All-Russian Seminar on the Study of the Structure of Liquids and Solutions (In Memory of O.Ya. Samoilov)

This publication is dedicated to the memory of Oleg Yakovlevich Samoilov, who passed away in June 1980. Having entered the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences after the university bench in 1942, Oleg Yakovlevich worked his way up from a junior researcher to the head of a laboratory, having defended his candidate and at the age of 37 his doctoral dissertation and soon received the academic title of professor. His area of interest was the nature of the liquid state, and in this area he opened the way to new views on the structure of liquids and the nature of the thermal motion of their particles, reflected in the monograph "The structure of aqueous solutions of electrolytes and hydration of ions", immediately translated abroad to major foreign languages, and at the seminar organized by him at the Institute for the Study of the Structure of Liquids and Solutions, which he directed from 1962 to the last days of his life, and which continues to exist to this day. The entire content of the seminar is reflected in this publication.

What can be found in the spam folder? a self-study from junior researchers in psychiatry

AimsThriving on the pressure of “publish or perish” experienced by academicians, the industry of predatory publishers with dubious quality has mushroomed and gained their notoriety. The battle of uncovering predatory publishers, including Beall's list, has proven to be tough given the huge monetary gain generated by the predatory publishers. It may be difficult for an inexperienced junior researcher to identify those predatory publishers’ soliciting emails, which may disguise as a reputable journal's article-commissioning process. To date, there is a limited systematic approach to identify such emails. Hence, this research is aimed to describe the common features of soliciting emails from publishers which appeared to be predatory.MethodThis self-study involved reviewing the content of emails in the spam folder of authors, a team of junior researchers in psychiatry, for a month. Emails included in this study were soliciting emails relevant to publications and the following were reviewed: types of solicitation, sentences used, strategies used, and information available in the public domain of their webpages. Informative types of emails were excluded.ResultThe solicitation could include: 1) request for a manuscript to be published a journal article, 2) request for a thesis to be published as a book, 3) request to write for a book chapter, 4) invitation to be an editorial member or a reviewer with the offer of free publishing, 5) invitation to be a speaker for a conference, and 6) proofreading services. The publisher may cite a published article of the author from another journal, which was the source where they identified the author's email. Common strategies used for solicitation included: 1) promising a fast-tracked and guaranteed publication, 2) using compliments that appeared to be inappropriate, 3) repetitive emails, and 4) using argumentum ad passiones to induce guilt. The common features of the webpages of those publishers included: 1) open access publishing as the only option, 2) extensive list of indexing services excluding well-established indexing agencies, and 3) the publisher has a huge collection of journals in different disciplines.ConclusionIt is hoped that these findings will help junior researchers in psychiatry to stay vigilant to avoid falling into the trap of predatory publishers, which may result in financial loss and loss of work to plagiarism. Total eradication of those predatory soliciting emails is unlikely despite the advancement of spam filtering technology, which necessitates a more united effort from different stakeholders to come out with a probable solution.

A Retrospective: Michael M. Cernea (1934–)

Abstract‘Development anthropology is a contact sport,’ Michael Cernea likes to tell his students. His career, from junior researcher in the Romanian Academy of Sciences in the early 1960s to joining the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 1974 as its first-ever in house staff sociologist, and then advancing there successfully to the high level position of the World Bank’s Senior Advisor for Social Policies and Sociology is testament to this observation.

A Tram Ride You Would Talk About

As an artist and junior researcher for the project “Public Transport as Public Space,” my aim is to understand atmospheres on urban public transport and the ways in which they can be changed through performative public art practice. Indefinite yet powerful, atmospheres, which emerge in the relation between a perceived environment and perceiving bodies (Böhme 2017), can be created deliberately through aesthetic work and used as a tool for shaping certain experiences and behaviors in public space (Allen 2006). For instance, visually attractive public artworks permanently integrated into the public transport environment may create atmospheres of safety and comfort, navigating passengers through this regulated public space. On the other hand, on public transport, where unacquainted people must travel shoulder to shoulder, different atmospheres emerge not only through material modifications but also through unexpected encounters and events (Bissell 2010). In this sense, performative public art interventions can intentionally “drum up the ambience” (Thibaud 2015) and imbue the atmosphere of commutes with elements that are surprising and out of the ordinary. This paper outlines some of my art projects, which aim to carefully disrupt casual rides on public transport by creating moments of strangeness and humor.

Laboratory of breeding and animal selection of animals — the important scientific department of the Institute

The article presents the history of the Laboratory of breeding and selection of animals of the Institute of Animal Biology NAAS, its personnel and scientific achievements. Currently there are seven scientists, including four Doctors of Sciences, two Candidates of Sciences and one junior researcher without a scientific degree work in the laboratory. The team has made radical changes not only in staff capacity but also in research. Scientists have developed and introduced into production methods of optimizing selection and formation of high-value genotypes in dairy cattle, improved methods of targeted breeding of young animals, increasing meat and dairy productivity of animals, assessment of breeding traits of cattle for selection by reproductive and fattening qualities, the efficiency of use in selection process of foreign gene pool. They developed theoretical and practical issues about the genesis of the Ukrainian Black-and-White dairy breed and its western intra-breed type, developed recommendations for the formation of highly productive dairy herds with long economic use, a system for monitoring the genetic variability of dairy breeds cattle, proposed the development of the selection of animals on a set of grounds, discovered the influence of various genetic and paratypic factors on the formation of milk productivity and duration of economic use of cows, etc.

M. Gabriela Sava Finalist of the 2020 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award

In April 2020, M. Gabriela Sava received the great news that her paper “An analysis of the sensitivity and stability of patients’ preferences can lead to more appropriate medical decisions,” published in Annals of Operations Research was selected as a finalist for the 2020 MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award. The paper was in collaboration with Dr. Luis G. Vargas and Dr. Jerrold H. May from University of Pittsburgh and Dr. James G. Dolan from University of Rochester Medical Center. The award honors junior academic researchers and practitioners who work in the area of multi-criteria decision-making for their excellence, creativity and innovation. Gabriela was nominated for this prestigious award by the Associate Editor of the IJAHP, Dr. Birsen Karpak from Youngstown State University.

First person – Helena Sofia Domingues

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Helena Sofia Domingues is first author on ‘Pushing myelination – developmental regulation of myosin expression drives oligodendrocyte morphological differentiation’, published in JCS. Helena Sofia conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral fellow in Inês Mendes Pinto's lab at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, Portugal. She is now a Junior Researcher in the lab of Fábio G. Teixeira at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, investigating mammalian myelination in development and age-associated neurodegeneration.

Cálculo mental em questão: fundamentação teórica e reflexões

<p>Este artigo é resultado de um projeto de Iniciação Cientifica e contempla uma pesquisa bibliográfica na qual foram levantadas informações de artigos e documentos sobre o “cálculo mental”. Esta publicação tem como objetivo entrelaçar diferentes aspectos teóricos sobre essa temática. Foram exploradas a definição de cálculo mental, bem como estratégias para desenvolvê-lo. Além disso, são apresentadas vantagens que essa prática pode oferecer aos estudantes. A partir do estudo, pudemos refletir sobre a importância de se trabalhar o cálculo mental em todos os anos da escola básica. Em conclusão, salientamos a relevância dessa temática ser trabalhada não só com estudantes, mas também na formação de professores, para que esses possam refletir sobre essa modalidade de cálculo e, consequentemente, incentivar sua prática em sala de aula.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>Educação Matemática. Cálculo Mental. Ensino de Matemática. Escola Básica.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>Mental calculation in question: theoretical basis and reflections</strong></p><p align="center"> </p><p><strong>Abstract: </strong>This article is the result of a Junior Researcher Program that collected bibliographical research data surveying information in articles and documents related to "mental calculation". The objective of this article is to interweave different aspects of this subject, according to the perspective of several authors. It explored the definition of mental calculation as well as strategies to develop it. In addition, different advantages that this practice can offer students have been presented. From this study, we could reflect on the importance of using mental calculation in all years of school. In conclusion, we emphasize the relevance of this theme for students and future teachers, so that they can reflect on this modality of calculation and consequently encourage their practice in the classroom.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Mathematics Education. Mental Calculation. Mathematics Teaching. Basic school.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>Cálculo mental en cuestión: fundamentación teórica y reflexiones</strong></p><p align="center"> </p><p><strong>Resumen: </strong>El presente artículo es el resultado de un primer proyecto de iniciación científica, en el que se contempla una investigación bibliográfica de artículos y documentos informaciones sobre el "cálculo mental". Esta publicación tiene como objetivo analizar y entrelazar diferentes aspectos de la temática susodicha, de acuerdo con diferentes autores. Se exploraron la definición de cálculo mental, así como estrategias para desarrollarlo. Además, se presentaron diferentes ventajas que esta práctica puede ofrecer a los estudiantes. A partir del estudio, pudimos reflexionar sobre la importancia de trabajar el cálculo mental durante el transcurso de la primaria o escuela básica. Y a modo de conclusión, subrayó la relevancia de esta temática ser trabajada no sólo con estudiantes, sino también en la formación de docentes, para que puedan reflexionar sobre esa modalidad de cálculo y consecuentemente incentivar su práctica en el aula.<strong></strong></p><strong>Palavras chave: </strong>Educación Matemática. Cálculo Mental. Enseñanza de Matemáticas. Escuela Básica.

Life of Muslims in Germany, and Its Contextualisation to Indonesian Islam

A PPIM’s junior researcher together with 13 young Indonesian Muslim intellectuals participated in Life of Muslims in Germany Program organized by Goethe Institut during 8-21 July 2018. This event explored Muslim everyday life in Germany through academic and cultural discussions in universities, research and cultural centres, and state officials. Therefore, this document is his insight to describe Muslim life in Germany and its contextualisation for Indonesian Muslim based on experiences in this program. This document article depicts two main issues which are happening in Germany: Muslim integration after the wave of refugees as a result of bloodiest conflict in Middle East and German government’s policy in religious pluralism issues. This program had been initiated in order to bridge cultural understanding for Indonesia, as the most populous Muslim country in the world, toward Muslim life in Germany. Indonesia has been considered as a strategic country which stands for disseminating moderate Islam. In addition, Dr. Heinrich Blomeke, Goethe-Institut, Institute and Regional Director Southeast Asia/Australia/New Zealand, said “the participants will engage in academic discussions and visit Muslim cultural organisation to obtain an insight about Muslim everyday life in German secular state. This program gives an opportunity for them and some Germany’s institutions to share their ideas regarding the experiences of Muslim life in Germany and Indonesia”.