bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of surgical face mask wearing on tear film in women with a high body mass index
Authors: Alanazi Mana A. , El-Hiti Gamal A. , Alotaibi Reem , Baashen Mashaaer A. , Alanazi Muteb , Fagehi Raied , Masmali Ali M. 
Published: November 2022

PurposeDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a face mask has become an essential measure to reduce the rate of virus spreading. The aim of the study was to assess the effect of wearing a surgical face mask for a short period on the tear film parameters in subjects with a high body mass index (BMI).MethodsTwenty-five females with a high BMI (31.4 ± 5.5 kg/m2) aged 18–35 years (22.7 ± 4.6 years) participated in the study. In addition, a control group consisting of 25 females (23.0 ± 6.7 years) with a high BMI (29.9 ± 4.1 kg/m2) participated in the study in which no mask was worn. The standardized patient evaluation of eye dryness (SPEED) questionnaire was completed first, followed by the phenol red thread (PRT) and tear ferning (TF) tests, before wearing the face mask. The subjects wore the face mask for 1 hour, and the measurements were performed again immediately after its removal. For the control group, the measurements were performed twice with one hour gap.ResultsSignificant (Wilcoxon test, p < 0.05) differences were found between the SPEED scores (p = 0.035) and the PRT measurement (p = 0.042), before and after wearing the surgical face mask. The PRT scores have improved after wearing the surgical face mask, while the dry eye symptoms detected by the SPEED questionnaire have increased. On the other hand, no significant (Wilcoxon test, p = 0.201) differences were found between the TF grades before and after wearing a surgical face mask. For the control group, no significant (Wilcoxon test, p > 0.05) differences were found between the two scores from the SPEED questionnaire and the PRT, and TF tests.ConclusionsWearing a surgical face mask for a short duration leads to a change in volume and quality of tears as well as dry eye symptoms in women with a high BMI.
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, Nils Melzer and Oliver Kobold (2022)
Authors: Richardson Nick 
Published: November 2022

Review of: The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution, Nils Melzer and Oliver Kobold (2022)
London: Verso Books, 354 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-83976-622-0, h/bk, AUD 39.99
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Reshaping Teaching for Sustainability in Business Engineering – A Pilot Study on Students' Outlooks and Learning Expectations
Authors: Fleacă Bogdan , Fleacă Elena , Corocăescu Mihai 
Published: November 2022

In the context of the rapid pace of technological advance, increasing technological interconnection and the shift toward sustainable economies, education is required to provide graduates with knowledge and skills to address the complex challenges posed by the fast-moving, globalized and interconnected world. Engineering education has gained particular importance, going beyond the technical knowledge and preparing students for entrepreneurial actions through the acquisition of hands-on, operative capabilities to drive new business models, integrating complex issues of technological change and digitization, environmental and socio-economic concerns. The authors have undertaken a quantitative survey aiming at investigating the students’ outlook on modern sustainable development concerns and collecting relevant learning needs in a wide range of sustainability-related directions. The survey results stressed improvement solutions to augment teaching for sustainability in the case of business engineering areas such as a) embedding interdisciplinary topics into existing curricula linked to SDGs instead of creating new disciplines; b) developing and leveraging core shared values of citizenship for further learning across the entire curriculum and emphasizing the interrelatedness of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values; c) facilitating interdisciplinary knowledge for understanding and solving complex business and engineering problems; d) enhancing students’ intellectual maturity and critical thinking to act in responsible ways, coping with new realities and demands. Finally, the authors shared their views on the need to provide tailored content and quality information with differentiated knowledge about topics from different areas which might induce transformational change in local curricula to foster a sustainable mindset of graduates.
Impact Assessment of The Covid-19 Pandemic on Service Performance of Sofia Airport
Authors: Nikolova Christina , Garkova Veronika 
Published: November 2022

The main objective of the research presented in the paper is to examine the impact of the COVID pandemic on the volume of passenger and freight traffic and the quality of the services provided by Sofia Airport, as well as to examine the factors influencing the demand for air freight transport and the extent of their impact. The authors focus on using two approaches, namely SERVPERF and SERVQUAL, in studying factors influencing the demand for transport. The study analyses a system of indicators with independent influences on the demand for air transport, but they are all related to the development of macroeconomic indicators at the national level under the influence of the COVID pandemic. The study of the impact of the pandemic on the service performance and quality of services provided by Sofia Airport allows us to predict the volume of transport activity and to plan the activities of airlines and ground operators, their transport capacity, as well as the need for adopting measures for recovery of the airport from the negative impacts of the pandemic and the necessary investments in airport facilities. The authors argue that evaluating the service performance and the quality of services could contribute to developing appropriate measures for recovery. They summarized appropriate measures based on the leading quality indicators for air transport services.
Keywords: Air Transport, Impact Assessment, COVID pandemic, Service Performance, Service Quality.
Socio-economic Dimension of the Sustainable Development of Polish Provinces
Authors: Wyrwa Joanna , Barska Anetta , Jędrzejczak-Gas Janina , Kubiak Piotr 
Published: November 2022

The aim of this article was to conduct research and present the results of a ratio analysis assessing the implementation of the concept of sustainable development in Polish provinces. It suggests a set of indicators tracking two of the areas of sustainable development: economic and social, in two separate periods: before the 2019 pandemic and during the 2020 pandemic. In addition to determining the performance of Lubusz Province compared to other provinces, the authors’ assumption is also to identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the implementation of economic and social sustainability goals in Poland as a whole. The key issues concerning the concept of sustainable development and the state of research on sustainability indicators at a regional level are presented with the help of literature review. On the basis ratio analysis was rated economic development of 16 Polish provinces was assessed and then benchmarked to determine the position of Lubusz Province. The proposed tracking indicators included the following aspects: economic potential, innovation of the economy, sustainable production patterns, demographic changes, job market, and social integration. The obtained results answered the question concerning the socio-economic development of Polish provinces, in particular that of Lubusz Province, in the context of sustainability before and during the pandemic.
Keywords: socio-economic development, a ratio analysis, COVID-19 pandemic.
Exploring autonomous language learning behaviors through video sharing and online discussions in higher education
Authors: Olaya Marian , Mora Willian 
Published: November 2022

This current study explores how video sharing and online discussions promote learning autonomy in English language classes in a public university for the duration of the quarantine established by the Colombian government during the coronavirus pandemic. This study was conducted with 127 engineering and administration undergraduates from a public university in the department of Boyacá. This was a qualitative case study which intended to identify the extent video sharing and online discussions increase learner’s autonomy behaviors in English language learning .The instruments for data collection were student journal, student artifact, including video recordings and online discussions, interviews, and questionnaires. An open coding analysis was utilized and the results revealed that the degree of autonomous behaviors gradually could be fostered by the implementation of video sharing. Results also indicated that students are receptive to online writing discussions and showed how motivation plays a vital role in learning English and the achievement of own learning goals.
Coresets over multiple tables for feature-rich and data-efficient machine learning
Authors: Wang Jiayi , Chai Chengliang , Tang Nan , Liu Jiabin , Li Guoliang 
Published: November 2022

Successful machine learning (ML) needs to learn from good data. However, one common issue about train data for ML practitioners is the lack of good features. To mitigate this problem, feature augmentation is often employed by joining with (or enriching features from) multiple tables, so as to become feature-rich ML. A consequent problem is that the enriched train data may contain too many tuples, especially if the feature augmentation is obtained through 1 (or many)-to-many or fuzzy joins. Training an ML model with a very large train dataset is data-inefficient. Coreset is often used to achieve data-efficient ML training, which selects a small subset of train data that can theoretically and practically perform similarly as using the full dataset. However, coreset selection over a large train dataset is also known to be time-consuming.
In this paper, we aim at achieving both feature-rich ML through feature augmentation and data-efficient ML through coreset selection. In order to avoid time-consuming coreset selection over a feature augmented (or fully materialized) table, we propose to efficiently select the coreset without materializing the augmented table. Note that coreset selection typically uses weighted gradients of the subset to approximate the full gradient of the entire train dataset. Our key idea is that the gradient computation for coreset selection of the augmented table can be pushed down to partial feature similarity of tuples within each individual table, without join materialization. These partial feature similarity values can be aggregated to estimate the gradient of the augmented table, which is upper bounded with provable theoretical guarantees. Extensive experiments show that our method can improve the efficiency by nearly 2 orders of magnitudes, while keeping almost the same accuracy as training with the fully augmented train data.
Global existence of the two-dimensional axisymmetric Euler equations for the Chaplygin gas with large angular velocities
Authors: Wei Dongyi , Zhang Zhifei , Zhao Wenbin 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
The Chaplygin gas model is both interesting and important in the theory of gas dynamics and conservation laws, all the characteristic families of which are linearly degenerate. Majda conjectured that the shock formation never happens for smooth data. In this article, we prove the conjecture for the two space dimensional axisymmetric case. Different from previous approaches to study wave equations with different speeds, we reformulate the problem in the Lagrangian coordinates and consider a single wave equation with variable coefficients. This not only gives a simpler proof but also enables us to treat the case with large angular velocities.
Platonismo e aristotelismo nelTimaeusdi Cicerone
Authors: Brumana Selene I. S. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractCicero’sTimaeuslegitimately stands as the first Latin exegesis of the Platonic dialogue. I shall deal with the interpretation of §§19–21, a passage that departs significantly from the Greek text in several respects. The aim of this paper is to explore the role Aristotelianism might have played in Cicero’sTimaeus. Among the points that support such an analysis is the mention of the Peripatetic Cratippus in the prologue. The interpretative scenario I suggest considers both Cratippus’ role and Antiochus’s philosophical system with its agreement between Platonism and Aristotelianism.
Entwicklungen christlicher Friedensethik und die Zukunft der Friedensbewegung
Authors: Haspel Michael 
Published: November 2022

ZusammenfassungDie evangelische Friedensethik und die Friedensgruppen in der evangelischen Kirche waren lange wichtige Faktoren für die Friedensbewegung in Ost wie West und für die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. In der Folge der russischen Offensive in der Ukraine waren die Stellungnahmen der evangelischen Kirche allerdings vielstimmig und hatten wenig Resonanz im öffentlichen Raum. In diesem Essay werden ganz unterschiedliche Ursachen dafür ausgemacht. Zunächst kam das dominierende friedensethische Modell des Verantwortungspazifismus (legal pacifism) bei dieser Aggression an seine Grenze. Aber auch die schwindende öffentliche Relevanz der Kirchen generell und inner-organisationale Schwierigkeiten trugen dazu bei. Da sich die Mehrheit im protestantischen Bereich mit einer Ethik der rechtserhaltenden Gewalt zur Selbstverteidigung der Ukraine und überwiegend auch zu Waffenlieferungen bekennt, sind aus diesem Bereich keine Impulse für eine Friedensbewegungzu erwarten. Allerdings könnte von der innerprotestantischen Debatte Inspiration für den friedensethischen und -politischenDiskursausgehen.
Pronunciation pedagogy in English as a foreign language teacher education programs in Vietnam
Authors: Nguyen Loc Tan , Burri Michael 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
Pronunciation has gained significant attention in the field of English language teaching, with recent studies examining pronunciation representation in textbooks, classroom practices, teachers’ beliefs, and learners’ perceptions. However, research into teachers learning to teach English pronunciation is only beginning to emerge. The current study extends this line of enquiry by investigating the preparation of 20 Vietnamese English teachers to teach pronunciation. The study also examined the teachers’ perceptions of how Vietnamese teacher education could further assist teachers in teaching pronunciation. Qualitative data sources included academic transcripts, a questionnaire, and individual semi-structured interviews to examine the teacher-participants’ pronunciation pedagogy training and their beliefs about effective pronunciation teacher preparation. The findings showed that the teachers were insufficiently trained but reported being confident in their ability to teach English pronunciation. The participants also proposed several changes to be made to Vietnamese English teacher education programs for teachers to teach pronunciation more effectively.
Method development and validation for quantification of six bioactive compounds (andrographolide, columbin, piperine, gallic, paracoumaric and oleanolic acids) by HPTLC
Authors: Shanmugam Murugammal , Subramanian Subashini , Ramachandran Shakila 
Published: November 2022

Abstract

Objectives
During the spread of pandemic diseases, immunity boosting herbal drugs are taken as a preventive medicine. Kapacurak Kuṭinīr Cūraṇam is a Siddha drug used for flu like viral infections, cold and fever. Developing an analytical method to estimate the content of active phytoconstituents in such antiviral immune boosting drug will be useful in the phyto pharmaceutical industry.

Methods
A precise, reliable and sensitive ordinary phase high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) method has been developed and validated for identification and simultaneous estimation of six bioactive components namely like andrographolide, columbin, gallic acid, ρ-coumaric acid, piperine and oleanolic acid from any Indian traditional medicine, medicinal plant, drugs and food materials etc. The separation was achieved on silica gel 60F254 TLC plates using toluene: ethyl acetate: formic acid (7:3:0.5, v/v) as mobile phase. The gallic acid, ρ-coumaric acid, piperine markers were estimated using the densitometric scanning in absorption mode at 254 nm. The densitometric scanning was done after derivatization (vanillin–sulphuric acid reagent) at λ=520 nm for andrographolide, columbin and oleanolic acid.

Results
The linear regression analysis data for the calibration plots showed a correlation coefficient in the concentration range 1–5 μg per band for the bioactive markers with respect to area. The method was validated for accuracy, precision, limit of detection (LOD), and quantitation of limit (LOQ).

Conclusions
Developed method was accurate, precise and fast to ensure the quality of Kapacurak Kuṭinīr Cūraṇam.
Publius at Naupaktos: The First Macedonian War and Phlegon of Tralles’ anti-Roman Prophecies inDe Mirabilia3
Authors: Prieto Juan P. 
Published: November 2022

SummaryA brief state of the art for Phlegon of Tralles’De Mirabilia3 anti-Roman prophecies is followed by a reassessment of four of its components: the historical identification of the Roman protagonist “Publius”, Naupaktos as the main stage for the prophecies, the multiple meanings of the Red Wolf as well as the Oak Tree, and the Roman military retreat. By analyzing these specific elements, it will be argued that these presages were not only associated with events during the Antiochean and Mithridatic Wars, but were also related with historical experiences from the First Macedonian Conflict.
Why Markets? The Provisioning of Classical Greek Military Forces on the Move through Friendly, Allied, and Neutral Territory
Authors: O’Connor Stephen 
Published: November 2022

SummaryClassical Greek armies and navies moving through the territory of friendly, allied, and neutral city-states provisioned themselves through markets organized and controlled by those city-states. No scholar has ever explained why this was so. By placing this practice within a comparative framework, this article demonstrates that the protocol of the provision of markets bypoleisto passing armies developed in the way it did in the late Archaic and early Classical Greek world because Greek states in this period lacked the logistical structures to exert sustained coercive power against other states. Once the protocol was established, however, it continued in use throughout the Classical period even after fifth-century Athenian navies gained the logistical capacity to apply prolonged strategic pressure on coastal and islandpoleis. Use of the protocol continued because traditions of autonomy as well as long-standing customs governing relations between states restrained even the Aegean-dominating Athenians from using more forceful means of acquisition than markets to acquire their food from otherpoleis.
The Athenian Bank: a Conspicuous Example of Labour Specialisation
Authors: Falco Giacinto 
Published: November 2022

SummaryMy research applies the categories of labour specialisation and professionalism to the Athenian bank with a view to demonstrating that banking was a full-time occupation requiring a complex set of skills and that bankers could be considered professionals rather than simple workers. This paper is divided into three sections. In the first, I scrutinise all the sources regarding the banks’ activities and the bankers’ clients to show that thetrapezaiwere constantly frequented by traders, members of the wealthy upper class and most likely individuals belonging to the social middle class. This first section reveals how the banks’ clients exerted a high and constant demand for the services offered by the Athenian bankers. The second section explores the set of skills required to run a bank or even simply to work as a bank employee and aims at demonstrating how important it was that banks were efficiently organised through a precise division of labour. Such a division clearly shows that banking was a highly specialised activity. In the third section I identify the features that qualify bankers as professionals, namely social prestige, the passing down of knowledge and skills to individuals other than the bankers’ sons, and the creation of a wide network of international contacts. The analysis conducted on Athenian bankers to determine whether or not they constitute professionals is reinforced with several parallels to bankers active in other prosperous poleis, such as Delos.
Evangelical Historiography in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras
Authors: Clark David Andrew 
Published: November 2022

AbstractTo better understand how a particular community understands its story, we look at the philosophy, aesthetics, and historical–cultural contexts of those who have written its history. This article analyses an example of colonial era historiography entitledThe Progress of Dogmawritten by Scottish evangelical theologian James Orr. It critically evaluates how Orr’s historiographical approach is at once an asset and a liability for evangelical Christians in the postcolonial era. Orr argued for the cohesiveness and continuity of historical orthodox doctrine, particularly as it stood over against the liberal, deconstructive approaches that were gaining traction in his day. In this sense, Orr’s work may be considered an asset to evangelical Christians today as they attempt to defend a foundationalist reading of history over against that of postfoundational philosophers such as Michel Foucault. There is a concern, however, with Orr’s adaptation of the historical methodology presented by GWF Hegel. This dialectical, linear approach has had a disastrous effect on the evangelical interpretation of doctrinal history. Rich traditions have been ignored or lost, Eurocentrism has prevailed, and many Christians whose home or origin is in the Global South continue to struggle with what they perceive as the residue of the colonial enterprise. This article argues that Evangelical historiography must be reconstructed. In the conclusion, new lines of enquiry are presented that may allow evangelicals to affirm the historical cohesiveness and continuity of their doctrine, while at the same time giving serious consideration to postcolonial sensibilities.
Effect of bypass ratio on sonic underexpanded co-flow jets with finite lip thickness
Authors: Radha Krishnan Naren Shankar , Kumar Sathish Kumar , Kengaiah Vijayaraja , Chidambaram Senthilkumar , Rathakrishnan Ethirajan 
Published: November 2022

Abstract
The characteristics of a sonic under-expanded coaxial jet with lip thickness 1.5D

p
(where D

p
is the exit diameter of primary jet equals 10 mm) with the primary jet operating at nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) of 3, 4 and 5. For NPR 3 operating primary jet, the secondary jet operates at NPR 2.5, 1.4 and 1.27. For primary jet NPR 4, the secondary jet operating NPR is 3.2, 1.6 and 1.4. For NPR 5 primary jet, the secondary jet NPR is 3.8, 1.89 and 1.52. The study is performed using a co-flow nozzle of bypass ratio (BR) 6.4, 1.4 and 0.7. The core length of the primary jet is used as a measure to quantify the mixing of the primary jet in the presence of coaxial jet. The shock structure present in the near field was viewed using shadowgraph technique. Centreline pitot pressure distribution, radial spread and waves present in the jet core were analyzed. The results show that the mixing associated with the high bypass coaxial jet is superior to the low bypass coaxial jet. This mixing superiority associated with high bypass coaxial jet prevails all levels of expansion.