Graphic presentation of dialect-ethnographic texts of Western Polissia

Western Polessia is a region divided after World War II by the state borders between Ukraine, Belarus and Poland. This was reflected not only in the languages of education, the general cultural background, but also, in particular, on the principles of presentation of dialectethnographic texts. When compiling and editing the volume “Ethnographic Image of Ukrainians Abroad. Corpus of expeditionary folklore and ethnographic materials” (part 1, 2019), we encountered different graphic design of dialectal and ethnographic texts of Western Polissia in publications from different countries. The volume contains texts from the territory of Brest region (Belarus) and Northern Podlasie (Poland), recorded by the staff of the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology, as well as kindly provided by other researchers’ published and unpublished materials, collected since the early 1970s. As this volume is adjacent to the 10-volume collection of field materials “Ethnographic Image of Ukraine”, it became necessary to unify the graphic presentation of Western Polissia texts from different regions and different scientific schools. The developed algorithms for metagraphing of texts from the phonetic transcription of AUM and the special system of F. Klimchuk made it possible to present them in a unified and accessible way for non-philological readers. This emphasizes the unity of the Western Polissian dialect and the cultural continuum.

Paired Exchanges, Chain Donations, and Organ Markets

This chapter introduces the use of an innovation called “paired exchange,” a way to encourage donations even when there is no match. The chapter shows a graphic presentation to simply describe the idea of paired donation exchange. It explains the risks of paired exchange for the donors' and recipients' perspective, arguing that the risks were the same from the donors' perspective, while the outcomes from the recipients' perspective would be much better as a result of receiving a histocompatible organ than they would be if they received their own designated recipient's organ. The chapter also offers some legal questions after lawyers wondered whether a paired kidney exchange was a sort of barter and thus the beginning of a gray market in organs. Ultimately, the chapter looks at another suggestion of creating a serial chain of donor–recipient pairs, with the world's first kidney–liver swap took place in 2017.

Feasts of Filth

Sarah Kane’s Blasted is one of the most controversial plays written and produced by a British playwright over the last quarter century. A defining contribution to a genre of plays which emerged during the 1990s, and which are variously termed ‘in-yer-face’ and ‘new brutalist’. The principle strategy of ‘in-yer-face’ theatre was to shock its audience. Intimating a shared complacency between comfortable middle-class Britain and its comfortable middle-class theatre. A number of ‘in-yer-face’ plays were distinguished by their graphic presentation of extreme violence, commonly sexual. And nowhere was this presentation more explicit than in Kane’s Blasted, with successive scenes of rape and sexual abuse. This chapter re-reads Kane’s play in the closer context of familiar, and ongoing, debates regarding the relation of law and gender, and more particularly still the limitations of modern rape ‘law’. It is argued that these limitations are rooted in a series of particular rape ‘myths’. Many of which can be located in Kane’s writing, but which are also challenged by it.

Russia as part of global economic ties: The present and the future

Subject. The article discusses the competitiveness of the Russian Federation and its place in the global economy. Objectives. We examine metrics of the trade and geographic structure of foreign trade and discover factors, conditions, tendencies of the foreign trade development. The article presents our forecast on how the baseline indicators will behave. Methods. We apply methods for systematization, comparison, structural and trend analysis. Results. We analyzed and substantiated the development of Russia’s foreign trade today. The article enlists directions of the foreign trade and depicts its geographic and commodity structure. We flag the Asian and African lines for promoting the foreign trade, emphasizing the need to expand the EEU ties, since it will have a positive effect for Russia and its key partners within the alliance. Speaking about the innovative economy, we underline the importance of non-resource export. The article provides the graphic presentation of estimated exports and imports. Conclusions and Relevance. Referring to the analysis of the Russian foreign trade indicators and their development and the respective forecast, we can infer rather an optimistic scenario. The above changes will definitely reshape the development of the global economy, since there are some objective difficulties predicting the foreign trade and the pandemic and the deteriorating global situation are a key risk.

GPS-Palm: a deep learning-based graphic presentation system for the prediction of S-palmitoylation sites in proteins

As an important reversible lipid modification, S-palmitoylation mainly occurs at specific cysteine residues in proteins, participates in regulating various biological processes and is associated with human diseases. Besides experimental assays, computational prediction of S-palmitoylation sites can efficiently generate helpful candidates for further experimental consideration. Here, we reviewed the current progress in the development of S-palmitoylation site predictors, as well as training data sets, informative features and algorithms used in these tools. Then, we compiled a benchmark data set containing 3098 known S-palmitoylation sites identified from small- or large-scale experiments, and developed a new method named data quality discrimination (DQD) to distinguish data quality weights (DQWs) between the two types of the sites. Besides DQD and our previous methods, we encoded sequence similarity values into images, constructed a deep learning framework of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and developed a novel algorithm of graphic presentation system (GPS) 6.0. We further integrated nine additional types of sequence-based and structural features, implemented parallel CNNs (pCNNs) and designed a new predictor called GPS-Palm. Compared with other existing tools, GPS-Palm showed a >31.3% improvement of the area under the curve (AUC) value (0.855 versus 0.651) for general prediction of S-palmitoylation sites. We also produced two species-specific predictors, with corresponding AUC values of 0.900 and 0.897 for predicting human- and mouse-specific sites, respectively. GPS-Palm is free for academic research at http://gpspalm.biocuckoo.cn/.

Vignette of Constantinople on the "Tabula Peutingerianana". The Column of Constantine or the Lighthouse

The article contains the analyses of 40 descriptions of the vignette of Constantinople in Tabula Peutingeriana created between the years 1768 and 2018. The number of these descriptions is not at all complete, however, it seems to give quite a representative survey of how has this vignette been interpreted throughout the last 250 years. Among these descriptions, merely five authors (H. Thiersch – 1909; F. Castagnoli – 1960; A. and M. Levi – 1967 and M. Reddé – 1979) believe that one of the elements of that vignette is a lighthouse. The article explains the origin of this erroneous interpretation on the basis of the edition of Tabula Peutingeriana from the year 1753, prepared by F.C. von Scheyb, and repeated by K. Mannert (1824), E. Desjardins (1869–1874) and K. Miller (1888), as well as of the observations in this field made by H. Gross (1913) and W. Kubitschek (1917). What is today regarded as the most probable interpretation of the element of that vignette, referred to as the lighthouse is the thesis that what is referred to here, is the Constantine’s Column, on whose top there is the statue of the founder of the Second Rome. If we assume the second half of the 4th century as the time when Tabula Peutingeriana was created, then the Constantinople vignette would be the oldest graphic presentation of that column. However, the graphics of the vignette is far from the descriptions of Constantine’s column in the Byzantine sources. That might result from a simple mistake made by the later copiers, or it can also be the effect of their conscious modifications of the most important vignettes on the map. For the Constantinople vignette, compared to the vignettes of Rome and Antioch, seems to contain a certain symbolic code, which allows for dating the copy of map stored today in Vienna. It seems that the original map could have been created, as it seems, in the 2nd half of the 4th century, as it is traditionally assumed. Probably it had been graphically retouched quite substantially (at least as far as the vignettes of Rome and Constantinople are concerned, joined in a strict mutual relationship) in the Carolingian period, and, more exactly, in the 1st half of the 9th century, and then, for the second time, the map underwent modifications aimed at updating its contents in the 13th century.

THE CONVERSION OF THE MOISTURE-STABILITY WASTE-PAPERS WITH POLYMERIC COVERING. 1. BREAK-ING-UP OF THE WASTE-PAPER

Breaking-up of waste-paper with polyurethan and polyaziridin was studied. Paper moisture-stability is 49–51%. The waste paper reduced to the degree size of the particles 5–8 mm in the dry grind mill and chemical processing under higher temperature (to 70 °C) by sodium persulfate and hydroxide solution; duty of water 6. Cooking duration varied from 1 to 5 hours, solution strength of persulfate sodium – from 2 to 12%, hydroxide sodium – from 0.5 to 3% from the mass of bone-dry waste-paper. The secondary fiber received by breaking-up of the pulp in the hydropulper. The dependency degree of breaking-up, losses of the cellulose and liquor pH from the cooking variable factors approximated by the regression equations of the second order, which used for graphic presentation results. At the most importance of the all variable factors the cooks ended in the acid medium with pH 3 under practically full persulfate and hydroxide sodium consumption; at that the degree of the breaking-up more than 80% was reached, losses of the cellulose under the all conditions remained within the range of 12.6–14.6%. The necessary operations of the breaking-up: crush the dry waste-paper; the cooking of the waste-paper with sodium persulfate and hydrate; breaking-ap of the waste-paper in the hydropulper; washing the stringy mass by water; the hydrodynamic milling.

Statistical Tools and Methods Used in Works Published in “Folia Turistica” between 1990-2018

Purpose. The aim of the study was to discuss the use of tools and methods of statistical analysis, as well as forms of graphic presentation of results obtained in articles published in “Folia Turistica” during the last 30 years of its history. Method. The basic method was a review of all articles in terms of the use of statistical methods applied in scientific papers published in “Folia Turistica” in the years 1990 - 2018 (volumes 1- 49). Findings. Out of 486 articles published in 49 volumes of “Folia Turistica” from 1990-2018, 31% used statistical tools and methods. The graphic presentation of analysis of results can be found in 78 articles (including 12 publications with prepared maps), the use of statistical tests in 35 articles, and the use of multi-dimensional statistical methods in 28 articles. An important part of the works are methodological publications. The authors used statistical parametric and non-parametric tests, linear and non-linear regression models, taxonomic and factor analysis and (in individual cases) relatively rare tests, including those related to spatial analyses (I-Moran and Isard coefficient). Research and conclusions limitations. The work concerns the use of statistical tools and methods in scientific articles in “Folia Turistica” issue No. 1-49. In some works, there was no verification of the applicability assumptions of selected statistical tools or justification for their selection, or the purposes of the research were too general. Practical implications. The indicated tools and methods of statistical analysis may be inspiration for authors and readers of scientific papers in the preparation of numerical data and forms of their presentation. Originality. Meta-analysis was prepared on the occasion of the anniversary edition of the 50th issue of “Folia Turistica”. Type of paper. The article is a review.