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N. G. Krivulya

INTRODUCTION. As society changes, so do the forms and strategies of education, the challenges faced by educators, and the perception of their role. These changes are reflected not only in sociological research, statistical data, and media sources, but also in works of screen art. Examining the portrayal of teachers in animation is relevant in light of the transformation of their role, functions, and significance in society.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The research material includes more than 50 domestic animated films and series created from 1927 to 2024. The study employs the methods of frequency and comparative analysis, as well as contextual, thematic, and iconographic approaches, which allow for examining the iconography of images, the frequency of use of specific details, comparing images, and identifying constant and changing elements, as well as tracking the transformational changes in the portrayal of teachers in domestic animation.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, there has been a change in the perception of the teacher's image, which has transformed from a non-personal and sacred figure to a caricatured and mocking one. The roles of the teacher have also evolved, ranging from a mentor to a guide to a new world, from a knowledge-bearing figure and an organizer of the learning process to a supervisor and a punisher for academic negligence. The gendered portrait of a teacher is changing: the image of a male teacher, which was dominant in animation until the 1970s, is gradually being replaced by the image of a female teacher. In the portrayal of teachers, animation tends to use various comedic techniques and intonations, which can range from gentle irony and parody to outright mockery.CONCLUSION. In domestic animation, the teacher's portrait is presented in a schematic manner and is based on stereotypical representations. The image of the teacher as the main character in the story has not yet been developed. In films, the teacher is almost always portrayed in secondary or episodic roles. Modern Russian animation portrays negative perceptions of teachers, which is associated with the decline in the profession's authority in society.

Toni Buterin, Toni Buterin, Iva Rinčić et al.

The modern-day ecological crisis and gradual degradation of the environment, mostly due to anthropogenic effects, surpass other contemporary societal issues. Despite being largely perceived through a (bio)medical lens, the complexity of climate change as a topic is seen in different trends concerning its impact on the living world. These include historical, economic, cultural and social dimensions. Therefore, there is a need for an integrated and interdisciplinary approach resulting in more comprehensive measures to allow society to recover, but which also exploit the positive potential of climate change, through models and methods that the New Public Health can provide. Starting from the definition of the New Public Health, this paper combines and connects two topics, New Public Health and climate change, that are rarely explored together in the literature. The aim is to fill the gaps in the public health literature, where climate change is frequently viewed solely as a medical or health issue; here, we frame it as a critical challenge encompassing social, humanistic, and environmental dimensions. In addition, we offer a conceptual contribution that emphasizes their interconnection within the context of contemporary challenges.

F. Seitz

Lella Secor Florence, W. Warner, Paul Lunt

M. O. Shpotak, N. H. Ivanushkina, K. O. Ivanko et al.

Modern biomedical technologies use a combination of microelectrode array (MEA) systems and artificially grown cells to study disease mechanisms and test drug effects. MEA systems measure extracellular field potentials (FPs) of cell cultures or tissues, but they cannot record intracellular action potentials (APs) without some modifications or additional devices, limiting the depth of electrophysiological analysis. One of the possible solutions to the inability of MEA systems to measure APs is to mathematically reconstruct them using recorded FPs. However, accurately reconstructing APs of multiple cells is challenging task, which is complicated by many factors such as the number of cells, synchronicity of their APs, identification of their electrophysiological parameters, and noise. This paper aims to address the mathematical problem of AP synchronicity, asynchronicity and partial synchronicity between multiple cells. In this study, mathematical techniques were employed to derive a system of equations capable of reconstructing the APs of N cells simultaneously, using the FPs recorded with N+1 electrodes. The equations take into account the number of cells, synchronicity and variation of their APs and specific electrical properties of the cells and the medium. In numerical experiments the equations were applied to reconstruct APs from FPs for cases with different types of synchronicity in noise-free and noisy conditions. The reconstructed APs, when combined with recorded FPs, expand the number of electrophysiological characteristics available for cardiotoxicity assessment in MEA systems.

Peter Wilkin

The article examines the concept of geoculture understood as a form of dominant ideology in the twenty-first century. It situates this in the context of the attempt by conservative and liberal elites in the core states to frame a coherent understanding of the post-Cold War world with which to guide, justify, and legitimize policies and actions. The dominant geoculture has come to be framed by two contrasting grand narratives which establish a framework for legitimate intra-elite debate and understanding of the post-Cold War era: Neoliberalism and the Clash of Civilizations. The significance of these two intra-elite grand narratives is that they represent a break with what Wallerstein has called “centrist liberalism,” which has tended to dominate the geoculture of the modern world-system.

Daniel Assefa Tofu, Kebede Wolka, Teshale Woldeamanuel

Abstract Energy is a key factor in the economic development. Currently, however, millions of people across the world suffer from energy poverty, having little or no access to energy for cooking, lighting, heating, cooling, or using information and communication technologies. Objective of this study was to investigate the domestic energy sources for households and the impact of biomass use as a source of energy on the environment and food insecurity in the drought-affected northern highlands of Ethiopia. A total of 398 household heads were interviewed using a structured questionnaire, whereas 16 focus group discussions and 12 key informant interviews were conducted. Descriptive data analysis techniques were used to analyze quantitative data while content analysis methods were used to analyze qualitative data. The use of traditional biomass fuels such as firewood, charcoal, crop residue, animal dung, and biomass residue that can be combusted were prevalent in the area, which aggravated the degradation of agricultural lands. As commented by the majority of respondents, the move towards the adoption of modern energy sources was not common due to finance (98%), access (97%), durability (97%) and lack of awareness (93%). The findings showed that land degradation has been severe to the extent that no grain yield can be collected from crop production. As a result, people were exposed to both chronic and transitory food insecurity, and hence the majority of people make their living on food aid. In food-insecure areas, relying on biomass energy could increase land degradation or retard the speed of land restoration, which adversely affects agricultural production and food security. Investing in alternative energy technologies can improve the environment, food security, and people’s health.

N. Е. Safonova, N. М. Podzolkova, V. В. Osadchev et al.

Diagnosis of ovarian neoplasms is one of the most difficult tasks in practical gynecology. In the area of the uterine appendages, both true tumors and tumor-like formations, as well as formations emanating from other organs of the abdominal cavity and small pelvis, can be located. Difficulties in the timely diagnosis of ovarian tumors lie in the absence of clinically expressed precancerous conditions and are aggravated by their complex pathogenesis. Due to the high risk of malignant rebirth of ovarian tumors and the inability to diagnose a precancerous condition, the problem of early detection of ovarian neoplasm seems to be the most relevant. Today, it is possible to classify a tumor as malignant and determine its stage only after surgical operation with subsequent histological examination of removed tissues. Further patient treatment are based on the results of a histological examination. The description of this clinical case may help to enhance the capabilities and knowledge of practitioners in their approach to differential diagnosis of ovarian tumors. Patient N., 33 years old in April 2020, turned to the hospital named after D.D. Pletnev in the direction from the women's consultation with a diagnosis: left ovarian cyst, pain syndrome. The subject of interest of this clinical case is the differential diagnosis of ovarian neoplasm. Taking into account the results of the preliminary examination, we can think about a malignant ovarian neoplasm, relapse of the ovarian dermoid cyst, ovarian fibroma, uterine myoma with subserosal localization of node. That’s why an important task is to create optimal algorithms for diagnosing and routing patients in case of suspicion of an adnexal tumor. Modern diagnostics of ovarian tumors cannot be based on one research method, but requires a whole range of diagnostic measures that determine the tactics of introducing patients in each specific case.

Hongjie Jia, Huiyuan Wang, Yan Cao et al.

Abstract In modern society, system integration that enables multiple subsystems to function as one is emerging in various fields like industry, commerce, and infrastructure. Although it has been proved that integration value could be tapped to the maximum with controllable cost by optimising the integration schemes in certain fields, there is still a lack of a general method for modelling and analysing the process of system integration. To address this need, this paper proposes an analysis framework of system integration. The concepts of integration object, integration strategy, integration time, integration cost and integration value are introduced to describe the integration process. Further, three optimisation models of the local optimisation (OPT1), phase optimisation (OPT2) and integration optimisation (OPT3) are constructed. The proposed framework can also supervise and compare the performance of intermediate processes of different integration schemes. Two case studies in the commerce and energy fields are analysed to illustrate the function of the proposed framework.

R. Bellman, R. Kalaba

Mirzoieva Tetiana, Heraimovych Violeta, Loshakova Yuliia et al.

On the compliance with current requirements for the search for new alternative intensive models of agricultural production, the article has analyzed the structure of sown areas of farms in the Ukrainian Veld zone with an area of agricultural land up to 50 hectares; factors that indicate the need to optimize the structure of crops to meet the requirements of sustainable development and regenerative agriculture has been identified; the role of crop rotations in the system of modern agriculture has been revealed; the assumption that the tool of optimization of sown areas can be inclusion of medicinal plants in them has been put forward and substantiated; an optimization model has been built, with the help of which, based on production resources (land, labor, material, etc.), the optimal structure of sown areas of farms in the Ukrainian Steppe zone with an area of agricultural land up to 50 hectares has been determined; on the basis of the optimization economic-mathematical model with the help of the simplex method the increase of profitability of agricultural production has been calculated; the optimal structure of sown areas of the studied farms of the Ukrainian Veld zone with the introduction of medicinal plants has been developed.

R. P. Bell

R. O. Omorov

Issues, arising in the field of intellectual property rights in connection with the development of artificial intelligence systems and their impact on the development of legal relations in the economy and culture of modern society, have been considered. Aspects of mutual policies in the field of intellectual property rights and the development of artificial intelligence systems for the development of innovation and creativity have been examined. Questions of copyright and ownership in the interaction of man, collective and artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence systems have been raised and proposed. Issues related to artificial intelligence as an object of intellectual property have been considered. The position of the author on the legal personality of artificial intelligence to intellectual property objects created by autonomous artificial intelligence systems has been presented, which is expressed in the answers to the questions of the project of the World Intellectual Property Organization to the wide discussion of interested parties, planned for 2020 at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. The main conceptual principle of the author on the issues of the planned discussion is to grant the right of copyright and ownership of intellectual property objects created by autonomous artificial intelligence to a dressed subject – a person or collective, a developer of artificial intelligence with fixation of the latter as a sub-subject or instrument of the subject. Traditional categories of intellectual property rights also have been considered, such as patentability and the inventive level of property in connection with the possible generation of these objects by artificial intelligence. Issues related to data, its generation, fabrications and legal relations regarding data have been considered. Harmonization of international intellectual property rights policies to alleviate the technological gap between countries in the context of artificial intelligence development has been examined.

T. I. Rudneva

The article deals with significant changes in the educational process of a modern university, focuses on the change in motivation and value orientations of teachers of an innovative university in connection with globalization. Attention is drawn to the characteristics of modern education as a new social industry, due to the digital economy and the new generation of students. The article notes that digital learning (such a concept was introduced in the thesaurus of professional pedagogy) sets new lines in pedagogical activity, meeting resistance of some teachers who are not ready to use electronic tools and perform new professional functions, for example, monitoring learning outcomes. An increase in the teaching load causes teachers to distrust the reforms carried out in education, and sometimes professional deformation. It is proved that the quality of education is determined not only by digital technologies, but also by the quality of educational conditions, professional and pedagogical competence of the teacher. At the same time, methodological support of experienced teachers is required to adapt to innovations and beginners in order to compensate for the lack of knowledge, skills and abilities when performing innovative tasks. The article provides a link to the experience of organizing advanced training for teachers at Samara University, the essence of which is that the results of research on relevant pedagogical problems by its teachers become the basis for determining the content of programs in the system of further education.

T. Kuhn

Anton Kolomiiets

The paper reviews recent approaches to the evaluation of education quality. The critical view of education quality in Ukraine today and its phenomenal success in the age of baroque is represented. Considerations for characteristic features of the education philosophy are founded on the analysis of Ukrainian and foreign authors’ works. The conclusions concerning the reasons of the complications with the correct approach to evaluation of education quality on one hand and disadvantages of highly specialized education and its consequences on the other, outline the main issues of the article. The phenomenon of education quality of baroque age was reviewed from the position of the European educative system of Septem Artes Liberales. The Kyiv Mohyla Academy in XVII–XVII centuries was chosen as the most specifically Ukrainian historical example. The article indicated the importance of the formation of kinship of ideological foundations in the environment of educated aristocracy and the problems of both assessment of education quality and the degree of conformity of education to different social requirements. The comparison of cooperation of nowadays and baroque epoch erectors (as the architect and the customer) confirms big gap in their worldviews. Baroque’s education, its phenomenon, or rather the phenomenon of its quality, and calling things in terms of the industrial age – efficiency and effectiveness, is the topic with enormous practical potential in terms not only and perhaps not so much of the historical point of view, when the purpose of the researcher is to study the past in search of «white spots», but also in terms of searching for the ways of preparing the successful «golden age» educators. The model suggested is suitable for realisation in modern Ukrainian education process

D. Barton

Sanjay Chhibber, Vijay Singh Gondil, Jasreen Kaur

Background: Bacterial resistance is one of the most challenging and emerging public healthcare crisis in the modern era. Along with antibiotic degrading strategies, bacteria also evolved to produce extracellular polymers such as capsular polysaccharide (CPS) which not only provides immune protection but also act as a permeability barrier to antibiotics. The use of therapeutic enzymes alone and in combination with antibiotics has opened a new window for clinicians and researchers. Methods: In the present study, isolation of broad-spectrum capsular depolymerase bacterium was attempted from a number of environmental samples followed by 16SrRNA characterization. Optimization of capsular depolymerase production was performed by the one variable at time (OVAT) method and response surface methodology (RSM). Capsular depolymerase was partially purified using ammonium sulfate saturation method. Capsule stripping effects of depolymerase were analyzed using microscopic visualization of the capsule and antibiotic susceptibility test. Results: Thirty-two capsular depolymerase producing bacteria were isolated in this study and broad-spectrum depolymerase producing Isolate-30 was characterized as Bacillus siamensis SCVJ30 according to the 16srRNA sequencing. Depolymerase production was optimized using OVAT method and RSM. Relatively high yields (1.92 IU/ml) of capsular depolymerase were obtained in a medium containing 1 mg magnesium sulfate, 7 mg peptone and at 9 pH. A 115% increase in capsular depolymerase production was observed under optimal conditions than unoptimized conditions. Microscopic visualization of the capsule and antibiotic susceptibility testing postulates the positive effect of depolymerase on antibiotic effi cacy against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Conclusion: Further characterization of the enzyme will help in developing broad-spectrum depolymerase as a potent therapeutic agent against drug-resistant strains.

Shaza Hanif, Ahmed M. Khedr, Zaher Al Aghbari et al.

With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT), the research on Smart Cities with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) got leveraged due to similarities between objectives in both Smart City and IoT. Along with them, research in controlling WSN faces new challenges and opportunities for data aggregation and routing has received consistent focus from researchers. Yet new techniques are being proposed to address modern challenges in WSN and efficient resource utilization. Moreover, solutions are required to integrate existing deployed WSN with ever increasing numbers of IoT devices in Smart Cities, that benefit both. In this work, we present an approach for routing in a WSN, in which IoT is used opportunistically to reduce the communication overhead of the sensors. In our approach, WSN deployed in a Smart City interacts with the IoT devices to route the data to the sink. We build a prototype Integration Platform for the WSN that allows interaction with IoT devices and utilizes them opportunistically that results in an energy efficient routing of data. Simulation results show that the direction is quite promising and our approach offers to utilize IoT to gain unique advantages.

R. Trinquier, D. Lee