bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Le transfert périphérique : un paradigme pour penser le soin du sujet « rebelle »
Authors: Blanquet Brigitte
Published: August 2020

Cet article propose une réflexion sur une pratique clinique pluri focale auprès de sujets réputés « rebelles ». L'abord de ces sujets (âgés de dix-huit à vingt et un ans) nécessite une délicatesse relationnelle car ils usent de procédés de type attaque-fuite, (Bion ; 1961). Cette difficulté conduit à penser les pratiques professionnelles à partir de dispositifs qui prennent en considération la temporalité des processus et l’approche interdisciplinaire. À l'aide d'une situation clinique, l'auteure illustre la mise au travail d'un dispositif issu du champ social qui mobilise une modalité de transfert périphérique qui s'appuie sur l'espace, le cadre et lien entre les professionnels.
De la langue de la violence à la langue du désir
Authors: Stitou Rajaa
Published: August 2020

Qu’en est-il de ceux qui sont marqués par la violence de la langue ou qui ne peuvent s’exprimer que sur le mode du cri et de la destructivité ? La langue peut exposer au ravage lorsque le sujet ne peut y impliquer sa voix et sa subjectivité. C’est ce que montre l’expérience clinique auprès de certains sujets provenant d’autres cultures par exemple, sujets exilés de leur désir et/ou ayant investi la langue du pays d’accueil comme langue de la conformité réduite à son aspect usuel, n’autorisant plus l’expression de la singularité. L’auteur ouvre des perspectives concernant les possibilités de s’extirper du désastre en effectuant le passage de la violence de la langue à la langue du désir et de l’inventivité.
La fiction théorique de P. Bayard
Authors: Monzani Stefano
Published: August 2020

En donnant la parole à divers narrateurs fictifs et paranoïaques dans lesquels il ne se reconnaît pas toujours, la méthode de P. Bayard vise à briser la barrière entre la fiction et la théorie dans les sciences humaines et sociales. Pour Bayard, les textes sont des œuvres ouvertes et multiples qui se prêtent à des interprétations infinies en fonction des rêveries uniques à chaque lecteur. Les fictions théoriques qu’il produit par son interventionnisme sur les textes littéraires, lui permettent, par exemple, d’écrire de nouveaux textes possibles ou de dégager des (pré)théories alternatives qu’elles recèlent virtuellement. Ces fictions de fictions nous aident non seulement à renouveler les connaissances sur la littérature, mais également à repenser notre réalité psychique et notre identité.
Jorge Luis Borges
Authors: Rojas-Urrego Alejandro
Published: August 2020

L’image, le réel, la fiction se situent bien au centre de l’œuvre de Jorge Luis Borges. Cela a été souligné à maintes reprises. Il nous a appris, par son écriture, que tout être est le reflet d’un autre, que tout être est le rêve d’un autre. Le grand écrivain argentin rêve son œuvre, rêve le monde et finit peut-être par se rêver. Lui qui, de l’avis d’un grand psychanalyste, a réussi à inventer le genre de la fausse notice biographique, à rendre poreuses les frontières entre la vie réelle et la vie de fiction, ou à révéler combien certaines limites restent toujours fragiles. Mais que pourraient bien vouloir dire de tels mots en langue borgésienne : réel, fiction, vrai, faux, veille, rêve ? Est-ce que de telles distinctions sont aussi nettes que nous voudrions nous le dire et le redire ? C’est qui, à la fin, Jorge Luis Borges ? Dans un de ses écrits, il est question de Dieu et du grand Shakespeare. Parvenir à être tous. A n’être rien. A être une personne. A n’être personne. Jorge Luis Borges aurait passé son adolescence à Genève, nous a-t-on dit. Nous nous proposons de nous y promener, de revisiter « Les ruines circulaires », « Le miracle secret », « L’autre », « Borges et moi », « Everything and Nothing »… À la recherche de ce que nous pouvons apprendre sur l’identité, sur l’importance des passages et des frontières souvent mouvantes, sur la valeur précieuse qu’il y a pour nous cliniciens de l’adolescence – et pour nous tous en tant qu’êtres humains –, à ne jamais enfermer, à ne jamais conclure, à ne jamais clore.
Les médiations thérapeutiques par le théâtre : entre fiction et friction
Authors: Vinot Frédéric , Raufast Lionel , Vivès Jean-Michel
Published: August 2020

Cet article propose une contribution psychanalytique aux médiations thérapeutiques par le théâtre. Les auteurs partent du constat clinique que tout acte d’improvisation théâtrale en groupe peut rejouer l’invention même du dispositif théâtral tragique, et cherchent à interroger cette énigmatique similitude structurelle. Pour cela, une première partie synthétise des éléments historiques et anthropologiques exposant le passage du dithyrambe à la forme tragique, par l’apparition de la tension dialogique et fictionnelle entre le protagoniste et le chœur. Ces éléments sont ensuite reliés à des questions cliniques décisives dans les médiations thérapeutiques par le théâtre : 1) les enjeux de la pulsion invocante liés au mouvement d’apparition de la forme tragique ; 2) la différence entre le groupe et la troupe ; 3) les effets subjectivants d’une mise en jeu scénique de la différence entre le Moi et le Je. L’ensemble de ces points permet aux auteurs de proposer un repérage clinique de ce qui, dans la fiction théâtrale ferait f(r)iction.
La séduction au péril du pouvoir, entre fictions érotiques et fictions sociales
Authors: Jacques Laurence
Published: August 2020

L’actualité récurrente autour des mouvements #MeToo et #BalanceTonPorc nous amène à questionner les rapports hommes-femmes sous deux angles particuliers : l’angle sociétal et l’angle psychanalytique. L’analyse de quelques cas cliniques mettra en lumière une tension entre deux sortes de fictions : les fictions sociales égalitaires et les fictions érotiques reliées à notre inconscient. La psychanalyse nous rappelle que la séduction peut susciter une forme d’intrusion des limites du Soi ; la séduction tente de toucher l’autre, de l’atteindre et de l’amener à soi. La séduction au 21 e  siècle est-elle plus effractante ? Ou est-ce le discours social qui la fait apparaître comme telle ?
Little nigthmares : un conte numé-rite ?
Authors: Salembier Benoiste , Peretti Pascale
Published: August 2020

Si les jeux vidéo ont plutôt « mauvaise presse » auprès des professionnels du champ médico-social, la façon dont certains jeunes s’en emparent, voire s’en soutiennent dans la rencontre clinique, nous invite à interroger ses valeur et fonction potentielles dans l’économie psychique des enfants et adolescents. Aussi cet article interroge-t-il, selon un référentiel psychanalytique, la symbolique et les sollicitations, conscientes et inconscientes, que pourraient receler un jeu virtuel actuellement prisé par de nombreux jeunes : «  Little Nightmares  ». À travers les « petits cauchemars » de l’héroïne, nous y découvrons un monde onirique où avidité orale, voracité du regard et angoisse de mort sont omniprésents. L’évolution temporelle du jeu, suivant un parcours que l’on pourrait dire initiatique, et son avancée vers une sorte d’assomption résolutoire de l’angoisse nous porte à en comparer les implications subjectives avec celles classiquement dévolues au « conte ». Du point de vue de ses fonctions psychiques, ce jeu pourrait en effet s’appuyer sur une certaine élaboration fantasmatique et un appareillage de la jouissance voué à border un réel traumatique. Ce qui nous porte à le considérer aux frontières du « conte acté » et du « rite virtuel », tout en interrogeant sa possible valeur de médiation clinique à support projectif.
Butor ou la rencontre intersubjective à l’épreuve du handicap mental
Authors: Mathonnat Christine
Published: August 2020

Si le handicap rompt la continuité narcissique familiale, il entrave également le lien entre accueilli et professionnels en institution d’hébergement. Derrière la carence mentale, derrière le corps du handicap, c’est pourtant un sujet que nous rencontrons. Cet article se propose de relater la rencontre d’un résident avec cet autre, lors d’entretiens menés en institution par une psychologue clinicienne. Ces temps ont vocation à soutenir le processus d’appropriation subjective. S’ajuster au mieux pour répondre aux besoins du sujet, pour entendre son désir, nécessite de la part du psychiste une grande malléabilité et une créativité constante.
Trois trouvailles fictionnelles opposées à un risque de perte de la réalité
Authors: Poezevara Kévin , Cascarino Adrien , Serna Jesus Mario
Published: August 2020

Les auteurs rendent compte de ce que peuvent apporter les thèses actuelles de la narratologie et l’héritage de la logique modale à une meilleure compréhension de certains effets de stabilisation dans les psychoses. Partant de la rencontre clinique avec une adolescente pour qui les pratiques successives du Crossover et de la Fan-fiction ont servi à échapper à un risque de perte de la réalité, nous montrerons comment le recours à la Métalepse, par nous définie comme une « une métonymie à usage métaphorique », peut s’offrir comme une opportunité de suppléance.
L’agriculture, la terre, l’eau et le climat
Authors: Benoit Guillaume
Published: August 2020

L’essor du vote écologiste lors du second tour des élections municipales en France (même s’il convient d’être relativisé en raison du faible taux de participation) est sans doute révélateur des préoccupations croissantes de nos contemporains vis-à-vis des questions d’environnement, notamment du réchauffement climatique et de la perte de biodiversité, dont témoignent également la plupart des travaux sur « le monde d’après ». Ces préoccupations doivent-elles aussitôt être assimilées à la vague en faveur de la décroissance économique ? Tel n’est pas l’avis de Guillaume Benoit qui montre ici combien la terre, l’eau et l’agriculture, outre leurs fonctions alimentaires et socioculturelles, peuvent jouer un rôle majeur dans la lutte contre le changement climatique et le développement durable. L’auteur nous livre ici une démonstration des ressources inépuisables que la nature pourrait apporter, si nous en prenions le soin adéquat, indispensable à la résolution de bien des défis auxquels nos contemporains et leurs descendants sont et seront confrontés.  H.J.
Unexplored Variation in European Integration Research: Mapping and Discussing Vertical Differentiation in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Authors: Jagdhuber Stefan
Published: August 2020

Cet article est consacré à la problématique de la différenciation verticale au sein de l’Union européenne. La plupart des publications sur l’intégration différenciée se sont concentrées sur l’analyse de la différenciation horizontale, c’est-à-dire le phénomène selon lequel la validité des règles de l’UE varie d’un État membre à l’autre. L’analyse de la différenciation verticale, à savoir pourquoi l’autorité de l’UE varie d’une politique publique à une autre politique, a jusqu’à présent été négligée. Prenant l’espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice de l’UE comme cas d’étude, cet article cartographie et discute la dynamique de différenciation verticale et, par conséquent, les variations politiques jusqu’à présent inexplorées dans ce domaine d’action publique.
Quitter la défense européenne
Authors: Faure Samuel B. H.
Published: August 2020

Cet article interroge la dynamique d’intégration différenciée de la défense européenne à partir de la décision historique de la France de quitter les négociations portant sur la construction d’un avion de combat européen pour préférer l’acquisition de l’avion Rafale «  Made in France  ». Le choix de la France pour le Rafale ne s’explique pas seulement par le travail de lobbying de Dassault Aviation et de la Snecma, comme l’affirment les arguments, libéral et néo-institutionnaliste, mais aussi par l’effet des acteurs étatiques. Cette recherche a nécessité la conduite de 89 entretiens semi-directifs auprès des élites françaises de l’armement et s’inscrit dans le développement d’une approche sociohistorique de la politique européenne par l’opérationnalisation du concept éliassien de « configuration ».
Distinguer les « bons » élèves des « mauvais » : l’allocation des fonds structurels européens comme différenciation à vocation gestionnaire
Authors: Lebrou Vincent
Published: August 2020

Cet article analyse les critères et les mécanismes d’attribution des fonds structurels européens à l’échelon local. La Politique de cohésion communautaire, dotée d’un budget qui atteint désormais le tiers de celui de l’UE, repose en effet sur ces fonds structurels européens destinés à financer des projets menés à l’échelon local dans des domaines variés. À partir d’une enquête menée dans trois régions françaises, on cherchera ici à montrer que les porteurs de projet font l’objet d’un processus de différenciation largement basé sur des critères gestionnaires qui ne sont pas sans conséquences sur le fonctionnement interne des structures sélectionnées.
Enhancement of lipid productivity from a promising oleaginous fungus Aspergillus sp. strain EM2018 for biodiesel production: Optimization of culture conditions and identification
Authors: Abdellah E. M. , Ali T. H. , Abdou D. A.M. , Hassanein N. M. , Fadel M. , Karam El-Din A. A. , El-Ghonemy D. H.
Published: August 2020

Oleaginous fungi have recently gained increasing attention among different microorganisms due to their ability for lipid production for the preparation of biofuel. In the present study, a locally isolated fungus E45, identified genetically as Aspergillus sp. strain EM2018, was found to produce 25.2% of the total lipids content of its dry cell weight (DCW). Optimization of culture conditions was performed and lipid accumula­tion increased by about 2.4 fold (from 25.2% to 60.1% of DCW) when the fungus was grown for seven days in the potato dextrose (50 g/L) liquid medium at pH 5.0, incubation temperature at 30 ºC and inoculum size of 2 × 106 spore/mL. Supplementation of the medium with yeast extract and NaNO3 at a concentration of 0.05% as organic and inorganic nitrogen sources, respectively, increased lipid production (53.3% lipid/dry biomass). Gas chromatography analysis of fungal lipids revealed the presence of saturated (mainly palmitic acid C16:0 (33%) and lignoceric acid C24:0 (15%)) and unsaturated fatty acids in different proportions (mainly linoleic acid C18:2 (24.4%), oleica cid C18:1 (14%) and arachidonic C20:4 (7.4%). These findings suggest this new oleaginous fungus as a promising feedstock for various industrial applications and for the preparation of biodiesel.
GC-MS analysis of volatiles in cinnamon essential oil extracted by different methods
Authors: Yu T. , Yao H. , Qi S. , Wang J.
Published: August 2020

Cinnamon essential oil (CEO) was extracted by three different methods: steam distillation (SD), ultrasound-assisted steam distillation (UASD) and microwave-assisted steam distillation (MASD). The volatiles in CEO were separated and identified by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and the differences in volatiles among the three different methods were further analyzed through principal component analysis. The results showed that 36 individual volatile components were present in the CEO from the three different methods. In general, the numbers of aldehydes, esters, alcohols, terpenes, aromatics and ketones were 6, 3, 7, 17, 2, and 1, respectively. The most abundant volatile component was determined to be cinnamic aldehyde. The content of total cinnamic aldehydes, which determines the price of CEO, was the highest among the three methods in the UASD sample (85.633%). Moreover, the highest yield (8.33‰) of essential oil was extracted by the UASD method. Therefore, UASD was the best way for CEO extraction in this research and was recommended for future industrial applications.
The Ambit of Ethics in the South African Academic Institutions
Authors: Shange Xolani Mathews
Published: August 2020

The chapter examines possible use of instruments and processes such as ethical clearance in the institutions of higher learning as subtle means of perpetuating inequality and racial prejudice towards the indigenous people of South Africa who had recently emerged from the scourge of apartheid with a hope of democracy ultimately providing not only freedom of association and speech, but also intellectual freedom. Freedom to produce African-based knowledge by Black African intellectuals pursuing their postgraduate studies and academics whose careers are at formative stages. However, their vision of becoming producers of African Indigenous knowledge is thwarted by subtle and invisible activities that are aimed at perpetuate coloniality in the higher institutions of learning. Sadly, ethical clearance process has possibly been utilized to derail research outputs that some of the old guard from historically white universities are uncomfortable to witness, thus continuing to maintain the colonial status quo.
A Decolonial Curriculum Is Everything
Authors: Nkosinkulu Zingisa
Published: August 2020

This chapter seeks to map how indigenous people and their indigenous knowledge systems are the most researched and written about in the world, yet they are the least understood. The curriculum of the empire and its scientific explanation justified how indigenous knowledge systems should be approached and viewed as well as who has the authority to justify; hence, indigenous knowledge systems were justified as inferior and not worthy of the standard of European knowledge system. In this chapter, Frantz Fanon's thought will be deployed to illustrate how this division of knowledge justifies the perpetuating dehumanisation of indigenous people under the mask of modernisation and globalisation. By deploying decoloniality, Afrocentricity, and Fanonian thought, this chapter seeks to challenge this curriculum that is based on the history of the conquest of Africa that positioned Africa only as a cradle of slaves and the black bodied as created by God only for the benefit of the Europeans.
Constructivism, Pluralism, and Pedagogy From Below in India
Authors: Dar Wahid Ahmad
Published: August 2020

The chapter argues for a synthesis of principles of constructivism with the political and legal dimensions of educational pluralism. This synthesis has been argued to give a determining and central position to pedagogies from below in the process of framing curriculum and organizing teaching learning activities in Indian schools. Constructivism and educational pluralism represent two voices which assert for relying on psychological principles and countering the dangers of political hegemony in educational landscape, respectively. They both talk about the importance of pedagogy from below as a helpful reality focused toolkit for undoing the effects of historical social inequity and breaking the hegemony of dominant class in the process of knowledge construction and dissemination. Integrative role of educational anthropologists with the help of ethnographic research on native communities across the world in developing innovative methods on how can local community knowledge be integrated into formal curriculum and pedagogic practice has been highlighted.
Indigenous African Knowledge System (IAKS) Ethos
Authors: Mthembu Ntokozo
Published: August 2020

This chapter discovers the limitations presented by narrow cultural and moral settings and the possibility of incorporating an indigenous African knowledge systems' (IAKS) ethos to redress past injustices, especially diverse cultural values experienced in countries in the ‘global south'. However, the emergence of related protests in communities and student structures in education circles, such as calls to decolonize the curriculum and the #FeesMustFall movement. The effects of colonialism continue to be reflected in social structural settings that uphold those Aristotelian parameters that are notorious for marginalizing the knowledge of the ‘other', specifically in the ‘global south'.
Fatigue Fracture, CTOD, and CVN Testing in Heat-Affected Zone of High Strength Low Alloy Steels
Authors: Pico Manuel Viseras , González-Palma Rafael , Carnero María Carmen , López-Escobar Carlos , Almorza David
Published: August 2020

High strength low alloy steels (HSLA) are currently used in large quantities for constructions in the North Sea and elsewhere. For success operation under such rigorous conditions, it is essential to ensure adequate weld metal toughness at temperatures of -10ºC or even lower is used. To comply with this high requirement, the heat input control is needed to avoid forming martensitic microstructure in high strength low alloy steels (HAZ) near to the fusion line during weldment cooling. This work carried out CTOD tests to ensure that, under welding conditions, the fatigue crack, toughness, hardness, and resilience in the HAZ are acceptable with the standards. Crack size in accordance with number cycles will be represented as the crack growth rate da/dN vs. stress intensity factor amplitude.
Internal Control and Assets Management
Authors: Martí María de Lourdes Eguren
Published: August 2020

Risk management is a core element from a strategic and operational point of view. Conditions of the environment, financial scandals like Enron and Worldcom, globalization, and new technologies make risk a priority for companies that want to keep a sustainable competitive advantage under uncertainty. In line with these, there are several frameworks, initiatives, and ways to approach risk under a structure organization and integrated approach, including the development of internal control standards like Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). One of the elements to be considered when taking optimum decisions is a proper risk management. In this chapter, the key elements of assets risk management will be exposed, starting from main concepts, constructing the elements that are applicable to build a risk management system, and developing a practical example under SOX framework with a management and system approach.
Following the Drum
Authors: Taylor Jonathan E.
Published: August 2020

This chapter provides an overview of motivational theory from adult education, psychology and educational psychology, spanning nearly 60 years. The first half of the chapter focuses on the motivational theories in terms of their developmental genesis, while later sections examine the relationship between motivation and learning resistance and engagement. Final sections suggest conclusions regarding the importance of studying learning resistance as a construct over and beyond motivational theory and position learning resistance scholarship as a learner-centered, positive approach to adult learning.
Modes of Delivering Psychotherapy
Authors: Alvandi Ebrahim Oshni , Van Doorn George , Symmons Mark
Published: August 2020

The ubiquity of telecommunications technologies and the internet facilitates offering different mental health services to the public, and the ongoing advancement in technologies introduces new venues to a range of psychotherapeutic services. It is critical to all clinicians and professionals in information and communications technology to have a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges of these technologies. This article outlines the technologies that are currently used as part of psychotherapy. In particular, the paper discusses some of the current state of clinical research, advantageous and disadvantageous that relate to the use of these technologies.
Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being
Authors: Watkins Philip Charles , McLaughlin Trese , Parker Jhenifa P.
Published: August 2020

In this chapter we review the good of gratitude and recommend various methods for cultivating this human strength. First, we show how gratitude is indeed good. We show how gratitude is important to flourishing and happiness. Gratitude is strongly correlated with various measures of well-being, and experimental studies suggest that gratitude actually causes increases in happiness. If gratitude is good, then it behooves us to investigate how the disposition of gratitude can be enhanced. We suggest that grateful responding can be enhanced by training in noticing the good in one's life, and by encouraging interpretations and appraisals that have been found to promote gratitude. We then present a discussion of unresolved issues in the science of gratitude. This is followed by a discussion of who might benefit most from gratitude. We conclude with a summary of the cultivation of gratitude. Research strongly supports the idea that the cultivation of gratitude should result in a harvest of happiness, but cultivating gratitude is not likely to be an easy process.
Why Psychology and Criminal Justice Can Only Take Us So Far
Authors: Fisher Lisa
Published: August 2020

Concerns about continued increases in violent behavior in American schools and schools' ability to mitigate and reduce risks abound. Psychology and criminal justice have contributed much to what we know and understand about violence in schools; however, the author argues that these dominant disciplinary perspectives also obscure some important aspects of these phenomena, namely focus on underlying cultural logics that may be impacting violence in schools. In this chapter, the author sets out to achieve two objectives. First, she provides an overview of areas of focus in current literature in psychology and criminal justice that represent the dominant framework within which school violence in the U.S. is viewed. Additionally, she examines those disciplinary perspectives in terms of specific strengths and limitations. Second, she presents and describes a series of social psychological theories and pulls those theories into a coherent framework to demonstrate the value of the social psychological lens in studies of school violence and stimulate further discussion and research on this important topic.
Sexual Boundary Violations in Counselor Training and Supervision
Authors: Cruikshanks Daniel R , Burns Stephanie T
Published: August 2020

Professional boundaries represent the sets of behaviors and interactions that are considered appropriate and ethical between people in professional relationships. These can be defined by considering the roles of the people involved, the scheduled times for these interactions, and the designated places for them. Boundary violations happen when interactions deviate markedly from the social conventions of professional relationships. Sexual boundary violations happen when sexual behavior is introduced into the training relationship. Because of the inherent power differential, sex in trainer-trainee relationships is considered unethical and harmful. This chapter will discuss sexual boundary violations in counselor training including incidence rates, perceptions of trainers and trainees, ethical and legal implications, how sexual boundary violations begin, solutions and recommendations, and suggestions for future research.
Umple
Authors: Lethbridge Timothy C. , Algablan Abdulaziz
Published: August 2020

Umple is a technology designed to provide the benefits of model-driven engineering in a usable way. It is a textual modeling language, allowing agile developers to quickly incorporate state machines, associations, and many other modeling features into their codebase, with comprehensive code generation for multiple target languages. This significantly reduces the amount of code developers have to write. At the same time, Umple's always-on diagram generation and analysis allows quick understanding of model-driven projects and discovery of their defects. The chapter demonstrates the benefits of textual modeling languages and discusses multiple ways that Umple can help bring modeling to the agile development community, including its support for product-line engineering. Umple is in use worldwide, with the online version hosting over 200,000 user sessions a year.
An Overview of Knowledge Representation With Frames
Authors: Nazaruks Vladislavs , Osis Jānis
Published: August 2020

Knowledge can be represented in different formats. At present, knowledge representation as ontologies is the mainstream, while much less is heard about frames. In order to understand the state-of-the art of knowledge frames application, the authors overviewed recent research work in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, SpringerLink, ScienceDirect, and ACM Digital Library from 2000 till 2020. The overview touched such aspects as knowledge acquisition techniques, constituent parts of frames, the actual state of technologies used, capabilities of frames integration with other formats, and limitations. The results showed that native limitations of knowledge frames lead to creation of hybrid knowledge bases. However, hybrid systems also have known issues in performance and inconsistency of knowledge due to a conflict between paradigms. Moreover, a large part of technologies mentioned is not supported nowadays. The results can be useful for researchers who investigate whether to use knowledge frames for managing knowledge.
Simulation of Human Brain
Authors: Malik Navita , Solanki Arun
Published: August 2020

AI is a branch of computer science that gives the ability to a computer to think and make decisions like humans. It stimulates the human brain in the computer and makes appropriate decisions when required. AI-enabled education impacts the designing of curriculum, mode of instruction, and many more. The use of these tools revolutionizing the education sector with the progression of ICT tools have now become AI-enabled. The main feature of an AI-enabled tool is personalization. These AI-enabled tools work like intelligent assistants for the students. The intelligent system having features like answer the queries of the students, give assistance, support learning, provide or take assignments, and provide reinforcement material according to their opted courses. A teacher has a minimum intervention with this process and has the role of a facilitator only. This chapter concludes that the AI-enabled teaching-learning process can't replace the classroom teaching; instead, it is handy. In the future, AI could replace the need of a teacher in class to some extent.
Understanding Customer Engagement and Purchase Behavior in Automobiles
Authors: R. Krishnadas
Published: August 2020

With rapid technological innovation, customer expectations are evolving at a faster pace. Technology plays a vital role in the value creation by kindling opportunities through transmuting consumption landscape. Digital technology acts as a powerful tool for bringing out the transformation across various sectors including the automobile industry augmented by the expectations of the new generation customers. With the beginning of the online revolution in the automobile sector, shoppers have started to rely on online platforms. OEMs and dealers need their strong presence across Omni channels to battle out the competition and have to focus on the digital-savvy shoppers to foster sales. Hence, auto retailers have to explore and experiment with different platforms that offer a flexible consumption-based model with an opportunity for experimenting and co-creating new features.
Using Consumerism to Maintain Mobile Customer Engagement
Authors: Akgül Deniz
Published: August 2020

Consumerism is a social phenomenon that refers to the way in which consumer spending habits extend beyond the mere purchase of items for purposes of necessity. Consumerism is inevitable, and the technology sector leads companies to create better products for their consumers. In the early 2000s, a new concept emerged, “new consumerism.” The new consumers are concerned about time, sustainability, authenticity, technology, and simplicity. Their wellbeing plays a vital role in their thinking; they expect the freedom to choose, to see, and to listen. In such a world, companies need to use this new consumer behavior characteristic in order to create customer engagement. This chapter explains what the consumerism is and its transformation to new consumerism in the context of customer engagement. In order to explain this, the author clarifies the relationship between conspicuous consumption and consumerism and also how it affects mobile technology companies. Finally, this chapter argues how to use consumerism to maintain customer engagement.
Digital Game-Based Learning Features
Authors: Kumar Angaliswaran , Soundirapandian Kirthana , Jaraime Nor Huda , Krishnan Muralidharan , Juno Nurhafeezah Salwatul Alzah , Samsudin Nurfaaiqa Atiqa
Published: August 2020

Digital game-based learning (DGBL) enhances critical thinking and improves college students' commitment. This study seeks to inspect the effects of digital game-based learning features on student perceived motivational support and cognitive investment. Data was analyzed via multiple regression to assess the relationship between independent variables and dependent variables. Results revealed that students in UMSLIC were significantly affected by factors such as game structure, game involvement, game appeal, attention, relevance, satisfaction, and cognitive investment. What's more, game involvement and game appeal of DGBL shows that students are more interested. Furthermore, attractive graphics and animations make the students more interested to use DGBL. The game allows the students to roleplay, and the challenges make them fun and more interested throughout the game. It promotes the students to engage deeply in the playing process.
YouTube for Procedural Learning
Authors: Wen Ying Lim , Yuin Xian Chew , Cyn Ye Chan , Shyir Khie Leow , Mohamad Rozlan Siti Badriyah , Junior Yong William , Mohd Suki Norbayah
Published: August 2020

YouTube is reshaping teaching and learning across the world and is becoming a preferred platform for students' procedural learning to acquire relevant skills and knowledge in implementing any tasks. The aims of this research are to assess factors influencing student intention to use YouTube for procedural learning. In addition, the technology acceptance model (TAM) was applied as the underpinning theory. Data was analyzed to examine the hypothesized relationships. Results revealed that content richness, task-technology fit, YouTube self-efficacy, and vividness significantly affect students' behavioral intention to use YouTube for procedural learning. Results infer that YouTube enlarges its function as a mass-oriented means for procedural learning as students develop positive perceived usefulness of YouTube to influence their behavioral intention to use YouTube. This study integrated TAM and assessed factors influencing student intention to use YouTube for procedural learning. Future research directions are also put forward.
Digital Storytelling and Parasocial Interaction for Brand-Consumer Relationship
Authors: Ayar Senturk Hayat
Published: August 2020

Although parasocial interaction as an illusionary experience has been studied extensively in the offline environment, it has only recently attracted research attention in the digital marketing literature. In fact, since parasocial interactions are mediated relationships which involve a medium, it is expected that parasocial behavior will be present in Internet mediated contexts. In this sense, researchers and marketers know little about what online parasocial interaction is and how it works from brand-consumer relationship perspective. Digital storytelling components are underlined as important components in the relationship marketing literature to build trust and develop interpersonal relationships. In the light of this argument, the purpose of this study is, by examining various cases, to reveal the relationship between digital storytelling and parasocial interaction as a new and fresh perspective that needs to be emphasized in technology applications for effective customer engagement.
Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TCM) Usage vs. Health Technology
Authors: Chang Dyana M. L. , Mohd Suki Norazah
Published: August 2020

An integration of traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) into modern medical practices and its utilization along with health technology has incorporated issues like efficacy, quality, and safety. Malaysia government recognized TCM in various medical practices such as homeopathy, traditional Malay medicine, traditional Indian medicine, Islamic medical practices, and traditional Chinese medicine. This research aims to investigate whether races have moderating influence on the relationship of consumers' perceived safeness, perceived efficacy, holistic balance view, trust, and health awareness, and feeling of TCM usage. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 288 respondents residing in Sabah, Malaysia. Results revealed that races correspond with native, Chinese, Indian ethnicity in terms of having better feeling towards the usage of TCM products. The role of TCM usage is vital among the local communities in Sabah, Malaysia whereby they develop positive feeling and patronize towards TCM. Healthcare providers should consider this aspect for business sustainability.
Mega Events and Their Effect on Mesoeconomics
Authors: Kiryakova-Dineva Teodora , Kyurova Vyara , Chankova Yana
Published: August 2020

The chapter proposes an analysis that claims the importance of phenomena successfully revealed only in view of mesoeconomics. The authors argue that the economic processes in the field of organizing events should not be conceived merely as resulting from macro- and micro-level relationships but rather as resulting from relationships on mesoeconomic level (where a large number of unresolved and unexplored issues still exist), discussed by the authors in terms of the black box relationships on the mesoeconomic level. The main aim of this study is to investigate a specific mega event so as to trace and analyze the roles of the operators at the three levels of social-economic activity, and finally to identify the specific roles of the operators functioning at the mesoeconomic level. Making up a small part of scientific investigation in interdisciplinary research, the chapter proposes further perspectives for a proper application of mesoeconomics when discussing issues bridging micro-economics and macro-economics.
Clash (and Dance) Yourself
Authors: Canossa Hugo
Published: August 2020

Use of media unleashed new perspectives for classic performing arts, expanding new possibilities of collaborative content creation and challenging the development of user-centered concepts. Clash (and Dance) Yourself is a performance audiovisual circuit for a PhD research in Digital Media Art, which puts the visitor at center of content generation for subsequent levels of entertainment of its own fruition. Appealing strongly to dance, it encourages visitors to participate, together with operators, in a challenge of dance replication of others and their own through circuit artifact execution. From relationship with music, dance movements performed, reaction to its own dance, visitors will test reaction to themselves, creating and exponentiating expectations resulting from participation. Different states of artifact have been presented whose results range from strangeness to deep involvement.
Drivers of Global Social Network Adoption
Authors: Alhassan Muftawu Dzang , Adam Ibrahim Osman , Nangpiire Clement
Published: August 2020

The aim of this study is to explore the drivers of social network adoption at a global level. The focus of past research has largely been placed on social network adoption at the country level with few studies conducted at the global level. Furthermore, the mediating role of ICT access on social network adoption has been given limited attention. To fill this gap, this study employs the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework to investigate factors that may influence global social network adoption. Relying on archival and cross-sectional data from 135 countries and using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling, our findings show that social network adoption at the global level, is positively influenced by ICT access of a county and that ICT regulation and the development of the human resource will not directly influence social network adoption. Though technological, organizational, and environmental factors all together accounted for 55.5% of the variance in social network adoption, the mediating role of ICT access and the effects of human resource development on social network adoption was found to be significant. Our findings provide a fresh insight into the adoption of social network sites at the global level. Our study provides some implications for research and practice.
Predicting University Students' Adoption of Mobile News Applications
Authors: Mittal Amit , Aggarwal Arun , Mittal Ruchi
Published: August 2020

India is amongst the fastest growing markets for smartphones in the world which are driven by a young population. This study seeks to understand the intention to use mobile news applications by students in India. To address this broad objective, an extended technology adoption model has been proposed with the inclusion of news motivation and perceived hedonic value and tested on 384 students at a university in India. Structural equation modeling results reveal that student mobile news app adoption intention is not dependent on the perceived hedonic value; however, this relationship is mediated by attitude. News motivation predicts adoption intention, which indicates that news app adoption is largely seen as utilitarian, this is also proven by the fact that perceived usefulness significantly predicts adoption intention.
Bitcoin Hype Analysis and Perspectives in the South Asian Market
Authors: Agarwal Shikha , Arora Rakhi
Published: August 2020

After demonetization, the emphasis was given to a cashless economy by the Government of India. Keeping in view the concept of cashless economy, the importance of Crypto currency cannot be denied. Crypto currency (CC) is a virtual currency and it works as a medium of exchange by using cryptography for security. It comprises diverse currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), Cardano (ADA), Neo (NEO), Stellar Lumens (XLM), and so on. Many countries like Canada, Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, and Luxembourg have adopted Bitcoin in order to moving towards a digital eco-system. The research was conducted to find out the awareness, perception and understanding about the functioning of bitcoin among individuals. This article is all about awareness of bitcoin amongst individuals and prospective if allowed by the Government of India.
Understanding Users' Contributions in Open Source Software Communities
Authors: Zhou Tao
Published: August 2020

User contributions are crucial to the success of open source software (OSS) communities. As users conduct frequent interactions between each other, their contribution behaviour may receive the social influence from other members. Drawing on the social influence theory, this research examined user contributions in OSS communities. The results indicated that contribution intention is significantly affected by social identity, which includes cognitive, affective and evaluative identity. In addition, the researchers found that the subjective norm has a negative effect on contribution intention. The results imply that service providers need to enhance user identification with the community in order to facilitate their contribution in OSS communities.
Students' Perceptions of Flipped Classrooms, Gender, and Country Difference
Authors: Abu-Shanab Emad Ahmed
Published: August 2020

Information technology and the Internet has enabled faculty and educational institutions to implement new teaching methods to enrich the educational environment. The flipped classroom (FC) method changed the teaching practices and encouraged active learning. Using pre-class videos made the class time available for active discussions. This study utilized two samples to compare student perceptions on the challenges and benefits of such a method. The first sample included 200 students from a leading university in one of the Gulf Region countries, and the second sample included 114 students in Jordan. Results indicated a domination of higher means for the Jordanian sample, and the for males sample. Results partially supported the model for the Gulf university students and overall sample, but fully for the Jordanian sample. The strongest predictor of FC was perceived enjoyment and the weakest predictor was relative advantage. More results and discussion are reported at the end.
Online Shopping Characteristics and Their Influence on Female Buying Behavior
Authors: Raman Prashant
Published: August 2020

Female online shoppers in the Indian e-commerce industry are growing day by day and the online vendors need to understand their shopping habits to approach them in a better way. A conceptual model is proposed that extends the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model with three additional constructs namely, trust, convenience, and customer service. The proposed model is examined by means of questionnaire responses collected from around 529 online shoppers. The study reveals that customer service has the major influence on the female's attitude to shop online and perceived behavioural control acts as the most influencing factor in female shoppers' willingness to buy online. The overall descriptive power of the proposed model has an R2 of 52% for female's willingness to use online shopping and an R2 of 46% for attitude towards online shopping. Since it is difficult to attract new shoppers and retain existing customers, excellent customer service can be the answer to the problems related to customer retention and customer loyalty in the online context.
How to Make Effective Product Review Videos
Authors: Ghosh Tathagata
Published: August 2020

Extant research on online user-generated content, especially product reviews, has consistently examined the effects of textual reviews on consumers and has ignored an emerging and popular review format such as product review video (PRV) on YouTube. Specifically, no research exists that suggests how to develop an effective PRV. The present article addresses this gap by examining the effects of three important attributes of PRVs – review depth, review frame, and review disposition, on consumers' attitude toward the PRV and their propensity to share it. Technical quality of the video is included as a moderator. A between-subjects experiment was conducted with a sample of Internet users. The findings suggest that PRVs are most effective when the review depth is moderate, the review is comparative in nature, and it highlights product benefits instead of attributes. Technical quality positively moderates these afore-mentioned relationships.
Tratamento hipertensivo nefroprotetor
Authors: Coelho Caio Cardoso , Araújo Ana Clara Monteiro de , Alves Isis Chaves Souza , Natividade Taiane do Socorro Silva , Lima Anderson Bentes de
Published: August 2020

Objetivo: Revisar a literatura científica, considerando os prós e contras das terapias farmacológicas anti-hipertensivas e suas indicações para efeito nefroprotetor em pacientes nefropatas. Método: Trata-se de um estudo de revisão integrativa elaborada de acordo com os cinco passos da revisão integrativa, propostos por Whittemore. O PubMed e a Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde foram consultados nas bases de dados SciELO, Medline e Lilacs. Resultados: As principais escolhas são o Captopril, como representante da IECA e a Losartana, como representante do BRA. Ambas apresentam alterações no SRAA, e no caso da IECA também há alteração no sistema cinina-calicreína. Esse mecanismo de ação leva aos efeitos adversos relatados na literatura, sendo a grande maioria considerado bem toleráveis. Considerações finais: Não há consenso na literatura quanto a melhor escolha entre as classes, entretanto os efeitos adversos podem ser considerados na escolha do fármaco e de acordo com a situação clínica apresentada.