bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Analyzing Good Budget Management Principles at the General Election Commission
Authors: Zainuri Ahmad
Published: March 2023

Background: With the demand for good budget management, the role of the Cilegon City KPU (General Election Commission) budget manager requires competence in managing it, and requires an understanding of the duties, functions, and position of each budget manager official called as payment instrument official.
Aim: This research aims to examine the implementation of budget management principles at the Cilegon City KPU, the constraints and the efforts to overcome the constraints.
Methods: This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected through interviews, observations and document reviews.
Findings: The information on budget management was still limited and in the form of a written report. The budget implementation was not efficient because the realization of some activities was not in accordance with their objectives and did not state any priority to be accomplished. The budget setting procedures were still top-down and determined directly by the National Election Commission. Some changes in the budget and activities were not revised in the final report on election activities and the budget did not fully accommodate the needs of all polling stations (TPS). Some procurement of goods and services and other facilities did not have clear evidence of transactions and some of them were unrealistic and did not correspond to the market price. Not all stakeholders (Local Representatives, DPPKD, PPK, PPS and community leaders) were involved in the preparation, implementation and discussion on the electoral budget accountability report.
CHALLENGES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN LIBERIA AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Authors: Sumaworo Mory
Published: March 2023

Liberia is confronted with lots of challenges such as preparing a productive human capital to run its abundant natural resources that have been either mismanaged or left discarded without anticipated development dividends.  Thus, this migration left an adverse effect on the tertiary education. However, despite the international and national efforts reform the system, the situation seems to still be facing multiple challenges. Besides, the weakness in the Liberian education system has led the former President Sirleaf herself to describe it as a mess. Moreover, poor implementation of educational policies, ill-financial supports for institutions of higher learning and poor educational infrastructures, etc., are some of major practices that constitute challenges to higher education in the country. Nonetheless, there have been some attempts and endeavors to reform and refine the system. These efforts had been done by the government itself and its local and international partners, such as USAID, the World Bank, the (IMF), the AFDB, A.S Charitable Society with its Heritage School Union System (a local Islamic leading educational and humanitarian NGO) Catholic Schools System, Methodist Schools, and others. The research is qualitatively conducted and observatory in nature. Hence, this article aims at looking into challenges that Liberia’s tertiary education is confronted with, and how could they be mitigated and properly addressed. The study conclude that a radical reform and implementation of the policies are the’ ways to meet the market-driven education system in Liberia.
A Research on the Impact of Global Stock Market Co-movement during Covid-19 Epidemic
Authors: Cheng Li , Swee Hui Jermoe Kueh
Published: March 2023

Covid-19 has brought huge fluctuations to world economy and such volatilityis evidently indicated by global stock market. In light of econometric hypotheses, this paper explained the comovement mechanism of global stock markets, made descriptive statistical analysis to the market returns of sample countries with VAR and DCC-GARCH models, and examined the comovement of market returns. The result shows that stock market in Brazil was the most volatile among all sample countries. Meanwhile, after the outbreak, VIX and WTI’s influence on dynamic correlation coefficients increased, showing a positive and significant impact and thereby strengthening the comovement of global stock markets.  
Las Unidades de Infantería de Marina del Instituto de voluntarios de Cuba
Authors: Juan Carlos Rabanal Delgado
Published: March 2023

El concepto de milicia, como fuerza armada voluntaria o reclutada y de apoyo a los ejércitos regulares, es más antiguo que la propia existencia de España como nación, pues ya se desarrolló en la Alta Edad Media con la Milicia Feudal. Mantenidas en el tiempo, de una u otra manera, hasta la pérdida de los últimos territorios de ultramar en América y Asia, este tipo de unidades reaparecerían durante la guerra civil española con una connotación distinta: como facciones armadas de los principales partidos políticos de la época. De amplia implantación en el Ejército, su formación en la Real Armada se redujo a algunas unidades con cometidos propios de la Infantería de Marina, tanto en Cuba como en Filipinas, con ocasión de los conflictos independentistas de finales del siglo XIX, aunque ocasionalmente les fuera asignado el control del tráfico naval en aguas del litoral.
De ferretería a gastrobar: análisis de la turistificación comercial en centros históricos
Authors: Ruiz Romera Andrea , García Martín Miguel , Villar Lama Arsenio , Fernández Tabales Alfonso
Published: March 2023

La intensificación del turismo en los ámbitos urbanos y sus efectos sobre el tejido comercial tradicional representan dos líneas de investigación interconectadas en geografía. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la evolución de la actividad comercial en el centro histórico de Sevilla en el periodo de mayor crecimiento turístico de la ciudad (2010-2019). Para ello, se ha explotado el directorio de establecimientos con actividad económica de Andalucía para clasificarlos en función de su mayor o menor conexión con el consumo de los visitantes. Se observa una marcada basculación de la oferta comercial hacia las actividades más vinculadas al turismo y el ocio, en detrimento de las ligadas a la población residente. Para finalizar, se reflexiona sobre la incidencia del mantenimiento del tejido comercial tradicional en la identidad urbana y la calidad de vida del vecindario.
Afinidad entre queratosas de lana y distintos iones en fase acuosa analizada mediante sedimentación
Authors: Soria Biurrun Tomás , Abarzuza Laura , Fernández-d'Arlas Borja
Published: March 2023

En este artículo se presentan los resultados de unos sencillos ensayos de solubilidad de la queratina en medios tanto básico, cercano al punto isoeléctrico como ácido en presencia de distintas sales tales como haluros sódicos y potásicos, así como varios cloruros alcalinos. El efecto de la sal sobre la solubilidad de la queratina o queratosas se describe en términos de la Regla de Competitividad de Fajans o Regla de Afinidades al Agua Equivalente, en base a la distinta tendencia de los iones hacia la hidratación. La aplicación de este principio se orienta a explicar la competitividad de interacción entre iones de sales inorgánicas y grupos ionizados de los aminoácidos de la queratina.
Kinetics of the hydrolysis of sorghum flour with two amilaceouos enzymes
Authors: Gallardo Aguilar Irenia , Rodríguez Padrón Yedier , Pérez Milian Yisel , Sarría Quesada Fernando , Hernández Touset Juan P.
Published: March 2023

In the production process of glucose syrup, the conversion of corn starches to sugars occurs through acid or enzymatic hydrolysis. Corn has been the traditional raw material in its preparation. The use of other cereals, such as sorghum, is reported for its similar properties to corn. The objective of the work is to study the kinetic behavior in the hydrolysis of sorghum flour, using two enzymes: Bialfa-T and Glucozyme 2X in the production of syrup. The sorghum used was UDG 110. Two experimental screening designs 22 to study the effect of enzymes on sorghum flour were performed. The variables studied were: substrate concentration and enzyme concentration and as response variables reducing sugars (RS) (g/L), conversion (%) and enzymatic activity (UI). The regression models for the three response variables were significant for the Bialfa-T enzyme, while for Glucozyme 2X, only the enzymatic activity model was significant, since this enzyme acts on already transformed starches and the variable with the highest influence turned out to be the substrate concentration, followed by the enzyme concentration.
ADMET Investigations On A Synthetic Derivative Of Genistein, And Molecular Docking Experiments Targeting Estrogen Receptor-α (ER-α) In The Pancreas
Authors: Khursheed Aadil , Kumar Pandey Ajay , Kumar Jain Vinay
Published: March 2023

The main goal of the current research was to perform ADMET and molecular docking studies for a synthetic genistein derivative that can imitate Estrogen and function as an endocrine disruptor, activating the ER receptor on beta-cells in the pancreas to release insulin. The created molecule was molecularly docked using the online molecular docking research tool Dockthor. NGL viewer, an online program for viewing Dockthor data, displayed the docking experiment results. The 2D legend-protein interactions were estimated with BIOVIA Discovery Studio Visualizer. Estrogen-Receptor Alpha was the targeted target, while Compound-A was employed as the legend. In this study, we created a synthetic derivative of genistein, an analogue of Estrogen in terms of ER-α receptor binding. We used molecular docking to evaluate the affinity of compound-A binding to the ER-α and its 2D interactions and Ramachandran plots. We then ran ADMET experiments on the molecule, which revealed a substantial relationship with the molecule's Estrogen Receptor binding capabilities, as well as scores for absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity.
Role of National Service Scheme (NSS) Programs in Developing Moral Values among College Students
Authors: Kumar Sonber Basant , Kumar Patel Suresh , Makhija Mona
Published: March 2023

Values are an integral element of our existence. Values connect each individual to

the social, cultural, and philosophical climate of the society and represent the culture’s

dynamic nature. There are different kinds of values, including universal, social, cultural,

spiritual, and aesthetic values. The present study examines the role of the National

Service Scheme (NSS) programs in developing moral values among college students.

The sample selected for the present study consisted of 250 students from 11 colleges in

different blocks of Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India. The subjects’ moral values were

measured by the Moral Values Test constructed by Dubey(2009). Results indicated that

NSS students are better at moral values than non-NSS students.
Role of Information Professionals in Disseminating Knowledge to User Community in 21st Century
Authors: Kushwah Devendra Prasad , Gautam Dr. J. N
Published: March 2023

The paper deals with introduction to various forms of Information Technology tools and its uses for the information professionals in continue developing IT era. What is the need and importance of IT in the library field? This primary question rises in mind to discuss this IT tools in library field for further opportunities. Provided skills required for information professionals, followed by scope of information professionals in this changing IT era. At the end, it is having strengths, weaknesses and recommendations for the development of Information Professionals in IT era. Digital Libraries are collections of e-books and other information e-resources gathered for the purposes of reading, study, and reference. Historically, libraries have served as places. Libraries preserve knowledge so that none is lost, organize knowledge so that none is wasted, and make knowledge available so that no one need deprive in this information age. Library services have brought many changes to library operations by making access to knowledge more convenient to user.
Use of ICT and Social Media in Next Generation Libraries
Authors: Kushwah Devendra Prasad , Kumar Shrivastava Dr. Deepak
Published: March 2023

ICT and Next Generation Libraries are facing new challenges, particularly in this digital era, with so many new information sources. The reading habits of users are constantly evolving, and their ICT skills are producing a considerable shift in their reading habits. As a result, readers' expectations and requirements are changing as well as expanding. This field's current modifications may lead to a new walk in the near future. Librarians and library professionals are also experimenting and seeking innovative approaches to address these new challenges. Libraries are being turned into information centre, e-libraries, and digital libraries as a result. Many new technologies and techniques are being used in digital libraries. The digital library does, in fact, bring us closer together than we have ever been before. These are systems that provide users with consistent access to a significant amount of data and knowledge. ICT and social media have also been vital in addressing new difficulties and establishing new tools and methods to meet expanding user expectations. This is an attempt to predict how Next Generation library will evolve as a result of technological advancements and social media.
AGENDA DO TRABALHO DOMÉSTICO: O CONTEXTO DA LUTA PELA PARIDADE DE DIREITOS
Authors: Da Silva Pedro Igor Nascimento
Published: March 2023

O artigo apresenta um panorama de como se deu a luta das domésticas pela paridade de direitos trabalhistas e por condições dignas de trabalho.  Neste sentido, a partir de uma revisão bibliográfica, apresenta-se o processo de construção da Convenção nº 189 da OIT, bem como as condições que levaram o Brasil a promover uma mínima equidade de direitos trabalhistas às domésticas mediante a promulgação da Emenda Constitucional nº 72/2013. Deste levantamento, extraiu-se que, em razão da secular invisibilidade deste trabalho, a luta das domésticas na formação da agenda, além de seus próprios esforços, necessitou da confluência de outros fatores favoráveis.
Kvaliteters kvalitet i undervisningen
Authors: Hansen Thomas Illum
Published: March 2023

Hensigten med denne artikel er at præsentere en flerdimensionel model for perspektiver på kvalitet i undervisningen, der er udviklet i forbindelse med et større lodtrækningsforsøg, men som her for første gang undersøges i en kontekst, der gør det muligt at udfolde modellen og perspektivere dens teoretiske baggrund. Artiklen er af samme grund eksplorativ og teoriudviklende. Hensigten er a) at indkredse forskellige teoretiske og empiriske tilgange til kvalitet i undervisningen og b) at diskutere og underbygge den teoretiske model med basis i et fænomenologisk begreb om erfaret kvalitet i undervisningen. Det særlige fokus på en fænomenologisk fundering hænger sammen med forsøgets programteori. Antagelsen var, at der var behov for at styrke den oplevede kvalitet i undervisningen ved i langt højere grad at stilladsere og rammesætte skabende og undersøgende tilgange til fagenes indhold.
Visualizing “ULOS” Women Handloom Weavers by Business Model Canvas
Authors: Saragih Liharman , Simatupang Pandapotan , Parinduri Taufik , Purba Djuli Syafei
Published: March 2023

This study introduces the business model ulos women weavers in Toba Samosir Regency. The collecting data used questionnaires and interviews with 10 participants by purposive sampling. Analyzing data used is a descriptive analysis technique with Business Model Canvas Approach. The result shows that the business model is still in a position that operates on the availability of raw materials, equipment, and labour (Key Resources), what about the purchase and storage of raw materials, production, promotion, marketing, as well as product evaluation and development (Key Activities), how to partner with suppliers of yarn raw materials, with microfinance institutions and banks, the government (Key Partnership), how about investment costs, fixed and variable costs, maintenance costs, credit instalments (Cost Structure). The Value Proposition is products from Sigaol village only (Porsea) that are perceived as a good quality products. The handloom weavers sell not only to collectors or agents but to consumers. It can reach the other market. Choosing another segment will impact value propositions, different distribution channels, a different approach to customer relationships, and earn to the profitability revenue stream
Realizing Excellent and Quality Public Policy through Emergency Call 112 Service in Probolinggo City
Authors: Lailatul Fitria Nurul Jannah , Marwiyah Siti , Busthomy Ach. Noor
Published: March 2023

Policy challenges include conflicts with other regulations, inconsistencies, multiple interpretations, and inoperability, along with lack of evidence. Public policy is related to decisions in allocating resources in order to utilize and provide benefits to society with the intervention of leaders and policy analysis. The policy that needs to be considered is the government's readiness policy in assisting and saving the community in urgency and emergency conditions. It is applied to NTPD 112 in Probolinggo City. This attracts the author to conduct research related to NTPD 112 which is aligned with the principles of public policy. This research is a descriptive qualitative research to examine the concept of excellent and quality public policy with a pilot call 112 service in Probolinggo City. Data and information were collected through interviews, observations, and literature studies. The Probolinggo City Government has formulated public policies on 112 emergency call services with the main principles of excellent policies, including policies for the public; irrevocable policies; great and good policies; policies with management; policies with moral values; policies with systems; policies are a gift to the community; policies are an honor; policies to glorify the community; and policies as learning.
Effect of Profitability and Leverage on Firm Value with Dividend Policy as an Intervering Variable in LQ45 Companies on the IDX
Authors: Manisah  , Andriyani Ima , Oktarina Linda
Published: March 2023

This study attempts to determine and demonstrate the direct and indirect effects of profitability and leverage on firm value in LQ45 businesses listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) over the 2018–2022 period, with dividend policy serving as an intervening variable. The LQ45 index serves as the study's population. Only 45 listed firms make up the LQ45 index. Purposive sampling, which selects the sample based on certain criteria, was used to conduct the sampling for this study. 11 companies were chosen as samples for this study based on preset criteria, making a total of 55 research data from 11 companies multiplied by 5 years of observation. The views used in this study's data analysis were 12 programs. The study's findings show that the dividend policy is influenced by the profitability variable (ROE) (DPR). Influence of Leverage Variable (DER) on Dividend Policy (DPR). ROE, a profitability indicator, influences firm value (PBV). Firm Value is impacted by Leverage Variable (DER) (PBV). Firm Value is impacted by the Dividend Policy Variable (DPR) (PBV). With a probability value of 0.0100 0.05, the interaction between dividend policy (DPR) and profitability (ROE) indicates that dividend policy (DPR) can mitigate the impact of profitability (ROE) on firm value (PBV). With a probability value between Dividend Policy (DPR) and Leverage (DER) of 0.0163 0.05, Dividend Policy (DPR) is able to attenuate the impact of Leverage (DER) on Firm Value (PBV). The R-squared value is 0.3736, or 37.36%, according to the findings of the coefficient of determination test (R2 test). The company value (PBV) of 37.36%, which is the dependent variable, may be explained or described by the independent variables of profitability (ROE), leverage (DER), and dividend policy (DPR), according to the findings of the coefficient of determination test (R2 test). In addition, other factors not considered in this study account for or describe 62.64% of the data.
Mecanismos de transmissão de preços entre os mercados doméstico e externo: uma análise sobre as exportações brasileiras de manga entre 2003 e 2013.
Authors: Souza Severino , Silva Jorge , Guedes João , Lima João
Published: March 2023

Brazil’s São Francisco River Valley, over the years, has emerged as Brazil’s main fruit-producing region, especially noted for mangoes and grapes. The mango produced in this region has reached a good global market position, particularly in Europe and the US. However, increasing domestic price fluctuations on the international market has affected the production and marketing expectations of farmers. The objective of the study is to conduct a price transmission analysis comparing mango export prices with those in the US and European Union markets in the period 2003 to 2013. To that end, a vector autoregressive time series model was estimated to investigate price transmission and impact mechanisms using the impulse-response function. The data used was obtained from Brazil’s Ministry of Development and Foreign Trade and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Among the results, it was found that the Brazilian domestic prices are influenced by the US market prices, and that price shocks in the US market can impact the growth of domestic prices for several months.
The Relationship of Meaning in Life and Quality of Life: Basis for a Leadership Development Program among Parent-Carers of Children with Special Needs
Authors: BERMUDEZ JULIUS JONATHAN A.
Published: March 2023

The goal of the present descriptive-correlational study is to examine the relationship between the quality of life (QOL) and meaning in life (MIL) of Children with Special Needs (CSN) parent-carers utilizing the simple random sampling method. It included 186 respondents from a suburban private Christian school in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila. The Meaning in Life (MIL) questionnaire and Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Short Form (Q-LES-Q-SF) questionnaire were used. The MIL dimensions revealed that, on average, the CSN parent-carers’ Presence of MIL is partly high while the Search for MIL is neither high nor low, which reveals that they have a valued meaning and purpose, yet they are still openly exploring them. The QOL of CSN parent-carers is overall good, with family relationships receiving the highest score and work with the lowest, revealing that there is a marked satisfaction in family relationships while discontent and unfulfillment with work. There is a significant relationship in terms of age, sex, and living status profile variables with MIL, except for education and monthly family income. A strong significant relationship is demonstrated between MIL and QOL of CSN parent-carers. Overall, MIL’s partly high for Presence, neither high nor low for Search, and QOL’s good result imply that CSN parent-carers have a relatively positive understanding of both MIL and QOL in their life and their determination to keep on pursuing this meaning, purpose, enjoyment, and satisfaction in life. The significant relationship and prevailing themes form the basis for LEAD (Leading, Equipping, and Developing), a parent leadership program where one identified recommendation is the review, enhancement, and endorsement for implementation to ascertain understanding, appreciation, and development of QOL and MIL in CSN parent-carers’ life.
Learners’ Attendance and Reading Performance During Face-to-Face and Online Learning: Basis for Policy Enhancement
Authors: GOZA GERALDINE
Published: March 2023

The capability to read is vital to learning which leads to advancement toward higher literacy skills. Online learning became a way to ensure learners attended their classes virtually during the pandemic. Online learning modality affects the student’s reading performance and attendance compared to face-to-face learning. This research used a quantitative research design using a survey method with 84 respondents from select public high schools. It was found that the students have better attendance and reading performance in a face-to-face learning set-up compared to online learning. Also, the income of parents monthly caused the difference in the class attendance and reading performance of the learners. Also, a significant relationship exists between the reading performance of students and their attendance to face–to–face learning. Hence, face-to- face learning tends to be more beneficial to students when it comes to maintaining class attendance and improving the learner’s reading abilities because they can have more direct assistance from their teachers.
La identidad marcaria en social media, como estrategia comunicacional para el sector artesanal panadero
Authors: Cornejo Mosquera Jonathan Ezequiel , Iza Ávalos Andrés Sebastián , Paredes Amaguaya Alexis Isaac
Published: March 2023

Las redes sociales asimiladas como implementos empresariales corporativos han tenido mucha influencia en el manejo de las pymes, aquellas pequeñas empresas que contribuyen directamente en el progreso y vivir de una sociedad, esto hace que mejoren sus conexiones entre productor/consumidor, estando de por medio el conjunto de rasgos que definen sus valores y misión como carta de presentación, constituyendo su identidad marcaria. En este caso tratándose las panaderías artesanales cuyo sector laboral trajo beneficios de desarrollo y cultural a la ciudad, este proyecto tiene como objetivo promover el aprovechamiento estratégico de cuentas corporativas en redes sociales con planificación efectiva para el apoyo a este sector de la parroquia urbana de La Matriz en la ciudad de Latacunga, provincia de Cotopaxi – Ecuador, a través de la gestión de social media, que se llevó a cabo con la Investigación de Campo, mediante el empleo de técnicas bajo ciertos parámetros como el muestreo no probabilístico y el uso de técnicas cualitativas, transversales no experimentales, lo cual permitió realizar la aplicación de un mapeo geográfico aplicado en la delimitación de la zona ya mencionada. Consecuentemente la información que se obtuvo fue que WhatsApp es la red social que más se usa en la mayoría de los establecimientos para promover los negocios, al ser una red social ágil y eficiente con la sociedad, además de que su gestión corporativa no necesita un nivel de conocimiento avanzado. Los resultados más importantes de esta investigación, es el manejo corporativo inapropiado en las redes sociales, ya que la cuenta que emplean para difundir su identidad marcaria es personal, más no corporativa.
Juegos recreativos para el desarrollo de la coordinación motriz en estudiantes de educación física
Authors: Hayman Yagual Jhon Alex , Chila Velásquez Juan Enrique , Castro Valdiviezo Jhu
Published: March 2023

Los juegos recreativos son una herramienta muy importante y utilizada a nivel mundial para el desarrollo de las capacidades físicas dentro del ámbito educativo, por consiguiente, se pueden desarrollar diferentes habilidades condicionales y coordinativas según la edad de los estudiantes. En el Ecuador, entre la primaria y secundaria tenemos 5 subniveles educativos, esta investigación se centra en el segundo subnivel denominado Educación General Básica Elemental, de la Unidad Educativa Fiscal “Olmedo” de la ciudad de Portoviejo, y se planteó como objetivo desarrollar en los estudiantes las capacidades motrices, teniendo en cuenta la práctica de los juegos para mejorar sus habilidades coordinativas, aquí hemos escogido por medio de muestreo no probabilístico a 21 niños entre 6 y 7 años de edad pertenecientes a segundo año básico, de los cuales 15 son de género masculino, y 6 de género femenino, quienes se han convertido en el universo total de la investigación, con ellos se ejecutó el test 3JS para medición de la coordinación en 2 momentos, uno inicial (diagnóstico) en donde se evidenció la falta coordinación en las diferentes pruebas del test, y otro final (valoración posterior a la aplicación de un plan de juegos recreativos) donde a partir de los resultados del diagnóstico se pudo lograr una mejora positiva en la coordinación de los estudiantes gracias al plan de juegos aplicado. Esta investigación tiene un enfoque mixto (cual - cuan), es de diseño descriptivo experimental y tuvo una intervención por medio de un plan de juegos con una duración de 12 semanas, en las que se trabajó 3 sesiones por semana, dando un total de 36 sesiones de trabajo recreativo.
Design System of Integrated Management Platform for Smart Park and Project Case
Authors: Zhang Jianwen , Jingchao ZHANG  , Lu YANG  , Ang LI  , Yan ZONG
Published: March 2023

With the continuous development of 5G, big data, the Internet of Things (IOT) and other technologies, the smart park will realize data sharing, information processing and transmission, and finally tend to be smart city. There are some problems such as unclear design dimensions, poor interactivity of subsystems and high expansion costs in the development of smart park. In the face of these problems, an application-oriented comprehensive management platform system of intelligent park is designed. It is built on a digital twin software-defined campus which is scalability and flexibility with wisdom in the cloud and application at the end as the core service concept. The overall system architecture and management platform module composition are introduced in which the software defined network (SDN) technology is used to separate the control plane and data plane and the four dimensions of people, things, affairs and space are digitalization in the smart Park. One application carries a variety of park services such as production, official business handling, property administration and so on to realize the effective application of the underlying network facilities. The project of high-tech information intelligent park of the Chinese Sixth Design and Research Institute of Machinery Industry Company Limited has been implemented. As an engineering case the platform system can provide personalized design for the park and carry out multi-professional and multi-terminal integrated management, application and display so as to improve the intelligent management level and the service experience to create greater economic and social value.
La incidencia del cáncer en el Hospital del IESS de la ciudad de Ambato, Ecuador: un estudio descriptivo transversal
Authors: Villalva-Paredes Emilia Soledad , Castellanos Esteban X.
Published: March 2023

El cáncer es una de las principales causas de muerte en todo el mundo y su incidencia ha ido en aumento en los últimos años. En este contexto, el presente estudio tiene como objetivo determinar la incidencia del cáncer en el Hospital del IESS de la ciudad de Ambato, Ecuador, durante el año 2017, a través de un enfoque descriptivo transversal. La metodología del estudio consistió en la revisión de los registros médicos de pacientes diagnosticados con cáncer en el hospital durante el período mencionado. Los datos se analizaron estadísticamente para determinar la frecuencia de casos de cáncer y para describir las características de los pacientes afectados. Los resultados del estudio indican que se registraron un total de 114 casos de neoplasias durante el período de estudio, obteniéndose más en mujeres en una proporción de 1,5/1 en relación con los hombres. El cáncer de mama fue el tipo más común de cáncer diagnosticado en el hospital. Otros tipos de cáncer comunes incluyen el cáncer de próstata, el cáncer de estómago y el cáncer de cuello uterino. Además, se encontró que el cáncer fue más frecuente en pacientes mayores de 60 años y en pacientes de sexo femenino.
Uma Análise da Curricularização da Extensão na Graduação em Computação: Possibilidades e Desafios
Authors: Bordin Andrea Sabedra
Published: March 2023

A Resolução CNE/CES nº 7, de 18 de Dezembro de 2018, institui que 10% da carga horária curricular de um curso de graduação seja cumprida por meio de ações de extensão. O processo de reestruturação dos Projetos Pedagógicos dos Cursos (PPC) vem sendo realizado acompanhado de desafios, uma vez que a extensão universitária, quando comparada ao ensino e a pesquisa, ainda não é amplamente entendida e realizada nas Instituições de Ensino Superior. O objetivo deste artigo é identificar as estratégias de curricularização da extensão em cursos da área de Computação, assim como os principais desafios e sugestões. Para isso, foi realizada uma busca por documentos e artigos que resultou em 20 PPCs e 9 artigos. Os resultados evidenciam que até o momento poucos cursos incorporaram a extensão na grade curricular. As estratégias encontradas foram a que insere a extensão em disciplinas onde tópicos específicos da área são desenvolvidos, a que desenvolve ações de extensão diversas em disciplinas genéricas, a que permite que o estudante tenha autonomia para escolher as ações que deseja participar, sem que isso esteja vinculado a uma disciplina, ou uma combinação destes três tipos. As estratégias mais frequentes são as que desenvolvem a extensão em disciplinas genéricas e em ações de extensão de livre escolha dos estudantes.
The Systems Approach
Authors: Nikiforova Aleksandra A.
Published: March 2023

The review attempts to compare different points of view on the essence of the systems approach, describe the terminological confusion around it and analyse the numerous definitions of system. It is shown that the vagueness and ambiguity of the concept of the systems approach is manifested in the use of a number of terms which are similar in meaning and close in sound to it. It is proposed to divide the existing definitions of system into descriptive and formal ones. The concepts included in the descriptive definitions, as well as the numerous synonymous terms denoting them, are divided into five conceptual-terminological groups that differ in their content and logical meaning. The meanings of such concepts as minimal constituent parts, emergence, environment, boundaries, purpose, functions of system and systems hierarchy are revealed. Some uses of the concept in knowledge organization are mentioned. The problem of systems classification is touched upon. Separate sections are devoted to the highlights of the history of the systems approach, its criticism and the significance. Particular attention is paid to criticism of the mathematization of the systems approach. Possible reasons for the decline in interest in the systems approach are identified. It is concluded that the systems approach helps to find new ways to solve scientific and practical problems.
The Struggles of Estonia to Implement EU Criminal Law: Are the Fundamentals of the State Penal System at Risk?
Authors: Soo Anneli , Aiaots Laura
Published: March 2023

Today, countries are no longer as free in shaping their penal systems as they used to be. By becoming members of a supranational organisation such as the European Union (EU), states have agreed to pursue a common criminal policy for common goals. To this end , the EU member states have given the EU a considerable share of their penal power with the aim to fight crime. Punishments continue to be imposed and carried out by the member states themselves, but certain crimes and punishments are determined by EU law. Since traditionally the national penal system has been elaborated by states based on the peculiarities and needs of the particular society as well as the constitutional paradigm of the state, the question arises on how to implement clear-cut requirements coming from outside in a manner that adequately consider such aspects. This question is related both to the actual nature of state power and to the possibility of responding to unwanted behaviour, including crime, in accordance with the values and needs of the society. In any case, it must be approached delicately by considering the uniqueness of a state’s criminal justice system and at the same time respecting obligations to supranational organisations. This article serves as a poignant example of such dilemma by mapping out the difficulties the Estonian legislator and courts face while aiming to implement the EU criminal law.
Effectiveness of linguistic and extralinguistic tools across English language comics during the perception of scientific information
Authors: Dolgusheva Olga , Pozharytska Olena , Yefymenko Tetiana , Prosiannikova Yana , Pogorila Anna
Published: March 2023

The modern development of social communications in connection with the mass transition to the online mode of life and education becomes decisive. At the same time this tradition changes communication channels and information transmission due to their pedagogical and educational contexts. Monitoring consists in studying the saturation of these channels with verbal, visual and symbolic systems of signs that manifest the phenomenon of polymodality. One of the active channels of communication on the Internet has become comic as a form of verbal-visual communication. Verbal saturation in comics is considered as a system of worked-out rules, and drawings. System of signs is filled with the purpose and goals by author of the text. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of main directions of English-language comics for the reader's perception of scientific literature through the use of linguistic and extralinguistic features. The analytical and bibliographic method of scientific literature in the context of the applied verbal and paraverbal elements of the text is adopted. Regarding, a questionnaire was used to verify the practical aspects of the perception of the comics test The results of the study made it possible to hierarchically construct the types of verbal and extralingual means used in English-language comics, and to characterize the peculiarities of verbal and extralingual means from the viewpoint of polymodality of their use.
COVID-19 Update: Pfizer Bivalent Vaccine Booster Dose for Children 6 Months to 4 Years Old
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: March 2023

The FDA has expanded its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer/BioNTech (Comirnaty) to permit use of the bivalent formulation (containing mRNA from the original and BA.4/5 Omicron strains of SARS-CoV-2) as a booster dose in children 6 months to 4 years old who completed the primary series with 3 doses of the monovalent formulation >=2 months previously.
L’événementialité de l’anthropocène comme dynamique instituante. Thème et variations
Authors: Caignard Gael ,   Chiasmi International
Published: March 2023

The aim of this essay is to connect the notion of the Anthropocene with Merleau-Pontyan thought by drawing on two aspects of the author’s ontological reflection. First, I consider “the event of the Anthropocene” as an event that is part of an instituting dynamic, in reference to the ontological dimension of “Institution” that Merleau-Ponty borrows from Husserl and develops in an original way in his 1954-1955 lectures at the Collège de France. I then underline the difficulties that arise when multiple names are employed to designate our “current geological era” in debates on the Anthropocene, a complex global event with political, ethical, and social dimensions. To conclude, I show that this multiplication of names is constitutive of the event of the Anthropocene. The Merleau-Pontyan idea of “a theme that constitutes itself through its variations,” introduced by Mauro Carbone in his work on sensible ideas and the “arche-screen” and closely linked to the element of “Institution,” can help us find philosophical advancements at the heart of this contemporary naming debate.
Anthropocene Time and the Memory of the World
Authors: Toadvine Ted ,   Chiasmi International
Published: March 2023

Although the Anthropocene is a problematic concept in both its popular reception and its scientific deployment, it nevertheless makes salient the challenge of understanding the relation between human time and “deep” geological time. For postcolonial historian Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Anthropocene marks the breaching of these two distinct temporal registers: “The geologic now of the Anthropocene has become entangled with the now of human history.” Following the lead of speculative realism, Chakrabarty denies that phenomenology can offer any insights into deep time or grant the human species its place within the evolutionary history of life. I challenge these claims by drawing on insights from Merleau-Ponty’s final course notes. I argue that Chakrabarty’s binarism of chronologies fails to capture the plexity of our embodied temporal experience. Making sense of our entanglement in planetary and evolutionary temporal scales requires both a phenomenology of deep time and, in parallel, an appreciation of the ontological memory of the world. In the context of evolution, this opens onto a richly diacritical understanding of life. A phenomenology of deep time reopens the question of the relation between the planet, as one cosmic body among many, and the earth as the archive of elemental and evolutionary memory.
On Aging: a Critical Phenomenology of Transitions
Authors: Rubio Tristana Martin ,   Chiasmi International
Published: March 2023

This article advances a critical phenomenology of the meaning of aging embodiment. Its broad aim is to profoundly challenge an idealized view of aging as foremost and fundamentally a natural or normative procession of “ready-made” stages pre-set “in” time (i.e., infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and “old age”) or pre-given units of time that unfurl along a timeline (i.e., chronological age), from past to present to future. Combining, defending, and adapting resources from Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception with a reading of the concept of institution (Stiftung) via the phenomenon of puberty in Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955) as well as insights from critical gerontology, I argue that the phenomenon of aging embodiment demands to be understood in terms of transitions, that is, as an intensive reorientation in relationality, sociality, and the style in which one has a past rather than as changes along a timeline.
To Hear One’s Body. A Phenomenological Analysis of Body Awareness in Health and Illness
Authors: Slatman Jenny ,   Chiasmi International
Published: March 2023

“You need to listen better to your body!” is a common prescription in contemporary health discourse. From a phenomenological perspective, we can say that the ability to hear your body implies body awareness. In this paper, I will provide a phenomenological analysis of the different ways in which the “audible body” can appear, and how this is related to health, drawing on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Shusterman, Leder, and Nancy. In Merleau-Ponty’s early work, so I explain, the “lived body” emerges as an “audible” body, but it is only faintly audible and only so on the surface. Moreover, we find no explicit clues in his work for the injunction to learn to listen to the audible body. Shusterman, on the other hand, claims that we should train and increase somatic attention, and thus better listen to our bodies in order to cure bad bodily habits such as poor bodily posture. Subsequently, I describe how Leder argues that phenomenological analyses of the body should not only involve the surface body and its motor-sensory capacities. They should also involve the recessive, inner body. According to him it is healthy to increase one’s capacity for introception in order to increase “inside insights.” In the final part of this paper, I explain, on the basis of Nancy’s work, that listening to one’s body might become unhealthy when this listening goes hand in hand with amplifying the strangeness of one’s own body.
An “Extension of the Occupier’s Hold”
Authors: Pitts Andrea ,   Chiasmi International
Published: March 2023

Drawing from Frantz Fanon’s writings on racialized alienation and psychopathology, this paper argues that Fanon’s engagement with phenomenology shaped his framing of the sociogenic origins of racialized perceptions of criminality in French psychiatry and that such a novel etiology reflects a commitment to political transformation. First, I trace Fanon’s notion of sociogeny as it develops both in his early writings, and in secondary scholarship on Fanon that highlights the phenomenological dimensions of sociogeny. In the second section, I turn specifically to racialized conceptions of criminality within French colonial medicine and Fanon’s writings on psychiatry to trace some complicated aspects of his critique of colonization and its relationship to medical institutions, including the forced confinement of psychiatric patients. I then conclude by briefly returning to how Fanon’s conception of sociogeny functions in a phenomenological register, and I propose that Fanon’s interests in Merleau-Ponty are based on important shared political and sociological commitments across their respective writings. However, I propose that Fanon’s interventions in phenomenology during the mid-twentieth century contain core critical insights, not shared by his predecessor, that remain relevant for critical phenomenologists today.
An Ecology without Nature? Merleau-Ponty, Simondon, Latour
Authors: Leoni Federico ,   Chiasmi International
Published: March 2023

The article examines the main features of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and, more specifically, the reasons that led it to some consonance with that of the young Simondon. At the center of this recognition, the question of processuality and the pre-Socratic suggestions about a philosophy of the elements. The aim is to derive a need, which, if it remained unfulfilled in Merleau-Ponty, was instead expressed in Simondon and in many contemporary philosophies of nature, e.g. that of Bruno Latour, to whom some space is devoted. That is, the need to bring into focus that substantial indiscernibility between nature and technique, which becomes an evidence if one enters into the idea of process. It is to the ethical and political consequences of this indiscernibility that the article’s conclusions are dedicated. More precisely, these conclusions suggest that only a thought of the indiscernibility between nature and technology has ethical and political consequences, i.e. allows the design of a system of regulations capable of concretely and sustainably modulating the human impact on the planet.
The second case of Bardet-Biedl syndrome from Iraq: An educational article and expert opinion
Authors: Al-Mosawi Aamir Jalal
Published: March 2023

Background: Bardet-Biedl syndrome and Laurence-Moon syndrome are rare autosomal recessive disorders with a similar phenotype. They are characterized by the gradual development of phenotype which includes cone-rod retinal dystrophy, obesity, and hypogonadism in males. Other associated abnormalities include learning disability and renal abnormalities. The two conditions are differentiated clinically by the presence of spasticity and the absence of polydactyly in Laurence-Moon syndrome. In 2002, we reported the first patient with Bardet-Biedl syndrome. The boy had polydactyly, obesity, retinal degeneration, and was hospitalized at the University Hospital in Al-Kadhimiyia because of the development of chronic renal failure. Patients and methods: The case of a 9-year-old obese Kurdish girl who had polydactyly of the hands and feet associated with reduced visual acuity is described. Results: A 9-year-old obese Kurdish girl had polydactyly of the hand and feet associated with reduced visual acuity that was attributed to myopia which was partially corrected with eye glasses. The parents were unrelated, and her younger 5-year sister had polydactyly of the feet only. No other family member known to have polydactyly. Both sisters had their extra-digits removed surgically. The girl was studying at fourth grade primary school and the parents reported no learning disability. Fundoscopy showed normal optic disc and periphery of the retina. The presence of retinitis pigmentosa was excluded. However, the foveal reflex was reported to be abnormal by the oophthalmologist. Electroretinography showed evidence of cone-rod dystrophy. Conclusion: The second case of Bardet-Biedl syndrome from Iraq is reported. The current evidence-based expert opinion suggests the use of long tem supplementation of citicoline, co-enzyme Q10 and lutein with hope of retarding the progression to blindness.