bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Tinjauan Yuridis Tentang Penyelesaian Sengketa Illegal Logging Yang Dilakukan Oleh Masyarakat Adat Kasepuhan Ciptagelar
Authors: Sinurat Natan , Sari Legian , Simanjuntak Frisky Agnes , Solahudin Amir
Published: May 2023

Indigenous peoples are a group of people in an area who have their own wealth and can manage their wealth independently. A traditional forest is a state forest that is in the area of ​​indigenous peoples which is managed and utilized by the indigenous peoples themselves. One example of the existence of indigenous peoples and traditional forests is Kasepuhan Ciptagelar in Sukabumi Regency, West Java. These people already have customary laws that they have used for generations. Among these customary laws, one of them regulates illegal logging activities. According to this customary law, someone who violates customary forest provisions will be given sanctions sequentially, from replanting as many as 1,000 tree seeds, to submitting laws to state law if the customary law given does not create a deterrent effect on the perpetrators.
Optimalisasi Kinerja Pegawai Non PNS di Balai Prasarana Permukiman Wilayah Gorontalo
Authors: Fitriani Karim Dian , Suprapto Sri handayani , Kurniati Mohi Widya
Published: May 2023

This study aims to determine the optimization of the performance of non-civil servants at the Gorontalo Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center. The research method uses a qualitative type. The results showed that the performance of non-civil servants at the Gorontalo Regional Residential Infrastructure Center was not fully optimal. This is shown from the aspect of the quantity of work of non-civil servant employees at the Gorontalo Regional Settlement Infrastructure not optimal. This can be seen from the many work that has not been completed by non-civil servants at the Gorontalo Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center until the specified time limit. From the aspect of the quality of work for non-civil servant employees, the Gorontalo Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center has not been optimal. This can be seen from the many non-civil servants who do not understand their work and the results of the work are not in accordance with the results expected by the agency. From the aspect of timeliness of work for non-civil servants, the Gorontalo Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center has not been optimal. This can be seen from the many non-civil servants who do not comply with the predetermined office hours and have an impact on delays in work reports.
"A Proposed Framework for Talent Management Development"
Authors:   Politehnica University Timişoara, Fatol Dana , Robescu Diana ,   Politehnica University Timişoara, Riznar Igor ,   University of Primorska, Draghici Anca ,   Politehnica University Timișoara
Published: May 2023

For keeping a competitive advantage within a dynamic business environment and being ready to face a crisis when occurred, organizations should make sure they have the right competencies and behaviors in-house through a proper talent management. Considering the existing literature and current practices related to talent management, in this paper we are proposing a new general and simplified model that leverages neuroscience practices to support learning and employees’ experience for improving their skills and behaviors towards a better performance. The model and its elements will be subjects to further studies.
Software application development for real estate activities
Authors:   Politehnica University Timişoara, Giurgiu Horea Vlad , Prostean Gabriela ,   Politehnica University Timişoara, Diaconescu Andra ,   Politehnica University Timişoara
Published: May 2023

The real estate industry is in the early stages of software application, in constant search of new tools to make the industry work more efficiently and effectively. The real estate market is differentiated by certain needs, respectively each segment of the real estate market is looking for software solutions to meet the main needs. In order to meet the requirements of the real estate market, the authors come up with a proposal to create a prototype (iMoPal), including software application development, for a product, namely an online real estate platform for property management, and the creation of a scoring system for tenant and landlord. The application offers a proficient time management solution between tenant and landlord.
Safety and Ergonomic Risk Management for Visual Stress. A Theoretical and Experimental Case
Authors:   Politehnico di Bari, Lanza Salvatore , Neag Nicoleta Paula ,   Politehnica University Timişoara
Published: May 2023

Ergonomic studies must consider numerous elements such as human – machine interactions (hardware ergonomics), human environment interactions (environmental ergonomics), human – organization interactions. The paper presents a theoretical and experimental study on safety and ergonomic risk management for visual stress, developed during an internship period.
"A Bibliographic Study on the Use of Communication in Relation to the School Relationship - Coordinating Institutions"
Authors:   „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Slabu Nicoleta , Lupu Mihaela Luminita ,   „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi
Published: May 2023

Schools have a certain status at the community level. They must ensure their existence as an organization, and this depends on how well they adapt to the external environment. They must communicate effectively with these environments. The paper presents a bibliographic study on the external communication carried out at the level of educational institutions and aims to identify how this is reflected at the level of each stage of education in Romania. The realization of this study determined the conceptual analysis of the communication process within the school relationship - coordinating institutions and the formulation of the following conclusions that may constitute the theoretical foundation of the future research. In most institutions the communication process is not transparent. The deficiencies of communication are reflected in the image of the school, which is often at the disadvantage of the unit. This is not a substitute for a strategic plan. There is a lack of agreement in the communication between the levels of education: from the mayor to the secondary school, high school, and university. These observations support the choice of the research topic, as one of the impacts on the pre-university education institutions, on the community and the family of the beneficiaries.
"Business Ethics in Norway: History of Business Ethics in Norway and Guidelines of Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund Global "
Authors:   Politehnica University Timişoara, Barmayoun Darius , Mocan Marian ,   Politehnica University Timişoara
Published: May 2023

The aim of this paper is to present business ethics as practiced in Norway. Based on an article published in 1959, a vision of business ethics history in Norway under the rise of industrialism is described. Subsequently, the role of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) is explained and its guidelines are presented. Aiming to obtain an overview of business ethics in Norway during both industrial and modern era and understand how views have changed during the time, a comparison is conducted.
The Management of Smart and Sustainable Urban Projects. A View into the Caransebes Public Administration Project Challenges
Authors:   Politehnica University Timişoara, Banaduc Gabriela , Mirea Nicoleta ,   Politehnica University Timişoara, Bogdea Constantin Florin ,   Politehnica University Timişoara
Published: May 2023

This paper aims to review the management of smart and sustainable urban projects, to generally analyze public administration and the Caransebes municipality project challenges. An effective public administration requires an intensive integration of all strategic documents available to provide a systematic and coherent approach for establishing, attaining, monitoring, and updating the public administration strategic objectives in the most instructive manner [9]. To manage the city resources efficiently, it also requires an Integrator to unite in a strong partnership the citizens, the business environment, the organizations, sharing the same common vision.
A Study on the Multicultural Teams’ Style
Authors:   Politehnica University Timişoara, Fatol Dana , Robescu Diana Florina ,   Politehnica University Timişoara, Prelipcianu Monica ,   Technical Colleage ”Maria Baiulescu” Brasov, Lazea Luiza ,   Politehnica University Timișoara
Published: May 2023

This article aims to analyze the Cultural Style Indicator using The Peterson Cultural Style Indicator™. Starting from the conceptual framework definition of “organizational culture”, the paper will focus then on a possible research approach using The Peterson Cultural Style Indicator™. Dr. Brooks Peterson defines the cultural intelligence and explains the cross-cultural differences having the purpose to make you define your own cultural style in six important areas: management, strategy, planning, personnel communication and reasoning. This article presents the results obtained from a research made in our Institution, using The Peterson Cultural Style Indicator™. Pilot research results achieved, can offer us the possibility of a comparison between the data obtained in our Institution and the data already collected by Dr. Peterson.
Analysis of Value Creation and Value-Added Analysis Techniques in Published Literature. A Literature Review
Authors:   Politehnica University Timişoara, Barmayoun Darius , Mocan Marian ,   Politehnica University Timişoara
Published: May 2023

The aim of this paper is to review available literature in the field of value-added analysis and value creation. Value added analysis techniques and approaches which are described in the literature are to be presented and systematized. Subsequently a case study is presented and suggestions for process improvement are presented. Aiming to obtain an overview from both the theoretical and practical sides, papers and books from 2006 to 2020 were collected and classified. First according to the genre of the text, secondly, according to the industry meant to be improved, and thirdly, according to the use of single or multiple approaches of value creation. The papers have been grouped into four categories: the first group relates to papers approaching Value Stream Mapping (VSM), the second group contains papers describing and/or using Seven Wastes as value identification technique, the third concerns Process Mapping (PM) approaches and the fourth group concerns a different approach of Nonvalue Added Analysis.
المسائل التي خالف فيها قانون الأسرة القطري مذهب الإمام أحمد بن حنبل ـ في المواد القانونية المتعلقة بالطلاق البدعي أنموذجا
Authors: علي مبارك السفران المري  , د. حبيب الله زكريا
Published: May 2023

تهدف هذه الورقة إلى بلورة المسائل التي خالف فيها قانون الأسرة القطري مذهب الإمام أحمد بن حنبل ـ رحمه الله تعالى ـ، وخاصة في المواد القانونية المتعلقة بالطلاق البدعي، وتناول الباحثان هذه المسائل مبينا أسباب عدم أخذ القانون بالمذهب، وتم استخدام المنهج التحليلي المقارن في بيان أوجه الاختلاف بين المذهب والقانون القطري، وخلص الباحثان إلى نتائج أهمها:عدم خروج قانون الأسرة عن مذهب الإمام أحمد أو مذهب الجمهور، وأقوال أهل العلم الراسخين فيه، مثل ابن حزم، وابن تيمية، وابن القيم، وغيرهم من الأعلام في الغالب اللهم إلا في مسألة عدم إيقاع طلاق الثلاث ثلاثًا كما في المذهب، ومسألة عدم وقوع الطلاق في العدة بخلاف المذهب، ومسألة عدم وقوع الطلاق في الحيض أو طهر مسها فيه كما في المذهب. على أن القانون القطري اعتمد في مخالفته على الأقوال التي تحقق مصلحة الأسرة، وعدم تشتتها وضياعها.
Service Innovation Technology Applied by Halal Tourism Operators in Thailand
Authors: Tanatcha Sirisombat  , Sarawut Jitsopa  , Wanamina Bostan Ali
Published: May 2023

The outbreak of the epidemic in 2019 has had a severe impact on the world, particularly on the tourism sector, which has been directly impacted by tourists from both abroad and within the country. You are unable to travel normally. Tourism businesses must find a way to recover to survive. Tour operators employ a variety of strategies to revitalize Halal Tourism operators. Quantitative research was chosen by the researcher. A survey was conducted to ascertain the degree of agreement among tour operators regarding the factors of technological innovation in service to aid in their recovery. A sizable number of people responded. According to Krejcie and Morgan's theory, researchers were randomly selected from a 381person sample size, and the evaluation was conducted via an online survey.
PRE-SLAUGHTER STUNNING OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS: ITS IMPACT ON ANIMAL WELFARE AND THE LEGISLATION OF HALAL SLAUGHTER
Authors: Amjad Abdulrazzak Aghwan Zeiad
Published: May 2023

The process of converting animals into pieces suitable for human consumption is a very important issue, not only from shariah point of view, but in terms of providing healthy meat with high nutritional value that is beneficial to consumers in general. Therefore, this decisive moment of the killing is governed by strict regulations regarding food hygiene and safety, working conditions and animal welfare. This paper explains and discusses the process of slaughtering animals and birds by following the traditional method of slaughter according to shariah law and the methods of pre-slaughter stunning accepted by some Islamic authorities and their impact on maintaining animal welfare to reduce their suffering and pain before and during slaughter. Information was collected through previous published scientific works as well as scientific publications related to the subject in addition to legal information derived from the Noble Qur’an and the honorable Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH). The paper come out with some commandments and suggestions, which focused on the importance of practicing traditional method of slaughter following the teachings of the Noble Qur’an and the Sunnah, taking into account the use of the latest modern technologies to facilitate the process of slaughtering animals and birds and emphasizing the training of management and workers in this sector to take into account animal welfare and thus produce Halal and quality meat in order to keep the Muslim consumer away from falling into the area of forbidden and suspicious.
Car Parking Space Identifying System Using Python
Authors:   Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Paavai Engineering College, Namakkal, TN, India., Dr.S. Vijayakumar , A Kamalesh , A Adhisha , P Meignanamoorthy
Published: May 2023

Nowadays, in India the concept of smart cites are gaining great popularity. The smart cities are incomplete without smart car parking system. The traffic congestion caused by vehicles is an alarming problem at global scale and it has been growing exponentially, also it increases pollution and wastage of time. A good solution this problem could use of python based smart car parking system to decrease pollution as well as parking time. In this project we propose a system to find the parking area. It also avoids congestions. The objective of this project is to smart car parking system using python. This project is used to Smart Parking system consists of an on-site deployment of a python technology that is used to monitor and signalize the state of availability of each single parking space using IR Sensor Key Word: LCD, Python, Raspberry pi, Fire sensor, Gas sensor.
Fake Customer Review Detection System
Authors:   Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology and Management, Gorakhpur, U.P, India., Roy Abhishek Kumar , Singh Devsharan , Raeeni Imran , Ansari Izmamul
Published: May 2023

Online purchasing is rising bit by bit since each service or product is easily accessible. Sellers are obtaining more reaction to one’s corporation factors. Several people generally frustrated kinds of persons misdirect others by sharing false comments to encourage or damage the image of any specific goods or services according to wish. Such people are known as perception spammers and the false reviews they give are considered as fake comments. Although customer reviews could be beneficial, naïve confidence in such comments is unsafe for either the buyers or sellers. Many consumers read research before making any online purchase. Moreover, the comments could be misleading for additional benefit or profit, so any buying decision relied on web comments should be taken carefully. Our work is mainly directed to SA at the document level, more specifically, on movie reviews dataset. Machine learning techniques and SA methods are expected to have a major positive effect, especially for the detection processes of fake reviews in restaurant reviews, e-commerce, social commerce environments, and other domains. In machine learning-based techniques, algorithms such as SVM, NB, and NLP are applied for the classification purposes SVM is a type of learning algorithm that represents supervised machine learning approaches, and it is an excellent successful prediction approach. The SVM is also a robust classification approach. The main goal of our study is to classify restaurant reviews as a real review or fake review using SA algorithms with supervised learning techniques. Keywords: — Supervised Machine Learning Techniques, Support Vector Machine, Natural Language Processing and Naıve Bayes.
Réflexion théorique sur l’instrumentalisation de la performance globale
Authors: ILMEN Faisal , AIBOUD BENCHEKROUN Bouchra
Published: May 2023

Aujourd’hui, la stratégie de la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (RSE) constitue une exigence incontournable, pour toute firme qui cherche à suivre les attentes des différentes parties prenantes. A cet égard, la mise en place des outils, en l’occurrence les systèmes de contrôle, est désormais nécessaire en vue de suivre et de piloter les objectifs fixés par cette stratégie. L’objectif visé par la présente contribution est d’analyser le paradigme de l’instrumentalisation de la démarche RSE en mettant en évidence, d’une part, l’ensemble des concepts clés liés à la notion de la performance et plus particulièrement celle qui est globale, et qui renferme plusieurs dimensions à caractère social, environnemental et économique, et d’autre part, de mettre en exergue les différents apports en matière de mécanismes de contrôle qui permettent de décliner la démarche RSE, plus précisément les indicateurs RSE (non financiers), dont la finalité est de mesurer leur contribution dans le pilotage de la performance globale.
La perception de la responsabilité sociétale des universités en contexte camerounais
Authors: NGOLOKO NGOMB Vanessa Noor , BIWOLE FOUDA Jean
Published: May 2023

L’objet de cette étude est d’appréhender la perception de la Responsabilité Sociétale des Universités (RSU) au Cameroun. La théorie descriptive des parties prenantes (Donaldson et Preston, 1995) est mobilisée pour permettre de décrire les caractéristiques liées à l’organisation et les comportements spécifiques des managers (Ayadi ; 2003). Nous adoptons une méthodologie qualitative de nature exploratoire en nous intéressant aux établissements d’enseignement supérieur (EES) à l’instar des facultés d’universités publiques, des facultés d’universités privées et des institutions privées d’enseignement supérieur. La collecte de données s’est effectuée à l’aide d’entretiens semi-directifs, administrés au sein de cinq établissements d’enseignement supérieur. Nos résultats révèlent que la RSU en contexte camerounais se caractérise par quatre dimensions : la formation, la recherche, le développement sociétal et une gouvernance responsable. Il apparaît également des comportements jugés socialement responsables pour chaque dimension. De plus, nos résultats mettent en évidence le fait que les missions traditionnelles d’enseignement et de recherche sont menées dans une optique de développement de la société, et donc tendent à revaloriser indirectement la troisième mission. A l’inverse, la troisième mission, qui est celle de l’appui au développement, concourt à une redynamisation des missions d’enseignement et de recherche.
Le paysage urbain au profit de l’attractivité touristique des villes
Authors: FATHI-GAOUA Lydia , ABBAS MANSOUR Leila
Published: May 2023

Le tourisme urbain devient l'une des principales fonctions des villes et son importance continue de croître. C'est le résultat, parmi d'autres, de la prospérité croissante, ainsi que l'amélioration de l’offre touristique conçue autour de grands projets urbains et des paysages. Une offre dont la qualité et l'attractivité déterminent souvent la compétitivité des villes, ainsi que leur développement. Par conséquent, à travers trois expériences : la rivière Cheonggyecheon à Séoul, le projet Emsherpark en Allemagne et la promenade de la baie d’Alger, ce travail, ambitionne d’analyser les effets de l’intégration du paysage urbain dans les grands projets d’aménagement sur le tourisme en ville. Il s’intéresse également à identifier les éléments du paysage urbain mis au profit de la ville durable.
Ideación suicida infanto-juvenil en Sucre: Una comparación entre niños y adolescentes con y sin vivencia de hechos victimizantes en su familia
Authors: Romero-Acosta Kelly , Fonseca Beltrán Leodanis , Verhelst-Montenegro Salomón , Restrepo José Francisco
Published: May 2023

Objetivo: 1) Determinar la presencia de hechos victimizantes y de ideación suicida infanto-juvenil en Sincelejo (Sucre, Colombia), teniendo en cuenta la edad y el sexo y 2) Comparar la presencia de ideación suicida en niños y adolescentes que han vivido algún hecho victimizante con aquellos que no. Método: Enfoque cuantitativo, de tipo descriptivo-comparativo y de corte transversal. Participaron 1704 niños y adolescentes, la mayoría de los participantes fueron de sexo femenino (n= 1016 niñas; 59.6%). Resultados: Entre los nueve y los quince años un mayor porcentaje de niños y jóvenes presentaron ideación suicida, sin embargo, los casos disminuyeron de los 16 años en adelante. En comparación con los niños y adolescentes, que no vivieron hechos victimizantes, aquellos que sí los padecieron, en un más alto porcentaje, pensaron o planearon suicidarse casi todo el tiempo (p= 0.30). Los niños y jóvenes cuyas familias padecieron amenazas (p= 0.01), asesinato de seres queridos (p= 0.03) y secuestro de algún miembro de la familia (p= 0.13), generalmente, han pensado o planeado suicidarse en un mayor porcentaje que aquellos que no vivieron hechos victimizantes. Conclusiones: Esta investigación permite contribuir al estudio de la conducta suicida, su presencia en niños y adolescentes sucreños, y factores de riesgo de la población infantil y adolescente que ha vivido y no ha vivido hechos victimizantes en el marco del conflicto armado en Colombia. Palabras clave: Ideación suicida, niños, adolescentes, conflicto armado, hechos victimizantes.
Person-Centred Care approach by professional caregivers in the population with mental illness: systematic review
Authors: Bru-Luna. Lluna María , Martí-Vilar Manuel , González Sala Francisco
Published: May 2023

The model of Person-Centred Care has as fundamental principles the emphasis on the person within its context, individualized attention and empowerment. However, studies about this approach on mental illness are scarce. The aim of this work is to carry out a systematic review of articles studying the approach of Person-Centered Care provided by professional caregivers in people with mental illness. To this end, a systematic review according to PRISMA guidelines was carried out of articles found in the Web of Science (WoS), PubMed, ScienceDirect and Dialnet databases. Following the analysis of the 19 articles, the results show that both users and professionals perceive that Person-Centered Care carries positive results for people who use it. Greater information provision is needed for users and caregivers, in an understandable way, a greater emphasis on the relationships between services and users, as well as better training for professionals.
Protocolo transdiagnóstico PsicAP de entrenamiento cognitivo-conductual en grupo para trastornos emocionales
Authors: Cano-Vindel Antonio , Ruiz-Rodríguez Paloma , Muñoz-Navarro Roger , Medrano Leonardo A. , Moriana Juan Antonio , Moreno Eliana M. , Gálvez-Lara Mario , Jurado-González Francisco J. , Aguilera-Martín Ángel , Barrio-Martínez Sara , Prieto-Vila Maider , Carpallo-González María , Moretti Luciana S. , García-Batista Zoido E. , Priede Amador , González-Blanch César
Published: May 2023

Los trastornos de ansiedad y la depresión son altamente prevalentes en la sociedad actual. El ensayo clínico PsicAP demostró que añadir 7 sesiones de entrenamiento cognitivo-conductual en grupo con enfoque transdiagnóstico al tratamiento habitual de trastornos emocionales en pacientes adultos de atención primaria aumentó la eficacia y coste-efectividad para reducir los niveles de síntomas, redujo la discapacidad y mejoró la calidad de vida. En este trabajo se describen esas 7 sesiones del protocolo PsicAP de tratamiento transdiagnóstico, dirigido a la intervención sobre los factores comunes a los distintos trastornos: las distorsiones cognitivas y las estrategias de regulación emocional. Se trata de una intervención basada en el aprendizaje mediante psicoeducación, reestructuración cognitiva, relajación, técnicas conductuales y prevención de recaídas. Se concluye argumentando sobre la utilidad de este protocolo para reducir la brecha entre investigación y práctica clínica, algo necesario en la sociedad actual
Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations
Authors: Ross Ron , Pillitteri Victoria
Published: May 2023

The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and can directly impact the ability of the Federal Government to successfully conduct its essential missions and functions. This publication provides agencies with recommended security requirements for protecting the confidentiality of CUI when the information is resident in nonfederal systems and organizations, when the nonfederal organization is not collecting or maintaining information on behalf of a federal agency or using or operating a system on behalf of an agency, and where there are no specific safeguarding requirements for protecting the confidentiality of CUI prescribed by the authorizing law, regulation, or governmentwide policy for the CUI category listed in the CUI Registry. The requirements apply to components of nonfederal systems that process, store, or transmit CUI or that provide protection for such components. The security requirements are intended for use by federal agencies in contractual vehicles or other agreements established between those agencies and nonfederal organizations.
Vaccine production in Africa: will initiatives survive?
Authors: Dhai A
Published: May 2023

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Parens patriae jurisdiction and religious beliefs of parents in medical treatment of a minor: Examining the Supreme Court’s decision in Tega Esabunor v Faweya & Ors (2019) LPELR 46961 (SC) in light of international practice
Authors: Anyamele U
Published: May 2023

Recently, the Supreme Court of Nigeria in Tega Esabunor v Faweya & Ors (2019) LPELR 46961 (SC) dismissed an appeal seeking to quash the order of a magistrate court for the transfusion of blood to a baby. The appellants contended that the court had no jurisdiction to make theorder. The crux of the case was whether the parents’ right to consent to the child’s treatment based on religious beliefs supersedes the child’s right to live, thus reflecting the tension between a parent’s right to give consent to the choice of treatment for their child, and the court’s power to override such rights through the inherent parens patriae jurisdiction of the state. The case also reflects the tension between the freedom of a parent to practise their religion and the right of a child to live, in the medical context. This article examines the findings of the Supreme Court in Tega Esabunor’s case, considering whether the court’s decision is in line with the generally accepted practice on when the state can intervene if persons with parental responsibility refuse medical treatment for an incompetent child because of religious beliefs.Cases from other jurisdictions are analysed to ascertain the position of foreign courts. It is submitted that the Supreme Court’s judgmentreflects accepted international practice regarding parental refusal of consent for medical treatment of a child.
The OpenESEA Modeling Language and Tool for Ethical, Social, and Environmental Accounting
Authors:   Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht, 3584 CC, The Netherlands, Ramautar Vijanti , España Sergio ,   Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht, 3584 CC, The Netherlands,   Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera, 46022 València, Spain
Published: May 2023

Assessing business operations’ ethical, social, and environmental impacts is a key practice for establishing sustainable development. There is a multitude of methods that describes how to perform such assessments. Often these methods are supported by an ICT tool. In most cases, the tools are developed to support a single method only and do not allow any tailoring. Therefore, they are rigid and inflexible. In this article, we present a novel model-driven approach for alleviating managerial issues that arise as a consequence of the complex landscape of ethical, social, and environmental accounting methods and tools. We have developed an open-source, model-driven tool, called openESEA. OpenESEA parses and interprets textual models, that are specified according to a domain-specific language (DSL). We have performed another iteration of the DSL engineering process, which is in line with the design science paradigm. We have validated the new DSL version by means of a user study. As a result, we present a new version of the openESEA modeling language and interpreter. The results of the user study with regards to performance, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use of modeling language are encouraging and provide us with a basis to continue developing new versions with more functionalities. The contributions of this work include a new version of the modeling language, a new version of the interpreter, knowledge surrounding the development of these artifacts, and a protocol for evaluating the quality of textual DSLs. The modeling language and interpreter are relevant for sustainability practitioners and consultants since our tool support has the potential to reduce redundancy in ethical, social, and environmental accounting. Our work is valuable to researchers that aim to assess and reduce the complexity of their modeling languages.
New properties of divisors of natural number
Authors:   Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Para, Brito da Silva Hamilton
Published: May 2023

The divisors of a natural number are very important for several areas of mathematics, representing a promising field in number theory. This work sought to analyze new relations involving the divisors of natural numbers, extending them to prime numbers. These are relations that may have an interesting application for counting the number of divisors of any natural number and understanding the behavior of prime numbers. They are not a primality test, but they can be a possible tool for this and could also be useful for understanding the Riemann’s zeta function that is strongly linked to the distribution of prime numbers.
A class of solutions of the equation d(n2) = d(φ(n))
Authors:   Laboratory of Pure and Applied Mathematics (LMPA), University of M’sila, Amroune Zahra , Bellaouar Djamel ,   Department of Mathematics, University 08 Mai 1945 Guelma, Boudaoud Abdelmadjid ,   Laboratory of Pure and Applied Mathematics (LMPA), University of M’sila
Published: May 2023

For any positive integer $n$ let $d\left( n\right) $ and $\varphi \left( n\right) $ be the number of divisors of $n$ and the Euler's phi function of $n$, respectively. In this paper we present some notes on the equation $d\left( n^{2}\right) =d\left( \varphi \left( n\right) \right).$ In fact, we characterize a class of solutions that have at most three distinct prime factors. Moreover, we show that Dickson's conjecture implies that $d\left( n^{2}\right) =d\left( \varphi \left( n\right) \right) $ infinitely often.
Universal gut microbial relationships in the gut microbiome of wild baboons
Authors: Roche Kimberly E , Bjork Johannes R , Dasari Mauna R , Grieneisen Laura , Jansen David , Gould Trevor J , Gesquiere Laurence R , Barreiro Luis B , Alberts Susan C , Blekhman Ran , Gilbert Jack A , Tung Jenny , Mukherjee Sayan , Archie Elizabeth A
Published: May 2023

Ecological relationships between bacteria mediate the services that gut microbiomes provide to their hosts. Knowing the overall direction and strength of these relationships is essential to learn how ecology scales up to affect microbiome assembly, dynamics, and host health. However, whether bacterial relationships are generalizable across hosts or personalized to individual hosts is debated. Here, we apply a robust, multinomial logistic-normal modeling framework to extensive time series data (5534 samples from 56 baboon hosts over 13 years) to infer thousands of correlations in bacterial abundance in individual baboons and test the degree to which bacterial abundance correlations are ‘universal’. We also compare these patterns to two human data sets. We find that, most bacterial correlations are weak, negative, and universal across hosts, such that shared correlation patterns dominate over host-specific correlations by almost twofold. Further, taxon pairs that had inconsistent correlation signs (either positive or negative) in different hosts always had weak correlations within hosts. From the host perspective, host pairs with the most similar bacterial correlation patterns also had similar microbiome taxonomic compositions and tended to be genetic relatives. Compared to humans, universality in baboons was similar to that in human infants, and stronger than one data set from human adults. Bacterial families that showed universal correlations in human infants were often universal in baboons. Together, our work contributes new tools for analyzing the universality of bacterial associations across hosts, with implications for microbiome personalization, community assembly, and stability, and for designing microbiome interventions to improve host health.
Insights into cargo sorting by SNX32 and its role in neurite outgrowth
Authors: Sugatha Jini , Priya Amulya , Raj Prateek , Jaimon Ebsy , Swaminathan Uma , Jose Anju , Pucadyil Thomas John , Datta Sunando
Published: May 2023

Sorting nexins (SNX) are a family of proteins containing the Phox homology domain, which shows a preferential endo-membrane association and regulates cargo sorting processes. Here, we established that SNX32, an SNX-BAR (Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs) sub-family member associates with SNX4 via its BAR domain and the residues A226, Q259, E256, R366 of SNX32, and Y258, S448 of SNX4 that lie at the interface of these two SNX proteins mediate this association. SNX32, via its PX domain, interacts with the transferrin receptor (TfR) and Cation-Independent Mannose-6-Phosphate Receptor (CIMPR), and the conserved F131 in its PX domain is important in stabilizing these interactions. Silencing of SNX32 leads to a defect in intracellular trafficking of TfR and CIMPR. Further, using SILAC-based differential proteomics of the wild-type and the mutant SNX32, impaired in cargo binding, we identified Basigin (BSG), an immunoglobulin superfamily member, as a potential interactor of SNX32 in SHSY5Y cells. We then demonstrated that SNX32 binds to BSG through its PX domain and facilitates its trafficking to the cell surface. In neuroglial cell lines, silencing of SNX32 leads to defects in neuronal differentiation. Moreover, abrogation in lactate transport in the SNX32-depleted cells led us to propose that SNX32 may contribute to maintaining the neuroglial coordination via its role in BSG trafficking and the associated monocarboxylate transporter activity. Taken together, our study showed that SNX32 mediates the trafficking of specific cargo molecules along distinct pathways.
Antipsychotic drugs selectively decorrelate long-range interactions in deep cortical layers
Authors: Heindorf Matthias , Keller Georg B.
Published: May 2023

Psychosis is characterized by a diminished ability of the brain to distinguish externally driven activity patterns from self-generated activity patterns. Antipsychotic drugs are a class of small molecules with relatively broad binding affinity for a variety of neuromodulator receptors that, in humans, can prevent or ameliorate psychosis. How these drugs influence the function of cortical circuits, and in particular their ability to identify self-generated activity patterns, is still largely unclear. Here we used widefield calcium imaging to determine the cell type specific functional effects of antipsychotic drugs in mouse dorsal cortex during visuomotor integration. By comparing cell type specific activation patterns between locomotion onsets that were experimentally coupled to self-generated visual feedback and locomotion onsets that were not coupled, we show that deep cortical layers were differentially activated in these two conditions. We then show that the antipsychotic drug clozapine disrupted visuomotor integration at locomotion onsets also primarily in deep cortical layers. Given that one of the key components of visuomotor integration in cortex is long-range cortico-cortical connections, we tested whether the effect of clozapine was detectable in the correlation structure of activity patterns across dorsal cortex. We found that clozapine as well as two other antipsychotic drugs, aripiprazole and haloperidol, resulted in a strong reduction in correlations of layer 5 activity between cortical areas and impaired the spread of visuomotor prediction errors generated in visual cortex. Our results are consistent with the interpretation that a major functional effect of antipsychotic drugs is an alteration of the activation of internal representations as a consequence of reduced long-range layer 5 mediated communication.
Different rules for binocular combination of luminance flicker in cortical and subcortical pathways
Authors: Segala Federico G , Bruno Aurelio , Martin Joel T , Aung Myat T , Wade Alex R , Baker Daniel H
Published: May 2023

How does the human brain combine information across the eyes? It has been known for many years that cortical normalization mechanisms implement ‘ocularity invariance’: equalizing neural responses to spatial patterns presented either monocularly or binocularly. Here, we used a novel combination of electrophysiology, psychophysics, pupillometry, and computational modeling to ask whether this invariance also holds for flickering luminance stimuli with no spatial contrast. We find dramatic violations of ocularity invariance for these stimuli, both in the cortex and also in the subcortical pathways that govern pupil diameter. Specifically, we find substantial binocular facilitation in both pathways with the effect being strongest in the cortex. Near-linear binocular additivity (instead of ocularity invariance) was also found using a perceptual luminance matching task. Ocularity invariance is, therefore, not a ubiquitous feature of visual processing, and the brain appears to repurpose a generic normalization algorithm for different visual functions by adjusting the amount of interocular suppression.
Age-related differences in the functional topography of the locus coeruleus and their implications for cognitive and affective functions
Authors: Veréb Dániel , Mijalkov Mite , Canal-Garcia Anna , Chang Yu-Wei , Gomez-Ruiz Emiliano , Gerboles Blanca Zufiria , Kivipelto Miia , Svenningsson Per , Zetterberg Henrik , Volpe Giovanni , Betts Matthew , Jacobs Heidi IL , Pereira Joana B
Published: May 2023

The locus coeruleus (LC) is an important noradrenergic nucleus that has recently attracted a lot of attention because of its emerging role in cognitive and psychiatric disorders. Although previous histological studies have shown that the LC has heterogeneous connections and cellular features, no studies have yet assessed its functional topography in vivo, how this heterogeneity changes over aging, and whether it is associated with cognition and mood. Here, we employ a gradient-based approach to characterize the functional heterogeneity in the organization of the LC over aging using 3T resting-state fMRI in a population-based cohort aged from 18 to 88 years of age (Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience cohort, n=618). We show that the LC exhibits a rostro-caudal functional gradient along its longitudinal axis, which was replicated in an independent dataset (Human Connectome Project [HCP] 7T dataset, n=184). Although the main rostro-caudal direction of this gradient was consistent across age groups, its spatial features varied with increasing age, emotional memory, and emotion regulation. More specifically, a loss of rostral-like connectivity, more clustered functional topography, and greater asymmetry between right and left LC gradients was associated with higher age and worse behavioral performance. Furthermore, participants with higher-than-normal Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) ratings exhibited alterations in the gradient as well, which manifested in greater asymmetry. These results provide an in vivo account of how the functional topography of the LC changes over aging, and imply that spatial features of this organization are relevant markers of LC-related behavioral measures and psychopathology.
Below the surface of a touch
Authors: Preston Stephanie D , Muñoz Rosa
Published: May 2023

How the body and brain respond to a gentle stroke dynamically changes depending on how familiar someone is with the other person.
Efficient algorithm for directed text detection based on rotation decoupled bounding box
Authors: Wei Songma , Lu Minrui , Chen Bingsan , Zhang Tengjian , Zhang Fujiang , Peng Xiaodong
Published: May 2023

A more effective directed text detection algorithm is proposed for the problem of low accuracy in detecting text with multiple sources, dense distribution, large aspect ratio and arbitrary alignment direction in the industrial intelligence process. The algorithm is based on the YOLOv5 model architecture, inspired by the idea of DenseNet dense connection, a parallel cross-scale feature fusion method is proposed to overcome the problem of blurring the underlying feature semantic information and deep location information caused by the sequential stacking approach and to improve the multiscale feature information extraction capability. Furthermore, a rotational decoupling border detection module, which decouples the rotational bounding box into horizontal bounding box during positive sample matching, is provided, overcoming the angular instability in the process of matching the rotational bounding box with the horizontal anchor to obtain higher-quality regression samples and improve the precision of directed text detection. The MSRA-TD500 and ICDAR2015 datasets are used to evaluate the method, and results show that the algorithm measured precision and F1-score of 89.2% and 88.1% on the MSRA-TD500 dataset, respectively, and accuracy and F1-score of 90.6% and 89.3% on the ICDAR2015 dataset, respectively. The proposed algorithm has better competitive ability than the SOTA text detection algorithm.
Evaluation of transformer models for financial targeted sentiment analysis in Spanish
Authors: Pan Ronghao , García-Díaz José Antonio , Garcia-Sanchez Francisco , Valencia-García Rafael
Published: May 2023

Nowadays, financial data from social media plays an important role to predict the stock market. However, the exponential growth of financial information and the different polarities of sentiment that other sectors or stakeholders may have on the same information has led to the need for new technologies that automatically collect and classify large volumes of information quickly and easily for each stakeholder. In this scenario, we conduct a targeted sentiment analysis that can automatically extract the main economic target from financial texts and obtain the polarity of a text towards such main economic target, other companies and society in general. To this end, we have compiled a novel corpus of financial tweets and news headlines in Spanish, constituting a valuable resource for the Spanish-focused research community. In addition, we have carried out a performance comparison of different Spanish-specific large language models, with MarIA and BETO achieving the best results. Our best result has an overall performance of 76.04%, 74.16%, and 68.07% in macro F1-score for the sentiment classification towards the main economic target, society, and other companies, respectively, and an accuracy of 69.74% for target detection. We have also evaluated the performance of multi-label classification models in this context and obtained a performance of 71.13%.
Regenerative plantlets with improved agronomic characteristics caused by anther culture of tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)
Authors: Zhang Li , Nie Feng-jie , Gong Lei , Gan Xiao-yan , Zhang Guo-hui , Liu Xuan , Yang Wen-jing , Shi Lei , Chen Yu-chao , Xie Rui-xia , Guo Zhi-qian , Song Yuxia
Published: May 2023

Objective

As the primary means of plant-induced haploid, anther culture is of great significance in quickly obtaining pure lines and significantly shortening the potato breeding cycle. Nevertheless, the methods of anther culture of tetraploid potato were still not well established.

Methods

In this study, 16 potato cultivars (lines) were used for anther culture in vitro. The corresponding relation between the different development stages of microspores and the external morphology of buds was investigated. A highly-efficient anther culture system of tetraploid potatoes was established.

Results

It was shown in the results that the combined use of 0.5 mg/L 1-Naphthylacetic acid (NAA), 1.0 mg/L 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), and 1.0 mg/L Kinetin (KT) was the ideal choice of hormone pairing for anther callus. Ten of the 16 potato cultivars examined could be induced callus with their respective anthers, and the induction rate ranged from 4.44% to 22.67% using this hormone combination. According to the outcome from the orthogonal design experiments of four kinds of appendages, we found that the medium with sucrose (40 g/L), AgNO3 (30 mg/L), activated carbon (3 g/L), potato extract (200 g/L) had a promotive induction effect on the anther callus. In contrast, adding 1 mg/L Zeatin (ZT) effectively facilitated callus differentiation.

Conclusion

Finally, 201 anther culture plantlets were differentiated from 10 potato cultivars. Among these, Qingshu 168 and Ningshu 15 had higher efficiency than anther culture. After identification by flow cytometry and fluorescence in situ hybridization, 10 haploid plantlets (5%), 177 tetraploids (88%), and 14 octoploids (7%) were obtained. Some premium anther-cultured plantlets were further selected by morphological and agronomic comparison. Our findings provide important guidance for potato ploidy breeding.