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The United States patent system is unique in that it requires applicants to cite documents they know to be relevant to the examination of their patent applications. Lampe (2012) presents evidence that applicants strategically withhold 21%–33% of relevant citations from patent examiners, suggesting that many patents are fraudulently obtained. We challenge this view. We first show that Lampe's empirical design is inconsistent with both legal standards and standard operating procedures, including how courts identify strategic withholding. We then compile comprehensive data to reassess the empirical basis for Lampe's main claim. We find no evidence that applicants withhold citations.

Im folgenden Beitrag werden bibliothekswissenschaftliche Zukunftsfelder skizziert, die maßgeblich die Überarbeitung des Curriculums des Bachelorstudiengangs Bibliothekswissenschaft an der Fachhochschule Potsdam geprägt haben. Besonders hervorgehoben werden dabei informationstechnologische sowie bibliotheks- und informationswissenschaftliche Trends, die für den kompetenten Umgang mit globalen Herausforderungen wie der nachhaltigen Digitalisierung maßgeblich sind und sich in den drei Studienschwerpunkten Bibliotheks- und Informationsdidaktik, Data Steward und Offenheit wiederfinden., The following article outlines future fields of library science that have significantly influenced the revision of the curriculum of the bachelor's degree program in library science at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Particular emphasis is placed on information technology as well as on library- and information science trends, which are crucial for dealing competently with global challenges such as sustainable digitization and are reflected in the three course specializations of library and information didactics, data stewardship and openness.

This article compares cash-for-care schemes supporting older people with health-related social care needs, as well as their informal carers, in England and Finland. The meso-level policy analysis drills down into the governance arrangements underpinning cash-for-care schemes, including their eligibility criteria, generosity and territorial variations. It explores their implicit and explicit intentions, function and effects in defamilialising, familialising or refamilialising families’ caring responsibilities. This reveals inconsistencies in the familialising and defamilialising effects of schemes according to individuals’ characteristics, choices and policy restrictions. It also exposes an overarching tendency to familialise or refamilialise the activity of caring for older people, which is exacerbated by austerity-related politics.

Contributions: The underrepresentation of women in computer science (CS) majors has long been a focus of attention in many academic documents, the majority of them from the United States and Europe. There is, however, a lack of information about educational interventions (EIs) for women in computing in Latin America. The contribution of this article is to cover this gap and describe what researchers in Latin American countries have been publishing about the recruitment and retention of women in the CS field.

Approximately every five years, a group of database researchers meet to do a self-assessment of our community, including reflections on our impact on the industry as well as challenges facing our research community. This report summarizes the discussion and conclusions of the 9th such meeting, held during October 9-10, 2018 in Seattle.

Among many literary terms found in the Lexicon Latinum (1742) by Andrija Jambrešić and Franjo Sušnik (auctor and scriptor — book writer; impressio — printing; libellus — booklet; typographeum — print house; typographia — to know how to set and print letters etc.) we can also find the term libellarium — bookcase, bookshelf, for keeping different letters and papers. This descriptive definition of libellarium sums up all the three areas this journal is dedicated to — the history of the writting, the history of books, and the history of memory institutions, which is the reason why this term was selected as the name of the journal. The main aims of Libellarium are motivating and promoting the research of the history of the written word, books and heritage institutions. The Croatian written and printed heritage offers infinite possibilities of research using the most current research methodology, which has not been applied in earlier research. The editorial board of Libellarium therefore invites research papers that will throw more light on the Croatian written and printed heritage, as well as papers that will promote research in line with the prevailing and the most current research paradigms. Such a blend of source and methodology is supposed to improve research methods, increase the interest in investigating the history of the written word, books and heritage institutions, and eventually result in their establishment as modern scientific disciplines in Croatian scholarship. This especially refers to the history of books, which has, in the past 50 years (starting with the pioneering book by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin L’Apparition du livre published in 1958) evolved as a discrete scientific discipline with a developed research methodology that leans on the achievements of the history of literature, history in the narrow sense, cultural anthropology, sociology, librarianship, and many other sciences. There is only a handful of research papers from Croatia published in the past few years which follow, but also critically examine, the authors such as Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, Paul Saenger, and other prominent scholars, as the modern research methodology has still not been sufficiently applied in humanities and social sciences research in Croatia. The editorial board of Libellarium wishes, on the one hand, to motivate modern research such as the interaction between the book and the reader, preparation of the manuscript or the printed text for the reader, appropriation methods, etc., and on the other, motivate the examination of the whole corpus of original sources for the history of (especially Croatian) books, as well as the interplay of social, cultural, intelectual, economic, legal and political circumstances that provided the conditions for the production, distribution and appropriation of texts, i.e. work that would establish firm foundations for future research. In line with this orientation, the first issue of Libellarium brings papers devoted to two issues. The papers by Aleksandar Stipčević, Željko Vegh and Slavko Harni present some of the possible sources for the history of books: private library inventories, records of canonical visitations and bibliographies. The papers by Jelena Lakuš, Maja Krtalić, Zorka Renić and Tatjana Kreštan examine the social circumstances of reading, librarianship and periodical publishing: preconditions for reading in Dalmatian reading societies in the early 19th century, the possibilities of publishers’ advertisements in newspapers from Osijek in the late 19th century, and the context of publishing local weekly journal (Tjednik bjelovarsko-križevački) in the late 19th and early 20th century. The paper by Andy White on the modern digital environment and the return of the age-old idea of a universal library may seem to be different from the two prevailing strands in other papers in this issue, but it also focuses on the examination of the general social and technological framework that accentuates this idea in certain historical periods. In addition to publishing research papers, Libellarium will also publish reprints of sources for the history of books. In this issue, following the paper by Slavko Harni, we bring the bibliography Književnost bosanska by Ivan Franjo Jukić. Finally, following the tradition of research journals, Libellarium will also publish reviews of important works on the history of the written word, books and heritage institutions.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Background: Interpreters may offer valuable perspectives on ways clinicians could improve communication skills. Relationship-centered communication (RCC) curricula are based on a framework for promoting effective communication both with patients and within health care teams. Methods: We conducted a 90-minute workshop with certified interpreters at an academically-affiliated safety-net system to solicit feedback to optimize RCC skills trainings for clinicians at a U.S. academically-affiliated safety-net system. We applied an editing analysis style to transcribed quotes to reveal opportunities to optimize RCC skills trainings to improve safety-net care for diverse populations. Results: Twenty-two Spanish-, Cantonese-, Mandarin-, Vietnamese-, and Russian-speaking interpreters participated. Overall, interpreters emphasized the importance of creating a supportive environment for safety-net patients. One Spanish-speaking interpreter added: "When they get up in the morning and go to work, they may get deported. So, that's important to create an atmosphere to help them open up. And they may tell you stuff that's directly pertinent to patient care." Thematic analysis revealed opportunities to tailor and reinforce each RCC stage. On agenda-setting and rapport-building: "We need a little background on the phone, and we don't know how many people are in the room ... Sometimes you're talking to the mom, but the doctor didn't even bother to say it.. [If] we're lost, we're bound to make mistakes." On eliciting the patient's perspective: "Start with this information so they know you're still going to give them your advice: "I'm going to let you know what I think is going on, but what do you think is going on?" On negotiating a shared plan: "[Teachback] is really important. Otherwise it puts an incredible burden on the interpreter ... I'm not sure that the patient really understood." Conclusions: Teaching RCC in partnership with medical interpreters could provide opportunities to deepen clinician RCC skills for more effective patient-interpreter-clinician interactions.

The measure of an academic field lies in the richness and depth of its published research, especially within the ever-developing field of distance education, which is relatively new. The University of South Africa is one of the oldest open distance learning (ODL) higher education institutes globally, which has given rise to its status internationally as a leader of distance education. It is prudent to analyse and reflect on the research outputs published by South African academics, particularly regarding the levels of research that are conducted. This article follows the research published by Roberts, which analysed South African distance learning research levels and sublevels from articles published between 2011 and 2015. This longitudinal study applied a thematic content analysis of the titles and abstracts of all ODL-related papers published by South African authors. The findings compare ODL trends for the five-year periods from 2010 to 2014 and 2015 to 2019. The data were obtained from the Scopus and SABINET databases, using the same search criteria employed by Roberts. The levels of research publications were analysed according to the open distance learning research framework of Zawacki-Richter presented through descriptive statistics. The results indicate that although the number of published open distance learning research articles has more than doubled, the research levels have not shown any significant change from the previous five years. The South African ODL publications should give attention to meso- and macro-level research to enhance the ODL development within Southern Africa and create local trends fit for purpose.

After successful release of the first 3 issues of Microbes and Infectious Diseases in 2020, we’ve received 90 submissions from different countries (Africa: Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, and Benin; Asia: Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, and China; Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey, Austria; Latin America: Cuba; and Australia). Although many of our papers are still in the peer review process, we have already published 55 papers online with a 36 % rejection rate. The median time from submission to online publication is 38 days. The Editorial Board Members have worked hard to meet the goals of Microbes and Infectious Diseases in delivering timely decisions and maintaining publication of high-quality papers through vigorous and scientific peer review process. Besides, we believe that authors’ response to the valuable comments of our editors and reviewers is a cornerstone for impacting in the international research community. We would like to introduce our deep thanks to 65 individual reviewers who give so freely of their time and expertise to critically evaluating manuscripts for the journal. Our reviewers, like our authors, come from all over the world to maintain a wide authorship, readership and global citation activity. It is noteworthy that within the first 6 months of our journal’s age, authors and reviewers are representing over 20 countries (To be continued...).

Part of the work was done while the authors were visiting the South China University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, in 2018, and we are grateful (in particular to Professor Cai Heng Li) for the hospitality that we received.The authors would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives (supported by EPSRC grant no.EP/R014604/1), where further work on this paper was undertaken. In particular we acknowledge a Simons Fellowship (Cameron) and a Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellowship (Praeger) during this programme. Schneider thanks the Centre for the Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation of The University of Western Australia and Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP160102323 for hosting his visit in 2017 and acknowledges the support of the CNPq projects Produtividade em Pesquisa (project no.: 308212/2019-3) and Universal (project no.:421624/2018-3). Diagonal groups are one of the classes of finite primitive permutation groups occurring in the conclusion of the O'Nan-Scott theorem. Several of the other classes have been described as the automorphism groups of geometric or combinatorial structures such as affine spaces or Cartesian decompositions, but such structures for diagonal groups have not been studied in general. The main purpose of this paper is to describe and characterise such structures, which we call diagonal semilattices. Unlike the diagonal groups in the O'Nan-Scott theorem, which are defined over finite characteristically simple groups, our construction works over arbitrary groups, finite or infinite. A diagonal semilattice depends on a dimension m and a group T. For m=2, it is a Latin square, the Cayley table of T, though in fact any Latin square satisfies our combinatorial axioms. However, for m≥3, the group T emerges naturally and uniquely from the axioms. (The situation somewhat resembles projective geometry, where projective planes exist in great profusion but higher-dimensional structures are coordinatised by an algebraic object, a division ring.) A diagonal semilattice is contained in the partition lattice on a set Ω, and we provide an introduction to the calculus of partitions. Many of the concepts and constructions come from experimental design in statistics. We also determine when a diagonal group can be primitive, or quasiprimitive (these conditions turn out to be equivalent for diagonal groups). Associated with the diagonal semilattice is a graph, the diagonal graph, which has the same automorphism group as the diagonal semilattice except in four small cases with m

Este artículo de investigación se encuentra disponible en la siguiente URL: https://www.revistanefrologia.com/es-pdf-S0211699521001570 En este artículo de investigación también participan: Ramón A. García-Trabanino, Miguel Hueso, Pedro Trinidad, Aquiles Jara, Mónica Furlano, Rosana Gelpi, Ana Vila-Santandreu, César A. Restrepo, Maya Sánchez-Baya, Carolt Arana, Marián Goicoechea, Verónica Coll, Julián Segura, Orlando Gutiérrez, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Emilio Sánchez y Alejandro Ferreiro.

In May 2014, Latin America was the stage for the 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference (PCST 2014). It was the first time that this important international conference had reached the region since its launch in 1989, and it provides a good opportunity to discuss science communication in Latin America. The region is huge and extraordinarily diverse. As such, this article is only the starting point of a conversation on the subject: here the author presents an overview of the field in the region, highlighting some of the landmarks and discussing some challenges faced.

The digital humanities (DH) is an emerging field of teaching and research that invites modern technologies to address traditional humanities questions while simultaneously making space for humanistic critiques of those technologies. A natural relationship exists between DH and the field of information studies (the iField), particularly surrounding their common focus on the interface between humans and computers, as well as subfields such as the organization of information, libraries and archives, data preservation, and information in society. Thus, we propose that iField programs in universities should take an active role in DH education. We are particularly interested in programs that are officially Information Schools (iSchools), members of the international iSchools Organization. Our research began as part of a DH curriculum committee convened by the iSchools Organization. To support iSchool engagement in DH education, we have inventoried and analyzed the degrees and supplemental credentials offered by DH education programs throughout the world. Our study deployed multiple data collection methods, which included conducting both ad hoc and comprehensive website surveys, querying an online DH catalog, and inviting members of the iSchools Organization to participate in an online questionnaire. This work has revealed several common patterns for the current structure of DH programs, including the various types of degrees or supplemental credentials offered. We observe that iSchools have a significant opportunity to become more engaged in DH education and we suggest several possible approaches based on our research.

The arts offer a cost effective, creative, and appealing approach to healthy aging. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the development and implementation of creative aging pilot programs led by professional teaching artists in three multipurpose senior centers. Senior centers, representing varying socio-economic populations, collaborated with teaching artists to develop programs targeting center needs. Participation was open to all senior center attendees. Data collection included field notes of each session to document activities, attendance, weekly training topics, approaches to teaching, and participant reactions. Surveys documented participant demographics, self-reported health, and satisfaction. Open-ended interviews, conducted with participants, teaching artists, and center directors, documented highlights, difficulties, and recommendations for the future. Analysis involved descriptive statistics, and two phases of qualitative coding. Thirty-five older adults participated overall. Each facility developed a unique program: 1) readers theatre, 2) choir, 3) improv. Nineteen 19 participants completed surveys and 12 were interviewed. Overall satisfaction in all programs was high. Participants appreciated the recognition and the opportunity to try something new. They expressed the desire that courses continue and performance opportunities increase. All programs were described as improving participant skills. Recommendations for future programming include: 1) demonstrate investment in participants, 2) increase instructor communication, 3) clarify recruitment messaging, and 4) assess variables targeting senior center participants. This pilot study provides a template for others seeking to increase professionally led arts-based programming for older adults. The lessons learned may reduce barriers and facilitate development and implementation in similar settings.

Plagiarism is malpractice, the fabrication of others’ “ideas or work” published without the proper permission or citation of the original contributors. Plagiarism is detected through different software, i.e., Turnitin, before publishing any research data. The present survey study assesses whether academicians, researchers, and scholars around the world perceive this software as a creator or destroyer of new thoughts and ideas. A survey of this research data was conducted with academicians, researchers, and scholars around the globe. The number of respondents is 1100, including 688 teaching professionals, 347 non-teaching, and 65 others. The present study finds that 82.7 per cent of research professionals mentioned that plagiarism could be appropriately citable. 76.7 per cent suggested that plagiarism can be completely avoidable, and 72.4 per cent has been proposed to be punishable. The study also described that plagiarism software is a good, efficient, and effective creator for new ideas.

IntroductionCOVID-19-related (vs. non-related) articles appear to be more expeditiously processed and published in peer-reviewed journals. We aimed to evaluate: (i) whether COVID-19-related preprints were favored for publication, (ii) preprinting trends and public discussion of the preprints, and (iii) the relationship between the publication topic (COVID-19-related or not) and quality issues.MethodsManuscripts deposited at bioRxiv and medRxiv between January 1 and September 27 were assessed for the probability of publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and those published were evaluated for submission-to-acceptance time. The extent of public discussion was assessed based on Altmetric and Disqus data. The Retraction Watch Database and PubMed were used to explore the retraction of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 articles and preprints.ResultsWith adjustment for the preprinting server and number of deposited versions, COVID-19-related preprints were more likely to be published within 120 days since the deposition of the first version (OR=2.04, 95%CI 1.87-2.23) as well as over the entire observed period (OR=1.42, 95%CI 1.33-1.52). Submission-to-acceptance was by 38.67 days (95%CI 34.96-42.39) shorter for COVID-19 articles. Public discussion of preprints was modest and COVID-19 articles were overrepresented in the pool of retracted articles in 2020.ConclusionCurrent data suggest a preference for publication of COVID-19-related preprints over the observed period.

У статті представлені тези доповідей Х Міжрегіональної науково-практичної конференції, яка відбулася 26 листопада 2015 року і була присвячена 55-річчю дитячої неврологічної служби Херсонщини. У конференції взяли участь видатні фахівці України в галузі дитячої неврології, а також близько 150 фахівців з неврології, психіатрії, сімейної медицини, педіатрії з різних областей країни.

Hospital of infectious diseases in Lviv was founded on December 29, 1912 and became a clinical basis of the faculty of medicine at Lviv University. At that time, hospital of infectious diseases was a leading medical establishment with European level. Throughout years, the hospital was headed by corresponding member of Polish Academy of Medical Sciences Wincenty Arnold (1912–1926), professor Witold Lipinski (1926–1941, 1944–1946). In 1939, after union of the Western Ukraine and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lviv state medical institute was founded on the basis of the faculty of medicine of Lviv university, and hospital of infectious diseases in Pekarska street, 54 became its clinical center. In 1940, the department of infectious diseases was founded in Lviv medical institute, in different years it was headed by professor W. Lipinski (1940–1941, 1944–1946), professor H.H. Homenko (1946–1951), associate professor B.M. Kotliarenko (1951–1969), professor M.B. Titov (1951–1997), professor L. Yu. Shevchenko (1997–2005), professor O.M. Zinchuk (since 2005 till present). A number of novel diagnostic and therapeutic techniques have been suggested, 30 theses for candidate degree and 6 theses for doctor degree have been defended at the department of infectious diseases.

There have been described life and professional activity of Petro Sochinskyi, a county physician in the Katerynoslavscyna, public activist, collector, folklorist, benefactor, acting member of Yekaterinoslavskaya Scientific Archives Committee, who made a significant contribution into the development of county medicine and preservation of monuments of history and culture in the Pridneprovya region.

El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar las diferentes formas en que las tecnologías digitales afectan a la salud de los jóvenes. Para lograr esto, se realizó una revisión de la literatura siguiendo dos etapas. Fueron estudiadas 65 publicaciones científicas y procesadas en dos etapas sucesivas. En la primera, se procesaron 30 trabajos disponibles, de manera exclusiva, en la Base de Datos ScienceDirect y que evidenciaron una relación conceptual en el ámbito de la salud mental y el uso de las tecnologías digitales. En una segunda etapa, se trabajó solo con las fuentes que incluyen el tema de la COVID-19 y sus relaciones con la salud mental y el uso de las tecnologías digitales, en un contexto de aportaciones diferenciadas para el ámbito universitario. Mediante una síntesis que recoge el análisis de contenido temático de la literatura se exponen los siguientes resultados: 1) el uso de las tecnologías digitales provoca efectos positivo y negativos en los jóvenes, pero se manifiestan diferencias significativas en el número de publicaciones y los efectos descritos; 2) Durante la Pandemia se agudizan los problemas de salud mental en los jóvenes que utilizan las tecnologías por causas asociadas al confinamiento, ambientes de aprendizaje y las propias del miedo al contagio.

This is an accepted manuscript of a book chapter published by Bloomsbury in A Cultural History of Sport: Volume 6: A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age on 28/01/2021. The published version can be accessed here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-cultural-history-of-sport-9781350024106/ The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.

Report presented at the meeting of the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association in Barcelona, Spain, on May 20, 2018.

Funding Information: W.X. acknowledges the funding from Tandem Forest Values (Project STRONGAD). Prof. Pekka Peljo is thanked for helping with contact angle measurements. Olle Engkvists Stiftelse (Sweden) is acknowledged for funding the nano infrared microscope as well as a postdoc scholarship for K.N. Dr. Leena-Sisko Johansson is thanked for assisting with XPS analyses and data interpretation. Dr. Katja Heise is thanked for helping with GPC measurements. Dr. Zhuojun Meng and Tao Zou (M.Sc.) are thanked for valuable discussions. This work made use of Aalto University Bioeconomy and RawMatters Facilities. We also acknowledge the provision of facilities and technical support by Aalto University at OtaNano - Nanomicroscopy Center (Aalto-NMC). The study is a part of FinnCERES Materials Bioeconomy Ecosystem. Funding Information: W.X. acknowledges the funding from Tandem Forest Values (Project STRONGAD). Prof. Pekka Peljo is thanked for helping with contact angle measurements. Olle Engkvists Stiftelse (Sweden)is acknowledged for funding the nano infrared microscope as well as a postdoc scholarship for K.N. Dr. Leena-Sisko Johansson is thanked for assisting with XPS analyses and data interpretation. Dr. Katja Heise is thanked for helping with GPC measurements. Dr. Zhuojun Meng and Tao Zou (M.Sc.) are thanked for valuable discussions. This work made use of Aalto University Bioeconomy and RawMatters Facilities. We also acknowledge the provision of facilities and technical support by Aalto University at OtaNano - Nanomicroscopy Center (Aalto-NMC). The study is a part of FinnCERES Materials Bioeconomy Ecosystem. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) Hypothesis: Solid-state polymer adsorption offers a distinct approach for surface modification. These ultrathin, so-called Guiselin layers can easily be obtained by placing a polymer melt in contact with an interface, followed by a removal of the non-adsorbed layer with a good solvent. While the mechanism of formation has been well established for Guiselin layers, their stability, crucial from the perspective of materials applications, is not. The stability is a trade-off in the entropic penalty between cooperative detachment of the number of segments directly adsorbed on the substrate and consecutively pinned monomers. Experiments: Experimental model systems of Guiselin layers of polystyrene (PS) on silicon wafers with native oxide layer on top were employed. The stability of the adsorbed layers was studied as a function of PS molecular weight and polydispersibility by various microscopic and spectroscopic tools as well as quasi-static contact angle measurements. Findings: Adsorbed layers from low molecular weight PS were disrupted with typical spinodal decomposition patterns whereas high molecular weight (>500 kDa) PS resulted in stable, continuous layers. Moreover, we show that Guiselin layers offer an enticing way to modify a surface, as demonstrated by adsorbed PS that imparts a hydrophobic character to initially hydrophilic silicon wafers.

Comments from S. Joseph Munchak and Robert Meneghini of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Charles (Chip) Helms of Universities Space Research Association, Liang Liao of Morgan State University are highly appreciated. Discussions with Norm Wood of University of Wisconsin-Madison on PIP data processing was very helpful. Leo Pio D’Adderio of National Research Council of Italy provided Figure 1 of this study. Thanks to the National Weather Service in Marquette, Michigan for hosting and maintaining the suite of instruments used in this work and sharing meteorological data. Thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility and the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) program for providing the PIP, Pluvio, and Parsivel instruments used in this work. Acknowledgments extend to three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. This study is partially supported by the NASA award (80NCCS19M0139) under Patrick N. Gatlin of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Principal Investigator. The instrument deployment and data processing for the observations from the Marquette, Michigan snowfall suite are supported by NASA grant number 80NSSC18K0701 and NOAA grant number NA15NES4320001. Claire Pettersen’s efforts on this work are supported by NASA grant number 80NSSC19K0712 and Mark Kulie’s efforts are supported by NASA PMM grant 80NSSC20K0982. Annakaisa von Lerber is funded by the Academy of Finland postdoctoral scholarship (333901). The scientific results and conclusions, as well as any views or opinions expressed herein, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of NOAA or the Department of Commerce.

Lublin in the period of the Lublin Union (1569) is an interdisciplinary research project conducted by the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre in Lublin as a part of the celebration of the 450th anniversary of signing the Union of Lublin Act - one of the most important historical events in 16th-century Europe, during which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was constituted. This paper aims to present the research process by which an innovative Historical GIS web platform, based on an object-orientated database design, was tested and refined. The portal uses four pillars of spatial-temporal databases (events, people, places, sources) to collect data and develop historical narratives presenting various events in the history of the city and the region. The idea behind the project was to develop an Internet portal that would acknowledge modern users with the historical event of the Union of Lublin from the perspective of the then resident of Lublin. What is known about the 16th-century Lublin? What did the city and its surroundings look like? Who lived in Lublin? Who used to visit it? What architectural elements and traces of cultural heritage have been saved to this day? The reconstruction of the 16th-century urban space was carried out using the retrogression method of 11 early plans and maps of Lublin, verified and supplemented with the latest archaeological findings, accurate architectural research (geo-radar, laser scanning) and an extensive archival query. Thanks to the Historical GIS technology, the research results have been published in the form of a universal platform ( www.teatrnn.pl/unia-lubelska ), with an interactive web-map of 16th-century Lublin (Google Maps API implementation) and modelling urban facilities with 3D technology (SketchUp & Unity). The designed technological solution is scalable, making it possible to search and combine individual records (e.g. person-event-address) as well as entire groups of records on higher hierarchical levels (social groups - sequences of events - multifaceted maps). The portal editing panel is dedicated to humanists (historians, journalists, sociologists, etc.) without specialist knowledge of GIS. The functions integrated with the CMS facilitate mapping the content collected in the database and embedding the narration in an adequate context of the historical space. As a result, editors preparing a thematic article have a searchable set of documents, facts, people and places at their disposal, and their task is to fill the narrative with descriptive content. This is a universal model for building deep maps and spatial narratives.

Yönetim Bilişim Sistemleri (YBS) alanında çalışma yapan araştırmacılar, sürdürülebilir bir literatürün oluşmasında önemli bir rol oynayan bilimsel dergiler aracılığı ile alanı takip edebilmekte ve bilimsel çalışmalarını yine bu dergiler aracılığı ile diğer bilim insanlarının ilgisine sunabilmektedir. Scimago Journal and Country Rank kaynaklarına göre, uluslararası düzeyde 2021 yılı itibariyle 104 dergi YBS alanında faaliyetlerini yürütmektedir. Çalışma, Türkiye özelinde, SCImago listesinde yer alan uluslararası YBS dergileri üzerinde genel bir değerlendirme sunmayı, uluslararası Q1 dergilerin diğer alanlar ile ilişkileri ve dergilerin nitelikleri hakkında genel bir değerlendirmeyi ve Q1 dergilerde 2010 yılından günümüze Türkiye adresli makalelerin bibliyometrik analizini gerçekleştirmektedir. Bu sayede uluslararası nitelikteki dergilerde Türkiye’deki YBS alanında çalışan araştırmacılarımızın bilimsel üretkenliği değerlendirilmektedir. Ayrıca YBS alanının Türkiye’de gelişimine katkı sunan kişi, kurum veya fikirlere yer vererek bu alana bir gelecek vizyonu sunma amacındadır. Türkiye’deki YBS disiplinin gelişmesinde, yurtdışında halen çalışan veya bir dönem çalışmış araştırmacıların etkisinin büyük olduğu görülmüştür. İlgili araştırmacılar (Izak Benbasat, Dursun Delen, Tuğrul Daim, vb.) uluslararası YBS disiplinin gelişmesinde de önemli katkılar sunmuşlar ve akademide saygın bir konuma sahiptirler. Türkiye’deki uluslararası dergi faaliyetleri, yazılımda kalite, yazılım sektörünü geliştirmeye dönük literatür çalışmaları, YBS literatüründe iyileştirilmeye açık alan olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Elde edilen tüm bulgular ışığında Türkiye’deki YBS disiplinin daha nitelikli ve uluslararası normlarda gelişebilmesi için öneriler sunulmaktadır.

The paper first addresses the educational policies dictated at the international and national levels to deal with the health emergency caused by COVID-19. The main objective of these policies has been not to stop the teaching-learning processes, moving from face-to-face and blended modalities to an online modality, trying not to neglect aspects such as educational quality. Afterwards, those dictated and implemented by the University Network of the University of Guadalajara (U. de G.) are analyzed. Then, the reality faced by the professors of the Centro Universitario del Norte (CUNorte) to continue their teaching work is described. Finally, the challenges in the short, medium and long term, related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), such as the lack of training in digital platforms and tools, computer equipment for work, obsolescence of the same and problems of Internet connectivity, among others. Keywords: Education, ICT, Health Emergency, COVID-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.36825/RITI.09.19.006

The present qualitative inquiry examined adjustment challenges and help seeking among 15 Turkish international students (TIS) studying at various universities in the United States during their cross-cultural adjustment process. Data were gathered by means of semi-structured in-depth interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. The results suggested that TIS experienced several adjustment challenges that affected their general well-being and satisfaction and made their adjustment process harder. According to the results, TIS initially sought help to overcome their adjustment challenges from family members, advisors, or friends. Dissatisfaction among TIS due to a lack of cultural sensitivity on the part of mental health providers negatively affected the students’ help seeking from professional services. The findings of the present study may help mental health providers to address the needs of TIS effectively as a specific cultural group in multicultural settings in the United States.

This paper describe a proposal to develop a web site to work as technical, academic and scientific information repository, which contain the daily products made by students and teachers from Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico campus Instituto Tecnologico de Tepic. This proposal comes to cover the opportunity that occurs with the generation of knowledge that is developed in the academic and research work of the institution, by students, teachers and researchers of the different careers and postgraduate courses offered by IT Tepic, and that currently does not have a space where this information is presented and made available to anyone who can use it to base their own scientific development process. The development of this proposal will be worked in conjunction with an Academic Body of the Instituto Tecnologico de Nogales, and once it is implemented, it will subsequently be offered to the other technological institutes of the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico. Keywords: Repository, Open Access, Academic Information, Scientific Information. doi: https://doi.org/10.36825/RITI.09.19.007

This opening issue of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry for 2012 celebrates the 10th anniversary of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and highlights current research by the Editors and members of the International Advisory Board. The strong commitment and dedication of the Editors and Advisory Board have been of enormous value in establishing ABC as an international journal of high rank and standing, publishing innovative research papers from all areas of analytical and bioanalytical science. In preparing this special issue, we are grateful for the overwhelming support we have received and thank the contributors for generously providing thirty-four research papers, nine critical reviews, and seven trend articles from the forefront of their research. Below, we invite you to meet the contributors to this exceptional 10th anniversary issue. Edgar A. Arriaga was Fesler–Lampert Chair in Aging Studies from 2007 to 2008 and is currently Professor of Chemistry at the College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (USA). He is also a graduate of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Gerontology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics. He is a chartered member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Review Study Section Emerging Biotechnologies. His research program focuses on the development of bioanalytical methods to investigate tissue complexity, single cells, and subcellular compartments. Applications of these methods include determination of the subcellular fate and metabolism of xenobiotics, and investigating subcellular processes associated with the causes of aging.

Open science and preprints have invited a larger audience of readers, especially during the pandemic. Consequently, communicating the limitations and uncertainties of research to a broader public has become important over the entire information lifecycle. This paper brings together reports from the NISO Plus 2021 conference session “Misinformation and truth: from fake news to retractions to preprints”. We discuss the validation and verification of scientific information at the preprint stage in order to support sound and open science standards, at the publication stage in order to limit the spread of retracted research, and after publication, to fight fake news about health-related research by mining open access content.