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The Contemporary Significance of Gibran’s Literary Works
Authors: Li Pei 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The Lebanese writer Gibran Khalil Gibran was one of the pioneers of modern Arab literature and the “standard-bearer, soul and leader” of the writers of the “Mehjar” literature who played an important role in the revival of Arabic literature. He is a world-renowned cultural celebrity who has had a great influence in both Arabia and the West. Based on the theory of literary interpretation, this paper explores the commonality between Gibran’s thought and contemporary social values, which are embodied in four aspects: ecological view, women’s emancipation thought, East-West relationship view, and human unity consciousness. Gibran’s ideas contain rich humanistic values that transcend their time, and the up-to-date interpretation to them will help us draw valuable insights from them and gain inspiration in the face of the many major challenges of the era of globalization.
The Green Economy Transformation of GCC Countries and China-GCC Cooperation in Green Development
Authors: Huang Chao 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In 2015, all GCC countries acceded to the Paris Climate Agreement and submitted their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions since 2020. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2022 led to a surge in world oil prices. Meanwhile, the increase in oil revenues created the new impetus for the green economy transformation and pushed it to an accelerated period. The green economy transition aimed at replacing fossil energy with hydrogen energy and making it a new driving force for export trade growth, on the other hand, it will incubate a number of private enterprises in the field of green science and technology, and realize economic diversification and private economy-led growth, and eventually led to economic structural adjustment which can increase the growth rate. GCC governments are committed to building renewable energy infrastructures, developing carbon capture and sequestration technologies, and emphasizing green and low-carbon building environmental governance. However, shortcomings in finance, technology and human resources restricted the transformation. China and the GCC countries need to cooperate to alleviate the difficulties and realize common green development. Currently, bilateral cooperation has already achieved fruitful results in areas of renewable energy infrastructure construction, green transportation and green capacity-building, In the future, green financial cooperation still needs to be strengthened.
The PARTY Approach: How Friendship Transcended Borders for Science
Authors: Choo Yvonne S. L. , Fung Fun Man , Vidal Juliana L. 
Published: July 2024

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Just as organic reactions necessitate the interaction of different molecules, groundbreaking discoveries in chemistry burgeon from a diverse mix of minds working in close collaboration. While the COVID-19 pandemic presented unforeseen challenges by restricting physical interaction and international research, technology stepped in as a game-changer. Digital connections transcended geographical borders, fostered friendships and ignited a spirit of cooperation like never before. This article delves into the PARTY Approach, where (P)assion, (A)spiration, (R)elationship, (T)eamwork and (Y)outh come into play. Here, we explore the stories behind a remarkable trio brought together by their shared passion for chemistry, sustainability and education. Through their conversation, we will discover how friendships blossomed across borders, fuelled by a collective drive to make a positive impact on the world.
In Memoriam —Allen Joseph Bard (1933–2024)
Authors: Faulkner Larry R. , Brett Christopher M. A. 
Published: July 2024

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Professor Allen J. Bard, president of IUPAC during the biennium 1991-93, died in Austin at the age of 90 on February 11, 2024. He was a world-renowned electrochemist, recognized especially for placing the study of electrochemical reactions on a level of sophistication similar to that of homogeneous chemical processes.
Audience-authored paratexts: legitimation of online discourse about Game of Thrones
Authors: Laukkanen Markus 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
With the increasing proliferation of the internet, audience-authored online paratexts continue to gain significance in culture and in the communicative structures of narrative texts. This article takes a critical look at the ways in which Gérard Genette’s concept of paratext (1987) has been used in contemporary scholarship. The article offers a model of online paratexts based on an interdisciplinary understanding of paratextuality and internet-age culture. Ways in which paratexts become legitimate in online environments are considered through the analysis of HBO’s popular TV series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Legitimation extends from production-authored paratexts to audience-authored paratexts, reflecting changes in the relationship between authors and readers typical to contemporary culture. Finally, the article introduces the concept of paratextual reauthoring, which refers to the practice of canonizing alternative interpretations of texts via the use of online paratexts.
Explaining the innovation dichotomy: the contexts, contents, conflicts, and compromises of innovation stories
Authors: Lemmetty Soila 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This study describes the narratives of innovation produced in a knowledge-based company, constructs them into core stories and develops a narrative framework suitable for researching the topic. The research data consisted of thematic interviews with 23 professionals from the Finnish technology company. Innovation stories were convoluted, identifying innovation-framing contexts that were related to ownership, drivers, continuity, decisions and values. Based on these narratives, the study generated the 4Co (context, content, conflict, and compromise) analytical framework suitable for examining narrative data in innovation research. The study also produced an ideal description of innovation as a simultaneously shared and personally meaningful evolutionary learning process that takes place in small steps and requires a balance of necessity and freedom as well as decision-making based on intuition and facts, producing human efficiency as a value for employees and the organisation. Based on the findings, scientific, methodological, and practical discussions are also presented.
Oxidative stress-mediated epigenetic remodeling, metastatic progression and cell signaling in cancer
Authors: Phull Abdul-Rehman , Arain Sadia Qamar , Majid Abdul , Fatima Humaira , Ahmed Madiha , Kim Song-Ja 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Cancer is a serious public health issue and cases are rising at a high rate around the world. Altered production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) causes oxidative stress (OS) which plays a vital role in cancer development by disrupting signaling pathways and genomic integrity in the cellular microenvironment. In this study, we reviewed the regulation of noncoding RNAs, histone modifications, and DNA methylation which OS is involved in. These mechanisms promote cancer growth, metastasis, and resistance to chemotherapeutic agents. There is significant potential to improve patient outcomes through the development of customized medications and interventions that precisely address the role of OS in the onset and progression of cancer. Redox-modulating drugs, antioxidant-based therapies, and measures to restore regular cellular activity and OS-modulated signaling pathways are some examples of these strategies. One other hypothesis rationalizes the cancer-suppressing effect of OS, which acts as a two-edged condition that warns against the use of antioxidants for cancer treatment and management. The present study was executed to review the impact of OS on epigenetic machinery, the evolution of metastatic cancer, and how OS mediates cellular signaling. Along with, insights into the potential of targeting OS-mediated mechanisms for cancer therapy.
Pour une reconnaissance des signes éthiques : les formes de l’ethos et ses implications sociologiques
Authors: Levesque Simon , Bédard Pascale 
Published: July 2024

Résumé
Le concept d’ethos, que l’étymologie rattache à l’éthique, aux mœurs et à la morale, est ici examiné à l’intersection des études sémiotiques et des sciences sociales. Une méthode est développée pour l’étude des caractères, ou ethe, qui passe par la reconnaissance des signes éthiques sur les scènes d’énonciation considérées, elles-mêmes constitutives d’une situation sociale à analyser. L’article est divisé en trois parties. La première partie définit l’ethos selon ses deux usages dans la théorisation aristotélicienne (rhétorique et poétique). La deuxième partie définit les signes éthiques dans leur rapport théorique aux études sémiotiques et à la sociologie. La troisième partie présente une application à un cas contemporain à cette recherche : la controverse dans l’espace public autour d’un projet de développement du territoire dans la ville de Québec. En théorisant pour la première fois les signes éthiques, cet article propose un renouvellement de la sociologie compréhensive au moyen d’une méthodologie éprouvée.
Meaning-making and transformative engagement – notes on Gunther Kress’s social semiotic and multimodal approach to learning
Authors: Selander Staffan 
Published: July 2024

AbstractAgainst the background of a longstanding collaboration between Gunther Kress’s research group in London and my own research group in Stockholm, I reflect, in this paper, on the role of Kress’s ideas in our joint development of a social semiotic, multimodal, and design-oriented approach to learning, an approach which sees learning as performative, and as an activity in which learners create their own learning paths. I first discuss how, for Kress, this path has three elements, the affordances of the learning resources available to the learner, the learner’s ‘interest’ which turns aspects of these resources into ‘prompts’ for learning, and the learner’s active interpretation and transformation of these aspects, the results of which can then be recognized and valued as ‘signs of learning’. However, recognizing learning also needs to take account of the dimension of time, so as to make it possible to assess whether learners have gained knowledges and skills they did not have at an earlier stage. I then discuss the role of context in Kress’s thinking about learning. For Kress, context is another vital aspect of a social semiotic theory of learning. On the one hand, Kress focuses here on the specific, unique contexts in which individual learners create their own learning paths. On the other hand, he recognizes that signs will always carry social and political relations. Reflecting on the dynamic relation between individual learners and the way institutions regulate ways of learning, I discuss both the continued role of institutional learning contexts and their hidden curricula, and the way emerging technologies facilitate individual learning paths and interactive, participatory forms of learning.
In silico molecular modeling and in vitro biological screening of novel benzimidazole-based piperazine derivatives as potential acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors
Authors: Naz Haseena , Rahim Fazal , Hussain Rafaqat , Khan Shoaib , Rehman Wajid , Khan Yousaf , Aziz Tariq , Alharbi Metab 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
New series of benzimidazole incorporating piperazine moieties in single molecular framework has been reported. The structures of the synthesized derivatives were assigned by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and HR-MS techniques. The hybrid derivatives were evaluated for their acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase inhibition effect. All the synthesized analogs showed good to moderate inhibitory effect ranging from IC50 value 0.20 ± 0.01 µM to 0.50 ± 0.10 µM for acetylcholinesterase and from IC50 value 0.25 ± 0.01 µM to 0.70 ± 0.10 µM for butyrylcholinesterase except one that showed least potency with IC50 value 1.05 ± 0.1 µM and 1.20 ± 0.1 µM. The differences in inhibitory potential of synthesized compounds were due to the nature and position of substitution attached to the main ring. Additionally, molecular docking study was carried out for most active in order to explore the binding interactions established by ligand (active compounds) with the active residues of targeted AChE & BuChE enzyme.
POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THE DECREASE IN THE ABUNDANCE OF MUSK DEER MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS L. (CETARTIODACTYLA, MOSCHIDAE) IN THE USSURIYSKY NATURE RESERVE
Authors: МАСЛОВ М.В. , ЛИТВИНОВ М.Н. , ЛИТВИНОВА Е.А. , МАРКОВА Т.О. 
Published: July 2024

Обобщены данные 45-летних наблюдений за изменениями численности кабарги в Уссурийском заповеднике. Анализ зимних маршрутных учетов позволил выявить возможную зависимость этого процесса от появления “нового хищника” - соболя. Снижение численности кабарги в заповеднике произошло параллельно с нарастанием численности соболя и снижением численности альтернативных источников питания для средних и мелких хищников. С начала 2000-х годов до настоящего времени численность кабарги в заповеднике находится на уровне “присутствия” вида в фауне.
The 45-year-long observations of variations in the musk deer abundance in the Ussurisky Nature Reserve are summarized. An analysis of winter route censuses has made it possible to assume these variations to be related with the emergence of a “new predator”, sable. The decrease in the musk deer abundance in the reserve occurred simultaneously with an increase in the sable abundance and a decrease in abundance of alternative food supplies for medium- and small-sized predators. From the early 2000s until the present time, the musk deer abundance in the reserve has remained at a level of only “presence” of the species in the fauna.
VARIATIONS OF STABLE CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER IN MOUNTAIN-DEPRESSION ENVIRONMENTS OF FORE-BAIKAL REGION
Authors: ГОЛУБЦОВ В.А. , ЧЕРКАШИНА А.А. , ВАНТЕЕВА Ю.В. , ВОРОПАЙ Н.Н. , ТУРЧИНСКАЯ С.М. 
Published: July 2024

Представлен анализ внутрипочвенных и пространственных вариаций состава стабильных изотопов углерода органического вещества почв для выявления основных факторов, определяющих динамику органического углерода в горно-котловинных условиях Прибайкалья. Органическое вещество исследуемых почв характеризуется значениями δ13С от -29,6 до -24,9 ‰. Изменения значений δ13С в высотном профиле хорошо соотносятся со сменами ландшафтов и отражают влияние климатических факторов на дискриминацию13С в ходе фотосинтеза С3-растений. Наиболее тяжелым составом стабильных изотопов углерода характеризуются почвы подгольцовых и степных ландшафтов. В таежных почвах наблюдается снижение доли тяжелых изотопов. Анализ различий интенсивности оборота углерода, выраженной через наклон линейной регрессии (β) значений δ13С от содержания общего углерода в почве, изменяющихся с глубиной, дает основание предполагать сниженную интенсивность оборота углерода в почвах степей и подгольцового пояса в силу лимитированности данных почв по условиям влаго- и теплообеспеченности соответственно. В условиях таежных ландшафтов при более благоприятном соотношении температур и увлажнения динамика органического вещества почв контролируется преимущественно качественным составом опада и доступностью азота.
An analysis of depth-profile and spatial variations of the stable carbon isotopic composition of soil organic matter is presented to identify the main factors that determine the dynamics of organic carbon in the mountain-depression environments of the Baikal region. Soil organic matter is characterized by δ13С values from -29,6 to -24,9 ‰. Changes in δ13C values in the altitudinal profile correlate well with changes in landscapes and reflect the influence of climatic factors on13C discrimination during photosynthesis of C3 plants. The heaviest stable carbon isotopic composition characterizes the soils of subalpine and steppe landscapes. In taiga soils, depletion of the isotopic composition by13C is observed. To compare the soil carbon turnover intensity δ13C values were regressed linearly against log-transformed carbon contents yielding absolute values of these slopes (β). The distribution of β values in the altitudinal profile suggests a reduced intensity of carbon turnover in the soils of the steppes and the subalpine belt due to the limitation of these soils in terms of moisture and temperature, respectively. Under the taiga conditions characterized by more favorable ratio of temperatures and humidity the dynamics of soil organic matter is controlled mainly by the litter quality and the nitrogen availability.
Egy új sportolói állapotszorongás kérdőív, a SAS-2H adaptációja
Authors: Kovács Krisztina 
Published: July 2024

Háttér és célkitűzések: Jelen tanulmány célja egy új, sportpszichológiai állapotszorongás skála (Sport Szorongás Skála-2, Sport Anxiety Scale-2, SAS) magyar változatának pszichometriai vizsgálata és az új mérőeszköz reliabilitásának és validitásának ellenőrzése. Módszer: 361 sportoló vett részt a vizsgálatban (Mage = 22,89, SD = 6,44). A fent említett kérdőív mellett a Feladat- és Énorientációs Kérdőívet és a Sport-önbizalom forrásai kérdőívet alkalmaztuk a validálás során. Eredmények: A megerősítő faktoranalízis a háromdimenziós elméleti modellt támogatta, megfelelő illeszkedési mutatókat kaptunk. A skálák belső konzisztenciája megfelelőnek bizonyult (Cronbach α = 0,83–0,93). A konstruktum validitás vizsgálata során a SAS-2 skálái szignifikáns gyenge kapcsolatot mutattak az énorientációval, de nem találtunk kapcsolatot sem az önbizalommal, sem a feladatorientációval. Következtetés: A SAS-2 magyar nyelvű változata megfelelő, megbízható és érvényes mérőeszköznek bizonyult a sportolói állapotszorongás felmérésére.
Traditional Food as Cultural Heritage in Hungary
Authors: Báti Anikó 
Published: July 2024

AbstractFood culture has played, and continues to play, an important role in the definition of identity and community cohesion. Food is not just a matter of sustenance but is also a cultural element with myriad links to the material world and to festive and everyday customs. Meals and individual dishes also function as mediators, providing a means and a channel of communication. Local communities select, reconstruct, or construct their common food heritage through their social discourse on the past, belonging, and locality. This paper presents the institutional framework for the management, preservation, and transmission of food-related traditions at the national and local levels in Hungary and looks at the practice of heritagization through one specific local example.
Scaling the polymerization of polyaldehydes through continuous flow synthesis
Authors: Schwartz Jared M. , Kohl Paul A. , Engler Anthony 
Published: July 2024

AbstractA plug flow reactor was constructed to scale the synthesis of metastable, phthalaldehyde-based polymers to achieve production rates of 1–2 kg per day. The flow-induced mixing and in-line polymerization quench and precipitation sequences resulted in improved polymer purity and long-term stability compared to the same materials made from a conventional batch process. Cryogenic rheology was used to probe the complex fluid dynamics encountered during the polymerization of PPA homopolymers. It is envisioned that this continuous flow manufacturing approach could be extended to other low ceiling temperature or aldehyde monomer systems to help implement and support a plastic circular economy.
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Sustainability considerations in bio-hydrogen from bio-algae with the aid of bio-algae cultivation and harvesting: Critical review
Authors: Senthil Rathi B. , Dinesh Aravind V. , Ranjith G. , Kishore V. , Ewe Lay Sheng , Yew Weng Kean , Baskaran R. 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Microalgae present an enticing alternative to conventional fossil fuel-dependent technologies for producing hydrogen, offering an intriguing and sustainable energy source. Numerous strains of microalgae are under investigation for their capacity to generate hydrogen, alongside various techniques and breakthroughs being developed to optimize the process. However, significant hurdles must be addressed for commercial viability, including the high manufacturing costs and the necessity for efficient harvesting and sorting methods. This paper delves into several aspects concerning hydrogen synthesis in algae, encompassing microalgae anatomy and physiology, hydrogen synthesis via photosynthesis and dark fermentation, and the integration of microalgal hydrogen synthesis with other renewable energy sources. The potential for microalgal hydrogen generation is considered pivotal in transitioning toward a future reliant on more renewable and sustainable energy sources. This review aims to serve as a valuable resource for researchers, decision-makers, and anyone interested in the advancement of environmentally conscious energy technology. The primary objective of this research paper is to scrutinize the challenges, opportunities, and potential outcomes associated with eco-friendly bio-hydrogen production through algae. It evaluates the current technological hurdles facing bio-hydrogen synthesis from algae.

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Highlights
Interest in developing renewable fuels, such as hydrogen from biomass, has surged due to escalating energy demands and the imperative to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. Overview of bio-hydrogen production pathway, reactor designs, and configurations for bio-hydrogen production from bio-algae were explored. Environmental, social sustainability and economic feasibility have been reviewed.

Discussion

Will bio-hydrogen from bio-algae be a future renewable energy?

Which is the best pathway to produce bio-hydrogen from bio-algae?

Regarding greenhouse gas emissions, how does the generation of bio-hydrogen from bio-algae compare to conventional hydrogen production techniques?

What difficulties lie in increasing the amount of bio-hydrogen produced by bio-algae to satisfy major energy demands?