bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Movement Disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients on Hemodialysis in Mosul City
Authors: Mahmood Omar A. , Aliraqi Mohammad G. , Ali Abduladheem A.
Published: February 2023

BACKGROUND: Movement disorders are not rare in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on hemodialysis (HD). The prevalence and the exact mechanism of these disorders are unknown. Iron deficiency and dopamine dysregulation are implicated from one perspective, whereas chronic inflammation and calcium dysmetabolism may be involved from another perspective.
AIM: We studied the prevalence, delay in the diagnosis and the role of iron deficiency, inflammation, and bone abnormalities on some movement disorders in patients with CKD on HD.
METHODS: A cross-sectional study examined the prevalence, among patients with CKD on HD in Mosul city, of restless leg syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movement syndrome (PLMS), Parkinsonism, asterixis, and myoclonus. Delay in diagnosis of these disorders was also studied. Validated questionnaires and specified neurological examination were applied to define patients with these disorders. Using IBM® SPSS® v. 23 statistical software, we compared between the different groups of patients by different parameters (case–control design).
RESULTS: Among 281 enrolled CKD patients on HD in Mosul city, the prevalence of RLS, PLMS, Parkinsonism, asterixis, and myoclonus was 28.72%, 17.02%, 2.84%, 20.92%, and 24.11% respectively. Average delay in diagnoses was 2.6 (±3.09) years, 3.02 (±3.13) years, 1 (±0.78) year, 1.23 (±1.51) years, and 2.28 (±2.34) years, respectively. Median duration of dialysis in patients with PLMS and Parkinsonism tended to be higher than in those without PLMS or Parkinsonism. Neither inflammation, ferritin level nor bone dysmetabolism discriminated patients with CKD on HD with and without these movement disorders.
CONCLUSIONS: Movement disorders are prevalent in patients with CKD on HD. In Mosul city, there would be still delay in diagnosis and treatment of these movement disorders. The longer the duration on HD, the more frequent the PLMS and Parkinsonism cases.
Correlation of MLR with CRP and MPVPCR with LED in Traumatic Brain Injury
Authors: Natakusuma Tjokorda Istri Sri Dalem , Mahadewa Tjokorda Gde Bagus , Maliawan Sri , Budayanti Ni Nyoman Sri , Senapathi Tjokorda Gde Agung , Muliarta I Made
Published: February 2023

BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) contributes greatly to high rates of death and disability globally. It may be divided into primary and secondary injuries. Primary head injuries occur at the moment of impact which causes mechanical loads and accelerations both linearly and rotationally, causing injury to the brain. After the primary brain injury, further biochemical and cellular processes occur that lead to secondary injury. Secondary insult in TBI may lead to several neuroinflammation processes that are reflected on laboratory markers. The monocyte-lymphocyte ratio and mean platelet volume-platelet count ratio (MPVPCR) theoretically have the potential to be used as neuroinflammation markers in TBI.
AIM: This study was conducted to assess the relationship between monocyte-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), MPVPCR with both C-reactive protein (CRP), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) regarded as inflammation markers in relation to secondary brain injury.
METHODS: This study was a cross-sectional prospective analytic observational study conducted at the Sanglah hospital emergency department from February to May 2022. Patients diagnosed with TBI aged 18 years and over that were willing to be included in the study by consecutive sampling. Patients with a history of autoimmune disease, history of taking immunosuppressant drugs, and fractures of > 2 long bones were excluded and the presence of infection characterized by fever was excluded from the study. History taking and physical examination were done to obtain data regarding age, gender, mechanism of injury, Glasgow Coma Scale, fainting duration, and memory loss. The blood sample was taken at 24 h after trauma to obtain MLR, MPVPCR, CRP, and ESR results. Pearson correlation test was done to determine the correlation between MLR and MPVPCR with CRP and LED.
RESULTS: There are a total of 85 patients included in this study with the mean of age which is 36 ± 2.5 years old. Most of them are men (71.3%) with the mean of GCS on admission which is 12. Mean ± (SD) of the monocyte, lymphocyte, and platelet was 1.12 ± 0.82 × 103/μL, 1.83 ± 1.69 × 103/μL, and 259.34 ± 85.79 × 103/μL consecutively. MLR with CRP had a weak positive correlation and was statistically significant (r = 0.215; p = 0.045), as well as MPVPCR with ESR also had a weak positive correlation and was statistically significant (r = 0.276; p = 0.010). While both MLR with ESR and MPVPCR with CRP had no correlation.
CONCLUSION: MLR can be an option representing CRP in predicting the magnitude of inflammation in head injury and MPVPCR can be considered to be used as a predictor of thrombotic phenomena in TBI.
Macrosomia Risk Factors and Perinatal Outcomes: A 1-year Cohort Study
Authors: Isaku Merita , Vrapi Enxhi , Cala Ina , Perdja Kizjona , Bimbashi Astrit
Published: February 2023

AIM: This study aims to identify possible risk factors and concurrently investigates how macrosomia impacts mothers and neonates.
STUDY DESIGN: The study is a retrospective cohort of data obtained in a large tertiary obstetrics and neonatal unit over 1 year, from anuary 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019. Data of all deliveries conducted at the institution were accessed. In addition, singleton and term pregnancies were included for further analysis. Multiple pregnancies, premature births, stillbirths, non-vertex presentations, and being lost to follow-up served as exclusion criteria. A database of the cases was constructed and data regarding maternal constitutional parameters, mode of delivery, shoulder dystocia, perineal trauma, and postpartum hemorrhage were collected. Further on, pregnancies were divided accordingly into two groups: Macrosomic fetuses (>4000 g) and non-macrosomic fetuses (<4000 g). The two groups were compared to assess possible macrosomia risk factors and maternal-neonatal outcomes. Statistical analysis is done using the Mann–Whitney-U and Chi-square tests. Significance was set as p < 0.05.
RESULTS: A total of 3408 deliveries met the inclusion criteria of the study. The macrosomia rate is 10.3%. The mean age (30.1 ± 5.17 years vs. 28.9 ± 8.4 years, p < 0.05) and, body mass index (29.2 ± 3.54 vs. 26.1 ± 2.78, p < 0.05) was significantly higher in the macrosomia group. Women that gained more than 12.5 kg have nearly twice the odds of delivering a big baby (odds ratio [OR] 1.86, confidence interval [CI] 1.47–2.36, p < 0.001). No statistically significant differences were noted regarding cases of gestational diabetes (p = 0.56). Cesarean sections were preferred to vaginal deliveries in the macrosomic group (39.3% vs. 29.7%, OR 1.53, CI 1.2–1.9, p = 0.001). The risk of undergoing an emergency procedure is 6-fold higher in pregnancies with macrosomic newborns (20.5% vs. 13.6%, OR 6.1, CI 4.45–8.36, p < 0.001). Both episiotomy rate (40.45% vs. 31.9%, OR 1.44, CI 1.15–1.81, p = 0.001) and lacerations (3.13 % vs. 1.44%, OR 2.21, CI 1.13–4.33, p = 0.02) were higher in the macrosomic group.
CONCLUSION: The study concludes that macrosomia is associated with an increase in maternal and neonatal adverse outcomes.
Les certificats d’économie d’énergie entre économie et politique
Authors: Crampes Claude , Léautier Thomas-Olivier
Published: February 2023

Les certificats d’économie d’énergie (CEE) encouragent la rénovation des bâtiments et le remplacement de vieux équipements en obligeant les fournisseurs de gaz naturel, d’électricité et de fioul à réduire leurs livraisons. L’analyse microéconomique permet de relier le marché des certificats au marché des travaux d’économies d’énergie et à celui de l’énergie. Le handicap informationnel des ménages pour évaluer le lien entre travaux et consommation d’énergie et l’appartenance des travaux à la catégorie des « biens de confiance » expliquent la faible efficacité quantitative et financière du dispositif. Nous expliquons aussi pourquoi les CEE gardent les faveurs des pouvoirs publics malgré leurs mauvaises performances en mettant en avant leur appartenance à la panoplie des micropolitiques non punitives, non fiscales, décentralisées et créatrices d’emplois locaux. Classification JEL  : D13, D82, L97, Q48, Q51.
La capitalisation du prix des vins dans le prix des vignes en Côte-d’Or
Authors: Ay Jean-Sauveur , Diallo Abdoul , Pham Hai-Vu
Published: February 2023

Le prix des vignes sous appellation d’origine contrôlée (AOC) a fortement augmenté ces dernières décennies, au point de questionner sa connexion aux revenus issus de la vente de vin. Dans cet article, nous utilisons le modèle de capitalisation pour confronter les prix observés lors des mutations foncières aux revenus d’exploitation estimés à partir du prix des vins. Nous obtenons que les prix des vignes entre AOC augmentent plus fortement que les différences de revenus associés. Nous montrons que cette déconnexion peut s’expliquer par des effets de gamme pour l’acheteur, issus de la diversification de l’offre permise par l’achat de vigne. Par contre, la dynamique des prix n’est pas significativement différente de celle prédite par le modèle de capitalisation, ce qui va à l’encontre d’une potentielle spéculation foncière. Classification JEL  : L23, Q15, Q24.
Sortir de la lutte armée : dissonances cognitives et contradictions normatives. Le cas du PKK
Authors: Guibet Lafaye Caroline
Published: February 2023

Alors que l’engagement dans les organisations terroristes et les mouvements sociaux a suscité une littérature pléthorique, peu de travaux existent sur la sortie de ces deux types de collectifs. Pour saisir la pluralité des facteurs intervenant dans ces processus, nous nous sommes appuyés sur une enquête de sociologie empirique menée auprès de 64 militant.e.s du Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK). En effet, ce parti a connu une importante vague de départs de la guérilla au début des années 2000. L’étude microsociologique des trajectoires de désengagement conduit à nuancer le rôle de l’idéologie mis en avant par l’analyse méso-sociologique comme facteur explicatif des sorties de la violence. Elle est en outre utile pour mettre en évidence l’effet de la synergie entre facteurs méso (tels que les dysfonctionnements organisationnels) et facteurs micro (raisons personnelles, dissonances cognitives induites par l’identification de contradiction avec les valeurs qui motivent l’enrôlement et la réalité de la vie au sein de la guérilla) pour justifier la sortie de la clandestinité.
Bioleaching of critical metals using microalgae
Authors: Mukherjee Susmita , Paul Sharanya , Bhattacharjee Shreya , Nath Somava , Sharma Upasana , Paul Sonali
Published: February 2023

Critical metals, which mainly include the platinum group of metals, and the rare earth elements, have gained much importance because these elements are essential for economic development. A matter of concern is their availability, which is scarce, and so a constant supply is at risk. Bioleaching is one of the commonly used methods to extract these critical metals from various sources, such as industrial wastewater and mining water.

In this study, we have discussed the mechanisms of bioleaching, the factors that affect bioleaching, and a correlation between the extraction of the critical metals using microalgae which has many positive aspects. The review also suggests the future prospects for the use of microalgae in the extraction of critical metals.
An improved ant colony optimization for solving the flexible job shop scheduling problem with multiple time constraints
Authors: Yan Shaofeng , Zhang Guohui , Sun Jinghe , Zhang Wenqiang
Published: February 2023

The flexible job shop scheduling problem is important in many research fields such as production management and combinatorial optimization, and it contains sub-problems of machine assignment and operation sequencing. In this paper, we study a many-objective FJSP (MaOFJSP) with multiple time constraints on setup time, transportation time and delivery time, with the objective of minimizing the maximum completion time, the total workload, the workload of critical machine and penalties of earliness/tardiness. Based on the given problem, an improved ant colony optimization is proposed to solve the problem. A distributed coding approach is proposed by the problem features. Three initialization methods are proposed to improve the quality and diversity of the initial solutions. The front end of the algorithm is designed to iteratively update the machine assignment to search for different neighborhoods. Then the improved ant colony optimization is used for local search of the neighborhood. For the searched scheduling set the entropy weight method and non-dominated sorting are used for filtering. Then mutation and closeness operations are proposed to improve the diversity of the solutions. The algorithm was evaluated through experiments based on 28 benchmark instances. The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively solve the MaOFJSP problem.
An edge intelligence-enhanced quantitative assessment model for implicit working gain under mobile internet of things
Authors: Duan Xiangshuai , Song Naiping , Mo Fu
Published: February 2023

Edge intelligence refers to a novel operation mode in which intelligent algorithms are implemented in edge devices to break the limitation of computing power. In the context of big data, mobile computing has been an effective assistive tool in many cross-field areas, in which quantitative assessment of implicit working gain is typical. Relying on the strong ability of data integration provided by the Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent algorithms can be equipped into terminals to realize intelligent data analysis. This work takes the assessment of working gain in universities as the main problem scenario, an edge intelligence-enhanced quantitative assessment model for implicit working gain under mobile IoT. Based on fundamental data acquisition from deployed mobile IoT environment, all the distributed edge terminals are employed to implement machine learning algorithms to formulate a quantitative assessment model. The dataset collected from a real-world application is utilized to evaluate the performance of the proposed mobile edge computing framework, and proper performance can be obtained and observed.
A Topography of Dots: New Perspectives on the History and Legend of the Forty Thieves
Authors: Shaw Kim , Maxwell-Stewart Hamish , Harman Kristyn
Published: February 2023

Accounts of criminal organisations referred to as the “Forty Thieves” have been noted throughout nineteenth century Britain. While the profile of alleged members takes several different forms, the most common descriptions refer to gangs of youth who commit acts of coordinated theft in public spaces and at community events. Included in these accounts are repeated references to tattooed markings said to identify gang members. These consisted of a series of dots ranging from five to nine in number and were often concealed between the thumb and forefinger. While these accounts sparked the imagination of the British public and continue to contribute to what might be called the legend of the Forty Thieves, work to validate the truth of their specific claims has, to date, been limited. This study addresses this gap through an analysis of the recorded physical descriptions of over 40,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land between the years 1816-1853. Focusing on the presentation of dot pattern tattoos, it was found that convicts marked with five and seven dots differ from other convicts in two significant ways. Firstly, they are more likely to have a record of previous convictions; and secondly, they are considerably younger in age. We also recorded distinct regional differences in the acquisition of dot patterns for subjects born in different parts of Britain. While these findings support the assertion that such markings may in fact be indicative of juvenile criminal gangs, we conclude that the ubiquity of these markings and their geographic spread, both across Britain and beyond, implies that the Forty Thieves never existed as a discrete criminal organisation.
The Loughan House Controversy
Authors: Molloy Ciara
Published: February 2023

In October 1978, a detention centre known as Loughan House opened near Blacklion, Co. Cavan for young offenders between twelve and sixteen years of age. The history of this episode survives in folk memory as a disproportionate reaction to a perceived social crisis surrounding juvenile crime in 1970s Ireland. In order to assess the accuracy of this existing narrative, this article examines the episode through the lens of moral panic theory [MPT]. It argues that Loughan House, though not necessarily a punitive response in rhetoric or reality, nevertheless represented a failure of political imagination. This episode is particularly useful in highlighting the limitations of MPT, especially surrounding the concepts of disproportionality and punitiveness. Nevertheless, in spite of these limitations, the article contends that MPT remains valuable on both conceptual and affective levels.
Quand la prison s’embrase : révoltes et révoltés carcéraux (Paris, XVIIIe siècle)
Authors: Abdela Sophie
Published: February 2023

L’article aborde les révoltes carcérales trouvées dans les archives du Parlement de Paris et dans les archives de police entre 1700 et 1790. Il a pour objectif, d’abord, de brosser un premier portrait socioéconomique des détenus qui entrent en émeute et, ensuite, de mieux comprendre comment et, surtout, pourquoi les prisonniers des geôles du XVIIIe siècle se révoltaient. Il s’inscrit ainsi dans le développement de l’historiographie récente qui s’intéresse moins aux institutions d’enfermement elles-mêmes, qu’aux prisonniers qui les subissent, à leur capacité d’action et aux possibilités de résistance qu’ils y développent. À cette fin, le texte porte une attention particulière aux enjeux de la nourriture carcérale, point névralgique de la contestation prisonnière, mais aussi à ceux de la délation et des mouchards, autre cause récurrente de protestation. L’article permet ainsi de mieux comprendre les dynamiques internes des prisons d’Ancien Régime tout en redonnant aux détenus une part d’agentivité au sein même de leur enfermement. En conclusion, le texte fait état de la synchronicité entre certaines grandes émeutes carcérales et des révoltes de rue parisiennes. La prison s’embrase en effet alors même que Paris est secoué par l’affaire des enlèvements d’enfants, ou encore lors de la libéralisation des grains de Turgot. Cette première insertion dans le détail de l’action prisonnière nous invite donc à ne pas penser les révoltes populaires et carcérales en vase clos : peut-être faudrait-il plutôt envisager la prison comme le potentiel prolongement de la rue.
An Extendable Functioning Waiting Room Solution for Online Education Platforms
Authors: Kırlı Kaan , Ozen Cagla
Published: February 2023

When COVID-19 spread from China, the majority of people witnessed that the form of education changed. This situation has increased the need for online education platforms. Although videoconference platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet became popular to meet the requirement, these platforms have some drawbacks. To illustrate, the majority of students are not active and cannot take a proactive role during the lectures. Furthermore, they stay idle and get bored on the waiting rooms of these platforms. To fill this gap, an extendable functioning waiting room was created by using ASP.NET framework via Visual Studio platform. Proposed waiting room present a solution for enhancing user experience (UX) by increasing user engagement on the online education platform. This chapter would be interesting for not only educators who use online learning platforms but also videoconference platform users and developers.
Playing Myself/Selves
Authors: Smith Richard T. Sawdon
Published: February 2023

For nearly three decades, the author has used photography to develop a personal narrative that tells the story of living with HIV. Now with a normal life expectancy, the author is rewriting the self in the author's project “The Unknowing...X” to think about what the future could hold. This has involved a form of playing previous selves and personas that have been inhabited through the years, by delving into a massive dressing up box collected throughout the author's life. The author introduces examples of previous photography projects to set the foundations of an autoethnographic practice, then indicates the departure in process that led to the new work, developing a methodology based on play and ‘not knowing'. This new process is called ‘unknowing' and has led to a subconscious act of image making, drawing on previous lives lived, memories, and the influences that have shaped the author's practice and world to produce photographic self-portraits that are the most autobiographical to date.
Recent Advances in Green-Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Biomedical Applications
Authors: Arora Richa , Bharti Vijay K.
Published: February 2023

Various researchers have been focused on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (SNPs) owing to their widespread benefits in various fields including material sciences, biotechnology, medical sciences, engineering, etc. Biological applications and toxicity of SNPs are greatly dependent on their method of synthesis, experimental model species, duration and dose regime, etc. Green-synthesis is a commonly used methodology for synthesis medical grade SNPs that has minimal to nil toxicity and good biocompatibility in various animal models and human beings. Therefore, a number of SNPs technologies and products have been licensed and commercialized in the consumer markets for human application and treatment of various medical problems. Hence, this review has discussed the recent advances and updates on various approaches of green synthesis of SNPs, their biomedical applications, and their toxicological effects. This will help researchers and readers to investigate further techniques of synthesis of SNPs and industrial applications.
Unified Cybersecurity Data Analytical Model for Smart Learning Operations
Authors: Kuppusamy Palanivel , K. Suresh Joseph
Published: February 2023

In the fast-changing global environment, educational apps are widely used with hybrid and multi-cloud environments and intelligent devices. They offer various society services such as quality data for monitoring and prediction skills with protection and reliability. Smart learning systems pose a unique security risk because many people access and operate different techniques simultaneously over multiple networks. As a result, cybercrime has been brought about by the internet and the availability of intelligent devices. The security of online learning systems has received significant consideration. Because today's creative learning is open, distributed, and networked, ensuring that authorized users only have access to the appropriate data at the right time is a considerable challenge. The current security practices are outdated; hence, this chapter examines cyber-attacks on smart learning systems from their standard architecture and security requirements and proposes a cyber security model for educational operations from a multi/hybrid cloud-based learning environment.
Using Hybrid Gamification to Build Community and Self-Efficacy Among Diverse University STEM Students
Authors: Cotter Karen J.
Published: February 2023

Technology is all around us and has become ubiquitous in everyday life. Today's Generation Z college students are the first coeds who have never lived without technology. It is incorporated throughout their day and in a plethora of ways in college campuses. Many professional STEM jobs go unfilled annually, especially by diverse individuals. Many underserved, first-generation, African American, Latinx, and female students arrive on campus with disadvantages that create barriers to success. Increasing the number of STEM graduates to fill these jobs requires innovative ways to support and retain these underserved students. STEM Bridge programs across the country use various strategies to engage, retain, and graduate STEM majors. This chapter presents research on the unique use of hybrid gamification as an educational technology strategy, in a Bridge STEM program, to foster a sense of community and self-efficacy to support STEM majors as they persist to a STEM degree.
Human Trafficking and Forced Labour in Southeast Asia
Authors: Ghazali Farahdilah , Shukor Siti Fazilah Abdul
Published: February 2023

Human trafficking and forced labour are not new issues in Southeast Asia, and they are still prevalent today. This chapter explores the social and ecological dynamics of migration and trafficking, as well as the underlying causes of these problems, especially in multinational corporations. This chapter also examines the international and regional laws relating to human trafficking and forced labour. Although many international instruments have been established, these issues are still growing as many trafficking victims are still trapped in a variety of industries. The complexity of the global supply and demand chain have directly enabled human trafficking to be more profitable. Many countries have taken various initiatives to promulgate their home legislation to combat human trafficking. Nevertheless, the continued existence of human trafficking demonstrates a lack of enforcement. Finally, the study emphasises the significance of coordination and collaboration across member states, including transparent data exchange on human trafficking and forced labour.
Multi-Dimensional Understandings of Migration
Authors: Yigit Sureyya
Published: February 2023

This chapter will identify and elaborate on the migratory phenomenon, or migration, in general, indicating the displacement of one person or group of people, which can happen within the same country (internal migration) or through crossing international borders (international migration). International migration, therefore, involves the country of provenance/origin of the person and one or more countries of transit, and finally, a country of destination. The term migration, therefore, embraces all types of displacements without distinction in terms of temporal, spatial, and causal amplitude. It includes economic, environmental, forced migration, family reunification, and other variants. Consequently, the migrant is a person who, for whatever reason, moves from the country of origin. However, the definition of a migrant is not universally accepted.
Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling for AI-Based Security Applications
Authors: Alex Sini Anna , A. Parkavi , V. Sangeetha
Published: February 2023

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is defined as the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions that we associate with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting with the environment, problem solving, decision-making, and even demonstrating creativity. This field of artificial intelligence finds itself indispensable across various domains like shopping, fraud prevention, personalized learning, autonomous vehicles, voice assistants, etc. It is widely used in the field of cyber security. There are numerous AI based security models to delay security threats. Such algorithms could be classified under three heads – rule-based, shallow machine learning and deep learning algorithms. Fuzzy logic and fuzzy neural networks fall under rule-based algorithm. support vector machine (SVM), naïve bayes, decision tree, random forest, k-nearest neighbour and ensemble learning are some shallow ML algorithms that could be employed for cyber security.
A Comprehensive Approach to AI-Based Fake News Prediction in Digital Platforms by Applying Supervised Machine Learning Techniques
Authors: Sarkar Sakya , Nandan Mauparna
Published: February 2023

In the modern era, the quantity of data, specifically the text data, has increased rapidly. Recently, fake news has gained a lot of attention worldwide. Generally, fake news is propagated through different social media. The effects of fake news may be economic, political, organizational, or personal. To save the life of community from fake news propagation, identification of fake news at an initial point is crucial. The fake news propagators target innocent people for spreading the fake news and they become a part of fake news propagation unknowingly. To prevent this kind of activity, fake news detection and its blueprint of propagation becomes crucial to community and government. This chapter makes an analysis related to the prediction of fake news through the help of supervised ML algorithms. The ML algorithms are adopted for the categorization of fake news as true or false with the help of NLP textual analysis and feature extraction. However, during the testing phase, the XGB algorithm gives the best result over other ML algorithms with an accuracy of 99%.
Internet of Things Integration in Renewable Energy Systems
Authors: Nasserddine Ghalia , Nassereddine Mohamed , El Arid Amal Adel
Published: February 2023

Recently, with the birth of globalization, the world has witnessed a huge growth in its energy consumption. From an agricultural society, the world has transformed itself into an industrial and knowledge society. This transformation leads to a surge in energy consumption which led to an increase in carbon emission. For this reason, renewable energy systems with zero carbon emission has become a vital need for economic comfort and environmental security. However, the main disadvantage of renewable energy is its intermittency and prediction. Solar and wind generation are usually unpredictable, which leads to several problems if the network heavily relies on renewable energy as the primary source of electricity. This chapter describes the integration of the internet of things (IoT) with renewable energy systems to cover these problems. The authors will start with an introduction to renewable energy systems and their limitations. Then, they focus on the advantage of using IoT to enhance renewable systems.
Digital Twins and Sustainable Developments in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
Authors: Yuce Ali
Published: February 2023

As information and communication technologies have had such a profound impact on every part of our lives, the globe has undergone significant transformation. This impact will not only increase productivity and efficiency, but will also have a substantial positive impact on all aspects of sustainable development. Recent developments in technologies that convey dynamic and real-time data, like the digital twin, have the great potential to revolutionize our concept of sustainability in smart manufacturing and monitoring natural resources. With the use of digital twin technology, one may decrease and potentially eliminate possible energy waste, maintenance expenses, and time waste by making quick predictions and taking prompt remedial action during the manufacturing process. This conceptual paper contends that digital twin can significantly boost an organization's productivity and profitability while enhancing destinations' values, including distinctive natural, cultural, and environmental resources, without endangering the lives of the next generation.
Design and Simulation of Hydraulic Winch Tension Control for Trawler
Authors: Zhang Jia Qi , Xie Yong He , Li De Tang , Hong Yong Qiang , Chen Qing , Wang Jun , Gao Wei Peng
Published: February 2023

The trawler winch is a main winching tool in the fishing operation of trawler. The disturbing influence of various factors such as sea wind and waves, change in the size of the catch and the turning of the fishing vessel during the operation of the trawler will cause unbalanced force on the wire rope of the two winches, which will easily cause the deformation and damage of the fishing net facilities and directly affect the improvement of the fishing yield and increase the harvest. In order to compensate for the change of the tension of the winch tractor during the operation of the trawler, the change of the load tension caused by the wave, or the rotation direction of the fishing vessel, and to ensure the good shape of the net opening, an electro-hydraulic control technology was used to design an automatic trawler tension controller. The tension control method of the trawler is investigated. The tension sensor is used as the input information of the electrical signal of the trawler's left and right trawler, which is measured indirectly and transmitted to the controller for logical operation, and the output torque of the hydraulic motor is changed by controlling the pilot overflow, which drives the trawler winch to adjust the tension of the left and right trawler to achieve the dynamic balance of the control system. In order to solve the problem of the tension of the trawl and the influence of the length change on the trawl, we designed an intelligent control system combining PLC control system and hydraulic system and used AMEsim hydraulic simulation software system to model and simulate it, the results show that without PLC control the torque of hydraulic motor 1 is 2387.7NM, the torque of hydraulic motor 9 is 2148.64NM the difference is 239.06 NM uneven force on both sides of the trailing platform, after adding PLC adjustment torque is obviously controlled torque to maintain about 2300NM, within a certain range to play a reliable adjustment effect.
Satisfaction with the Journey of Receiving a Diagnosis of Autism: Experiences of Indian Parents
Authors: Malhi Prahbhjot , Prasad K. Venkata Durga , Suthar Renu
Published: February 2023

Objectives:

The objective is to examine the experiences of parents regarding receiving a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for their child and the factors influencing parental satisfaction with the process of diagnosis.

Methodology:

Eighty-five children (2–12 years) with ASD (DSM 5 criteria) were consecutively recruited from the department of pediatrics of a tertiary care hospital in north India over 2 years. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to elicit information regarding early developmental concerns, age at the first visit to a professional, kinds of professionals consulted, diagnoses considered, and time taken to receive a definitive diagnosis of autism. Parents were asked to self-report their level of satisfaction with the diagnostic process on a three-point scale.

Results:

Overall, the mean age at first parental concern was 2.16 years (standard deviation [SD] = 1.04). Parents on average waited for 7 months before consulting a specialist. The mean age of diagnosis was 4.67 years (SD = 2.42). Analysis of diagnoses received before the diagnosis of ASD revealed that despite early parental concerns, one-fourth did not receive any specific diagnosis, one-fourth of the parents were told that their child was developing normally, and the majority were misdiagnosed (42.4%). A definitive diagnosis of autism took nearly 2½ years from the time when parents first started to have concerns about their child’s development. The majority (51.8%) of the parents reported being dissatisfied with their diagnostic experiences, and the level of satisfaction was primarily explained by the number of professionals consulted for a diagnosis of autism (F = 6.54, P = 0.012).

Conclusions:

The findings underscore the need to educate primary care clinicians regarding the early signs of autism and to be respectful of parental concerns to make a timely diagnosis of autism and initiate evidence-based early interventions.
Morphological Changes in Blood Cells as Indicators for Disease Progression in COVID-19
Authors: Sundari A. Abinaya , Shivapriya R. , Karthikeyan T. M. , Venkatesh Veenaa
Published: February 2023

BACKGROUND:

COVID-19 as a pandemic has caused an alarming increase in mortality and morbidity. Viral-induced morphologic changes in the peripheral blood cells are well characterized in certain infections and can direct diagnostic workup to ensure timely therapeutic intervention. This study describes the morphological changes of blood cells in various stages of COVID disease.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

A total of thousand COVID-positive patients admitted in the tertiary care center were taken for the study. They were classified as mild, moderate, and severe based on the clinical criteria suggested by World Health Organization. Peripheral smears of the patients were analyzed, and the morphological changes in various blood cells were correlated with the disease stage and coagulation parameters.

RESULTS:

The study demonstrated significant morphological changes in the blood cells of COVID patients during the course of disease progression and during the onset of COVID-associated coagulopathy. Leukocytosis, neutrophilia, and toxic changes in neutrophils were seen in the severe stage of the disease and in COVID coagulopathy suggesting these are important indicators of disease severity. Activated lymphocyte was found to be the most common morphological presentation seen in all patients irrespective of the disease stage, whereas plasmacytoid lymphocytes were an important finding in severe-stage disease. Schistocytes an important finding in any other coagulopathy was present only in 1% of cases of COVID coagulopathy.

CONCLUSIONS:

The study demonstrated significant morphological changes in the blood cells of COVID-positive patients during the course of disease progression. Comprehensive daily complete blood count and peripheral smear examination should be undertaken in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 to predict potential clinical deterioration and signs of disease progression. These morphological changes in peripheral smear can be used as one of the factors indicating disease progression which can formulate for further evaluation. Since follow-up and post-COVID morphological examination were not done, additional research in this aspect can shed light on the clinical categorization of COVID patients based on the morphological findings.
Determinants of Youth Farmers’ Utilization of Improved Rice Production Practices in South West, Nigeria
Authors: Ogunkunle Tajudeen , Olaniyi Olumuyiwa Akin , Puseletso Likoetla
Published: February 2023

The study assessed the determinants of young farmers’ utilization of improved rice production practices in South West Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used in the selection of 317 respondents for the study. Data were collected through the use of an interview schedule. Frequency counts, percentages, mean, and Probit- censored double-hurdle regression model was used to analyze the data. Findings reveal that the major improved rice production practices utilized by the young farmers included: the selection of improved rice varieties (88.3%) and appropriate use of agrochemicals (99.3%), while the most intensively utilized practices were: farm planning and use of cropping calendar (WMS=1.38), timely planting of rice (WMS=2.24) and safekeeping and handling of agro-chemicals (WMS=2.48). Age (β = -0.073646, -0.0039496). Years of education (β = -0.0565773, 0.003665), years of farming experiences (β = 0.0081413, 0.003140, availability of improved agricultural practices information (β = 0.0413969, 0.114309) and knowledge level of improved rice production practices (β = 0.0396945, 0.408986) had the likelihood of determining utilization and intensity of use of Improved rice production practices in the study area. Government and other relevant agricultural stakeholders should focus on the identified factors in view to enhance the utilization of improved rice production practices in the study area.
Vogel, Debora (1900–1942)
Authors: Lyubas Anastasiya
Published: February 2023

Debora Vogel (1900–42) was a Polish-Jewish writer, poet, art critic, essayist, philosopher, and translator. She is a key – yet unrecognised – figure in the constellation of Polish and Yiddish Modernism. Vogel’s experiments with Cubism and Constructivism in poetry, as well as her theories of montage and simultaneity in prose, and a range of topics in essays, covering the psychology of anti-Semitism to approaches to modern art, make her an author of considerable significance not only at the beginning of the twentieth century when she lived, but during the late twentieth century, and the contemporary period.
Karakterisasi Metil Ester Dari Minyak Biji Bunga Matahari dan Minyak Zaitun di Bawah Katalis KOH
Authors: Santoso Aman , Asrori Muhammad Roy , Sumari Sumari , Pradana Andyka Medarda
Published: February 2023

Fatty acid methyl esters can be obtained from the synthesis of vegetable oil with methanol using a base catalyst. Vegetable oil has potential as biodiesel feedstock, the methyl ester character of various vegetable oils is different, for example from sunflower seed oil and olive oil. The synthesis of methyl esters by conventional transesterification reactions generally takes 1-2 hours. The purpose of this study was to synthesize methyl esters from sunflower seed oil and olive oil with a KOH catalyst and to determine the yield and its characteristics. This research is a type of laboratory experimental research. The research was carried out in 3 stages which included (1) determination of the free fatty acid content (ALB) of the oil, (2) transesterification of the oil with methanol and potassium hydroxide as a catalyst, and (3) characterization of the synthesized methyl ester which included density, viscosity, and number. acid. The results showed that the yield of methyl esters synthesized by transesterification reaction of sunflower seed oil was 95.61% and the yield of methyl esters synthesized by transesterification reaction of olive oil was 95.09.%. The methyl ester characters synthesized from sunflower seed oil are, density of 0.906 g/mL, viscosity of 5.035 cSt, acid number of 1.21 g KOH/g. The methyl ester characters synthesized from olive oil by transesterification reaction are density of 0.909 g/mL, viscosity of 12.203 cSt, acid number of 0.629 g KOH/g.
Transcriptoma dual do efeito leishmanicida de inibidores de enzimas modificadoras de histonas na infecção in vitro e estudos de histonas deacetilases de L. braziliensis
Authors:   , Agripino Joice de Melo
Published: February 2023

Leishmaniose cutânea (LC) é a manifestação clínica mais comum entre as leishmanioses, grupo de doenças negligenciadas causadas por parasitos do gênero Leishmania. O Brasil concentra a maior parte dos casos de LC nas Américas, sendo L. (Viannia) braziliensis a espécie mais prevalente. O arsenal terapêutico para o tratamento das leishmanioses é escasso e provoca efeitos colaterais graves, sendo necessário o desenvolvimento de novos medicamentos. As histonas deacetilases (HDACs) e as proteínas arginina metiltransferases (PRMTs) possuem importância para a biologia de diferentes células, incluindo parasitos, pois atuam na epigenética afetando a regulação da expressão gênica e replicação. Por isto vêm sendo apontadas como potenciais alvos farmacológicos. Foram selecionados previamente um inibidor de PRMT (BSF2) e um inibidor de HDAC (TH85) com ação leishmanicida contra L. braziliensis na infecção de macrófagos. Como forma de avaliar potenciais mecanismos de ação, neste trabalho foi realizada a montagem e a análise de RNA-Seq dual de macrófagos infectados por L. braziliensis na infecção e tratados com o BSF2 e TH85. O tratamento com o BSF2 levou à modulação negativa da via do TNF em macrófagos, sendo esta via validada por PCR em tempo real. O tratamento com o TH85 não alterou a expressão diferencial de genes de macrófagos ou do parasito, indicando que este inibidor de HDAC pode realmente estar atuando diretamente no parasito, sem influência direta na transcrição gênica global. Complementando este trabalho, apresenta-se dados preliminares da deleção gênica por CRISPR/Cas9 das 4 HDACs de L. braziliensis. A deleção única ou dupla das HDACs parece ter influenciado no crescimento e divisão celular das populações transfectadas. Porém estes dados precisam ser confirmados com clones isolados. Este trabalho também apresenta o depósito de uma patente sobre a aplicação das HDACs de L. braziliensis recombinantes no diagnóstico de leishmaniose. Como conclusão, este trabalho reforça as HDACs e seus inibidores como potenciais aplicações biotecnológicas no desenvolvimento de medicamentos e de estratégias de diagnóstico de leishmaniose causada por L. braziliensis. Palavras-chave: Transcriptoma. Leishmanicida. L. braziliensis.
German Lutherans and the 'English': culture, conflict and building a one-room school in the Wimmera 1873-1881
Authors: Rushbrook Peter
Published: February 2023

The paper is an edited version ofa paper delivered to the 'Country Schooling: Old Stories, New Lessons' Conference at the University ofIowa, USA, 27·29 June 2002. It explores tensions between German and English settlers in establishing a one~room school in Murtoa, a hamlet in Victoria's Wimmera district, between I873·I88I. The narrative reveals some broader themes ofthe period relating to the establishment of a state-based 'Free, Compulsory and Secular' education system, the challenges associated with building schools in remote rural areas, and the related hardships faced by teachers.
The Rural Population Transformation and Education in Australia
Authors: McSwan David
Published: February 2023

This paper aims to relate the Australian data on rural-urban migration and economic change to education. It illustrates that there has been scant polity attention to the fundamental role ofeducation in the changing nature ofAustralia's rural areas. Australla's rural policy has been firmly driven by the massive political power ofthe rural industries and mining lobbies; the voice ofrural communities being lost to the winds. Governments should be alert to the needs ofrural Australia. Issues of social justice and equity are being raised and heard as never before and ordinary Australians are increasingly aware of, and cherish, our rural communities, our rural image. and our sense-ofourselves as sharing a rural heritage. Recent data show that regional Australia, in favoured areas, is prospering. A number ofpolicy considerations are canvassed with the conclusion that leading-edge information and communications technologies are an essential prerequisite if regional Australia is to prosper and metropolitan areas and the south-east are to avoid undesirable crowding. Isolated rural areas are more problematic and a policy approach to a sustainable future for them is not immediately apparent to the author.