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Linked Open Data presents historians, museum professional, and other academics with a powerful tool for standardizing, encoding, and sharing data. While its adoption remains uneven, it is a major element in digital publication landscape in the heritage and cultural spheres. Since the mid-2010s, numismatists have been pioneers in the use of LOD to encode, store, and share data on coins, coin hoards, coin types, and so forth. Ukrainian numismatists therefore have at their disposal conceptual and technical models on which to build databases that can be easily shared with users in other countries, as well as with institutions in other parts of the world. This paper has two aims. First, it will show what LOD can do and why the biggest Western museums are investing in it. Second, it will outline the ways in which LOD is as much a philosophy and a methodology as it is a technical specification and a digital infrastructure. It is worth considering what Ukrainian numismatists can do, even if they do not immediately plan to build systems that look like those hosted by the Getty or Rijksmuseum. Starting to apply some of these principles now will mean that subsequent publication and sharing of Ukrainian heritage and scholarship will be more feasible.

Abstract Early video processing tools present a compelling perspective through which to reconsider the integrated practice of Tokyo-based early video artist Nakajima Kō. The author examines Nakajima’s practice through his concepts of animation, the development of his Animaker (1979) and Aniputer (1982), and his perspective on how video connects to Esoteric Buddhist thought. Concluding with Kō’s 1986 video Mt. Fuji, the author illustrates how the work is representative of the hybrid, analog-digital view of video that leads Nakajima to posit video as a cosmic medium circa 1986.

A growing body of biomedical literature suggests a bidirectional regulatory relationship between cardiac calcium (Ca2+)-regulating proteins and reactive oxygen species (ROS) that is integral to the pathogenesis of various cardiac disorders via oxidative stress (OS) signaling. To address the challenge of finding hidden connections within the growing volume of biomedical research, we developed a data science pipeline for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading. Employing the CaseOLAP (Context-Aware Semantic Analytic Processing) algorithm, our pipeline quantifies interactions between 128 human cardiomyocyte Ca2+-regulating proteins and eight cardiovascular disease (CVD) categories. Our machine-learning analysis of CaseOLAP scores reveals that the molecular interfaces of Ca2+-regulating proteins uniquely associate with cardiac arrhythmias and diseases of the cardiac conduction system, distinguishing them from other CVDs. Additionally, a knowledge graph analysis identified 59 of the 128 Ca2+-regulating proteins as involved in OS-related cardiac diseases, with cardiomyopathy emerging as the predominant category. By leveraging a link prediction algorithm, our research illuminates the interactions between Ca2+-regulating proteins, OS, and CVDs. The insights gained from our study provide a deeper understanding of the molecular interplay between cardiac ROS and Ca2+-regulating proteins in the context of CVDs. Such an understanding is essential for the innovation and development of targeted therapeutic strategies.

Objectives: The objectives of the study were to assess inflammation and immune health in children aged 5 to 9 years living in a low-income environment and to determine the association of measures of immune status with child BMI-for-age.Methods: This cross-sectional study is part of a larger study investigating dietary intake, cognition, behavior, and physical fitness in young schoolchildren.A total of 158 apparently healthy children (i.e., no known or current co-morbidities e.g.fever, cough etc. and actively attending class) in kindergarten and first grade were randomly selected from two public schools in Metro Manila, Philippines.Venous blood was extracted and immune health determined from a complete blood count.Serum C-reactive protein was determined by standard CRP test.Weight and height were measured using a standard Detecto weighing scale with height rod.The 2007 WHO Growth Reference (BMI-for-age) was used for classification.Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test (SPSS v.26) were used to assess differences between groups.Results: Inflammation (measured as CRP) was more prevalent among children with high BMI (overweight and obese) (31.3%) than among those with normal and low BMI (6.8% and 4.0%, respectively) (p.001).Neutropenia (low neutrophils) was more prevalent among children with high BMI (58.1%) than children with normal (54.3%) or low BMI (18.2%) (p.011).High eosinophil level was more prevalent among children with low BMI (45.5%) compared with normal (21%) and high BMI (19.4%) (p.04).Conclusions: Children in this sample with overweight and obese BMI-for-age were more likely to have inflammation and poorer immune health (characterized by low neutrophils) than those with either normal or low BMI.High eosinophil levels among low BMI (thin) children could possibly be due to the presence of parasitic infection, as these children often belonged to the poorest families in the community whose access to sanitation facilities were inadequate.

The significance of local spatial choices and memory and their impact on mobility networks is scarcely recognised in Mongolian archaeology. Here, we present a mapping strategy aimed at disentangling the landscapes of movement and investigating the materiality that accumulated in the palimpsest of the Ikh Bogd Uul Mountain (Bayankhongor, Mongolia).Based on an integrated and diachronic approach, our analysis encompasses a variety of strategies and sources: satellite imagery and historical cartography, a rescaling of the research area and path-centered fieldwork, which we conceptualize as 'linear’ survey. We document Late Prehistoric mounds as well as ‘modern’ springs, pastoral campsites, and paths. They are interpreted as landscape-objects associated with persistent mobility patterns and the construction of local knowledge and identity – in the sense of a nutag or homeland.This study thus contributes to expanding the archaeological information available for a remote and scarcely investigated area and enriching the archaeological approach to a complex and highly mobile context over time. It also offers new insights into how ancient mobility contributed to shaping the local landscapes of movement, both in terms of seasonal pastoral shifts and long-distance networks in the Mongolian and Central Eurasian Late Prehistory and afterwards.

Greater Mexico refers both to the geographic region encompassing modern Mexico and its former territories in the United States, and to the Mexican cultural diaspora. Exhibitions of visual and material culture from greater Mexico have played an important role in articulating identities and affiliations that transcend limited definitions of citizenship. Following an introductory text by Jennifer Josten, five scholars offer firsthand insights into the intellectual, diplomatic, and logistical concerns underpinning key border-crossing exhibitions of the “NAFTA era.” Rubén Ortiz-Torres writes from his unique perspective as a Mexico City–based artist who began exhibiting in the United States in the late 1980s, and as a curator of recent exhibitions that highlight the existence of multiple Mexicos and Americas. Clara Bargellini reflects on a paradigm-shifting cross-border exhibition of the viceregal arts of the missions of northern New Spain. Kim N. Richter considers how the arts of ancient Mesoamerica and the Americas writ large figured within the Getty Foundation’s 2017 Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. Xóchitl M. Flores-Marcial offers insights into productive institutional collaborations with transnational Indigenous stakeholders, focusing on two recent Southern California exhibitions of the Oaxaca-based Tlacolulokos collective. Luis Vargas-Santiago discusses how Chicana/o/x art entered Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes in 2019 as a crucial component of an exhibition about how Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata’s image has migrated through visual culture. Together, these texts demonstrate how exhibitions can act in the service of advancing more nuanced understandings of cultural and political interactions across greater Mexico.

of the True History of the Conquest of Mexico (Garca 1908(Garca -1916)). Therein, Mike protested the wretched conditions of plantation-grown cacao, for he would want to be remembered as someone standing up to corporate greed. Mike also "taught" by serving, in later years, as an authoritative guide for luxurious trips organized by Far Horizons, a tour company.

Abstract Kikuyugrass [Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone (= Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst. ex Chiov.)] is a warm‐season grass native to Africa. It was introduced into the United States as forage in Hawaii and for erosion control in California. Kikuyugrass is considered invasive and currently is on the USDA's noxious weed list. Since complete eradication is difficult, it has become the primary species on several golf courses, athletic fields, and lawns. Kikuyugrass possesses exceptional quality with considerable cultural inputs, and little or no winter dormancy compared with other warm‐season turfgrasses. With breeding efforts directed specifically at reducing aggressiveness and improving texture, thus reducing inputs, it could become a valuable turf‐type species in coastal and inland California. The genetic diversity of kikuyugrass was investigated using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and silicoDArT (presence or absence) markers revealed by the Diversity Arrays Technology sequencing (DArTseq) platform. Accessions were sampled throughout California, Hawaii, and Australia, both from natural stands and various collections. Among the 254 accessions tested, two distinct groups were discovered, and there was no geographic pattern to this differentiation. The overall level of SNP polymorphism was low (polymorphic information content [PIC] average = .33, PIC median = .38). Most (76%) of the observed genetic variation was within populations, whereas 24% was among populations. Average genetic distances within populations ranged from 0.09 to 0.16, whereas distances among populations ranged from 0.13 to 0.36. Accessions from Hawaii and Australia were the most diverse; however, a detectable level of genetic diversity of kikuyugrass also exists in California, mostly because of the past introductions from Australia.