bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
UWB ANTENNA WITH TRIPLE BAND NOTCH CHARACTERISTICS
Authors: Rao Pasumarthi Srinivasa , Prasad Bondili Siva Hari , Kavitha Jagabathuni , Jayaram Uppala
Published: October 2023

This study presents a compact ultra-wideband (UWB) patch antenna with three band notches for use in the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) bands. On a FR4 substrate with dimensions of 15 mm, 20 mm, and 1.4 mm, a modified circular patch with microstrip fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) is created with a fractional bandwidth of 133%. The small antenna operates at 2.45 GHz, which is frequently necessary for the effective operation of ISM usage. The bandwidth used by UWB systems and the current bands is the same. The suggested antenna is ISM band-compatible (1.5-3.29 GHz). Triple notches are used in this design to reject interference from the downlink X- and C-bands. The results from simulations and measurements show good agreement. In this article, a resolution to the problems of interference and miniaturization is proposed.
THE QUEST FOR PRINTED ANTENNA IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS: A REVIEW
Authors: Biswas Balaka , Karmakar Ayan
Published: October 2023

This review paper investigates the prospective usage of various printed versions of antennas in different biomedical fields for the improvement of clinical diagnosis, treatment, health monitoring, Internet of Things, and ultimately the wellness of mankind. The paper highlights the worldwide market growth of such antennas, its various design strategies as per the requirement of application domain, various optimization techniques, imbibed challenges associated, and finally realization of practical circuits or systems. It also covers comparison of several recently reported structures in this context from the viewpoint of their multiple performance metrics.
Integrated emergency management of ‘lifeline’ highway networks: lessons for interoperability
Authors: Deeming Hugh , Lamb John
Published: October 2023

In 2021 the UK government published a review of lessons learned by the UK highways sector from extreme weather emergencies. As described in this paper, the review focused on the sector’s engagement with integrated emergency management and managing highways as critical ‘lifeline’ infrastructure. Focusing on robustness, reliability, redundancy, rapidity, resourcefulness and recovery, the review identified the need to develop consistent rapid impact assessment reporting, linked to regional- and national-level mutual aid contingencies. Underpinning this was the need to strengthen highway engineers’ ability to ‘prepare for their worst day, rather than their average day’.
Environmental management systems in the architecture, engineering and construction sectors
Authors: Horry Rosemary , Booth Colin A , Mahamadu Abdul-Majeed
Published: October 2023

Implementing and using environmental management systems (EMSs) in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors has received worldwide attention but never through a phenomenological lens. This study investigates the ‘lived experiences’ of experts who have implemented and used ISO 14001 in AEC organisations based in the UK. Using a qualitative research strategy of semi-structured interviews, extensive analysis of the conversations reveals several themes – namely, participants believe that ISO 14001 is not just an environmental business tool, ISO 14001 offers a means of delivering sustainability, ISO 14001 accreditation opens doors for business accruement and, moreover, ISO 14001 is more than a badge, rather it is a modern-day business necessity. The study also reveals that not all organisations asking for ISO 14001 have the accreditation themselves. Based on this evidence, and contrary to previous studies that have proposed that EMSs are chiefly implemented to save costs and comply with legislation, it seems that box ticking as part of the tendering process is now the major motivation for organisations to attain and maintain International Organization for Standardization accreditation. Further, concerns are expressed that some organisations are unwilling to state their sustainability objectives or embed their operations within an EMS that will be audited because it could emphasise their poor performance to stakeholders.
Secondary reinforcement effect on the value and location of maximum reinforcement load
Authors: Florêncio Luiz Augusto da Silva , Ehrlich Mauricio , Mirmoradi Seyed Hamed
Published: October 2023

This paper numerically evaluates the effect of secondary reinforcement on the value and location of the maximum reinforcement load along the primary reinforcement layers (Tmax) in geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) walls under working stress conditions. Data from three instrumented sections of a well-instrumented GRS wall were used for model validation. A parametric study was carried out considering different controlling factors (i.e. the vertical reinforcement spacing, facing type and secondary reinforcement stiffness and length). The results show that for a constant relative soil-reinforcement stiffness index, the variation of the vertical reinforcement spacing and stiffness may not affect the location and normalised value of Tmax. In general, for the conventionally used type of reinforcement, the secondary reinforcement inclusion reduces Tmax to values lower than those corresponding to the active condition (Ka). For a given facing type, the combined effect of the secondary reinforcement length and stiffness is the main factor that controls the Tmax location. In general, increasing the secondary reinforcement stiffness and length moves the location of Tmax from the back of the facing to a distance corresponding to the length of the secondary reinforcement layers. In addition, for this condition, a flexible face model performs similarly to a block face model.
The Historiography and Research on State-Socialist Housing: Prague’s Paneláky
Authors: Babic Maja
Published: October 2023

Communist-era apartment buildings (paneláky) in Prague are home to 40 percent of the city’s population. Since the 1990s, following the end of state socialism, they have almost completely fallen into private ownership in the all-encompassing process of post-socialist privatization. They served as a stage and conduit for socio-cultural and economic change and as such, they reflect the transformed and transformative relationship between architecture, capitalism, heritage, and state. By examining the scholarly discourse on state-socialist housing produced since the fall of communism in Europe in 1989 — which has grown steadily in the past decade — this position paper aims to outline the main trends, themes, and gaps in historiography and research into the paneláky in Prague and to suggest new avenues for inquiry into the urban and architectural heritage of state-socialist housing estates in the Czech capital.
A Comparative Analysis of the Treatment of Inflation in South African Capital Gains Tax and the Accrual Systems
Authors: Olën Davin , Kloppers Henk
Published: October 2023

Inflation is often defined as a continuous and considerable rise in prices in general. Recently it has become a focal point due to globally elevated levels of inflation. Considering its treatment in the South African legal system, this article unpacks the contrary approaches of the Matrimonial Property Act 88 of 1984 (MPA) and the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (ITA) regarding inflation. These two Acts are considered as they provide different approaches to inflation, therefore different outcomes. While the MPA makes provision for inflation in determining the growth of each of the estates of spouses married out of community with the accrual system, the ITA does not recognise inflation insofar as it relates to capital gains tax. Comparing the approaches of the MPA and the ITA reveals disparities in the law and justifies the investigation conducted in this article.
Accordingly, this article compares the effect of inflation and capital gains tax and why inflation is not considered when determining the base cost of an asset for capital gains tax purposes. To explain the inconsistency between the MPA and the ITA, this article firstly unpacks the characteristics of the South African matrimonial property regime insofar as it relates to inflation. Thereafter, the article characterises the South African application of the capital gains tax and articulates the shortcomings of existing capital gains tax provisions and the resulting challenges in the application of both Acts.
In comparing the ways in which the MPA and the ITA deal with inflation, a clear distinction becomes evident. This article finds that, while the initial inclusion rate for capital gains tax inflation is largely accommodated, subsequent increases in the inclusion rate have erased this provision. Given these findings, this article suggests that the current South African capital gains tax regime's inclusion rate be further investigated to determine whether a wider set of exclusions could be developed to better accommodate inflation.
Critical Social Inclusion of Adult Migrant Language Learners in Working Life: Experiences From SFI and LINC Programs
Authors: Pötzsch Tobias , Saksela-Bergholm Sanna
Published: October 2023

How can integration education programs facilitate the more seamless inclusion of migrant newcomers into working life and civil society? Traditionally, integration policy and practice have been framed within a nation‐state discourse in which views of migrant incorporation are grounded within a bordered nationalism embodying a native–migrant dichotomy that reifies the view of the “migrant other” as a subject defined by its “lack” in competence and agency. In our qualitative multiple case study, we explored the bridging potential of integration programs in facilitating the inclusion of migrant students within working life in Helsinki and Edmonton. We examined the “inclusectionalities,” referring to the intersections of inclusion and exclusion that position adults enrolled in SFI (Swedish for Immigrants) and LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) language integration programs in the liminal spaces between belonging and othering. Guided by an understanding of critical social inclusion where migrants set the boundaries for interactions with authorities based upon their own needs and interests, we propose a transformational approach. Here migrant learners participate in a structural process where the fluid nature of social, political, and economic arrangements is consistently renegotiated on principles of egalitarianism and the full exercise of critical agency, herein envisioned as deliberate action resisting the social domination of racialized minorities by challenging and redefining institutional structures.
Introduction to the Special Section: Digital Innovation for Social Development and Environmental Action
Authors:   Laval University, Corbett Jacqueline , Dennehy Denis ,   Swansea University, Carter Lemuria ,   University of Sydney
Published: October 2023

In 2022, we launched a call for papers for a special section on digital innovation for social development and environmental action. The call was motivated by the need for the information systems discipline to move beyond talking about sustainability to taking actions to address important challenges facing society and the planet. Many authors responded to the call and we are pleased to present the fruits of their labors. In this introduction to the special section, we discuss the motivations for the special section, explain how the special section came together, highlight key points of interest in the eight papers that make up the special section, and reflect on future directions for information systems research.
DIGITAL DIVIDE AND EMERGENCY REMOTE EDUCATION: RECONSIDERING THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL RADIO DURING THE PANDEMIC
Authors: YERSEL Burcin , KALKAN Basak , ER Fikret , OZER Arzu Celen , KORUL Aysel Ulukan
Published: October 2023

In this article, the concepts of interaction and digital divide in emergency remote education practices implemented due to the Covid-19 global pandemic are discussed, and the increasing importance of radio as a traditional mass communication tool in bridging the digital divide and structuring an interactive learning process is emphasized. In this article, the concepts of interaction and digital divide in emergency remote education practices implemented due to the Covid-19 global pandemic are discussed, and the increasing importance of radio as a traditional mass communication tool in bridging the digital divide and structuring an interactive learning process is emphasized. In this exploratory study, the main aim is to see the usefulness of university radio for education during the pandemic process by looking at the experiences gained during the Covid 19 pandemic period. The study examines the program preferences of the participants and reveals better program schedules and program types/themes that will be useful during the emergency education period. When the radio listening habits of Eskisehir Technical University students and academics are evaluated within the scope of emergency distance education applications, it is seen that radio broadcasts can be used as a powerful tool against the digital divide. Research findings show that there is a significant relationship between academic and students’ radio listening time. The factor analysis showed also revealed different factor groups for academics and students. Within the framework of radio program types, six basic factors were determined for both groups. When the learner-instructor interaction is evaluated within the framework of both broadcast times and broadcast types, it is understood that the two-way interaction process can be structured within this framework. The abstract should be about 150-200 words. The abstracts of the research papers should include the purpose, methodology, and results while the abstracts of theoretical papers should provide the general framework, special contributions to the literature, and major conclusions. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
CRITERIA FOR DESIGNING AND EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS DURING EMERGENCY LEARNING
Authors: AFIFY Mohammed Kamal , ALQOOT Abdulrazak Mohamed , ZEDAN Saffanah Abdel Kader
Published: October 2023

Distance education during emergencies requires planning, design, and goal setting to create an effective learning environment. Virtual distance education involves more than just uploading educational content; it is rather an educational process that provides choice for learners, as well as flexibility and responsibility for learning and academic support. In this context, the aim of this research is to determine the quality criteria for designing virtual classrooms with their different styles (synchronous, asynchronous, and blended), and organizing them into categories and criteria to verify the availability of the criteria required for learning in the virtual environment. Also, the research aims to propose a method for evaluating and measuring the extent to which virtual classrooms during emergency learning meet its design quality criteria. The study used the descriptive method and analysis processes to determine the quality aspects of the virtual classrooms design, to draw out the design criteria and quality indicators, and to explore the opinions of the research population on the importance of these criteria and their measurement indicators. A purposive population of (17) specialists in the field of educational design and e-learning participated in the study, all of whom hold a PhD degree in the specialty in order to systematize the list of criteria for designing the virtual classroom and the indicators for measuring them in light of emergency learning. The importance of this current research lies in its aim to contribute to the improvement of training and learning environments through virtual classrooms during emergency learning, and to provide a list of design criteria that benefit teachers and instructional designers, in addition to reconsidering the use of learning management system tools and electronic content with virtual classrooms in order to achieve the maximum benefit for students in achievement outcomes of their learning, especially in the context of emergency learning.
THE INSTRUCTOR PARAMETERS OF TRANSITION TO FULLY ONLINE LEARNING
Authors: ILGAZ Hale , YILDIRIM Denizer , OZEL Nevzat , DEMIR Salih , SEVINDIK Mesut
Published: October 2023

Online learning has an old background and is an efficient method if applied correctly. However, during the pandemic period, it has been faced with a negative perception due to the wrong practices brought about by the mandatory and rapid transition. During this pandemic term, most educational institutions have offered support in this process to explain the process to both their students and instructors. This study examined XXX University instructors’ perspectives regarding the emergency remote teaching period in terms of their professional experience, discipline area, online instruction experience, and whether they received training in online instruction. Quantitative research methods were used in the study. An online instructor’s emergency remote teaching perspective scale has been developed and used as a data collection tool. A significant difference has been found in the discipline areas, online instruction experience, and participation in training program. From the results of the research, the need to support the instructors according to the needs specific to the disciplines has been revealed, and it is recommended to investigate the relationships between selfcompetency for online teaching and the perception of institutional support in depth.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS’ PERCEIVED IMPORTANCE OF ONLINE TEACHING COMPETENCIES AND THEIR SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS
Authors: OZTURK Elif , TURGUT Zeynep
Published: October 2023

Online teaching caught in-service teachers off-guard with emergency distance education and sparked interest to teacher education programs. Purpose of this study is to explore self-efficacy beliefs of prospective teachers in teaching online (SETO) and to determine the relationship between pre-service teachers’ importance of online teaching competencies (IOTC) perceptions and their SETO beliefs. 101 pre-service teachers were asked to fill faculty readiness to teach online scale and the responses were analyzed through ANOVA and Pearson Correlation. The results showed a significant difference between pre-service teachers’ majors, exposure to ICT-related experiences, and their SETO beliefs. In addition, there is a significant relationship between pre-service teachers’ IOCT perceptions and SETO beliefs. Understanding the existing SETO beliefs of pre-service teachers is critical because it provides evidence to reassess how pre-service teachers are supported to build their online teaching competencies. The results are expected to make a significant contribution to research on establishing online teaching competencies in Turkiye and assisting teachers in understanding the value of those competencies; as a result, potential implementers may have stronger online teaching self-efficacy in their distance classrooms. The study suggests incorporating technology-based resources into teacher education courses within a digital pedagogy competencies framework to increase preservice teachers’ self-efficacy.
PROGRAM EVALUATION IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING: THE CASE OF OPEN EDUCATION SYSTEM CALL CENTER SERVICES ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM
Authors: TUC Yagmur , KARADAG Nejdet
Published: October 2023

In this study, it is aimed to evaluate Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Call Center Services Associate Degree Program, which is carried out through open and distance education, according to learner views within the framework of Stufflebeam’s Context, Input, Process, Product (CIPP) Evaluation Model and to make suggestions for the development of the program. In the study in which Exploratory Sequential design, one of the mixed method research designs, was used; “Anadolu University Call Center Services Associate Degree Program Evaluation Questionnaire” was prepared to collect quantitative data. The questionnaire was applied online to learners who graduated from Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Call Center Services Associate Degree Program. Semi-structured interview questions were used to collect qualitative data. In the interpretation of quantitative data, percentage and frequency tables, mean and standard deviation values were used to compare and interpret the average score that can be obtained in the four dimensions (Context, Input, Process and Product) in the measurement tool and the average scores of the participants in these dimensions. In addition, the mean score values obtained in the sub-dimensions were analyzed and interpreted in terms of gender, age, marital status and employment status variables. Descriptive analysis method was used to analyze the qualitative data. The results revealed that the program objectives were determined in accordance with the expectations of the learners, learning resources were designed in accordance with the objectives, learning activities were carried out in accordance with the expectations of the participants and learning outcomes were achieved in the program.
THE INTERPLAY OF ANGLO-SAXON HOMILETIC DISCOURSE AND GRAMMAR
Authors:   Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Buniyatova Isabella , Horodilova Tetiana ,   Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
Published: October 2023

The article is devoted to the interplay of discourse and grammar in the formation of sentential units in the Anglo-Saxon homilies of the 9th-11th centuries, created by notable homilists, namely, Ælfric (955-1020 сa.), Wulfstan (death date 1023 ca.), as well as anonymous authors in the miscellany “The Blickling Homilies”. The material under consideration helped us offer two prior assumptions. Firstly, the body of homilies in the specified historical period (total number – 28 units) constitutes a distinct variety of performative texts, which share a set of specific features, and which, in aggregate, make up a homiletic type of discourse. Secondly, foregrounding of finite verb in Old English sentence is a genre-dependent phenomenon that has been attested in the preaching texts and the epic poetry. In this article, the term homily (sermon) is unfolded as a discursive phenomenon that establishes a close link between preacher and congregation, and, as such, serves as a medium of communication. This type of communication involves the dynamic interdependence of participants, the constant tension and continuity of the process, which results in the consolidation of spiritual and didactic principles of believers. Linguistically, it is represented by a number of grammatical phenomena shared by the homilies in question, which include formulaic initial addresses of the preacher to the audience, numerical tautological or parallel phrases, alliterative constructions, deictic elements, etc. Anglo-Saxon priest’s “fatherly conversation” can be described in didactic and Christian dogmatic terms, the spirit and letter of which were especially relevant in the context of the old Germanic ethnic groups’ existentia at the beginning of the second millennium.
ACTIVE PARTICIPLES IN MODERN SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DISCOURSE
Authors:   Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Нrytsenko Olha
Published: October 2023

Medical discourse reflects the history of the development of the professional language of doctors and records cross-linguistic influences. According to most scientists, verb forms in -чий contaminate the language because they are artificial for the Ukrainian linguistic tradition. In the article, selective analysis of the articles of scientific journals of the medical specialty for 2022 was carried out for the presence of the use of active participles in the present tense. During the research, methods of observation, analysis, comparison, classification, etc. were used. The obtained results allow us to conclude that the named units are not the same in different regions of Ukraine. The recorded units are classified according to functional and semantic indicators. The largest quantitatively are the lexical groups denoting the characteristics of treatment (methods) and the characteristics of the properties of medical preparations. Changes in the fixation of such units in dictionaries were revealed: the transition of some to the category of adjectives, the complete removal of others, and the inclusion of typical ones for the Ukrainian linguistic tradition. Analysis of the most common erroneous word usage will provide an opportunity to improve the scientific language of medicine and will contribute to the purity of the language as a whole. In this aspect, it would be promising to create a guide to replacing active adjectival compounds in the language of medicine. In the survey, the main ways of avoiding the use of active participles in the present tense are given.
Gazma Cave—A Final Middle Paleolithic Site in Azerbaijan: Paleogeography, Chronology, Archaeology
Authors:   Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Zeynalov A. A. , Anoikin A. A. ,   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,   Altai State University, Kulakov S. A. ,   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,   Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Otcherednoy A. K. ,   Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,   Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kurbanov R. N. ,   Lomonosov Moscow State University,   Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: October 2023

Статья посвящена результатам исследования индустрии среднего палеолита из пещеры Газма, расположенной в Нахчыванской Автономной Республике (Азербайджан). Приводятся данные по стратиграфии, палеонтологии, хронологии и археологии стоянки. На памятнике выделены шесть литологических слоев, три из которых (IV-VI) содержали массовый археологический материал. Хронология объекта построена на серии ОСЛ-дат. Установлено, что накопление слоев IV-VI происходило ~55-40 тыс. л.н. На основе комплекса естественно-научных данных (результаты изучения палеонтологических, палинологических материалов, гранулометрического анализа) реконструируются природные условия в окрестностях пещеры в позднем плейстоцене. Видовой состав фауны показывает, что в этот период в районе пещеры соседствовали природные зоны степей, полустепей и лесистых гор, а в пойме рек произрастали тугайные леса и были участки с зарослями камыша. Основное внимание уделяется анализу археологических материалов (896 артефактов). Установлено, что в первичном расщеплении доминировали леваллуазская и параллельная техники. Среди сколов высока доля леваллуазских заготовок. В орудийном наборе преобладали остроконечники (леваллуазские и мустьерские) и скребла; имелись лимасы, ножи и немногочисленные невыразительные изделия верхнепалеолитических типов (скребки и проколки). Выявлено широкое использование приема вентральной подправки основания остроконечников и вентрального или дорсального утончения скребел. Сделан вывод о том, что материалы Газмы по всем основным показателям соответствуют технокомплексам финального среднего палеолита, известным в настоящее время на территории Восточного Закавказья. Каменная индустрия памятника, относящаяся к первой половине МИС 3, является ярким примером индустрии «тагларского типа».
Algorithms of Numerical-spectral Methods for Modeling Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Authors: Rybakov K.A.
Published: October 2023

Representations of iterated Stratonovich and Ito stochastic integrals are obtained on the basis of the spectral form of mathematical description, they have both theoretical and practical significance. The latter is due to the possibility of constructing quite simple algorithms for the approximate modeling iterated stochastic integrals, which are necessary for the implementation of numerical methods for solving stochastic differential equations. The use of spectral representations of iterated stochastic integrals in numerical methods forms the numerical-spectral methods. Algorithms for them are presented in the form of programs for the computer algebra system Mathcad.
Imaging the Sources of the March 2021 Seismic Sequence in Thessaly Basin (Central Greece) from Kinematic Slip Inversion and Backprojection of Waveform Envelopes
Authors: Vavlas Nikolaos , Fountoulakis Ioannis , Roumelioti Zafeiria , Evangelidis Christos P. , Kiratzi Anastasia
Published: October 2023

In March 2021, a series of three moderate events with moment magnitudes Mw 6.3, 6.0, and 5.5 occurred within a span of 10 days in northern Thessaly, Greece, resulting in a stop–start pattern. The moment tensors (MTs) obtained from the events suggested normal faulting along distinct yet adjacent southeast–northwest-trending faults, indicating a sequential triggering process. We applied two methods to investigate the spatial and temporal characteristics of the source process of the triplet. This approach includes linear slip inversion of regional seismic waveforms and static Global Positioning System offsets, along with backprojection of regional waveforms using the Source-Scanning Algorithm technique. The detailed modeling suggests that three adjacent, subparallel (∼300°), and low-angle, detachment-type structures were responsible for the earthquakes. The stress axes orientation was determined by inverting a dataset of recomputed MTs combined with published solutions of the sequence. The results indicated a clockwise rotation of the local extensional axis by ∼25° compared to the regional ∼north–south extension. This rotation is consistent with the orientation of the modeled seismogenic structures. Inversions for both nodal planes and grid-searching fault geometry and orientation showed that for the first-two strongest events, the activated fault planes dipped to the northeast, whereas an antithetic (southwest dipping) fault was activated during the last weaker event. For the Mw 6.3 event, both the independent analyses indicated an overall rupture duration of ∼10 s, energy bursts above and near the hypocenter, up-dip (toward the southwest) rupture propagation in the early stages of the source process, and a bilateral rupture at later stages.
Design and Fabrication of an Augmented Reality-Enabled, AI-Assisted Autonomous Mobile Robot with Dual Six-Axis Robotic Arms for Advanced Object Manipulation
Authors:   , Vasudevan Nijanthan , Chiou Richard Y , Han David
Published: October 2023

This thesis presents the design and fabrication of an autonomous mobile robot with dual six-axis robotic arms, enhanced by augmented reality (AR) and powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The innovation aims to advance object manipulation tasks in various complex and dynamic environments, potentially for industrial applications. The system's Artificial Intelligence feature enhances the robot's ability to navigate and interact with its surroundings more accurately. The AR interface also allows human operators to intuitively control and guide the robot's actions in real time when needed, bridging the gap between autonomous operation and human oversight. The dual six-axis robotic arms enable dexterous and precise object manipulation. These arms mimic the versatility and adaptability of human arms, opening new possibilities for tasks that were previously challenging for traditional robotic systems. In developing this advanced mobile robot, this work embodies a pioneering step in autonomous robotics, showcasing a blend of AI, AR, and mechanical design. The robot's capabilities in object manipulation present a leap forward in robotics, promising a future where robots can take on more complex roles in our societies, while also offering a practical solution to labor-intensive or high-risk tasks. The research concludes with extensive testing and validation of the robot, demonstrating its effectiveness and efficiency in performing complex object manipulation tasks autonomously in various controlled and real-world scenarios. The results suggest promising implications for the future of robotics and automation, reinforcing the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in technological advancement.
Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition on ShipsEar Dataset
Authors:   , Phi Tam , Han David
Published: October 2023

The task of classifying underwater audio source has various marine-oriented applications, including maritime and environmental monitoring, detection of marine life, and underwater surveillance. However, Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition (UATR) remains challenging due to several factors. These include high cost of acquiring acoustic data, lack of of publicly accessible labeled datasets, interference induced by both underwater and over-the-air noise sources, and other environmental factors such as sound speed variations, weather, bottom boundary conditions, etc. In this thesis, we propose a convolution-free, purely attention-based transformer architecture for the task of classifying underwater acoustic source. The architecture, adopted from the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) applied so far for air acoustic setting, is capable of capturing long-range global context for enhanced underwater acoustic signal classification. Additionally, we further improve the performance by leveraging transfer learning from Vision Transformer (ViT), which has been pretrained on the ImageNet dataset. The AST model is trained on the ShipsEar dataset, which consists of 90 instances of ship-emitted underwater sounds including 11 types of vessels and one background noise category. These sound recordings, obtained under real conditions in shallow waters, encapsulate both of natural and anthropogenic. Currently, the state-of-the-art Convolutional Long Short-term Memory (ConvLSTM) applied to this task achieves an accuracy of 0.9878 and an F1 score of 0.9878. However, our proposed AST model surpasses the ConvLSTM performance, reaching an accuracy of 0.9890 and an F1 score of 0.9897
Constrained to Create
Authors:   , Grere Osborne Laurine , Korschun Daniel
Published: October 2023

Design creativity is a valuable resource that significantly influences the outcomes designers generate for society. The process and delivery of design outcomes necessitate the presence of resilience and values. This research aims to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of design creativity when confronted with sustainability design constraints and stakeholder relationships. Within scholarly and professional circles, there remains to be more consensus regarding whether constraints diminish or enhance creativity. While prevailing research suggests that constraints generally hurt employee creativity, this is only sometimes the case for skilled designers. Nonetheless, clarifying the relationship between sustainability constraints and design creativity is crucial. The qualitative research involved 17 semi-structured in-depth interviews with designers specializing in various design disciplines, including industrial, product, surface, furniture, built interior, textile, and architectural design lasting 45 to 60 minutes each. The data collected from the interviews underwent constant comparison and selective coding analysis, leading to the emergence of grounded theory. The findings of this research provide valuable insights for design practitioners, shedding light on how their values and resilience drive creativity. However, further investigation is required to delve deeper into these relationships and identify opportunities for integrating the cultivation of authentic relationships into company business practices, ultimately yielding more effective design strategies.
Investigation of Cytotoxic, Antimetastatic and Apoptotic Activities of Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) Extracts: Comparison with MCF-7 and MCF-12A Cells
Authors: Beyazyüz Fadime , Arslan Emine , Koygun Gozde
Published: October 2023

Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) is an important medicinal plant due to its composition of several bioactive substances, high antioxidant activity, rich inulin content and produces functional food ingredients. Complementary alternative medicine therapies become more popular for cancer treatments because of higher efficiency, lower cost and minimum side effects. This study reported anti-cancer efficiency of both shell and tuber extract of Jerusalem artichoke (JA) on different breast cell lines with the purpose of discovering new alternative medicine therapies. Cytotoxic effects of JA were evaluated by XTT method by using different concentrations on different incubation times (24h, 48h and 72h). Invasion, adhesion and apoptotic studies were performed with IC50 values for 48h and 72h. JA extracts do not show cytotoxic activity on healthy human breast cell, while they induce tumoral cell death with dose and time-dependent manner. The most effective doses of tuber and shell extracts were 108.8 µM and 134.2 µM at 48h and 20 µM ve 5 µM at 72h, respectively. It demonstrated robust anti-metastatic activity on MCF-7 cell lines because it inhibited adhesion, and invasion, significantly. TMRE and AnnexinV/7AAD staining were used for determine to mitochondrial membrane potential and nuclear morphology, respectively The results were found consistent with each other. Overall, this paper which first in literature demonstrates the anti-cancer efficacy of the JA both tuber and shell extract which can be proposed as a potent candidate for the treatment of breast cancer.
Una revisión sistemática de la Violencia Familiar desde la perspectiva del Derecho a la Educación
Authors: Amambal Abanto Mirian Esther , Lozano Terán Naomi del Carmen
Published: October 2023

La violencia familiar es una problemática social, la cual es repercutida principalmente en los niños(as), puesto que este tipo de violencia es ejercida por parte de los padres hacia sus hijos, viéndose estos afectados en diversos aspectos de su vida, especialmente en su educación.El objetivo fue realizar una revisión sistemática de la violencia familiar desde la perspectiva del derecho a la educación, con la finalidad de investigar de qué manera la violencia familiar obstaculiza el adecuado desarrollo al derecho a la educación en los niños(as), en ese contexto el Perú regula diversas leyes, como la ley N° 30364 y la ley N° 30862, las cuales tienen como finalidad gestionar políticas que prevengan y sancionen los actos de violencia, esperándose así una mayor efectividad de las medidas de protección que son brindadas a las personas que son víctimas de violencia familiar.La metodología fue de revisión bibliográfica estructurada de enfoque cualitativo, con diseño multimodal de análisis temático fenomenográfico desde 22 artículos de las bases Scopus, Scielo, Wos y open acess, utilizando el método híbrido inductivo-deductivo.El muestreo fue no probabilístico, con criterios de inclusión y exclusión desde una revisión sistemática de artículos encontrados en la base de datos de revistas indexadas de rigor científico, en los idiomas español e inglés, con una antigüedad de diez años.Los resultados y discusión señalan que, esta problemática es una figura preocupante y alarmante para toda la sociedad, ya que existen altos índices de violencia familiar, teniendo un vínculo de causa-efecto directamente con el derecho a la educación.Se concluye que, la violencia familiar sí perjudica el derecho a la educación, pues causa daños físicos y psicológicos, que perjudican en gran magnitud a los niños(as) trayendo como principal consecuencia un bajo rendimiento escolar, es por ello importante la intervención oportuna del Estado Peruano y de la sociedad en conjunto.
Una visión sistemática de la Importancia del Interés Superior del Niño en Sudamérica
Authors: Ysla Briones Dalesska Isabel , De Piérola García Violeta María
Published: October 2023

El reconocimiento del Principio del Interés Superior del Niño se aprobó en 1989 y con ello se pretendía proteger los derechos inherentes de los niños, permitiéndoles gozar de una protección Legal que garantiza su óptimo desarrollo durante su infancia, protegiendo los aspectos económicos, emocionales y físicos.
El objetivo fue investigar la importancia del Principio de Interés Superior del Niño en Sudamérica, a partir de la interpretación de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, analizando el derecho internacional y nacional, además del contexto actual en los delitos que vulnera este principio.
La metodología fue de revisión bibliográfica estructurada de enfoque cualitativo, con diseño multimodal de análisis temático fenomenográfico desde 20 artículos de las bases de open access de Scielo, Scopus, Wos, realizando una búsqueda desde el método prisma, utilizando el método híbrido inductivo-deductivo. El muestreo fue no probabilístico, con criterios de inclusión y exclusión desde una revisión sistemática de artículos encontrados en la base de datos de revistas indexadas de rigor científico, con una antigüedad de siete años.
Los resultados y discusión advierten que en los países de Sudamérica se estableció como prioridad el proteger los derechos del niño y con ello velar el principio de interés superior. 
Se concluye que, existe predisposición de las autoridades competentes de plena protección de los derechos del niño.
Tuberculosis I. The fight against tuberculosis has been mismanaged during seventy years, up till today. How did the mycobacterial community lose the war against TB
Authors: Maes Roland
Published: October 2023

This review exposes the discovery of microbes by Leeuwenhoek in 1677, stresses the importance of food availability for the spread of tuberculosis, and underlines the absence of food security up till today for about 9.2% of the population, which favors the tuberculosis endemic. It describes the discovery of tuberculosis bacilli by Koch and the neglect by the physicians of plant drugs in favor of chemotherapy and surgery. The fight against tuberculosis was trusted by the World Health Organization in 1950, whose prime duty it was at that time to jugulate Tuberculosis. It was granted exemption of judicial pursuits to reach this goal. It immediately exploited this baffling privilege to abuse it and favor national commercial interests. The “Bacillle Calmette-Guérin” vaccine proposed by the French Ministry of Health in 1950 was known to be inadequately attenuated as early as 1927, was known by the World Health Organization to favor the spread of tuberculosis and nevertheless was promoted by the World Health Organization as a sole vaccine to combat the spread of tuberculosis. On the contrary, it reactivated dormant tuberculosis and leprosy cases and favored the endemic of both tuberculosis and leprosy. Despite this evidence, the vaccine was not removed but its deficiencies were steadfastly denied or else ignored. Alternative approaches, namely immunotherapy based on mycobacterium vaccae and a plant extract based on uleine, a substance known to stimulate the immune defenses of an organism infected by the tuberculosis pathogen, were combatted by the Belgian Ministry of Health and ignored by the World Health Organization. The chemotherapy was restricted during decennia to only four, plus streptomycin, which favored the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis strains. New drugs proposed in addition to the four in use already, are expensive and riven by so many side effects, including death, that they are massively rejected by the patients. A blood test able to spot immune-depressed subjects and verify the efficacy of chemotherapy was banned by the World Health Organization and vigorously defamed by the Indian Ministry of Health. A review of the means used by the World Health Organization to fight the tuberculous endemy shows that these means are inadequate for the purpose, were so from the beginning of the fight, and were rarely to never amended in later times to become more efficacious.
Endoscopic Point of Care Ultrasound: Foundations, Present Applications, Future Potentials
Authors: Rabinowitz Simon , Sharma Shagun , Grossman Evan
Published: October 2023

Introduction: The present review details the evolution of endoscopic ultrasound, the acquisition of subepithelial imaging of the gastrointestinal tract during endoscopy, in pediatrics. Similar to its use in adults, the majority of its present applications involve obtaining fluid and or tissue for diagnosis. Simultaneously, the indications for point of care ultrasound, in which physicians caring for a patient personally obtains images which can be incorporated immediately into diagnosis and management, are also expanding. A history of endoscopic ultrasound from its inception to its current utilization is presented. The data reflecting its successful current employment as the procedure of choice to analyze and drain pancreatic cysts, to diagnose biliary tract and pancreatic diseases, to direct subepithelial biopsies, and to evaluate gastrointestinal tumors as well as less common gastrointestinal pathologies, is summarized with an emphasis on pediatric studies. In addition, the recent expansion of point of care ultrasound and endoscopic ultrasound to yield images to analyze subepithelial pathology including fibrosis in eosinophilic esophagitis and in inflammatory bowel disease is highlighted. A brief summary of the challenges, range of instruments, costs, and safety provides the reader with the background to fully appreciate this emerging technique. Finally, there is an overview of exciting new developments that will further extend its indications. Conclusions: With anticipated improvements including better resolution of endoscopic ultrasound probes, the routine incorporation of point of care elastography and contrast enhanced ultrasound, and the potential of artificial intelligence to provide more reproducible and uniform analysis of endosonographic images, new indications are anticipated to enable endoscopic point of care ultrasound, E-POCUS, to further improve patient care in the near future
Is Storytelling Marketing Effective in Building Customer Engagement and Driving Purchase Decisions?
Authors: Mavilinda Hera Febria , Putri Yulia Hamdaini , Nazaruddin Akhmad
Published: October 2023

Research aims: This study examines the relationship between storytelling marketing and customer engagement and its direct and indirect influence on purchasing decisions. Customer engagement serves as an intervening variable mediating the relationship between storytelling marketing and purchasing decisions.Design/Methodology/Approach: The research questionnaire was distributed to 200 respondents over 17 years who were active users of Instagram social media. The data analysis technique was a quantitative method employing Analysis of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) operated through the Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) program.Research findings: The study's results demonstrated that storytelling marketing directly and significantly affected customer engagement and did not directly affect purchasing decisions. In addition, there was a positive and significant influence between customer engagement and purchasing decisions, and customer engagement mediated the relationship between storytelling marketing and purchasing decisions. Theoretical Contribution/Originality: Research on storytelling marketing in the context of social media platforms is new in marketing. Most previous research discussed the relationship of storytelling marketing to brand reinforcement and identity. Therefore, this study attempted to integrate the relationship model between storytelling marketing and purchasing decisions by adding customer engagement as an intervening variable.Practitioners/Policy Implications: This research can provide marketers insight into creating exciting and creative marketing content through storytelling marketing that can encourage consumer involvement in a brand or product to generate follow-up action and influence consumer purchasing decisions.Research Limitations/Implications: This research only focused on marketing storytelling and customer engagement variables, generally influencing consumer purchasing decisions on the Instagram social media platform. Hence, future research can focus more on one research object from a brand or product and develop other variables related to customer engagement from a different perspective.