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Special Issue on COVID-19 and Historical Pandemics Part 3
Authors: Shinoda Sumio , Yoshikawa Yasuhiro , Hayashi Haruo 
Published: January 2023

Three years have passed since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China. The pandemic rapidly spread worldwide, especially through Europe and the Americas.
The Journal of Disaster Research (JDR) edited its “Special Issue on COVID-19 and Historical Pandemics, Part 1 and Part 2” at the end of 2020 and 2021, and their electronic versions were published in January 2021 (JDR Vol.16, No.1, pp. 1-117) and January 2022 (JDR Vol.17, No.1, pp. 1-158), respectively.
However, the pandemic is still continued and not yet eradicated. The cumulative number of cases of COVID-19 worldwide, as released in the World Health Organization (WHO) Weekly Epidemiological Update was 260 million as of December 2021. We therefore planned for the publication of this Special Issue Part 3 and called for papers.
This Special Issue Part 3 includes nine manuscripts, which deal from various fields related to COVID-19, such as including vaccine rollout program, the role of social media, problems in school education, therapeutic agents, virology, and general epidemiology. This suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is a complicated disaster.
In December 2022, the global number of cumulative cases have increased to 940 million, almost one-tenth of the world’s population, although this number includes many asymptomatic infections. On the contrary, the number of new COVID-19 cases has slowed of mildness in the American and European countries in the year 2022, yet there has been a conspicuous increase in newly reported cases in Asia, especially in the Republic of Korea and Japan. Although the cases from African countries have still continued to report fewer numbers of cases than the number from other areas, However, there is still some possibility of that this is because of a lower number of medicinal tests, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, are given in African countries. If this is the reason, future increases of the medicinal tests in Africa may cause result in undesirable increases of in the number of cases therein African counties.
We are hopeful that the COVID-19 pandemic will be eradicated in the next year, consequently no necessary for the rendering a Special Issue Part 4.
Dollar Stores and Food Access for Rural Households in the United States, 2008‒2020
Authors: Feng Wenhui , Page Elina T. , Cash Sean B. 
Published: January 2023

Dollar stores have rapidly expanded their food offerings in recent years. These foods tend to be higher in calories and lower in nutrients, raising public health concerns, especially in rural and low-income areas where food-access challenges are often greatest. However, there is limited empirical evidence evaluating the impact of this expansion on household food purchases on a national scale. Using data from a yearly, nationally representative panel of approximately 50 000 households, we estimated the share of food purchases from 2008 to 2020 by store type and evaluated the role of dollar stores as food retailers in the United States. We found that dollar stores were the fastest-growing food retailers by household expenditure share (increasing by 89.7%), with rural growth outpacing growth elsewhere (increasing by 102.9%). Though dollar stores still represent a small share of national household food purchases (2.1% in 2020), they play an increasingly prominent role in food-at-home purchases for certain disadvantaged and rural communities. Understanding the quality of the foods they offer and how this may affect diet-related health outcomes is warranted. (Am J Public Health. 2023;113(3):331–336. https://doi.org/10.2105/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307193 )
Stress State of the Stable Part of the Pacific Plate Predicted by a Numerical Model of Global Mantle Flow Coupled with Plate Motion
Authors: Yoshida Masaki 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
The Pacific plate, which is the largest oceanic plate on Earth, has implications for the general understanding of plate dynamics, including the origin of intraplate stress and the driving force for plate motion. However, this is currently limited by the scarcity of geophysical and geological observational data. In this study, an instantaneous global mantle flow calculation was performed to predict the intraplate stress field and stress regimes on the Pacific plate using a geodynamic model based on the density anomaly structure of the mantle converted from a seismic tomography model incorporating subducting plates. The numerical results demonstrate that the southern part of the Pacific plate is dominated by a normal faulting regime. In contrast, the northern part is dominated by a thrust faulting regime, in which the tensional stress axes in the older and stable part of the Pacific plate tend to be oblique to the direction of plate motion. This suggests that the stress state of the Pacific plate is almost neutral (i.e., neither compressional nor tensional) along the direction of plate motion. Furthermore, shallow positive buoyancy-induced asthenospheric flow is essential for reproducing the observed plate motion of the Pacific plate.
Ethik oder Ontologie? Über Heideggers präethisches Ethosdenken
Authors:   Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, Hongjian Wang 
Published: January 2023

Der späte Heidegger spricht in seinem Brief über den Humanismus von einer “ursprünglichen Ethik”. Dies ist jedoch kein Zeichen für Heideggers Versuch, eine Ethik zu konstruieren, sondern eher eine Ablehnung der ethischen Theorie. Die ursprüngliche Ethik ist ein ontologisches ethisches Denken, und ihre Ur­sprünglichkeit spiegelt sich in ihrem prätheoretischen und präethischen Charak­ter wider. Das ist einerseits positiv, weil es der Verzerrung des ethische Lebens durch die Theorie widersteht; andererseits aber impliziert Heideggers Ontologi­sierung der Ethik zugleich eine Neutralisierung, in der die konkreten Gehalte der Ethik eliminiert werden und nur leere ontologische Gedanken übrig bleiben. Heideggers Überlegungen zu den Möglichkeiten der Ethik lassen sich auf die Idee der Metontologie zurückführen, die er nach Sein und Zeit entwickelt hat. Es soll hier gezeigt werden, dass Heideggers Einordnung der Ethik in der Meton­tologie gerade eine Vorstufe zur Aufhebung der Ethik ist. Danach radikalisiert Heidegger dies und begibt sich damit auf einen präethischen oder nicht-ethi­schen Weg des Denkens. Um Heideggers ontologischen Weg in der Tiefe zu ver­stehen und sogar zu überwinden, ist es notwendig, an den Anfang seines Den­kens zurückzugehen, d.h. zu seiner Interpretation der aristotelischen Ethik. Dort findet man Heideggers Interesse an der praktischen Philosophie, und gerade dar­in liegt die Möglichkeit eines ethischen Weges, der mit Heideggers Denken ver­einbar ist.
Problems of Time and History in Nishitani Keiji’s What is Religion?
Authors:   Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelova Liubov B. 
Published: January 2023

The problems of time and history are of particular relevance at the turning points in the development of human society, which can be considered to be the beginning of the 21st century. At the same time, in a changing world, it is important to take into account the ideas about time and history that have arisen in various cultural and civilizational areas. The article analyzes the attempt of a Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji belonging to the Kyoto school to for­mulate a modern concept of history based on the Buddhist view of the world and time. Unlike other religious and philosophical traditions, Buddhist thought practically did not touch upon topics related to history. Using Nishitani's philo­sophy as an example, the author tries to demonstrate the specifics of the modern Buddhist approach to understanding time and history and to determine its heur­istic potential. Due to the fact that today the narrative view of history prevails, introducing a value component into the understanding of history, which turns history into a field of ideological struggle, an analysis of alternative approaches to history that have arisen, including those in non-Western thought, and reflect­ing its complexity and non-linearity, seems worthy attention. The ontologized model of history proposed by Nishitani poses new problems and thereby opens up new perspectives for considering time and history, such as the relationship of time, history and causality, history and space, definitions of the subject of history and the role of will in history, view of history as a dynamic network with many centers and horizons, understanding the relationship of past, present and future in history.
Psychological Concept of the Scientific Rationality Types. Part 2. Development of Scientific Knowledge
Authors:   ANO Research Centre “Analytic”, Nikolaev Dmitry E. 
Published: January 2023

In the first part of the article, it was shown that the type of scientific rationality of a particular theory is determined by the substantial features of the ideal ob­jects used. Depending on the contribution of two components to their content – elements of sensory experience and “free fiction” of the researcher – it is pro­posed to distinguish eight types of rationality. In the second part of the article, an attempt is made to trace the main trends of the historical change of these types of rationality in the history of science, as well as to identify the psycho­logical regulators of the creation of a new scientific knowledge by a particular researcher, specifically involving a transition to a different type of scientific rationality. The provisions of the psychological concept of the scientific ra­tionality types based on the constructivist version of the Self-Determination Theory are developed. A brief analysis of the changes of the rationality types in the history of natural sciences and socio-humanitarian knowledge is given. It is shown that the change of rationality types is nonlinear and assumes the simultaneous coexistence of at least several types within the same branch of science. At the same time, the type of rationality shared by a particular re­searcher determines his individual views on the permissibility of such coexist­ence. Within the framework of the constructivist version of the Self-Determin­ation Theory, the psychological regulators of the formation and competition of scientific knowledge (which are various types of emotionally charged im­ages created by the human psyche) are also analyzed. Psychological regulators of the researcher’s transition to a new type of scientific rationality for a spe­cific scientific field are identified.
Philosophy in a Polycentric World: about the VIII Russian Philosophical Congress
Authors:   Institute of Philosophy and Socio-Political Sciences of the Southern Federal University, Drach Gennady V. 
Published: January 2023

The main issues discussed at the VIII Russian Philosophical Congress held in Moscow are considered, an assessment of its results is given. The appeal to the memory of outstanding Russian philosophers A.A. Zinoviev, V.V. Mironov, V.S. Stepin, I.T. Frolov, B.G. Yudin and other colleagues-philosophers gave the work of the congress the character of a philosophical reconstruction carried out in the space of personal knowledge. The question of the polycentricity of the modern world allowed us to proceed to the consideration of the civiliza­tional ideas of Russian philosophers. The issues of civilizational differences and relations between Russia and the West found a significant addition at the plenary session “A.A. Zinoviev’s Philosophy and Modernity”, at which A.A. Guseynov, V.A. Lectorsky, A.P. Kozyrev and others spoke. The recognition of civilizational diversity, as A.V. Smirnov specially noted, involves thinking about the poly­centricity of philosophy itself, about its role in ensuring the “coherence” of cul­ture as an integrity. The symposium dedicated to the memory of V.V. Mironov, “Metaphysics does not die”, allowed us to draw a number of generalizing con­clusions about the metaphysical foundations of philosophy and the need to un­derstand it as a form of cultural self-consciousness and civic identity.
What is a Virtual Object?
Authors:   Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Levin Georgy D. 
Published: January 2023

The term “virtual object” today refers to a whole class of the diverse entities – from virtual elementary particles to computer game characters. The article con­siders only one subclass of this class. Virtual objects are interpreted here as a kind of phenomenal objects – sensual images of objectively existing objects, psychologically experienced by the subject as these objects themselves. There are two types of such objects: non-virtual, resulting from the direct impact of ob­jects of the objective world on the subject’s sense organs, and virtual, generated by the autonomous activity of his brain, for example, in a dream. Non-virtual ob­jects are primary, virtual ones arise on their basis. This allows to divide the arti­cle into two sections: the first deals with non-virtual objects, and the second deals with virtual phenomenal objects. The main thesis of the article: there are intervals within which the subject’s experience of sensual images of objects as objects themselves only simplifies and facilitates cognitive and practical activity without distorting its final results. In the first section of the article, this thesis is substantiated on the basis of non-virtual objects, in the second – on the basis of virtual phenomenal objects. The division of labor that has historically devel­oped between them is considered: non-virtual phenomenal objects participate in the implementation of the practical activities of people and higher animals, virtual ones – in preparation for it. The evolution of phenomenal virtual objects from genetically primary, arising in a dream, to higher ones, generated by digital technologies, is considered. The hope is expressed that the analysis done in the article creates the basis for the study of other varieties of virtual objects.
Development of an Artificial Neural Network Model and an Empirical Correlation for Predicting the Isobaric Instantaneous Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Crude Oils
Authors: Al-Marhoun Muhammad 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
The coefficient of isobaric thermal expansion of crude oils is essential in thermal methods of production and surface facilities design. The literature has no simple mathematical model to predict the instantaneous thermal expansion coefficient. Therefore, this study presents an artificial neural network (ANN) model and an empirical correlation for predicting crude oil's isobaric instantaneous thermal expansion coefficient. The input parameters for the ANN model and correlation are the usually measured parameters of reservoir temperature, solution gas-oil ratio, gas and oil-specific gravities, bubblepoint pressure, and pressure. The paper exclusively deals with thermal expansion for the Middle East crude oil samples. However, they should be valid for all types of crude oils with properties falling within the range of data used in this study. The statistical and graphical error analyses were used to check the performance and accuracy of the ANN model and correlation.
Self- and Graft-Supported Human Gingival Fibroblasts Derived Cell Sheets As A Potential Source of Periodontal Regeneration: In Vitro Evaluation
Authors: A.GamalElDin Ghada G , Gamal Ahmed Y , Moshy Sara El , El-Sayed Karim M. Fawzy 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Cellular deficiency in periodontal and peri-implant diseases represents the major challenge in treatment outcomes. Cell sheet therapy is an approach by which cell-to-cell communication through endogenous matrix secretion offers a good modification to increase the reliability of traditional cell therapy. In this study, sandwiching the rapidly resorbable scaffold with gingival fibroblasts to produce cell sheet supported graft material will be tried to produce a sheet with adequate thickness and stiffness for more predictable clinical outcomes in soft tissue augmentation. The present study will be performed to investigate the physicochemical characteristics of the produced cell sheets with the primary outcome, which is cell sheet thickness, and secondary outcomes, which are the number of viable cells, laminin and fibronectin production, resistance to mechanical forces, and cell morphology following gingival fibroblast expansion with or without rapidly resorbable construct.
Tutorial on PARADISe: PARAFAC2-based Deconvolution and Identification System for processing GC–MS data
Authors: Quintanilla-Casas Beatriz , Bro Rasmus , Hinrich Jesper Løve , Davie-Martin Cleo L. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
The present protocol provides general guidelines for users working with PARADISe, a deconvolution and identification system for processing GC-MS data. This tool allows users to perform untargeted analysis of large datasets efficiently and minimizes inter-user variability. The final output is a peak table, in excel format, containing the peak area and the purified spectrum for each resolved compound.
A sales strategy optimization model on online group buying in a fuzzy dual channel supply chain using a game theoretic approach
Authors: Heidarpoor Farnaz , Ghazanfari Mehdi , Jabalameli Mohammad Saeed , Jabbarzadeh Armin 
Published: January 2023

Abstract

Different factors affect customers' decisions on the selection of a service. Two of the essential factors are the price and the level of service provided by a seller to customers. The seller's credibility is also among the influential factors in selecting and buying a service that is reinforced by advertisements (offline advertisement or sales through an online group buying platform) and the provided service level. Accordingly, this study develops a fuzzy mathematical model to simultaneously determine price, service level, and advertisement level in a dual channel supply chain during two current and future courses according to the cooperative game between the seller and the platform. All parameters of the problem are determined as fuzzy variables. The seller can sell her/his service through individual sales strategy (offline) or mixed strategy, selling her/his service through the platform (online) and offline channels. The aim is to determine the optimal strategy for the seller when deciding to join the group buying platform, which is compared with the individual strategy. By considering the structures of group buying platforms, different refunding policies and revenue sharing policies are developed under six scenarios for the centralized model . The optimal solutions of the problem are then defined using the game theory approach and fuzzy sets theory for each scenario. Ultimately, a numerical example is provided to indicate the effectiveness of theoretical results of models and developing management insights. Besides, performed sensitivity analyses in this article also provide the effect of the change in essential parameters on seller decisions.
Automatic Adaptive Synchronization (A2S): A Demand-based Automatic Synchronization for Grid Connected Distribution Generators in Islanding Mode
Authors: C Alwin Vinifred , R Ramesh , S Dhandapani 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
For grid-connected islanded connection of microgrid, the synchronization is necessary, but the existing methods solve the problem with high harmonics in the signal. And also, the imbalanced voltage and rate of change of frequency at the microgrid are obtained by the sensor network or by synchronizing relays in many studies, which is an expensive technique. Hence to solve the problem, the paper introduced the automatic adaptive synchronization (A2S) scheme by using optimization and control techniques to synchronize the microgrid with the decentralized generators. The multiple decentralized generators serve the load through the microgrid, the voltage and phase are synchronized with the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The imbalance among them is sensed by the rain optimization algorithm (ROA). Thus the sensed changes are fed to the controller to provide gating signals accordingly to the cascaded H-bridge multi-level inverter with reduced harmonics. The distributed generator feeds the load through the 14km feeder line and synchronizes the three-phase voltage at 1.9ms with 2.28% distortion.
Sustainable Urban development: An evaluation of the impact of IoT on sustainable development and energy management in SMART cities
Authors: Shenkoya Temitayo 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
While there are many studies that focused on the technicality of the impact of the IoT on SMART cities, there is a paucity of extant literature that focus on clearly stating the impact of the integration of the IoT in SMART cities - to help policy makers, governments and civil society actors in the global south understand how this technology can be used to champion sustainable urban development, recognize the requirements for the adoption of the technology, grasp the institutional transformation needed, and determine the right policies that must be in place for the technology to succeed. This study bridged this gap by carrying out a systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis – using the PRISMA 2020 guideline - on the subject matter. Within this study 77 contributions were examined, and the results show that some of the benefits of IoT enabled SMART cities (IoTSMART Cities) are - green energy development, transmission, and management; the development of SMART grids that utilize green energy sources; an improvement in the performance of IoT enabled devices; a better integration of human – machine, machine – machine and human – human relationship; and the promotion of long-term sustainable development.
Recognition of Hand Gestures using Wavelet Packet Transform and Cascaded Feed Forward Neural Networks
Authors: S Mary Vasanthi , Jayasree T 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This paper presents a noval framework that classifies finger movements automatically using Wavelet Transform and its derivatives by capturing statistical features from the discrete time Electromyogram (EMG) signals. In the suggested method, wavelet-based denoising is used to separate out the subject's EMG signals, and then Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Wavelet Packet Transform are used to decompose the signals and extract their key characteristics (WPT). The derivatives of the feature sets are employed to analyse the correlation among them. This method is motivated by the surveillance that there exists a distinctive correlation between the different features of the samples of the signals extracted at various frequency levels. Experimentally, it was perceived that this correlation varies from signal to signal. Both Feed forward and Cascaded Feed forward Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are used for classification. Experiments show that the proposed method significantly improves the classification rate. The performance of the suggested wavelet-based features and their derivatives in combination with ANN and trained with the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm was evaluated by comparing the simulation results for various sets of features. Comparing the new method benefits to earlier traditional methods in terms of classification performance helped to further highlight their advantages. These experimental findings demonstrate that the suggested approach performs admirably in classifying finger movements based on EMG signal patterns. The suggested methodology also helps clinicians increase the reliability of myoelectric pattern recognition.