bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Indicators of bioelectrical activity of the brain in duodenal ulcer in the acute stage depending on the presence of Helicobacter pylori in patientss
Authors: Tkachenko O.V. , Demydas O.V. 
Published: November 2023

Duodenal ulcer disease (DU) is one of the leading gastrointestinal disorders today. Research on the role of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) in the pathogenetic mechanisms of various pathological conditions in the human body, including DU, is highly relevant.
Objective — to investigate the impact of H. pylori presence in patients with acute-stage DU on indicators of brain bioelectrical activity using electroencephalography (EEG).
Materials and methods. This study focused on assessing the bioelectrical activity of the brain through EEG in patients with acute-stage DU. A total of 60 patients were subjected to neurological examinations, and they were assigned into two groups based on the presence or absence of H. pylori infection. The age range of the patients was 25 to 60 years, with an average age of (39.80 ± 1.29) years. The majority of patients were male (43 (71.7 %)). A control group consisting of 30 relatively healthy individuals without somatic pathology, aged between 25 and 60 years with an average age of (31.20 ± 1.27) years, was also formed. This control group had a predominance of male subjects (19 (63.3 %)). Statistical methods were employed to process the data.
Results. Significant differences were observed in the indicators of brain bioelectrical activity between H. pylori-positive patients and H. pylori-negative patients, particularly in terms of the average amplitude of waves of different frequencies, the dominant frequency in each rhythm, interhemispheric asymmetry coefficients, and indices and power indices of general spectrum ranges.
Conclusions. The differences in brain bioelectrical activity revealed by EEG data between patients with or without H. pylori in their microbiome suggest potential pathophysiological significance of H. pylori in somatoneurological interactions in cases of DU.
Co-creative teaching practice and active learning: the opportunity of small group teaching in philosophy
Authors: Lorenzi Giulia 
Published: November 2023

Co-creative pedagogy practices, where the students occupy a central role in shaping the sessions acting as partners in teaching, have an enormous potential in fostering inclusiveness and equality in the academic setting. Giving the students a voice and a role to play in designing and delivering teaching interventions, indeed, ensures that their unique interests and their needs as learners are taken on board, valued, and acted upon. Yet, it is challenging to implement co-creative practice while also following principles of active learning. Engaging students in deep learning through activities and “doing” tasks usually requires a certain degree of preparation which ends up creating a structure for the sessions that is less flexible than hoped, and more difficult to be permeated by and open to students’ individual needs and interests.
In teaching seminars in philosophy, I have found myself juggling the challenge of combining co-creative practice and active learning principles. Considering philosophy more as a practice rather than a discipline, I have always thought to my seminars as the ideal space for my students to exercise philosophical skills whose development, strength and autonomy constitute a core element of the learning expected from a philosophy graduate. For this reason, active learning has always been a pillar of my teaching practice. Yet, I was finding difficult to connect it to a co-creative approach to teaching.
In this piece, I am going to explain how establishing an ongoing, honest dialogue with my students has revealed to be the solution to my problem.
Navigating Challenges in Postgraduate Pedagogy: An EDI Consideration to Preparing, Designing, and Delivering Teaching by PGRs
Authors: Rong Deqing , Cui Haosen 
Published: November 2023

Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) play an integral role in shaping the pedagogical landscape within Higher Education despite encountering several challenges as they prepare, design, and deliver their teaching. This paper explores these challenges, focusing on the advantages of advancing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in postgraduate pedagogies. Except for barriers from literature, this paper will also include authors’ personal teaching experiences in the module Technology Management for one and a half years.
When PGRs prepare and design for the session, they should be aware of EDI issues since students may have different cultures, knowledge, and personalities. Therefore, it is a challenge to prepare and design the teaching to ensure all students can easily understand, participate equally in the session, and have an equal chance to express or share their thoughts and ideas with others after the session. By addressing this issue, this paper will explain things that PGRs should be concerned about and the challenges they face, such as how they would split students into each group, how they support different students with different characteristics, such as disabilities and how to innovate in the method of teaching, etc.
PGRs should also consider EDI in their teaching practices, which can be more complex than preparing due to unexpected situations that arise during actual practice. Therefore, PGRs should seek to learn from others’ teaching experiences and seek support when needed. This paper will illustrate challenges aligned with EDI issues that have been faced, such as arguments between students, sensitive questions asked by students and reports from students, and, more importantly, how to perfectly deliver the knowledge that has been prepared and designed to ensure that students can feel that EDI is also a challenge that PGRs faced.
What ‘Teeny’ Group Seminar Teach Us: Enhancing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Small Group Seminar through Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Anecdotal Pedagogy
Authors: Lu Li 
Published: November 2023

This reflective study delves into the nuanced impact of varying class sizes on the pedagogy of teaching literary theories and explores the ways of improving diversity in different classroom settings. It is based on my comparative analysis of the outcomes from teaching two different sizes of small seminar groups previously: one with eleven students and one that had between two and four students in regular attendance (what I term as a ‘teeny group’). To empower students to better empathise with the racial and gender inequalities portrayed in theoretical texts, and to facilitate a friendly and open dialogue for students to share their own perspectives and experiences, I employ technological tools such as Padlet and Vevox as well as my own perspective as anecdotal pedagogy, namely, the inclusion of personal experience into teaching methods and contents. In doing so, I create an online platform to allow my students to share their opinions anonymously and visually and make use of my identity as an Asian woman to encourage underrepresented marginalised groups to get involved in discussions. This reflective piece draws on the article ‘‘Violating Pedagogy’ by Heather G. S. Johnson (2015) as a theoretical framework to demonstrate both the strengths and limitations of the teeny group in comparison with the normally small group and further to evaluate different pedagogic methods in advancing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) from a unique perspective. In doing so, this article contemplates the optimal classroom sizes for effective teaching and examines how various pedagogical approaches counteract the differences in class sizes.
Benevolence in the functioning system of united territorial communities: communication and management elements
Authors: Shimchenko Ljudmila , Berezanska Iryna 
Published: November 2023

The subject of the study is ensuring integrity in the system of functioning of united territorial communities. The purpose of the article is to study the degree of compliance with integrity in the system of administrative and communicative functioning of the OTG in wartime conditions. Research methods. In order to solve the research tasks, methods of analysis, synthesis, and generalization were used, which made it possible to ensure the conceptual unity of the research. Work results. The article examines the ability of local self-government bodies to adhere to the principles of integrity in their work in all its manifestations, both at the managerial and communicative levels, taking into account the peculiarities of wartime. They tried to consider integrity in the activities of the OTG in the context of avoiding double standards, resisting corruption, maximally assisting people in receiving services, developinga mechanism of stability in overcoming crisis phenomena, ensuring a people-centered way of communication and maximum informational openness about management activities and financial expenses. Conclusions. Virtue as a basic principle of the operation of the OTG in war conditions works quite positivelyin the system of regulating numerous crises related to migration and evacuation processes, in relation to internally displaced persons, etc. There are many problems with compliance with the principles of integrity in the field of "open communities" formation, which is connected with honest interaction with donors and humanitarian missions; compliance with norms of decency in the system of using financial resources also requires attention. Norms of integrity are the basis of the new model of governance, therefore the leadership of the OTG in wartime conditions should apply the recommendations of the "new governance", which includes: predictableand joint governance to solve extremely difficult situations; application of the mechanisms of a transparent and responsible attitude to the implementation of strategic planning for reconstruction and development in the postwar period; ensuring the participation of active citizens in the redistribution of state resources at the local level; application of "new ways of thinking in the context of policy formation, which include an orientation towards flexibility rather than stability, towards networks rather than hierarchies, towards partnerships rather than client services in relations between citizens and the state" [1]
Pelatihan dan Workshop Robotika untuk SMK Kesehatan Binatama Yogyakarta
Authors: Nur'aidha Amalia Cemara , Sugianto Wahyu 
Published: November 2023

Perkembangan teknologi membawa dampak besar bagi dunia pendidikan. Institusi luar negeri telah menerapkan pendidikan Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Salah satu penerapan STEM dalam bidang pendidikan adalah pemanfaatan teknologi robotika sebagai sarana pengembangan kreativitas dan inovasi pelajar. Kegiatan PkM bertujuan untuk memberikan pelatihan dan pendampingan guru dan siswa SMK Kesehatan Binatama dalam pembelajaran robotika. SMK Kesehatan Binatama merupakan â€œsmart schoolâ€ dan sekolah yang berbasis penggunaan android untuk menunjang pembelajaran. Berdasarkan analisis SWOT diperoleh permasalahan tentang kurangnya kesiapan lembaga pendidikan untuk melakukan pembelajaran robotika baik dari segi tenaga pengajar maupun fasilitas pembelajaran. Metode penyelesaian masalah tersebut adalah dengan melakukan pelatihan dan workshop mengenai robotika khususnya dalam aplikasi di bidang medis. Kegiatan PkM di laksanakan dengan enam kali pertemuan mulai dari observasi, audiensi, dan pelaksanaan workshop denganÂ metode ceramah, diskusi dan praktik. Peningkatan kemampuan mitra tim PkM melakukan evaluasi selama kegiatan berlangsung dan memberikan tugas untuk menyusun program pada robot line follower. Hasil dari workshop didapatkan guru pendamping dan perwakilan siswa telah memiliki dasar pengetahuan dasar robotika. Hal ini dibuktikan dari hasil evaluasi guru pendamping dan siswa dapat menyelesaikan perancangan robot mulai dari hardware hingga software (program).
Pendampingan Usaha Mikro Kecil Menengah dengan Implementasi Modul International Labour Organization Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprise
Authors: Elisa Krismontia , Nadapdap Jones Parlindungan 
Published: November 2023

Pengabdian pendampingan usaha mikro kecil menengah bertujuan untuk membantu pelaku usaha dalam memanajemen usaha yang dijalankan dan praktikan disebut sebagai konsultan. Pada saat pendampingan metode yang digunakan dalam pendampingan menggunakan acuan ILO SCORE, yaitu metode 5s (sisih, susun, sasap, sosoh, suluh), tata letak, higienis dan promosi yang berdasarkan hasil observasi langsung dengan melakukan wawancara, dan dokumentasi bersama tim akademisi dan pemilik UMKM. Pendampingan usaha mikro kecil menengah ini dilaksanakan di Toko Jerry Kecamatan Sungai Betung, Kabupaten Bengkayang. Hasil pengabdian menunjukkan bahwa upaya yang diharapkan oleh pemilik usaha dalam mengembangkan usaha dapat terwujud. Dengan meningkatnya pengetahuan keterampilan peserta dalam mengimplementasikan modul ILO SCORE dalam menjalankan usaha dana adanya perubahan yang lebih baik dalam tempat usaha peserta pengabdian. Terbukti Â di mana sebelum adanya pendampingan pelaku usaha tidak pernah melakukan promosi melalui media masa dan tata letak pada toko masih tidak rapi, dari hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa peran ILO SCORE sangat mempengaruhi perkembangan pada usaha yang didampingi dan pemilik usaha merasa sangat senang karena setelah diadakan pendampingan di tempat usaha keadaan tempat usaha menjadi lebih baik dan para konsumen memberikan tanggapan yang baik atas perkembangan di tempat usaha tersebut.
Вплив агоністів дофамінових рецепторів на клініко-гемодинамічні та нейрогуморальні показники у хворих з артеріальною гіпертензією із супутнім ожирінням
Authors: Lizogub V. G. , Sоbol V. O. , Moshkovska Yu. O. , Bondarchuk O. M. 
Published: November 2023

У статті проаналізовано результати вивчення впливу гіпотензивної терапії з використанням агоністів дофамінових рецепторів на клініко-гемодинамічні та нейрогуморальні показники у хворих з артеріальною гіпертензією із супутнім ожирінням. Особливу увагу приділено такому патогенетичному чиннику, як дофамін, та його взаємозв’язкам з ренін-ангіотензин-альдостероновою системою, вазодилатаційною функцією ендотелію, дія яких спрямована на регуляцію артеріального тиску та формування і прогресування ожиріння.
The Punjab Issue and the Sikh Diaspora: Calls for Secession in the XXI Century
Authors: Bochkovskaya Anna V. 
Published: November 2023

The article discusses the role of Punjabi-Sikh diaspora in supporting and heating up secessionist ideas in contemporary India. In focus are specific features of the most visible non-governmental organizations based beyond South Asia, which advocate an idea of setting up an independent Khalistan state in the north-west of India (Punjab); activities of the “Sikhs for Justice” group aimed at launching the Khalistan Referendum / Referendum 2020; and 2022–2023 developments in Punjab related to the performance of Amritpal Singh Sandhu, a present-day “successor” of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947–1984) – a charismatic leader of the Sikh separatists in the late 1970s – early 1980s.
Since the 1990s, the Punjab issue has cooled down, but the idea of establishing a sovereign Sikh state has not become a thing of the past. The Khalistan proponents and, in particular, Bhindranwale who was killed in the 1984 “Operation Bluestar” in Punjab, have been proclaimed martyrs for the Sikh faith. International pro-Khalistani groups have been using their images both for self-advertising and for destabilizing India in general and Punjab in particular.
PEMBUATAN BIOBRIKET MODIFIKASI DARI LIMBAH PERTANIAN
Authors: Lulrahman Faldi , Miftahurrahmah  , Rahma Annisa , Caniago Mitha Fitriani , Septia Kavita , Maulana Ikhsan Arya 
Published: November 2023

Briket biomassa adalah alternatif yang menjanjikan untuk menggantikan bahan bakar fosil dalam upaya mengurangi emisi gas rumah kaca. Pada penelitian Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh komposisi bahan baku limbah pertanian terhadap nilai kadar air dan laju pembakaran. Dalam penelitian ini, tempurung kelapa, sabut kelapa dan ampas tebu digunakan sebagai bahan baku pembuatan biobriket. Metode pencampuran digunakan untuk menghasilkan biobriket biomassa dengan komposisi yang berbeda sehingga diperoleh pengaruh komposisi bahan baku terhadap kadar air dan laju pembakaran. Dengan variabel perbandingan arang tempurung kelapa dan sabut kelapa yaitu 15:15, 10:20, 20:10 kemudian variabel perbandingan arang tempurung kelapa dengan ampas tebu yaitu 15:15, 10:20, 20:10 dalam 10 gr perekat tepung tapioka pada masing-masing percobaan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tempurung kelapa, sabut kelapa dan ampas tebu dapat dijadikan sebagai bahan baku yang efektif untuk biobriket biomassa. Sehingga dapat berpotensi sebagai energi yang berkelanjutan. Pada Penelitian ini kualitas biobriket yang tinggi adalah nilai kadar air terendah dan nilai laju pembakaran yang tinggi terdapat pada percobaan ke- 2 dengan komposisi bahan baku tempurung kelapa dan sabut kelapa adalah 10 gram: 20 gram. Kemudian nilai kadar air sangat berpengaruh terhadap nilai laju pembakaran, semakin tinggi nilai kadar air, maka nilai laju pembakaran semakin rendah. Penelitian lanjutan diperlukan untuk mengoptimalkan kondisi briket dan mempertimbangkan aspek ekonomi serta dampak lingkungannya
Analisis Kuat Tekan Beton Menggunakan Agregat Lokal di Kecamatan Tewah Kabupaten Gunung Mas
Authors: Antonia Ein Javier , Pandohop Gawei Apria Brita , Meilawaty Okta , Waluyo Rudi , Lendra Lendra 
Published: November 2023

Analisis kuat tekan beton adalah proses penting dalam merancang dan membuat beton yang berkualitas. Pemilihan agregat lokal yang tepat dan berkualitas, serta pengujian agregat yang akurat, dapat membantu mengoptimalkan kekuatan beton yang dihasilkan. Di Kecamatan Tewah Kabupaten Gunung Mas banyak terdapat hamparan agregat lokal berupa batu dan pasir yang berada di darat maupun di sungai. Namun perlu dikaji apakah memenuhi kuantitas dan mutu beton jika dipakai sebagai bahan konstruksi sipil. sehingga perlu dilakukan penelitian untuk mengetahui kuat tekan beton. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kuat tekan beton dari penggunaan agregat lokal yang berasal dari Kecamatan Tewah Kabupaten Gunung Mas. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu penelitian eksperimen. Hasil penelitian untuk nilai kuat tekan beton umur 7 hari rata-rata 207,950 kg/cm2, nilai mutu beton umur 28 hari rata-rata 145,390 kg/cm2, mutu beton umur 56 hari 136,303 kg/cm2, hasil kuat tekan beton mengalami penurun dari mutu rencana, hal ini disebabkan oleh air yang digunakan untuk pencampuran dan perendaman beton adalah air gambut atau air dengan pH rendah.
Reacción de los inversores al uso del aseguramiento de las memorias de sostenibilidad como estrategia de impression management
Authors: Sánchez Sancho Marta 
Published: November 2023

Este trabajo se basa en la potencial captura directiva del proceso de aseguramiento de las memorias de sostenibilidad. Partiendo de esta posibilidad nos preguntamos, ¿el aseguramiento refuerza la fiabilidad de las memorias de sostenibilidad o puede ser utilizado por los directivos para manipular la percepción de los usuarios de estos informes a través de estrategias de impression management? Teniendo en cuenta cuál es el verdadero papel del aseguramiento, pretendemos comprobar su efecto en los mercados de capitales. Para alcanzar este objetivo, examinamos si los inversores pueden identificar, y por tanto penalizar, una estrategia de impression management consistente en el incumplimiento del principio de balance en los informes de aseguramiento de las memorias de sostenibilidad de calidad cuestionable. Para contrastar la pregunta de investigación empleamos una muestra de empresas europeas cotizadas en el periodo 2012-2016, realizamos un análisis de contenido de los informes de aseguramiento y aplicamos técnicas de regresión para datos de panel. La evidencia empírica obtenida muestra la penalización de los inversores a los informes de aseguramiento de las memorias de sostenibilidad cuestionables que presentan información no balanceada, siendo una prueba de que el aseguramiento no constituye una herramienta que permite superar en todo caso el escepticismo de los inversores hacia la veracidad de las memorias de sostenibilidad.
COVID bread-porn: Social stratification in a pandemic state
Authors: Mohabeer Ravindra 
Published: November 2023

<p>Much has been and will continue to be made of ‘official responses’ to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly around the varying success of prescribed isolation practices and how well (or not) people, taken in aggregate, complied with them. This paper examines a more spontaneous response to COVID-19 isolation that emerged: bread-porn. Taken literally, bread-porn is the competitive display of gratuitous pictures of home-baked bread across social media (particularly in the ‘west’), shared by people isolated at home. On the surface, such pictures perfunctorily depict bread; yet, it is argued that these pictures are more nuanced than that, and that the bread itself is almost immaterial. ‘COVID bread-porn’ was a jockeying for social standing and represented one of many unique, if temporary, forms of do-it-yourself (DIY) cultural currency while people were less able to access other extant systems of representational social stratification. The paper discusses the value and significance of the suffix ‘porn’ with respect to struggles to understand the extremities of new systems of value, by linking how temporary COVID culture fit into the flow of the cultural changes that preceded it. The paper argues that the world faced the COVID pandemic at a tumultuous time, ones marked by liminality between historically ‘physical’ and emerging ‘cerebral’ cultural practices in many societies (i.e. the move from manufacturing to ‘knowledge’ economies). Thus, it situates bread-porn as an attempt to ‘win’ at isolation by demonstrating prowess with available domestic resources, and highlights the productive tension of bread-porn that extends and potentially resists the social imperatives of pandemic self-management. </p>
Discovering the Virtue of Hope
Authors: Milona Michael 
Published: November 2023

<p>This paper asks whether there is a moral virtue of hope, and if so, what it is. The enterprise is motivated by a historical asymmetry, namely, that while Christian thinkers have long classed hope as a theological virtue, it has not traditionally been classed as a moral one. But this is puzzling, for hoping well is not confined to the sphere of religion; and consequently, we might expect that if the theological virtue is structurally sound, there will be a secular, moral analogue. This paper proposes that there is such an analogue and that it is closely linked to the everyday notion of “having your priorities straight,” a phenomenon which is naturally understood in terms of the attitude of hope. It turns out that the priorities model provides an abstract way of characterizing a central but underexplored virtue, one which can be developed in secular or theological ways.</p>
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A Perceptual Theory of Hope
Authors: Milona Michael , Stockdale Katie 
Published: November 2023

<p>This paper addresses the question of what the attitude of hope consists in. We argue that shortcomings in recent theories of hope have methodological roots in that they proceed with little regard for the rich body of literature on the emotions. Taking insights from work in the philosophy of emotions, we argue that hope involves a kind of normative perception. We then develop a strategy for determining the content of this perception, arguing that hope is a perception of practical reasons. Our proposal stands in contrast with familiar views on which hope is fundamentally about the good. We conclude by considering the increasingly popular idea that some hopes are non-intentional and thus, by implication, non-perceptual. We reply by arguing that our perceptual theory plausibly generalizes to these instances of hope.</p>