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Due Diligence Mechanisms in Business Entities: Case of Albania
Authors: Burnazi Mitllari Ledja
Published: October 2023

This paper examines and explores the concept of due diligence mechanisms in respect of human rights as it pertains to business entities in Albania. In recent years, there has been increased attention paid to the responsibility of businesses to respect human rights, especially in countries with less robust legal frameworks. Albania, a country undergoing rapid economic development, presents a compelling case study for examining the implementation of due diligence in this due context. The paper considers the various approaches to due diligence in respect of human rights, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the mandatory due diligence legal framework of the European Union, and examines their application in the Albanian context. It also highlights the challenges and opportunities for businesses operating in Albania, particularly in the extractive and manufacturing sectors, and identifies areas for further research and collaboration between the government, civil society, and the private sector. Eventually, this paper argues that due diligence in respect of human rights is not only a legal obligation but also a crucial element of sustainable business practices, contributing to the long-term success and prosperity of both businesses and society as a whole.
International Agreements as Instruments for Furthering Regional Cooperation in Southeast Europe
Authors: Glodić Duško
Published: October 2023

Regional cooperation between the countries of Southeast Europe and the Western Balkans was launched more than two decades ago. Since then, a number of different initiatives, cooperative platforms and other means of international cooperation have been deployed and used for the sake of strengthening this cooperation. There are almost all areas of interstate actions that have been included in the intergovernmental coordination and cooperation with a varying degree of connecting and integrating them. The concrete modalities of cooperation included not only political manifestos, joint declaratory statements by the governmental representatives, but over time materialised in a more solemn and official forms, such as the one of international agreements. Some cooperative initiatives resulted in the establishment of intergovernmental organisations and entailed further coordination, or even harmonisation, of the national policies in certain areas by conclusion of multilateral agreements. In this respect, this paper aims at exploring in which manners furthering regional inter-state cooperation was implemented via conclusion of international agreements as the tools of intergovernmental interaction, which are governed by International Law. The paper examines used formats of the agreements as well as the extent of interconnecting activities and coordinating efforts in the areas covered by concrete agreements.
Waiver of moral rights in copyright law: what Bangladesh can learn from the UK approach?
Authors: bin Siddique Fahad
Published: October 2023

The provisions pertaining to moral rights were included in the copyright law of the United Kingdom (UK) as a consequence of the enactment of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). The UK has included a comprehensive waiver of the moral rights clause in CDPA, although the Berne Convention provides no definitive guidance on this issue. In contrast, the Copyright Act of Bangladesh, enacted in 2000, has a provision for moral rights compliant with the Berne Convention. While Bangladesh has maintained full compliance with the Berne Convention in regard to moral rights, the Copyright Act, 2000 contains no specific provision regarding the waiver of moral rights. There is no doubt, however, that the explicit clause addressing the waiver of moral rights in the UK’s copyright legislation offers authors and publishers significant benefits. Because retaining ambiguity or grey areas in the law, such as Bangladesh’s copyright statute, might generate unnecessary confusion and impediments to the author’s freedom of choice. From this perspective, this article will attempt to analyse the UK’s approach to waiving moral rights, given that both countries share exact origins in copyright legislation. This article will also discuss whether the possible insertion of a waiver provision to the copyright statute of Bangladesh will be advantageous and beneficial to authors and publishers.
The Albanian Legal Guarantees for the Protection of National Minorities
Authors: Ruci Hektor
Published: October 2023

This paper assesses the major issues in regard to previous Albanian Constitutions of 1921, 1976 and 1991. Moreover, it states the provisions of the current Constitution (1998 with amendments) for the recognition and protection of human rights. Some of the issues raised are the obstacles that Albanian institutions confront with both nationally and internationally in guaranteeing the protection of national minorities’ rights. Moreover, the purpose of this paper is to shed light on the adoption of the new legislation on minority rights on the basis of its role and duties under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The essence of democracy is the protection of fundamental freedoms and human rights, and ensuring that these freedoms and rights are fully protected makes a state substantially democratic.
The CJEU Ruling on Cases Gavanozov I and Gavanozov II
Authors: Gotovuša Ena
Published: October 2023

This article analyses the two judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Gavanozov case, which deals with judicial protection against European Investigation Orders in Bulgaria. Questions for a preliminary ruling were referred twice to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the Spetsializiran nakazatelen sad (Specialised Criminal Court, Bulgaria). In the second judgment of 11 November 2021 (Gavanozov II), the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that European Investigation Orders cannot be issued by a Member State whose national legislation does not provide for any legal remedy against it. Against this background, the article examines the impact of these rulings on the level and scope of protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the European Union in the context of judicial cooperation in criminal matters between the Member States.
ANALISIS LEARNING OBSTACLES DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MATERI PELUANG BESERTA PENERAPANNYA: SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Authors: Riastuti Ade
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi  hambatan belajar yang yang dialami siswa pada  materi  peluang beserta penerapannya selama  beberapa  tahun  terakhir.  Penelitian  ini  berlandaskan pada penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan metode yaitu systematic  literature  review. Teknik pengumpulan data dengan menggunakan data extraction. Kriteria dalam pengambilan data dilakukan dalam beberapa tahapan  yaitu  (1) mengumpulkan artikel yang sama untuk mengkaji tentang materi peluang; (2) mengidentifikasi learning obstacle pada materi peluang dari artikel yang didapat peneliti; (3) mengidentifikasi manfaat atau penerapan pada materi peluang dari artikel yang didapat peneliti; dan (4) Menyusun laporan hasil analisis learning obstacle siswa pada materi peluang dari artikel yang didapat peneliti. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dari analisis 16 artikel, bahwa teridentifikasi learning obstacle siswa pada materi peluang yang dikelompokan kedalam tiga bagian yaitu: pertama ontogenical obstacle salah satu penyebabnya kurang motivasi belajar yang berdampak pada antusias siswa dalam belajar materi peluang; kedua epistemological obstacle yang disebabkan dari respon intuitif siswa atau keterbatasan dalam memahami konsep kombinasi dan permutasi pada materi peluang; dan yang ketiga adalah didactical obstacle yang disebabkan dari keterbatasan sumber bahan ajar, sehingga berpengaruh pada keterbatasan variasi soal dan pengalaman siswa dalam penyelesaian masalah materi peluang. Materi peluang juga dapat diterapkan dalam ilmu pengetahuan lain seperti: bidang pendidikan, bidang kesehatan, bidang keuangan, bidang teknologi, dan dalam bidang lainnya.
Advanced Unknown Malicious Code Detection Model
Authors: Hyoungjun Kim  , Jaehee Lee  , Hyunsik Yoon  , Kyungho Lee
Published: October 2023

As IT technology increases, it became part of our life. Because of change in numbers, the files anddata used in IT also increased. With simple data and file, malicious codes also increased in greatnumber. This malicious code leads too many problems in the society. In fact, recently, new maliciouscodes that have not been detected yet are used in attacks such as APT (Advanced PersistentThreat). These codes became problem and lead to great damages. Thus, the speed of finding theundefined malicious code and making countermeasures became one of the important key words ofthe security. However, finding new malicious codes that is currently in action seems impossible. Inorder to find the malicious codes faster, there are researches on finding the special properties of themalicious code’s file or action pattern. Through finding the properties of the codes, detecting themalicious codes became more effective and the results are satisfactory. This research will find therelation of malicious code’s file property, behavior property, and property of each group or groupas a hole in order to effectively detect the code that is suspicious of being malignant effectively andprecisely. Thus, this paper will present a way to apply priority when it comes to detecting maliciouscode.
Secure Virtual Keypad for Smartphones against Shoulder Surfing Attacks
Authors: Dongmin Choi  , Cheolheon Baek  , Jian Shen  , Ilyong Chung
Published: October 2023

Currently, cryptographic security of financial applications that run on mobile devices is considereda main feature. Thus, financial institutions develop novel secure solutions that are cryptographicallysecure. However, in terms of social engineering attacks, financial applications are vulnerable becausemost mobile devices have a display screen that is easily visible to attackers; they can easily look overyour shoulder to see your password as you input it using the screen keypad. Therefore, we focusedon securing the mobile keypad against shoulder surfing attacks. In this paper, we modified the previous4-color based keypad that supports color blindness, and made it more secure against multipleattackers.
A Traffic Mitigation Method for DDoS Defense in Large Autonomous System
Authors: Ho-Seok Kang  , Sung-Ryul Kim
Published: October 2023

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
The Trusted Two-dimensional Code System based on Certificate-based Signature Scheme
Authors: Tianhan Gao  , Luoyin Feng  , Yingnan Zhao  , Shiyue Qin  , Quanqi Wang
Published: October 2023

With the high capacity, fast recognition speed, as well as strong correction ability, two-dimensionalcode is widely used in many fields such as e-commerce. However, how to guarantee the authenticityof two-dimensional code becomes an urgent security demand. In this paper, we design and implementan authentic two-dimensional code system based on certificate-based signature scheme (CBS).The system includes trusted center module, authentic two-dimensional code generation module, andauthentic two-dimensional code verification module. The trusted center is in charge of initializingsystem parameters and issuing certificates. Two-dimensional code generation module achieves secretkey reading from USBKey and two-dimensional code generation functions. Two-dimensional codeverification module is responsible for two-dimensional code scanning and CBS signature verification.Bilinear pairing is adopted to implement the CBS algorithms. The web interface is built withJavaScript. Further productization of the prototype system will play an important role in promotingsecure application of two-dimensional code.
A Grid-based Approach to Location-Dependent Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Jaewoo Choi  , Jihyun Bang  , Mirim Ahn  , Leehyung Kim  , Taekyoung Kwon
Published: October 2023

To achieve secure communications in wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes should be able to establishsecret shared keys with neighboring parties. The location information of sensor nodes can beused to generate a shared key. In this paper, we propose yet another location-based key managementscheme for wireless sensor networks. After reviewing the existing location-based key managementschemes, we focus on the scheme called LDK because of its pros and cons. To solve a communicationinterference problem in LDK and its similar methods, we devise the new key revision processthat incorporates the grid-based location information. We also propose the key establishment processusing the grid information. For analysis, we conducted a simulation and confirmed that our methodcan increase the connectivity while decrease the compromise ratio when the minimum number ofcommon keys required for key establishment is high. Finally, we also found that hexagonal deploymentof anchor nodes can save network costs in our method.
Query Recommending Scheme : Implementations and Evaluation
Authors: Hoen-min Lee  , Taerim Lee  , Kyung Hyune Rhee  , Sang Uk Shin
Published: October 2023

In general e-Discovery processing, most litigants depend heavily on lawyers for dealing with a seriesof work required in the litigation process. Although there are other reasons that impel the lawyer todo so, the most serious problem is that lawyer cannot know the detail information of litigant’s datafrom the beginning. It causes misuse of keyword and then it makes poor results of evidences search,so it will lower the efficiency of entire e-Discovery work. To solve these problems, we proposed theconcept of QRS through the ICACT 2014. In this paper, we introduce how we develop the QRS asa system and evaluate the performance of QRS by experiments based on the two legal cases used inTREC Legal Track.
Robust Method for Hiding Binary Image into JPEG HDR Base Layer Image against Common Image Processing
Authors: Myung-Ho Lee  , Oh-Jin Kwon  , Yong-Hwan Lee
Published: October 2023

Hiding a binary image into color or grey images has been adopted as a useful watermarking methodfor protecting ownership rights. We propose a practical method for this purpose. We generate aparticular binary pseudo-random sequence resembling the sequence used in code division multipleaccess (CDMA) method. We scramble the input binary image normally representing the ownershipby using the modified Hadamard kernel, generate the CDMA binary sequence robust to image processingdistortions, and hide the resulting sequence in the normalized host image. Experimentalresults show that our method guarantees the robustness against common image processing attackssuch as JPEG compression, cropping, scaling, histogram equalization, changing luminance and contrast,etc.
Design and Implementation of Low-power Nanoscale Cryptosystem for Group-centric secure information sharing
Authors: Valliyappan Valliyappan  , Eugene B John  , Ram Krishnan  , Sruthi Nanduru
Published: October 2023

Advancement in technology, creates a dire need of secure data transmission for information exchange.The Data Encryption Standard (DES), Triple Data Encryption Standard (TDES) and AdvancedEncryption standard (AES) algorithms are a few of the widely used encryption algorithmsfor secure data exchange process.In this paper, the integration of different security algorithms via;AES, DES and triple DES in g-SIS on a Single Silicon Die is designed and implemented. The areaand power consumption of different algorithms are taken as the evaluation parameters for analysisof the system. The total design is coded using Xilinx ISE and Icarus Verilog, it is synthesized usinga cadence RTL compiler and finally the GDS2 layout of the design is implemented using cadenceEncounter.
Secure Distribution Protocol for Restoring Information with Different Accesing Grants
Authors: Lidia Ogiela  , Marek R. Ogiela  , Urszula Ogiela
Published: October 2023

In the paper will be presented some advances in procedures used for encryption and division of secretdata, as well as modern approaches for management of splitted information. Computer techniquesfor secret information sharing aim to secure information against disclosure to unauthorized persons.The paper will describe algorithms allowing for information sharing and secret parts distribution withregards to the different accessing grants for particular persons. Presented protocol allows to preventinsider treats and information leakage, while performing secret part distribution, and informationrestoration.
A Privacy Preserving V2I Service Access Management System for Vehicular Clouds
Authors: Youngho Park  , Chul Sur  , Kyung-Hyune Rhee
Published: October 2023

Vehicular cloud computing is a technological paradigm shifting which takes advantage of cloud computingto provide vehicles with useful computing resources and services. With the rapid advancementof intelligent vehicles and Intelligent Transportation System infrastructures, some researches on theliteratures have put forth a vision of the combination of vehicular network with could computing inrecent. However, little efforts have concentrated on security features for vehicular cloud services. Inparticular, privacy is one of the critical security issues in vehicular cloud as well as vehicular communicationssince a third-party entity may be involved in cloud service management and operations. Inthis paper, we design a privacy preserving vehicle-to-infrastructure cloud access management systemin which neither global eavesdropper nor any single system management entity can trace a vehiclefor service provision. We make use of pre-loaded pseudonyms to generate anonymous service accesstokens for vehicles and RSU local revocation check to reduce the size of revocation list in the system.
Detection of Employees’ Carelessness Leading to Cause Insider Threats through Analyzing Email RDF Data
Authors: Sung-Min Kim  , Young-Seok Son  , Young-Guk Ha
Published: October 2023

In recent years, many businesses have been put in a great deal of effort to develop ways to fightagainst threats posed by insiders of them. Insider threats can be perpetrated for the purpose of doingharm to a business, but in some cases, they are done by mistake. And those mistakes also can bemade by carelessness of employees who do not have any malicious purpose to harm their company.In this paper, we suggest the need to watch those employees’ actions that might be a clue about theircarelessness. Email messages are one of the useful resources to watch because it is the media employeesuse on a daily basis at work and each message can reflect the writer’s feeling or what theyare doing at work by words. In this paper, with an experiment, we suggest closely waching some ofemail behaviors can tell us about clues to which employee is carelessness now and has the potentialdanger to make mistakes that might lead to a serious damage to the business.
T4AI: A system for monitoring people based on improved wearable devices
Authors: Marina P´erez-Jim´enez  , Borja Bordel S´anchez  , Ram´on Alcarria
Published: October 2023

Monitoring people is central to many applications. Some works from the literature prove that informationabout that the sequence of objects a person uses while performing an activity robustlycharacterizes both, the activity and the quality of its execution. In this paper we present a novelsystem called “Toolkit for activities Inference” (T4AI) for inferring the activities executed by peoplefrom the interactions with objects. The system includes as main element a cybernetic glove basedon wearable RFID readers and sensors. Our proposal includes an improved RFID technology beingable to be used in metallic environments (such as industry scenarios). Moreover, an experimentalvalidation was conducted in order to determine the performance of the proposed system.
Hierarchical Privacy CAs for Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Data
Authors: Seira Hidano  , Abdur Rahim Biswas  , Shinsaku Kiyomoto
Published: October 2023

The iKaaS (intelligent Knowledge-as-a-Service) platform integrates the data on multiple local cloudsystems organically and provides the data to various types of applications as knowledge while takingsecurity and privacy fully into account. However, access control on the iKaaS platform is not withoutcomplications because the application may access personal data in different countries from the onewhere the application exists. Hidano et al. thus designed a security gateway that is set at the entranceof each local cloud and controls access to the cross-border applications while interpreting regulationsrelated to personal data for both countries. In order to help the security gateway confirm the validityof the application, they introduced the concept of the privacy certificate authority (CA), which isbuilt for each country as an executive agency responsible for the national regulations governing thehandling of personal data. In this paper, we design a hierarchical model of multiple privacy CAsresponsible for regulations where the effective areas are different. The security gateway can therebycontrol the transfer of data not only to different countries, but also to different unions or cities.
Environmental Key based Smartphone Data Encryption
Authors: Kun-Lin Tsai  , Fang-Yie Leu  , Jung-Chun Liu  , Chia-Yin Ko
Published: October 2023

Recently, smartphones have become one of the most important electronic devices in human being’severyday lives. Currently, a huge amount of private data is stored in smartphones, mobile devices,and cloud storages. However, unencrypted data may be hijacked in its transmission or unauthorizedaccessed by storage and/or delivery service provider. To secure private data for smartphones, in thispaper, we propose a novel data encryption method, named the Environmental Key based Smartphonedata Encryption (EKSE), with which private data or private photos stored in personal devices canbe encrypted by an encryption key derived from one environmental matching key and several publicmatching keys, where an environmental matching key is a key derived from user’s password and personaldevice’s parameters, and the corresponding public matching key is generated by using ellipticcurve encryption based on the environmental matching key. Our analyses show that the EKSE is ableto resist machine-specific data leakage, insider threats, and impersonation attacks.
Privacy Preserving Task Force Communication in Hastily Formed Networks through ACT
Authors: Biji Nair  , M. Sridevi  , C. Mala  , Lakshmi Prabha S
Published: October 2023

Task Forces are groups formed to command, control and manage time bound emergency situationslike rescue and relief operations, event management, emergency health care assistance, through collaborativeeffort. Technological assistance and coordination among the members of the Task Forcesare critical for accomplishing their mission. The proposed work gives a scheme for secure and privacypreserving group communication among the members at different hierarchical levels of theTask Force. Mostly such tasks are to be carried out in conditions of scarce infrastructural availability.Communication among the members of the Task Force is based on their responsibility and authoritywithin the sub-group to which they belong and can be realized through Mobile Adhoc Network(MANET). The proposed system achieves privacy and security in communication through AccessControl Tree (ACT) structure using Ciphertext Policy Attribute Based Encryption (CP-ABE). Theproposed solution supports two essential requirements of a Task Force for accomplishing its goalwithin the stipulated time. One, a well organized Task Force with clear division of responsibilityand authority and the other, secure and privacy retaining communication among the members of thegroup.
Clustering Microsoft Windows Executables based on TF-IDF and API Information
Authors: Jonghwa Park  , Gyoosik Kim  , Youngsup Hwang  , Seong-je Cho
Published: October 2023

The illegal software usage is 39% worldwide and malware is frequent in the illegal software. Toprotect attacks from malware, we use software filtering. The software filtering compares equivalenceof a testing software to an original one. This requires comparison between all the legal programs inthe market. So we have to reduce the number of comparisons by clustering programs in the market.Every market provides categories to programs such as image viewer, video player, audio player, andmessenger, etc. But it is not clear that these categories are best fit to filter malware. We suggest newcategories which are more suitable to classification experimentally. Our categories are automaticallymade from the K-means clustering algorithm based on TF-IDF and API information. Experimentalresults show that our clustering scheme is better than the existing categories to classify malware.
Complex Event Processing for Object Tracking and Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things Environments
Authors: Shang-Nan Yin  , Ho-Seok Kang  , Sung-Ryul Kim
Published: October 2023

With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), there have been more and more services and applicationsdeployed in physical spaces and information systems. The massive number of sensors anddevices are embedded in IoT environments, which produce huge amounts of data continuously forthe IoT systems and platforms. Processing these data stream generated by the IoT networks with differentpatterns has raised new challenges for the real-time performance of intrusion detection system(IDS) in IoT environments, which has to react quickly to the hacking attacks and malicious activitiesto IoT. In this paper, a complex event processing (CEP) based IDS model for object detectiontracking and intrusion detection in the IoT environments is proposed. Esper, an open source complexevent processing engine is used to develop the model. In this model, the cincoming streams of dataare detected by Esper engine according to the predefined EPL rules. And then, trigger correspondinglisteners, the normal events are sent to the higher layer application as an new event through theadapter. In the alert event processor, the abnormal events are divided into the attack events and theother causes of abnormal events, such as sensor fault, transmission delay, etc.
Implementation of an Evacuee Support System for Distributed Evacuation by Visualizing the Congestion Status of Evacuation Shelter
Authors: Tomoyuki Ishida  , Ryosuke Nitama
Published: October 2023

We implemented an evacuee support system in this study. This system consists of evacuee’s safety information registration, evacuation shelter management, and evacuation shelter congestion status visualization systems. By implementing these three systems, a disaster response headquarters can manage the evacuees at each evacuation shelter accurately and quickly. Additionally, residents who are considering evacuating to evacuation shelters can browse the visualized congestion status of each evacuation shelter and move to vacant evacuation shelters. We evaluated the operability, readability, functionality, necessity, effectiveness, the applicability of the entire system, effectiveness and operability of the safety information registration system, readability and effectiveness of the evacuation shelter congestion status visualization system, and functionality and effectiveness of the evacuation shelter management system. We conducted evaluation experiments on 30 subjects and obtained a high evaluation in each evaluation item.
Analysis of Business Processes with Automatic Detection of KPI Thresholds and Process Discovery Based on Trace Variants
Authors: Taro Takei  , Hiroki Horita
Published: October 2023

One effective way to analyze an event log of a complex business process is to filter the event log by a KPI threshold and then use an analysis algorithm. Event logs filtered by KPI thresholds are simpler and easier to understand than the original business process. KPI thresholds have conventionally had to be set through a trial-and-error process, but existing research has proposed an automatic KPI threshold detection method that reduces the time and effort required to search for a threshold value. In the existing method, an event log is first divided by an arbitrary number k, and a business process model is generated for the divided event log using a process discovery algorithm. By repeatedly aggregating similar business process models, it is possible to analyze how the business process models differ according to KPI values. However, the existing method requires trial-and-error to determine the value of k because the detection threshold and business process model vary depending on the value of k, which is time-consuming. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to automatically detect KPI thresholds by dividing event logs based on trace variants. Experimental results show that the business process models detected by the proposed method are simpler and the threshold detection time is significantly reduced.
Which Factors Determine the Success of Anticoagulation with Warfarin
Authors: Bayyigit Akif , Erdem Mustafa Genco , Belen Erdal , Kucuk Mehmet
Published: October 2023

Background: Warfarin is a drug most commonly used for anticoagulation. Its efficiency depends on remaining in the demanded therapeutic range. Objectives: In this study, the relation between the time in therapeutic range (TTR) and sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, and drugs used was investigated for the patient’s use of warfarin. Methods: Among patients admitted to the Internal Diseases Polyclinic or taking inpatient treatment in internal diseases service, 50 female and 50 male patients using warfarin were selected starting from the closest date based on their admittance dates. Using patient files and hospital automation system data, TTR levels were calculated with the Rosendaal method, and sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, and drugs used were recorded. Patients were separated into 2 groups, TTR > 60% and TTR < 60%, and relations between sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, and drugs used were investigated among these groups. Results: Time in therapeutic range was found to be over 60% in 34% of the patients. It was observed that gender, occupation and education level, body mass index, smoking ratios, comorbid diseases, drugs used, serum creatinine, and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels were similar among TTR groups. The use of drugs lowering the warfarin effect was found to be similar among TTR groups. Conclusions: It was observed that sociodemographic characteristics, comorbid diseases, used drugs, serum creatinine, and ALT levels of the patients didn't affect the time in the therapeutic range.
Political public relations and crisis communication of the government: The case study of the earthquake of 6 February 2023 in Türkiye
Authors: ŞEN A. Fulya
Published: October 2023

On February 6, 2023, a massive 7.8 earthquake struck southeast Türkiye and caused killing thousands of people and leaving devastation across a wide swath of the country. In this context, this paper examines the government communications and crisis communication in the context of the disaster responses of the emergency management agencies during the earthquake of February 2023 in Türkiye in terms of image repair strategy and aims to reveal how the government responds to the opposing political circles' claims. It was concluded that the ruling party used communication channels intensively to refute the opposition's arguments and presented its own efforts and actions through visual and numerical proof and the main character of the government's crisis communication was based on highlighting what they made well.
Exploring 6G Wireless Communication: Application Technologies, Challenges and Future Direction
Authors: Robina Rabnawaz  , M Kamran Abid M Kamran Abid , Dr. Naeem Aslam  , Fatima Bukhari
Published: October 2023

The data traffic has increased significantly along with the quick development of smart wireless technologies, and current 5G networks are still not completely prepared to handle future huge data traffic in the areas of services, data transfer, data storage, and processing. 6G is expected to offer very high-level extended 5G capabilities, such as a Tbps data transfer rate and a sub-millisecond response time. The main objective of this study is to be aware of new technologies being enhanced day by day and provide existing research content, issues, and directions for the future regarding 6G wireless networks. Therefore, a systematic literature review of research articles is provided by categorizing the selected studies published between 2019 and 2022 in terms of enabling technologies. First, the researcher discussed the need for 6G by predicting the explosive growth of mobile traffic from 2022 to 2030. Second, 6G requirements, trends, and services are addressed and contrasted with 5G in terms of a group of key performance indicators. Third, conduct a comparative analysis of 6G challenges and gaps, such as security and privacy, the need for a decentralized network, Omnipresent service coverage, and storage efficiency. So, it is essential to develop an accurate, faster, and well-organized system for the 6G wireless network. We have presented an efficient and secure mode R6GS, which combines blockchain and 6G to improve security from the lower to upper layers while also improving storage efficiency. Cybertwin technologies are used at the edge layer of the 6G network in the proposed model R6GS to improve security. The smart contracts, IPFS and Ethereum blockchain are used in the proposed R6GS model to enhance the 6G network's data integrity and data storage. It also processes and stores massive amounts of data at various network layers, which removes the large storage capacity issue of traditional P2P and Client/Server (C/S) networks due to centralized servers in 6G technology. For the performance evaluation, the model is evaluated through expert opinion. Moreover, the proposed R6GS model also improves time efficiency through the edge layer, because if a task is available at the edge layer, there is no need to send a request to the core layer. The server at the edge layer efficiently delivers data to end nodes. Furthermore, a taxonomy is presented in this study. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed methodology worked efficiently.
Revolutionizing Healthcare: How Machine Learning is Transforming Patient Diagnoses - a Comprehensive Review of AI's Impact on Medical Diagnosis
Authors: Yousaf Gill Ahmad , Saeed Ayesha , Rasool Saad , Husnain Ali , Khawar Hussain Hafiz
Published: October 2023

The integration of machine learning into healthcare heralds a new era where the convergence of technology and human compassion reshapes the very essence of healing. This monumental shift transcends mere technological advancement; it represents a profound evolution in patient care. By unraveling intricate patterns within medical data, machine learning empowers healthcare professionals with early disease detection and precise risk assessment, augmenting human intuition rather than replacing it. This synergy between AI-driven insights and human expertise has led to remarkable achievements, from redefining radiological interpretations to foreseeing infectious disease outbreaks, painting a future where healthcare is not only precise but profoundly patient-centered. Yet, amidst these groundbreaking advancements, ethical considerations stand as pillars guiding responsible innovation. Upholding patient autonomy, ensuring data privacy, and addressing algorithmic bias are essential to maintain trust and integrity. As we navigate this transformative path, the promise of a healthcare landscape where healing becomes a symphony of technology and tradition becomes evident. It is a future where the well-being and hopes of millions are at the core, promising a brighter, more compassionate tomorrow for healthcare, where every diagnosis, treatment, and act of care resonates with the harmony of human expertise and technological marvels.
STRATEGI KOMUNIKASI KELOMPOK KESENIAN SATRIO MUDHO BUDHOYO DI DUSUN PENDEN, DESA MANGGIHAN, KECAMATAN GETASAN
Authors: Pratiwi Annisa , Sampoerno Sampoerno , Suwartiningsih Sri
Published: October 2023

Kesenian tradisional merupakan hasil dari bentuk kehidupan budaya yang sebenarnya. Tujuan diadakannya tari tradisional soreng sebab masyarakat setempat sangat menghargai dan juga ingin melestarikan budaya nenek moyang. dengan adanya penelitian ini bakal menjadi wadah dan juga pengetahuan bagi masyarakat agar selalu mengembangkan budaya kesenian tarian tradisionalnya. Metode penelitian yang disgunakan adalah deskripif kualitatif dengan menggunakan teori Difusi Inovasi oleh Rogers ini menjelaskan tentang bagaimana upaya pembaharuan atau inovasi dapat tersampaikan melalui beberapa saluran tertentu dengan ditujukan kepada sekelompok anggota yang berasal dari sistem sosial. Strategi komunikasi yang dilakukan oleh kelompok kesenian Satrio Mudho Budhoyo dalam mengembangkan tarian tradisional soreng ini meliputi pertemuan rutin kelompok, saling mengingatkan antar anggota kelompok, membuat jadwal Latihan ruti. Selain itu juga dengan menggunakan modernisasi Gerakan, kostum, dan juga make up nya sehingga tari tradisional soreng tetap diminati oleh kalangan masyrakat.
What is a Mood?
Authors: Prescott-Couch Al ,   The Yale Philosophy Review
Published: October 2023

The idea of “moods” is ubiquitous in our everyday lives; theories about mood attempt to capture these commonplace intuitions, while providing a clear and philosophically satisfying definition of the phenomena. In this paper, Prescott-Couch uses a set of criteria suggested by Eric Lormand to evaluate competing theories of mood. Focusing on three of the most plausible accounts—Generalization, Functional Component, and Higher Order Functional State theories—the paper argues that the third view, held by P. E. Griffiths, is the most plausible. Prescott-Couch then entertains objections to the functional approach, paying particular attention to the phemenological worry—that is, that this type of theory fails to grasp at our subjective experience of moods.
Interview with John Perry, Stanford University
Authors: Perry John ,   The Yale Philosophy Review
Published: October 2023

John Perry is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and a founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information. He is preeminent in the philosophies of language and mind. His many important publications include situations and Attitudes (with Jon Barwise), The Problem of the Essential Indexical, and Identity, Personal Identity and the Self. Perhaps most important, he is famed for his warmth, his genius, and his wit. He co-hosts Philosophy Talk, the popular philosophy radio show out of San Francisco, California. The interview was conducted via email over the week of April 11, 2005.
Physical Modeling and Event Individuation
Authors: Glazier Martin ,   The Yale Philosophy Review
Published: October 2023

If we include events in our ontology, then it is incumbent upon us to define a criterion of identity for those events. Glazier surveys the identity criteria of Davidson, Quine, and Kim, and argues that their criteria are either circular or fail to respect our intuitions in certain problematic cases. He proposes a new criterion according to which two events x and y are identical if and only if they cannot be physically analyzed as separate components of a process. Glazier argues that his criterion successfully deals with the cases that are problematic for the other three criteria.
Science, Normativity and Knowledge: A (Qualified) Defense of Naturalized Epistemology
Authors: Hersh Benjamin ,   The Yale Philosophy Review
Published: October 2023

Quine’s advocacy of naturalized epistemology has left much debate and controversy in its wake. Now that the dust has settled a bit, many consider Jaegwon Kim’s polemic response to be the definitive refutation of Quine’s view. I think, however, that this issue at heart is significantly murkier than Kim seems to believe, and Kim’s treatment of Quine’s view of naturalized epistemology leaves much to be desired. In this paper, I lay out Quine’s position as explicitly as possible so as to weigh Kim’s critique in greater detail. I find that although Kim successfully touches upon the weak points of Quine’s mission, his conclusions are too strong.
Consequentialism and Rights
Authors: Dhaliwal Puneet ,   The Yale Philosophy Review
Published: October 2023

Consequentialism is often criticized on the grounds that it justifies the gross violation of individual rights in order to bring about the best overall consequences. In this paper I argue that such criticism is mistaken and that consequentialism is able to accommodate respect for rights. Consequentialism does not necessarily demand the violation of rights, if rights are understood in a positive sense as capabilities and the ability to realize important goals, instead of merely the negative demand for noninterference from other moral agents. Moreover, consequentialists do not have to view rights as mere conduits to social utility; they can acknowledge the importance of preserving individual rights while taking into account thesocial context in which rights are to be protected.
Medical waste management: Treatment, recycling and disposal options
Authors: Veličković Jasmina , Ilić-Živojinović Jelena
Published: October 2023

Medical waste (MW) is all waste generated in healthcare institutions during the provision of healthcare services, conducting scientific research and experiments in the field of medicine, regardless of its composition and origin, i.e.. a heterogeneous mixture of classic municipal waste and hazardous MW. Medical systems including hospitals, clinical centers, and places where diagnosis and treatment are conducted generate waste that are highly hazardous and put people under risk of fatal diseases. In general, MW does not take up much of the environmental pollution, but its specific characteristics are potentially among the most dangerous types of waste. Inadequate care can affect the health of the medical workers, the population, and the surrounding areas in which the waste is stored, but also lead to outbreaks of global infection and poisoning. However, extra caution is required to avoid the risk of injury, cross-contamination, and infection; thus, healthcare workers and individuals responsible for waste management must follow the mandatory safety procedures. In this review, a classification of the various types and categories of MW and its treatment methods are discussed. Since MW can be contaminated and hazardous, it must be managed and processed using complex steps and procedures. The meaning of MW, the risks of exposure, MW management regulatory acts, MW management procedures and control techniques are presented.
Noise and Alzheimer's disease
Authors: Belojević Goran
Published: October 2023

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of degenerative dementia and the seventh leading cause of death. Numerous influencing factors for AD have been investigated: aging, female gender, genetics, unhealthy diet, hearing loss, unhealthy lifestyle, physical inactivity, insufficient sleep, head injury, depression, hypertension, and environmental factors (air pollution, aluminum, silicon, selenium, pesticides, lack of sunbathing, electric and magnetic fields). Recent animal and human studies point to a possible relationship between noise exposure and AD. The aim of this narrative review is to present basic pathological concepts of this relationship. Possible mediating factors that explain the influence of noise on AD are sleep disturbance, excitotoxicity, oxidative stress injury in the auditory cortex and hippocampus, and systemic inflammation. Studies on animals point to cognitive dysfunctions related to noise exposure: anxiety-like behavior, impaired learning and memory, increased glutamate levels in the hippocampus and reduced expression of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor 2B. Neuropathological changes in animals exposed to noise include necrosis and apoptosis of hippocampal cells, accumulation of amyloid b, tau hyperphosphorylation and peroxidative damage in the hypothalamus and the auditory cortex, and the elevated expression of proinflammatory cytokines and microglial activation in the auditory cortex and hippocampus. Human brain scan studies have pointed to the positive relationship between traffic noise exposure and white matter volume in the body of the corpus callosum at the level of the auditory cortex. In conclusion, there is a biological plausibility of the noise-AD relationship, and noise countermeasures may be regarded as the prevention of AD.
Gambaran Kesiapan Menikah pada Wanita Usia Dewasa Awal di Kelurahan Seberang Padang
Authors: Utami Dewirza Husni , Zikra Zikra
Published: October 2023

Marriage readiness is an important thing for every couple who is getting married, because marriage readiness is a state of being ready to accept responsibility as husband and wife in every problem that will be faced in marriage. However, the phenomenon that has occurred in Indonesia in the last five years has seen a decline in marriage rates. One of the factors is that there are still many individuals who have not prepared themselves to get married from a personal or situational perspective, even though in terms of age and physique the individual is fit to get married. This research aims to describe the readiness for marriage in early adulthood women in terms of the aspect of personal readiness; have emotions that are mature and emotionally healthy, know your self-image, are of sufficient age to get married, are mature in socializing with statements of 21 items and situational readiness; financially ready and ready on time with a statement of 9 items. The method in this research uses quantitative descriptive methods. The total population in this study was 249 women in early adulthood. Sampling in this study used stratified random sampling and obtained a sample of 153 women in early adulthood in Seberang Padang Village using the Slovin formula. The scale used in this research is the Likert scale. The results of the validity test of the previously used questionnaire were 33 items, then after the validity test there were 30 valid items and 3 invalid items. Furthermore, the results of the reliability test using the Cronbach's Alpha formula were obtained (0.873), meaning that the marriage readiness questionnaire for women in early adulthood was reliable. The data analysis used in this research is descriptive-comparative analysis. The research results showed that readiness for marriage in early adulthood women in terms of personal readiness was in the medium category (58%) and situational readiness was in the high category (56%). This shows that women in early adulthood in Seberang Padang Village already have quite good readiness for marriage. Based on the results of this research, counselors can provide assistance in the form of information services and individual counseling services to help women in early adulthood increase their readiness to face marriage in the future.
Implementasi Komunikasi Interpersonal Kepala Sekolah dengan Guru dalam Meningkatkan Kinerja di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Negeri 2 Tanjung Balai
Authors: Abidin Syahrul , Saragih Yoserizal , Sihombing Haris Fadillah
Published: October 2023

This research  to find out how the implementation of interpersonal communication between school principals and teachers improves performance. The theory that I use to discuss or explore this research is Bureaucracy Theory. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive method with the research informants used in this research being the principal and teachers at Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Negeri 2 Tanjung Balai who are related to the research problem that the principal will discuss with teachers in improving performance. The results of the research found that the implementation of interpersonal communication between principals and teachers in improving performance involves effective interpersonal communication used by principals in paying attention to teachers' performance. However, not only by using effective communication, but also by having the principal continue to control or provide motivation to teachers to support improving teacher performance well.