inflammatory reaction in the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Visitors’ Happiness and Loyalty in the Moravian Wine Region
Authors: Králiková Andrea , Kubát Patrik , Ryglová Kateřina
Published: December 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourists’ loyalty is more pronounced than ever. It is therefore inevitable to know what factors can contribute to the higher levels of loyalty among potential visitors. Since none of the previously researched factors are reflecting visitors’ feelings and emotions, and because wine tourism can build long-lasting emotional ties with tourists, this study focuses on Moravian wine region visitors’ happiness within the context of loyalty. Overall, seven loyalty factors influence the happiness indicators: quality of wine, relaxation, information about wine, natural attractions, friendly acceptance by the locals, wine culture and traditions, as well as vineyard excursions. Furthermore, this study also confirms the dependence the happiness perception has on visitors’ characteristics, such as gender, income, or with whom they visited the destination. The results of the study can be used to restart and support the development of sustainable tourism in the regions.
The Analysis of Factors Affecting Farmers to Take Out Agricultural Insurance: A Case Study of Altinekin District, Konya Province of Turkey
Authors: Oguz Cennet , Diyanah Siti Mustaqimatud
Published: December 2021

Agricultural insurance is one of the management risk tools. This research aimed to analyze the factors affecting food crop farmers’ agricultural insurance in the Altınekin District of Konya Province. To obtain data using a questionnaire by interviewing 66 food crop farms entreprises who did agricultural insurance in the previous year. The population sampling was calculated with a single-stage non-clustered probability sampling. Factors affecting farmers’ agricultural insurance were analyzed by Binary Logistic Regression. The results of the analysis of factors affecting farmers’ willingness to take out agricultural insurance were farmers age, education, land size, sources from which they receive information on agricultural insurance, and the amount of support paid by the state, the amount of debt, pure product and agricultural income. The sources from which they received information on agricultural insurance had negative effect. The other factors have a positive effect. Providing education and advertising about agricultural insurance to farmers can increase the willingness of farmers to take out agricultural insurance. Support in the form of assistance on agricultural insurance of the government is also needed.
Reviewing Plasma Seed Treatments for Advancing Agriculture Applications on Earth and Into the Final Frontier
Authors: Meier Annie , Essumang Deborah , Hummerick Mary , Johnson Christina , Kruger Mirielle , Massa Gioia , Engeling Kenneth
Published: December 2021

With benefits such as environmentally safe treatment methods to stimulate growth, to increase plant yield, and improve disinfection efficiency, literature on the field of plasma treatment of seeds is growing. Generalized variables and success criteria have not been well correlated between studies, so this review paper serves to connect plasma and agriculture technologies to coordinate future efforts in this growing area of research. The authors have particular interest due to space agriculture, where seeds are sanitized before being sent into space for crop production. In order to supply a spectrum of nutritional needs, it is necessary to provide a variety of crops and ensure biological decontamination before the seeds are being sent into space. Traditional seed sanitization methods are not viable for all seed types, so exploration of other options is needed to expand the astronaut diet on long-duration space missions. This review paper brings together the current state-of-the-art reported literature to aide in understanding plasma seed application apparatus, seed or crop performance pertaining to germination, growth, water interactions, inactivation of bacteria, and surface sanitization results. These recent works include evolving research themes for potential seed treatment sanitization processes for various seed types to ensure the viability of plants for future growth in microgravity crop production systems.
Ultrastructural aspects of the intestinal cells surface of Angiostrongylus cantonensis by using of transmission electron microscopy
Authors: Guerra H. M. MS. , Maia C. S. , Guerra N.R. , Monteiro M. F. M. , Silva E. M. , Queiroz Júnior J. R. A. , Alves L. C.
Published: December 2021

The rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic parasite and the main cause of eosinophilic meningitis in the world. Its main source of nutrients originates from the degradation of host hemoglobin in blood-feeding helminths, such as A. cantonensis. The purpose of this study was to analyze the ultrastructure of the intestinal cells by using of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). A. cantonensis worms obtained from Rattus norvegicus (norway rats) from endemic area were used for TEM. The ultrastructural analysis was performed using fragments cut from the middle part of the worms, and the TEM study revealed the cells with microvilli and nuclei containing areas of loose and condensed chromatin and the presence of macrovesicles and microvesicles of digestion and it was observed in this study that intestinal epithelium is look like a syncytium. The ultrastructural aspects of the intestinal cells surface of A. Cantonensis the indicate that the intestinal epithelium is a multinucleate mosaic or syncytium.
Excretion of dietary zinc in mammals (rats) fed overdoses of zinc lactate and infected with tapeworms
Authors: Sloup V. , Jankovská I. , Száková J. , Karešová V. , Lanková S. , Sloup S. , Langrová I.
Published: December 2021

Tapeworms parasitize at sites that are important for the management of micronutrients, including zinc. Therefore, it has been hypothesized that tapeworms will significantly affect the excretion of zinc in the feces of a host. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effects that tapeworms have on the excretion of zinc in the feces of the host. Rats were divided into 4 groups: groups 0T and MT (infected with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rudolphi, 1819)) and groups 00 and M0 (uninfected). The experimental groups (M0 and MT) were fed a standard rodent compound feed (ST-1) with added zinc lactate; the daily zinc intake was 20.5 mg. The control groups (00 and 0T) were fed only ST-1 with 1.75 mg of added Zn per day. For six weeks, the amount of consumed feed was recorded and fecal samples were taken. The samples were then analyzed by optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), and levels of excreted zinc were subsequently calculated as a percentage. The most signifi cant difference in zinc excretion levels between the experimental groups was observed in the third week, when rats infected with tapeworms (MT) excreted substantially lower levels of zinc than did uninfected rats (M0). This difference amounted to 28.36 % (p <0.01). In the control groups, tapeworms affected the excretion of zinc in the feces to a lesser extent, and the most substantial difference in zinc levels was seen in the fifth week (8.46 %). However, there was no signifi cant difference in zinc excretion levels between the control groups during any of the monitored weeks. Tapeworms in the host affect levels of zinc excreted in the feces. However, this is dependent on the amount or form of zinc ingested.
Alterations in lipids and minerals in relation to larval trematode infections of Nerita polita marine snails
Authors: Hassan A. H. , Alhazmi N. S. , Filimban A. AR. , Alsulami M. N.
Published: December 2021

Marine snails provide an important source of vitamins, proteins, minerals, and essential fatty acids, and their mucus has a therapeutic significance. Parasitic infection of larval trematodes in these snails affects their nutritional value. The present study aimed to screen Nerita polita marine snails for the prevalence of cercarial infections and to evaluate the changes in lipids and some minerals in the infected as well as non-infected ones. Snails were collected randomly from February 2018 to January 2019 from the Red Sea Obhor bay, Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. The amount of triglycerides, cholesterol, and phospholipids in the Digestive Gland Gonad Complex (DGG), hemolymph, and Snail Conditioned Water (SCW) of non-infected and infected Nerita polita snail was estimated using a spectrophotometer. Minerals content such as Ca, Zn, Pb, Na, Mn, Mg, K, Fe, Cu, and Cd, in the DGG and shell in the infected and non-infected snails were analyzed using an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES). Two types of cercariae were detected, ocellate furcocercus cercaria (Trichobilharzia regent) and xiphidiocercaria (Litorina saxatilis VII). The study showed that there is a fl uctuation in the concentration of lipids and minerals between increase and decrease in DGG, hemolymph, shell, and SCW in infected snails. The nutritive value of the snails is affected with infection through the decrease of some lipids and minerals in infected snails. Further qualitative studies are needed.
New findings of trematodes of the superfamily Echinostomatoidea Looss, 1899 in birds from the Czech Republic
Authors: Sitko J.
Published: December 2021

In the Czech Republic, 12 freshly dead birds belonging to four species were examined helminthologically during a period of 2015 – 2019. They were six Caspian gulls Larus cachinnans (Lariformes), three goosanders Mergus merganser (Anseriformes), two common snipes Gallinago gallinago, and one common curlew Numenius arquata (Charadriiformes). Concerning trematodes, five echinostomatoids species were found, namely Aporchis massiliensis (obtained from one positive Caspian gull), Echinoparyphium macrovitellatum (one positive from six Caspian gulls), Echinostoma academica (one positive common curlew), Echinostoma stantschinskii (one positive from two common snipes), and Echinochasmus mergi (one positive from three goosanders). All the five echinostomatoids species represent the first records for the helminth fauna of the Czech Republic; the fl ukes A. massiliensis and E. macrovitellatum are recorded for the first time in the Central Europe or the Europe at all, respectively.
Parasitic helminths in snakes from the global legal trade
Authors: Halán M. , Kottferová L.
Published: December 2021

In recent years, the demand for snakes imported from different countries around the world has increased in Slovakia. However, such snakes can be infected with a wide variety of parasites. We have been focused on monitoring the prevalence of parasitic helminths of snakes imported to Slovakia. From 2015 to 2020, 205 samples were collected. We examined faecal samples of 185 live snakes, and a parasitological autopsy was performed on 20 carcasses. Out of a total of 205 snakes, parasitic helminths were found in 44 individuals (21.46 %). Coprological examination of live snakes confirmed positivity for the presence of helminths in 38 snakes (20.54 %). Through parasitological autopsy of all the dead snakes, we found helminths or their eggs in 6 carcasses (30.00 %). The genera of helminths found in the positive snakes were: Ophiotaenia spp., Kapsulotaenia spp., Strongyloides spp., Rhabdias spp., Ophidascaris spp., Ascaridia spp., f. Heterakidae, Kalicephalus spp., Capillaria spp., order Oxyurida and stages of the plerocercoid of an unidentifi ed species of tapeworm in the subcutaneous tissue.
New records of trematode and acanthocephalan species in frogs in Erzurum Province, Turkey
Authors: Tepe Y. , Yilan Y.
Published: December 2021

A total of 32 frogs of two species (Rana macrocnemis, Pelophylax ridibundus) that were dissected in some lectures in Ataturk University Science Faculty Biology Department were investigated parasitologically even after the lectures between 2008 and 2014. 9 digenean species (Cephalogonimus retusus [Cephalogonimidae]; Diplodiscus subclavatus [Paramphistomotidae]; Gorgodera cygnoides, Gorgoderina vitelliloba [Gorgoderidae]; Haplometra cylindracea, Haematoloechus variegatus, Opisthioglyphe ranae, Skrjabinoeces similis and Skrjabinoeces breviansa [Plagiorchiidae]), 3 acanthocephalan species (Acanthocephalus ranae, Centrorhynchus sp., Pomphorhynchus laevis) were found. All the parasites are the first record for Erzurum province, Cephalogonimus retusus and Skrjabinoeces similis are the first records of the parasite fauna of Turkey.
Molecular and morphological characterization of the root -lesion nematode, Pratylenchus neglectus, on corn from Henan Province of China
Authors: Xia Y. H. , Liu Y. K. , Hao P. H. , Yuan H. X. , Wang K. , Li H. L. , Li Y.
Published: December 2021

Root-lesion nematodes, Pratylenchus spp., are economically important pathogens because of their detrimental and economic impact on a wide range of crops. In August 2018, two samples of both roots and rhizosphere soil were collected from a corn field in Liangyuanqu of Shangqiu city, Henan Province, China. Root-lesion nematodes were recovered from the roots and soil samples using the modified Baermann funnel extraction method. Both the morphological characters and molecular analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and D2-D3 expansion region of 28S ribosomal RNA sequences confirmed that the root-lesion nematode population collected from corn in this study was P. neglectus. Phylogenetic analyses showed that this isolate formed a highly supported clade with other P. neglectus isolates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of P. neglectus on corn in Henan Province of China. This study reports the first partial sequences of 28S D2-D3 region of P. neglectus on corn in China. Due to the great harmfulness of root-lesion nematodes to corn, care should be taken to prevent the spread of P. neglectus to other regions in China. At the same time, further study on the biological characteristics of P. neglectus is needed, which will be helpful to develop corresponding management and control strategies.
Plesiochorus cymbiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1901 (Digenea: Gorgoderidae) in Olive Ridley Sea turtles Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) (Testudines: Chelonidae) from the Brazilian coast: New geographic occurrence and associated injuries
Authors: Jerdy H. , Ferioli R. B. , Gallo Neto H. , Zíllio M. , Monteiro A. , Carvalho E. C. Q. , Werneck M. R.
Published: December 2021

The present study reports the first occurrence of Plesiochorus cymbiformis (Digenea: Gorgoderidae), in two Olive Ridley Sea turtles Lepidochelys olivacea (Testudines: Chelonidae), from the states of São Paulo and Sergipe in Brazilian coast. Concerning the Neotropical region, P. cymbiformis has been previously reported in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) from Panama and Brazil, in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from Brazil, in hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) from Puerto Rico, and in Olive Ridley Sea turtles only in Costa Rica. Lesions resulting from the presence of parasites in the hosts’ urinary bladders are also presented. This is the second report on endoparasites in Olive Ridley sea turtles from Brazil.
Response Burden and Data Quality in Business Surveys
Authors: Bottone Marco , Modugno Lucia , Neri Andrea
Published: December 2021

Response burden has long been a concern for data producers. In this article, we investigate the relationship between some measures of actual and perceived burden and we provide empirical evidence of their association with data quality. We draw on two business surveys conducted by Banca d’Italia since 1970, which provide a very rich and unique source of information. We find evidence that the perceived burden is affected by actual burden but the latter is not the only driver. Our results also show a clear link between a respondent’s perceived effort and the probability of not answering some important questions (such as those relating to expectations of future investments and turnover) or of dropping out of the survey. On the contrary, we do not find significant effects on the quality of answers to quantitative questions such as business turnover and investments. Overall, these findings have implications for data producers that should target the perceived burden, besides the actual burden, to increase data quality.
Evaluating the Utility of Linked Administrative Data for Nonresponse Bias Adjustment in a Piggyback Longitudinal Survey
Authors: Büttner Tobias J.M. , Sakshaug Joseph W. , Vicari Basha
Published: December 2021

Nearly all panel surveys suffer from unit nonresponse and the risk of nonresponse bias. Just as the analytic value of panel surveys increase with their length, so does cumulative attrition, which can adversely affect the representativeness of the resulting survey estimates. Auxiliary data can be useful for monitoring and adjusting for attrition bias, but traditional auxiliary sources have known limitations. We investigate the utility of linked-administrative data to adjust for attrition bias in a standard piggyback longitudinal design, where respondents from a preceding general population cross-sectional survey, which included a data linkage request, were recruited for a subsequent longitudinal survey. Using the linked-administrative data from the preceding survey, we estimate attrition biases for the first eight study waves of the longitudinal survey and investigate whether an augmented weighting scheme that incorporates the linked-administrative data reduces attrition biases. We find that adding the administrative information to the weighting scheme generally leads to a modest reduction in attrition bias compared to a standard weighting procedure and, in some cases, reduces variation in the point estimates. We conclude with a discussion of these results and remark on the practical implications of incorporating linked-administrative data in piggyback longitudinal designs.