bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
SparseRNAFolD: Optimized Sparse RNA Pseudoknot-Free Folding with Dangle Consideration
Authors: Gray Mateo , Will Sebastian , Jabbari Hosna 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Motivation: Computational RNA secondary structure prediction by free energy minimization is indispensable for analyzing structural RNAs and their interactions. These methods find the structure with the minimum free energy (MFE) among exponentially many possible structures and have a restrictive time and space complexity (O(n3) time and O(n2) space for pseudoknot-free structures) for longer RNA sequences.Furthermore, accurate free energy calculations, including dangle contributions can be difficult and costly to implement, particularly when optimizing for time and space requirements.
Results: Here we introduce a fast and efficient sparsified MFE pseudoknot-free structure prediction algorithm, SparseRNAFolD, that utilizes an accurate energy model that accounts for dangle contributions. While the sparsification technique was previously employed to improve the time and space complexity of a pseudoknot-free structure prediction method with a realistic energy model, SparseMFEFold, it was not extended to include dangle contributions due to the complexity of computation. This may come at the cost of prediction accuracy.In this work, we compare three different sparsified implementations for dangle contributions and provide pros and cons of each method. As well, we compare our algorithm to LinearFold, a linear time and space algorithm, where we find that in practice, SparseRNAFolD has lower memory consumption across all lengths of sequence and a faster time for lengths up to 1000 bases.
Conclusion: Our SparseRNAFolD algorithm is an MFE-based algorithm that guarantees optimality of result and employs the most general energy model, including dangle contributions. We provide a basis for applying dangles to sparsified recursion in a pseudoknot-free model that has the potential to be extended to pseudoknots.
Availability: SparseRNAFolD’s algorithm and detailed results are available at https://github.com/mateog4712/SparseRNAFolD.
Investigating the Efficacy of Plasma Washing for Stains Removal
Authors: Rathore Vikas , Nema Sudhir Kumar 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The study explores the effectiveness of plasma washing as an environmentally sustainable method for fabric stain removal. Utilizing a dielectric barrier discharge pencil plasma jet (DBD-PPJ) with air as the plasma-forming gas, we assessed its stain removal efficacy on various stains (ink, turmeric, mud/soil, grass, coffee, and oil) on white cotton fabric.
Results indicate that plasma washing efficiently removes stains, with increased detergency over time. The process generates numerous aqueous species/radicals such as O, O2·, OH, H2O2, ONOOˉ, and dissolved O3, etc. contributing to the washing action. Fabric sensory properties (smell, touch, appearance, etc.) and absorption (UV-visible analysis) notably improved with plasma washing, except for oil stain removal. Surface (FTIR) and morphology (HR-SEM) analysis revealed no fabric surface modification or damage post-plasma washing.
Furthermore, residual wastewater from plasma washing is devoid of dissolved stain residues, indicating successful degradation by oxidizing species. The study emphasizes the holistic environmental benefits of plasma washing in addressing both stain removal and wastewater purification. In conclusion, our findings support the proposition that plasma washing is a promising and sustainable alternative for fabric care.
Unveiling Developmental Trajectory in Infant Macaques: Insights from Longitudinal Multi-omics Studies and Comparative with Humans
Authors: Fan Zhenxin , He Miao , Lan Yue , Tang Ruixiang , Wang Jiao , Liu Yu , Li Yifei , Lv Mingyi , Gao Zhan , Li Jing , Liu Anqing , Yue Bisong , Wang Xinqi , Bonet Tomas 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
The functional dynamics within the gut microbiota and host of infants remain poorly understood. Here, blood transcriptomes and fecal metagenomes were sequenced from 21 rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) infants at seven distinct time points over a 468-day period (6–22 months of age) to trace gene expression patterns and gut microbiota maturation. We found functions of the “core” gut microbial community remained relatively stable, but there were fluctuations in the composition and abundance of gut microbiota. Alterations in the fecal metagenome were correlated with changes in diet and environment, while shifts in the blood transcriptome were indicative of developmental and immunological trends. The overall trend of the gut microbiota of both humans and macaques to reach adult-like configurations was comparable, albeit with notable differences in developmental trajectories. Our study emphasizes the potential utility of infant macaques as suitable models for human infant development, particularly with respect to gut microbial maturation.
Nature Writing – (k)eine Gattung für Kinder und Jugendliche?
Authors: Maaß Sarah 
Published: December 2023

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Trotz weitverbreiteten Gebrauchs ist der gattungstheoretische Status von Nature Writing als Kategorie zur Textgruppenbildung umstritten, was insbesondere in der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung nicht immer mitreflektiert wird. Der Beitrag begreift die gegenwärtige Konjunktur des Begriffs als Indiz für eine sich abzeichnende Diversifizierung und Hybridisierung des Gattungssystems ökologischer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (KJL). „Nature Writing“ wird als Begriff für eine genreübergreifende Schreibweise konzipiert, die allerdings in der KJL im Vergleich zum allgemeinliterarischen Feld noch unterrepräsentiert ist. Der Beitrag diskutiert einige Gründe für diesen Befund und greift dafür auf funktionsgeschichtliche Gattungstheorien zurück. Die Emergenz und Transformation von Genres und Schreibweisen, so die These, vollzieht sich in einem heterogenen Geflecht von literarischen und außerliterarischen Diskursen, Institutionen und Strukturen, die sich literarische Affordanzen zunutze machen. Die genrekonstituierende Konstellation der KJL unterscheidet sich von derjenigen der Allgemeinliteratur und wird herangezogen, um die Dominanz von Sachbüchern und narrativ-fiktionalen Formen in der ökologisch orientierten KJL zu kontextualisieren.

Nature Writing – (not) a Genre for Children and Young Adults? Some Thoughts on Genre Emergence and Transformation
Despite widespread use of the term, the theoretical status of nature writing as a genre category for text grouping is controversial, but this is not always reflected in research, especially in children's and young adult literature research. This article takes the current widespread use of the term as an indication of an emerging diversification and hybridisation of the genre system of ecological children's and young adult literature. Nature writing, underrepresented in children’s literature compared to the general literary field, is conceived as a term for a mode of writing that transcends genres. This article discusses some reasons for this situation, drawing on functional genre theories. It argues that the emergence and transformation of genres and modes of writing takes place in a heterogeneous web of literary and extra-literary discourses, institutions and structures that make use of literary affordances. The genre-constituting constellation of children’s and young adult literature differs from that of literature for adults and is used to contextualise the dominance of nonfiction and narrative-fictional forms in environmental children’s literature.
Was ist analog? Was digital?
Authors: Demirdögen Dilara , Trapp Helena 
Published: December 2023

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Geprägt durch mediale Entwicklungen durchlebt das Medium Bilderbuch seit einigen Jahrzehnten einen ästhetischen Wandel. Traditionelle Erzählformen verschmelzen mit verschiedenen medialen Rezeptionsgewohnheiten und Trends und bringen neue Darstellungsformen hervor, die nicht länger eine Trennlinie zwischen analogem und digitalem Raum ziehen lassen. So entstehen hybride Produkte, in denen die Arten des Erzählens durch Schrift und Bild erweitert sind. Dabei ist es vor allem die bildliche Dimension, die es dem Medium auf der Ebene des discours ermöglicht, intermediale Bezüge herzustellen und damit die Möglichkeiten der Rezeption zu vergrößern. Zu beobachten sind hier Bildfolgen, die an Filmeinstellungen erinnern, simulierte Interaktionen, die die Struktur von Computerspielen aufgreifen, oder evozierte Klangvorstellungen, die die Modalität des Bilderbuchs zu erweitern scheinen. Indem ausgewählte Bilderbuchbeispiele auf ihre vorherrschende Narrationsform hin analysiert und ihre Schnittstellen zu medienästhetischen Konventionen aufgezeigt werden, wird in diesem Beitrag die Brücke zwischen bilderbuchanalytischen und medienwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen geschlagen.

What is analogue? What is digital?The Blurring of Aesthetic Borders in Print Picturebooks
Picturebooks have, over the past decades, been undergoing an aesthetic transformation, influenced by general media developments. Traditional narrative forms are merging with media trends, taking into account changed reception habits, to produce new forms of presentation. Hybrid products have emerged, extending the possibilities of storytelling in written text and images. The pictorial dimension especially enables the medium, on the level of the discours, to create intermedial references and thus expand the possibilities of reception. Here we observe sequences of images that are reminiscent of film shots, simulated interaction that emulates the structure of computer games or evoked sound ideas that seem to expand the modality of the picturebook. This article builds a bridge between picturebook analysis and media studies approaches by analysing the predominant narrative form in selected picturebooks and showing their interface with conventions of media aesthetics.
August Corrodi (1826–1885)
Authors: Keller Deborah 
Published: December 2023

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Noch bis zur letzten Jahrtausendwende haftete der Schweizer Kinderliteratur das Etikett der Fantasie- und Humorlosigkeit, des einseitig Pädagogischen und Moraldidaktischen an. Dabei trat mit dem Winterthurer August Corrodi schon Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ein Schweizer Kinderbuchautor und -illustrator auf den Plan, dessen Werk ein humoristischer Grundton prägt, ja, der sogar einmal als „erster reiner Humorist“ der deutschsprachigen Kinderliteratur bezeichnet wurde (von Greyerz 1921). Der Beitrag untersucht, worin das vielbeschworene „Humoristische“ bei Corrodi denn genau besteht und welche Formen und Funktionen die Komik in seinen Texten annimmt. Zum einen gilt es die Bezüge zu Corrodis großem Vorbild Jean Paul und dessen Humorlehre herauszuarbeiten. Zum andern lassen sich Corrodis Ästhetisierungen des Komischen als dezidierte Emanzipationsschritte weg von einer aufklärerisch belehrenden Erzähltradition lesen. Aufklärerische, aber auch biedermeierliche und romantische Stereotype, denen Corrodi teilweise selbst noch verhaftet ist, werden ironisiert und transformiert. Methodisch wird der Ansatz verfolgt, textimmanente Analysen mit diskurgeschichtlichen Betrachtungen in einen Dialog zu bringen und Erkenntnisgewinne durch unterschiedliche Theoriemodelle zu kombinieren und zu integrieren. Dazu gehört auch eine Auseinandersetzung mit den in der Zeit wirksamen Gattungstraditionen.

August Corrodi (1826–1885) A Pioneer of Comic Children's Literature in the German-Speaking World
Until the turn of the last millennium, Swiss children’s literature was seen as lacking imagination and humor, as one-sidedly pedagogical and morally didactic. Yet, in the mid-nineteenth century, August Corrodi came onto the scene. Corrodi was a Swiss author and illustrator of children’s books from Winterthur, and his work is characterised by a humorous undertone; von Greyerz (1921) went so far as to identify him as the “first pure humourist” of German-language children’s literature. This article examines the much-invoked ‘humorous’ in Corrodi’s work and the forms and functions of comedy in his texts. It will identify Corrodi’s connection to Jean Paul’s humour theory along with Corrodi’s aesthetic rendering of humour as emancipation from the rationalistic, schoolmasterly narrative tradition. Corrodi ironicises and transforms stereotypes of the Enlightenment, but also those of Biedermeier and the Romantic, even though he was at least partly immersed in them himself. The article aims to bring text-immanent analyses into dialogue with a discourse-historical approach and to combine insights gained through different theoretical models, including an examination of the genre traditions current at the time.
The good and general order of the world of Simeon Polotskij
Authors: Киселева М.С. 
Published: December 2023

В статье рассматривается концепт Благо как основополагающая ценность христианского вероучения − Божественного дара благодати человеку. В европейской культуре Нового времени от XVII к XVIII вв. расширяется его востребованность в земных делах: в общественной морали, социально-политической и хозяйственной жизни, что характерно особенно для протестантских стран. Немалую роль в этом процессе сыграло проповедническое искусство как католической, так и протестантской церквей. Учительное слово от апостольских времен и патристики было важнейшим инструментом утверждения христианской веры. В средневековой Европе проповедь стала мощным средством не только религиозной, но и социальной дисциплинаризации паствы. В Новое время ее содержание − своего рода проводник трансформации социальных ценностей, в том числе, идеи «общего блага», а также индикатор потребности в них человека в общем порядке мира. Исследуется концепт Благо в барочной поэтической «энциклопедии» «Вертоград многоцветный» Симеона Полоцкого с об-ращением к комментариям А. Хипписли, для понимания работы Симеона по «пресаждению корней» из западной католической гомилетики в российский поэтический сад, обладающий мощной проповеднической интенцией. Вывод автора: Симеона Полоцкого, могилянца «первого призыва» − выпускника Киево-Могилянской коллегии, проводника юго-западного православного просвещения можно рассматривать как книжника и деятеля начального этапа реформ в этой области, которые далее имели продолжение в царствование Петра I.
The article examines the concept of Good as a fundamental value of Christian doctrine - the Divine gift of grace to man. In European culture of the New Age from the 17th to the 18th cс. its relevance in earthly affairs is expanding: in public morality, socio-political and economic life, which is especially characteristic of Protestant countries. The preaching art of both the Catholic and Protestant churches played a significant role in this process. Since apostolic times and patristics, the teaching word has been the most important instrument for establishing the Christian faith. In medieval Europe, preaching became a powerful means of not only religious, but also social discipline of the flock. In modern times, its content is a kind of conductor of transformation of social values, including the idea of the “common good,” as well as an indicator of a person’s need for them in the general order of the world. The concept of Good in the baroque poetic “encyclopedia” “Vertograd mnogocvětnyj” by Simeon Polotckij is explored with reference to the comments of A. Hippisley, in order to understand the work of Simeon in “planting roots” from Western Catholic homiletics into the Russian poetic garden, which has a powerful preaching intention. Author's conclusion: Simeon Polotckij, a graduate of the Kiev-Mohyla Collegium, a conductor of southwestern Orthodox education, can be considered as a scribe and figure in the initial stage of reforms in this area, which then continued during the reign of Peter I.
Dimitry of Rostov’ Sermons as Part of the Cell Chronicle Moral Education of the Flock and Ideas of Social Order
Authors: Федотова М.А. 
Published: December 2023

В статье предложен анализ нравоучительных нарративов в составе «Келейного летописца» Димитрия Ростовского (1651–1709), которые являются частью комментариев к изложению библейских событий (в Летописце пересказано и прокомментировано тридцать две главы Книги Бытия). Основное внимание уделено рассмотрению текстов, посвященных проблемам нравственного воспитания паствы, идеям социального порядка и бесконфликтного существования общества. Они читаются в поучениях о грехе и страхе Божьем, нравоучениях о зле войны и зле золота. Эти нравоучения являются ключевыми и составляют в рамках «Келейного летописца» как бы единый блок – последовательно следуют друг за другом, заполняя собой небогатые на события столетия: с восьмого столетия второго тысячелетия до первого столетия третьего тысячелетия. Их значимость, как показывает автор статьи, определяется также тем, что осмысление святителем «греха» имеет некоторые отличия от русского нравственно-учительного богословия и ближе к западноевропейскому прочтению, затрагивающему понятия Божьего страха и смертного греха, одним из которых являются неправедные войны. Вскрывая их причины, святитель Димитрий тем не менее призывает общество к страстотерпческой терпимости и прославляет нравственную красоту человека, который ради общего блага способен пожертвовать самое дорогое.
The article offers an analysis of the moralizing narratives in the composition of the “Cell Chronicle” by Dimitry of Rostov (1651–1709). They are part of the comments on the presentation of biblical events (thirty-two chapters of the Book of Genesis are retold and commented in the essay). The main attention is paid to the consideration of texts devoted to the problems of the moral education of the flock, the ideas of social order and the conflict-free existence of society. They are set forth in the teachings on sin and the fear of God, in the moralizing on the evil of war and the evil of gold. Both themes are key and make up, as it were, a single block within the framework of the “Cell Chronicle” - they consistently follow each other, filling the centuries that are not rich in events: from the eighth century of the second millennium to the first century of the third millennium. The author of the article believes that their significanc is also determined by the hierarch’s understanding of the concept “sin”. It has some differences from Russian moral and educational theology and is closer to Western European view, affecting the concepts of God’s fear and mortal sin, one of which is unrighteous wars. Revealing their causes, St. Dimitry nonetheless calls society to passionate tolerance and glorifies the moral beauty of a person who is able to sacrifice the most precious thing for the common good.
Peter the Great and Iurisperitus Pufendorf
Authors: Киселев М.А. 
Published: December 2023

Статья посвящена истории создания и публикации в 1726 г. русского перевода сочинения С. Пуфендорфа «De officio hominis et civis iuxta legem naturalem» в ее взаимосвязи с идейными предпочтениями и поисками Петра I. В историографии рассматривают этот перевод как знак проявления интереса царя к трактатам по естественному праву, которые в свою очередь оказали влияние на использование Петром концепта «общего блага» при обосновании его государственной деятельности. Показывается, что появление этого перевода было связано с тем, что Петр хотел получить на русском языке учебник по юриспруденции, а не с какими-то его особыми симпатиями к правовым идеям Пуфендорфа. Соответственно, при поиске идейных источников, из которых Петр черпал вдохновение, связанное с понятием общего блага / общей пользы, следует обратиться, скорее, к его интересу к религиозной и морально-политической литературе и историческим сочинениям.
The article is devoted to the history of the creation and publication in 1726 of the Russian translation of S. Pufendorf’s book «De officio hominis et civis iuxta legem naturalem» in its relationship with the ideological preferences of Peter I. Traditionally this translation considers as a sign of the tsar’s interest in treatises on natural law. Moreover, it is believed that sush treatises influenced Peter to use the concept of the «common good» in justifying his activities. It is shown that the appearance of this translation related to Peter’s desire to receive a textbook on jurisprudence in Russian, and not with any of his special sympathies for Pufendorf’s legal ideas. Accordingly, it is necessary to analyse Peter’s interest in religious and moral-political literature and historical writings for searching ideological sources from which Peter drew inspiration related to the concept of the common good / common benefit.
The Articulation of the Concept of «Hard-Labour» in the Socio-Political Discourse of Britain and Russia in the XVII–XVIII Centuries
Authors: Васильева С.А. 
Published: December 2023

В статье представлен анализ интеллектуального наследия английских и российских просветителей, общественных и государственных деятелей, а также обзор нормативных документов середины XVII – середины XVIII века на предмет появления предложений использования принудительного труда в качестве уголовного наказания. В британском варианте концепт «принудительный труд» проявился изначально в либеральном дискурсе, и только спустя столетие прошел нормативное оформление. В концептосфере российского политического дискурса институт принудительных работ возникает как законоустановление.
The article presents an analysis of the intellectual heritage of English and Russian educators, public figures and statesmen, and a review of normative documents of the mid-17th to mid-18th centuries for the appearance of proposals for the use of forced labor as a criminal punishment. In the British version, the concept of "hard labour" appeared initially in the liberal discourse, and only a century later passed the normative formalization. In the conceptual sphere of the Russian political discourse, the institution of forced labour arises as a legal institution.
A historian who felt connected to history In memory of Dietrich Geyer (1928–2023)
Authors: Нарский И.В. 
Published: December 2023

Статья посвящена известному немецкому историку Дитриху Гайеру. В ней он представлен как ученый с оригинальными идеями и изысканным стилем письма, неутомимый организатор науки и контактов между учеными разных стран, щедрый наставник молодых ученых, ответственный и сопереживающий человек. В качестве источников в данном тексте используются труды Дитриха Гайера, а также воспоминания автора статьи о встречах с ним и завязавшаяся в связи с этим знакомством переписка. Помимо вопроса о месте и роли Гайера в организации и развитии международного изучения российской истории в последней трети ХХ в., этот кейс затрагивает проблему исследовательских, институциональных, логистических горизонтов, которые открывались для бывших советских историков на рубеже XX–ХХI вв.
The article is dedicated to the famous German historian Dietrich Geyer (1928–2023). It presents him as a scientist with original ideas, as a brilliant writer, as a tireless organizer of science and contacts between scientists from different countries, as a generous mentor of young scientists, as a responsible and sensitive person. The sources on which this text is based are Dietrich Geyer's writings as well as the author's memories of meetings with him and the resulting correspondence. In addition to the question of Geyer's place and role in the organization and development of the international study of Russian history in the last third of the twentieth century, this case study also addresses the problem of the scholarly, institutional and logistical horizons that opened up for former Soviet historians at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.