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A nutrient circular economy framework for wastewater treatment plants

Given the criticality of phosphorous and the harm eutrophication causes, wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are undergoing circular economy (CE) conversions into becoming centres for resource recovery. This framework paper identifies the environmental, societal, political, commercial, economic, consumer, regulatory, legal, infrastructural, technological, international compliance, academic, agricultural, and plant-operator factors affecting the micro, macro and meso success and failure of nutrient CE WWTP across scope classifications. From this, nutrient CE framework is not as simplistic as it looks, given the multitude of impingers that need to be considered. The lack of technological readiness and vast selection methodologies for some nutrient recovery technologies, low private-sector investment, divisive consumer perceptions, unique economic situations, localised regulatory specifications, threats of inefficient technology lock-ins, poor acceptance among farmers and WWTP operators due to infrastructural incompatibilities, lack of efficient CE supply chains, legacy infrastructure, poor digitised solutions for nutrient CE management, low training and awareness, and integration of nutrient CE WWTPs with broader society are barriers. On the contrary, nutrient CE WWTP will mainly be driven by regulations, subsidies and consumer-WWTP-farmer nutrient CE acceptances. This framework aims to tie in and provide solutions to overcoming barriers to nutrient CE WWTPs that is universally applicable. Consequently, the framework provides a holistic structure for policy, legislative, academic, agricultural, plant operators, commercial and consumer stakeholders a roadmap for the success and difficulties of nutrient CE WWTP adoption.

Traditional Chinese Rehabilitation Exercise (TCRE) for Myofascial Pain: Current Evidence and Further Challenges.

Myofascial as a holistic structure emphasizes a holistic approach to intervention and treatment of fascial-related disorders such as neck pain (NP), low back pain (LBP), and knee pain. There are currently adverse effects of medication for diseases related to myofascial. Traditional Chinese rehabilitation exercise (TCRE) is a practical approach to traditional Chinese medicine and is a valuable option for intervening in myofascial-related pain. This article found some research evidence for Baduanjin, Wuqinxi, and Yijinjing in clinical studies of myofascial chain-related pain. The article summarizes the current evidence and finds that TCRE can enhance limb movement function through breathing and slow movements, increase joint movement and flexibility, and reduce joint pathology and stress-induced pain. As for future directions, focus on TCRE in improving the health of older adults and treating long-COVID syndrome, and integrate robotic and TCRE training to frame safe and effective exercise models. Relevant studies have already been registered in the Clinical Trials Registry, and some clinical study protocols have been published. TCRE can be an alternative nonpharmacological rehabilitation therapy to alleviate chronic rheumatic pain symptoms and augment public health management.

Evaluation of Sustainable University Campuses and Sports Facilities from the Perspective of Administrators and Students: A Multiple Case Study

Sustainable higher education institutions contribute to the building of a sustainable society at regional and global levels by raising individuals with environmental awareness. Universities can also offer their stakeholders the opportunity to lead a healthy life with the sports fields on their campuses In this context, the “campuses” and “sports fields” of 6 Turkish universities which are in the top ten of the UI GreenMetric list (ranked by country), were analyzed in a holistic structure with a qualitative paradigm in terms of sustainability officers, sports facilities managers and students. The research was designed in a case study pattern and supported by in-depth interviews and document analysis. In this direction, it was analyzed within the scope of themes and sub-themes with the descriptive analysis method. As a result of the findings, it has been found that the sustainability studies in the examined universities are mainly carried out on environmental sustainability such as energy, water and waste management. It has been revealed that the reason for this for legal obligations. In addition, it has been determined that the sustainability initiatives of private universities are carried out both with various sustainability rating systems (STARS, THE, etc.) and within the framework of an integrated program with students. The inclusion of the opinions of the participants of different statuses in the study enabled us to reach multi-dimensional findings and results in the research fields.

How Good is the Governance of Bulgarian Agriculture?

The governance is with rising importance and interesting topic from a scientific and practical point of view. The different schools and theories understand the governance notion from a wide perspective. By examining the vast scope of scientific theoriesa holistic structure of agrarian governance is proposed. Adopting this structural holistic approach, an assessment of the Bulgarian agricultural governance is carried out. The structural framework of governance is set up by Components - Principles – Principleaspects. By implementation of a multi-indicator estimation, the governance assessment is carried out througha good governance perspective. The integral Governance Index (GIi) of Bulgarian agriculture is measured and the estimated result allows to define the agrarian governance at a moderate level. It means that the governance of Bulgarian agriculture performs in a moderate state, very close and similar to the average EU fulfillments in the elaborated components and principles. The notion of the governance assessment is to manifest what the state of Bulgarian agriculture is and how the existing entity runs. This analysis of governance allows to look for connecting the direct outcomes of Bulgarian agriculture with the governance state and functioning as well as to identify the externalities and consequences, which emerge in the agriculture running process.

First‐year students' psychological resilience and college adjustment: A person‐oriented approach

AbstractPrevious research has concentrated on psychological resilience as a holistic structure and has found that resilience positively affects college adjustment. However, it is suggested by existing literature that college students' resilience is a multidimensional construct. Furthermore, there is limited understanding regarding the categorizations of resilience among first‐year college students and its influence on their college adjustment. This study aimed to identify the profiles of first‐year college students' resilience, including individual powers and supportive powers, and explore the effects of varying resilience profiles on first‐year students' college adjustment. A valid sample of 771 first‐year college students from 28 Chinese colleges participated in this survey. The online surveys were conducted through Wenjuanxing platform. Data were analyzed using latent profile analysis to identify first‐year college students' different resilience profile and examine the relationships with college adjustment. Four groups featuring unique resilient characteristics were discovered: well‐resilient students, students with low individual power but high supportive power, students with high individual power but low supportive power, and mal‐resilient students with low individual power and low supportive power. Well‐resilient first‐year students reported the best condition of college adjustment compared to the other groups, which supports the conservation of resources (COR) theory. These results provide insight into first‐year college students' particular and heterogeneous circumstances at the beginning of the college experience. They also refined the COR theory by identifying individual‐specific relationships between psychological resilience and college adjustment.

Local buckling of the bottom flange in steel-concrete composite beams with trapezoidal corrugated webs subjected to end restraint at high temperatures

Steel-concrete composite beams with trapezoidal corrugated webs (SCBCW) are prone to rapid failure at high temperatures due to local instability of the bottom flange. The failure mechanism of SCBCW, which is an integral part of the holistic structure and subject to axial and rotational restraints from adjacent members at elevated temperatures, differs from conventionally simply supported steel-concrete composite beams with straight webs. To investigate the evolution of local buckling in the compressed flange of SCBCW under high temperature conditions, a composite beam model with frame restraints was developed using ABAQUS finite element software. In this model, the composite beam is connected to restraint frame columns through high-strength bolts. The changes in axial stress, bending moment, and deflection of the compressed flange of SCBCW were analyzed as temperature increased. Results indicate that at elevated temperatures, additional bending moments occur in the flange plane due to axial restraints, section temperature gradients, section negative bending moments and accordion effect caused by corrugated web on compressed bottom flange of SCBCW. This leads to a gradual increase in axial compressive stress before local buckling occurs followed by a decrease due to internal force redistribution upon onset of buckling. Studies show that initial buckling of bottom flange occurs on one side of flat section of web where axial compressive stress is relatively high while restraint effect on web is low; Subsequent local buckling of the beam then appears on opposite side adjacent flat section of web after initial buckle occure on one side. After local buckling appears on both sides of web tension bands appear on both sides where bottom flange experiences localized bucking. The setting of longitudinal stiffeners (LS) can effectively improve the local stability of the bottom flange of the composite beam, while the setting of transverse stiffeners (TS) has no significant impact.

Phenome-wide identification of therapeutic genetic targets, leveraging knowledge graphs, graph neural networks, and UK Biobank data.

The ongoing expansion of human genomic datasets propels therapeutic target identification; however, extracting gene-disease associations from gene annotations remains challenging. Here, we introduce Mantis-ML 2.0, a framework integrating AstraZeneca's Biological Insights Knowledge Graph and numerous tabular datasets, to assess gene-disease probabilities throughout the phenome. We use graph neural networks, capturing the graph's holistic structure, and train them on hundreds of balanced datasets via a robust semi-supervised learning framework to provide gene-disease probabilities across the human exome. Mantis-ML 2.0 incorporates natural language processing to automate disease-relevant feature selection for thousands of diseases. The enhanced models demonstrate a 6.9% average classification power boost, achieving a median receiver operating characteristic (ROC) area under curve (AUC) score of 0.90 across 5220 diseases from Human Phenotype Ontology, OpenTargets, and Genomics England. Notably, Mantis-ML 2.0 prioritizes associations from an independent UK Biobank phenome-wide association study (PheWAS), providing a stronger form of triaging and mitigating against underpowered PheWAS associations. Results are exposed through an interactive web resource.

Geospatial Structure and Evolution Analysis of National Terrestrial Adjacency Network Based on Complex Network

The first law of geography is one of the most important concepts in geographical analysis, revealing the significant role of spatial proximity. At present, some current international relation studies or geographic network analysis studies tend to build corresponding network models according to different themes, but the most basic level of geographic neighborhoods is intentionally or unintentionally neglected in those processes. Based on the adjacency relationship between the terrestrial countries in the world, the model of the terrestrial adjacency network (TAN) is constructed. The model includes almost all land-based countries and is divided into three main regions, respectively, Eurasia, Africa, and America. On the mathematical model of these regions, we analyze the geospatial structure and network evolution of the adjacent networks utilizing statistical methods and network analysis methods. This study helps to map and understand the geographical attributes and characteristics of countries from the perspective of holistic structure, aiming to provide a quantitative reference for subsequent research on international relations and geographic computing. Moreover, despite some limitations, TAN represents a new advance in geographical network analysis that can be further applied by overlaying more attribute data.

Öğrencilerin enerji santrallerine ilişkin bakış açılarının Q yöntemi ile araştırılması

The aim of this research, which was conducted through the use of Q methodology, was to examine eighth grade students’ perspectives on power plants (PPs). Suggesting that variables can be replaced by individuals in factor analysis and thus interpersonal factor analysis can be done, Q methodology is a method that aims to examine individuals’ self-referenced perspectives by revealing the differences and commonalities of these perspectives; that is, where they are positioned relative to each other in a holistic structure. In this research, a total of 35 Q-statements were presented to a number of 19 eight-grade students, who were attending to a public middle school and were voluntarily participated in the study. Students’ Q-sorts resulted in a two-factor solution, meaning that two perspectives emerged towards PPs. The perspectives were named as economy-oriented and science and technology-oriented. Students holding the economy-oriented perspective pointed out to the positive impact of PPs on economy, while others holding the science and technology-oriented perspective specified the contribution of PPs to scientific and technological development.

Патогенетическая роль личностных особенностей у пациентов с вертеброгенными болевыми синдромами

Painful changes in the personality structure, which lead to a violation of its holistic structure, play an important role in the development of mechanisms of clinical polymorphism.

Hybrid AI for panoptic segmentation: An informed deep learning approach with integration of prior spatial relationships knowledge

Panoptic segmentation is a computer vision task that aims to identify and analyze all objects present in an image. While semantic segmentation focuses on labeling each pixel in an image with a category label, panoptic segmentation goes further by not only assigning semantic labels but also identifying and distinguishing individual instance of objects. This task is valuable for various applications, such as robotics, surveillance systems or autonomous vehicle navigation. In this work, we propose a new informed deep learning approach that combines the strengths of deep neural networks for panoptic segmentation with additional knowledge about spatial relationships between objects. This is particularly important as spatial relationships can provide useful cues for resolving ambiguities, distinguishing between overlapping or similar object instances, and capturing the holistic structure of the scene. We propose a novel training methodology that integrates knowledge directly into the deep neural network optimization process. Our approach includes a process for extracting and representing spatial relationships knowledge, which is incorporated into the training using a specially designed loss function. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated and validated on various challenging datasets, namely CityScapes, KITTI, IDD and COCO datasets.

Structuring Japanese editorials along the lines of rhetorical structure annotations: issues and discoveries

This paper is a result of a practical experiment in annotating the rhetorical structure of three editorial articles from the leading Japanese newspapers, focused on connectors and their role in the text. Annotation work was carried out along the general lines of existing techniques, at the same time calling for substantial adjustments in both the relations’ taxonomy and orientation, and also the principles of breaking down discourse units. These methodological findings are reviewed in the conclusive part. The main difficulty in representing the overall text structure is whether it can be convincingly represented in the form of a tree (as is expected from a pragmatically organized text). Some in-depth analysis shows that apart from rhetorical relations between discourse units a complex networks of holistic structure (macrostructure), intentional structure, referential network are of not less importance in the unity of the text. Notional structure in the basis of the reader’s comprehension also comes into the bargain, as well as the author’s efforts to influence and direct it overtly or covertly. An RST tree would only be a part of this totality. Appended are tentative graphical representations of an approximated tree structure as well as graphs covering the text’s intentional structure, divided into interconnected layers. This experiment highlighted major peculiarities of a newspaper editorial as one type of text. They are seen as rooted in the pragmatical nature of this genre of language activity, whose principal aim is opinion leadership and of the audience that is highly heterogenous but at the same time capable of detecting and processing sophisticated logical and rhetorical devices. That imposes some structural conditions besides general structure specialties of the Japanese language.

DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE ACTUALIZATION BASED ON ARCHIVAL FUNDS DIGITALIZATION

The article focuses on the representation of the means of actualization of the cultural heritage of Ukraine, which is stored in the National Archival Fund. The methodology of the research uses the tools of the modeling method. They are as follows: problem statement, creation and research of a specific model. One of the leading methods used by the author was the principles of integrity, hierarchy and structure, which allowed to consider the electronic exhibition of cultural archival materials as a holistic structure. The scientific novelty of the work is to create a conceptual model for the development of an electronic exhibition of archival materials that will promote the documentary heritage of the Ukrainian people. Conclusions. The study revealed the existence of electronic exhibitions of archival materials on culture. The classification of electronic exhibitions on four grounds is developed, the main characteristics of the e-exhibition are defined. A conceptual model of developing a virtual exhibition is proposed, which will create a kind of web resource of valuable documents in terms of cultural heritage of the state. The article proves that virtual exhibitions, which acquaint users with the archives of national cultural monuments, digitized handwritten heritage will not only improve the educational and cultural level of the population, the continuity of national consciousness, but also represent the state in the global information space. At the same time resource costs are minimal.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: An Insight Over Impact of Maternal Substance Use.

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) highlights the intricate interplay between maternal substance use during pregnancy and the challenges neonates face from the distressing global opioid crisis. This comprehensive review captures the multilayered landscape of NAS, encircling its underlying mechanisms, epidemiology, diagnostic intricacies, clinical manifestations, continuing developmental impacts, treatment paradigms, and the crucial role of multidisciplinary care. The core pathophysiology of NAS involves the transplacental passage of addictive substances, activating chemical dependence in the maturing fetus, which is characterized by neurotransmitter dysregulation, neuroadaptations, and receptor sensitization. A diverse clinical presentation ranges from central nervous system hyperactivity and autonomic dysregulation to gastrointestinal manifestations, necessitating homogenous assessment tools such as the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring System. The demand for a multilayered approach is essential for comprehensive management, involving pharmacological interventions like morphine or methadone and non-pharmacological strategies such as swaddling. The complications of NAS are not only limited to but are also well beyond infancy, leading to behavioral, longstanding cognitive, and socioemotional consequences. Addressing these developmental arcs demands decisive longitudinal monitoring and early interventions. NAS management is fundamentally multidisciplinary, requiring the teamwork of nurses, social workers, psychologists, pediatricians, and neonatologists. Apart from the clinical realm, managing the psychosocial needs of families traversing NAS requires resources and empathy. A crucial comprehensive approach is essential to confront the challenges and limitations of NAS. From early identification and prevention to longstanding support through pharmacological, non-pharmacological, and psychological channels, it creates a holistic structure that emerges as the basis for understanding the complicated relationship between maternal substance use and its impact on neonates. An amalgamation of community engagement, society, policy initiatives, and medical expertise is essential to mitigate the repercussions of NAS and adopt healthier outcomes for affected infants.

Academic Culture of Higher Education Institutions in Ukraine

The purpose of the article is to analyse the significance of academic culture for higher education institutions in Ukraine and to substantiate the strategic trends of its development. The research methodology used in the course of scientific research is based on an interdisciplinary approach and includes general scientific methods of systematisation and analysis of the issue under study, which allowed specifying and substantiating strategic approaches to the development of academic culture in the university community. The objectives of the scientific research necessitated the use of an analytical approach, which helped to outline the advantages and disadvantages of the process of introducing academic culture in higher education institutions. The scientific novelty lies in the disclosure of the essence and significance of academic culture in higher education institutions of Ukraine; scientific substantiation of the strategic trends of academic culture policy in the context of motivation and incentives. Conclusions. The development of the academic culture space requires the improvement of a series of factors in the system of higher education institutions: from identifying and proving cases of dishonesty to the use of appropriate tools as methods of punishment. These issues are reflected in the majority of national papers and publications on academic integrity. In order to introduce a high level of academic culture in the university community, the following steps should be taken: to have a clear, effective, and transparent system to support a high level of academic culture in an educational institution; to focus on the capabilities of students rather than on prohibitions, metaphorical restrictions, and intimidation; to synthesise academic culture and learning space through the holistic structure of any educational component.
 Key words: higher education institution, academic culture, academic integrity, academic values, student community, system of motivation and incentives.

Kişilik İnşasında Din Faktörünün Etkisinin Bir Kadın Üzerinden İncelenmesi: Bezmialem Valide Sultan

Personality is the whole of attitudes and behaviors that people reveal from the moment they interact with the outside world with their innate characteristics. The consistency of these attitudes and behaviors is the possible with will of men, which they strengthen with their minds. Although men’s mental ability contains innate features, the way they use it from the moment they interact with the environment reveals whether their behavior is voluntary or not. Religion, which is both an internal and an external phenomenon, is one of the factors affecting the will of human behavior due to this feature. For this reason, religion also helps in the construction of a person’s personality. This auxiliary role of religion is especially effective during childhood and adolescence. In the following periods, its effectiveness emerges in times of crisis. The crises of sexes differ in their management with the help of the religion factor. The effectiveness of women’s use of religion in self-construction and in times of crisis is an issue that needs to be investigated. In the literature studies on self-construction, in the research made on gender, the evaluation of women through a private person was not encountered. In order to contribute to the missing area in this regard, the effects of religion as a positive controlling power on self-construction were evaluated through women. Religious factors are more effective in the spiritual world of women. The fact that the female temperament is softer than the male temperament is a factor in this situation. Although this soft temperament may seem like a disadvantage, it breeds sincere surrender. This surrender is the sourdough of holistic self-construction. Bezmialem Valide Sultan, whose life was influenced by different religions, was analyzed in this context. The self-construction process was investigated. Different beliefs and different cultural structures affecting childhood and adolescence were evaluated. It was focused on bringing her personality to a holistic structure with the identities she acquired throughout her life. In particular, an examination was made of the charitable activities she carried out under the influence of religion. Examples of these activities of Bezmialem Valide Sultan were selected. Some of these sample activities are Waqf Gureba Hospital, Darülmaarif, Dolmabahçe Mosque, Galata Bridge, and Terkos Lake. Her personality was evaluated scientifically on reaching every part of society with the waqf institution, a religious phenomenon, with her religious philanthropy emotion. In this study, the technique of examining documents, which is a qualitative research method, was used. A review of primary and secondary sources on the subject was made. It was seen that the effect of religion was positive in the construction of Bezmialem Valide Sultan’s personality. When religion is the center of self-construction, it has been determined that the result is consistent and permanent with the charitable waqfs constructed by Bezmialem Valide Sultan. It has been concluded that the effect of religion is positive in self-construction in women.

ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНИХ ЧИННИКІВ РОЗВИТКУ ЛІДЕРСЬКИХ ЯКОСТЕЙ МАЙБУТНІХ ПЕДАГОГІВ

The article is dedicated to the study of psychological factors in the development of leadership qualities in future teachers during their professional study. It highlights that a significant number of works by contemporary domestic and foreign psychologists are devoted to the issue of teacher's leadership qualities. Researchers define the phenomenon of leadership qualities as a relevant topic that generates considerable scientific interest. The article describes an author's approach to understanding the holistic structure of leadership qualities and the importance of its formation and development during the professional training of teachers, particularly in the period of educational reforms (such as the concept of the New Ukrainian School). A complex of psychodiagnostic tools was proposed, allowing for a comprehensive and thorough examination of the personality of future teachers from the perspective of leadership. The study involved students from the II to IV year, from three higher education institutions, aged 18 to 21. Based on the analysis of the components of pedagogical activity, taking into account the structural and content components of leadership qualities in future teachers, the following psychodiagnostic methods were identified: "Self-Actualization Test" by Yu. Alyoshina, L. Gozman, "Method for determining the level of professional orientation of students" by T. Dubovitska, "Assessment of Communicative and Organizational Inclinations - KOS" by V. Sinyavsky and B. Fedorishin, "Diagnostic of Leadership Abilities" by Ye. Zharikov, Ye. Krushelnytsky, "Hall's Test for Determining the Level of Emotional Intelligence," "Behavioral Self-Regulation Style" by V. Morosanova, "Method for studying the level of subjective control (RSC)" by J. Rotter, and the "Questionnaire on reflexivity" by A. Karpova. The empirical study allowed for determining the level of development of leadership qualities in the selected sample. The analysis of the empirical research results revealed that certain indicators are underdeveloped and require improvement. This necessitates further research into the psychological factors that contribute to the development of the aforementioned qualities.

Crystal structure of the dimerized of porcine circovirus type II replication-related protein Rep'.

Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) can cause porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD), which causes significant economic losses to the global pig industry annually. There are no effective antiviral drugs used to control and treat PCV2, and prevention is mainly obtained through vaccination. PCV2 genome replicates through the rolling circle replication (RCR) mechanism involving Rep and Rep', so analyzing the holistic structure of Rep and Rep' will help us better understand the replication process of PCV2. However, there are no reports on the integral structure of Rep' and Rep, which seriously hinders the research of the viral replication. By using the x-ray diffraction method, the structure of the Rep' dimer was resolved by us in this study. Structural analysis revealed that Rep' is a dimer formed by the interaction of the C-terminal domain. The two Rep' form a positively charged groove, which may play an essential role in the viral binding of dsDNA. Together, this study help to understand the replication process of the virus and may also provide new insights into the development of antiviral drugs.

Industrial perspective regarding circular economy activities in Atlántico-Colombia

This work seeks to diagnose the business perspective of the department of Atlántico presenting general strength and weaknesses of companies to undertake circular economy policies; it seeks to know the actions for the circular economy of companies in each sector, the waste generated, resources used and the management systems or methodologies implemented. The results show that minimize waste by recycling or reusing it, in addition of replan and minimize the water consumption are the main actions to implement circular activities; more than a third of companies have at least one quality, security, save or environment management system that circularized its processes a bit; but they do not achieve an economic, social and environmental positive impact. For this reason, these actions need to become in a holistic structure with systematization of practices, focusing on single innovation stages and involving their stakeholders. Besides, in addition of barriers reported by previous studies, the lack of expertise and complex administrative legal procedures are specific gaps for Atlántico Industry applying circular economy processes that should be considered in the model used to implement it. Finally, this work serves as the basis for a future pilot project where the level of success and acceptance of various circular economy methodologies that will be implemented in previously selected companies is compared. In this way, build a relevant method to achieve the culture and capabilities of the industries of the department of Atlántico in order to achieve economic, social and environmental innovation by applying the concept of circular economy.