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Gender in mathematics: how gender role perception influences mathematical capability in junior high school
Authors: Xie Guihua , Liu Xinyu 
Published: May 2023

AbstractBased on the China Education Panel Survey, this study discusses how gender role perception influences the mathematical capability of female students from the multilevel perspectives of individual, family, school, and region. This study finds that the stereotypical view of gender roles held by students and parents has a significant impact on the mathematical capability of both sexes, with a positive effect on male students and a negative effect on female students. However, the threat of gender stereotypes does not have a negative impact on female students. In addition, the number and sex of children in the family and the local sex ratio have no significant impact on the mathematical capability of either male or female students. Therefore, the major factors affecting ‘females’ mathematics learning are the stereotypical views of the relationship between gender and mathematics held by female students and families rather than the tradition of favoring men over women.
A landscape assessment of the activities and capacities of evidence-to-policy intermediaries (EPI) in behavioral health
Authors: Almquist Lars , Walker Sarah Cusworth , Purtle Jonathan 
Published: May 2023

AbstractBackgroundA significant gap exists between the production of research evidence and its use in behavioral health policymaking. Organizations providing consulting and support activities for improving policy represent a promising source for strengthening the infrastructure to address this gap. Understanding the characteristics and activities of these evidence-to-policy intermediary (EPI) organizations can inform the development of capacity-building activities, leading to strengthened evidence-to-policy infrastructure and more widespread evidence-based policymaking.MethodsOnline surveys were sent to 51 organizations from English-speaking countries involved in evidence-to-policy activities in behavioral health. The survey was grounded in a rapid evidence review of the academic literature regarding strategies used to influence research use in policymaking. The review identified 17 strategies, which were classified into four activity categories. We administered the surveys via Qualtrics and calculated the descriptive statistics, scales, and internal consistency statistics using R.ResultsA total of 31 individuals completed the surveys from 27 organizations (53% response rate) in four English-speaking countries. EPIs were evenly split between university (49%) and non-university (51%) settings. Nearly all EPIs conducted direct program support (mean = 4.19/5 [sd = 1.25]) and knowledge-building (4.03 [1.17]) activities. However, engagement with traditionally marginalized and non-traditional partners (2.84 [1.39]) and development of evidence reviews using formal critical appraisal methods (2.81 [1.70]) were uncommon. EPIs tend to be specialized, focusing on a group of highly related strategies rather than incorporating multiple evidence-to-policy strategies in their portfolios. Inter-item consistency was moderate to high, with scaleα’s ranging from 0.67 to 0.85. Ratings of respondents’ willingness to pay for training in one of three evidence dissemination strategies revealed high interest in program and policy design.ConclusionsOur results suggest that evidence-to-policy strategies are frequently used by existing EPIs; however, organizations tend to specialize rather than engage in a breadth of strategies. Furthermore, few organizations reported consistently engaging with non-traditional or community partners. Focusing on building capacity for a network of new and existing EPIs could be a promising strategy for growing the infrastructure needed for evidence-informed behavioral health policymaking.
Nonlocal interaction enhanced biexciton emission in large CsPbBr3 nanocrystals
Authors: Huang Peng , Sun Shipei , Lei Hairui , Zhang Yongyou , Qin Haiyan , Zhong Haizheng 
Published: May 2023

AbstractBiexciton emission in quantum dots is an efficient way to generate entangled photon pairs, which are key resources in quantum informatics. Compared with epitaxial grown quantum dots, chemically synthesized colloidal quantum dots show advantages of tunable wavelength and easy integration to realize quantum light sources. However, biexciton efficiency of colloidal quantum dots has been limited by Auger recombination. In this paper, we reported nonlocal interaction enhanced biexciton emission with efficiency up to 80% in large perovskite nanocrystals (> 20 nm). The nonlocal interaction between carriers and excitons leads to the abnormal exponential decrease of Auger recombination with volume in large nanocrystals, which distinguishes with the linear scaling in small counterparts. Such an exponential decrease of Auger recombination results in long lifetime of biexcitons, responsible for the required high biexciton efficiency. The discovery of nonlocal effects in large semiconductor nanocrystals provides new strategies to achieve high efficiency multiple excitons for quantum optics and energy conversation applications.
Gaussian-weighted crosscorrelation imaging condition for microseismic source localization
Authors: Yang Peng , Gajewski Dirk , Xie Yujiang 
Published: May 2023

Time-reversal imaging is a powerful method for the localization of microseismic events. Conventional time-reversal imaging methods such as autocorrelation imaging or grouped crosscorrelation imaging may suffer from imaging artifacts, e.g., caused by less refined velocity models, noise-contaminated data, and data acquired from sparse receiver networks. These artifacts typically reduce imaging quality and may cause subsequent misinterpretations leading to false positives. To address these issues, we develop a new imaging condition that comprises three steps for each time step. First, we divide the back-propagated wavefield into parts according to their maximum absolute amplitudes. Second, the amplitudes of the back-propagated wavefield are weighted by a Gaussian function with the spatial extent of the prevailing wavelength of the event, centered at the absolute maximum of that part of the wavefield. Finally, we zero-lag crosscorrelate these weighted wavefields at each space point to obtain an image for this time step. The final image is gained by summing the images for each time step. This process collects all energy concentrations along the back projection process, and the energy on the wavefront overlaps and collapses at the hypocenter leading to high-resolution images displaying little to no imaging artifacts. Numerical examples using the Marmousi-II and the 3D SEG overthrust models and a 3D field data example indicate the performance of our method. High-resolution low-noise source images allow unique identification of sources even for source clusters, noisy data, and sparse acquisitions. The source localization errors are smaller than the dominant wavelength of the signal, where a smooth model with a mean velocity error of approximately 5% was considered in the synthetic examples, and a homogeneous model was used in the field data example.
Cervical Cancer Progression in Patients Waiting for Radiotherapy Treatment at a Referral Center in Ethiopia: A Longitudinal Study
Authors: Feyisa Jilcha D. , Woldegeorgis Mathewos A. , Zingeta Girum T. , Abegaz Kedir H. , Berhane Yemane 
Published: May 2023

PURPOSENonmetastatic cervical cancer is curable and can be treated with radiotherapy (RT). A delay in receiving treatment because of long waiting times results in upstaging of the disease stage and negatively affects the treatment outcomes. However, real-world evidence that progression occurs while waiting for treatment is scarce in low-income countries. We evaluated the impact of long waiting times for RT in patients with cervical cancer at a referral center in Ethiopia.METHODSA longitudinal study was conducted from January 5, 2019, to May 30, 2020, to address the objectives of this study. Patients with pathologically diagnosed cervical cancer with stage IIB to stage IVA were included in the study. We used Kaplan-Meier analysis to assess overall survival with time. Multivariate Cox regression analysis, using the backward likelihood ratio selection method, was used to fit the final model.RESULTSThe median waiting time for radical RT after diagnosis was 477 days. Waiting for more than 51 days for RT results in disease progression. Of the 115 patients included in this study, 59 (51.3%) died during the study period. A delay in waiting (adjusted hazard ratio, 3; 95% CI, 1.7 to 4.9) was significantly associated with disease progression and decreased survival.CONCLUSIONWaiting time to receive RT is very long. Urgent action is required to significantly reduce waiting times and improve the survival of patients with cervical cancer.
Accumulation of Chronic Disease Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer Predicts Early Mortality
Authors: Esbenshade Adam J. , Lu Lu , Friedman Debra L. , Oeffinger Kevin C. , Armstrong Gregory T. , Krull Kevin R. , Neglia Joseph P. , Leisenring Wendy M. , Howell Rebecca , Partin Robyn , Sketch Amy , Robison Leslie L. , Ness Kirsten K. 
Published: May 2023

PURPOSECancer survivors develop cancer and treatment-related morbidities at younger than normal ages and are at risk for early mortality, suggestive of an aging phenotype. The Cumulative Illness Rating Scale for Geriatrics (CIRS-G) is specifically designed to describe the accumulation of comorbidities over time with estimates of severity such as total score (TS) which is a sum of possible conditions weighted by severity. These severity scores can then be used to predict future mortality.METHODSCIRS-G scores were calculated in cancer survivors and their siblings from Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort members from two time points 19 years apart and members of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 2004. CIRS-G metrics were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards regression to determine subsequent mortality risk.RESULTSIn total, 14,355 survivors with a median age of 24 (IQR, 18-30) years and 4,022 siblings with a median age of 26 (IQR, 19-33) years provided baseline data; 6,138 survivors and 1,801 siblings provided follow-up data. Cancer survivors had higher median baseline TS than siblings at baseline (5.75 v 3.44) and follow-up (7.76 v 4.79), all P < .01. The mean increase in TS from baseline to follow-up was significantly steeper in cancer survivors (2.89 males and 3.18 females) vs. siblings (1.79 males and 1.69 females) and NHANES population (2.0 males and 1.94 females), all P < .01. Every point increase in baseline TS increased hazard for death by 9% (95% CI, 8 to 10) among survivors.CONCLUSIONApplication of a geriatric rating scale to characterize disease supports the hypothesis that morbidity accumulation is accelerated in young adult survivors of childhood cancer when compared with siblings and the general population.
Musica Practica: The Sound of the Beijing New Worker Band
Authors: Zhong Yurou 
Published: May 2023

AbstractSince its inception in 2002, the Beijing New Worker Band has become a representative art group formed by and dedicated to migrant workers. Changing its name three times in twenty years, the band has demonstrated a strong capacity to adapt to uncertain political tides, subsisting in the exploration and expression of art and culture with a new working-class consciousness in postsocialist China. The status of the group has been bolstered by an array of artistic output, such as theater productions, literary writings, and Spring Festival galas. Although overshadowed by some of the better publicized, more successful creative activities, music has been the group's steadiest form of self-expression. Appropriating Roland Barthes's concept of musica practica, this article interrogates the unique status that music has enjoyed in this group and explores three interrelated aspects—album writing, live performances, and community and relationship building—with an emphasis on “practice.” It investigates how musica practica constitutes a pivotal mechanism that enables the group to form and transform as main stakeholders in the making of the new working class, and to imagine and experiment with what cultures of labor in the twenty-first century could sound like.
Effect of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation technique and TENS on improving lower limb sensorimotor function, balance and quality of life in chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy in gynecological cancer: A randomized controlled trial protocol
Authors: Seth Nikita , Quershi Irshad 
Published: May 2023

Gynecological cancers are the most prevalent cancers in women, making it a significant public health concern. Chemotherapy drugs are an extremely effective approach for reducing cancer progression since they have various targets and mechanism of action focused at killing quickly multiplying cancer cells. Unfortunately, these drugs also affect normal cells and structures of the body, resulting in a variety of deleterious effects. Most common among them is chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). Taxanes, platinum medicines, vinca alkaloids and thalidomide are examples of popular pharmaceuticals that are prone to cause CIPN. When CIPN develops during active chemotherapy phase, it may result in the discontinuation or reduction of chemotherapy dose, which may render the dosage ineffective in cancer management. As a result, it is essential that physiotherapists investigate novel approaches to successfully manage the side effects that survivors must deal with. Here’s the idea we suggest by conducting a study which aim to assess the effectiveness of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Technique (PNF) with Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and closed kinetic chain exercises with TENS on subjects with CIPN in Gynecological Cancer in two arm parallel superiority randomized control trial (RCT) on improving lower limb sensorimotor function, balance & quality of life. The total participants in the study will be divided into two equal groups and then the intervention will be given for 8 weeks to both the groups with 5 days in a week with 50 minute session each day. The results will be evaluated after 8 weeks of treatment and 3 weeks after completion of intervention for follow up. If the hypothesis of our study proves to be effective, this physiotherapy intervention could be included in management of CIPN. Along with it, it will help in reducing the rate of discontinuation of chemotherapy dose due to neuropathy.
CONCERNING THE PRE-SOCRATIC DOCTRINES IN RHETORIC
Authors: Vasiliev Lev G. , Melnichuk Nataliia V. 
Published: May 2023

Background. Mastering the rhetorical art as a philological discipline must be based on scientific understanding of the subject of speech influence. The latter is only possible if one masters not only the knowledge of the current state of the discipline, but also the ability to analyze the theoretical achievements of the art of rhetoric in its formation and elaboration. That is what enables the scholar to assess the adequacy of the ratio of learning goals and objectives, as well as the correctness of moral, philological and pedagogical preferences underlying the mastery of the subject.
Purpose. The article analyzes scholarly principles of one of the most important trends of early Greek rhetoric, represented in the main concepts of the ancient sophists.
Materials and methods. The research material was the general philological and didactic postulates of most prominent rhetoricians of the period in question. To highlight the approaches, the method of critical analysis as well the structural-semantic and the philological historical methods are used.
Results. The article demonstrates that the study of the origins of rhetoric gives the correct direction to its understanding. The reason of predominantly didactic nature of early rhetoric is its orientation towards practical goals. Nevertheless, the analyzed concepts enable us to assert that in them, as in the main approaches of the time, the theoretical philological basis is present in the form of rationalizing the essence and prospects of pathos and logos, the latter being considered with an emphasis on the comparison and justification of competing views, as well as on the actual linguistic techniques that ensure the effectiveness of verbal influence.
Practical implications. The data obtained can be used in the analysis of the principles of construction and evaluation of argumentation in debates, as well as in university courses in stylistics for discussing the problem of the effectiveness of speech means.
IMAGES OF THE UMMAH AND MUSLIMS IN THE NOVELS OF THE DUNE CYCLE: IMITATION AND SIMULATION
Authors: Kyrchanoff Maksym W. 
Published: May 2023

Background. The author analyzes the texts of the Dune cycle in contexts of the achievements of interdisciplinary historiography, which proposed universal methods that allow analyzing “Oriental” images in literature through the prism of constructing and deconstructing the narratives that form the image of Islam.
Purpose. The purpose of the article is an “Orientalist” reinterpretation of Islamic images in the novels belonging to the Dune cycle, including the texts of the original cycle and prequels presented by Dune, Dune Messiah, Dune. Butlerian Jihad and Dune. Paul.
Materials and methods. The author uses the methodological tools offered in intellectual history and studies of nationalism, including the concept of the invention of traditions, which allows us to analyze the images of Islam in science fiction as one of the invented traditions of American mass literature using the texts of the Dune cycle as sources corpus. Orientalism as a method is used to analyze Muslim motifs in the prose of F. Herbert, B. Herbert and K. Anderson, which, as the author believes, were inspired by political, ideological and religious stimuli. The author believes that the orientalist approach is an effective interpretative model for an interdisciplinary analysis of American science fiction as a space for the development of Islamic images.
Results. The texts of the Dune cycle are reinterpreted as attempts to assimilate and imitate the images of Islam in popular culture. Oriental political and ideological backgrounds for the development of Muslim images in American science fiction are studied. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the political message broadcast by the novels of the Dune cycle with the help of images of Islam. The author analyzes Muslim images through the prism of their imitation and simulation in the novels that form the Dune cycle. The author believes that the analyzed texts, being part of the wide discourse of Western cultural and political Orientalism, form the image of Islam accessible for understanding and consumption in the mass culture of modern society.
INDIVIDUAL STYLE IN TRANSLATION (BASED ON T. CHIANG’S SHORT NOVEL STORY OF YOUR LIFE)
Authors: Panchenko Polina S. , Andreeva Elena D. 
Published: May 2023

The article examines the main features of the individual style of the American science fiction writer Ted Chiang and the peculiarities of their translation into Russian language.
The relevance is related to the fact that the individual style of the writer has not yet become a subject of study, despite popularity of his works. The problem of author’s style in translation is critical as there is no unanimity on criteria to define style-forming elements of author’s style.
The purpose of the study is to identify the main features of the author’s individual style and their forming factors, as well as the ways to translate them into Russian. For this we analyze the genre affiliation of the work, writer’s sphere of interest, ideological and thematic components, characters’ images and stylistic means, the type of narration, as well as the translation in terms of preserving or transforming these features.
The material: T. Chiang’s sort novel Story of Your Life (2002).
Results of the study: by textual comparison we define T. Chiang’s style elements and show that some of them are extralinguistic, also we describe their translation strategies.
WORD-FORMATION IN AUSTRIAN STANDARD GERMAN IN THE CONTEXT OF LEXEME “KRAUT”
Authors: Radovich Minara A. , Lazareva Yana V. 
Published: May 2023

Despite numerous studies, the aspect of word formation of nouns in the modern literary German language of Germany and Austria is yet to be fully covered.
The purpose of this study is to determine patterns in the word-formation of substantives in modern Austrian Standard German using the example of the lexeme “Kraut” (cabbage).
We used continuous sampling method and lexicographical literature for Standard German and Austrian German.
As a result of the study, universal and unique language characteristics for this variant were identified. For example, in Austrian German the lexeme is replaced by a synonymous one with identical semantics, forming derivative lexical units. Word formation occurs according to the model of attributive composition, while the addition of root morphemes takes place without a connecting element, which is typical for word formation according to the composition model in Standard German. The results obtained provide a perspective for further research in patterns of word-formation in modern Standard German and modern Austrian Standard German.
PROPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AS A WAY OF REVEALING UNDERLYING CULTURAL MEANINGS IN THE TEXT OF OMENS
Authors: Mengjie Liang 
Published: May 2023

Background. The importance of the study is due to the attention to the picture of the world, the logic of mythopoetic thinking and mythopoetic representations of nature inherent in the Russian folk consciousness.
Purpose. The article analyses the types and structure of event propositions of Russian ornithological omens with subjective dominance.
Materials and methods. The material is about 350 Russian ornithological omens with a subjective dominant. The sources of the study are dictionaries of the Russian language and collections of omens, beliefs, superstitions, as well as works on Russian omens. The main method of research is the analysis of propositions. In addition, such methods as the method of classification and ethno-cultural analysis were used in the work.
Results. The analysis of the types and structure of the event proposition in Russian ornithological omens with the subject dominant revealed the actual elements of the propositional semantics of this type of omens: these are the propositions “(over)movement” and “action”. Several semantic layers of the text of omens have been studied: proper propositional, intra-propositional and prepositional. It shows the advantage of propositional analysis in comparison with the cognitive (frame) and structural-semantic analysis of Russian folk omens, widespread in modern linguistics, which is that the propositional analysis of omens allows to identify models that reflect ways of cognition and evaluation of reality.
Practical implications. The results of the analysis can be used to describe small folklore genres, as well as in pedagogical activities, in particular in the teaching of folklore.