bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Peer support provider and recipients’ perspectives on compassion in virtual peer support stroke programs: “You can’t really be supportive without compassion”
Authors: Singh Hardeep , Nelson Michelle L. A. , Premnazeer Meera , Haghayegh Arta Taghavi , Munce Sarah , Sperling Christina , Steele Gray Carolyn 
Published: October 2024

Background
Peer support programs demonstrate numerous benefits, including emotional, instrumental, informational, and affirmational social support. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many peer support stroke programs in Canada have been delivered virtually. Compassion must be consistently applied to build meaningful interactions, but the shift to virtual services may have changed the quality of interaction and compassion in virtual services. While compassion is recommended in health and social services to improve outcomes, satisfaction, and service quality, compassion in virtual peer support stroke programs remains understudied. We aimed to describe compassionate support in virtual peer support stroke programs from peer support providers’ and recipients’ perspectives.

Methods
This qualitative descriptive study was guided by Sinclair & colleagues’ model of compassion. Peer support recipients or peer support providers participated in interviews transcribed and analyzed using a hybrid thematic analysis.

Results
Sixteen were peer support recipients, six were peer support providers, and two were both peer support providers and recipients. Participants agreed that compassion was essential in these programs. Participants perceived compassion to be a result of the virtues of compassionate facilitators (i.e., genuineness, passion, and empathy), relational space, and communication within the virtual peer support stroke program (e.g., sense of awareness or intuition of compassion, aspects of engaged peer support provision), virtuous response (e.g., knowing the person and actions that made the peer support recipient feel like a priority). Compassion was facilitated by listening and understanding peer support recipients’ needs as they relate to stroke (i.e., seeking to understand peer support recipients and their needs), attending to peer support recipients’ needs (e.g., timely actions to address their needs), and achieving compassion-related program outcomes (e.g., alleviating challenges and enhancing wellbeing). The absence of these components (e.g., lacking genuineness, passion and empathy) was a barrier to compassion in virtual peer support stroke programs.

Conclusions
Study findings describe facilitators and barriers to perceived compassion in virtual peer support stroke programs and provide practical recommendations that can be adapted into programs to improve program quality.
Engaging Africa and the World
Authors: Asiedu-Acquah Emmanuel 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
This article examines student internationalism and politics in Ghana in the late 1960s and 1970s. Ghanaian students expressed their internationalism in that period through a drive for a continental pan-Africanist student movement, a leftward turn among influential student activists, which reinforced their internationalist outlook, and a renewal and deepening of relations with global student organizations and transnational networks. The internationalism and national politics of Ghanaian students were mutually reinforcing. The pan-African and global imaginary that characterized student politics encouraged engagement with Africa and the wider world as necessary to student politics and activism at home. This made student politics more than episodic activism. The internationalist strands that shaped student politics in late 1960s and 1970s Ghana have been little explored in the literature. This article thus contributes to scholarship that explores Ghanaian and African student internationalism and the global contexts and connections of African student politics during and after decolonization.
Militarization and Gender-Based Violence in French Colonial and Contemporary Sahelian Africa
Authors: Zimmerman Sarah J. 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Chadian soldiers serving in the G5 Sahel Force were accused of rape in Tera, Niger, in 2021. These violent incidents echo gender-based crimes committed by West African colonial soldiers, or tirailleurs sénégalais, serving in military expeditions in Niger during the late 1890s. Militarization is a key component of colonial and postcolonial governance in the Sahel. France's militarization of the Sahel at the turn of the twentieth century created a model for traditions of militarization that normalized legal exception for foreign military employees stationed there. As empires gave way to independent states, international organizations deploying foreign military forces in African conflict and postconflict zones have used bilateral treaties to exempt their personnel from local legal jurisdictions. These protections encompass crimes committed by soldiers against civilians/noncombatants, including gender-based sexual violence. France and foreign African soldiers are not a constant in Sahelian histories of militarization and gendered-based violence, but they appear and reappear with enough frequency to merit investigation.
Soviet Military Assistance to Mali and Guinea, 1958–1980
Authors: Turtio Riina 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
What impact did the Cold War have on building the national armies in Africa? Previous research has focused on Cold War conflict zones, but foreign military assistance had a profound impact on the armies and political systems in countries that did not experience a prolonged conflict. This article focuses on the impact of Cold War competition in Guinea and Mali. The USSR was the main weapons supplier to both countries during the Cold War, which gave it considerable political influence. Based on archival research, memoirs, and online databases, this article shows a similarity in the army's pervasive role in society, arrests and executions of key soldiers and officials, harsh economic conditions, and mass migration to neighboring countries. Similar are also the silences around Malian and Guinean military history. There is, however, a clear need for further study on the political, economic, and military impact of Soviet military assistance.
The application of curriculum analytics for improving assessments and quality assurance in higher education
Authors: Barthakur Abhinava , Kovanović Vitomir , Dawson Shane , Deneen Christopher C. 
Published: October 2024

Curriculum mapping is a necessary process for establishing evidence of where learning outcomes are taught and assessed in higher education programmes. Mapping ensures the credibility of the institution and programme offerings and provides students with a clear understanding of what they can expect to learn and achieve during their academic studies. Well-mapped curricula that reference relevant standards and articulate aligned assessments are foundational for effective teaching and learning. Curriculum quality assurance measures are commonly accepted as a means of assuring accurate mapping. Assurance processes are, however, resource-intensive, error-prone and reflect human biases. Few studies have adopted an analytical approach to ensure programme quality assurance steps are traceable to a fundamental level of these maps: single courses and their assessment items. In this study, we adopted a novel curriculum analytics methodology to validate the mapping of professional standards to course-based assessments in a higher education degree program. Using an Australian initial teacher education programme as a case study, we applied and analysed results from a structured methodology that may be implemented across other disciplinary programs. Practical implications for quality assurance in higher education and the methodological contributions of this novel approach are further discussed.

Implications for practice or policy:

Quality assurance mechanisms in higher education serve to demonstrate that specific accreditation standards have been attained or maintained.
An evidence-based approach is needed to ensure curriculum mapping and quality assurance.
This study's novel curriculum analytics approach provides a robust foundation for demonstrating assessments’ compliance with accreditation standards at the degree program level.
A data-driven approach for quality assurance presents opportunities for wider and scalable applications across other institutions.
The Aging and Robotization: The Duality Between Generations and Robot Adoption
Authors: Aydin Asli 
Published: October 2024

This paper examines the bilateral relationship between the robot adoption and the age characteristics of the employment. The study analyzes the reciprocal effects of robotization on different generations and presents the analysis of the effects of age groups on the robotization of countries. Based on an instrumentalization of the System GMM estimation method of a dynamic panel dataset of 28 selected countries over 2004 and 2016, the results show that the number of young workers is affected negatively from robotization, whereas there is a positive impact of robot adoption on old workers. Evidence further suggests that robotization is triggered by the density of young workers in the workforce of the country.
The position of Lithuanian parties towards Poland in 1920-1926: from modus vivendi to permanent confrontation
Authors: Grodis Andrius 
Published: October 2024

In the end of the First World War, Lithuanian (having just regained independence) international position was badly complicated by a terror conflict with Poland with respect to Vilnius that took place in 1919. However, despite the hostility to Poland entrenched in society, the leaders of political parties who envisioned the greatest danger to the state's independence from Soviet Russia and Germany actively sought pacific means of resuming the historical capital of the state and for ways of friendly affiliation of interstate relations.
Modus vivendi appropriate for Poland and Lithuania was sought with the mediation of the League of Nations and great Western states in 1921 by the leaders of governing Christian Democrats and Union of Peasants parties. They were in favour of the second variant of Hymans' project but only agreed to accept it on condition that the League of Nations would take into account the contra-suggestions of the Lithuanian Government which reduced Poland's influence in domestic life. Having approved the project, there were hopes not only to regain the capital, to start economic relations useful for both countries, but also to receive support from great Western states, which was vital for Lithuania as for other Baltic states in seeking protection from the eventual threat of Soviet Russia and Germany.
The propagandistic campaign by the Lithuanian National Union and Social Democrats, which caused general tension in the country, as well as society's and the military's discontent with the Government and the governing political parties' inability to resist the pressure, reflected a lack of civic consciousness and inner political consolidation in the state taking its first steps in democracy.
The political parties' goal to use the problem of the relationship with Poland in their fight and in such a way obtain as great support from society as possible, further reduced the possibilities to solve the interstate conflict. As the Copenhagen negotiations in the autumn of 1925 illustrated, the Christian Democrats' attempt to reduce the tension between the two small countries by starting economic relations of a narrow nature was met with strong hostility by the opposing Union of Peasants and National Union Parties, as well as by the majority of society supporting them. However, the attitude of the Christian Democrats that it was possible to launch economic relationships with Poland, and the Social Democrats' belief that it was even crucial to do so, which were regarded as a first step in resuming Vilnius, in fact reflected that the leaders of the parties had enough rational reasoning as well as a mature attitude to international relations.
Unsuccessful attempts to regulate the conflict with Poland in a pacific way and to regain the historical capital made the leaders of the state's political parties choose a state of permanent confrontation with Poland and seek support to ensure the safe existence of the state from the Soviet Union and Germany.
POLITICS AMONG SPORTS: FC BARCELONA AS THE SHAPERS OF CATALAN IDENTITY
Authors: Habibilla Akbar Fasya , Imtiyaz Zahra Nasywa 
Published: October 2024

The article explores how FC Barcelona has played a significant role in shaping Catalan identity on a global scale. Through the lens of the Transnational Advocacy Network framework, the research delves into the club's international influence and its impact on catalyzing awareness and recognition of Catalonia as a distinct cultural and political entity. The study investigates how FC Barcelona's global fan base, iconic players, and strategic branding efforts have contributed to projecting Catalonia's identity beyond Spain's borders. By examining the club's role as a transnational advocate for Catalan culture and aspirations, the article sheds light on the intricate interplay between football, identity, and transnational networks in shaping the perceptions of Catalonia in the global arena. Keywords: FC Barcelona, Catalan, Transnational Advocacy Networks, Politics of Identity
Google Trends and Indonesia Presidential Elections 2024: Predictor of Popularity Candidate in Digital Age
Authors: Abdullah Assyari , Yazid Yasril , Jayus Jayus , Sumaiyah Sumaiyah , Khairi Akmal , Edison Edison , Astuti Dwi Sutri 
Published: October 2024

Google Trends is an alternative and effective tool for predicting candidate popularity and election results with a simple method. This research aims to analyze and compare the popularity of Indonesia's 2024 presidential candidates using Google Trends. This research uses Google Trends as a tool. Data is taken from December 2022-December 2023 with the keywords 'Anies Baswedan', 'Ganjar Pranowo', and 'Prabowo Subianto. Crowed data is visualized using facilities provided by Google Trends, Canva and Flourish Studio's Data Visualization Software with three focus analyses: Interest over time, Interest by Region, and Related queries. The findings of this research show that the trend of searching for information about Indonesia's 2024 presidential candidates has been crowded since October 2022 and increased significantly until December 2023. The popularity of Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo on Google Trends was the same when each candidate made a declaration. Anies gained full popularity with 100 achievements, as well as Ganjar Pranowo gained full popularity when declared by Megawati Soekarno Putri with 100 achievements. However, the facts were very much different on the day when the Gerinda Party declared Prabowo Subianto. Prabowo's popularity when measured by Google Trends is only perched at position 30 while other candidates are above Prabowo, namely Ganjar 100 and Anies 78. Prabowo's popularity rose on August 13, 2022, which managed to get 100, Anies rose to 79 and Ganjar dropped to 57 even though it was only one day apart. These three candidates have different voter bases in the 2024 presidential election. Anies Baswedan's searchers on Google Trends are spread almost throughout the province. While Ganjar Pranowo excelled in Central Java, while West Papua, Maluku and Sulawesi many wanted to know Prabowo Subianto's information.
A World Shaped by Computer Technologies: For a Hermeneutic Analysis of Computer Protocols
Authors: Ferretti Giulia 
Published: October 2024

How is the world changing as a result of our interactions with the material core of digital devices? What theoretical tools does our humanistic culture offer us to understand the impact of technologies on our world?
Referring to the methodological fields of new materialism and critical code studies, the paper presents the conditions for developing a hermeneutic analysis of computer protocols. This reflection will then be applied to the study of TCP/IP, the protocol suite implemented by the internet and one of the theoretical and functional systems that guarantees the extensive spread of digital technology in today's world. Its computational, material, and cultural components highlight the substantial interdependence between human thinking and digital systems.

Comment le monde change-t-il en raison de nos interactions avec le noyau matériel des appareils numériques ? Quels outils théoriques notre culture humaniste nous offre-t-elle pour comprendre l'impact des technologies sur notre monde ?
En se référant aux champs méthodologiques du nouveau matérialisme et des études critiques du code, cet article présente les conditions nécessaires à l’élaboration d’une analyse herméneutique des protocoles informatiques. Cette réflexion sera ensuite appliquée à l'étude du TCP/IP, la suite de protocoles mise en œuvre par l'internet et l'un des systèmes théoriques et fonctionnels qui garantit la large diffusion de la technologie numérique dans le monde actuel. Ses composantes computationnelles, matérielles et culturelles mettent en évidence l'interdépendance substantielle entre la pensée humaine et les systèmes numériques.
Activity in occipito-temporal cortex is involved in tool-use planning and contributes to tool-related semantic neural representations
Authors: Thibault Simon , Koun Eric , Salemme Romeo , Roy Alice Catherine , Boulenger Véronique , Brozzoli Claudio 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

Tool use and language are highly refined human abilities which may show neural commonalitiesdue to their potential reciprocal interaction during evolution. Recent work provided evidence for shared neural resources between tool use and syntax. However, whether activity within the tool-use network also contributes to semantic neural representations of tool nouns remains untested. Tothis aim, we identified the tool-use planning network with fMRI while participants used pliers.The very same participants underwent a semantic priming task including two categories, tool nouns and animal nouns, to highlight the respective underlying networks. With multivariateanalyses of the activation neural patterns, we tested whether activity in tool-use brain clusters takespart to the neural representation of tool nouns compared to animal nouns. The results revealed thatword semantic categories were decoded within the left OTC activated by preparing to use a tool, with similar patterns of brain activity for words within the same category. In addition, in the samearea, neural activations for tool nouns were found to be higher than those for animal nouns. Thesefindings suggest that activity in tool-use related brain areas encodes semantic informationseparately for tool nouns and animal nouns, thus supporting the embodiment of tool-noun processing in the tool-use sensorimotor network.
Identification and Characterization of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Peptides from Enzymatic Hydrolysates of Turkish Fermented Sausage (Sucuk)
Authors: YÜCE Figen , GÖKCE Ramazan 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

In this study, in order to examine the effect of fermentation on bioactive peptide (BAP) formation, samples were taken from fermented sucuks produced by the traditional method on days 0, 1, 3, 5 and 10, and peptide extractions were obtained. The extracted samples were enzymatically hydrolyzed using two different enzymes (pepsin and trypsin) and the hydrolysates were injected into HPLC and separated into peptide fractions through a column filled with Sephadex G-25 stationary phase. Lyophilized fractions were subjected to LC-MS/MS analysis to determine peptide profiles. According to LC-MS/MS mass spectrometry data of peptide fractions obtained from sucuk samples during the 10-day fermentation, a total of 10 different peptides were detected, including 6 different dipeptides (KD, LK, EL, KP, HL, IR) and 3 different tripeptides (GPP, GAA, RHA) with antioxidant activity and 1 tetrapeptide (CIRA) with antimicrobial activity. Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of peptide fractions obtained from fermented sucuk samples subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis were investigated under laboratory conditions. Antioxidant activity determinations of peptide fractions were measured by the DPPH radical scavenging capacity method and it was determined that there was no statistical difference between the antioxidant activities of the fractions obtained on the 0th and 10th days of fermentation. It was determined that the fractions did not have sufficient antimicrobial effects against on Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) and Listeria monocytogenes (ATCC 7644) bacteria, were moderately active on Salmonella typhimurium (ATCC 14028), and day 0 fractions were moderately active against Lactobacillus pentosus (ATCC 8041), also day 1, 3, 5 and 10 fractions were active.
Analyzing Adaptation Mechanisms in Artificial Transplantation of Galaxea fascicularis
Authors: Zhao He , Wang Hongmin , Ke Jingzhao , Zhang Junling , Li Yushan , Liu Xiangbo , Zhu Wentao , Wang Aimin , Li Xiubao 
Published: October 2024

Abstract

Coral reefs are among Earth's most biologically diverse and ecologically crucial ecosystems but face severe threats from climate change and human activities. Coral transplantation has become a key strategy for reef restoration. This study focused on transplanting Galaxea fascicularis at northern Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan, assessing physiological characteristics and metabolomic differences between transplanted and parent corals at 1, 6, and 12 months post-transplantation. Findings revealed that transplanted coral survival rates declined rapidly during the first 6 months but then stabilized. An algal bloom in May 2023 increased turbidity, dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), and partial pressure of pCO2, negatively impacting coral photosynthesis and calcification and increasing physiological stress. From months 6 to 12, environmental conditions improved, with temperature and salinity aligning closely with natural conditions, dissolved oxygen levels recovering, turbidity decreasing significantly, and Ωarag reaching moderate levels, facilitating stable coral growth and calcification. By 12 months, transplanted corals reached sexual maturity, with notable increases in protein and lipid content. Metabolomic analysis showed that during the short-term (1 month) and mid-term (6 months) post-transplantation periods, the arachidonic acid metabolic pathway was upregulated while the glycerophosphate metabolic pathway was downregulated, enabling corals to cope with environmental stress and resource redistribution. By 12 months, oxidative phosphorylation was upregulated to meet reproductive energy demands. Results demonstrate that G. fascicularis can adapt well to restoration environments and achieve sexual maturity quickly, making it a suitable candidate for reef restoration.