bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in the exploration of alluvial gold deposits
Authors: Krivolutsky Yuriy V.
Published: April 2021

In the periods of economic crises, the golden reserves of the country become a guarantee of its financial stability. In total gold and currency reserves the specific weight of the gold has a significant part. The current state of the gold mining sector does not provide the sustainability of its own development in the future. Scientific and technical development in the field of geological exploration is the important resource of gold mining growth and competitiveness.
Attribution of Illegitimate Child’s Nasb to the Biological Father: Analysis from the Perspective of Malaysian Law, Muzakarah Fatwa Committee, State Fatwas and Maqasid Al-Shariah
Authors: Siti Noor Ain Aziz  , Mohamad Zaki Razaly  , Norizan Othman  , Mahasin Saja@Mearaj  , Ahmad Nawawi Yaakob  , Sofwah Md Nawi
Published: April 2021

A ruling by Malaysia’s Court of Appeal in 2017 that Muslim children conceived out of wedlock can carry their father’s name has sparked a debate over the civil court’s jurisdiction to set aside a fatwa. But this decision was overruled by Federal Court in 2019. This study aims to analyse the constitutional issues between statutory law and fatwa, followed by the analysis of whether the denial of the right to carry biological father’s name is in line with the Maqasid al-Shariah. This study was carried out using qualitative research method. The collection of data is derived from an unstructured interview with two experts in the field of constitutional law and fatwa. Secondary data analysis was obtained from National and state fatwas, legal documents, court cases, articles from the journal, book, and newspaper. This study concludes that whether the judgment is constitutional or unconstitutional depends on the interpretation made by the learned judges of the provisions in the Statutes. From the Maqasid al-Shariah point of view, Muslim scholars who disallow the ascription of paternity to the illegitimate children’s biological father, uphold to preserve the purity of lineage (hifznasb), while the group who allows it chose to prevent harms and preserve dignity (hifz al-irdh). This study contributes by providing insights on the relevancy of illegitimate children’s attribution in the constitution and Maqasid al-Shariah point of view.
Customer Satisfaction towards Hotel Industry in Malaysia: A Systematic Review of Pre-Covid19 Era
Authors: Norliza Aminudin  , Nita Abdul Hassan  , Nurul Fatiah Aishah Shaukani  , Salamiah A Jamal
Published: April 2021

Customer satisfaction is a significant segment in the tourism and hospitality sector which resulted in increased attention to studies being conducted in all pillars of tourism including in the accommodation sector. This study aims to present the state of academic research in customer satisfaction attributes in the Malaysian hotel during the pre-Covid era. To achieve this aim, the objectives of this study are to provide a systematic review of the literature published on consumer satisfaction towards the hotel industry in Malaysia. A systematic literature review is conducted, and in a total of 17 key journal articles in the Scopus database up from 2000 until 2019, 20-years period taken into consideration, in which the review protocol proposed in this study makes use of specific techniques such as PRISMA, applied thematic analysis and bibliographic documentary review. The findings reveal that the staff prompt and courtesy of front desk attributes are frequently examined by researchers, followed by comfort and value for room attributes, accessibility of the facilities at the hotel and a variety of food and beverages were the important attributes for the customer satisfaction towards Malaysian hotel industry. The theoretical contribution of this study includes the presentation of a systematic review of the literature, different research approaches and perspectives on customer satisfaction towards the hotel industry, through which it helps to enrich knowledge in the area of hotel attributes on customer satisfaction in the hotel business.
The Analysis of E-Commerce Website Features on Customer’s Purchase Intention Using Fuzzy Expert System
Authors: Wan Mohd Yaseer Mohd Abdoh  , Mohd Fazril Izhar Mohd Idris  , KhairuAzlan Abd Aziz  , Ibrahim Roslan
Published: April 2021

The rapid growth of internet users over the past few decades indicates a changing in the business model, in which previously the business only focuses on brick-and-mortar store whereas now, exists a need to add another store named as the e-commerce store. Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce is one of the various types of e-commerce, which has turned into an influential key to business channel. In order to meet the demands of the current business model, numerous e-commerce websites have been developed. However, building an e-commerce website is not enough if it does not meet the customers’ expectation which influences the customers’ purchase intention. This study investigates the features of an e-commerce website that influences the customers’ purchase intention as well as the most important feature of an e-commerce website based on the customers’ perspective. The e-commerce website features that being investigated are website design, information quality, security and privacy which are gained from the literature review. The data is collected through an online survey which consists of 358 respondents who are familiar with purchasing on the e-commerce website. An expert system has been developed by using a fuzzy logic approach to determine which feature possesses the biggest influence on customers in order to perform purchasing on the e-commerce website. The results performed in the MATLAB software shows thatthe most significant feature in the e-commerce website is the information quality
What Matters to University Students when Looking for a Rental House?
Authors: Nor Adila Kedin  , Izni Syamsina Saari  , Hamidah Muhd Irpan  , Ainon Syazana Ab Hamid  , Noor Ibtisam Abdul Karim
Published: April 2021

The rapid growth of higher education institutions in Malaysia is parallel with the growing demand of its population pursuing tertiary education. For such reason, universities and other tertiary education providers are constantly challenged in providing sufficient in-campus accommodation to help students living comfortably. Regardless of their continuous effort in improving their facilities, the issue of shortage of students’ accommodation persists; thus, boosting the demand for rental properties surrounding campus location. This opens the opportunity for homeowners who own rental units within proximity to a campus location to target students as their potential tenants. Therefore, it is worth the effort for homeowners to understand students’ preferences when searching for a rental unit. In line with the stipulated issue, this study aims to investigate university students’ perceived perception of five relevant criteria when searching for a rental house. This study employed a quantitative research design with a total of 150 respondents were successfully gathered via an online questionnaire. These respondents are off-campus students studying at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Melaka campus. The result of the descriptive analysis revealed that many of the respondentsplaced rental agreement as to the utmost important criterion when deciding to rent a property. It was followed by the location of the property, the surrounding security, rental price, and finally utilities and amenities. From this study, it was suggested that the homeowner should emphasize all the mentioned criteria as it was relatively perceived as significant by potential tenants. It is recommended for future researchers to expand this study at other geographic locations in addition to examine other criteria focused on by tenants when searching for a rental house.
Alternative Tool to Engage Learners in Comprehending Written Forms in Mandarin
Authors: Arutchelvi K.Kumaran  , Chong Geeng Ling  , Evelyn Sharminnie Vasuthavan  , Angeline Ranjethamoney Vijayarajoo  , Teoh Joo Tong
Published: April 2021

In the Malaysian context, Mandarin is taught as a foreign language. Learning the written forms can be challenging, especially for non-native speakers. Furthermore, teachers found this component to be problematic, based on learners’ classroom written tasks. In order to assist learners’ comprehension of the written form, a board game called ‘Catch Me If You Can’ was developed. The focus of this study is to find out the effectiveness of the board game in learning the written forms. The study sample consisted of 20 respondents from a local University. Data comprised the responses from questionnaires and interviews. A pre and post test was administered to gauge students’ performance in the written tasks. The findings showed the respondents enjoyed learning the written forms in a fun and engaging way. Hence, this game can be used as complementary tool in the teaching and learning of written forms.
(R)évolution en matière de libéralités : L’exemple de la liberté testamentaire au Québec
Authors:   Laval University, Faculty of Law, Morin Christine
Published: April 2021

"In Canada, Quebec is the only province to have a legal system under which civil matters are regulated by a Civil Code and not by common law. Nonetheless, Quebeckers had unlimited “freedom of willing” until 1989. Henceforth, although Quebeckers remain free to determine via their last wills and testaments to whom they wish to bequeath their property, their margin of freedom is limited by legislative measures governing the survival of the obligation to provide support after death and the partitioning of the family patrimony. Such limitations on the freedom to bequeath are based upon a family interpretation of public order whereby the deceased must share the value of given property with his or her spouse and look after the immediate family’s need for support. Despite this, the Civil Code makes still no provision, as in French law, for an “undisposable estate” (réserves héréditaires) and it is fitting to question the reasons motivating this decision. The author attempts to identify the social context in which freedom to bequeath came to be limited. As such, she seeks to make known the material sources underpinning the adoption of the Bill that introduced the primary limitations on freedom to bequeath. Her study shows that within the framework of discussions on relevancy to limit this freedom, the issue being debated shifted its objective. Participants widened the initial debate then focused on the transmission of the patrimony by redefining it to encompass the questions of sharing family assets. This transformation contributes to explain how the law of successions in Quebec has drawn closer to family law."
Restauratio Iustinianus. Despre reforma dezmoștenirii în dreptul succesoral român
Authors:   Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Murphy Anthony
Published: April 2021

The struggle between testamentary freedom and family protection is one of the enduring challenges in the field of succession law. This paper is exclusively concerned with the Civilian tradition, where efforts to bridge the gap between said ideals generally follow two main models. Some legal systems maintain the Roman model of allowing the testator or testatrix to lift the forced heirship in cases strictly provided by the law, whilst others prefer the Napoleonic paradigm of depriving the deceased of said power. Romanian succession law has experienced both models, with the former dominating the medieval and early modern law and the latter only introduced in the second half of the 19th century, with the legal transplant of the Code Napoléon. The present study argues that certain changes introduced in the Civil Code of 2009, specifically empowering the decedent to lift the effects of unworthiness and explicitly regulating the regime of disinheritance, foreshadow a return to the Roman paradigm.
Despre evoluția fundației testamentare în Dreptul civil român
Authors:   Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Bob Mircea-Dan
Published: April 2021

Leaving wealth for pious and charitable purposes has been a constant practice of the old Romanian law. However, did it also had a legal basis to support or encourage it? How can it be explained that only in 1924 an express regulation of foundations was created, six decades apart from the entry into force of Cuza's Civil Code? What is the current situation? All these questions are meant to identify answers that clarify a primary issue: is there any continuity solution in ensuring an adequate legal framework for encouraging and validating testamentary foundations in Romanian law.
Le pécule romain et l’origine de la responsabilite limitée en droit romain
Authors:   St. Climent Ohridski University of Sofia, Faculty of Law, Novkirishka-Stoyanova Malina
Published: April 2021

The study is a part of one deeper study on the Roman Law about the slaves and personae alieni iuris presented in its evolution. The accent is mainly on the emergence of the limited liability of the pater familias/ dominus in the case of contracts with pecuniary property. It is a study for the place of the actio de peculio among the other actiones adjectitiae qualitatis, the notion of the merx pexuliaris and the concessio particulii.
Actio redhibitoria și influența acesteia asupra dreptului românesc
Authors:   Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea din București, Oancea Dan , Vernea Sorin-Alexandru ,   Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea din București, Ochea Vlad-Victor  ,   Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea din București
Published: April 2021

"By this paper, the authors aim to point out the essential elements that configure actio redhibitoria under Roman Law to relate them to the provisions of modern Romanian Law. To this end, the relevant provisions from The Digests of Emperor Justinian are analyzed, alongside the provisions of the most important Laws of the Second Phase of the Turkish-Fanariot Regime, namely the Calimach Code (1817) and the Caragea Law (1818). Likewise, the provisions of modern Civil Codes, from 1864 and 2009, are briefly pointed out, followed by final considerations regarding the influence of actio redhibitoria on current Romanian Law."
Pactele asupra unei succesiuni viitoare - 150 de ani de singurătate
Authors:   Institutul Notarial Român, Olaru Ioana
Published: April 2021

This article examines the agreements as to succession from a historical perspective and in the context of the particular effects given by the  Regulation (EU) no. 650/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of judgments and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession. The article aims to establish the content and the admissibility of these agreements in  successions having cross-border implications that are governed by Romanian applicable law, and to determine which agreements allowed by Romanian civil law could fall under the European definition.
Rolul vinovăției în funcționarea remediilor pentru neexecutarea contractului
Authors:   Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Popa Ionuț-Florin
Published: April 2021

The principle of guilt is traditionally considered as being the basis of civil liability. In contractual matter, for a long period of time, it was considered that the rights of the creditor under the assumption of non performance were conditional upon the existence of the guilt of the debtor in non execution. The entry into force of the New Civil Code offered the opportunity of a broad based discussion related to the conditions for applying remedies for the non performance of the contract. The essence of these debates is represented by the condition itself of the guilt in the activation and operation of remedies. The study aims at demonstrating that, actually, the opposition existing between the subjectivist thesis (according to which guilt is a condition of remedies) and the objectivist thesis (which states the opposite) is without a real practical stake. In essence, guilt remains a simple condition of a form of contractual non performance – breach of contract –, and not a condition of activation of remedies. On the other hand, remedies are subject to a variety of rules which often make it difficult their suitability for the legal situation called into question. Although factualism underlies the application of remedies, a set of rules applicable to the entire system of remedies is identifiable starting from the assumption that the suitable remedy is found for any non performance.
Unificarea legislativă a Principatelor Române și consolidarea dreptului în primele decenii ale Regatului României
Authors:   Facultatea de Drept, Universitatea din Craiova, Cercel Sevastian
Published: April 2021

In the period 1859-1918, Romania built and consolidated a modern law system subject to fundamental principles that were found throughout Europe, with functional mechanisms and institutions. The adoption of the major codes - the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure - during the reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza had a cardinal importance for the national legal system. The exercise of modern legislation initiated at that time, in a rhythm which was sometimes criticized, continued through the adoption of the 1866 Constitution or through the measures of the integration of Dobrogea in the Romanian law system. On the path opened by the generation of the Union of the Principalities, Carol I strengthened the beneficial force of law, building a state in which “only the law debated and approved by the nation, decides and governs”. The science of law and legal culture had in Romania, almost six decades after the Union of the Principalities, gathered through tradition and reform, an important dowry, a true “fulfilled state of law”. In the Old Kingdom there was, at the beginning of the 20th century, a fully achieved legal system that rightly expected to be the foundation of the legal system of Greater Romania.
CROSS-CORRELATIONS IN THE BROWNIAN MOTION OF COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES
Authors: KELEMEN Sz. , VARGA L. , NÉDA Z.
Published: April 2021

The two-body cross-correlation for the diffusive motion of colloidal nano-spheres is experimentally investigated. Polystyrene nano-spheres were used in a very low concentration suspension in order to minimize the three- or more body collective effects. Beside the generally used longitudinal and transverse component correlations we investigate also the Pearson correlation in the magnitude of the displacements. In agreement with previous studies we find that the longitudinal and transverse component correlations decay as a function of the inter-particle distance following a power-law trend with an exponent around -2. The Pearson correlation in the magnitude of the displacements decay also as a power-law with an exponent around -1.
ATTOSECOND INTERFEROMETRY USING A HHG-2ω₀ SCHEME
Authors: LORIOT V. , MARCINIAK A. , NANDI S. , KARRAS G. , HERVÉ M. , CONSTANT E. , PLÉSIAT E. , PALACIOS A. , MARTIN F. , LÉPINE F.
Published: April 2021

We present an interferometric HHG-2ω0 scheme and compare it to the usual XUV-IR RABBIT method that is widely used in attosecond science. Both methods are able to reconstruct the properties of an attosecond pulse train and can be used to measure attosecond ionization time delays in atoms and molecules. While they have several similarities, they also have conceptual differences. Here, we present some particularities of the HHG-2ω0 method and its advantages and drawbacks, which would help to define situations where it can provide information inaccessible by other technics.
P2P (BILATERAL) COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NodeMcu ESP8266 BOARDS USING ARDUINO IDE
Authors: TODICA M.
Published: April 2021

Bilateral communication between the boards NodeMcu ESP826 is achieved using the WI FI capabilities of these devices and particularly code based on Arduino IDE. The system is used to control servos, DC motors or led. The duplex communication allows feedback action between sender and receiver. Real time feedback is obtained by particularly connection of the servo to the board.
Application of statistical control on water quality in cisterns in the semiarid Pernambucano
Authors: Cunha Filho Moacyr , Araujo Filho Renisson Neponuceno , Cunha Ana Luiza Xavier , Lima Isys Pryscilla de Albuquerque , Falcão Ana Patricia Siqueira Tavares , Piscoya Victor Casimiro , Primo Dario Costa , Pimentel Rejane Magalhães Mendonça , Gomes Filho Raimundo Rodrigues , Fernandes Milton Marques
Published: April 2021

In the Brazilian semi-arid region, it is necessary to use alternatives for the better use of water, since evapotranspiration rates exceed rainfall rates, which may favor salt accumulation in cistern systems. This work aimed to investigate the water quality of cisterns from communities in the semiarid region of Pernambuco state. Thus, the following physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of cistern water were monitored: color, turbidity, total dissolved solids (T.D.S.), salinity through electrical conductivity (EC), pH and total and fecal coliforms. For monitoring, statistical quality control techniques, control charts and process capacity indices were employed. Results were found with high values for microbiological, total and fecal coliforms in most samples. Control charts showed no abnormality in the process. The probable reasons for the contamination of cistern water is the lack of cleaning of the gutters that are part of the stored water catchment system. In the northeastern semi-arid population, people are looking for ways to use natural resources to ensure survival and water quality is seen as a guarantee for quality of life.
The Effect of ‘Datafication’ on Knowledge Diffusion: A Topological Framework
Authors: Arslan Ayse Kok
Published: April 2021

This paper begins by distinguishing between data infrastructure, data entry and data points as three distinct, but interrelated situations. Data practices are understood in the general sense of the word here, i.e., such as actions, actions, and consequences, of introducing data-generating technologies for knowledge codification.  This paper will investigate both the generics and specificities of data practices to explore the disentanglement of the liveness of data practices, i.e. how such practices are happening with regard to knowledge codification. Within this regard, this study seeks to account for the ‘fluid and heterogeneous ontology’ of such practices. In other words, the framework conceptualizes data processing as correlational, and aims to provide a technique to explore they disentanglement of these relationships.
Code Generation from Simulink Models with Task and Data Parallelism
Authors: Xu Pin , Edahiro Masato , Masaki Kondo
Published: April 2021

In this paper, we propose a method to automatically generate parallelized code from Simulink models, while exploiting both task and data parallelism. Building on previous research, we propose a model-based parallelizer (MBP) that exploits task parallelism and assigns tasks to CPU cores using a hierarchical clustering method. We also propose amethod in which data-parallel SYCL code is generated from Simulink models; computations with data parallelism are expressed in the form of S-Function Builder blocks and are executed in a heterogeneous computing environment. Most parts of the procedure can be automated with scripts, and the two methods can be applied together. In the evaluation, the data-parallel programs generated using our proposed method achieved a maximum speedup of approximately 547 times, compared to sequential programs, without observable differences in the computed results. In addition, the programs generated while exploiting both task and data parallelism were confirmed to have achieved better performance than those exploiting either one of the two.
Norms and Values in Refugee Resettlement: A Literature Review of Resettlement to the EU
Authors: Böhm Franziska , Jerve Ramsøy Ingrid , Suter Brigitte
Published: April 2021

As a result of the refugee reception crisis in 2015 the advocacy for increasing resettlement numbers in the overall refugee protection framework has gained momentum, as has research on resettlement to the EU. While the UNHCR purports resettlement as a durable solution for the international protection of refugees, resettlement programmes to the European Union are seen as a pillar of the external dimension of the EU’s asylum and migration policies and management. This paper presents and discusses the literature regarding the value transmissions taking place within these programmes. It reviews literature on the European resettlement process – ranging from the selection of refugees to be resettled, the information and training they receive prior to travelling to their new country of residence, their reception upon arrival, their placement and dispersal in the receiving state, as well as programs of private and community sponsorship. The literature shows that even if resettlement can be considered an external dimension of European migration policy, this process does not end at the border. Rather, resettlement entails particular forms of reception, placement and dispersal as well as integration practices that refugees are confronted with once they arrive in their resettlement country. These practices should thus be understood in the context of the resettlement regime as a whole. In this paper we map out where and how values (here understood as ideas about how something should be) and norms (expectations or rules that are socially enforced) are transmitted within this regime. ‘Value transmission’ is here understood in a broad sense, taking into account the values that are directly transmitted through information and education programmes, as well as those informing practices and actors’ decisions. Identifying how norms and values figure in the resettlement regime aid us in further understanding decision making processes, policy making, and the on-the-ground work of practitioners that influence refugees’ lives. An important finding in this literature review is that vulnerability is a central notion in international refugee protection, and even more so in resettlement. Ideas and practices regarding vulnerability are, throughout the resettlement regime, in continuous tension with those of security, integration, and of refugees’ own agency. The literature review and our discussion serve as a point of departure for developing further investigations into the external dimension of value transmission, which in turn can add insights into the role of norms and values in the making and un-making of (external) boundaries/borders.
La bebida pozol de cacao en su presencia en el carnaval zoque de San Fernando, Chiapas: un análisis biocultural con reflexiones para la sociedad contemporánea
Authors: Newell Gillian Elisabeth , Reyes-Escutia Felipe de Jesús , Bolom-Martínez Susana del Carmen , Gutiérrez-Gallegos Edwin Uriel
Published: April 2021

Objetivo: analizar bioculturalmente la bebida tradicional y prehispánica nombrada pozol de cacao, en su expresión en el Carnaval zoque de San Fernando, Chiapas. Esto es para presentar la utilidad de la bioculturalidad como marco teórico y sugerir en ella la pertenencia de un macro-paradigma de complejidad y auto-eco-organización para promover y profundizar la comprensión y la (re)valoración de lo tradicional, lo comunitario, lo hecho a mano, lo local y la relación ser humano-naturaleza manifestada. Metodología: el estudio fue etnográfica, biocultural y epistemológicamente reflexivo. Resultados: el pozol en el Carnaval zoque de San Fernando, Chiapas, emerge como una bebida compleja, polivalente, polisémica y altamente civilizatoria: lista para tomar, para comprender y para ser. Limitaciones: el estudio se reduce a un solo contexto y tiempo etnográfico específico. Conclusiones: la comprensión del pozol de cacao, su presencia en una celebración tradicional-comunitario y la fuerza del análisis biocultural contribuyen al esfuerzo de dar sentido al ser humano y formar civilización-sociedad contemporánea en un mundo cambiante y en crisis.
Domestication of Difference: Practices of Civic Engagement among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark
Authors: Sparre Sara Lei , Galal Lise Paulsen
Published: April 2021

This article employs Hage’s concept of “domestication” as a lens for understanding how various forms of civic engagement among Coptic, Assyrian, and Chaldean Christian migrant communities in Denmark reproduce and contest a Danish model of citizenship, a particular construction of both the national subject and its Others. While churches are a primary place for civic engagement among Middle Eastern Christians as an ethnoreligious group, internally in the communities three modalities of civic engagement—serving, committing, and consuming—are practiced. Each produces different manifestations of citizenship because they engage with the local, national, and transnational differently. Christians of Middle Eastern origin are not publicly visible as political or activist groups as they, along with other immigrant groups, are expected to immerse themselves into the Danish model where ethnic and cultural differences are acknowledged but disregarded of their original context and its power relations.
A Medical Decision Support Tool Using Text-mining Techniques with Electronic Medical Records
Authors: Judd Michael
Published: April 2021

Free-text clinical notes represent a vast amount of information which in the past has been un-analyzed data. In this paper we apply text-mining methods on the free-text in electronic medical records (EMRs) to define treatment options for patients with lower back pain. The goal of the project is to develop a generalized text-mining framework that can be used not only in the treatment of lower back pain, but any medical condition.

The framework takes advantage of open-source algorithms for anonymization and the clinical NLP tool Apache Clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) to form structured data from clinical notes. The machine learning algorithm uses seven years of extracted clinical notes from the primary care physician to classify 20 patients’ pattern of back pain.

With the small dataset provided, the algorithm managed to achieve diagnosis accuracy of up to 100%. The twenty-patient dataset was simply too homogenous and small to make statistical claims for sensitivity and specificity. However, the system shows indicators of satisfactory performance, and we are trying to extract more data of patients who do not have back pain to be able to validate our system better.
Pollinator gardens more than triple in visitation rate and diversity of flower-visiting insects than other ornamental plantings in Kingston, Ontario
Authors: Vogelzang Marika
Published: April 2021

In this study I determined the effectiveness of pollinator gardens by testing if visitation rate and diversity of flower-visiting insects is higher in pollinator gardens compared to other ornamental plantings. I observed pollinator visitation for individual plant taxa, per unit area, in three different pollinator gardens, eight ornamental gardens and eight ornamental planters on the Queen’s University campus in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Visitation was about 4- times higher in pollinator gardens compared to the other two ornamental garden types and visitor richness (the number of types of pollinators) in pollinator gardens was about 6- times higher compared to ornamental gardens, and about 3- times higher compared toornamental planters. The results of this study conclude that the planting of pollinator gardens is an effective way of supporting pollinator populations in urban areas.
Digital Technology: the Answer to the Art Historical Conundrum of A ccessibility?
Authors: Berry Abigail
Published: April 2021

The famous anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu argued that there is an “unnatural idea of inborn culture, of a gift of culture, bestowed on certain people by Nature.” [1] Bourdieu is arguing that people, who have not been born into a higher class, or who cannot receive a high level of education, are unable to appreciate and understand art. The study of art history is expensive, and often involves extremely high travel costs, thus making it inaccessible to anybody who does not enjoy the means to pursue it. How can we address this accessibility problem in the study of art history? Is there any way to bring art to the people who do not possess “inborn culture?” Bourdieu wrote his book on art and class in 1984, at a time when the computer, and its democratizing potential, was a new and little -understood invention. My research proposes that modern technology provides an answer to this problem, which has plagued the discipline of art history.

This presentation will examine three research projects that I’ve been working on at Queen’s. Each project uses digital technologies to improve the general public’s knowledge and access to art. The projects are all different: the first focuses on creating a digital model of 18th - century Canterbury Cathedral based on a book from W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, the second project works on understanding Herstmonceux Castle and medieval England through technology, and the third involves image processing for art historical investigations. Despite their differences, each project makes art accessible to people who do not possess Bourdieu’s definition of “inborn culture.”
A Finding Aid for The Equity
Authors: Blackadar Jeff
Published: April 2021

Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec digitally scanned and converted to text a large collection of newspapers to create a resource of tremendous potential value to historians. Unfortunately, the text files are difficult to search reliably due to many errors caused by the optical character recognition (OCR) text conversion process.

This digital history project applied natural language processing in an R language computer program to create a new and useful index of this corpus of digitized content despite OCR related errors. The project used editions of The Equity, published in Shawville, Quebec since 1883.

The program extracted the names of all the person, location and organization entities that appeared in each edition. Each of the entities was cataloged in a database and related to the edition of the newspaper it appeared in. The database was published to a public website to allow other researchers to use it.

The resulting index or finding aid allows researchers to access The Equity in a different way than just full text searching. People, locations and organizations appearing in the Equity are listed on the website and each entity links to a page that lists all of the issues that entity appeared in as well as the other entities that may be related to it.

Rendering the text files of each scanned newspaper into entities and indexing them in a database allows the content of the newspaper to be interacted with by entity name and type rather than just a set of large text files.

Website: http://www.jeffblackadar.ca/graham_fellowship/corpus_entities_equity/
Using Haplotypes to Reconstruct Ancient Population Dynamics; a User Guide for Historians
Authors: Pasternak Ola
Published: April 2021

Recently, the analysis of haplotypes has garnered a lot of attention in both popular media, from companies such as 23andMe, and in scientific journal publications. Haplotypes, which can be thought of as DNA patterns in the chromosome, may remain unchanged for centuries and are therefore a promising new method for tracing lineages. This method could provide valuable new insights into population dynamics, specifically regarding ancient populations. However, a crucial issue is that historians are not trained to evaluate this sort of evidence, yet many publications in prestigious journals such as Nature and Science are making historical claims based on haplotype analysis. When analyzing this data, a few key assumptions must be made. Of particular concern are logical circularities in hypothesis generation and in sampling strategy. This is to say, that the hypotheses are often not based on "scientific" data, but are instead drawn from often outdated historical assumptions. These same assumptions then drive a sampling strategy that guide the study to a conclusion in line with the hypothesis. What is the professional historian to do? Proposed is a common-sense user guide for a non-specialist to evaluate the quality of the data and claims made with it. Several case studies will be examined from this perspective that show both the strengths and weaknesses of this new source of historical and archaeological evidence.
Gene Expression Analysis in Critically Ill Patients
Authors: Hoekstra Mary
Published: April 2021

Nosocomial infections are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in intensive care units (ICUs) and remain an important target for intervention. Several studies have explored bovine lactoferrin as a potential tool for preventing infection and modulating the immune response. One clinical trial, the PREVAIL study, investigated the efficacy of lactoferrin in preventing nosocomial infections in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients. A subset of patients in this study had blood samples collected at up to 6 different time points during their stay in the ICU, which were used to extract RNA for gene expression profiling. The resulting gene expression data were analyzed to determine the impact of lactoferrin on gene expression. Differential expression analysis was performed using both a single-gene approach and weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA). A single-gene analysis revealed that there was an increased number of differentially expressed genes in the lactoferrin group at all time points, including genes associated with the inflammatory response. Results from WGCNA revealed that groups of genes associated with innate immunity and defence response to virus were significantly differentially expressed over time in the lactoferrin group. These results contribute to our understanding of critical illness at the molecular level and provide evidence that lactoferrin has a biological effect.
The Golden Age of Stealing: An Analysis of Queer Appropriation and Exploitation in 21st Century Popular Culture
Authors: Deveau Adrian
Published: April 2021

Popular media is a series of appropriations and citations of cultural productions, refurbishing past ideas to fit the mold of the present. Representation of art works and cultural products influence the visibility of the groups who produce for popular culture. While social media and contemporary art allow for the rapid spread of ideas through the internet and advertisements, too often are ideas stolen for profit for large companies by exploiting the artistic integrity of uninitiated groups. Queer culture often appropriates historical methodologies for a reclamation of the past to create representation for the future. Queer artists produce landmark aesthetics in visual culture, shaping contemporary fashion trends and artistic movements in the 21st Century. While appropriation as a methodology is not inherently problematic, exploitation develops when artists are neglected credit for works which are exploited for capitalist gain.The research paper The Golden Age of Stealing: An Analysis of Queer Appropriation and Exploitation in 21st Century Popular Culture analyzes the relationship between the appropriation and exploitation of Queer art, using the 1980’s and 90’s club kids as a platform for queer aesthetic production. The paper outlines the dichotomy between representation of queer peoples in the 1990’s and the aesthetics produced to question popular representations and roles within a western consumer society. Using queer performative theories including utopianism, performativity, and disidentification, the paper distinguishes why the stealing of queer art for profit is inherently dangerous and regressive for the queer community, silencing queer voices and perpetrating a heteronormative narrative of cultural production.
Strategi Tim Visual Indozone.Id Dalam Perancangan Infografik Di Media Sosial Instagram
Authors: Al Fathan Rizzy Andika , Aminudin Amin
Published: April 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat bagaimana strategi tim visual indozone.id dalam perancangan infografik di media sosial instagram. Pernyataan penelitian yang diajukan adalah bagaimana strategi tim visual indozone.id dalam perancangan infografik di media sosial instaram? Metode penelitian ini deskriptif kualitatif berdasarkan paradigma konstrutivisme. Subjek penelitian yaitu Tim Visual, Redaktur, dan Pengikut akun instagram indozone. Teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi yang dilakukan oleh key-infoman dan informan, penelitian ini menggunakan teori Ekologi Media dari MC. Luhan. Khususnya bagi para media online dalam menghasilkan beragam unsur-unsur berita. Lembaga berita online terjerembap menyampaikan informasi yang belum final terverifikasi kepada masyarakat luas sehingga terkadang menimbulkan mis-persepsi dan mis-interpretasi fakta. Oleh karena itu fokus penelitian ini yaitu, strategi tim visual indozone.id dalam perancangan infografik di media sosial instagram. Hasil dari penelitian dan ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa strategi yang dilakukan diantaranya, membuat infografik mudah dipahami, judul yang menarik, mencari berita untuk dijadikan infografik, kendala saat pembuatan infografik. Strategi tersebut dilakukan tim visual dalam penyajian infografik.
OSCILLATIONS SIMULATION OF THE VIBRATION PROTECTION SUSPENDED LOAD WITH A MOVABLE BASE
Authors:   Siberian State Automobile and Highway University (SibADI), Omsk, Russia, Korytov M. S. , Shcherbakov V. S. ,   Siberian State Automobile and Highway University (SibADI), Omsk, Russia, Titenko V. V. ,   Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia, Pochekueva I. E. ,   Siberian State Automobile and Highway University (SibADI), Omsk, Russia
Published: April 2021

Снижение вибрационных воздействий на человека-оператора строительной, дорожной или подъемно-транспортной машины является актуальной задачей, поскольку вибрационные нагрузки, создаваемые двигателем внутреннего сгорания, движителем машины, взаимодействующим с микрорельефом опорной поверхности, а также рабочими органами машины, отрицательно влияют на оператора машины и увеличивают износ узлов и деталей самой машины. У оператора под воздействием вибраций могут развиваться профессиональные заболевания. В связи с изложенным, целью исследования является создание математического аппарата, позволяющего моделировать динамические процессы колебаний пассивных виброзащитных систем на стадии их проектирования. Для этого была решена задача разработки математической модели, позволяющей исследовать колебания пассивных виброзащитных систем, имеющих одну степень свободы, с любой заданной статической характеристикой. На основании уравнения динамики колебательной системы с одной поступательной степенью свободы, описывающей кресло с человеком-оператором на виброзащитной подвеске, в программном продукте Simulink системы MATLAB составлена имитационная математическая модель решения дифференциального уравнения колебаний системы, учитывающая демпфирование перемещений подпружиненной массы и трехсегментную статическую характеристику виброзащитного механизма с ограничителями...
MODELING OF BENDING AND RADIAL HYDROELASTIC OSCILLATIONS FOR A SANDWICH CIRCULAR PLATE RESTING ON AN ELASTIC FOUNDATION
Authors:   Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Popov V. S. , Chernenko A. V. ,   Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov, Saratov, Russia
Published: April 2021

В работе рассмотрены вопросы разработки и анализа математической модели динамики круглой сэндвич-пластины, установленной на инерционном упругом основании. Пластина является стенкой канала, в котором находится тонкий слой вязкой жидкости. Давление в слое жидкости изменяется за счет заданной пульсации давления на контуре канала и ее сдавливания колеблющейся сэндвич-пластиной. Сформулирована и решена задача гидроупругости, состоящая из уравнений Навье-Стокса, уравнения неразрывности, динамических уравнений круговой сэндвич-пластины, дополненных граничными условиями. В рамках предложенной модели движение вязкой жидкости изучалось как ползучее. Модель разработана для стационарных осесимметричных изгибных и продольных колебаний сэндвич пластины в условиях гармонического изменения давления жидкости по времени. Для описания кинематика сэндвич-пластин использована гипотеза ломаной нормали, предложенная в работах Э.И. Старовойтова и Д.В. Леоненко. Найдены гидродинамические параметры слоя жидкости, в том числе его напряжения. Разработанная математическая модель представляет собой систему уравнений дляисследования радиальных и изгибных колебаний трехслойной пластины. Ее решение осуществлено методом Фурье в виде рядов. Исследованы гидроупругие колебания пластины на основной моде. В частности, построены и исследованы амплитудно-частотные характеристики круглой сэндвич-пластины.
ESTIMATION OF PIPELINE SYSTEMS FLEXIBLE CONNECTING PIPE STRENGTH PROPERTIES BASED ON NUMERICAL STUDY OF STRAIN-STRESS STATE
Authors:   Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia, Sergaeva M. Yu. , Strokov I. M. ,   Omsk state technical university, Omsk, Russia, Sergaev А. А. ,   Omsk state technical university, Omsk, Russia
Published: April 2021

В настоящее время для трубопроводных систем разрабатываются виброизолирующие конструкции на основе резинокордных оболочек. Основная роль компенсирующего патрубка - это исключение передачи усилий от действия давления рабочей среды в полости трубопровода на фланцы и присоединяемые механизмы. Для оценки прочностных характеристик резинокордного патрубка на основе численного исследования используется трехмерная модель, армированная балочными элементами. В результате проведен расчет напряженно-деформированного состояния резинокордной оболочки и фланцевого соединения патрубка. Определенные аспекты исследования необходимо учитывать при проектировании и эксплуатации конструкций патрубков на основе армированных оболочек.
UPAYA MENGANTISIPASI PERDAGANGAN MANUSIA DITINJAU MENURUT ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT, 2007 DAN HUKUM ISLAM
Authors: JAMIL HAJAH MAKIAH TUSSARIPAH
Published: April 2021

Kita sering mendengar dan membaca tentang laporan meningkatnya kejahatan perdagangan manusia dan kecemasan di hampir setiap sudut negara. Studi menunjukkan bahwa kejahatan perdagangan membuat perempuan menjadi target tidak hanya dari individu tetapi juga bentuk konspirasi dan kerjasama jahat dari berbagai pihak yang membentuk jaringan internasional. Sebagian besar perempuan yang diperdagangkan adalah korban penipuan yang menyebabkan mereka dipaksa  bekerja tanpa dibayar dan dibayar sebagai pembantu rumah tangga dan sebagainya. Pembahasan makalah ini akan fokus pada UU Anti-Perdagangan Orang 2007 (UU 670) yang mengatur tentang pelanggaran perdagangan dan perlindungan korban. Juga dicontohkan adalah pandangan Islam tentang kejahatan perdagangan manusia yang dipandang bertentangan dengan maqasid Syariah dan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan. Usulan yang diajukan kemudian mempertimbangkan pendekatan yurisprudensi Islam yang lebih adil dan merata, dengan mempertimbangkan konsep ta'zir yang menekankan berbagai bentuk hukuman seperti mencambuk, membunuh, diyyat dan sebagainya yang diharapkan dapat menangani kejahatan dengan lebih efektif.

Kata Kunci: Perdagangan, manusia, Islam, ta'zir.