One-Dimensional Perovskite with Ferroelectric and Switchable Nonlinear Optical Properties: [azetidinium]CdCl3

Organic-inorganic perovskite hybrids (OIPHs) have been a topical area of interest in recent years. This stems from their key features such as facile and inexpensive solution based synthesis, high mechanical...

30 Years of Pearls from Electrochemical Society Journals

To celebrate Interface’s 30th anniversary, we showcase 30 “pearls of the journals.” They are the two most highly cited papers in each of the 14 topical areas published in JES and JSS in the last 30 years. Because this gave us 28 papers, we then rounded up to 30 by including the two next-most-cited papers (giving us one for each year of Interface’s existence), both of which happened to be in the battery topical area.

How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up

It is now routine for anthropologists to study those who exercise power and control wealth and status in any number of societies. Implicit in anthropology’s long-standing commitment to apprehending societies in their totality, and explicit in the call to study up, paying attention to power is just one of the routine things that anthropologists do in the course of their fieldwork. That said, many theoretical and ethical norms in the discipline are calibrated to allow researchers to both know about and protect those with relatively little power who made up much of anthropology’s original topical area of interests. By contrast, studying people who exercise power entails special ethical and theoretical consideration. This article enumerates some of those considerations, and suggests that anthropologists need to have coherent theories of social action in addition to theories of social meaning. The article also suggests that some canonical disciplinary ethical norms are inappropriate for the study of the powerful for empirical and practical reasons.

THE EFFECT OF MUSICAL GESTURES ON AN AUDIENCE: EXAGGERATED OR DEADPAN GESTURES

In the last two decades the scope of scientific papers related to the study of musical gestures increased enormously thanks to the development of data collection technology. The aim of this paper was to contribute to this topical area of psychology of music through the study of musical gestures during performance, i.e. to explain and systematise the visual experience of the audience when a performer made exaggerated or deadpan gestures during performance. This study was based on the questionnaire research method where examinees rated the performance of two performers by using a scale from 1 to 5. During his performance the first performer made exaggerated gestures, while the other made deadpan ones. The results that we obtained proved that exaggerated gestures disturbed visual experience of the listeners regardless whether they were formally educated in music or not. The results also showed considerable achievements in the domain of musical gestures and could be largely used for both pedagogical and performing purposes.

Assessment of the State of Diagnostics and Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis in School-age Children

Allergic diseases are a topical area of research today. Allergic rhinitis is most common among both children and adults. According to WHO, more than 40% of the population of developed countries have signs of allergic readiness. Currently, the frequency of allergic rhinitis in the general population is 10–20%, and at the same time these figures tend to further increase this disease (1,3).

Economic security as the basis for sustainable development of the territories of different levels

Sustainable development of territories at the national and global level has become a topical area of research since the end of the XX century. At the same time for each national economy individual priorities of achieving sustainability are defined. The paper is analysed the theoretical basis of the concept of “sustainable development” of the territory. The study reveals the direct link between sustainable development and economic security at each territorial level: from macro to micro. The analysis of domestic and foreign scientific studies, normative documents allows determining that ensuring economic security at different territorial levels contributes to the achievement of sustainability in their socio-economic development, and many indicators are identical for both security and sustainability assessment. The authors present a model of sustainable territories’ development of different levels on the basis of the implementation of the directions in the sphere of economic security.

25 Years of Collaboration with A Genius: Deciphering Adenine Nucleotide Ca2+ Mobilizing Second Messengers Together with Professor Barry Potter

Ca2+-mobilizing adenine nucleotide second messengers cyclic adenosine diphosphoribose, (cADPR), nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAADP), adenosine diphosphoribose (ADPR), and 2′deoxy-ADPR were discovered since the late 1980s. They either release Ca2+ from endogenous Ca2+ stores, e.g., endoplasmic reticulum or acidic organelles, or evoke Ca2+ entry by directly activating a Ca2+ channel in the plasma membrane. For 25 years, Professor Barry Potter has been one of the major medicinal chemists in this topical area, designing and contributing numerous analogues to develop structure–activity relationships (SAR) as a basis for tool development in biochemistry and cell biology and for lead development in proof-of-concept studies in disease models. With this review, I wish to acknowledge our 25-year-long collaboration on Ca2+-mobilizing adenine nucleotide second messengers as a major part of Professor Potter’s scientific lifetime achievements on the occasion of his retirement in 2020.

Achieving the Objectives in the Field of Consequences Management at the National Level, By Preparing the Economy and the Territory for Defense

This article presents some lines of effort to reach the specific objectives, for a topical area of collective security, the management of consequences. Conceptual correlations in this spectrum are highlighted between emergencies, critical infrastructures, community resilience. Theoretical research is accompanied by examples taken from practice, the case study at national level being focused on the contribution made to the efficient management of the consequences of the processes specific to the preparation of the economy and the territory for defense. It is emphasized, based on the experience of the specific events of the Covid 19 dynamics, the role and importance of this sector of administrative activity in the critical infrastructure security plan.

Power and Place in Europe in the Early Middle Ages

This chapter provides an interdisciplinary, scene-setting review of the current state of knowledge in the field of early medieval social complexity and sets out an agenda for future work in this topical area. While much previous work in this field tends to focus on comparisons with the classical world, this contribution emphasises the uniqueness of early medieval modes of social organisation. Introductions are provided to the study of geographies of power through archaeological analyses, vocabularies of power drawing on place-name evidence and notions of law and its enactment at assembly sites from written sources. It is argued that places where power was enacted in a period of non-urban social and administrative complexity must be understood on their own terms. The robusticity and flexibility of early medieval networks of power is also emphasised in the context of a comparative discussion ranging across the European area.

Constitutional features of the occurrence and course of psoriasis (analysis of scientific literature)

The purpose of the work is to analyze the scientific literature on the constitutional features of the occurrence and course of psoriasis. The analysis of modern scientific literature in the scientific databases PubMed, eLIBRARY.RU and Web of Science was carried out. A review of the literature indicates the current state of the problem of such a disease as psoriasis, which is not only a skin lesion but also a serious socio-psychological problem. Given its chronic nature, lack of etiopathogenetic treatment, and knowing the trigger factors in the right way, it would be a good idea to look for early predisposition for the disease and to form risk groups for such individuals. Ideal in terms of efficiency and cheapness, given the results of the above studies, could be anthropological studies. The study of the constitutional features of the occurrence and course of psoriasis for the population of Ukraine is thus a priority and topical area of research.