bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Empirical Analysis of Vat Revenues on the Economic Growth of Albania
Authors: Veliu Matilda , Duro Enton 
Published: September 2024

Objective: The presence of VAT revenues and its management to improve economic growth is crucial, very complex, and challenging. The aim is to see the influence of VAT revenue on economic growth, especially those that come from customs.

Theoretical Framework: In this topic, the researchers are focused on the direct relationship between total VAT revenues and economic growth. According to the statistics of our economy, we choose to investigate the VAT revenues from customs looking to estimate their specific weight on the economic growth.

Methods: In the econometric model, we introduce the VAT revenues from customs as the variable taken with precaution regarding value gain. Other variables based on the perspective of it, like CPI (inflation) and rate of exchange euro/all, are included in the model. Aggregate data presented by the official institutions are used to determine the influence of VAT on the economic growth measured by the GVA variable. This choice eliminates the duplication of the economic growth value by taxes and subsidies on products.

Results and Discussion: The results underline the influence of VAT and CPI on economic growth (p< 0.05). Therefore, the reduction of the inflation rate and the application of an optimal rate of VAT regarding the parameters of the economic situation in the country remains an emergency in recent days.
Occupational Health Management in Federal Institutions: an Analysis of SIASS at UTFPR in 2023
Authors: Imamura Marcos Massaki , Pereira Gabrielly de Queiroz , Pilatti Luiz Alberto 
Published: September 2024

Objective: The present study aims to map the performance of the Integrated Subsystem of Health Care for Federal Public Servants (SIASS) in a large Federal Higher Education Institution, identifying the occupational health practices implemented in 2023 and the main challenges faced in managing these policies.

Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework adopted is historical, addressing the evolution of SIASS since its creation in 2009. SIASS was established to integrate occupational health actions in the federal public service, focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, and comprehensive assistance to employees. It highlighted its role in health management within federal institutions.

Method: A documentary and quantitative approach was used, analyzing data extracted from the 2023 UTFPR Management Report. The analysis focused on the frequencies of benefit approvals and denials, allowing the identification of patterns and challenges in occupational health management.

Results and Discussion: In 2023, SIASS at UTFPR conducted 1,539 medical evaluations, covering 42.45% of employees, with an approval rate of 91.62%. Most evaluations (57.96%) were related to health treatment leaves, followed by leaves for family health reasons (11.76%) and health treatment leaves by an official board (11.70%). The predominance of a reactive approach rather than preventive measures was identified as a critical factor.

Research Implications: The research suggests strengthening prevention strategies and adjusting policies to ensure effective employee health management and aligning resources and expectations.

Originality/Value: This study contributes to the literature by providing a detailed analysis of SIASS’s performance in a large federal institution, highlighting challenges, and proposing recommendations to improve occupational health management in similar contexts.
The Enhancement of COVID-19 Severity on Coagulation Markers: a Cross-sectional Study in West Sumatra, Indonesia
Authors: Febrianti Ika Kurnia , Putra Andani Eka , Raveinal Raveinal , Elliyanti Aisyah 
Published: September 2024

Objective: This study aimed to determine the description of the coagulation marker and how it implicates COVID-19 patients based on clinical outcomes in the form of enhancement severity and death. Method: The subjects were collected from patients with positive COVID-19 RT-PCR with medical records including demographic data, and laboratory results such as hemoglobin, hematocrit, leukocytes, platelets, coagulation markers (D-dimer, PT, and APTT), and patients outcomes post-treatment. Statistical analysis is performed by using chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests were considered statistically difference level of significant between variables. Result: The COVID-19 patients is classified into mild group with 27 subjects (44.2%) and moderate-severe group 34 subjects (55.8%). Leukocytes, D-dimer, and PT levels significantly differed between mild and moderate-severe groups. All coagulation markers had a symptomatic effect on Covid-19 patients, increased D-dimer and prolonged prothrombin time in adult COVID-19 patients tend to be followed by the enhancement of severe symptoms and death
Prevalence and Predictors of Sarcopenia, Protein-Energy Wasting, and Sarcopenic Obesity in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Authors: Yogesh M. , Nagda Jay , Kankhara Freya , Parmar Parth Anilbhai , Mody Mansi , Vyas Samyak Sanjaykumar , Patel Jainish Samirkumar 
Published: September 2024

Background
Sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity, and protein-energy wasting (PEW) are common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and are associated with adverse outcomes. This study is aimed at determining their prevalence and predictors.

Materials and Methods
This cross-sectional study included 442 adult CKD patients. Sarcopenia was defined using a modified Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia criteria, sarcopenic obesity as the coexistence of sarcopenia and obesity, and PEW according to the International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism criteria.

Results
Sarcopenia prevalence was 29.9% (132 patients), with 9.5% being severe, 12.7% moderate, and 7.7% mild. Sarcopenic obesity affected 13.3% (59 patients) and PEW was noted in 27.3% (121 patients). Among sarcopenic patients, 59% met PEW criteria. Multivariate analysis identified increasing age, male sex, higher body mass index BMI, lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and cardiovascular disease as independent predictors of sarcopenia. Higher BMI, lower eGFR, and cardiovascular disease predicted sarcopenic obesity. For PEW, significant predictors included age, lower BMI, decreased eGFR, advanced CKD stage, cardiovascular disease, and sarcopenia.

Conclusion
Sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity, and PEW are highly prevalent in CKD patients, with substantial overlap. Advanced age, lower kidney function, and cardiovascular disease are significant predictors across all three conditions. These findings highlight the need for comprehensive nutritional assessment and targeted interventions in CKD patients.
Patterns of incidence and characteristics of youth with new-onset diabetes mellitus during the COVID era
Authors: Montgomery Emily L. , Jawad Kahir , Wintergerst Kupper , Watson Sara 
Published: September 2024

Objectives:
The incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in children, adolescents, and young adults has been on the rise for many decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with a dramatic increase in new cases of pediatric DM and a shift in the seasonal pattern of incidence. We aimed to determine the incidence of DM and its subtypes during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2022) and pre-pandemic (2017–2019). We sought to assess for a difference in seasonality and temporal pattern of new-onset DM between the two periods and aimed to describe and compare the clinical characteristics of the patients diagnosed during this time.

Material and Methods:
In this retrospective chart review, data were collected from medical records for all patients aged 1–21 years diagnosed with DM at our center between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2022.

Results:
The incidence of DM at our center increased 38% during the pandemic (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 1.38, 95% confidence interval; [CI] 1.20–1.58). The incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) increased 11% (IRR 1.11, 95% CI 1.01–1.23) and the median body mass index percentile increased for those diagnosed during the pandemic (P = 0.012). The incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) increased 238% (IRR 3.38, 95% CI 2.17–5.28) during the pandemic, with the highest rate of diagnosis in a younger age group (P = 0.015). The pattern of incidence of T1D shifted from lowest in the summer pre-pandemic to highest in the summer during the pandemic (IRR 1.82, 95% CI 1.22–2.72). The overall incidence trend for DM, T1D, and T2D, peaked in spring 2021 and then declined until it stabilized in summer 2022.

Conclusion:
Our study showed a persistent increase in the incidence of both T1D and T2D in the pediatric population during the pandemic. Those diagnosed with T2D during the pandemic were younger than those diagnosed in the pre-pandemic period. There was a shift in seasonal pattern of T1D incidence during the pandemic with the highest rates of incidence during the summer. Further studies are needed to evaluate the underlying mechanisms of the persistent increase in incidence.
Bibliographic Culture as a Factor of Security of Trusted Public Internet
Authors: Bylevskiy Pavel G. 
Published: September 2024

The article deals with the problem of security of search in modern public computer-network resources of reliable, complete sources, their qualitative bibliographic description. The relevance is due to the “digital transformation”, the rapid spread of computer-network technologies since the 2010s to all sectors, as well as everyday life; a sharp and significant increase in the number and variety of electronic databases (libraries); turning the majority of humanity into daily active users. Objective international and national diseases of growth of standardization, streamlining, structuring of databases, development of indexing systems and search public network services, means of verification of electronic documents have manifested themselves.Since 2014 and even later from 2022, the problem was exacerbated by the reduction of international cooperation in computer-network technologies, anti-Russian sanctions of unfriendly countries, violation of Russian legislation by global digital corporations, leapfrogging strengthening of cybercrime and information confrontation in the Internet. The possibilities of attackers who, by exploiting vulnerabilities, reduced the access of mass users to reliable electronic documents in cross-border Internet communications increased. The opportunities caused by the relativistic understanding of truth, fabrication and broadcasting of falsified information, fake news, disinformation, use of new means of “social engineering” (fraud, manipulation of consciousness) that threaten citizens and national interests of Russia have increased.The novelty of the study lies in the integrated application of theoretical and cultural gnoseology (culture of cognition) and methodology of information security (countering deliberate attempts to mislead). The comparative analysis revealed significant differences between Russian state electronic libraries, document management systems, registers and services and non-state, as well as foreign public Internet resources and services. The result of the study is the conclusion about the importance of the prevalence of essential interests of mass users of Russian public libraries and electronic services. Recommendations on the preferability of applying this experience in the creation and modernization of Russian public non-state digital databases, libraries, services, as well as the development of standardization on its basis are formulated.
Self-Portrait as Self-Presentation in the Works of Female Painters of the Turn of the 19th—20th Centuries
Authors: Savenkova Inna I. 
Published: September 2024

The article examines the creativity of women artists, which experienced an upsurge at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, associated with the removal of restrictions on their education at the Imperial Academy of Arts and the increasing need for self-realization in art. General tendencies are revealed, which do not concern the subject-technical side of the paintings, but allow us to draw generalizing conclusions about the artists’ thinking: self-determination and correlation of themselves with the creative environment, drawing attention to themselves as individuals. An attempt is made to understand the ways in which women were included in the full-fledged learning process as a group with its own socio-cultural characteristics.The aim of the paper is to analyze the creative approach to self-portraiture of the female artists E.A. Kiseleva, E.K. Luksh-Makovskaya, O.L. Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, who started their professional path under one teacher — I.E. Repin. The relevance of the article lies in the attempt to raise the problem of studying women’s creativity in the creation of self-portraits, identifying its artistic specificity, defining the cultural and aesthetic basis.The article focuses on the prerequisites for the formation of the creative method of female artists, based on the combination of individual and imitative. On the basis of consideration of the gallery of works the author develops a typology of female self-portrait: professional self-portrait, self-portrait-emotion, family self-portrait, self-portrait-image. It is traced how in the work of women-artists various artistic influences in Russia and Western Europe of the turn of the 19th—20th centuries, interpreted by them in their own way.
The Peculiarity of Nikolai Kochergin’s Creative Method in Illustrations to Chinese Fairy Tales
Authors: Yin Meng 
Published: September 2024

The article is devoted to the study of the creative heritage of Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochergin (1897—1974) in the field of illustrating Chinese fairy tales. The relevance of the topic is conditioned by the insufficient degree of study of the artist’s heritage in this area with the general interest of practitioners and art theorists in book illustration for children’s literature in the 20th century.The aim of the article is to theoretically comprehend the artistic heritage of N.M. Kochergin on the basis of revealing the originality of the artist’s creative method of illustrating Chinese fairy tales. The following tasks are solved: to trace the creative path of N.M. Kochergin, in particular, his work in the field of illustrating literature of Eastern and Asian countries; to make a list of illustrated editions of Asian fairy tales by the artist; to reveal the influence of traditions of Chinese Gohua art on the artist’s work, specifically to study the compositional solution, the use of diffused perspective, other expressive means; to analyze the methods of stylization of images and symbols of Chinese culture and folklore in illustrations.The presented research allows not only to determine the originality of N.M. Kochergin’s creative method of illustrating Chinese fairy tales, but also to identify the specificity of representation of Chinese culture for Russian readers. This problematic can contribute to the emergence of a holistic view of the synthesis and integration of Chinese art and culture in the Russian and world artistic process. The article studies illustrations by N.M. Kochergin for such editions of Asian fairy tales as “Chinese Folk Tales” (1953), “Ten Little Friends” (1954), “The Yellow Stork and the Mountain of the Sun” (1954), “The Liu Brothers” (1955), “Persistent Yun Su” (1955), “Fairy Tales of the Peoples of Asia” (1959).
Conflits armés et gouvernance des sites naturels du patrimoine mondial en Afrique (synthèse bibliographique)
Authors: Houehounha Dodé H.M. , Lhoest Simon , Hugé Jean , Vermeulen Cédric 
Published: September 2024

Introduction. La Convention du patrimoine mondial est l’unique traité international qui promeut l’exceptionnalité universelle des sites. Depuis son adoption en 1972, les conflits armés ont conduit à l’inscription de huit aires protégées d’Afrique subsaharienne sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial en péril. En 2023, l’insécurité persiste dans six sites naturels africains et menace cinq autres sites de la région sur les quarante-deux que compte la Liste du patrimoine mondial. Les conséquences pour ces sites se traduisent par la prolifération d’activités illégales, des pertes en biodiversité et en vies humaines, un changement dans les systèmes de gouvernance ainsi que de nouvelles dynamiques communautaires. Cette situation est préoccupante et nous documentons l’état de conservation et les systèmes de gouvernance de ces aires protégées affectées par l’insécurité. Littérature. Une recherche a été réalisée en exploitant Google Scholar et Scopus (sur la période 2000-2023) et les rapports officiels (depuis l’inscription des sites jusqu’en 2024) soumis par les pays sur l’état de conservation des sites naturels africains du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO. Les thématiques scientifiques qui abordent les déterminants des conflits armés affectant les sites naturels africains du patrimoine mondial ainsi que les liens entre la qualité de la gouvernance des aires protégées et l’apparition et/ou la résolution des conflits armés ne sont en effet pas assez abordés dans la littérature scientifique. La compréhension de l’origine et des fondements de ces conflits armés implique une analyse approfondie de plusieurs déterminants liés à l’existence de ces aires protégées ainsi qu’une évaluation de l’efficacité des systèmes de gouvernance, qui est rarement disponible. Conclusions. Des lacunes persistent en termes de connaissances scientifiques sur les sites naturels du patrimoine mondial situés en zone de conflits armés en Afrique subsaharienne. Plusieurs enjeux au sujet de ces aires protégées situées en zone de conflits armés restent à explorer, et nous suggérons pour de futures recherches que les thématiques suivantes soient prioritairement abordées : (i) l’analyse des déterminants politico-religieux à l’origine des conflits armés contemporains qui affectent des aires protégées en Afrique et (ii) les facteurs qui limitent la résolution des conflits armés qui affectent les sites naturels du patrimoine mondial en Afrique.
THE WARRIOR’S PRE-SCYTHIAN BURIAL NEAR ZHELEZNOVODSK
Authors: Маслов В.Е. , Березин С.Я. 
Published: September 2024

Публикуемое погребение из могильника Бородыновка-3 в Кавминводах в Ставропольском крае можно отнести к редкой группе предскифских кочевнических захоронений в зоне западнокобанской культуры. По особенностям погребального обряда и инвентарю его можно датировать в пределах VIII – начала VII в. до н. э. Модель культурных взаимоотношений между пришлыми скотоводами и кобанскими племенами в этот период принципиально отличается от взаимоотношений, которые прослеживаются в раннескифскую эпоху.
The burial from the Borodynovka-3 burial ground in the area of the Caucasian Spars in the Stavropol Region may be attributed to a rare group of pre-Scythian nomadic burials found in the West Koban culture area. Distinctive traits of the funerary rite and offerings help determine its dating within the range of the 8th – early 7th centuries BC. The model of cultural relationship between non-local herders and the Koban population groups in this period is fundamentally different from relationship traced back to the early Scythian period.
NEW AND OLD NAMES ON CERAMIC STAMPS OF TAURIC CHERSONESES AND SINOPE
Authors: Ефремов Н.В. , Внуков С.Ю. 
Published: September 2024

В статье публикуется подборка амфорных клейм, обнаруженных при раскопках античного городища Кара-Тобе в Северо-Западном Крыму. Они содержат имена двух неизвестных ранее херсонесских астиномов и ряд синопских фабрикантских клейм с новыми для керамической эпиграфики этого центра именами. Дается чтение клейм, их реконструкция, интерпретация, датировка.
The paper publishes a selection of amphora stamps discovered during excavations at Kara-Tobe, which is a settlement of the Classical period in the Northwest Crimea. The stamps carry names of two previously unknown Chersoneses astynomoi; the selection has a number of Sinope amphora producers stamps with the names identified in this center of ceramic epigraphy for the first time. The reading of the stamps, their reconstruction, interpretation and dating are provided.
The Value of Modern Labor Law as a Branch of Law
Authors: Андриановская И.И. 
Published: September 2024

В статье рассматривается вопрос о ценности трудового права как отрасли права, актуальность которого сохраняется на протяжении весьма длительного времени. Цель исследования: показать ценность трудового права с момента его происхождения до настоящего времени. Отмечается, что ценность отрасли связана с ее назначением, местом и ролью в реализации социально-экономических задач государства и общества. Подчеркивается особая роль трудового права в социально-экономическом развитии государства и права России. В его нормах воплощено двуединое назначение отрасли: социальное и экономическое. Обращено внимание на основную ценность трудового права как отрасли отечественного права, которая заключается в его способности урегулировать определенный законодателем круг отношений, складывающихся в сфере применения труда. Ценностную основу современного трудового права составляют нормы, позволяющие адекватно урегулировать трудовые отношения, согласовать действия субъектов, находящихся в сфере применения труда. Отмечается, что в правовую систему помимо права входят иные компоненты, влияющие на его ценность (правосудие, правотворчество, юридическая практика и другие). Выявлены признаки, позволяющие определить ценность правовой отрасли: во-первых, это качество норм правовой отрасли, во-вторых — правильность их применения (в строгом соответствии с их назначением). Выдвинута гипотеза о наличии в современной правовой действительности явных и скрытых причин, порождающих обесценивание трудового права.
The proposed article examines the issue of the value of labor law as a branch of law, the relevance of which has been maintained for a very long time. The purpose of the study is to show the value of labor law from the moment of its origin to the present. It is noted that the value of the industry is related to its purpose, place and role in the implementation of socio-economic tasks of the state and society. The special role of labor law in the socio-economic development of the state and the law of Russia is emphasized. Its norms embody the dual purpose of the industry: social and economic. Attention is drawn to the main value of labor law as a branch of domestic law, which lies in its ability to regulate the range of relations defined by the legislator that develop in the field of labor application. The value basis of modern labor law is made up of norms that allow for adequate regulation of labor relations, coordination of actions of subjects in the sphere.