bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Sextortion
Authors: Schreurs L.E.M. (Laurie) , Dijkstra R.I. (Rachel) , Bosma A.K. (Alice)
Published: November 2021

Sextortion. Over de modernisering van de zedentitel, de gevolgen voor de praktijk en de impact op het slachtoffer

Met het oog op de voorgenomen modernisering van de zedentitel rijzen de vragen of het aangebrachte onderscheid in wettelijke bescherming tussen seksuele en financiële sextortion houdbaar is en in hoeverre strafbaarstelling binnen verschillende titels van het Wetboek van Strafrecht wenselijk is. Aan de hand van een vergelijking tussen de karakteristieken van deze sextortion-varianten en de bestaande kennis over het daaraan gelieerde slachtofferschap beogen wij een eerste bijdrage te leveren aan deze discussie.
Communicerende vaten? De ontwikkeling van lokale partijen ten opzichte van landelijke partijen (1917-2018)
Authors: van Biezen Ingrid , Waling Geerten
Published: November 2021

Communicating vessels? The development of local parties compared to national parties (1917-2018)

The history of local parties in the Netherlands is quite a mystery. Since their first appearance at the dawn of the twentieth century, local parties were founded sooner or later in all municipalities. They seemed to have served as an addition to local representatives of national parties. Despite the variety in their ideologies, shapes and modi operandi, they could be qualified and studied as ‘niche parties’, offering an alternative to the viewpoints and divisions of the traditional (national) party politics. With this article, the authors aim to contribute to a better understanding of Dutch local parties, whose origins and development have largely remained a black box due to the scarcity of sources and studies. They do so by adopting a partly quantitative, partly qualitative or narrative approach, while looking at the election results of local parties in the past century, including salient regional differences, and by comparing these to the success of national parties in local elections. Within the boundaries of their research, their hypothesis seems to hold true that the popularity of local parties, as ‘niche parties’, depended largely on the strategies of national parties, which justifies the assumption that these two types of parties have acted as communicating vessels.
Labour accounts system as a modern research tool
Authors: Ryczkowski Maciej , Miguła Michał , Parysek Wiktor , Piórek Agnieszka , Saroska Małgorzata , Soból Małgorzata , Stopiński Paweł , Schreiber Aleksandra
Published: November 2021

In Poland there are many studies concerning labour markets, but an international, consistent methodology for creating work accounts has not been developed. Currently there are guidelines, which do not include all the issues proposed by the ILO and Eurostat. This article presents the definition of accounts work system and the discuss its role and importance in the modern, integrated system of statistical data presentation, as well as a comparison of work accounts system with the system of national accounts and social-flow matrix.
ACTIVITY OF THE FAMILY CARERS OF THE ELDERLY DURING SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC
Authors: Bakalarczyk Rafał
Published: November 2021

Article focuses on various aspects of the family carers activity in the age of pandemia. The carers activity has been divided into several categories: care activity; activity related to the health issues; occupational activity and the activity in the sphere of new technologies, especial digital tools and social media. The researches used in the article has shown that the decline of the access to the formal services (both social and medical) and the shortening of the informal, social contacts led to the increasing burden of the family carers. Thus, the care activity has been intensified, so that other forms of activities could be retrenched. Also, other restrictions and risks of that time could have impact on non-care activities of family caregivers. Pandemic time affected also the use of digital technologies in many aspects, such as searching for information, communication, contacts with formal institutions, groups of support and webinars attendance. Also labour activity opportunities has been changed that time. On the one hand, development of tele-work has given potential chance to reconciliation between working and caring duties, but on the other hand additional care burdens and difficult situation on labour market could make the labour activity of carers difficult to manage.
Trends in pluviometric precipitation and climatic water balance in the hydrographic region of Paraguaçu – BA
Authors: Souza Tailan Santos de , Nascimento Patricia dos Santos
Published: November 2021

Trend analysis of hydroclimatic data is essential in the development of water resources management, as it can envisage changes in the pattern of behaviour, helping develop strategies for adaptation in the face of imminent climate change. This study aimed to investigate possible annual and seasonal trends in rainfall and climatological water balance in the hydrographic region of Paraguaçu - BA. From the historical series of precipitation, deficiency and water surpluses, between 1989 and 2018, two analysis scenarios were conducted: the first to verify the annual and seasonal trends of each station, using the traditional Mann-Kendall (MK) methods and Sen’s estimator; and the second for each sub-region of Paraguaçu, by comparing MK with the Innovative Trend Analysis (ITA). The results of the annual series, regardless of the methodology adopted, point to negative trends in rainfall, positive trends in deficit and negative trends in water surplus. Seasonally, in the autumn and winter seasons, generally considered to be drought, there were more trends of increasing rainfall and decreasing water deficiency. A comparison between the MK and ITA models showed that both have similar results for indicating trends in the sub-regions of Paraguaçu. However, the ITA has shown a higher number of significant trends.
Sammelklagen und ihre Finanzierung
Authors: Voit Moritz
Published: November 2021

After the reform is before the reform: the search is on for a successor to the model declaratory action, which was only introduced in 2018 and is neither suitable for dealing with mass cases nor for implementing the Representative Actions Directive. The author proposes the introduction of an opt-out class action, which allows associations and individuals to collectively pursue subjective rights. A major challenge is to ensure that the rules on the funding of class actions provide sufficient incentives to bring legitimate actions without infringing on the legitimate interests of the defendant or class members. Australian class actions, which are regularly enabled by litigation funders, are being examined as a possible model.
Die fiskalpolitische Integration
Authors: Kanzler Lisa
Published: November 2021

In the course of the financial and sovereign debt crisis, the academic discourse in European legal studies shifted to questions of economic, monetary and budgetary policy, quickly focusing on issues of solidarity-based distribution of sovereign debt, respectively its communitarization.

Against the background of these diverse debates, this paper examines the integration potentials of the Lisbon Treaty with respect to fiscal integration.

In doing so, it approaches the subject of the study by elaborating its integration potential, which is then measured against the standards of both primary law and German constitutional law.
Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen im Privatrecht
Authors: Müller Michael F.
Published: November 2021

Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) sind seit langem Adressaten besonderer Förderung im öffentlichen Recht. In letzter Zeit mehren sich die Anzeichen, dass sie auch im Privatrecht eine Sonderbehandlung erfahren. Aus klassischer Perspektive muss das überraschen, ist doch das tradierte Leitbild des Privatrechts die formelle Gleichheit. Aus moderner Perspektive erscheint es zwar weniger revolutionär, soweit soziales Mietrecht, Arbeitsrecht und Verbraucherschutzrecht von einer Durchbrechung formeller Gleichheit zugunsten einer stärkeren Materialisierung des Privatrechts zeugen. Neu wäre indes die Durchbrechung zugunsten von KMU. Daher geht das Werk der Frage nach, ob das europäische und deutsche Recht auf dem Weg zu einem Sonderprivatrecht für KMU ist.
Diversität und Interessenvertretung – zwischen Beharrung und Bewegung
Authors: Demir Nur , Funder Maria , Greifenstein Ralph , Kißler Leo
Published: November 2021

Diversity has become a desirable ideal in the late modern work-oriented society. In particular, diversity is a goal of large global companies, which have already implemented concepts for managing it. Is diversity, however, also an issue of co-determination? While focusing on diversity in terms of gender and age, we aim to shed light on the question of whether works councils’ policies are informed by diversity endeavours: How have gender relations developed in the context of works councils? How relevant is gender policy in the context of co-determination? How are works councils dealing with demographic change? Do they have concepts for it and how do they put them into practice? Is diversity merely used as window dressing or is there more to it?
Der Woiwode als Monster
Authors: Meier Jan Niklas
Published: November 2021

This study deals with the life of the Wallachian voivode Vlad III. In addition to a biographical sketch, the focus is on two sources that ascribe monstrous characteristics to the prince: the "Geschicht dracole waide" and Michel Beheim's "Trakle waida". Similar strategies of othering are also found in contemporary anti-Ottoman propaganda. It is shown that such othering mechanisms are applied to Vlad in order to show him as a monstrously Ottoman antagonist figure. The aim of this approach was to advertise the ‚Türkenkampf‘ on the one hand and to stage the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus as the conqueror of the monstrous on the other.
Determination of Death: Ethical and Biomedical Update with International Consensus
Authors: Shah Alam Panna Md.
Published: November 2021

Humanity has been confronted with the concept and criteria of death for millennia and the line between life and death sustains to be debated. The profound change caused by life support technology and transplantation continues to challenge our notions of life and death. Despite scientific progress in the previous few decades, there remain big variations in diagnosis criteria applied in each country. Death is a process involving cessation of physiological function and determination of death is the final event in that process. Legally, a patient could be declared dead due to lack of brain function, and still may have a heartbeat when on a mechanical ventilator. Though there is no point in supporting ventilation in a dead person, withdrawing a ventilator before the legal criteria for death may involve the physician in both civil and criminal proceedings. To identify the moment of death is vital to avoid the use of unnecessary medical intervention on a patient who has already died and to ensure the organ donation process, clear and transparent. The age-old standard of determination of death is somatic standard and cardiopulmonary standard. Harvard report (1968) defines irreversible coma as a replacement criterion for death and prescribed clinical criteria for the permanently nonfunctioning brain. The current unifying concept of death: irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness combined with irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe. WHO (2014) adopted minimum determinant death criteria, acceptable for medical practice globally, achieving international consensus on clinical criteria to maintain public trust and promote ethical practices that respect fundamental rights of individuals and minimize philosophical and biomedical debate in human death. AAN (2019) endorses that the brain death is the irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain and equivalent to circulatory death.
Recent Advances in Cooperative N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis
Authors: Miyabe Hideto
Published: November 2021

The N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) open the new field of organocatalysis, leading to the dramatic progress on the cooperative NHC catalysis with transition-metal catalysts or photocatalysts.
Ketamine Anesthesia in Electroconvulsive Therapy
Authors: Satomoto Maiko
Published: November 2021

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is highly effective both Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Bipolar Disorder (BD). Ketamine, an antagonist of the N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptor, has been described to have antidepressant properties. There is a hypothesis that ECT performed with anesthesia using ketamine is more effective than conventional ECT. Also, although ECT is the gold standard for BD and MDD, there are questions about which is more effective, ketamine treatment or ECT, and whether ketamine is more effective when used in combination with ECT. In this chapter, we review the current literature on the effectiveness of ECT and ketamine. Furthermore, we discuss whether ketamine can be an alternative treatment to ECT for patients with TRD.
Imaging Promoter Assay of Adenylyl Cyclase A Gene in Dictyostelium discoideum during Fruiting Body Formation by Dual-Color Bioluminescence Microscopy
Authors: Hayashi Taro , Ogoh Katsunori , Suzuki Hirobumi
Published: November 2021

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), which is derived from adenosine triphosphate through adenylyl cyclase A (acaA), acts as an intracellular secondary messenger and an extracellular chemotactic substance in important biological processes. In the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum, cAMP mediates cell aggregation, development, and differentiation to spore and stalk cells during fruiting body formation. The acaA gene is transcribed under the control of three different alternative promoters. This study aimed to develop a promoter assay for acaA in D. discoideum using bioluminescence microscopy. Here, we inserted green- and red-emitting luciferase genes into downstream of promoter regions 1 and 3, respectively. Promoter activities were visualized by bioluminescence microscopy. We confirmed the differential expression of acaA under the control of promoters 1 and 3 at the different stages of D. discoideum development. We also demonstrated the application of dual-color bioluminescence imaging in the development of an imaging promoter assay.
Působení rodinného zázemí, vzdělání a životních změn na pracovní hodnoty mužů a žen v České republice
Authors: Janíčko Michal , Šímová Zdeňka
Published: November 2021

This paper deals with work values as an important factor in individual career decisions. It relies on data from the PIAAC survey and the follow-up SKILLS II survey. Using a sample of Czech men and women 20–45 years old, we examine the factors that affect the formation of orientations to work as compared with family, and the values of high salary and career progress as compared with intrinsic enjoyment of work. Our results show the significant positive influence of family background for men and of higher education, especially for women, on an orientation to a job and to enjoyment of its contents. The orientation of men toward achieving high earnings is strengthened by the need to ensure income for their families, especially raising children, while for women, work centrality and perceived career importance increases after long periods of unemployment. The results show the contribution of high educational achievement to closing the gaps between the work-family orientations of men and women, but also a return to traditional gender roles during periods of childcare. In the conclusion we indicate directions for further research to focus on the different consequences of experiences with unemployment for men and women and on the role of cognitive skills in work values that are not always analogically related to formal education.
Clinical and laboratory factors associated with nosocomial pneumonia in adult patients in the internal medicine department of a national hospital in Peru: A case-control study
Authors: Huaman Junco Gonzalo , De La Cruz-Vargas Jhony A.
Published: November 2021

Objective To determine how clinical and laboratory factors were associated with nosocomial pneumonia in adult patients hospitalized in an internal medicine department. Methods We conducted a retrospective unmatched case-control study. We recorded clinical and epidemiological data from patients discharged from an internal medicine department of a Peruvian reference hospital, the Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, between 2016 and 2018. Bivariate and multivariate analyses (using logistic regression models) were performed to obtain crude and adjusted odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals. A P value < 0.05 was considered significant. We calculated the population attributable fraction of the significant variables. Results We analyzed 138 cases and 200 controls, with a mean age of 72.6 ± 17.8 years (21 to 104) for cases and 71.7 ± 15.3 years (19 to 98) for controls. The multivariate analysis indicated that severe anemia (adjusted odds ratio 9.0, confidence interval 95% 1.9 to 43.1, P = 0.01), severe hypoalbuminemia (adjusted odds ratio 4.0, confidence interval 95% 1.2 to 13.8, P = 0.03), altered state of consciousness (adjusted odds ratio 3.6, confidence interval 95% 1.6 to 8.2, P = 0.00), and prior use of antibiotics (adjusted odds ratio 6.3, confidence interval 95% 2.7 to 14.5, P = 0.00) were significantly associated with nosocomial pneumonia. The population attributable fraction found were 41.8% for altered state of consciousness, 33.2% for severe anemia, and 36.3% for severe hypoalbuminemia. Conclusion Clinical and laboratory risk factors associated with nosocomial pneumonia development in adult patients hospitalized in an internal medicine department were severe anemia, severe hypoalbuminemia, altered consciousness, and previous use of antibiotics.
A complex rare presentation of rice tablet poisoning: A case report
Authors: Sabzi Feridoun , Heydari Aghigh , Moghaddam Reza , Rouzbahani Mohammad , Asadmobini Atefeh
Published: November 2021

Aluminum phosphide, known as "rice tablet" (RT), is a common cause of suicide in adult women in Iran, with a high rate of lethal outcome. We report a patient with RT toxicity, with a complex syndrome of hepatic failure, renal failure, Brugada electrocardiography (ECG) patterns, and pleuropericardial effusion. The patient received conventional management with fluid therapy, gastric washing, activated charcoal followed by intra-aortic balloon pump insertion, inotropic drugs support, and mechanical ventilation. The unique features of our case are related to a combination of multiorgan failure with Brugada atypical ECG patterns and pleuropericardial effusion. Among the aforementioned complications, pleuropericardial effusion, ascites, and Brugada syndrome are exceedingly rare events. The patient was treated with high-dose inotropic drugs and intra-aortic balloon pump insertion. Despite tremendous management of metabolic acidosis, all efforts failed, and the patient died with sudden cardiac arrest.
Designing and psychometric properties of coping strategies scale for family caregivers of hemodialysis patients
Authors: Baghcheghi Nayereh , Koohestani Hamid
Published: November 2021

The present study tries to design and evaluate the psychometric properties of coping strategies scale for family caregivers of hemodialysis patients. This study consisted of two phases: phase one was a qualitative study to analyze the experiences of coping strategies of hemodialysis patients' family caregivers' (N = 14). Then, the items were extracted from the interviews and the literature. Phase two was a psychometric assessment including face validity, content validity, construct validity (N = 245) and reliability. In phase one, 89 items were extracted and after face and content validity, 56 items remained. Construct validity of the scale, based on exploratory factor analysis, removed another 22 items. The remaining 34 items contained nine subscales (active coping, positive thinking, appeal to spirituality, help-seeking, altruism, acting out, self-blaming, seeking isolation, and intentional forgetting). The reliability of the scale with Cronbach's Alpha was 0.91 and its stability was obtained through test-retest (ICC = 0.9). Coping strategies scale for family caregivers of hemodialysis patients has an acceptable validity and reliability. The tool can be used to assess effective and ineffective coping strategies in family caregivers of hemodialysis patients that may be useful for facilitating management and education of efficient coping strategies to family caregivers of hemodialysis patients.
Protection of rights of secured creditors in the bankruptcy debtor assets sales procedure
Authors: Maraš Ivana , Kozar Vladimir
Published: November 2021

Securing claims by way of real assets such as mortgage or chattel mortgage has great significance for the operation of banks and other economic entities. Opening bankruptcy proceedings over the owner of the real estate under mortgage or movable property under chattel mortgage has a significant impact on the process of exercising rights and the position of secured creditors. Bankruptcy framework in the Republic of Serbia limits their rights on the one hand, and provides extensive guarantees, on the other, by prescribing several specific institutes that additionally protect the rights of secured creditors in the procedures of bankruptcy debtor asset sales, which is the topic of this paper. Provisions of the Law have been analyzed, positions of the judicial practice as well as opinions of the jurisprudence on secured creditors as a special category. Special attention was paid to the impact of the legal prohibition of individual enforcement for the settlement of claims from the assets that are under any burdens as well as the cancellation of moratorium. Significance of the right of the creditor to offset its secured claim against purchase price has been explained in detail in case of the best bidder (credit bidding) as well as the legal preemptive right on the subject of secured right or lien, in case of sales method by direct agreement. Also, rules were considered that condition the possibility of leasing assets under burden of the bankruptcy debtor with the consent of secured creditors.
Improving the design of nozzles used in zamak high-pressure die-casting process
Authors: Sousa V.F.C. , Silva F.J.G. , Ferreira L.P. , Campilho R.D.S.G. , Pereira T. , Braga E.
Published: November 2021

The injection of light alloys is an activity that requires a high effort on the part of Engineering to maintain its competitiveness. Due to the temperatures used, the wear of the components connected to this manufacturing process is quite intense, requiring a constant updating effort. This work was developed with a view to solving problems related to the excessive wear of injection nozzles used in the die casting process, and corresponding electrical resistances, with a view to increase its lifetime and improve the competitiveness of the process in the injection of low-cost parts in zamak for the automotive industry. To study and solve the problems of premature wear of the injection nozzles, the action-research method was used, which, through several iterations, allowed to arrive at an improved design of the nozzle, as well as the corresponding electrical resistance, thus increasing the life span of these components, also improving safety around the process and generating knowledge that can be transferable to other similar situations.
Industrial robot arm controller based on programmable System-on-Chip device
Authors: Cong Vo
Published: November 2021

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and, recently, System on Chip (SoC) devices have been applied in a wide area of applications due to their flexibility for real-time implementations, increasing the processing capability on hardware as well as the speed of processing information in real-time. The most important applications based on FPGA/SoC devices are focused on signal/image processing, Internet of Things (IoT) technology, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, energy systems applications, automatic control and industrial applications. This paper develops a robot arm controller based on a programmable System-OnChip (SoC) device that combines the high-performance and flexibility of a CPU and the processing power of an FPGA. The CPU consists of a dual-core ARM processor that handles algorithm calculations, motion planning and manages communication and data manipulation. FPGA is mainly used to generate signals to control servo and read the feedback signals from encoders. Data from the ARM processor is transferred to the programmable logic side via the AXI protocol. This combination delivers superior parallel-processing and computing power, real-time performance and versatile connectivity. Additionally, having the complete controller on a single chip allows the hardware design to be simpler, more reliable, and less expensive.
Efficiency assessment of an earth-air heat exchanger system for passive cooling in three different regions: The Algerian case
Authors: Hacini Khaled , Benatiallah Ali , Harrouz Abdelkader , Belatrache Djamel
Published: November 2021

The energy consumption in buildings for heating and cooling continues to increase from year to year, in order to meet people's increased demand for thermal comfort. A key energy issue for the buildings sector, the largest consumer of energy, requires the rational use of traditional resources and the application of non-polluting, inexhaustible renewable energy technologies that allow sustainable development. The public authorities are currently showing a clear desire to reduce energy consumption in the buildings sector through various legislated thermal regulations. In Algeria, law 99-09 and executive decree 2000-09, followed by other regulations, have as objectives the control of energy and the introduction of energy efficiency in buildings. In this paper, we focused on the effectiveness of the earth-to-air heat exchanger system for cooling buildings in three different climate regions in Algeria. The Earth to air heat exchanger device is a promising technology for reducing or avoiding the use of air conditioning systems. The Earth to air heat exchanger system which exploits the thermal inertia of the soil puts two different temperature sources in thermal contact, the air which circulates in the tubes, and the ground placed in contact with the tubes. This model was validated to show a good agreement between simulated results and other experimental data published. The simulation results confirmed that A maximum energy gain of 2221.15 kWh, 523.56 kWh and 300.27 kWh over a cooling season can be reached for Timimoun, Djelfa, and Jijel.
Literature review and discussion on collaborative decision making approaches in Industry 4.0
Authors: Sousa A.C. , Bertachini A.F. , Cunha C. , Chaves R. , Varela M.L.R.
Published: November 2021

Nowadays, companies are faced with an increasingly higher level of competition while trying to adapt to the exigencies imposed by the Industry 4.0, regarding its usually referred dimensions and pillars, among which one that although is not so often referred is also expressing an increasing visibility and importance, related to collaboration, and more specifically to collaborative decision making and co-working. Thus, in this paper an analysis is carried out regarding the evolution of publications that have been put available over the last decade about collaborative decision making approaches, varying from approaches based on mathematical models up to the application of artificial intelligence and other kind of approaches. Moreover, a discussion about the relation between collaborative decision making, concurrent engineering and Industry 4.0 dimensions is also done.
Robust assembly sequence generation in a Human-Robot Collaborative workcell by reinforcement learning
Authors: Antonelli Dario , Zeng Qingfei , Aliev Khurshid , Liu Xuemei
Published: November 2021

Human-Robot Collaborative (HRC) workcells could enhance the inclusive employment of human workers regardless their force or skills. Collaborative robots not only substitute humans in dangerous and heavy tasks, but also make the related processes within the reach of all workers, overcoming lack of skills and physical limitations. To enable the full exploitation of collaborative robots traditional robot programming must be overcome. Reduction of robot programming time and worker cognitive effort during the job become compelling requirements to be satisfied. Reinforcement learning (RL) plays a core role to allow robot to adapt to a changing and unstructured environment and to human undependable execution of repetitive tasks. The paper focuses on the utilization of RL to allow a robust industrial assembly process in a HRC workcell. The result of the study is a method for the online generation of robot assembly task sequence that adapts to the unpredictable and inconstant behavior of the human co-workers. The method is presented with the help of a benchmark case study.
Specifications for a Digital Training Toolbox for Industry 4.0
Authors: Francalanza Emmanuel , Borg Jonathan , Rauch Erwin , Putnik Goran , Alves Cátia , Lundgren Magnus , Amza Catalin
Published: November 2021

The development in the past decade of Industry 4.0 technologies has brought many new opportunities to manufacturers. The increased digitization of manufacturing operations has led to new modes of production and product development. This digitization has also increased the quantity of sensorial data which is easily available and which can be used to support real-time decision making. That said, with the opportunities come as well a number of challenges. Principally amongst these is a skills gap within the workforce. Without the required knowledge organisations will find it difficult and complex not only to employ these technologies, but also to develop the new manufacturing paradigms of tomorrow. Hence an innovative and effective training methodology is required to address this skills and knowledge gap. As part of the development of this methodology, this paper presents the finding of a study carried out to analyse the knowledge and skills gap, preferred learning methods and styles of trainers, current and past students in engineering Higher Education Institutions. This requirements analysis has led to the specifications for a Digital Training Toolbox, which can be utilised to support the implementation of Inudstry 4.0 technologies and organisational concepts.
Accuracy of wind speed predictability with heights using Recurrent Neural networks
Authors: Mohandes M. , Rehman S. , Nuha H. , Islam M.S. , Schulze F.H.
Published: November 2021

Accurate prediction of wind speed in future time domain is critical for wind power integration into the grid. Wind speed is usually measured at lower heights while the hub heights of modern wind turbines are much higher in the range of 80-120m. This study attempts to better understand the predictability of wind speed with height. To achieve this, wind data was collected using Laser Illuminated Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system at 20m, 40m, 50m, 60m, 80m, 100m, 120m, 140m, 160m, and 180m heights. This hourly averaged data is used for training and testing a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) for the prediction of wind speed for each of the future 12 hours, using 48 previous values. Detailed analyses of short-term wind speed prediction at different heights and future hours show that wind speed is predicted more accurately at higher heights.For example, the mean absolute percent error decreases from 0.19 to 0.16as the height increase from 20m to 180m, respectively for the 12 th future hour prediction. The performance of the proposed method is compared with Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) method. Results show that RNN performed better than MLP for most of the cases presented here at the future 6th hour.
A new analytical control strategy for a magnetic suspension system under initial position dispersions
Authors: Al-Bakri Fawaz , Ali Hasan , Waheed Kafaji
Published: November 2021

A nonlinear magnetic suspension system is considered in this paper. A novel online algorithm based on analytical approach is presented to stabilize the suspended mass. The new algorithm employs a single analytical function to create the ball position and velocity profiles. The reference ball position is described by a series of time dependent exponential functions. Boundary conditions at both initial and final states are automatically satisfied. Moreover, feasible ball position and velocity profiles are ensured by evaluating one algorithm parameter (an exponential factor). The exponential factor is analytically computed by minimizing the peak of electrical power. This new algorithm is capable of generating the well-suited coil voltage that guarantees the stability of the system with a small closed-loop command. Gain Shechting method is used to obtain the closed-loop effort in order to track the analytical reference profiles. Compared to the prior magnetic suspension algorithms, the proposed analytical scheme is qualified to handle very large dispersions in initial ball position while satisfying the ball position and coil voltage constraints. Monte-Carlo simulations with change in initial ball position are presented. The simulation results demonstrated the great reliable performance of the proposed algorithm despite the wide range of initial ball position dispersions.
Security aspects at airports and the willingness of passengers to travel abroad during a pandemic of the COVID-19 virus
Authors: Krivokuća Milan , Tomašević Vladimir , Rajković Jelena
Published: November 2021

The outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus and appropriate precautions measures to limit its spread have clear impacts on human mobility globally. This has caused a reduction in the domestic and international volume of air passenger traffic and the readiness of passengers to decide to travel to foreign countries. Due to the global coronavirus crisis, most countries have introduced restrictive measures to limit the pandemic and limit the number of victims. Among the restrictive measures is the suspension of air traffic as an effective measure in reducing mobility at the global level in the short term, which results in a high socio-economic imbalance in both the long and short term. This paper deals with the examination of knowledge and application of precautionary measures at airports, safety and readiness of passengers to travel and their travel experiences.
Small-town sustainable development opportunities
Authors: Ugrinov Dragan , Markov Miloš , Nikolić Magdalena
Published: November 2021

The notion of sustainable development in a line with local economic development emerged in the seventies of the 20th century when local authorities in the western countries realized that their local communities had begun abandoning mobile capital, which resulted in limiting their economic potentials and opportunities for citizens' employment. This necessitated both a detailed study of the local economic potentials, the determination of best ways to use, maintain and develop them, and a thorough examination of the impediments to the local community's economic development. Local economic development is also seen as a process of certain changes, where, in the competition for the market, economic and country dominance, local governments, despite their status as the lowest level of public administration, are recognized as competitors in the market and, in collaboration with the economic sector, try to be more innovative and more competitive among them.
Media through the prism of social change and business decisions
Authors: Beriša Hatidža , Mitić Jelena
Published: November 2021

Media manipulation is based on the difference between perception and reality. It is generally easier and faster for people to adopt, reproduce and distribute short content from newspaper articles and various unreliable internet blogs, than from scientifically based research and extensive studies. Given the wide availability of some and the less availability of other sources, it is easy to conclude whose reporting will meet with more mass reception and enable the unreal to become real. The objectivity of modern media reporting is hampered by attacks on the economic viability of their business, unfair sources of information, unrealistic deadlines, page review quotas, incorrect information, greedy publishers, poor training of media workers, audience demands and so much more. With daily changes in social environment, assessment of the situation is important for any type of decision-making, especially when doing business. Through a review of the existing literature and data analysis, the paper will look at the power of the media, which influences public opinion, creating social reality, accepting change and making business decisions. New communication technologies have provided an opportunity for new ways of persuasive action and influence on the formation of attitudes. In this regard, manipulation techniques and the importance of media literacy are discussed. The emphasis is on recognizing, reading and responding to current social changes and technological innovations. The importance of the ability to adapt in the business world, how to find harmony between social needs and business interest, is pointed out.
Legal regime of work from home in national and international law
Authors: Gligorić Slađana
Published: November 2021

In the conditions of pandemic Covid 19, there was an expansion of work from home, which includes various forms of informal work that is performed outside of business premises of the employer. Such work includes "reduced" control power of the employer, calls into question the legal subrogation in the employment relationship, and has negative consequences for the realization of the rights of employee (primarily for safety and protection at work and privacy). Therefore, the paper lists the most important international documents of International Labour Organization applicable to work from home. It can be noticed that the modern concept of work from home differs from the former, in a way that it is limited to intellectual jobs or services that are performed in the digital environment. Regulation of work from home in the main Labour Law of the Republic of Serbia is incomplete, while the current Law on Health and Safety at Work does not recognize this form of work, which de lege ferenda requires amendment and harmonization of provisions, all with the aim of ensuring fuller protection of fundamental rights to work and in connection with work, as well as regulating the status of employees
The restrictions of the right to inspect the case file in Bosnia and Herzegovina in light of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
Authors: Avdić Faruk
Published: November 2021

This paper aims to assess the compliance of the provisions of the criminal procedural legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina dealing with the restrictions of the right to inspect the case file with the standards developed in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. The working hypothesis laid out in this paper is that the right of the prosecutor to unilaterally restrict the defense right to access the case file during the investigation and to unilaterally decide which evidence he will use as the basis for the indictment does not satisfy the requirements stemming from the right to a fair trial. The starting point of this paper is the analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Afterward, the paper turns to the consideration of the provisions of the criminal procedural legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina dealing with the restrictions of the right to inspect the case file. In that purpose, this paper employs normative and formal dogmatic legal methods in analyzing the particulars of its subject. The conclusion of the paper is that the law of Bosnia and Herzegovina when it comes to the restrictions of the right to inspect the case file is not in line with the standards of the European Court of Human Rights. For this reason, there is a need for the amending of the Criminal Procedure Codes in force in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the aim of making these Codes compliant with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in that respect.
Legal-theoretical characteristics and legal-dogmatic development of German law of general terms and conditions
Authors: Vukadinović Slobodan
Published: November 2021

The aim of this paper is to explore the specifics of the Germ an approach in resolving legal issues that are raised regarding general terms and conditions. Applying legal-dogmatic, comparative and legal-historical methods, the paper examines the characteristics and basic directions of development of Germ an legal theory and legislation regarding general terms and conditions. The basics of understanding legal doctrine on the character and legal nature of general terms and conditions are laid out chronologically according to the time of creation and period of dominant influence. The paper highlights the extent to which the legal-theoretic and legal-dogmatic development of German law regarding general terms affected other German-speaking countries, primarily Austria and Switzerland. Legal theoretic development in German law ranged from the strong dominance of normative theory to its strong critics that led to the empowerment of contractual theory. Norm ative legal development is characterized by the principle 'from a special law to the general part of the civil code'. The review of the relevant BGB paragraphs shows that when amending paragraphs of the BGB, the legal concept, which was shaped through German theory and legislation in a coherent whole and in a special law on regulating the general terms and conditions law, was preserved. The provisions of that law were essentially taken into the German Civil Code in 2002 as part of the reform of German contract law. This law not only affected the development of other national legal systems, but also had some impact on the development of consumer law at the European Union level. Namely, some of its provisions were used as the basis for one of the most important directives concerning unfair contractual provisions. The paper also points to the current mechanisms for controlling general terms and conditions through the control of the validity of inclusion (incorporation), the black and grey list of contractual provisions and the general clause.
FISCHER, Frank y MILLING, Carsten. Easy Linavis. Simple Network Visualization for Literary Texts, 2017.
Authors: Merino Recalde David
Published: November 2021

En este texto se reseña la herramienta digital online Easy Linavis (Ezlinavis), desarrollada principalmente para la extracción de datos sobre personajes de un texto dramático y para generar la visualización de los mismos en grafos o redes. Se analizarán sus distintas funcionalidades a través de la descripción de la herramienta. Finalmente, se presentarán unas conclusiones sobre la experiencia de uso y las posibilidades de Ezlinavis como recurso y como proyecto de Humanidades Digitales.
Stangl, Werner, dir., Sistema de información histórico-geográfica (HGIS) de las Indias (1701-1808).
Authors: Afanador Llach Maria José , González Hernández Santiago
Published: November 2021

La tarea de agregar datos para hacer reconstrucciones territoriales, por ejemplo, crear mapas jurisdiccionales del periodo colonial, puede ser titánica para un solo investigador. Frente a esta problemática, HGIS de las Indias. Sistema de información histórico-geográfica de las Indias ofrece una serie de recursos digitales para acceder a datos espaciales y visualizaciones para comprender la geografía histórica del periodo de los Borbones (1701-1808) en Hispanoamérica.
Signos visuales a escala humana: una clasificación de métodos de visualización de datos y una reflexión sobre sus alcances para la investigación humanística
Authors: Rodríguez Gómez Sergio
Published: November 2021

La finalidad de este artículo consiste en establecer unos fundamentos que permitan una reflexión informada acerca de distintas estrategias para visualizar datos de las humanidades. Para cumplir tal objetivo se presentará un conjunto de métodos de visualización de datos basados en la clasificación triple de los signos propuesta por el filósofo Charles S. Peirce: los signos icónicos, los signos indéxicos y los signos simbólicos. Tales categorías servirán como guía para definir conceptos y discusiones centrales acerca de la visualización de datos y las necesidades particulares de su uso en las humanidades digitales. Adicionalmente, a lo largo del texto se ofrecerán algunos ejemplos visuales que permitirán ver con mayor claridad los usos, ventajas y desventajas de los distintos tipos de visualizaciones propuestos.
Desobediente: el repositorio digital del Museo Universitario del Chopo
Authors: Alcalá Iliana Ordóñez , Gasca Posadas Carlos
Published: November 2021

En 2019 se reactivó el proyecto de construcción del Repositorio Digital para la difusión del acervo documental del Museo Universitario del Chopo. El proyecto ha buscado dar acceso al material que conforma los distintos Fondos y Colecciones que son resguardados por el Centro de Información del Museo, a través de los cuales es posible establecer procesos de memoria a la vez que se posibilitan acercamientos a colectivos, proyectos y personas vinculados a prácticas culturales consideradas marginales y underground. Dado que el Museo del Chopo ha tenido un carácter históricamente abierto, en el que se han albergado las disidencias sexuales, artísticas e incluso políticas, estructurar un instrumento de consulta de calidad, constituye un ejercicio democrático y de equidad. En este artículo, se recoge el camino hacia la construcción del repositorio.
Modelo de análisis cualitativo con ATLAS.ti para novelas postdigitales: Reina y Game Boy
Authors: Menéndez de la Cuesta González Adrián
Published: November 2021

Los estudios sobre el giro postdigital en la literatura española se han asentado en la última década. El presente artículo interroga un breve corpus novelístico para determinar 1) qué presencias postdigitales y estrategias de representación predominan y 2) cómo se relaciona con su historia tecnológica. El corpus comprende Game Boy de David Parkas (2019) y Reina de Elizabeth Duval (2020). Así, se pretende ampliar el rango de los estudios previos, que se han centrado mayormente en la generación pionera de los mutantes. La metodología del estudio consiste en un análisis cualitativo de los textos mediante Atlas.ti. Se ha elaborado un modelo interpretativo según el cual anotar las novelas y se han analizado los datos de la anotación en la herramienta.