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Imagic iconicity as thematic representation in selected Nigerian children’s poetry
Authors: Nwuche Amaka Grace , Ngonebu Chinyere Loretta , Unachukwu Ogechi Chiamaka 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Sounds play crucial roles in a poem’s meaning (re)construction. Grasping the content of a literary work such as poetry often requires a profound interpretation of the underlying linguistic cum phonetic codes of its discourse. Extant studies on Nigerian children’s poetry have paid little attention to this aspect of meaning conception, thereby concentrating mainly on the surface lexical constructs. Hence, this study aims to examine imagic iconicity in children’s poems in order to demonstrate how a poem’s thematic realization is inferred through the interpretation of the phonic and acoustic nature of the sounds employed. The study involves five poems: three from Ossie Enekwe’s Gentle Birds Come to me and two from Ikeogu Oke’s Song of Success and Other Poems for Children. The analysis is anchored to insights from Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of the iconic sign, and exploits the action of acoustic and phonetic articulation of sounds to determine their functions and effects in the poems. The study reveals how specialized lexemic choices and onomatopoeia (kinaesthemes, phonaestheme or sound symbolism) in children’s poems make each poem functional and purposeful. Thus, children’s poetry contains language structures and configurations that transmit sense and embody what the poem is asserting in a way that interestingly engages the reader.
Genre-structural analysis of Arabic accident news reporting
Authors: Alshehri Abdulmohsin A. 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
This paper is concerned with an exploration of the structural arrangement of Arabic hard news reporting with reference to a corpus of twenty accident news stories drawn from two leading Middle Eastern news organizations, Aljazeera and Alarabiya. A range of journalistic traditions has been examined with respect to organizational structures used in their hard news reporting texts. Within journalism discourse analysis, the nucleus-satellite structure developed by scholars of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is commonly found in news reporting in English and across various languages. However, news media texts in some cultures, such as Arabic, have not undergone any close scrutiny from a generic perspective. Accordingly, this study attempts to fill such a gap by investigating the genre-related features of the Arabic accident reports, drawing on the insights provided by SFL literature on the news story as a genre. It employs various lines of analysis such as textual deconstruction, timeline, radical editability, and lexical chaining. The findings of these analyses suggest that the Arabic accident news reports are non-chronologically organized operating with the lead-dominated orbital model, and thus generically bearing a close resemblance to the English news reports.
Indirect truth marking via backgrounding: evidence from Bantu
Authors: Kerr Elisabeth J. , Van der Wal Jenneke 
Published: February 2024

AbstractVerum focus has long been analysed as part of information structure, being accounted for within a theory of focus as generation of alternatives on a polarity value. Recently, however, this view has been challenged, with some authors arguing for a separation between verum and focus. The empirical debate focuses on two types of strategies: either verum is marked identically to focus (e.g., pitch accent in German, English) or through a dedicated strategy (e.g., dedicated markers in Gitksan, Bura, South Marghi). On the basis of the second type, it has been argued that the link between focus and verum is only superficial, with verum instead arising from a lexical operator VERUM. In this paper, we provide evidence in support of the traditional link between truth marking and focus, using original field data on the morphosyntactic expression of information structure in 11 Bantu (Niger-Congo) languages. By working from function to form, we show that these languages use a variety of grammatical strategies for truth expression, strategies that are used elsewhere in the information structural system for backgrounding. In this way, verum is not directly marked by focal accent but marked indirectly via backgrounding, which we formulate as theBackgrounding and Underspecification Thesis(BUT). On the basis of this Bantu evidence, we add a third type of strategy to the typology, where verum is marked indirectly via backgrounding. We use this updated typology to argue in favour of maintaining a conceptual link between verum, polarity focus, and predicated-centred focus more broadly.
Prensa y policía. La Jefatura montevideana en las páginas de La Tribuna Popular (1911-1923)
Authors: Fessler Daniel 
Published: February 2024

In this article I intend to study the relationship between a sector of the Montevideo Press and the Capital’s Police Headquarters during the 1910s and the early 1920s of the twentieth century, from a quantitative approach, through the analysis of news related to the crime. A moment that stood out because of the tension between newspapers and authorities of the time. For this, I focused on La Tribuna Popular, an organ that closely followed the police chronicles and reports , supporting the idea of the growth in the crime rate in the city. Traditionally , its argument was based on questioning criminal law, the administration of justice and especially the functioning of the Montevideo Police force itself. My proposal aims to analyze the relationship of the evening newspaper with two of the most censored chiefs of the period (Juan Antonio Pintos and Virgilio Sampognaro) until the change of course which was produced by the assumption of Gómez Folle in the year 1923. The present work confirms the impact that the permanent preaching through editorials and articles dedicated to tracking and monitoring criminal information had. That impact eroded the prestige of an institution systematically presented under the qualifier label of madness or insanity.
Una asociación indispensable: liderazgo gerencial y resultados de gestión en el Sector Educación de la Autoridad de Reconstrucción con Cambios
Authors: Delgado Vera Gloria María 
Published: February 2024

Asumir que el liderazgo es efectivo cuando se logran los resultados planificados, esto es lo esperado en el orbe empresarial. Por supuesto, no todos los escenarios son iguales. En situaciones más complejas, como la pandemia del COVID-19, los buenos resultados son más sobresalientes, a tal nivel que es pertinente reflexionar académicamente la asociación entre la acción y el logro. Por ello, el presente artículo investiga esta problemática para el caso de la Dirección de Intervenciones del Sector Educación (DISE) de la Autoridad para la Reconstrucción con Cambios (ARCC). El objetivo es estimar la relación entre el liderazgo gerencial y los resultados de gestión. El diseño de la investigación fue cuantitativa, correlacional y no experimental, lo que facultó aplicar un cuestionario, previamente validado (Alfa de Cronbach = 0.924), y compararlo con los informes oficiales del resultado de la gestión del 2021 (indicadores ponderados en una escala de 5). Se concluyó, a través del Coeficiente de Correlación Rho Spearman = 0.897 (89.7%) con un p-valor=0 < 0.05, que existe relación directa muy significativa entre el liderazgo gerencial y los resultados de gestión. No obstante, para generalizar el caso como una medida aplicable a instituciones públicas pares, se requiere estudiar las variables con un tipo de metodología mixta.
Pobreza en el Perú: enfoques actuales e impactos de la gestión pública
Authors: Alarcón Huamaní José David 
Published: February 2024

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo presentar, en principio, una reseña histórica de los principales enfoques que han tratado la pobreza en sus diversas manifestaciones, para luego analizar el caso peruano en cuanto a la relación o asociación existente entre la pobreza monetaria y aquella que puede ser medida a través del enfoque de Necesidades Básicas Insatisfechas, y la inversión pública medida a través de la variable formación bruta de capital público, usando como herramienta central el coeficiente de correlación, estableciendo que existe un fuerte grado de asociación, inversa entre la ejecución del gasto público duradero y la reducción de la pobreza, con resultados muy cercanos a la unidad. La principal lección que se puede extraer es que es necesario sostener la aplicación de políticas públicas enfocadas en diversos sectores que provean los mejores resultados en cuanto a la reducción de los ratios de pobreza.
Digging up Old Stories: How the Soviet Myths of Allied Intervention into the Russian North in 1918–1919 are used in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine. The Case of Mudyug Concentration Camp Museum
Authors: Golysheva Natalia 
Published: February 2024

The mythology of the foreign interference into the Russian civil war goes to the heart of the memory politics in Putin’s Russia today, most recently in connection with the invasion in Ukraine. In a bid to unite the country against perceived threats from the NATO alliance, the Russian leadership engages Soviet narratives going back to the Allied intervention into North Russia in 1918–1920, as a deterrent against association with the West. During Soviet times multiple memorials were created in the North to the victims of intervention in support of this narrative. Central to it was the Mudyug ‘concentration camp’ museum, established to demonstrate the atrocities of the intervention forces. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union this museum was branded as propaganda and eventually got decommissioned. Yet after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent war with Ukraine, the old intervention narratives saw a comeback. Backed by the state, the local memory activists in Arkhangelsk in North Russia took to restoring the Mudyug camp museum as a forepost of patriotic tourism in the region.
The determination of fibroblast and keratinocyte death types after their transplantation into γ-irradiated porous scaffold in vitro
Authors: Kot Y. H. , Kot K. V. , Kurbanov R. A. 
Published: February 2024

In the course of radiation therapy, normal cells surrounding the tumor are also irradiated. During and after irradiation, they undergo a series of structural and metabolic changes, which can lead to cell death or transformation. Therefore, when planning and conducting radiation therapy, the effects of radiation on normal cells are taken into account with the aim of predicting and further correcting post-radiation complications, including the development of radiation burns and ulcers. Radiation skin burns are characterized by a prolonged course of the wound healing process, which is accompanied by a sharp decrease in the number of viable cells in the affected tissue from the first hours of irradiation. The type of cell death can significantly impact the effectiveness of radiation therapy and post-radiation complication correction. Therefore, it is important to study the type of their death in irradiated three-dimensional culture on a model of irradiated dermal equivalent, which is widely used today for modeling biological processes. To detect the pathways of cell death, the levels of reactive oxygen species, cell viability, number of cells undergoing autophagy, apoptosis, and necrosis, the content of active caspases 3, 8, and 9 was fluorometrically measured in the irradiated 3D cell culture by laser scanning confocal microscopy. It was determined that the transplantation of fibroblasts and keratinocytes into the irradiated dermal equivalent contributed to an increase in the overall viability of cells of the equivalent and led to a significant decrease in the concentration of free oxygen forms in the irradiated equivalent. Cells within the irradiated equivalent were not evenly distributed in terms of their quantity and viability, with an overall decrease in the cell count over time. A cluster of equivalent cells with significantly higher viability was formed around the transplant. At the same time, the fibroblasts of the transplant were found to be more resistant to the cytotoxic factors of the post-irradiation culture environment compared to keratinocytes. It was demonstrated that non-irradiated dermal equivalent cells predominantly undergo cell death through autophagy, irradiated equivalent cells primarily undergo necrosis, and after the introduction of the transplant, cell death predominantly occurs through apoptosis. In irradiated culture, both with and without transplantation, there is an increase in the content of effector caspase 3. Cells in irradiated culture undergo apoptosis through the mitochondrial mechanism (with a predominance of active caspase 9), while in irradiated culture with the introduction of the transplant, the receptor-mediated mechanism of apoptosis dominates (with a predominance of active caspase 8). The obtained results can be important for the development of new effective methods of therapy for radiation burns, chronic ulcers and wounds of various etiologies.
Quantity and diameter of dentinal tubules of human teeth and teeth of experimental animals according to scanning electron microscopy data
Authors: Gevkaliuk N. O. , Martyts I. M. , Mykhailiuk V. M. , Pynda M. Y. , Pudiak V. Y. , Krupei V. Y. 
Published: February 2024

Insight into the interrelation between the structure and mechanical properties of dentin of a tooth is crucial for prevention and treatment of oral cavity diseases. The study of the structure of dental dentin is important for understanding the pathogenetic mechanisms of the spread of cariogenic microflora in progressive dental caries to the pulp and periodontium, as well as for the interpretation of the results of studies of dental dentin-adhesive materials. The in vitro research presented here involved the examination of coronal dentin in 46 intact teeth from rats, cats, dogs, and humans at various distances from the pulp chamber, with a focus on the quantity and diameter of dentinal tubules. The calculations were based on the analysis of 155 scanning electron microscope photographs of the enamel surface and pulp chamber wall. The researchers calculated the quantity and diameter of dentinal tubules per unit area, which they measured at various distances from the pulp chamber. It was found that dentinal tubules are the widest near the pulp chamber wall, where the average diameter ranged from 1.7 to 2.8 µm. The highest values were found in premolars of young humans and the lowest - in the incisors of rats. In the middle portion of the dentin, the diameter of dentinal tubules ranged from 1.0 to 13.3 µm, while at the periphery, it was 0.6–0.9 µm. The highest density of dentinal tubules per unit area was found closest to the pulp horn, and the lowest was in the enamel region. Near the pulp chamber wall, the average density of dentinal tubules ranged from 50 000 to 90 000/mm², in the middle of the dentin, it ranged from 37 000 to 50 000/mm², and at the periphery, it ranged from 10 000 to 25 000/mm². All examined teeth exhibited straight dentinal tubules, except for the rats’ incisors, which showed local irregularities. A comparison was made based on the quantity and width of dentinal tubules in the examined animals and humans.
Peculiarities of histological structure of some organs of serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus)
Authors: Serdioucov J. , Filipets Y. , Shkundia D. , Kruchynenko O. 
Published: February 2024

Chiroptera is the only group of mammals that is able to fly. They are beneficial for people and ecosystem they live in. In Ukraine, all species of bats are rare or endangered, in particular serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus Schreber, 1774). So as to prevent the extinction of currently existing species of bats, it is crucial to combat their diseases, in particular improve diagnostics, including postmortem diagnostics. At the macroscopic and microscopic levels, morphology of bats has still been studied poorly, especially such of bats that live in Ukraine. Besides, knowledge of the structure of various organs of bats at macroscopic and microscopic levels is necessary for effective pathoanatomic diagnostics of their diseases. We researched the normal histological structure of some organs of E. serotinus. For this purpose, we used four corpses of this animal, which had previously died as a result of their disturbance during winter hibernation. We carried out a histological study, for which we sampled organs such as the liver, kidneys, lungs, heart, subcutaneous gland, and spleen. From the samples, we prepared histological sections and stained them with hematoxylin eosin. We described the general patterns of microscopic structure of the said organs of serotine bat. We found that microscopic structure of all the examined organs was similar to that of mammals in general. At the same time, we did observe some peculiarities of the histological structure of the studied organs, especially lungs, compared with such of other mammals, particularly: poor degree of development of the stroma, compact arrangement of parenchyma elements in the parenchyma-structure organs, large variability of sizes of alveolar lumens in the lungs. We assume that those peculiarities had emerged because of bats’ adaptation for flight. We believe that it is promising to continue research of microscopic structure of various organs of E. serotinus, as well as other bats living in Ukraine and around the globe.
The effect of anti-slip aggregate and silica fume on polymer-modified concrete
Authors: Al Lebban Maher F. , Alraie Ameer A. , Jabal Qusay A. , Alasadi Laith Abdul Rasool , Muwashee Rawa Shakir , Mahdi Waseem H. 
Published: February 2024

AbstractProgress in building construction requires more durable concrete with higher strength. Polymer and water reducer liquids can improve concrete strength and durability. This research aims to improve the mechanical properties of polymer-modified concrete by using anti-slip sand and silica fume to achieve more durable concrete against sulfate attack and higher mechanical properties. The study shows an increase in compressive strength from 25.7 MPa for reference mix to 45.5 MPa using 15% silica fume and 30% Anti-slip sand; tensile strength increased from 2.72 to 4.4 MPa. Flexural strength also increased, and durability to sulfate attack also increased. The study includes the increment of durability against freezing-thawing cycles for different mixes.
Depression depth impact on the stormwater hydrographs from impervious catchment
Authors: Matlai Ivan , Vovk Lesya , Zhuk Volodymyr 
Published: February 2024

AbstractMethod of numerical analysis of the influence of initial depression depth coupled with absolute surface roughness and with Manning's roughness coefficient onto the key hydraulic parameters of the stormwater runoff is proposed. Small highly urbanized catchment with 100% impervious cover was used in stormwater management model numerical simulations for climatic conditions of the Lviv City (Ukraine) at the return period of 1 year. An increase in depression depth from 1 to 5 mm causes reduction in the specific maximum peak runoff from 5.13∙10−3 L/(s∙m2) to 3.29∙10−3 L/(s∙m2), while the critical duration of rainfall increase from 17 min to 56 min. The dimensionless maximum peak flow rate is expressed as a two-parameter exponent function of the initial depression depth, allowing the estimation of the lower limit of this discharge for the practically significant range of the depression depth.
Challenges in advancing our understanding of atomic-like quantum systems: Theory and experiment
Authors: Gali Adam , Schleife André , Heinrich Andreas J. , Laucht Arne , Schuler Bruno , Chakraborty Chitraleema , Anderson Christopher P. , Déprez Corentin , McCallum Jeffrey , Bassett Lee C. , Friesen Mark , Flatté Michael E. , Maurer Peter , Coppersmith Susan N. , Zhong Tian , Begum-Hudde Vijaya , Ping Yuan 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Quantum information processing and quantum sensing is a central topic for researchers who are part of the Materials Research Society and the Quantum Staging Group is providing leadership and guidance in this context. We convened a workshop before the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting and covered four topics to explore challenges that need to be addressed to further promote and accelerate the development of materials with applications in quantum technologies. This article captures the discussions at this workshop and refers to the pertinent literature.

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Delayed Implant Fixture Displacement into the Maxillary Sinus Five Years Post-Loading: Unraveling the Causes - A Case Report
Authors: Cho Young Joon , Jung Yong Tak , Lee Tae Hee , Cho Hyun Woo 
Published: February 2024

Abstract
Reports of implant fixtures dislocating into the maxillary sinus during sinus graft procedures are well-documented. However, cases of fixtures migrating into the sinus long after placement have yet to be reported. This case report details the surgical extraction of a displaced screw and cement-retained prosthesis, including a fixture and its abutment, from the maxillary sinus after a minimum of 5 years under functional load. The extracted implant was subsequently examined using scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. We found that the migration commenced with peri-implantitis surrounding the implant, replacing the second molar. This was accompanied by a loss of cement from the crown on this implant and concurrent loosening of the abutment screw on the implant, replacing the first molar. We hypothesize that the inability of the bony tissue surrounding the second molar implant to withstand occlusal forces resulted in forming a bony sequestrum. This process ultimately precipitated the migration of the fixture, along with its abutment and adjacent necrotic bone, into the sinus cavity.
Inclusió educativa i aprenentatge-servei a l’àrea de Didàctica de l’Expressió Corporal
Authors: Chiva-Bartoll Oscar , Gil-Gómez Jesús , Maravé-Vivas Maria 
Published: February 2024

L'Aprenentatge-Servei (ApS) és una metodologia pedagògica experiencial i activa. Una de les seves principals virtuts és que fa efectiu el principi educatiu que diu que l'aprenentatge ha d'estar vinculat al medi social, físic i humà en què viu la persona que aprèn, qüestió essencial per poder dotar de significat real els aprenentatges. L’ApS el podem assimilar a un paraigua sota el qual s'aixopluguen altres estratègies, procediments i accions metodològiques. És a dir, el seu ús no soluciona una qüestió bàsica i pràctica com la d’organitzar ‘la classe de demà’; no és una estratègia concreta, és més aviat una forma d'entendre l'acció educativa. Des d'aquesta perspectiva, cal entendre’l com un paradigma global que impregna la nostra forma d'ensenyar, però que requereix d'altres estratègies per a la seva implementació. Aquest text presenta un projecte aplicat d'inclusió educativa realitzat a través d'ApS amb alumnat universitari del Grau de Mestre o Mestra d'Educació Infantil, executat a un Centre d'Educació Infantil i Primària. En els primers apartats analitzarem la base conceptual de l’ApS, per continuar descriurem el projecte Patis Inclusius i finalment acabarem realitzant una avaluació del mateix.