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Patient-centered care (PCC) in dentistry is a holistic approach that considers not just the dental condition but also the patient's individual preferences, needs, and values (Kristensen et al., 2023). It aims to ensure that patient values guide all clinical decisions, fostering a collaborative and respectful patient-dentist relationship. It tries to make sure patients' values determine clinical decisions so that an interaction involving both the dentist and a patient-centered approach with respect will result. This interconnection in dentistry goes further because psychosocial factors, such as experiencing dental phobia and one's economic class, affect oral health significantly. Dental phobia, which can create treatment avoidance, accentuates the necessity of comprehending and addressing such issues to provide effective and patient-centered care (Kristensen et al., 2023). Another issue is economics, which can hinder getting care, especially when dealing with a low-income group. Data shows that PCC is associated with a reduction in the use of health resources, better patient satisfaction, and better overall health. Additionally, PCC can aid professional healthcare workers when it comes to litigation cases, and it reduces work dissatisfaction, which is another indicator of its value. Integrating objective data into treatment strategies is essential for effectively implementing PCC in dentistry. Objective data, for instance, clinical parameters that can be quantified, serve as a research basis that completes the information patients can provide regarding their subjective experiences (DrKumo, 2023). Integration of the two of them provides a broader picture of the patient's current oral health status and the potential available treatments. For example, tracking a patient's hard data figures of probable oral wellness indicators like gingivitis and tooth damage alongside their subjective details, such as reported symptoms or concerns, can aid in recognizing patterns and customizing treatment plans to achieve better results by offering optimized services to the patients (DrKumo, 2023). However, despite the bright side of PCC, there are also some difficulties that persist; among them, one can highlight the absence of a uniform definition and detailed recommendations for its application in dentistry. Reasonable attempts are being made to tackle them by virtue of a theory-based PCC model created with the dental setting as its core area of application. However, additional research that would entail empirical testing of the model and its practicality is needed to realize the potential for developing patient-centered care in dentistry, indicating the rising importance of this model and its timely implementation in dentistry.

Society expects history to be objective and factual. Collectively history is the memory of the nation, that group, the imagined community that believes that it has always been together. It could even be said that the nation is about forgetting; forgetting that the people who make up that community were not always together as they are now, or the forgetting of those hurdles and hindrances that create obstacles to cohesion and continuity. Memory is collaborative by nature, and provides a legacy to society, a response to its own mortality in the future. This paper proposes to examine the case of subjective recounting of the past through a family memory of war, the forgetting, the gaps created in narratives to enable cohesion and to fit in with publicly acceptable discourse. It ultimately attempts to answer the question as to why it might be important to re-examine such stories of an individual nature, in a wider scope of the nation, and links those seemingly antinomic periods of time of past, present, and future, which are not as exclusive as might be believed. This paper focuses upon a deserter ancestor, going against the grain of traditional narratives. Traditionally, soldiers are considered by definition of what is expected from them in the national narrative, as 'war heroes'. However, this paper examines the life of a military ancestor who, in reality, did not fit into that framework, and who deserted from the army (although never on the front line, thus avoiding being shot). Nevertheless, the multiple desertions (deserted five times in total, lost kit twice, was imprisoned, and was detained for desertion three times) only 'resurfaced' recently due to the availability of documentation and research carried out in archives. While the ancestor conformed socially to what was expected of him, the reality of his military files seems to reveal the contrary. Despite the high numbers of times that he did desert, he did also rejoin every time, and ended up spending 3 decades in the same military unit. Or, perhaps the manner in which society views soldiers pre- and post-WWI has been altered, and, as such, desertion was not once what it has become. Forgetting has been the norm in society regarding certain pasts that step outside of the national narrative, rather than remembering. This paper attempts to imagine the nation's past in a different way, by including those who also deserted, an area of ill-defined research in military history.

The end of Apartheid entailed nothing less than a wholly new constitution for South Africa, but the country remained one of the most unequal societies in the world, with a small and wealthy minority dominating a large but impoverished majority, (Sisk, 1995). Minimal efforts have been made at policy level to advance the issue of family resilience, that does not equate it to economic development. Resilience goes beyond just economic stability. Resilience is defined as, "people's internalized capacities and the related behaviours that allow them to maintain a sense of integration in the face of hardships and to recovering from trauma following adverse circumstances", (Green, 2007). South African families experience a number of unique circumstances that not only affect their family structure but also extend to the socioeconomic and relational dimensions of families, (Roman, Isaacs, Davids and Sui, 2016). The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences and functioning of families living in the socially disorganized communities of Khayelitsha and Delft, from a family resilience perspective. The study made use of the qualitative research method, applying an explorative research design to collect data from 24 families residing in socially disorganized communities. Findings of this study indicate that families living in the socially disorganized communities of Khayelitsha and Delft, experienced hardships and challenges related to severe trauma and loss. Spirituality and transcendental beliefs were found to be deeply imbedded in these families and resources, like support from the church, and practising traditional ceremonies, played an instrumental role in enabling families to be resilient. A sense of connectedness, within these families was present and it contributed in enhancing family resilience. Families needed a level of adaptation and proactiveness in seeking or accessing support outside their communities, because social support in their communities was not readily available. Some families engaged in a process of clear and honest communication while other families did not and in both contexts, the families found ways of being resilient. This finding strongly associated resilience with survival. Problem solving strategies employed by families to enhance resilience included collaborative efforts, rearranging living arrangements and making personal sacrifices. Families in these communities recommended that law enforcement be improved, family related crimes be effectively addressed; families to be provided with relevant services that will aid in enabling their resilience and for the government to engage in a participatory manner with community members in order to understand what hardships are faced by families, in order to develop effective programmes and services.

Ya Wu,1,2,* Jing Hu,3,* Xingyao Long,1,4 Yanni Pan,1,4 Jianfei Mu,1 Kun-Young Park,1,4 Xin Zhao1 1Chongqing Collaborative Innovation Center for Functional Food, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Functional Food, Chongqing Engineering Laboratory for Research and Development of Functional Food, Chongqing University of Education, Chongqing, 400067, People's Republic of China; 2College of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Education, Chongqing, 400067, People's Republic of China; 3Department of Pharmacy, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing, 400038, People's Republic of China; 4Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Cha University, Seongnam, 13488, South Korea*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Kun-Young Park; Xin Zhao Tel +86-23-6265-3650Email kunypark@foods.ac.cn; zhaoxin@cque.edu.cnAim: Gastric mucosal injury is a typical characteristic of gastric diseases. The prevalence of gastric mucosal injury caused by alcohol has been on the rise, which has been considered a serious problem. The purpose of this study is to explore the protective effect on gastric injury of Lactobacillus plantarum ZS62 (LP-ZS62) isolated from naturally fermented yak yoghurt.Methods: We established a gastric injury model through alcohol and evaluated the protective effect of LP-ZS62 on gastric injury in mice. The injury to the gastric mucosa, histopathological sections, related biochemical indicators, and related genes were examined to evaluate the protective effect of LP-ZS62.Results: LP-ZS62 effectively alleviated alcohol-induced gastric injury according to visual observations of gastric tissue and pathological tissue sections. The experimental results revealed that LP-ZS62 decreased malondialdehyde (MDA) level, and elevated superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione (GSH) levels in gastric tissues. Additionally, LP-ZS62 increased glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), and somatostatin (SS) levels. LP-ZS62 also decreased inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and IL-6 levels, and increased the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 level. The quantitative polymerase chain reaction results showed that LP-ZS62 upregulated mRNA expression of nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1), manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD2), catalase (CAT), gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (GSH1), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px).Conclusion: This study confirmed that LP-ZS62 alleviated alcohol-induced gastric injury by regulating antioxidant capacity. Therefore, LP-ZS62 could be developed as a probiotic product to treat alcoholic gastric injury.Keywords: Lactobacillus plantarum ZS62, alcohol-induced gastric injury, inflammation, antioxidant

The human monothiol glutaredoxin Glrx3 (PICOT) is ubiquitously distributed in cytoplasm and nuclei in mammalian cells. Its overexpression has been associated with the development of several types of tumors, whereas its deficiency might cause retardation in embryogenesis. Its exact biological role has not been well resolved, although a function as a chaperone distributing iron/sulfur clusters is currently accepted. Yeast humanization and the use of a mouse library have allowed us to find a new partner for PICOT: the human GMP synthase (hGMPs). Both proteins carry out collaborative functions regarding the downregulation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gcn2 pathway under conditions of nutritional stress. Glrx3/hGMPs interact through conserved residues that bridge iron/sulfur clusters and glutathione. This mechanism is also conserved in budding yeast, whose proteins Grx3/Grx4, along with GUA1 (S. cerevisiae GMPs), also downregulate the integrated stress response (ISR) pathway. The heterologous expression of Glrx3/hGMPs efficiently complements Grx3/Grx4. Moreover, the heterologous expression of Glrx3 efficiently complements the novel participation in chronological life span that has been characterized for both Grx3 and Grx4. Our results underscore that the Glrx3/Grx3/Grx4 family presents an evolutionary and functional conservation in signaling events that is partly related to GMP function and contributes to cell life extension.IMPORTANCE Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an optimal eukaryotic microbial model to study biological processes in higher organisms despite the divergence in evolution. The molecular function of yeast glutaredoxins Grx3 and Grx4 is enormously interesting, since both proteins are required to maintain correct iron homeostasis and an efficient response to oxidative stress. The human orthologous Glrx3 (PICOT) is involved in a number of human diseases, including cancer. Our research expanded its utility to human cells. Yeast has allowed the characterization of GMP synthase as a new interacting partner for Glrx3 and also for yeast Grx3 and Grx4, the complex monothiol glutaredoxins/GMPs that participate in the downregulation of the activity of the Gcn2 stress pathway. This mechanism is conserved in yeast and humans. Here, we also show that this family of glutaredoxins, Grx3/Grx4/Glrx3, also has a function related to life extension. ; The research described in this publication was partly supported by the Plan Nacional de I+D+I of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (BIO2017-87828-C2-2-P), and the University of Lleida (TR265). Mónica A. Mechoud was supported by the Marie Curie Actions Program of the European Union COFUND 2014-51501. Sandra Montella is funded by a fellowship from the Catalan Government (Spain).

16 pags. 6 figs., 1 tab. ; Purpose: As multifocal contact lenses (MCLs) expand as a solution for presbyopia correction, a better understanding of their optical and visual performance becomes essential. Also, providing subjects with the experience of multifocal vision before contact lens fitting becomes critical, both to systematically test different multifocal designs and to optimize selection in the clinic. In this study, we evaluated the ability of a simultaneous vision visual simulator (SimVis) to represent MCLs. Methods: Through focus (TF) optical and visual quality with a center-near aspheric MCL (low, medium and high near adds) were measured using a multichannel polychromatic Adaptive Optics visual simulator equipped with double-pass, SimVis (temporal multi-plexing), and psychophysical channels to allow measurements on-bench and in vivo. On bench TF optical quality of SimVis-simulated MCLs was obtained from double-pass (DP) images and images of an E-stimulus using artificial eyes. Ten presbyopic subjects were fitted with the MCL. Visual acuity (VA) and DP retinal images were measured TF in a 4.00 D range with the MCL on eye, and through SimVis simulations of the same MCLs on the same subjects. Results: TF optical (on bench and in vivo) and visual (in vivo) quality measurements captured the expected broadening of the curves with increasing add. Root mean square difference between real and SimVis-simulated lens was 0.031/0.025 (low add), 0.025/0.015 (medium add), 0.019/0.011 (high add), for TF DP and TF LogMAR VA, respectively. A shape similarity metric shows high statistical values (lag κ = 0), rho = 0.811/0.895 (low add), 0.792/0.944 (medium add), and 0.861/0.915 (high add) for TF DP/LogMAR VA, respectively. Conclusions: MCLs theoretically and effectively expand the depth of focus. A novel simulator, SimVis, captured the through-focus optical and visual performance of the MCL in most of the subjects. Visual simulators allow subjects to experience vision with multifocal lenses prior to testing them on-eye. Translational Relevance: Simultaneous visual simulators allow subjects to experience multifocal vision non-invasively. We demonstrated equivalency between real multifocal contact lenses and SimVis-simulated lenses. The results suggest that SimVis is a suitable technique to aid selection of presbyopic corrections in the contactology practice. ; Supported by the European Research Council (ERC-2011-AdC 294099) to SM; Spanish Government (FIS2017-84753R) to SM, and pre-doctoral fellowship (FPU16/01944) to SA; Collaborative agreement with Johnson & Johnson Vision, Inc., Research & Development, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

Cooperation across the Russia-EU border has been drawing much attention in recent years. The majority of studies point out programs' efficacy, high density of border institutions and resistance to geopolitical risks among other factors. These advancements can be explained by the theory of multilevel collaboration which implies that diverse and multiple cooperation institutions can effectively distinguish matters of high politics from practical issues concerning interests of those living along the external borders.The article aims to analyze the impact of cross-border cooperation programs (CBC Programs) on the thematic, institutional and spatial structure of the cross-border relations.The research is grounded in the overview and analysis of a large volume of empirical data including reports and descriptions of cross-border cooperation programs, data provided by the regional governing agencies, as well as 76 semistructured interviews obtained from regional experts as part of several research expeditions by the Laboratory of Geopolitical Studies of the Institute of Geography RAS taken place over the period from 2011 to 2018.Main characteristics and long-term trends of the cross-border program approach are examined as follows: growth in governmental coordination on various agency levels aimed at development and implementation of mutually beneficial partnerships, creation of joint program management bodies, development of uniform policies and joint funding sources for projects, and interest in maintaining an equal level of collaboration.It is revealed that gradual rise of the programs' role in cross-border cooperation in the area contributed to the restructuring of its institutional systems, launching selection process for the existing border institutions (euro-regions, crossborder regional councils, and others), as well as triggering the synergy effect among them and the transborder forms of cooperation.The main characteristics of spatial partnership structures are identified. These include those consisting of high concentration of project activities taking place within large urban centers along the external borders and those asymmetrical to cross-border interactions. The former is especially pertinent to the Russian side of the border where just a small number of such centers are involved in up to 70-80% of project activities. Even fewer number of Russian cities initiate their own collaborative projects. A gradual spatial shift of cooperative projects toward the areas immediately proximate to the borders, as well as the decrease in asymmetry of transborder cooperation are identified as the new trends by the author.

What kinds of practices help us to explore, rethink and remake our co-relations? Constituent relations across the city: Three perspectives from practice. In this session, we propose speaking across and from three different spatial practices of which we are part,and which are situated in different socio-spatial conditions: a place of their own (an art/spatial research practice); Studio Polpo (the UK's first social enterprise architectural practice); and Architecture Sans Frontières - UK (a non-profit aiming to make community development integral to architectural practice and teaching). By sharing moments of co-incidence from these practices that seek to co-otherwise we seek to show thinking and acting with co-ness is generative of creative, relational processes and resistant practices. Studio Polpo designs situated and collaborative approaches to create objects, structures, initiatives and research-led resources that enable transformative social change. To this end we self-initiate projects to support diverse economies of participation and exchange through spatial intervention. We have facilitated the collective ownership and/or management of a number of buildings and programmes, hosted events which protest the commercial use of city centres and propose more diverse ways of living and exchanging that activate more distributed networks of design. ASF-UK is a non-profit organisation with three main objectives: to increase knowledge and understanding of community participation amongst built environment students and practitioners (training and capacity building); to support community groups, civil society organisations and local governments by working in partnership and facilitating the involvement of built environment professionals (live projects); and to influence urban policy and planning processes by mainstreaming methodologies and practices focused on democratic and resilient city-making (advocacy). a place of their own operate as a collective, a couple, with our children, and through collaborations with others. In the Eile Project, we operate in the specific context of the geo-political border between the Irish Republic and the UK and enact an alternative ethics of spatial action through intra-actions and 'kinning'. Eile's interventions, rituals and the audiovisual films we produce with them draw forth kinship, different alliances between organic and in-organic matter, non-human animals (the white cryptic butterfly, the lobster), and re-territorialize traumatic sites. Why this (co-) is an important question for us to carry out these kinds of practices? Or What kinds of practices help us to explore, rethink and remake our co-relations? ; N/A

Technologically useful and robust graphene-based interfaces for devices require the introduction of highly selective, stable, and covalently bonded functionalities on the graphene surface, whilst essentially retaining the electronic properties of the pristine layer. This work demonstrates that highly controlled, ultrahigh vacuum covalent chemical functionalization of graphene sheets with a thiol-terminated molecule provides a robust and tunable platform for the development of hybrid nanostructures in different environments. We employ this facile strategy to covalently couple two representative systems of broad interest: metal nanoparticles, via S–metal bonds, and thiol-modified DNA aptamers, via disulfide bridges. Both systems, which have been characterized by a multitechnique approach, remain firmly anchored to the graphene surface even after several washing cycles. Atomic force microscopy images demonstrate that the conjugated aptamer retains the functionality required to recognize a target protein. This methodology opens a new route to the integration of high-quality graphene layers into diverse technological platforms, including plasmonics, optoelectronics, or biosensing. With respect to the latter, the viability of a thiol-functionalized chemical vapor deposition graphene-based solution-gated field-effect transistor array was assessed. ; This work was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 696656 (Graphene Flagship-core 1) and no 785219 (Graphene Flagship −core 2); UE FP7 ideas: ERC (grant ERC-2013-SYG-610256 Nanocosmos) and Spanish MINECO grants MAT2014-54231-C4-1-P, MAT2014-54231-C4-4-P, MAT2017-85089-C2-1-R, MAT2014-59772-C2-2-P, and BIO2016-79618-R (funded by EU under the FEDER programme), as well as the Nanoavansens program from the Community of Madrid (S2013/MIT-3029). This work has made use of the Spanish ICTS Network MICRONANOFABS partially supported by MINECO and also the ICTS NANBIOSIS, more specifically the Micro-Nano Technology Unit of the CIBER in Bioengineering, Biomaterials & Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) at the IMB-CNM. We are grateful to Matthias Muntwiler for his assistance with experiments in the PEARL beamline in the SLS facility. Finally, we acknowledge the TEM and ICP services at the CNB and ICMM institutes, respectively. CSS acknowledges the MINECO for a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación grant (IJCI-2014-19291). M. Marciello is grateful to the Comunidad de Madrid (CM) and European Social Fund (ESF) for supporting her research work through the I+D Collaborative Programme in Biomedicine NIETO-CM (B2017-BMD3731). ; Peer reviewed

This thesis focuses on how international art collectives can function as a connective tissue for students to engage in international exchange, collaboration and art-making. I have analyzed the sustainability, structural operation and political implications of such exchanges at the university level and in the professional art world. Examining different programs such as the International Art Collaboration Network (INTAC), InSite, and Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo as comparative case studies, I address the following questions in my research: What models exist in North America for individuals who wish to implement transnational art collaborations in their art practice or as a pedagogical strategy? As artists, educators and arts administrators, how can we adopt theses existing collaborative ideas and methods as a response to globalization and further the goals of cultural integration? INTAC served as the main focus of my investigation. INTAC is a network that has been connecting students around the world to work collaboratively on lens-based art projects for the past ten years. My data collection was based on surveys and interviews with students, professors, and INTAC alumni. As part of my fieldwork, I followed and documented the work produced by four Chicago-based artists who participated in the 2018-2019 INTAC collaboration. I gathered artwork, interviews and exhibition documentation. I also looked at other historical collaborations between the US and Mexico and interviewed artists from various collectives who have worked in collaboration. These programs are critical to local and international communities because they provide an accessible entry point into complicated conversations through artwork. Such models can be replicated at the university level and in the artistic community. Through research I found that the challenges in collaborations are outweighed by the many benefits of a transnational exchange. When ideas are exchanged and conversations are held between artists and cultural producers, we can begin to challenge and destroy current hateful rhetoric that is dividing us. At their best collaborations connect us as equals, creating a space where all members are significant contributors through a democratic and egalitarian model of collaboration. Online communication generates the spaces in which these kinds of collaborations can be planned and accomplished. Through artistic collaboration and dialogue, participants from different countries share their art, and think critically about the world, border politics, international relations and citizenship. We have a responsibility to look for answers to the ever increasing demand for human and cultural integration in a global world plagued by the challenges posed by borders and geopolitical barriers.

In many schools, art lacks a community focus. Students may enter art contests, have art featured within the school, or use their artistic talents for the ancillary purpose of school beautification. Further, art teachers are often viewed apart from teachers of core subjects. Through this thesis, I explore how a transformational critical friends group could foster collaboration between teachers and produce student art that is relevant and community focused. This action research project investigates what are the challenges art teachers faced when collaborating with colleagues, and given these challenges, what are the next steps moving forward. Critical Friends Groups are based on collaborations between adult learners, which is often counter to established patterns within a work environment. To achieve this, 8 teachers and I formed the Pilarte Collective to highlight the shared professional goals and artistic talents of both youth and art teachers in Chicago's Pilsen community. To facilitate the Pilarte Collective, eight Chicago Public Schools (CPS) art teachers and I organized two art exhibitions. The initial show was unique because the focus was on art teachers-as-artists. To emphasize the community focus of this show as well as the teacher-asartist aspect, this show ran for two weeks at a Pilsen gallery that was near all of the participating schools. The student show that ran for 2 days was held in the auditorium of the community high school. The methodology for this project was driven by the structure of a Critical Friends Group; it included organizing planning meetings as well as facilitating discussions to determine the theme for the show, an opening date, and committees that would do the work. Data included notes from planning meetings; audio recordings of discussions among teachers; photographs of the artwork installation; video documentation of the exhibitions; and interviews with participating teachers. It revealed personal and professional struggles such as isolation and funding. At the elementary level, art teachers are often isolated and do not have opportunities to collaborate. These teachers noted gratitude for the opportunity to participate in a group and collaborate with other teachers-as-artists. The need to create and support collaborative work between art teachers within the Chicago Public Schools has important social, pedagogical and political implications. Therefore, this research could serve as a model that could be explored in communities across Chicago to support art teachers in creating opportunities for intentional collaboration while building collegial relationships with colleagues in other schools.

ABSTRACTObjectiveThe goal of this study was to engage members of a long-standing Integrated KT collaborative in a process to revitalize team goals and processes. "The Need to Know" Team started in 2001 in Manitoba, to engage knowledge users in the conceptualization, creation, and application of population health research. The team has garnered numerous national awards and citations for its approach.
We conducted a survey of team members (N=27), representing all Health Authorities in the province, plus provincial government reps. Questions included frequency of data use and medium (print vs online), how well the team is meeting is goals, open-ended questions about how the team could be more useful to members and their organizations, and their top 3 suggestions to ensure the ongoing success and increase the impact of the team.MethodTwenty-two of 27 members responded to the survey (81.5%) within one week. Responses to questions about how well the team is meeting its existing goals revealed high scores – especially among those goals which lay entirely within the scope of the team's control (91% extremely or moderately well). Objectives relating to larger-scale impacts on the healthcare system had lower ratings (72% extremely or moderately well), as might have been expected. ResultsOver 75% reported that the team's work had impacted their organization's work moderately or a lot. The most commonly cited examples were that the work of the team increased capacity for data analysis/interpretation and research (18%), provided results that were used in staff and/or board meetings (15%), influenced decisions and the discussions leading up to them (15%), influenced the development and use of region-relevant quality indicators (13%), and were used in the ongoing education of health professionals (13%). The open-ended questions regarding optimal next steps solicited a variety of suggestions ranging from developing even richer relationships with existing partners, to including a wider variety of partner organizations (e.g. Indigenous groups); aligning team priorities with those of the provincial government (where feasible); and moving to occasional electronic meetings for appropriate content issues and to increase impact in partner organizations.
ConclusionThis exercise in reflection and strategic planning has shown that the team has done an exceptional job in achieving its initial goals, most of which remain relevant, but some of which need revision. More importantly, several creative approaches have been suggested which may increase future impact and enhance both the breadth and depth of the team's reach.

The article deals with the manifestation peculiarities of ecological consciousness of student youth under social transformations conditions in modern Ukrainian society. It has been determined, that negative influence of economical and political transformations caused the deformations appearance of normative consciousness of personality. Such deformation also influences on the formation of ecological consciousness of student youth. Scientific approaches to understanding the terms "consciousness" and "ecological consciousness" have been analyzed. It is indicated that consciousness is the higher level of mental activity and psychic reflection of subjective images of subjective world, human activity of objective reality learning. It is shown that one of the important places in the structure of consciousness occupies the ecological consciousness that aims at the organization and transformation of the surrounding world, according to its own needs and intentions. The empirical research results concerning the formation level of ecological consciousness of student youth have been represented. Factors of ecological consciousness with high significance level for detection of ecopsychological dispositions indices have been defined, that determine the actions and deeds orientation on interaction with the environment. It was empirically revealed that ecological consciousness is being formed during student age. Perspectives of further research of the obtained results we see in the development of normative model of ecological consciousness of growing personalitys as a subiect of ekospace.Keywords: consciousness, ecological consciousness, environment, collaborative, necessitive, indifferent ecodisposition. ; У статті розглянуто особливості прояву екологічної свідомості студентської молоді за умов суспільних перетворень у сучасному українському суспільстві. З'ясовано, що негативний вплив економічних, політичних перетворень зумовлює появу викривлень нормативної свідомості особистості. Таке викривлення впливає й на формування екологічної свідомості студентської молоді. У роботі проаналізовано наукові підходи до розуміння понять «свідомість», «екологічна свідомість». Зазначено, що свідомість – це вищий рівень психічної активності та психічного відображення суб'єктивних образів суб'єктивного світу, активності людини в освоєнні об'єктивної дійсності. Показано, що одне з вагомих місць у структурі свідомості посідає екологічна свідомість, спрямована на організацію і трансформацію навколишнього світу відповідно до власних потреб та намірів. Наведено результати емпіричного дослідження щодо рівня сформованості екологічної свідомості студентської молоді. Визначено аспекти екологічної свідомості, що мають високий рівень значущості для виявлення індексів екопсихологічних диспозицій, які визначають спрямованість дій і вчинків на взаємодію з довкіллям. Емпірично встановлено, що на етапі студентського віку триває формування екологічної свідомості. Перспективи подальших досліджень убачаємо в поглибленому вивченні нормативної моделі екологічної свідомості зростаючої особистості як суб'єкта екопростору.Ключові слова: свідомість, екологічна свідомість, довкілля, колборативна, несесітивна, індиферентна, екосовмесійна, гашенарна екодиспозиція.

Salman, M. et al. (2016). Integrating Scientific Publication into an Applied Gaming Ecosystem. GSTF Journal on Computing (JoC), Volume 5 (Issue 1), pp. 45-51. ; The European (EU)-based industry for non-leisure games (so called Applied Games, AGs) is an emerging business. As such it is still fragmented and needs to achieve critical mass to compete globally. Nevertheless, its growth potential is widely recognized and even suggested to exceed the growth potential of the leisure games market. The European project Realizing an Applied Gaming Ecosystem (RAGE) is aiming at supporting this challenge. RAGE will help to seize these opportunities by making available an interoperable set of advanced Applied Game (AG) technology assets, as well as proven practices of using such AG assets in various real-world contexts. As described in [1], RAGE will finally provide a centralized access to a wide range of applied gaming software modules, relevant information, knowledge and community services, and related scientific documents, taxonomies, media, and educational resources within an online community portal called the RAGE Ecosystem. Besides this, an integration between the RAGE Ecosystem and relevant social network interaction spaces that arranges and facilitates collaboration that underlie Research and Development (R&D), as well as marketoriented innovation and exploitation will be created in order to support community building, as well as collaborative asset exploitation of User Generated Contents (UGCs) of the RAGE Ecosystem. In this paper, we will describe the integration of the Scientific Publication Platform (SPP) Mendeley [2] into the RAGE Ecosystem. This will allow for automating repetitive tasks, reducing errors, and speeding up time consuming tasks. On the other hand it will support information, UGC, and knowledge sharing, as well as persistency of social interaction threads within Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and Groupware Systems (GWSs) that are connected to the RAGE Ecosystem. The paper reviews relevant use cases and scenarios, as well as related authentication, access, and information integration challenges. In this way, on the one hand a qualitative evaluation regarding an optimal technical integration is facilitated while on the other hand design approaches for supporting features of resulting user interfaces are initiated. ; This study is part of the RAGE project. The RAGE project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644187. This publication reflects only the author's view. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

The DR Congo covers more than 2,345,000 km2 and has the second largest forest containing a great animal biodiversity, which unfortunately remains little characterized. This is the case for edible insects that Congolese eat in abundance and which contribute significantly to the fight against food insecurity. Recent studies have shown that 80% of the country's population consumes two different species of insects per week (60 to 150g/person/day). To date, more than 50 species of insects (mainly in 5 families: Saturniidae, Notodontidae, Curculionidae, Termitidae and Gryllidae, respectively two moths, beetles, termites, and crickets) have been identified with protein levels (55-65%), fat content (10-15%) or vitamins. Faced with a political will shifted to other priorities, no formal program to collect data to characterize this biodiversity has been initiated. For their part, classic studies that provided current data are facing the following main challenges: (i) the national territory is too vast and impossible to cover by these types of studies, (ii) insects are known under several common names (complicated by >240 languages) or only one name is used to identify taxonomically distant species; (iii) historical data are very hard to find (the oral tradition being preferred to writing); (iv) the difficulty of finding geo-referenced data (with the risk associated in its collection); (v) the absence of reference collections and the lack of specialists. An effective alternative to circumvent these difficulties and to gather data (whose urgency is understandable due to the shrinking of some insect populations or their habitats) is promoting Citizen Science. Such research programs involving scientists and the participation of amateurs or interested volunteer citizens within local populations would constitute a set of data across the country and over a longer period than what has been done so far. With the development of free software and mobile applications, non-specialists could, based on standards and protocols validated by scientists, be involved in the digitization of specimens observed or identification of insect species through graphical user interfaces; help clarify the correspondence between vernacular names and scientific names; participate in habitat monitoring of insect species; or help collecting geo-referenced data via mobile phone. These field-based research activities can be conducted without great expense and will offer professionals and non-professionals a collaborative ground to contribute together toward advances in knowledge of edible insects and the implementation of targeted actions for the management of this resource in DR Congo. ; Peer reviewed