bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Green investments: tools and sectors of classification
Authors:   Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Minashkin V.G. , Ordov K.V. ,   Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Bondarenko T.G. ,   Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Published: October 2024

Green investments can have both characteristics as sovereign-national and transnational. Green projects are risky and have a long payback period, and for their implementation it is necessary to consider attracting various sources of investment financing. The article presents the main characteristics of the green economy, examines the concept of green investment, and examines various tools of green finance. It was emphasized that companies can use alternative innovative sources of raising funds for green projects – green leasing, green bonds, syndicated loans or crowdfunding.
Nonnormative Communication and Metaphors of Silencing in Two Postcolonial Texts
Authors: Stephens Tracy A.
Published: October 2024

Brian Friel’s
Translations
and Aminatta Forna’s
Ancestor Stones
both use a character with a speech impairment as a metaphorical representation of silencing and its limits under colonialism. When read purely as metaphors, as in the extensive body of criticism on Friel’s play, these characters offer competing visions of what is lost and what is not when precolonial cultures and languages are suppressed. However, a purely metaphorical reading reinforces both the broad tendency to use disability to represent other forms of oppression and the specific tendency to use communication disabilities to represent the supposed silencing of marginalized people, both of which reaffirm ableist conceptions of disability as deficiency and pull our attention away from the individuality of the disabled characters. A closer reading of each text shows the flaws in a strictly metaphorical reading, as both characters complicate the idea that their inability to vocalize is a form of silence, as they demonstrate that people with communication disabilities can have much to tell people and many ways of doing so. This poses a challenge to the overreliance on voice and voicelessness as metaphors in discussions of marginalization.
Risk-based regulation and supervision of second-tier banks: experience of EU countries
Authors: Alina Gulzhan , Zhurakhovska Liudmyla , Dugalova Gulnar , Utegenova Zhuldyz , Omarova Balnur , Murzatayev Yerzhan
Published: October 2024

The aim of the study was to determine the impact of increased capital adequacy standards of second-tier banks on their performance. The study is based on second-tier banks of EU member states, as these countries are the first to implement the Basel Committee recommendations, so their experience should be studied and taken into account when building risk-based regulation of second-tier banks of Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The study covers the period of 2009–2022, as the Basel III regulations were adopted after 2008, and they began to operate for the second-tier banks of EU member states in 2013. The study was conducted using econometric modelling with an analysis of the dependence of banking indicators on the capital structure established by Basel III. Functional interrelationships of the dependence of Net Interest Income, Profit, Return on Assets, Return on Equity, Risk Costs to Operating Income were tested. The impact of capital adequacy requirements on the performance of second-tier banks was determined: capital adequacy requirements have a positive impact on net interest income and profit of second-tier banks. The obtained results can be used to substantiate increasing capital adequacy requirements to increase the reliability of the banking system as an element in the system of factors of economic growth of the national economy.
Taxonomic review of the grasshopper genus Pteropera Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera, Acrididea, Catantopinae) with description of three new species and a preliminary phylogeny of the Cameroonian species
Authors: Yetchom Fondjo Jeanne Agrippine , Nzoko Fiemapong Armand Richard , Tindo Maurice , Duressa Tarekegn Fite , Ivković Slobodan , Husemann Martin
Published: October 2024

The Afrotropical grasshopper genus Pteropera Karsch, 1891, is reviewed. Some species present in Cameroon are described, Pteropera augustini Donskoff, 1981, is recorded for the first time in the country, and three new species are described from Cameroon, Pteropera kennei Yetchom & Husemann, sp. nov., Pteropera matzkei Yetchom & Husemann, sp. nov. and Pteropera missoupi Yetchom & Husemann, sp. nov., increasing the number of Pteropera species in Cameroon from eight to 12, and overall to 30 species in Central Africa. An updated key of Pteropera is provided. Photographs with data on the distributions of all known species are given. In addition, a phylogenetic tree was constructed using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference on the basis of a concatenated dataset of COI, 16S, and 12S markers of available Cameroonian species. The maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses of the concatenated datasets resulted in a well-resolved phylogeny of the group and species of Pteropera were recovered as monophyletic, largely with high support. In all cases, the discrimination of all studied species based on barcode information was congruent with the species limits determined by traditional taxonomy. Our findings show the potential of integrative taxonomy to resolve the relationships among grasshoppers below the family level. Further analyses, including more comprehensive taxon sampling and additional nuclear markers, are needed, and the occurrence of several taxa still needs to be confirmed in African rainforests.
Love and Work: Affect and Ideology Beyond ‘The Great Resignation’
Authors: Secor Anna J. , Ruez Derek , Cockayne Daniel
Published: October 2024

Taking the scene of ‘The Great Resignation’ in the USA and UK (2021‐2023) as its starting point, this paper explores how love ‐ with its promises and disappointments, its nurture and its destruction ‐ is activated in relation to the ideologies of work
that prop up capitalism’s world. Through critical engagement with the popular maxims of ‘do what you love’ and ‘work won’t love you back’, we trace the weave of love and work in the context of predominantly (but not only) high-status, employment-based work
within the unevenly gendered, racialised and sexualised labour markets in the USA and the UK. We show how the call to love work or to recognise work’s lack, while ostensibly antithetical, both offer a key to understanding the promise and problem of work’s love. We argue that work’s
love is productive of the capitalist world and the violences that accompany it and foreclose alternative possibilities. Through a critique of Arendt’s theorisation of the world, we conclude by showing how love and work are central to geographical imaginaries of worldliness, and to both
the rejection and possibility of other worlds after (or within) colonial-capitalism’s abolition. Our analysis thus demonstrates how affect and ideology ‐ that is, modes of feeling and forms of consciousness that (re)produce the material relations of capitalism’s world ‐
at once reverse into and continue one another in work’s love.
Late-Liberalism and Righteousness: Affective Reflexes and Experiments in Retraining
Authors: Graham Helen
Published: October 2024

Elizabeth Povinelli describes late liberalism as the ‘governance of social difference in the wake of the anticolonial movements and the emergence of new social movements’. Taking museums and the impact of the turn towards participatory practice as a focus, I draw on both
Povinelli’s ‘cunning of recognition’ and Brian Massumi’s diagnosing of Abraham Lincoln’s phrase ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’ to understand late liberalism as a loop or circuit where impossible to realise ideals, and ‘part-concept’
tensions create ongoing problematics which require daily negotiation in ways that draw political energy centripetally towards reform. Righteousness is proposed as an affective reflex ‐ a kind of starter fuel ‐ that works to kick into life the late liberal loop of museum constitution.
Reflex ‐ holding the sense of an in-the-moment reaction ‐ is approached through activating two trajectories within theorisations of affect. The first trajectory is that of the relationship between affect, intuition and attachment as developed by Lauren Berlant. The second trajectory
explores affect and intensities as taken up in different ways through Lawrence Grossberg and Brian Massumi’s engagements with Deleuze and Guattari. Methodologically, the article proceeds through specifying a contribution that experimental academic writing might make to conjunctural analysis
‐ working with Patricia Clough’s suggestion that experimental writing offers ‘methods … for cutting out an apparatus of knowing and observation from a single plane … with the aim of eliciting exposure or escaping it, intensifying engagement or lessening it’.
In particular it is suggested that experimental writing might offer methods not only for generating political analysis, but also for retraining reflexes to enable political interventions. In the case of the righteous reflex of late liberalism it is suggested that retraining might be supported
by turning the types of analytical attention offered by attachment and intensities into political techniques of detachment (following Berlant) and modulation (following Massumi). If the changing nature of museum workers’ reflexes can be amplified and then cultivated to suspend the righteous
reflex, then different kinds of practice (not defined by inclusion and representation) might be given new space to emerge.
Talking to Tomorrow: Gillian Rose’s Misrecognitions
Authors: MacPhee Graham
Published: October 2024

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon Finlayson (eds), London and New York, Verso, 2024, 152pp, £16.99 paperback
« La storia ha pur sempre dei vuoti ». Figure del paesaggio e del viaggio in Artemisia di Anna Banti
Authors: Rossini Ilaria
Published: October 2024

Il saggio si propone di esaminare la narrazione del paesaggio e del viaggio nel romanzo Artemisia (1947) di Anna Banti. Nella poetica dell’autrice, è attivo un rapporto molto stretto tra memoria psichica e memoria storica, che si riflette anche nella descrizione dei luoghi. L’immagine iniziale di Firenze sotto i bombardamenti, gli scorci cittadini e le tappe del viaggio di Artemisia fino a Londra, via mare e via terra, si offrono alla possibilità di essere osservati su più livelli : dal punto di vista della costruzione dell’itinerario (mutuata da un diario di viaggio seicentesco, Europa milleseicentosei di Bernardo Bizoni), ma anche da quello pittorico. Il trattamento del dato visivo, infatti, tiene conto dell’estetica dell’illusionismo barocco, della lezione di Alessandro Manzoni e del sentimento sinestetico dello spazio, di matrice modernista.
Presenze inusuali in prossimità del fronte. La narrazione delle inviate di guerra (1915-1917)
Authors: Follacchio Sara
Published: October 2024

Tra l’estate del 1915 e l’autunno del 1917, autorizzate dal Comando Supremo del Regio Esercito Italiano, Amalia Osta (Flavia Steno), Zina Centa Tartarini (Rossana), Ester Danesi Traversari, Stefania Türr, Amy Bernardy, Barbara Allason e Annie Vivanti ebbero l’opportunità di recarsi in prossimità del fronte. Il presente contributo si sofferma sulle narrazioni dei luoghi e dei protagonisti del conflitto che esse produssero e sull’immagine di sé che esse fornirono, mostrando quale contributo le donne fossero in grado di offrire in ambiti dai quali in precedenza erano state escluse.
« La Bella addormentata nel frigo ». Ecologia e fiaba nella distopia italiana (Parise, Volponi, Primo Levi)
Authors: Torti Lavinia
Published: October 2024

Il contributo rilegge alcuni racconti di Storie naturali e Vizio di forma di Primo Levi, de Il crematorio di Vienna di Parise e il romanzo Il pianeta irritabile di Volponi, mostrando come in certe distopie a carattere ecologico siano presenti alcuni elementi propri del genere della fiaba. A partire dagli studi ecocritici e dal formalismo proppiano (in linea con la proposta di Ezio Puglia di una ecologia della fiaba), si vede come in questi testi il rapporto tra individuo e ambiente si identifica attraverso la costruzione letteraria di ecosistemi in cui l’uomo è un attante tra tanti, insieme ad animali, piante, oggetti, etc. Inoltre, l’indeterminatezza di tempo e luogo, la mancata caratterizzazione dei personaggi, la relazione uomo-animale-oggetto, la rappresentazione apatica della violenza, resa attraverso un linguaggio piano e il discorso diretto, ricorrono nelle distopie ecologiche come nelle fiabe, per ragioni diverse ma generando gli stessi effetti de-antropocentrici.
L’avènement de la médecine clinique moderne en Europe
Authors: Keel Othmar
Published: October 2024

Le processus d’émergence, de structuration et d’institutionnalisation de la nouvelle médecine clinique, dite moderne, qui prend place en Europe à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle représente une rupture sans précédent avec une tradition hippocratico-galénique vieille de près de vingt-trois siècles. La recherche, l’enseignement et la pratique ont désormais pour cadre central l’espace hospitalier, qui devient le champ principal de l’expérience clinique.

Se démarquant résolument des thèses généralement reçues, la présente étude démontre que ce processus ne saurait être réduit à ce qui s’est passé à Paris, après la Révolution et la fin de l’année 1794, ni à ce qui a été opéré par ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler l’École Clinique de Paris au cours des deux ou trois premières décennies de son existence. C’est en fait par un jeu complexe d’interactions et d’échanges constants de modèles (de politique médicale d’un côté, de techniques et de concepts de l’autre) entre les diverses écoles médicales des différents pays européens que s’est opérée cette révolution scientifique capitale de la médecine, révolution qui touche autant les savoirs que les pratiques.
Le Pas de l’aventurier
Authors: Vadeboncoeur Pierre
Published: October 2024

« Par rapport à quoi Rimbaud aurait-il eu le sentiment constant d’être en porte-à-faux ? Par rapport à tout peut-être : l’indicible, dont l’art s’approche mais qu’il n’embrasse pas ; le sens, toujours frôlé, toujours perdu ; le sacré, qui ne relève pas de l’art ni de l’incantation ; la vérité, dans l’occupation vaine d’écrire ; pire : la condition flattée de l’écrivain ; et encore, plus près de la matière, la réalité elle-même problématique d’une existence comme celle dans laquelle Rimbaud se serait à la fin jeté pour ainsi dire en désespoir de cause. »

Pierre Vadeboncoeur n’a pas fini d’étonner ses lecteurs. Avec cet essai lumineux, il propose une réflexion originale sur un sujet d’histoire littéraire des plus commentés : la rupture de Rimbaud avec la poésie. Une interrogation libre et entêtée de l’acte créateur.
1939 : l'alliance de la dernière chance
Authors: Carley Michael J.
Published: October 2024

Au moment où l'Allemagne nazie prépare la guerre, les négociations entre la France, la Grande-Bretagne et l'URSS constituent la dernière chance de stopper l'agression hitlérienne. Pourtant, les gouvernements français et britannique se traînent les pieds. Finalement, les pourparlers entre les trois pays échouent et en août 1939, l'URSS signe un pacte de non-agression avec l'Allemagne.

Le récit poignant que fait Michael Carley de ces négociations souvent secrètes n'est pas une belle histoire. La narration fascinante d'un jeu diplomatique très complexe, mettant en scène des personnalités souvent troublantes, repose sur des recherches de longue haleine menées par l'auteur dans les archives françaises, britanniques et soviétiques, accessibles au public depuis peu.

En faisant de 1939 un moment fort de la guerre froide déjà amorcée après la Révolution bolchevique de 1917 et en montrant comment l'anticommunisme fut la cause majeure de l'échec de l'alliance contre Hitler, Michael Carley remet en cause les interprétations généralement admises sur les origines de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Mémoires bourgeoises
Authors: Richard Olivier
Published: October 2024

Sans mémoire, pas de salut. Pour accéder à la vie éternelle, les fidèles de la fin du Moyen Âge s'appliquaient à multiplier les intercesseurs qui prieraient pour leur âme. Commémoraisons diverses, messes anniversaires ou fondations de chapelles, toutes ces pratiques de memoria sont des élements essentiels de la religion médiévale.

Mais la memoria ne relève pas seulement de la piété : parce qu'elle crée des liens entre tous ses acteurs – fondateurs, clercs, héritiers, exécuteurs testamentaires, spectateurs –, elle est un véritable « phénomène social total », avec des dimensions religieuse, mais aussi culturelle, sociale et politique. Aussi cet ouvrage aborde-t-il la question des rapports entre l'appartenance à une communauté urbaine et ces pratiques, en articulant les notions d'intercession, distinction sociale et religion civique.

À Ratisbonne, ville libre, important centre de commerce, mais en crise au XVe siècle, dirigée par un patriciat composé surtout de grands négociants, la memoria est inséparable de l'identité urbaine. La cité est la scène principale où se déploie la mémoire de ses bourgeois, et les fondations pieuses unifient et marquent l'espace urbain. C'est bien pourquoi les autorités municipales se sentent concernées par la memoria bourgeoise, et qu'un groupe dominant, à travers la politique du Conseil, cherche à l'orienter et à la façonner.
European Transnational Cooperation Programmes Involving the Academic Community and Their Contributions to Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Authors: Apostolopoulos Nikolaos , Liargovas Panagiotis , Apostolopoulos Sotiris
Published: October 2024

In recent years, the implementation of many European-multinational funded projects has occurred with the participation of the academic community. The impact of such consortia in promoting the European dimension and the acquisition of a common European identity has enriched the international literature. However, research approaches that holistically relate cross-country European programmes to capture their impact on university curricula, as well as on entrepreneurship, are lacking. This study focuses on the impact of four European collaborative projects that engaged the academic community in upgrading higher education programmes towards sustainable entrepreneurship. Specifically, it connects EU projects with the areas of best practices, promotion of cooperation, exchange of learning practices, acquisition of skills and competencies, and development of a European identity. In this regard, it examines the diffusion of European policies through existing pipelines, identifies the factors that act as incentives and disincentives, and concludes with policy suggestions.
Entrepreneurial Insights From Higher Education
Authors: J. Sudhakara Rao , Behera Gitanjali , Meenakshi S. , Rajini J. , Pravin T. , Boopathi S.
Published: October 2024

This chapter looks at how colleges and startups work together. It shows how schools can help new businesses succeed. Universities encourage new ideas, provide resources, and help students and teachers think like entrepreneurs. The chapter looks at real examples of successful startups from universities. It shows what strategies and support helped these startups grow. The chapter also talks about the good and bad parts of startups linked to universities. It gives tips on using school resources and connections to start and keep new businesses going. Using both ideas and real examples, this chapter tries to explain how higher education and entrepreneurship connect and work together.
Overcoming Business Biases Through Technological Advancements in Entrepreneurship
Authors: Mariyappan M. S. R. , Meesaala Krishna Murthy , Sharma Anupum , Parmar Dhara Vinod , Chinnusamy Somu
Published: October 2024

This chapter examines the intersection of technology and employment, focusing on how to use technological advances to overcome inherent employment biases. It deeply examines the biases that impact decision-making and organizational culture, presenting innovative technological solutions such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics that help identify and mitigate these biases, ideas, and how to improve working conditions. Additionally, it includes the potential for future emerging products and technologies to drive innovation and inclusion in business.
Artificial Intelligence Experiences of Pre-Service Preschool Teachers
Authors: Bölükbaş Feyza Aydin , Budak Kadriye Selin , Polat Emine Bozkurt , Engin Kübra , Ulutaş İlkay
Published: October 2024

This section covers artificial intelligence integration in education, artificial intelligence literacy, artificial intelligence in early childhood, and the role of teachers in utilising artificial intelligence, as discussed in the literature. Within this framework, the use of artificial intelligence tools by pre-service teachers has been analyzed based on interviews. Advice on how to effectively utilize artificial intelligence and how to employ artificial intelligence tools and applications ethically is provided. The experiences of pre-service teachers who use artificial intelligence tools whilst organising educational activities are intended to offer guidance at this juncture.
Enhancing High-Quality Pedagogy in Higher Education With MyGPTs
Authors: Jaskari Minna-Maarit E.
Published: October 2024

This chapter examines the development and implementation of custom MyGPTs within higher education, using a teacher assistant ‘PedaBuddy' as a detailed case study. It explores the guiding principles behind these generative AI tools, focusing on their potential to enhance teaching and learning experiences, while also addressing the challenges they present. The chapter begins with a review of existing literature on generative AI and MyGPTs in academic settings, followed by an in-depth explanation of the configuration process using OpenAI's GPT builder. Through the case study of PedaBuddy, the chapter showcases the practical applications and outcomes of deploying a tailored MyGPT. The discussion concludes by evaluating the strengths, opportunities, and challenges associated with integrating such AI-driven tools in higher education.
Análise dos sintomas vocais em cantores com e sem patologia de voz na presença de ruídos
Authors: Caroli João Vitor Lorite , Vieira Luciana Fracalossi , Semiguen Carolina
Published: October 2024

Os cantores precisam de monitoramento auditivo adequado para uma boa percepção da produção dos parâmetros vocais. Todavia, essa população está exposta a ambientes ruidosos, o que atrapalha, proporcionalmente, o monitoramento da audição e da produção da voz, resultando em alterações e em sintomas vocais. Nesse sentido, este trabalho tem o objetivo de verificar a ocorrência de sintomas vocais em cantores com e sem patologia de voz na presença de ruído, relacionando este com a percepção da qualidade do feedback auditivo e identificando se o tempo e a frequência de exposição são fatores determinantes nas alterações vocais. Para isso, por meio de um estudo epidemiológico transversal, aplicou-se um questionário individual, composto por nove questões, para cantores amadores e profissionais a fim de abordar a saúde vocal e o monitoramento auditivo. Em seguida, foi feita a análise estatística dos dados, de forma descritiva e quanti-qualitativa, por meio do Office Excel versão 13.2. Foram calculadas as medidas descritivas relacionadas a frequências com percentuais e testes qui-quadrado de independência. Observou-se que 70% dos cantores, independentemente da presença de disfonias, apresentaram algum sintoma vocal, sendo rouquidão, voz cansada e pigarro os mais apresentados. Houve a associação entre os sintomas vocais e a frequência de ensaios e apresentações em cantores com e sem disfonia. Constatou-se, ainda, que o ruído atrapalha o monitoramento auditivo, resultando em esforço vocal.
Percepções de professores(as) de ciências em formação acerca do consumo de hormônios e cisnormatividade
Authors: Oliveira Fabiana Batista de , Barbosa Caroline Fernandes , Marin Yonier Alexander Orozco
Published: October 2024

As imposições cisnormativas recaem sobre todas as áreas da vida dos indivíduos, principalmente daqueles que não se identificam com o sexo-gênero atribuído ao nascimento e esperado socialmente. Assim, o uso de hormônios surge como uma ferramenta de (re)afirmação de gênero. Este trabalho buscou analisar e categorizar a concepção dos discentes do 1° período dos cursos de Licenciatura em Biologia, Química e Física da Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins sobre o consumo de hormônios e a cisnormatividade, bem como a importância de se reconhecer outros usos hormonais no processo de reconhecimento e pertencimento social. Com esse intuito, realizou-se uma oficina pedagógica e aplicou-se questionários, antes e após a oficina, para a coleta dos dados. Para a análise e interpretação desses, adaptou-se o método de análise de conteúdo por categorização. A comparação dos dados demonstrou que, ao final, houve maior preocupação em relacionar o conteúdo científico sobre hormônios e entendimentos mais problematizadores sobre gênero e sexualidade.
Educação, comunicação e saberes locais nas práticas interculturais no ensino de ciências
Authors: Paulino Vicente
Published: October 2024

Cada povo tem seu próprio conhecimento sobre aquilo que faz-lhe resistir e afirmar a sua identidade e pertencimento. Através da sua língua e do seu hábito de viver se pode dizer que há formas de capital cultural, capital simbólico e capital do conhecimento dentro de um povo. Nesse sentido, o que pretendemos é abordar de forma descritiva a relação entre a linguagem, a educação e a comunicação no entendimento da lógica do saber local. Procuramos usar a linguagem como meio para facilitar a nossa compreensão sobre o que está no jogo da compreensão, quando se fala na valorização dos saberes do povo na construção da ciência, que estamos pensando em explorar. Além disso, procuramos trazer os saberes da ancestralidade dos povos originários para a cultura educativa das escolas, como uma forma de considerar sistematicamente a valorização da produção do conhecimento local/tradicional em diferentes perspetivas que podem dialogar com outras histórias além da verdade imposta a nós ao sul global sobre o mundo no qual vivemos.
Aspectos de visualização de ambientes natural e social para os processos de desenho livre na Educação Matemática de crianças em Timor-Leste
Authors: Varela Gaspar , Ximenes Micaela da Costa , Leite Dulce Campos
Published: October 2024

Este artigo tem por objetivo identificar as potencialidades de aspectos de visualização para os processos de desenho livre no desenvolvimento de habilidades cognitivas de crianças da educação pré-escolar da comunidade de Canossa em Timor-Leste. As discussões foram baseadas nas concepções de Castro e Rodrigues (2008) sobre sentido de número; de Raquel Reis (2003) sobre educação pela arte e de Vygotsky (1998) sobre pensamento e linguagem. Uma turma de trinta e seis crianças, foram selecionadas intencionalmente oito delas para serem sujeitos desta pesquisa. Ao observar os arredores da escola, as crianças expressaram as suas percepções acerca do ambiente circundante à sua escola por meio do desenho livre. Os processos de observação realizados pelas crianças no ambiente natural e social tiveram como instrumento pedagógico o desenho livre, despertaram a curiosidade, o interesse e a motivação das crianças da educação pré-escolar a desenvolver as suas habilidades básicas de conhecer, identificar, pintar, memorizar, contar, e distinguir as diferenças e semelhanças. Estas habilidades são essenciais para o desenvolvimento do raciocínio abstrato, preparando as crianças para o ingresso no primeiro ano do Ensino Básico.
Reconstruction of hand surgical wounds after correction of pseudo-syndactyly or squamous cell carcinoma resection in patients affected from epidermolysis bullosa: a monocentric experience with a collagen-elastin dermal matrix dermal substitute
Authors: Bernante Giulia , Portoghese Alessandro , Lando Mario , Ferrari Barbara , Reggiani Camilla , Femino Raimondo , Fiorentini Chiara , Magnoni Cristina
Published: October 2024

In patients with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), surgery may be required to remove Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) of the hands or to correct pseudo-syndactyly. Dermal substitutes may represent a suitable tool to promote the healing of surgical wounds in EB. We review our experience with a collagen-elastin dermal matrix to promote surgical wound healing due to hand surgery to correct pseudo-syndactyly or SCC resection in patients affected by EB. Overall, 12 patients (mean age, 29±11 years, range 13-51; four females) with EB were considered, with a total of 25 different interventions (16 SCC removals; three amputations for recurrent infiltrating SCC; six pseudo-syndactyly corrections). All patients received a collagen-elastin dermal matrix sheet. Neodermis was achieved in all patients, and no adverse events potentially associated with the graft occurred. No SCC recurrence was reported at sites operated for either SCC resection or amputation. The opening of the first or second commissure appears to be maintained for over 1 year after the procedure, preserving digital function. We believe that the application of a dermal substitute, together with a close dressing protocol, may represent a suitable strategy for obtaining physiological tissue regeneration and maintaining proper hand function in patients with EB.
Flexible bronchoscopy-assisted removal of aspirated scarf pins from the tracheobronchial tree: the experience of 146 subjects
Authors: Hussein Sabah Ahmed , Gonuguntla Hari Kishan , Tahura Sarabon , Preeti Belgundi , Krishnan Vishnu G , Gupta Nitesh , Al-Halfawy Ahmed , Herth Felix J
Published: October 2024

Aspiration of scarf pins is a common problem in specific geographical locations where the Muslim population is high, especially in countries like Egypt, Bangladesh, Middle Eastern countries, and certain regions in India. This condition is also referred to as hijab-pin syndrome. We discuss the largest experience of flexible bronchoscopic extraction of aspirated scarf pins from the tracheobronchial tree. A multicenter retrospective observational study was conducted on 146 patients from 4 different centers in Egypt, Bangladesh, India, and Germany. Flexible bronchoscopy was successful in the extraction of aspirated scarf pins in all 146/146 patients with a 100% success rate. 136/146 (93.15%) patients were females, with the most common age group between 12 and 18 years (34.24%). 132/146 (90.4%) remembered the aspiration event before coming to the hospital. Cough was the predominant presenting symptom. (71.22%). In all 146 cases, the foreign body was identified on a standard chest X-ray. The left main bronchus was the most common site of aspiration, 67/146 (45.89%), followed by the right main bronchus, 56/146 (38.35%). 14 patients (9.58%) had a history of unsuccessful attempts to remove by rigid bronchoscopy, and flexible bronchoscopy was successful in these 14 (100%) patients who had a prior unsuccessful attempt to remove. The current series is the largest in literature and demonstrated an excellent success rate in the removal of the aspirated scarf pin.
Sudden improvement of alopecia universalis and psoriatic arthritis while receiving upadacitinib: a case-based review
Authors: Perricone C. , Dal Pozzolo R. , Cafaro G. , Calvacchi S. , Bruno L. , Tromby F. , Colangelo A. , Gerli R. , Bartoloni E.
Published: October 2024

Alopecia universalis (AU), an advanced form of alopecia areata (AA), is a condition characterized by the complete loss of hair over the entire skin surface. Recent progress has significantly enhanced our understanding of the pathogenesis of AU. In particular, interferon-γ (IFN-γ) and interleukin (IL)-15 seem to play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of the disease. Nonetheless, a variety of medications has been used to treat the disease with frequently inconsistent results. Given the broad modulation of the immune system and inhibition of key molecules, including IFN-γ and IL-15, oral janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors represent a treatment option for moderate to severe cases of AA, as demonstrated in case reports supporting their efficacy and tolerability. We present the case of a patient suffering from psoriatic arthritis and AU who experienced a sudden improvement in peripheral arthritis and AU while receiving JAK1 selective treatment with upadacitinib. So far, there are very limited case reports of successful upadacitinib treatment for patients with AA, mostly in patients also suffering from atopic dermatitis. Thus, we provide evidence for the efficacy of upadacitinib in managing AU in adults, also in the context of an inflammatory arthritis such as psoriatic arthritis.
Pathobiology of HIV-related metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities: Towards a unifying mechanism
Authors: Jadali Zohreh
Published: October 2024

No abstract available.
Integral filling volume, complexity, and integral simplicial volume of $3$-dimensional mapping tori
Authors: Bertolotti Federica , Frigerio Roberto
Published: October 2024

We show that the integral filling volume of a Dehn twist

f

on a closed oriented surface vanishes, i.e., that the integral simplicial volume of the mapping torus with monodromy

f^{n}

grows sublinearly with respect to

n

. We deduce a complete characterization of mapping classes on surfaces with vanishing integral filling volume and, building on results by Purcell and Lackenby on the complexity of mapping tori, we show that, in dimension three, complexity and integral simplicial volume are not Lipschitz equivalent.
Simple zeros of $\operatorname{GL}(2)$ $L$-functions
Authors: de Faveri Alexandre
Published: October 2024

Let

f \in S_{k}(\Gamma_{1}(N))

be a primitive holomorphic form of arbitrary weight

k

and level 

N

. We show that the completed

L

-function of

f

has

\Omega(T^{\delta})

simple zeros with imaginary part in

[-T, T]

, for any

\delta <{2/27}

. This is the first power bound in this problem for

f

of non-trivial level, where previously the best results were

\Omega(\log\log\log{T})

for

N

odd, due to Booker, Milinovich, and Ng, and infinitely many simple zeros for

N

even, due to Booker. In addition, for

f

of trivial level (

N=1

), we also improve an old result of Conrey and Ghosh on the number of simple zeros.
Carta Editorial
Authors: Marquez María Tibisay
Published: October 2024

La Revista Economía, Gestión y Territorio es una iniciativa presentada por la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas de la Universidad Austral de Chile, impulsada en la gestión del Decano Dr. Egon Montecinos, tiene el objetivo de crear un espacio de difusión, análisis y divulgación de temas de relevancia en diferentes áreas disciplinarias de las ciencias sociales. La primera edición del volumen 1, Número 1 (2024), representa un hito significativo al ser la publicación inaugural, en la cual …
Propuesta metodológica para evaluar la implementación de programas sociales: Plan de Choque Empleo Joven 2019-2021. Una aproximación sobre su proceso de evaluación
Authors: Martínez-Díaz Rosalinda
Published: October 2024

En el presente estudio elabora una propuesta metodológica para evaluar la implementación de programas sociales, para ello, se aplica la metodología de evaluación utilizada por Trinidad y Pérez (1998), Trinidad (2010) y Trinidad (2020) para analizar el diseño del Plan de Choque de Empleo Joven 2019 - 2021, debido a que permite conocer su estructura, ventajas, pertinencia y posibles mejoras que deben considerarse. Para la presente, se utilizó el método de investigación cualitativo, con las técnicas y recolección de información realizando una revisión documental del Plan de empleo joven, y el planteamiento teórico - metodológico de los expertos mencionados en materia de evaluación. Con dicho estudio, fueron detectadas debilidades en la metodología, al no considerar un escenario de pandemia como el Covid19 y sus efectos a nivel europeo, dado que España como miembro de la Unión Europea tendría que aplicar nuevas políticas en esta materia, por lo que se hace imprescindible considerar nuevos criterios en la propuesta metodológica de evaluación.
Almost sure results for generalized normal distribution
Authors: Wen Luliang , Zhuang Ziyang
Published: October 2024

В работе получена сходимость почти наверное, характеризующая флуктуации к бесконечности или некоторой фиксированной точке, для обобщенных нормально распределенных величин.
Limiting behaviours for weighted sums of $m$-WOD random variables under integrability assumptions
Authors: Wu Yi , Xi Mengmei , Wang Xuejun J
Published: October 2024

В работе устанавливается $L_r$-сходимость взвешенных сумм $R$-$h$-интегрируемых $m$-WOD случайных величин, а также полная сходимость, полная моментная сходимость и полная $f$-моментная сходимость $SR$-$h$-интегрируемых случайных величин, что улучшает и обобщает некоторые уже известные результаты. Как применение показана слабая состоятельность вейвлет оценок в непараметрических регрессионных моделях при весьма общих условиях.
О коротких разложениях Чебышeва-Эджворта для взвешенных сумм случайных векторов
Authors: Ayvazyan Sagak Aramovich
Published: October 2024

Рассмотрено "типичное" асимптотическое поведение взвешенных сумм независимых одинаково распределенных случайных векторов в $k$-мерном пространстве. Показано, что при условии конечности пятого абсолютного момента отдельного слагаемого скорость сходимости с использованием поправки Чебышeва-Эджворта в многомерной центральной предельной теореме имеет порядок $O(1/n^{3/2})$. Это обобщает результат С. Г. Бобкова (2020 г.) на многомерный случай.
Спектральные методы и их применения в анализе ветвящихся случайных блужданий
Authors: Yarovaya Elena Borisovna
Published: October 2024

Спектральные методы находят широкое применение в стохастическом анализе. Мы устанавливаем связь между ветвящимися случайными блужданиями со знакопеременными источниками различных интенсивностей и структурой спектра эволюционного оператора средних численностей частиц в точках решетки. В связи с этим решается задача о количестве собственных значений конечномерного самосопряженного возмущения $A+B$ самосопряженного оператора $A$ в вещественном гильбертовом пространстве. Показано, что число собственных значений оператора $A+B$, превышающих верхнюю границу спектра оператора $A$, не превосходит числа положительных собственных значений оператора $B$, а число собственных значений оператора $A+B$, меньших нижней границы спектра оператора $A$, не превосходит числа отрицательных собственных значений оператора $B$.
Мартингальные методы в задаче о существовании выживающих стратегий
Authors: Zhitlukhin Mikhail Valentinovich , Tokaeva Aleksandra Aleksandrovna
Published: October 2024

Рассматривается модель финансового рынка с эндогенными ценами. Стратегия агента называется выживающей, если ее доля капитала в совокупном рыночном капитале отделена от нуля на бесконечном интервале времени независимо от стратегий, используемых другими агентами. В работе получены необходимые и достаточные условия выживаемости стратегий, которые обобщают ранее известные результаты, касающиеся конструкции таких стратегий или только необходимых условий выживания. Доказательства основаны на применении теорем о множествах сходимости мартингалов и субмартингалов.
Равномерная интегрируемость неотрицательных супермартингалов через замену времени в геометрическом броуновском движении
Authors: Gushchin Alexander Alexandrovich
Published: October 2024

Мы предлагаем новый подход к выводу достаточных условий для равномерной интегрируемости неотрицательных супермартингалов или, что эквивалентно, к выводу условий для абсолютной непрерывности вероятностных мер. Подход основан на представлении неотрицательных супермартингалов, предложенным М. А. Урусовым и автором, в виде замены времени в геометрическом броуновском движении. Мы доказываем критерий равномерной интегрируемости через замену времени, а также даем новое доказательство достаточности условия Новикова. Оказывается, что элементарное альтернативное доказательство этого факта сводится к его частному случаю для остановленного геометрического броуновского движения.
OROGRAPHY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FORMATION OF THE DESERTIFIED CORE IN INHAMUNS
Authors: Aderaldo Pedro Ítalo Carvalho , Amorim Raul Reis , Nery Jonas Teixeira
Published: October 2024

Analyzing the nucleus of desertification called Inhamuns, located in the state of Ceará - Brazil, it is observed that the relief represented by its orography, behaves as one of the influencing factors of such process. In this article, we seek to understand the role of the relief conditioning the desertification process, based on the analyzis between relief, climate and anthropic influence. For this, a detailed mapping of relief compartmentalization was carried out, the orography was related to the spatialization of centenary rainfall data and to the aridity index represented by 32 years of data, and the degradation levels were verified, between 1991 and 2017, in the main portions of interest. With the results it is verified that, the climate, when interacting with the relief, configures different characteristics on the windward and leeward sides, seen identifications of lower total rainfall and greater aridity in the desertified portion to leeward; anthropic action is present in areas inside and outside the desertification core, with growth in line shapes throughout the study area, given the priority use and occupation, in sectors close to water bodies and river plains; the relief compartments represented by sertaneja depressions 01 and 02 and residual massifs, showed an increase in environmental degradation; the primary factor in which there are fluctuations in your data, between desertified and non-desertified areas, given the presence of relief, it's the climatic. In view of this, it is understandable that, the configuration of the deserted core of Inhamuns, is the result of anthropic action on the effect of the semi-arid climate, downwind of a relief, over the years. Keywords: DDesertification; Orography; Climate.
URBAN GRADIENT
Authors: Barbieri Alisson Flávio , Campos Marden Barbosa de , Macedo Diego Rodrigues , Carvalho Rodrigo Coelho de , Santos Reinaldo Onofre dos
Published: October 2024

As in many other countries, official measures of urbanization in Brazil have been unable to properly distinguish spatial patterns of rural and urban organization. The literature discusses various classification systems and recognizes the existence of a “rural-urban continuum”, as well as theoretical frameworks and alternative categorizations that aim to look beyond the urban-rural dichotomy. However, there are no practical solutions to properly formalize or operationalize them, especially at the micro-level such as census tracts. We propose a methodology that assumes a measurable rural-urban continuum. The “Urban Gradient Index” uses simple and comprehensive variables to quantify the degree to which a certain area is urban based on demographic and spatial features. We build it at the level of census tracts for both Brazil and the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region to verify consistency at distinct aggregation levels. Results indicate that the index provides a much more nuanced picture of settlement patterns, unveiling a spatial gradient between rural and urban in distinct spatial extents. It offers an advantage over the traditional measure “degree of urbanization” by revealing “hidden ruralities” in predominantly urban areas that require specific territorial planning and public policy interventions. Keywords: Urban Gradient, Rural-Urban Continuum, Territorial Planning, Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, Brazil.
VEGETABLE COVERAGE, ANTHROPOGENIC ACTION, AND PALEOCLIMATES IN THE CAATINGA
Authors: Souza José João Lelis Leal , Medeiros Vanda Brito de , Oliveira Paulo Eduardo de , Souza Bartolomeu Israel de , Barreto Alcina Magnólia Franca , Oliveira Édison Vicente de , Pessenda Luiz Carlos Ruiz
Published: October 2024

The Caatinga is dominated by a semiarid climate and a high plant biodiversity dealing with anthropogenic disturbance and climate change. Previous studies suggest that Caatinga became a completely soil‐water pulse-dominated forest in response to reduced water availability at the end of the last ice age, around 10 cal kyr BP. This work aimed to identify vegetative and climatic evolution, and the human influence in the Cariri region, one of the driest parts of Brazil. We sampled soil in a temporal pond to identify pollen. The testimony is 170 cm in lenght and achieves 6,216 cal yr BP at the base. Pollen analysis indicates the presence of taxa representative of humid climates, between 6,216 and ca. 5000 cal yr BP, like Azolla, followed by implantation of Caatinga's modern configuration from ca. 4,900 cal yrs BP. After 2,700 cal yr BP, humid episodes occurred, possibly related to the El Niño - La Niña variation across the region, marked by increased algae and aquatic herbs concentrations. The occurrence of human activity species like Caryocar, Dioscorea, Spondias, and Licania suggest possibly landscape manipulation by pre – Columbian populations, and exotic Pinus and Prosopis reveal changes in the tree cover caused by European colonization in the Caatinga. Keywords: Anthropocene; Dry Forest; Paleogeography; Semiarid Region; Sedimentology, Lakes, Lagoons & Swamps.
GEOTECHNOLOGIES APPLIED TO THE BEHAVIORAL STUDY OF URBAN HEAT ISLANDS
Authors: Costa Gizely Azevedo , Santos Alexandre Rosa dos , Pirovani Daiani Bernardo , Dias Henrique Machado , Carvalho Rita de Cássia Freire , Carvalho José Romário de , Souza Kaíse Barbosa de , Moreira Taís Rizzo , Silva Rosane Gomes da , Senhorelo Adriano Pósse , Kunz Sustanis Horn
Published: October 2024

Many cities are impacted by the effect of heat islands. In this context, the aim of this study was to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of urban heat islands and the influence of green areas on the formation of urban microclimates in the city of Rio de Janeiro. As a result, it was observed that Rio de Janeiro city is under heat islands influence, in which the oldest and most urbanized areas of the city are the most affected by high temperatures. It was possible to verify the role of vegetation in the formation of urban microclimates through the negative correlation coefficient between surface temperature (Ts) and vegetation indexes (NDVI and EVI), along with the positive correlation coefficient between surface temperature (Ts) and the Index of Areas Built by Normalized Difference (NDBI), what demonstrates the influence of urbanization on the increase of temperature. Keywords: Heat Island, city, Rio de Janeiro