bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Construction of Evaluation Datasets for Trend Forecasting Studies
Authors: Matsuno Shogo , Mizuki Sakae , Sakaki Takeshi
Published: June 2023

In this study, we discuss issues in the traditional evaluation norms of trend forecasts, outline a suitable evaluation method, propose an evaluation dataset construction procedure, and publish Trend Dataset: the dataset we have created. As trend predictions often yield economic benefits, trend forecasting studies have been widely conducted. However, a consistent and systematic evaluation protocol has yet to be adopted. We consider that the desired evaluation method would address the performance of predicting which entity will trend, when a trend occurs, and how much it will trend based on a reliable indicator of the general public's recognition as a gold standard. Accordingly, we propose a dataset construction method that includes annotations for trending status (trending or non-trending), degree of trending (how well it is recognized), and the trend period corresponding to a surge in recognition rate. The proposed method uses questionnaire-based recognition rates interpolated using Internet search volume, enabling trend period annotation on a weekly timescale. The main novelty is that we survey when the respondents recognize the entities that are highly likely to have trended and those that haven't. This procedure enables a balanced collection of both trending and non-trending entities. We constructed the dataset and verified its quality. We confirmed that the interests of entities estimated using Wikipedia information enables the efficient collection of trending entities a priori. We also confirmed that the Internet search volume agrees with public recognition rate among trending entities.
Invasion@Ukraine: Providing and Describing a Twitter Streaming Dataset That Captures the Outbreak of War between Russia and Ukraine in 2022
Authors: Susanne Pohl Janina , Markmann Simon , Assenmacher Dennis , Grimme Christian
Published: June 2023

Social media can be a mirror of human interaction, society, and historic disruptions. Their reach enables the global dissemination of information in the shortest possible time and, thus, the individual participation of people worldwide in global events in almost real-time. However, these platforms can be equally efficiently used in information warfare to manipulate human perception and opinion formation.
Within this paper, we describe a dataset of raw tweets collected via the Twitter Streaming API in the context of the onset of the war, which Russia started in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. A distinctive feature of the dataset is that it covers the period from one week before to one week after Russia invasion of Ukraine. This paper details the acquisition process and provides first insights into the content of the data stream. In addition, the data has been annotated with availability tags, resulting from rehydration attempts at two points in time: directly after data acquisition and shortly before manuscript submission. This may provide information on Twitter moderation policies. Further, we provide a detailed list of other published dataset covering the same topic. On the content level, we can show that our dataset comprises several distinct topics related to the conflict and conspiracy narratives -- topics that deserve more profound investigation. Therefore, the presented dataset is also made available to the community in an extended version with pseudonymized tweet content upon request.
YouNICon: YouTube’s CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos
Authors: Yi Liaw Shao , Huang Fan , Benevenuto Fabricio , Kwak Haewoon , An Jisun
Published: June 2023

Conspiracy theories are widely propagated on social media. Among various social media services, YouTube is one of the most influential sources of news and entertainment. This paper seeks to develop a dataset, YOUNICON, to enable researchers to perform conspiracy theory detection as well as classification of videos with conspiracy theories into different topics. YOUNICON is a dataset with a large collection of videos from suspicious channels that were identified to contain conspiracy theories in a previous study. Overall, YOUNICON will enable researchers to study trends in conspiracy theories and understand how individuals can interact with the conspiracy theory producing community or channel. Our data is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466262.
A Dataset of Coordinated Cryptocurrency-Related Social Media Campaigns
Authors: Zilius Karolis , Spiliotopoulos Tasos , Van Moorsel Aad
Published: June 2023

The rise in adoption of cryptoassets has brought many new and inexperienced investors in the cryptocurrency space. These investors can be disproportionally influenced by information they receive online, and particularly from social media. This paper presents a dataset of crypto-related bounty events and the users that participate in them. These events coordinate social media campaigns to create artificial "hype" around a crypto project in order to influence the price of its token. The dataset consists of information about 15.8K cross-media bounty events, 185K participants, 10M forum comments and 82M social media URLs collected from the Bounties(Altcoins) subforum of the BitcoinTalk online forum from May 2014 to December 2022. We describe the data collection and the data processing methods employed and we present a basic characterization of the dataset. Furthermore, we discuss potential research opportunities afforded by the dataset across many disciplines and we highlight potential novel insights into how the cryptocurrency industry operates and how it interacts with its audience.
Control of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis lycopersici Jarvis & Shoemaker (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) and Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White, 1919) Chitwood, 1949 (Nemata: Meloidogynidae) with Aspergillus niger Tiegh. (Ascomycota: Eurotiales) culture filtrate on tomato
Authors: GÖZE ÖZDEMİR Fatma Gül , ARICI Şerife Evrim
Published: June 2023

The effects of Aspergillus niger Tiegh. (Ascomycota: Eurotiales) culture filtrate on Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White, 1919) Chitwood, 1949 (N) and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. radicis lycopersici Jarvis & Shoemaker (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) (FORL) were investigated under controlled conditions on tomato between April and August 2022 in the Isparta province. The study consisted of 8 treatments; 1: N, 2: FORL, 3: N+A. niger, 4: FORL+A. niger, 5: N+FORL, 6: N+FORL+A. niger, 7: N+FORL+nematicide, 8: N+FORL+fungicide. In inoculation, 1000 M. incognita second juvenile larvae/1ml and 3X106 spore/ml FORL were used for each seedling according to treatment. Two days after inoculation, 10 ml of undiluted A. niger culture filtrate was applied to each potting soil. After 60 days, 0-9 gall and egg mass index, and 0-4 disease severity scale were evaluated. While the suppressive effect of A. niger culture filtrate on the gall and egg mass of M. incognita was found over 55%, disease severity was found to be over 25%. The highest suppressive effect on gall and egg mass was determined in N+FORL+nematicide, followed by N+FORL+A. niger. The disease severity of N+FORL+A. niger, N+FORL+nematicide, and N+FORL+fungicide has been determined to be lower than N+FORL and FORL.
Lise Öğrencilerinde Bir Değer Olarak Adalet Algısının İncelenmesi: Afyonkarahisar Örneği
Authors: Erkorkmaz Çoban Ümran , Gürses İbrahim
Published: June 2023

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, lise öğrencilerinin adalet değerine ilişkin algılarını, metaforlar aracılığıyla ortaya çıkarmaktır. Araştırmanın katılımcıları Afyonkarahisar il merkezinde bulunan Süleyman Demirel Fen Lisesi, Kamil Miras Anadolu Lisesi ve Özel AOSB Rahmiye Sare Palalı Teknik Koleji’nde öğrenim gören öğrencilerden oluşmaktadır. Araştırma 2022 yaz döneminde 268 kişi ile gerçekleştirilmiş ve nitel araştırma deseni kullanılarak yürütülmüştür. Veri toplama aracı olarak çalışmada kişisel bilgi formu ve “Adalet … (metafor)… benzer, çünkü… (metafor sebebi)....” cümlelerinin kullanıldığı yarı yapılandırılmış bir form kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde içerik analizinin özel bir formu olan metafor analizi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonunda 268 lise öğrencisi tarafından 125 farklı metafor üretildiği görülmüştür. Araştırma kapsamında adalet değerine ilişkin üretilen metaforlarla ilgili 3 tema oluşturulmuştur. Bu temalar; düzeltici adalet, dağıtıcı adalet ve adaletsizliktir. Düzeltici adalet temasına (%21,26) ait 2 kod oluşturulmuştur: Bağımsız işleyen bir sistem ve uygulamada eşitlik. Dağıtıcı adalet temasına (%52,98) ait olarak da 8 kod oluşturulmuştur. Bu kodlar; yaşam için zorunlu ihtiyaç, iyi hissettiren koşullar, ihtiyaç olanı sağlayan sistem, emek isteyen uygulama, eğitimle kazanılabilen nitelik, subjektif bir anlayış, kelebek etkisi oluşturan sistemsel parça ve hakkaniyettir. Adaletsizlik temasına (%25,74) ait ise 1 kod oluşturulmuştur: Adaletin yokluğu.
A Vértesalja homoki gyertyános-tölgyesei (Corydali pumilae-Carpinetum Kevey 2008)
Authors: Kevey Balázs , Riezing Norbert
Published: June 2023

Jelen tanulmány a Vértesalja homoki gyertyános-tölgyeseinek társulási viszonyait mutatja be 25 cönológiai felvétel alapján. Faji összetételére a Fagetalia elemek magas aránya jellemző. Különösen értékes fajai a Corydalis intermedia, a Daphne laureola, a Scutellaria columnae és a Veratrum nigrum. A felvételek a hagyományos és a sokváltozós statisztikai elemzések alapján elkülönülnek a Belső-Somogy homoki gyertyános-tölgyeseitől (Fraxino pannonicae-Carpinetum), és a Dunántúli-középhegység Corydali pumilae-Carpinetum nevű gyertyános-tölgyes társulásához sorolhatók.
Az Asplenium trichomanes alakkör (Aspleniaceae) hazai taxonómiai sokféleségéről, és a subsp. hastatum magyarországi elterjedéséről
Authors: Csiky János , Wirth Tamás , Tamás Júlia
Published: June 2023

A magyarországi határozókulcsok napjainkig csupán két aranyos fodorka (Asplenium trichomanes agg.) taxon elkülönítését tették lehetővé (subsp. trichomanes és subsp. quadrivalens). Herbáriumi, irodalmi és saját terepi kutatásaink eredményeként Magyarországon három tetraploid Asplenium trichomanes agg. taxon biztos előfordulását igazoltuk. Ezek közül a subsp. quadrivalens országszerte elterjedt, közönségesnek mondható. Annak ellenére, hogy a subsp. hastatum és a nothosubsp. lovisianum (a subsp. quadrivalens és a subsp. hastatum steril hibridje) egy-egy publikált hazai adata a nemzetközi irodalomban Stefan Jessennek köszönhetően 1995 óta ismert volt, ez az információ a magyarországi botanikai köztudatba nem épült be. Újrafelfedezésükre 2022-ben, a 2006 óta folyó pécsi városi flóratérképezésnek, illetve a 2022-ben végzett herbáriumi revízióknak köszönhetően került sor. Vizsgálataink alapján e taxonok elkülönítése a füles vállú levélszárnyak aránya alapján is elvégezhető: a subsp. quadrivalens-nek csak <20%-a, a subsp. hastatum-nak már >50%-a fülecskés és szimmetrikus, míg a hibridjük átmeneti jellegű, inkább a subsp. quadrivalens-hez hasonló. A subsp. hastatum jelenleg ismert adatai alapján Magyarországon kifejezetten ritka, domb- és hegyvidéki előfordulású (Aggteleki Karszt, Bükk, Budai-hegység, Bakony, Soproni-hegység, Mecsek), mészkedvelő faj. Hazai elterjedési adatai szerint a subsp. hastatum az IUCN vörös lista kategóriák közül a veszélyeztetett (EN) besorolást is megérdemelné, egyelőre azonban adathiányos (DD) taxonként való kezelését javasoljuk. A tetraploid subsp. pachyrachis nemzetközi irodalomban jelzett magyarországi előfordulása az elérhető herbáriumi példányok alapján kétes.
After 504: Training the Citizen-Enforcers of Disability Rights
Authors: Tani Karen M.
Published: June 2023

No abstract available.
Disability, Race, Class, and Gender in Seventh-day Adventist Health Publications, 1880-1910
Authors: Anderson Talea
Published: June 2023

This article examines discourses in early Seventh-day Adventist health publications with particular attention to the ways that disability played into discussions of vegetarianism. In the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, the Adventist church was at the forefront of conversations in western countries about the value of a meat-free diet. During this time, Adventist health publications made or echoed a variety of arguments in support of vegetarian eating. Pervasive in these arguments were ableist tropes calculated to show how vegetarianism equated to youth, physical stamina, beauty, and intellectual superiority. This rhetoric effectively used disability to craft a vision of vegetarians as white, upwardly mobile people who conformed to traditional gender roles. Disability thus served to demarcate insiders from outsiders by underlining perceived differences between genders, races, and classes of people.
Disability Studies, Inclusive Pedagogy, and Universal Design for Learning: A Faculty Pilot Experience
Authors: Jarman Michelle , Thompson-Ebanks Valerie , Singh Reshmi , Boggs Christine , Clement Kristina , Peter Samantha
Published: June 2023

This essay documents the process of a year-long faculty pilot group in a western U.S. state university that applied disability studies scholarship to collaborative implementation of universal design for learning (UDL) and inclusive practices in teaching. In addition to faculty, library instructors, disabled student representatives, diversity and equity administrators, and disability support staff were involved in this group. The goals were to deepen knowledge about disability history, exclusions, and current innovations from disability communities; to increase knowledge and skills in accessible pedagogies, specifically in UDL; and to expand commitment and community among faculty participants in order to scale up efforts in our institution beyond the pilot group. This essay documents the experiences of the learning group, which consist of an overview of the curricular framework, a discussion of qualitative research from focus group interviews with faculty participants, and insights gained from the process, including unexpected collaborations, community building, and innovative ideas for institutional support and transformation.
“Your request is touching”: Marginalization, weakness, and liminality experienced by disabled graduate students in Israel
Authors: Bitman Nomy , Yabo Mariela
Published: June 2023

Academic neoliberal ableism has considerable negative implications for all disabled academics, but specifically for the marginalization, liminality, and weakness of disabled graduate students. This is particularly true for the understudied and underrepresented disabled graduate students who are not native English speakers and who live in regions that are geographically and culturally distant from the English-speaking academic hegemony. This article addresses this gap by presenting a collaborative autoethnography of two disabled Israeli doctoral students. The analysis raised two themes. The first includes the complex aspects of learning to perform new academic roles – teachers, conference presenters and researchers – as disabled academics. The second includes our marginality in two contexts, namely our studied disciplines, which fail to see disability as a critical object, and the developing Israeli community of disability studies in which disabled scholars are underrepresented. On the basis of these themes, we identify four combined environments that mirror the intersection between global neoliberal ableism and the specific ableist culture found in Israel, which exacerbate our weakness, marginality, and liminality: The Israeli Disability Studies community, our discipline, the Israeli academy, and the English-speaking academy.
Editors' Introduction
Authors: Brune Jeff , Grushkin Don
Published: June 2023

No abstract available.
Madame Bovary in the Context of Greimas’ “Semiotic Rectangle” Theory
Authors: Ding Xueying
Published: June 2023

Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917–1992) was a famous French structuralist linguist who developed the famous “semiotic rectangle” theory to reveal the rich connections behind complex things. Madame Bovary is one of the masterpieces of the famous French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), in this novel, the heroine Emma keeps trying to pursue romantic love, but finally chooses to end her life by taking poison due to debt. Based on Grimes’ “semiotic rectangle” theory, this article analyzes character relationships on a structural level in order to fully reveal the surface and deep connotations of the text. The results show that Flaubert criticizes vulgar romanticism and bourgeois characters by establishing several pairs of opposing relationships, and that the fundamental source of the tragedy that led to Emma’s life was the social climate of the time, in which people betrayed each other.
An Analysis of the Interpersonal Function of Joe Biden’s Inaugural Speech
Authors: Huo Haitao , Zhang Yi
Published: June 2023

Interpersonal function of language was first put forward by Halliday and it has been added by some scholars, which is one of the three meta-functions of language. It helps us establish and maintain social relationships. This paper analyzes the inaugural speech of Joe Biden based on interpersonal function and conducts both a quantitative approach and a qualitative approach. This research has found: In personal pronoun system, Biden used the first person pronoun most frequently in his inaugural speech. In modality system, medium-value modal verbs were used most, followed by low-value modal verbs and high-value modal verbs. In mood system, declarative sentences were used most often, which made his speech more objective and reasonable. In tense system, present tense appears most often in the speech, followed by future tense and past tense. In evaluation system, different resources have helped to achieve the interpersonal function.
A Study of Corpus-Based Translation for China’s Global Communication from the Perspective of Critical Discourse — A Case Study of the 2011&2022 Report on the Work of the Government
Authors: Chen Yiran , Ruan Hongmei
Published: June 2023

As China’s comprehensive national power continues to grow and its global influence expands, China’s status in the international arena is receiving increasing attention, and the enhancement of its international status requires an international discourse that is compatible with it. This research focuses on the analysis of the translation of Chinese political discourse represented by Report on the Work of the Government (RWG), and selected corpus is the Chinese and English versions of 2011&2022 Report on the Work of the Government. The translation of RWG not only contains a large amount of ideological content, but also requires the realization of the communication effect in the context of the target language. At the same time, the RWG requires a high degree of loyalty to the original text, but also pays attention to the acceptance and reaction of readers. Traditional domestication strategies cannot adapt to the dialectical and dynamic relationship between discourse and social practice, so this study adopts the interdisciplinary perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze the corpus.
Childhood Worldings of Brittle Bone Disease: A Portrait in 5 Triptych Research Poem
Authors: Cleary Brenda , Carnevale Franco , Tsimicalis Argerie
Published: June 2023

This paper offers a collection of found poems offering insights into representative worlds of children living with dis/abilities, chronic hospitalizations, and the ethical dilemmas surrounding their perioperative care. The collection represents the sum tota poetic crystallization of a multiyear ethnography focused on the ethical experiences of the childhood osteogenesis imperfecta community as encountered in a specialized North American pediatric OI clinic. The collection deliberately bridges multiple separate (yet deeply connected) worlds of children, clinicians, and family members to reveal their interdependence and yet preserve each individual’s distinct viewpoints.
Effect of artemisinin combined with allicin on improving cardiac function, fibrosis and NF-κB signaling pathway in rats with diabetic cardiomyopathy
Authors: Kong Lingjuan , Ji Xiaoqing , Liu Yan , Du YingJie
Published: June 2023

Myocardial fibrosis and inflammation cause cardiac hypertrophy, arrhythmias, and heart failure in diabetics, a leading cause of mortality. Since it’s complicated, no drug treats diabetic cardiomyopathy. This research examined the effects of artemisinin and allicin on heart function, myocardial fibrosis, and the nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) signaling pathway in diabetic cardiomyopathy rats. A total of 50 rats were separated into 5 groups, 10 of which were the control group. 40 rats received 65 μg/g streptozotocin intraperitoneally. 37 of 40 animals fit the investigation. The artemisinin, allicin, and artemisinin/allicin groups each included nine animals. The artemisinin group received 75 mg/kg of artemisinin, the allicin group received 40 mg/kg of allicin, and the combination group received equal dosages of artemisinin and allicin gavage for four weeks. After the intervention, in each group cardiac functions, myocardial fibrosis, and NF-κB signaling pathway protein expression were assessed. All of the examined groups had greater levels of LVEDD, LVESD, LVEF, FS, E/A, and the NF-κB pathway proteins: NF-κB p65 and p-NF-κB p65 than the normal group, except for the combination group. Artemisinin and allicin did not vary statistically. Compared to the model group, the artemisinin, allicin, and combined groups showed various degrees of improvement from the pathological pattern, with more intact muscle fibers, neater arrangement, more normal cell morphology, artemisinin and allicin alleviated cardiac dysfunction and decreased myocardium fibrosis in diabetic cardiomyopathy rats by inactivating the NF-κB signaling cascade.
Fresh embryo transfer in the cleavage and blastocyst stages and pregnancy outcomes: A retrospective cross-sectional study
Authors: Poormoosavi Seyedeh Mahsa , Behmanesh Mohammad Amin , Aryannejad Sara , Janati Sima
Published: June 2023

Background: Advances in cell culture media have led to a trend of embryo transfer from the early cleavage stages to blastocyst stage.
Objective: The study aims to compare the effects of fresh embryo transfer in cleavage and blastocyst stage on pregnancy outcomes.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 1422 cases referred to the Umm-al-Banin Infertility Clinic Center, Dezful, Iran, between July 2013 and December 2020 who were candidates for in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection for fresh embryo transfer. A total of 1246 cases were divided into 4 categories on days 2-5 or 6. Chemical and clinical pregnancy, abortion, multifetal pregnancy, ongoing pregnancy, and live birth rates were analyzed.
Results: Fresh embryo transfer was performed in 28.5% of the cases on the 2nd day, 45.8% on the 3rd, 15.3% on the 4th day, and 10.4% on days 5 or 6. The overall clinical pregnancy and live birth rates were estimated at 20.6% and 17.6% in the cleavage, and 17% and 14% in the blastocyst stages, respectively. However, no significant difference was observed in either group. In addition, there was no significant difference between groups in terms of the abortion, multifetal pregnancy, and ongoing pregnancy rate (p > 0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results, the consequences of pregnancy in fresh embryo transfer at the blastocyst stage were not superior to embryo transfer at different stages of the cleavage process.
Key words: Embryo transfer, Cleavage, Blastocyst, Pregnancy outcomes.
Evaluation of antimicrobial susceptibility and genetic profiles (ERIC-PCR) of Enterococcus species, isolated from chicken viscera
Authors: Almada-Corral Arantxa , Cordero-Ortiz Maritza Alejandra , Ballesteros-Herrera Lizbeth Dolores , Calderón-Montoya Siria de Jesús , Bolado-Martínez Enrique , Sánchez-Mariñez Reyna Isabel , García-Galaz Alfonso , Rodríguez-Hernández Iracema del Carmen , Cortez-Rocha Mario Onofre , Álvarez Ainza Maritza Lizeth
Published: June 2023

The genus Enterococcus can be found in water, soil, and food, and above all, they are part of the animal (including human) intestinal microbiota. Food prevalence is mainly due to their resistance to adverse environmental conditions. Seventy-three isolates from chicken viscera were confirmed to belong to the Enterococcus genus by biochemical tests and carbohydrate fermentation. Phenotypic characterization of the species indicates that E. casseliflavus was the predominant specie. Antimicrobial resistance to amikacin (42 %), kanamycin (38 %), streptomycin (55 %), and erythromycin (33 %) in the isolates was notorious. The analysis obtained from ERIC-PCR profiles shows a high genetic variability among the isolates. In addition, a relationship between the antimicrobial and ERIC-PCR profiles was observed among isolates. These results indicate the presence of multi-resistant Enterococcus in commercial chicken viscera with high genetic variability, which could be a potential nosocomial bacterium or transfer this resistance to another pathogenic species causing human diseases.
ASPECTOS ESTRUTURAIS DO JARDIM BOTÂNICO DE TERESINA NA INTERFACE COM O TURISMO
Authors: Ferreira Anna Beatriz Silva Castro , Almeida Antonio Rafael Barbosa de
Published: June 2023

O estudo apresenta uma análise da estrutura do Jardim Botânico de Teresina, ampliando as reflexões para dotá-lo de atratividade, com vistas ao estímulo a uma modalidade de visitação emergente - o turismo de jardins. Destarte, buscou-se analisar situacionalmente as estruturas físicas e as ações em torno da visitação pública do Jardim Botânico de Teresina enquanto lócus para o lazer e o turismo. A investigação se relaciona com os pressupostos da pesquisa qualitativa, por meio da revisão da literatura e do estudo de campo, com o uso das técnicas da observação e da entrevista, esta última realizada com a gestora do referido equipamento. Como resultados, foram identificadas as carências e restrições à visitação e a necessária ação para que o equipamento reestabeleça de modo pleno as atividades inerentes ao uso público, a partir da reconfiguração e requalificação em seus aspectos físicos, bem como o desenvolvimento de ações recreativas e educativas que promovam a maior atratividade, ocupação e envolvimento perante o público.
Sustaining Soil Fertility and Yield by Inductive cum Targeted Yield Model-based Fertilizer Prescriptions for Finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) in Alfisols of Tamil Nadu, Southern India
Authors: Mohamed B. Asan , Santhi R. , Maragatham S. , Gopalakrishnan M. , Ravikesavan R. , Geetha P.
Published: June 2023

Background: Finger millet cultivation in Alfisols (Typic rhodustalf, Palaviduthi soil series) demands an optimal integrated plant nutrient supply to achieve desired yields. In order to develop the soil test crop response to fertilizer and farm yard manure (FYM) through integrated plant nutrition system (STCR-IPNS) in terms of nutrient uptake, yield and pre-sowing STVs, a field investigation on Finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] was conducted at the farmer’s field of Thoppupatti village, Dindigul district, Southern Agro-climatic zone of Tamil Nadu, Southern India during December 2021-August 2022. Methods: By adopting the Inductive cum Targeted Yield Model before the test crop of Finger millet, a artificial soil fertility gradient was created by the application of graded levels of NPK fertilizers with fodder sorghum as a gradient crop. Result: The basic data viz., N, P and K nutrients for producing 1 tonne of finger millet grain were 48 kg, 23 kg and 44 kg; the soil contributed 14.86%, 19.18% and 18.95%; fertilizer contributed 44.16%, 32.79% and 59.75% for N, P and K and farmyard manure (FYM) contributed 28.47%, 11.77% and 33.78%, respectively. Fertilizer prescription equations for finger millet and ready reckoners for the operational range of soil test results for the intended yield target under NPK alone and IPNS (NPK + FYM) were produced using the basic data.
Diagnosis of Major Foliar Diseases in Black gram (Vigna mungo L.) using Convolution Neural Network (CNN)
Authors: Kalpana M. , Karthiba L. , Senguttuvan K. , Parimalarangan R.
Published: June 2023

Background: Proper diagnosis of a foliar disease is a prerequisite to undertaking any crop protection strategy under field conditions. Poor diagnosis and a delay in confirmation in turn decrease the crop yield and increase the cost of plant protection. In this background, advanced machine learning techniques were used for diagnosis of major foliar diseases in black gram using image detection. Casually, black gram yields are highly reduced due to anthracnose and powdery mildew diseases up to 40-67%. To address the issues, the advanced disease identification method of Convolution Neural Network (CNN) is proposed for automated diagnosis in its early stages to assist farmers. Methods: Disease infected leaf samples and their images were collected from different cultivated areas of Tanjore district, Tamil Nadu, India. The image noises were removed and enhanced to improve the accuracy of the training network. A Convolution Neural Network was built with five layers to work on disease images. The first stage of training is to load the image set for training, establish the learning rate, run the optimizer and compile the training convolution model. The final part is to save the loss and accuracy during the training process and evaluate the accuracy of the model. To improve the training learning rate, the Adam optimizer and RMSprop algorithm are used to dynamically adjust the learning rate. The image dataset holds a total of 2002 images of black gram anthracnose and powdery mildew for evaluation. Result: The experiment result showed that the accuracy of disease detection in black gram is about 92.50 per cent with a Precision: 97.14 per cent, Recall: 87.17 per cent, F1 score: 91.89 per cent which proves that convolutional neural network has a faster training speed and higher accuracy. In addition, the proposed method is less time consuming, an early detection tool for the farmers to identify the anthracnose and powdery mildew in black gram leaf which is essential for the application of proper disease management strategies and reduction of yield loss and aids in promotion of smart agriculture.
O acervo da Comissão de Anistia e a tortura durante a ditadura militar no Brasil
Authors: Frisso Giovanna Maria
Published: June 2023

Este artigo busca tematizar alguns dos desafios encontrados durante a realização de pesquisa sobre a tortura nos requerimentos submetidos à Comissão de Anistia. Para tanto, a primeira parte do artigo situa a análise do acervo da Comissão de Anistia em uma discussão mais ampla sobre utilização de documentos oficiais, em particular, processos judiciais, como fonte primária de pesquisa sobre graves violações de direitos humanos.  Em seguida, algumas particularidades dos processos da Comissão de Anistia são abordados, permitindo-nos refletir sobre o potencial desse material para a compreensão do período da ditadura militar. Essas particularidades são, posteriormente, relacionadas à compreensão da tortura como violação de direitos humanos, trazendo à tona alguns dos desafios apresentados pela articulação de experiências traumáticas em documentos oficiais.
Ethical issues in m-Health applications in community health work in India — a scoping review
Authors: Gopichandran Vijayaprasad , Subramaniam Sudharshini , Thiagesan Rajeswaran
Published: June 2023

Background: Mobile phone-based interventions are being increasingly used in community health work in India. The extensive use of mobile phones in community health work is associated with several ethical issues. This review was conducted to identify the ethical issues related to mHealth applications in community health work in India. Methods: We performed a scoping review of literature in PubMed and Google Scholar using a search strategy that we developed. We included studies that mentioned ethical issues in mHealth applications that involved community health work and community health workers in India, published in peer reviewed English language journals between 2011 and 2021. All three authors screened the articles, shortlisted them, read them, and extracted the data. We then synthesised the data into a conceptual framework. Results: Our search yielded 1125 papers, from which we screened and shortlisted 121, after reading which we included 58 in the final scoping review. The main ethical issues identified from review of these papers included benefits of mHealth applications such as improved quality of care, increased awareness about health and illness, increased accountability of the health system, accurate data capture and timely data driven decision making. The risks of mHealth applications identified were impersonal communication of community health worker, increased workload, potential breach in privacy, confidentiality, and stigmatisation. The inherent inequities in access to mobile phones in the community due to gender and class led to exclusion of women and the poor from the benefits of mHealth interventions. Though mHealth interventions increased access to healthcare by taking healthcare to remote areas through tele-health, unless we contextualise mHealth to local rural settings through community engagement, it is likely to remain inequitable. Conclusion: This scoping review revealed that there is a lack of well conducted empirical studies which explore the ethical issues related to mHealth applications in community health work.
Scalar Product for a Version of Minisuperspace Model with the Grassmann Variables
Authors: Cherkas Sergey L. , Kalashnikov Vladimir L.
Published: June 2023

he Grassmann variables are used to formally transform a system with constraints into an unconstraint system. As a result, the Schr\"{o}dinger equation arises instead of the Wheeler-DeWitt one. The Schrodinger equation describes a system's evolution, but a definition of the scalar product is needed to calculate the mean values of the operators. We suggest an explicit formula for the scalar product related to the Klein-Gordon scalar product. The calculation of the mean values is compared with an etalon method, in which a redundant degree of freedom is excluded. Nevertheless, we could note that a complete correspondence with the etalon picture is not found. Apparently, the picture with the Grassmann variables requires a further understanding of the underlying Hilbert space.
A Critical Assessment of the Current State and Governance of the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Authors: Saba Manuel , Chanchí Golondrino Gabriel Elías , Torres-Gil Leydy Karina
Published: June 2023

Since 2017 Cartagena UNESCO World Heritage has threatened to be categorized as "in Danger" by UNESCO. This research analyzes two main critical aspects, Governance and Current state of the Site. Regarding Governance, the study aims to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and treats in the UNESCO Site. Exemplary heritage management systems are studied to propose an adaptable management approach specifically for Cartagena. On the other hand, a comprehensive analysis is conducted utilizing a photographic report that highlights the major issues arising from inadequate heritage management. Hyperspectral images obtained from a previous study are employed to identify vegetation and asbestos-cement roofs within the cultural heritage Site. The study reveals that the ambiguity surrounding decision-making authority for heritage management, distributed between the Mayor's Office and the Ministry of Culture, is a primary challenge. This fragmentation has resulted in duplicated efforts and a lack of coordinated action, significantly compromising the conservation and protection of the cultural heritage Site. Moreover, twelve current shortcomings of cultural heritage in Cartagena are identified through authors' five-year on-site regular visits, photographic reports and observation. To address the prevailing concerns, a new line of command for cultural heritage management is proposed as the most effective means of tackling these challenges. Additionally, general recommendations are presented to mitigate the existing problems and prevent the classification of Cartagena's heritage as "at risk" by UNESCO in the near future. This research provides a scientific perspective, drawing upon years of experience studying heritage and residing in the city, devoid of political influences or conflicts of interest.
Novel Land Cover Change Detection Deep Learning Framework with Very Small Initial Samples Using Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Images
Authors: Zhu Yangpeng , Li Qianyu , Lv Zhiyong , Falco Nicola
Published: June 2023

Change detection with heterogeneous remote sensing images (Hete-CD) plays an important role in practical applications, especially when homogenous remote sensing images are unavailable. However, bitemporal heterogeneous remote sensing images (HRSIs) cannot compare directly to measure change magnitude, and many deep learning methods require large amounts of samples to train the module. Moreover, labeling many samples for land cover change detection with HRSIs is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Therefore, acquiring satisfactory performance of Hete-CD remains a challenge for deep learning networks with very small training samples. In this study, we promote a novel deep-learning framework for Hete-CD to obtain satisfactory performance while the initial samples are very small. We initially design a multiscale network with select kernel-attention module to focus on capturing different change targets with various sizes and shapes. Then, a simple yet effective non-parametric sample-enhanced algorithm based on the Pearson correlation coeffi-cient is promoted to explore potential samples around each initial sample. Finally, the proposed network and sample-enhanced algorithm are fused into one iterative framework to improve the change detection performance with very small samples. Experimental results conducted on four pairs of actual HRSIs indicated that the proposed framework can achieve competitive accuracies with very small samples for initialization when compared with some state-of-the-art methods. For example, the improvement is approximately 3.38% and 1.99% when compared with the selected traditional methods and deep learning methods, respectively.
Ramsey Theory and Transformations of Coordinate Systems
Authors: Frenkel Mark , Shoval Shraga , Bormashenko Edward
Published: June 2023

Application of the Ramsey Theory to the set of the points placed in the plane is discussed. Consider a set of N points located in the same plane. The straight lines connecting these points are yikx=αikx+βik i,k=1...N. Listed below values of slopes αik are possible: αik>0; αik=0; αik is not defined; αik<0. Following coloring procedure is introduced: we connect the pairs of points for which αik>0, αik=0 or αik is not defined, with the red links, and the pairs of points for which αik<0 place with green links. The suggested coloring procedure enables building of the complete bi-colored graph for any set containing N points located in the same plane. We apply the Ramsey theorem to the complete graph emerging from the suggested coloring. For the set containing N=6 points at least one monochromatic triangle will necessarily appear in the graph. The values of the slopes αik depend on the chosen coordinate system. The rotation of coordinate axes changes the coloring of the graph; however, at least one monochromatic triangle will be present for N=6. The introduced coloring procedure diminishes the order of the symmetry group of the regular hexagon, irrespectively to the orientation of the coordinate axes. We hypothesized that this will be true for arbitrary regular n-polygon, independently on the orientation of coordinate axes. The inverse bi-color Ramsey graphs arise, when we replace red links appearing in the source graph with red ones, and vice versa. The total number of triangles in the “direct” and “inverse” Ramsey graphs is the same. We considered the particular case of the set of points for which αik>0 or αik<0 is true in the given coordinates. In this particular case, the rotation of the Cartesian coordinate axes to the angle θ=π2 yields the inverse complete graph. Generalization of this coloring for an arbitrary number and arbitrary location of the source points is introduced.
Electromagnetic Waves’ Impact on Hydraulic Conductivity of Granular Soils
Authors: Farid Arvin , Monroe Holly , Acharaya Rakesh , Browning Jim
Published: June 2023

Electromagnetic (EM) waves, used for purposes such as geophysical characterization, impact properties to be measured. This paper describes the effects of radio frequency (RF) waves on the hydraulic conductivity of glass beads and natural sand. A series of tests were conducted using a customized, rigid-wall, cylindrical permeameter inside a resonant cavity made of Plexiglas covered with electrically conductive transparent films. Constant head ASTM-D2434 [1] tests were performed to measure the samples’ hydraulic conductivity. RF stimulation was performed using a magnetically coupled loop antenna at a constant frequency of 726 MHz and input power levels of 10, 25, 40, and 50 Watts. The hydraulic conductivity of both natural sand and glass-bead samples increased with RF stimulation. Furthermore, measurement of the electric-field component of RF waves was also performed to illustrate the pattern of the electric field as well as evaluate the RF impact on the hydraulic conductivity tests. The electric field was numerically simulated and validated against experimentally measured electric fields. A finite-difference numerical model was developed in MATLAB to analyze the seepage flow, which was then validated against the experimental results. An optimization scheme was then used to develop a governing equation for the RF impact on hydraulic conductivity.
Using a Graph Engine to Visualize the Reconnaissance Tactic of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework from UWF-ZeekData22
Authors: Bagui Sikha S , Mink Dustin , Bagui Subhash C , Plain Michael , Hill Jadarius , Elam Marshall
Published: June 2023

There has been a great deal of research in the area of using graph engines and graph databases to model network traffic and network attacks, but the novelty of this research lies in visually or graphically representing the Reconnaissance Tactic (TA0043) of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Using the newly created dataset, UWF-Zeekdata22, based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework, patterns involving network connectivity, connection duration, and data volume were found and loaded into a graph environment. Patterns were also found in the graphed data that match the Reconnaissance as well as other tactics captured by UWF-Zeekdata22. The Star motif was particularly useful in mapping the Reconnaissance tactic. The results of this paper show that graph databases/graph engines can be essential tools for understanding network traffic and trying to detect network intrusions before they happen. Finally, an analysis of the run-time performance of the reduced dataset used to create the graph databases showed that the reduced datasets performed better than the full dataset.
Double Skin Façades for Building Retrofitting and Climate Change: a Case Study in Central Italy
Authors: Lops Camilla , Di Loreto Samantha , Pierantozzi Mariano , Montelpare Sergio
Published: June 2023

In recent years, the need to make the built environment more resilient and adaptable to climate change has become increasingly evident. In Europe, this aspect concerns the vast majority of existing buildings, which present several deficiencies from the energy-efficiency point of view, considering they were designed before the introduction of modern energy codes. Nowadays, it is possible to retrofit existing buildings using advanced and high-efficient technologies such as Double Skin Façades (DSFs). The research aims to evaluate the use of properly designed DSFs for the energy restoration of existing buildings. In detail, various DSF configurations are applied to a residential building located in central Italy and investigated under present and future climate conditions, estimated through regional climate models. The results underline that all the analysed Double Skin Façades confirm to be a useful option, and, in particular, the Multi-Storey typology allows drastic energy needs decrement. Moreover, the general increase in temperatures and solar radiations could affect the building energy performance, and the insertion of DSF can mitigate the climate change effects, reducing the predicted energy consumption and ensuring better behaviours than the building in its original state.
Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top Been Solved in Quadratures?
Authors: Deriglazov Alexei A.
Published: June 2023

We have revised the problem of the motion of a heavy symmetric top. When formulating equations of motion of the Lagrange top with the diagonal inertia tensor, the potential energy has more complicated form as compared with that assumed in the literature on dynamics of a rigid body. Using the Liouville's theorem, we solve the improved equations in quadratures and present the explicit expressions for the resulting elliptic integrals.
Phenology-Based Winter Wheat Classification for Crop Growth Monitoring Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Satellite Data
Authors: Newete Solomon W
Published: June 2023

The rising global population amidst the growing concerns of climate change will have a dire consequence on global food security and socio-economic activities. Wheat is one of the most important staple foods consumed by more than four billion people in the world, but climate change impacts account for a decline of 5.5% in wheat yield and predictions indicate that the production could further dwindle by nearly 30% in 2050, due to trends in temperature, precipitation, and carbon dioxide. An effective annual crop estimate is necessary not only to inform government the status of national food security, but also is used to determine the benchmark on which agricultural commodities are priced in the market. Thus, annual crop monitoring and yield estimate is paramount to determine the amount of wheat imports required to make up for the shortfalls in the national wheat production in South Africa, which has been a net importer of wheat since 1998. A joint project between South Africa and Poland investigated satellite based-crop growth monitoring using Sentinel 2 and determined the most distinguishable crop phenology for an accurate winter wheat classification during the growing season from August – December with Random Forest (RF) algorithm. The winter wheat crop was more accurately identified during the crop ‘heading’ stage in October yielding the highest user’s (75.56%) and producer’s (92.52%) accuracies, despite the relatively lower overall accuracy (78.14%) compared to that of December with OA of 83.58% obtained during the maturity stage. This study, therefore, confirms the suitability of sentinel 2 for an effective phenology-based winter wheat crop classification during the heading stage, reducing the ambiguity of spectral confusion created with surrounding grass and maize crops.
Establishing the Durability and Reliability of a Dental Bur Based on the Wear
Authors: Filip Ilie , Saracin Ioan Alexandru
Published: June 2023

The paper analyzes the phenomenon that condition the durability and reliability of a type of dental bur based on the wear of the active part and with effect on its quality. For the experimental study, a conical-cylindrical dental bur and a sample dental material in cobalt-chromium alloy, cylindrical shape, tested on a specially made experimental installation were used. The paper was limited to the consideration of a single parameter (loss of mass, mw by wear of the active part of the dental bur tested) for the establishment the durability and reliability, useful for the extension of the lifetime or even optimization of its operation. The wear phenomenon of the active part of dental bur is studied based on the results and experimental data obtained in the work process that was validated by interpolation and led to polynomial functions which approximate very well the dependent parameter, mw, considered in the experimental program. The results of the interpolation showed that in the first 11 h of work, the dental bur works with high efficiency, after which it can be easily decommissioned (optimizing operation, possibly constructive solutions); i.e., it should be replaced with a new one (criterion for replacing of worn dental bur).