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TEACHING TOOLS FOR CRITICAL READING DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Rodionova Irina V. , Titova Olga A. 
Published: December 2023

With development of the Internet the world has become bigger and now people who are living in different parts of the world have the means to communicate with each other in their pockets, there are all sorts of social media websites with all kinds of bloggers, streamers and the like who amass multicultural audience; big companies and small businesses develop connections more rapidly; individuals in general have more opinions and points of view to consider, and because of that the ability to think critically is now more important than ever before in human history. That is why modern higher education institutions tend to teach their students critical reading which helps them develop many adjacent skills such as researching information, communicating with, understanding and tolerating people of different background.
This means that future critically thinking professionals need to be able to consider problems from different angles and find solutions to them suitable for everyone. Moreover, a critically thinking person should have an ability to understand the meaning of the text and its subtext implied by the author, to take different viewpoints into consideration, analyze them wisely and disregard the negative background of communication.
Purpose. The paper aims at considering the ways of developing critical reading skills through reading foreign periodicals. The authors offer a set of teaching techniques for critical reading skill formation. The key point here is that the work with the text presupposes several successive steps.
Results. The consequence of using these teaching techniques will be the students’ ability to formulate goals and objectives, to set hypotheses, to assess their own and others’ judgments and put forward a compromise solution. In the future, reading any publication, they will be able to assess the opinion of the author, to see the degree of the author’s influence on the reader’s views, but, simultaneously, adequately receive the information transferred by the text itself.
Practical implication. Therefore, the skill of critical reading opens up new opportunities for effective participation in foreign language communication, thanks to which mutual understanding between different nationalities becomes a reality.
Fast WDM provisioning with minimal probing: the first field experiments for DC exchanges
Authors: Nishizawa Hideki , Mano Toru , Ferreira de Lima Thomas , Huang Yue-Kai , Wang Zehao , Ishida Wataru , Kawashima Masahisa , Ip Ezra , D’Amico Andrea , Okamoto Seiji , Inoue Takeru , Anazawa Kazuya , Curri Vittorio , Zussman Gil , Kilper Daniel , Chen Tingjun , Wang Ting , Asahi Koji , Takasugi Koichi 
Published: December 2023

There are increasing requirements for data center interconnection (DCI) services, which use fiber to connect any DC distributed in a metro area and quickly establish high-capacity optical paths between cloud services and mobile edge computing and the users. In such networks, coherent transceivers with various optical frequency ranges, modulators, and modulation formats installed at each connection point must be used to meet service requirements such as fast-varying traffic requests between user computing resources. This requires technology and architectures that enable users and DCI operators to cooperate to achieve fast provisioning of WDM links and flexible route switching in a short time, independent of the transceiver’s implementation and characteristics. We propose an approach to estimate the end-to-end (EtE) generalized signal-to-noise ratio (GSNR) accurately in a short time, not by measuring the GSNR at the operational route and wavelength for the EtE optical path but by simply applying a quality of transmission probe channel link by link, at a wavelength/modulation-format convenient for measurement. Assuming connections between transceivers of various frequency ranges, modulators, and modulation formats, we propose a device software architecture in which the DCI operator optimizes the transmission mode between user transceivers with high accuracy using only common parameters such as the bit error rate. In this paper, we first implement software libraries for fast WDM provisioning and experimentally build different routes to verify the accuracy of this approach. For the operational EtE GSNR measurements, the accuracy estimated from the sum of the measurements for each link was 0.6 dB, and the wavelength-dependent error was about 0.2 dB. Then, using field fibers deployed in the NSF COSMOS testbed, a Linux-based transmission device software architecture, and transceivers with different optical frequency ranges, modulators, and modulation formats, the fast WDM provisioning of an optical path was completed within 6 min.
Der Einfluss von digitalen Technologien auf Wissensarbeit: Kompetenzen im Wandel
Authors: Lanzl Julia , Schnaak Feline , Schöttl Frederik , Gimpel Henner 
Published: December 2023

ZusammenfassungDie voranschreitende Digitalisierung und der technologische Fortschritt haben in der Arbeitswelt Auswirkungen auf die Ausbildung von Fachkräften und insbesondere auf die geforderten Kompetenzen für einen langfristigen Unternehmenserfolg. Neben klassischen Basiskompetenzen, wie beispielsweise kritischem Denken, treten Digitalkompetenzen wie beispielswiese die Verarbeitung von Informationen zunehmend in den Vordergrund. Deshalb bestehen die Fragen: Was sind durch die fortschreitende Digitalisierung relevante Digitalkompetenzen in der Wissensarbeit? Wie präsentieren und vermitteln Unternehmen und Hochschulen diese Digitalkompetenzen und welche Handlungsempfehlungen lassen sich diesbezüglich ableiten? Durch eine Literaturrecherche in praxisnaher und wissenschaftlicher Literatur wurden Digitalkompetenzen gesammelt, definiert und klassifiziert. Zwölf wichtige Digitalkompetenzen werden herausgestellt und es wird beobachtet, ob und wie sie in der Praxis bereits in betriebswirtschaftlichen Studiengängen, unternehmensinternen sowie -externen Off-the-job-Weiterbildungen und im Recruiting Beachtung finden. Dies ermöglicht das Ableiten von Handlungsempfehlungen für Hochschulen und Unternehmen, sowie deren Zusammenarbeit. Zusätzlich verhelfen die Ergebnisse Weiterbildungen entsprechend an die neuen Gegebenheiten anzupassen und die Wichtigkeit der Digitalkompetenzen für den Berufseinstieg und die berufliche Laufbahn zu verdeutlichen.
Recombinant human adenovirus p53 combined with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for liver cancer: A meta-analysis
Authors: Guo Yaru , Chen Yuanyuan , Zhang Yingnan , Xu Mengjun , Guo Wenwen , Zhang Jingya , Ma Gaolei , Liu Chen , Yang Juan , Wu Xiaojin 
Published: December 2023

Objectives
To compare the clinical curative effects, survival and complications of recombinant human adenovirus-p53 (rAd-p53) combined with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) versus TACE for the treatment of liver cancer.

Methods
We searched all the eligible studies of rAd-p53 plus TACE versus control group had only TACE in the treatment of liver cancer, which were retrieved from CNKI, Wanfang database, CBM, VIP, PubMed, EMBase, The Chrance of Library, Web of Science from its inception to august 2022.

Results
A total of 17 studies were included, which involved 1045 patients. The results of the meta analysis indicated that the the rAd-p53combined with TACE markedly improved the patients’ complete remission(OR = 2.19, 95% CI:1.13–4.22, P = 0.02), partial remission (OR = 2.22, 95% CI:1.67–2.94, P<0.00001), objective tumor response rate (OR = 2.58, 95% CI:1.95–3.41, P<0.00001) and disease control rate(OR = 2.39, 95% CI:1.65–3.47, P<0.00001) compared with TACE alone. And our results showed that rAd-p53combined with TACE had better survival benefit [6-month OS (OR = 3.41, 95% CI: 1.62–7.14, p = 0.001); 1-year OS (OR = 1.95, 95% CI: 1.28–2.96, p = 0.002)] and better quality of life(MD = 5.84, 95% CI:2.09–9.60, P = 0.002). In addition, the immunity of the patients was enhanced by the combination therapy, as demonstrated by the increase in the ratio of CD4+ to CD4+/CD8+. In adverse effects, except for fever in the TACE combined with rAd-p53 group, which was higher than that in the TACE group(OR = 2.62, 95% CI:2.02–3.49, P<0.00001), all other adverse effects were lower in the TACE combined with rAd-p53 group than in the TACE group.

Conclusion
RAd-p53 combined with TACE for liver cancer showed significant advantages in terms of clinical efficacy, survival rate, and safety compared to the TACE alone, and effectively improved patient quality of life and immune function.

Systematic review registration
https://inplasy.com/inplasy-2022-9-0127/.
Shotgun metagenomics to investigate unknown viral etiologies of pediatric meningoencephalitis
Authors: Castellot Andrea , Camacho Juan , Fernández-García María Dolores , Tarragó David 
Published: December 2023

Introduction
Meningoencephalitis in children poses a diagnostic challenge, as etiology remains unknown for most of patients. Viral metagenomics by shotgun sequencing represents a powerful tool for investigating unknown viral infections related to these cases.

Patients and methods
In a two-year, reference-centre, retrospective study, we investigated the usefulness of viral metagenomics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for the diagnosis of viral infectious meningoencephalitis in forty seven pediatric patients, forty of them previously tested negative with a routine neurologic panel of viral targets that included herpesvirus 1–3 and enterovirus. We enhanced the detection by targeting viral sequences by hybrid capture. Raw sequence data was analysed using three bioinformatics pipelines.

Results
Out of forty remaining children with meningoencephalitis of unknown viral etiology, a significant detection of viral nucleic acid by shotgun sequencing was found in twenty one, which was confirmed in ten of them by specific PCR: seven human endogenous retrovirus K113 (HER K113), one parechovirus 3, one human herpesvirus 5 (HHV5); one enterovirus B (Echovirus 9). The remaining eleven CSF were not confirmed by PCR: three rotavirus, one human herpesvirus 7 (HHV7), one influenza A, one mastadenovirus C, one sindbis virus, one torque teno virus, one human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1), one human alphaherpesvirus 3 (HHV3), one human alphaherpesvirus 2 (HHV2).

Conclusions
Underutilization of currently available meningitis-encephalitis diagnostic techniques such as BioFire® FilmArray® is the main cause of undiagnosed cases of meningoencephalitis. However, in this study we detected uncommon viruses that should be considered, including virus, rotavirus, sindbis virus, influenza A virus and HHV7. No other viral sequences that could be readily linked to CNS inflammation were detected. Some findings may stem from reagent or sample contamination, as seen with papillomavirus; for others, the clinical relevance of the virus remains uncertain and should be substantiated by further studies, as is the case with endogenous retrovirus K113 virus. Online bioinformatics pipeline CZID represents a valuable tool for analysing shotgun sequencing data in cases of neurological conditions with unknown etiology. Altogether, this study highlights the potential of shotgun sequencing in identifying previously unknown viral neuropathogens and sheds light on the interpretation issues related to its application in clinical microbiology.
Anesthesia-related intervention for long-term survival and cancer recurrence following breast cancer surgery: A systematic review of prospective studies
Authors: Yang Yuecheng , Zhang Yunkui , Tang Yonghong , Zhang Jun 
Published: December 2023

Objective
Anesthesia is correlated with the prognosis of cancer surgery. However, evidence from prospective studies focusing on breast cancer is currently limited. This systematic review aimed to investigate the effect of anesthesia-related interventions on oncological outcomes following breast cancer surgery in prospective studies.

Methods
Literature searches were performed from inception to June. 2023 in the Pubmed, Web of Science, Embase, and ClinicalTrials databases. The main inclusion criteria comprised a minimum of one-year follow-up duration, with oncological outcomes as endpoints. Anesthesia-related interventions encompassed, but were not limited to, type of anesthesia, anesthetics, and analgesics. The risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool.

Results
A total of 9 studies were included. Anesthesia-related interventions included paravertebral nerve block (3), pectoral nerve block (1), sevoflurane (2), ketorolac (2), and infiltration of lidocaine (1). Cancer recurrence, metastasis, disease-free survival, or (and) overall survival were assessed. Among all included studies, only infiltration of lidocaine was found to prolong disease-free survival and overall survival.

Conclusion
Regional anesthesia and propofol did not improve oncological outcomes following breast cancer surgery. The anti-tumorigenic effect of ketorolac warrants future studies with larger sample sizes. Perioperative infiltration of lidocaine around the tumor may be a promising anti-tumorigenic intervention that can prolong overall survival in patients with early breast cancer.
Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting, Josh Shepperd (2023)
Authors: Curran Kevin J. N. 
Published: December 2023

Review of: Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting, Josh Shepperd (2023)
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 244 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-25208-725-7, p/bk, $28.00
The native taxa of Arecaceae in India: a review
Authors: Mehmud Selim , Roy Himu 
Published: December 2023

The present review study is an attempt to assemble and scrutinize major taxonomic and floristic works on the family Arecaceae and present revised information both on diversity and geography of the family in India. The study enumerates total 85 native taxa (84 species and one subspecies) belonging to 19 genera of Arecaceae in the country, where the genus Calamus is represented by 35 taxa (34 species and one subspecies), and remaining genera by less than ten species each. The present list of accepted species includes synonyms, data on their distribution, ecology (forest types, elevation) and status in the country. Among these 85 taxa, 21 species are currently considered under five different categories of IUCN, i.e. twelve species are attributed to Least Concern category, five to Vulnerable, three to Near Threatened, and one species to Endangered and Extinct in the Wild respectively. Total eleven species are endemic to India where one species is distributed in Peninsular India, one in Peninsular and Nicobar Islands, one in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra, two in Nicobar Islands, two in Andaman Islands, two in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and two in Western Ghats. Majority of the species were found to be confined to evergreen and rain forests. The species occur from lowlands to 2400 m elevation. Common cultivated taxa are excluded here.
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Floristic findings in the south-east of the Sverdlovsk Region, Russia
Authors: Grudanov Nikolay Yu. , Senator Stepan A. , Tretyakova Aliona S. , Philippov Dmitry A. 
Published: December 2023

The article contains new information about the locations of rare and alien species of vascular plants in the Sverdlovsk Region. Four species (Achillea stepposa, Cyperus fuscus, Lycopus exaltatus, Trifolium fragiferum) are new for the Sverdlovsk Region. New locations for nine rare species and subspecies in the region (Campanula glomerata subsp. farinosa, Carex spicata subsp. spicata, Cirsium esculentum, Juncus ranarius, Lythrum intermedium, L. virgatum, Ostericum palustre, Plantago maxima, Rubus idaeus subsp. strigosus) are also reported.
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Rediscovery of Rubus sikkimensis Hook. f. from Northeast India and lectotypification of its name
Authors: Kumar Vikas 
Published: December 2023

Rubus sikkimensis Hook. f. is an endemic species of eastern Himalaya, described from Sikkim by J. D. Hooker in 1849. Since then, the species was never collected from India until its rediscovery from Sikkim in 2019 after a gap of 170 years. Another collection from Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India, made by the author in 2021, is reported here as a new distributional record. A detailed description of the species with lectotype designation, photographs, and comparison with allied species are provided to facilitate its easy identification.
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Floristic findings in the flora of the Upper Yenisei basin (Krasnoyarsk Territory, Republic of Khakassia, Republic of Tuva)
Authors: Shaulo Dmitry N. , Zykova Elena Yu. , Lomonosova Maria N. , Tupitsyna Natalya N. , Shikalova Elena A. , Shmakov Alexander I. 
Published: December 2023

In the course of field research, analysis of previously published works and review of materials stored in well-known collection funds of Siberia (LE, NS, HGU), information on the distribution of rare adventitious and native plant species in the Upper Yenisei basin was clarified. For the first time, Chenopodiastrum badachschanicum, Galinsoga quadriradiata, Knautia arvensis, and Polygonum rectum were noted for the flora of the Republic of Tuva. Amaranthus albus, Festuca gigantea turned out to be new for the flora of the Sayano-Shushensky Reserve. In 11 rare species, new locations were noted and range boundaries were specified: Aconogonon diffusum, Amaranthus albus, Astragalus suffruticosus, Ciminalis squarrosa, Fagopyrum esculentum, Heteropappus biennis, Lappula tuvinica, Linaria melampyroides, Platanthera fuscescens, Portulaca oleracea, Potentilla virgata, and Rosa majalis.
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COVID-19 Pandemic and Foreign Trade Behavior in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Non-Parametric Test Approach by Comparison of Means
Authors: LUBONGO MBILU Yannick , LOWENGA KOYAMODJA Logas , KANA KIWE Junior , MUDIANDAMBU KITADI Oscar , NGOYA KALENDA Angel , NTUNGILA NKAMA Floribert 
Published: December 2023

This paper analyzes the behavior of foreign trade indicators, specifically exports and imports in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This health crisis was labelled a "pandemic" by the World Health Organization because it affected all mankind to varying degrees. It also examines the evolution of international reserves during the same period, while taking stock of some macroeconomic indicators for the DRC.
Non-parametric tests reveal differences in the means between the period of the COVID-19 surge and the period of the COVID-19 decline, to verify the significance of the negative or positive influence of imports and exports in the DRC.
It was fandhat during the year most affected by the pandemic, 2020 compared to the previous year, 2019, both exports and imports fell on average annually, respectively (in millions of USD) by 1,078.6 versus 1,098.6 and by 988.8 versus 1,149.1. This can be justified by the various measures taken by the government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequently, these same indicators (in millions of USD) will increase between 2021 and 2022, respectively from 1,742.5 to 2,368.4 for exports and from 1,520.4 to 1,920.1 for imports. This increase is the result of the urgent stimulus measures taken by the government to enable the economy to cope with the multiple economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. These observations were also verified by statistical tests: these show differences for independent and matched samples at the 0.05 threshold. There is a considerable difference in exports in millions of USD between those during the absence of COVID-19 and those during the presence of COVID-19.
These observations were also verified by statistical tests: these provide differences for independent and matched samples at the 0.05 level. There is a considerable difference in exports (in millions of USD) between those made in the period before and those made during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interactive instructional teaching method (IITM); contribution towards students’ ability in answering unfamiliar types questions of buffer solution
Authors: Habiddin Habiddin , Ulfa Rafika , Utomo Yudhi 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
This paper highlights the contribution of the Interactive Instructional Teaching Method (IITM) in improving students’ ability to solve unfamiliar types of questions, adversity quotient, and learning interest in chemistry on the topic of buffer solutions. Two groups of senior high school students from a public school in East Java, Indonesia, participated in this study. One group (experimental) with 29 students experienced IITM, while another group (comparison) with 31 students experienced the Direct Instructional Teaching Model (DITM). The difference in students’ ability between the two groups was assessed using 10 unfamiliar types of questions of buffer solutions. This study uncovered only a small advantage of IITM students over DITM students in answering unfamiliar questions and their adversity quotient scores. However, regarding their learning interest, the contribution of the two teaching approaches was considered equal. Students’ adversity quotient correlated positively to their ability to answer unfamiliar questions of buffer solutions. Meanwhile, the effect of students’ learning interests and adversity quotient on students’ ability to answer unfamiliar questions was found uncorrelated.
Interleukin 33, soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2, interleukin 27, and galectin 3 as predictors for outcome in patients admitted to intensive care units
Authors: Eric Stevan , Zaric Radica Zivkovic , Jevdjic Jasna , Drakulic Svetlana Miletic , Stanojevic Ivan , Vojvodic Danilo , Arsenijevic Petar , Stojanovic Bojan , Jakovljevic Stefan , Markovic Nenad , Zaric Milan , Canovic Petar , Nesic Jelena , Zornic Nenad 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Intensive care units (ICUs) are expert hospital areas that provide treatment and 24 h care for people who are very sick. Sepsis represents a serious, severe condition and it can lead to septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction syndromes and is one of the most common reasons for patients’ hospitalization in ICUs. We wanted to explore the prognostic values of interleukin (IL) 33, soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2), IL 27, and galectin 3 in critically-ill patients. We assumed that these parameters in combination or alone could predict mortality in ICU patients. This research represents a clinical non-randomized prospective study, performed at the Medical Military Academy, a tertiary care hospital in Belgrade, Serbia. The patients were divided in four groups: patients with sepsis (peritonitis, pancreatitis, trauma) and patients without sepsis (trauma). Total number of patients enrolled in the study was 151 and average years of patients were 56.48. The values greater than the cut-off were the predictors of mortality. The IL-33, IL-27 as well as galectin-3 can successfully predict the outcome of critically-ill patients in ICUs. The sST2, cannot predict death in critically-ill patients as a single prognostic factor. However, the combination of at least two biomarkers: IL-33, sST2, IL-27, and galectin-3, gives very significant results in predicting the outcome in patients admitted to ICUs.