bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Examining farmers’ intention to use drone applications in agricultural production
Authors: Nguyen Thi Khanh Chi , Truong Thi Thuy Duong , Nguyen Mai Anh
Published: November 2024

Digitalization in agriculture involves the integration of technological innovations across the entire supply chain, from production through distribution to consumption. This paper examines drone applications and farmers’ intentions to use them in an emerging economy. This study uses correlation analysis and structural equation modeling to analyze the data collected from 414 Vietnamese farmers. The empirical results indicate that drone compatibility and speed positively impact farmers’ desires and anticipated emotions, whereas risks negatively influence both desires and emotions. These findings also show that farmers’ desires and emotions towards drones have pushed their intentions to use them. Notably, the environmental friendliness of drones plays a moderating role in strengthening the relationship between farmers’ desires, emotions, and intentions. Surprisingly, drone complexity does not have a significant impact on leading farmers’ desires and emotions. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the factors influencing the adoption of digital technologies in agriculture and provide valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders seeking to promote the integration of drones into agricultural practices.
Factors affecting personal finance management behavior and financial satisfaction in Vietnam
Authors: Tran Thi Minh Tram , Schmitt André
Published: November 2024

This study examines financial socialization, financial knowledge, and financial attitudes in their relationships with financial behavior and financial satisfaction in personal finance management in Vietnam. Partial least square structural equation modeling was employed to analyze data collected from 294 respondents. The results show that increased interaction and communication with family members, media, peers, and the workplace in terms of financial matters lead to higher levels of financial knowledge. Moreover, greater financial knowledge is associated with a higher likelihood of engaging in recommended financial behaviors. In turn, engaging in recommended financial behaviors enhances financial satisfaction, reflecting a greater sense of contentment with financial status. Thus, financial socialization should be focused on as an important channel besides formal financial education. This study increases understanding of the determinants of personal finance management behaviors and financial satisfaction in Vietnam. The results are impactful not only for individuals and households but also for policymakers and educators.
Assessing the influence of corporate governance on stock return volatility in the Vietnam context
Authors: Le Lien Quynh
Published: November 2024

This paper contributes to the literature by examining the impact of corporate governance on the stock return volatility of non-financial firms listed on the Vietnamese stock market. Data on corporate governance and stock return volatility among non-financial firms listed in Vietnam were obtained from the Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh stock exchanges. The study employed ordinary least squares, fixed-effects estimations, and the generalized least squares method. The research demonstrates a positive relationship between corporate governance and stock return volatility. The findings emphasize the sustained positive influence of board size on volatility, suggesting that companies aspiring to diminish the annual average standard deviation of equity returns should consider decreasing the number of directors. Furthermore, the results also show the absence of a discernible relationship between board independence and volatility, and the negative effects of both foreign ownership and managerial ownership on volatility. This study provides practical implications for companies and market participants aiming to reduce stock return volatility through good corporate governance within developing capital markets.
Spectroscopic and Photometric Confirmation of 3 Globular and 14 Intermediate-age Clusters in the Irr II Galaxy NGC 3077
Authors: Ovando P. A. , Mayya Y. D. , Rodríguez-Merino L. H. , Lomelí-Nuñez L. , Cuevas-Otahola B. , Rosa-González D. , Carrasco L.
Published: November 2024

We present the results from spectroscopic and photometric analysis of 17 globular cluster (GC) candidates in the Irr II galaxy NGC 3077. The GC candidates were selected on the Hubble Space Telescope images and were cleaned of foreground Galatic stars using the GAIA parameters. We carried out aperture photometry using the multiband archival images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Two Micron All Sky Survey of all candidates, and low resolution (R = 1000) spectroscopic observations of 12 GC candidates and three suspected foreground stars using the Optical System for Imaging and Low-Intermediate-Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy/Multi-Object Spectra mode at the Gran Telescopio Canarias. Age, metallicity, and extinction values were determined using both spectroscopic and photometric data, independently. We find three of the 17 candidates are old (age > 10 Gyr), metal-poor ([Fe/H] < −1.0 dex), and massive (mass > 105
M
⊙) GCs with characteristics similar to the classical GCs in the Milky Way. The rest are intermediate-age clusters (IACs) with typical ages of 3–4 Gyr and in general metal-rich clusters. The radial velocities of both populations are within 100 km s−1 of the recessional velocity of the host galaxy. A relatively large population of IACs and low value of GC specific frequency (S
N = 0.7) suggest that the preinteraction galaxy was actively forming stars and star clusters, and is unlikely to be a dwarf elliptical as suggested in some previous works.
Photometric Classification of Tidal Disruption Event Host Galaxies Using Machine Learning
Authors: Moon Yashasvi , French K. Decker
Published: November 2024

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are transient events observed when a star gets tidally destroyed by a supermassive black hole. TDEs prefer quiescent Balmer-strong (QBS) host galaxies, which have strong Balmer absorption and weak emission lines. Identifying these galaxies photometrically is difficult but important for TDE classification. This research provides a method of using photometric data to identify QBS galaxies by applying machine learning classifiers such as the Random Forest Classifier (RF) and the K-Neighbors Classifier (KN). The classifiers cumulatively identify 9548 likely QBS galaxies, with the RF achieving 75%–96% purity and 50% completeness and the KN achieving 60%–99% purity and 45% completeness for QBS galaxies below photometric redshifts of 0.3.
Le Travail social en libéral. Entre paradoxes et évidence
Authors: Forain Ondine , Cucherousset Medhi , Henault Manon , Lamblin Célia , Vercellino Manon
Published: November 2024

Ce travail de recherche conduit par des étudiant.e.s en travail social déconstruit les représentations et permet d’identifier les raisons qui conduisent certains travailleurs sociaux à quitter les institutions traditionnelles pour exercer en libéral. Ce nouveau mode de travail s’inscrit dans un processus global de libéralisation de la société qui n’épargne pas le champ de l’intervention sociale. Cet article propose des pistes de réflexion sur l’avenir du secteur, confronté à un changement profond des pratiques.
Prix de cour. Une EJE face aux politiques gestionnaires
Authors: Cadorel Adeline
Published: November 2024

Que fait-on de la relation à l’autre dans un contexte où la responsabilisation et l’autonomie se confondent parfois avec la culpabilisation ? Au travers d’instants du quotidien en CHRS, une éducatrice de jeunes enfants retrace, avec une pointe d’humour, les interrogations et difficultés rencontrées face à des politiques et des logiques gestionnaires. Elle témoigne de son engagement et de l’attention qu’elle porte aux personnes accompagnées mais aussi des moyens qu’elle déploie pour continuer à agir individuellement et collectivement, en équipe et en réseau.
La prévention spécialisée face aux politiques sécuritaires contemporaines. L’exemple d’un « Groupe de partenariat opérationnel »
Authors: Guillaume-Pierret Joseph
Published: November 2024

Cet article pose le problème de l’instrumentalisation de la prévention spécialisée dans le cadre des politiques sécuritaires contemporaines. Pour tenter d’y répondre, le propos se déploie à partir du récit-témoignage d’une expérience de participation à un Groupe de partenariat opérationnel (GPO) articulé à une analyse critique du dispositif. Ce cheminement narratif et critique amène à interroger la posture et le positionnement des praticiens de la prévention spécialisée confrontés à « l’injonction partenariale » des nouvelles politiques sécuritaires.
La recherche en travail social comme espace de résistance
Authors: Kheroufi-Andriot Olivier , Cassagnes Breidenbach Marie , Labbé Sabrina
Published: November 2024

Partant des valeurs fondatrices du travail social et de conflits axiologiques plus contemporains, cet article propose une réflexion sur les dimensions militantes et politiques du travail social en articulant tout à la fois des considérations conceptuelles et pratiques. Cette contribution a vocation à proposer une tierce voie : celle de la recherche en travail social, entendue comme un certain espace de résistance.
Et si on (re)politisait les travailleurs sociaux ?
Authors: Delor Pierre
Published: November 2024

De l’esprit de Charité insufflé par l’Église à l’Action sociale dictée par les principes de solidarité laïque, l’assistance sociale a répondu aux commandes du pouvoir politique. Volontairement ou à leur insu, les travailleurs sociaux se sont politisés, ils ont répondu aux injonctions, aux commandes sociales. Une constante, celle de la cohésion sociale, mais aussi de l’ordre public ! Structuré par des diplômes, par la réglementation des établissements et services sociaux, le travail social semblait dépolitisé et devenu technique. Mais des nouvelles orientations plus gestionnaires dictées par un contexte d’économie libérale, un discours politique plus autoritaire et exclusif, font craindre aux travailleurs sociaux une perte de sens, une souffrance et un épuisement professionnel.
Travail social et politique ou les noces barbares
Authors: Autès Michel
Published: November 2024

Le travail social, d’abord initiative privée, mais qui reste cachée, est ensuite une pratique publique mais sous son presque seul aspect de correction. Dans un premier temps, l’initiative privée et les politiques publiques marche de conserve. Puis, l’État s’approprie la chose sociale pour la sécuriser et devient l’État providence. Mais sa pratique suit les procédés néo-libéraux de la division du travail et la séparation des branches (maladie, vieillesse, famille) jette la suspicion sur les coûts et les rendements de chacune faisant basculer la protection sociale vers le budget. Le travail social se résout alors dans la mesure de ses cadences. Quoi qu’il en soit, il reste que le travail social doit poursuivre son œuvre d’assistance, au moins dans l’assistance poursuivre l’œuvre de dire, au risque de l’incorrection, la vérité qui dérange, qui bouscule les vérités consensuelles et toutes les formes de doxa.
A-t-on le travail social que l’on mérite ?
Authors: Lansiaux Valérie
Published: November 2024

L’évolution du travail social est aujourd’hui liée à la pression croissante d’une recherche d’efficacité. Une véritable étreinte s’exerce tant en provenance des usagers, du législateur que du financier et du prescripteur. L’usage commence à montrer que derrière l’approche dynamique inclusive se dissimule une évolution plus excluante et moins solidaire de notre société. Dans ce contexte, les professionnels du travail social sont-ils condamnés à obéir, quelles que soient les orientations politiques menées ? Les travailleurs sociaux ne seraient-ils devenus que de « simples » agents applicateurs des orientations politiques ? Cet article se propose d’apporter des éléments de réponse à ces questions.
« Réarmer » politiquement le travail social. Pour une normalisation et une diversification de ce champ de recherches
Authors: Rullac Stéphane
Published: November 2024

Le travail social a toujours eu une fonction politique profonde de structuration de la société. La recherche s’est beaucoup intéressée au travail social, à la fois comme terrain d’étude du « social » et un terrain « institutionnel », tous deux à soutenir. Ce texte questionne la meilleure façon de considérer ces recherches, pour les promouvoir, en partant de son expérience en France, à partir de la dichotomie entre la recherche « sur » et « en » travail social, et, en Suisse, à partir de la continuité de la « Recherche appliquée et développement » (Ra&D) qui encadre les laboratoires des Hautes Écoles Spécialisées. En s’appuyant sur la Manuel de Friscati, ce texte plaide pour une systématisation de triptyque de recherches normalisé à l’échelle mondiale (fondamentale, appliquée, expérimentale), pour que le travail social puisse mobiliser toutes ces approches complémentaires. Cela permettrait au travail social d’avoir un agenda scientifique maitrisé et normalisé, au service de sa finalité hautement politique.
Which side you on ? Pourquoi c’est important d’avoir été écouter Jacques Delcuvellerie ?
Authors: Étienne Pierre
Published: November 2024

Retour sur une soirée de présentation du livre Groupov. Histoire d’un parcours et la description qui en fut faite par son auteur : Jacques Delcuvellerie. Comment la trajectoire de ce collectif théâtral pluriculturel et pluridisciplinaire peut être une source d’inspiration en termes de positionnement politique pour le champ du travail social ?
Faites de votre vocation un métier : engagez-vous ! Quand les convictions rencontrent la responsabilité
Authors: Mélou Cécile , Melou François
Published: November 2024

Cet article propose une réflexion sur la notion d’engagement chez les travailleurs sociaux à travers le prisme du modèle « Job Demands Ressources ». Ce travail repose sur une fouille de données textuelles et des entretiens informels avec des travailleurs sociaux en poste et en formation. Un constat s’impose, le champ du travail social est en proie à des mutations profondes, doublées d’une baisse d’attractivité des métiers du social. Les évolutions des métiers tendent à faire du travailleur social, non plus un acteur de l’accompagnement au quotidien des plus vulnérables, mais un exécutant devant rendre des comptes. Pour autant, face au numérique, aux files actives, au poids de la bureaucratie, et à la perte de sens, il y a un espace pour une réflexivité éthique qui maintient les convictions, aux sources de l’engagement, tout en intégrant la responsabilité inhérente à ce métier. Ce chemin étroit permet de résister à la logique néolibérale qui voit en toute chose un objet de marchandisation.
De la vocation au professionnalisme. Le risque de la perte des idéaux dans le travail social
Authors: Brandibas Gilles
Published: November 2024

Observant l’évolution du travail social et sa professionnalisation progressive, nous proposons une réflexion pour en décrire quelques enjeux et montrer le risque de la perte des idéaux dans l’accomplissement de nos missions. Si la vocation et l’engagement n’ont pas complètement disparu, ils risquent d’être évacués par de nouvelles logiques de travail. Ces logiques technocratiques de rationalisation pourraient, en effet, par une application stricte et désidéalisée, induire des pratiques délétères et déshumanisantes. En réponse, nous convoquons le politique (et non pas la politique), comme lieu de débat de nos missions et de leur mise en œuvre.
The future of AI and authorship: the EU’s legal framework for AI and copyright
Authors: Sotiri Erwin
Published: November 2024

Le présent article traite de l’intersection de l’IA et du droit d’auteur, en particulier dans l’UE. Il explore la définition juridique de l’IA dans l’UE et l’Acte de l’IA de l’UE, qui vise à créer un cadre réglementaire harmonisé pour l’IA au sein des États membres de l’UE. Le document aborde également les implications de l’utilisation d’oeuvres protégées par le droit d’auteur dans les données d’apprentissage pour les modèles d’IA génératifs et la question du droit d’auteur pour les œuvres générées par l’IA .
Analyse des bacs à sable réglementaires d’IA dans l’AI Act
Authors: Trstenjak Marko
Published: November 2024

Le règlement sur l’intelligence artificielle (AI Act) a pour but d’encadrer pour la première fois l’utilisation de l’IA et son marché émergent. Cet article repose sur la version actuelle du règlement négocié en trilogue et examine l’intégration des bacs à sable réglementaires dans l’AI Act, une approche permettant d’innover tout en garantissant la conformité. Les bacs à sable réglementaires offrent un environnement contrôlé pour tester des innovations sans être soumis à toutes les réglementations, favorisant ainsi l’innovation tout en maintenant la conformité. Alors que les bacs à sable réglementaires sont déjà utilisés dans divers domaines, l’AI Act les rendra obligatoires dans le domaine de l’IA, ce qui soulève des questions sur leur impact potentiel et leur mise en œuvre effective dans les États membres de l’UE .
Crafting Privacy Policies: An Onerous Task for Data Controllers Amidst Data Subject Disinterest
Authors: Freichel Catherine
Published: November 2024

L’article examine la position de la CNPD sur le principe de transparence dans le contexte des politiques de protection de la vie privée. Les informations communiquées aux personnes concernées sur le traitement de leurs données à caractère personnel doivent être exactes, concises, complètes et cohérentes, compréhensibles et aisément accessibles. Bien que ces informations doivent être fournies avant le traitement, les responsables du traitement devraient envisager de mettre à jour leur politique de protection de la vie privée en fonction de l’évolution de leur entreprise et de leurs activités de traitement des données . Les décisions de la CNPD mettent en exergue les efforts considérables que les responsables du traitement des données doivent déployer pour élaborer leur politique de protection de la vie privée. Cette rigueur est en phase avec l’accent mis par le RGPD, la CJUE et le législateur européen sur la transparence et les droits des personnes concernées, mais peut sembler excessive au vu de l’attention minimale que les personnes concernées prêtent généralement à ces politiques .
La jurisprudence « as code », vers quelle substantialité jurisprudentielle ?
Authors: Abdessamad Sara
Published: November 2024

La justice prédictive figure parmi les concepts clés de la justice de xxi e siècle, une justice qui reflète l’utilisation des nouvelles technologies « intelligentes », pour consacrer le principe de l’efficience dans la sphère judiciaire, notamment devant une atmosphère universelle en mutation, mais aussi en crise. Ainsi, la robotisation de la justice devient un garde-fou pour satisfaire la concurrence des systèmes juridiques, une concurrence qui encourage par ricochet l’esprit pragmatique. Un esprit qui engendrait selon cette approche calculatrice une jurisprudence « mécanique », élaborée via les algorithmes du big data. La question de l’esprit d’une jurisprudence « algorithmisée », met aussi en exergue le langage jurisprudentiel, qui est le métalangage du langage du droit. Le deep learning a changé la donne au niveau du traitement de langage, il s’agit en effet d’une révolution technologique pour imiter la cérébralité humaine. Le leitmotiv de cette intervention est de démontrer, à travers les axes absorbés, que l’esprit calculateur appauvrirait la substantialité de la jurisprudence, en tant qu’une norme traduite par une langue. Et que l’esprit de la jurisprudence est issu d’un esprit purement créateur, où le juge humain s’affronte toujours devant les phénomènes inédits, une opération compliquée pour un juge humanoïde guidé par son big data .
The Evolution of the Science of Measured Digital Occlusion
Authors: Kerstein Robert B.
Published: November 2024

Since its inception in 1984, computerized occlusal analysis technology has revolutionized both dental occlusal science and daily clinical practice by bringing objective precision measurement to the largely subjectively analyzed dental medicine discipline of occlusion. The science of Measured Digital Occlusion is a major clinical advance over traditional, subjectively practiced occlusion. This is because T-Scan measured timing and force metric-based occlusal function parameters guide both the diagnosis of an occlusion's health, but also aid the clinician in obtaining high-precision, high-numerical tolerance measured occlusal function outcomes, that can't be attained without the T-Scan's capacity to make specific occlusal functional measurements. The development of the T-Scan technology has required much iteration over the past 40 years beginning with T-Scan I, then T-Scan II for Windows®, then T-Scan III with turbo recording, to a simplified desktop version introduced in T-Scan 8, to the present day, state of the art occlusal analysis version known as T-Scan 10 Novus. Numerous authors since the mid-1980s have studied the various T-Scan versions, which inspired the manufacturer to improve the hardware and its recording sensors to be more accurate, repeatable, and precise. The present-day Novus recording handle represents a major ergonomic and functional upgrade over the Evolution handle that was used up to T-Scan 8, while the T-Scan 9 software has evolved into T-Scan 10 Novus system, which includes many new high-tech measurement tools like the Digital Impression Overlay (DIO), the Sensitivity Wizard, the Implant Warning Feature, and the Force Eraser tool. All of these new system modifications improve the clinician's ability to diagnose and treat a wide range of occlusal abnormalities. Chapter one's specific aims are to detail the evolution of the differing T-Scan system versions, and outline the functional measured digital occlusion parameters that have been applied in many scientific patient treatment studies that resulted from important system improvements to the T-Scan's accuracy and repeatability, from version to version. Chapter one will also highlight some newly available digital occlusion technologies that somewhat mimic T-Scan, while including a detailed section comparing and contrasting T-Scan data to intraoral scanner (IOS) occlusal representations. Presented studies will illustrate that intraoral scanners (IOS) only prognosticate occlusal contact surface engagement, but do not measure or describe for analysis, occlusal contact force levels or contact timing sequences from within scanned dental arches.
T-Scan 10 Recording Dynamics, Force and Timing Software Tools, and the Chairside Clinical Skills for Optimal T-Scan Implementation
Authors: Podoloff Robert , Harty Mike
Published: November 2024

The newly designed T-Scan 10 Computerized Occlusal Analysis system represents the State of the Art in occlusal diagnosis. The reliability of the system's High Definition (HD) recording sensors, the many occlusal analysis timing and force software features, and the modern-day computer hardware electronics that record occlusal function in 0.003 second real-time increments, affords a clinician unparalleled occlusal contact timing and force data, with which to predictably diagnose and treat many occlusal abnormalities. T-Scan 10 represents the culmination of 40 years of T-Scan technology innovation and development, with updated desktop graphics and additional toolbar icons that improve T-Scan diagnostic functionality, while enhancing the clinician's chairside T-Scan implementation. Important new tools include the Force Eraser that allows the clinician to remove any sensor surface recording artifact and repair corrupted force data from a sensor matrix crack. The Implant Warning that detects occlusal force overload specifically on dental implant crowns and implant-support restorations. And a unique new T-Scan 10 feature is the ability to export T-Scan data directly into the Digital Smile Design (DSD) esthetic planning software, which makes for seamless management of patient's occlusal status within an esthetic treatment plan. However, T-Scan 10's most important advancement has melded T-Scan digital occlusal force and timing data with digitally scanned virtual dental arches, by overlaying T-Scan data onto a patient's virtual cast. This Digital Impression Overlay (DIO) places T-Scan 10 directly into the Digital Workflow, that has rapidly become the Dental Medicine standard in modern-day prosthodontic and implant practice. Two examples of how to best align a scanned virtual cast using the DIO feature are included, as are three illustrations of where and how to employ the Force Eraser tool. Also included are detailed descriptions of five useful diagnostic occlusal recordings employed when treating commonly-observed occlusal problems. And notably, Chapter 4 outlines the 3 Learning Levels of T-Scan Clinical Competency, and the Kerstein Principles of Optimum T-Scan Clinical Implementation, which detail the best clinical practices when recording, analyzing, and making T-Scan-guided occlusal adjustments; each of which must be mastered for a clinician to become effective with the T-Scan 10 technology.
Airway Changes Detected by Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) in Muscular Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Subjects Treated With Disclusion Time Reduction (DTR)
Authors: Sattur Atul P.
Published: November 2024

The application of Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) in the field of dentistry has revolutionized the outlook of dental practitioners when diagnosing, treatment planning, and measuring treatment outcomes, because CBCT has wide-ranging applications in both oral surgery and in forensic odontology. Traditionally, airway volumetric assessments and boundary determinations were performed with 2-dimensional lateral cephalometric radiographs. However, the advent of CBCT makes it possible to precisely measure the Airway dimensions and volume, the presence of any constrictions, the position of the hyoid bone, and the position of the tongue relative to the palate. Disclusion Time Reduction (DTR) therapy is a novel, splint-less, measured occlusal calibration technique primarily aimed at decreasing nociceptive impulses arising from excess compressions of the pulpal and periodontal ligament mechanoreceptors of the teeth, which produce masticatory muscle, pharyngeal muscle, and glossal muscle hyperactivity. DTR therapy is carried out using the T-Scan 10/BioEMG III interface to measure the obtained reductions in muscular hyperactivity. However, the applications of DTR appear to extend beyond its' well known TMD therapeutic benefits, to also impact the airway, and the pharyngeal and tongue musculature. This chapter's Specific Aims are to discuss the role of CBCT in the evaluation of airway and its' related structures, along with describing how DTR therapy can dynamically and physiologically change the airway volume without requiring surgery or any mandibular advancement device.
Complex Medical Conditions With an Underlying Occlusal Etiology Successfully Resolved by Disclusion Time Reduction (DTR)
Authors: Sutter Ben A.
Published: November 2024

The aim of this chapter is to present a series of chronic pain clinical cases that were originally diagnosed by non-dental healthcare professionals, as being something other than temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Specifically, the individual patient diagnoses were phantom bite syndrome (PB), Meniere's disease (MD), cervical dystonia (CD), and trigeminal neuralgia (TN), where the prior treatments rendered to each patient based upon these diagnoses, were all unsuccessful. Each patient was then re-evaluated with a series of biometric occlusal measurement technologies, which included the T-Scan 10/BioEMG III synchronization module. This two-function synchronized system re-diagnosed each patient, and then was employed during each patient's rendered occlusal treatment and their post-treatment maintenance, to evaluate the accuracy of the treatment results. The six presented chronic pain patients were then treated with disclusion time reduction (DTR) and the immediate complete anterior guidance development coronoplasty (ICAGD), after which each patient's symptoms either greatly improved or resolved completely. These differing Case Reports represent some of the earliest accounts of DTR Therapy and the ICAGD coronoplasty being employed in patients diagnosed with conditions that were thought to be non-dental head and neck disorders. As such, this chapter provides foundation literary documentation of the Dental Occlusion's extensive neurologic and etiologic reach, that afflicts patients with varying chronic pain conditions that have up to this point in time, been highly misunderstood. Importantly, the observations put forth herein are highly suggestive that TMD can present as one of these alternative medical diagnoses, or that TMD was each patient's original problem condition that had been misdiagnosed because of a diagnostic absence of objective occlusal force and timing data that can only be gathered by the T-Scan 10/BioEMG III synchronization module.
Orthodontic Case Management and Finalization With T-Scan Computerized Occlusal Analysis
Authors: Cohen-Levy Julia
Published: November 2024

This chapter reviews T-Scan use in orthodontics from diagnosis to case finishing, and then in retention while defining normal T-Scan recording parameters for orthodontically treated subjects versus untreated subjects. T-Scan use in the case-finishing process is also described, compensating for occlusion changes that occur during “post-orthodontic settling,” as teeth move freely within the periodontium to find an equilibrium position when the appliances have been removed. T-Scan implementation is necessary because, often despite there being a post-treatment visually ‘perfect' Angle's Class I relationship established with the orthodontic treatment, ideal occlusal contacts do not result solely from tooth movement. Creating simultaneous and equal force occlusal contacts following orthodontics can be accomplished using T-Scan data to optimize the end-result occlusal contact pattern. Several tools of the T-Scan software aid the Orthodontist in obtaining an ideal occlusal force distribution and timing during case-finishing. These are the 2 and 3-Dimensional ForceView windows, the Force Percentage per tooth, arch half, and quadrant, the Center of Force (COF) trajectory and icon, the Occlusion Time (OT), and the Disclusion Time (DT). Fortunately, most orthodontic cases remain asymptomatic during and after orthodontic treatment. However, an occlusal force imbalance or patient discomfort may occur along with the malocclusion that needs orthodontic treatment. Symptomatic cases require special documentation at the baseline, and careful monitoring throughout the entire orthodontic process. The clinical use of T-Scan in these “fragile” cases of patient muscle in-coordination, mandibular deviation, atypical pain, and/or TMJ idiopathic arthritis, are illustrated by several case reports. The presented clinical examples highlight combining T-Scan data recorded during case diagnosis, tooth movement, and in case finishing, with patients that underwent lingual orthodontics and orthognathic surgery, orthodontic treatment using clear aligners, or conventional fixed treatment with a camouflage treatment plan, which require special occlusal finishing (where premolars are extracted in one arch only). In addition, a few recent publications will be highlighted that address whether tooth movement with aligners or fixed appliances result in better overall occlusal contact endpoints.
State-of-the-Art Diagnostic and Treatment Methods for the Successful Management of Hypersensitive Teeth
Authors: Yiannios Nick C.
Published: November 2024

In dental literature, the clinically confounding association between the occlusion and hypersensitive teeth is poorly explained. Quantified occlusal contact force and timing parameters have been largely ignored in studies assessing hypersensitive teeth. This chapter introduces a novel occlusal concept; frictional dental hypersensitivity (FDH), after systemically simplifying the existing and often confusing terminology used in the literature over the past decades to describe the variant clinical presentations of the hypersensitive dentition. Clinical evidence from combining computerized occlusal analysis and electromyography is presented linking opposing posterior tooth friction and muscular hyperactivity to FDH. This chapter will outline how occlusion, many muscular TMD symptoms, and FDH are all interrelated. After the differences between dentinal hypersensitivity, cervical dentinal hypersensitivity, and frictional dental hypersensitivity and the myriad of etiologies and modern treatments available are explained, an effective treatment regimen combining the usage of Nd:YAG and Er:YAG lasers coupled with medical grade ozone as a first line diagnostic and treatment protocol for hypersensitive teeth of non-occlusal origins is discussed. Afterwards, both the original FDH Pilot Study and a 100 subject Cold Ice Water Swish follow-up FDH study are then presented that used a numerical Visual Analog Scale (NS/VAS) to quantify cold response dental hypersensitivity resolution observed in occlusally symptomatic patients that underwent the immediate complete anterior guidance development coronoplasty (ICAGD). This computer-guided occlusal adjustment procedure eliminated pretreatment FDH cold symptomatology, further supporting that dental hypersensitivity often has an occlusally-based, frictional etiology. Recent clinical research studies challenging the FDH theory are then presented, including a recent study that compared air indexing protocols to the cold ice water swish and the statistical correlation that was found between these two initiators of dental hypersensitivity following the ICAGD occlusal adjustment procedure. Additionally, consideration for the orthopedic influences that may directly affect the occlusion and neurology of the system are outlined, as is the medical concept of dental allodynia which most dental practitioners are unaware of. Furthermore, trigeminal neurological influences are compared to autonomic sympathetic inputs in relation to the influence that they each have upon the hypersensitive dentition, because after all, pulpal neurology consists of not only trigeminal nerve fibers, but cervical sensory and sympathetic nerve fibers as well. Lastly, the greater auricular diagnostic nerve block is discussed, as is the influence that this nerve may have upon the hypersensitive mandibular posterior dentition.
Periodontal and Implant Treatment Maintenance Assisted With Computerized Occlusal Analysis
Authors: Cohen Nicolas
Published: November 2024

The role of occlusion in the progression of periodontal disease remains a controversial subject. Occlusal force, which is a mechanical stress applied to tissues, has always been considered to not initiate, nor accelerate periodontal attachment loss resultant from inflammatory periodontal disease. This chapter outlines this controversy in great detail, from the perspective that the absence of a validated occlusal force and timing measuring device that can quantify the occlusion has contributed to the confusion and questions that exist in the scientific community about the relationship between both periodontal disease and peri-implantitis, and the occlusion. The development of the T-Scan occlusal measurement technology that records and analyzes precise and reproducible relative occlusal contact force levels in real-time, independent of a clinician's subjectivity, is helping to change the scientific opinion regarding occlusion's role in periodontal and peri-implant supporting tissue loss. The T-Scan 10 system is particularly adapted for treating patients who demonstrate tissue loss combined with occlusal issues. Indeed, after having controlled the major etiologic and risk factors of periodontal disease and peri-implantitis, adjusting the occlusion after active tissue and implant therapy favors healing. This chapter discusses how the outcome of periodontal treatment aimed at compromised teeth and dental implants becomes highly predictable, when combined with occlusal force excess control from T-Scan-guided targeted occlusal adjustments, with posttreatment tissue health being characterized by less inflammation, decreased probing depths, and bone level stability around teeth and dental implants. This chapter will also detail that 3-Dimensionally printed maintenance nightguards require post fabrication T-Scan occlusal adjustments to measurably balance the nightguard's occlusion and increase the nightguard's effectiveness.
Occlusally Educating Both Patients and Clinicians With the T-Scan Technology
Authors: Droter John
Published: November 2024

The T-Scan is an effective patient and doctor education tool for illustrating existing occlusal pathology, as it presents complex occlusal force and timing information in a visual format that is easily understood. The T-Scan applies to all stages of the teaching/learning process because its recorded data forms the framework upon which a doctor/patient discussion can begin regarding the patient's occlusal disease manifestations, the potential benefit of treatments, and the risks of not undergoing corrective treatment. When used as part of an educational strategy, the T-Scan can lead the patient to accept procedures that would benefit their long-term dental health. This chapter outlines the four stages of creating optimum dental health, the steps required to perform effective teaching and learning, the differing styles of teaching and learning utilized in educational forums, and how to best employ the technique of Feature, Function and Benefit. A few case examples illustrate how T-Scan data can educate a patient about their own occlusal problems, while describing both normal and abnormal occlusal function to a dentist. Lastly, as a consequence from the 2018-2022 global Covid-19 Pandemic, a new frontier in Dental Continuing Education has evolved in web-based training, of which T-Scan doctor-to-doctor internet-facilitated learning is very well suited.
Mental Health Risks Due to Climate Change
Authors: Bhaskaran Anchal , Muralidharan Srishti
Published: November 2024

Eco-anxiety encompasses concerns not only for one's immediate survival but also for the wellbeing of future generations. Media, societal interpretations, and personal experiences are identified as some of the amplifiers of eco-anxiety, contributing to a broader understanding of its factors. Emphasizing both the negative and positive effects of eco-anxiety indicates to the urgency of addressing individual distress within the broader context of climate action. Examining the impact of eco-anxiety, or climate distress, on mental health is essential due to its prevalent occurrence worldwide and the considerable adverse effects it imposes on individuals' functioning. Eco anxiety is rising daily with the increase in the population's concern for climate change proving to leave drastic and dramatic environmental changes.
Natural Disaster
Authors: Negi Sudhanshu , Singh Ravindra , Singh Ajay Kumar
Published: November 2024

This chapter examines the implication of natural disaster on mental health of children and adolescents in Joshimath of Uttarakhand, India. Mental health is caused to increase death anxiety and psychological disorder among the children due to the existence of natural disasters. Natural disasters cause increased problems of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the children and adolescents. For the mentioned investigation, this chapter includes that sample of two hundred eighty children and adolescents in the age group of 12 – 18 years. The sample consists of 116 boys and 164 girls with mean and standard (SD) of 14.52 years and 1.70, respectively. The sample of 280 students are taken from the different schools that were affected from the natural disaster. The results highlight that policy makers should develop intervention and prevention tools to overcome the stress of natural disasters on mental health of children & adolescents.
Climate Change and Mental Health
Authors: Kurebwa Jeffrey , Kurebwa Nyasha Yvonne , Supu Valeria
Published: November 2024

Amidst the growing concerns surrounding climate change, the impact on mental health has emerged as a pressing issue that warrants attention. Research has shown that individuals residing in regions vulnerable to extreme weather events, such as Zimbabwe, are particularly susceptible to experiencing mental health challenges as a result of climate-related stressors. The unpredictable weather patterns, recurring droughts, and food insecurities have exacerbated existing mental health conditions and triggered new cases of anxiety, depression, and trauma among the population. As we delve into the intersection between climate change and mental health, it is crucial to understand the multi-faceted ways in which climate-related stressors influence the psychological well-being of individuals, families, and communities. By exploring this complex relationship, we can develop targeted interventions and policies to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on mental health.
Climate Change and Household Food Security
Authors: Kurebwa Jeffrey , Kurebwa Nyasha Yvonne
Published: November 2024

The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the impact of climate change on household food security in Africa. It relies on the Integral Theory to understand climate change and food security. The four pillars of food security which are availability, access, utilization, and stability are discussed. Determinants of food security and climate factors affecting food security are further analyzed. The study concludes that there is a need to intensify agriculture and engage in diversification, conservation, and/or climate-smart practices to improve food security. The study recommends the need to improve agricultural extension, storage technology, food banks, and spiritual prayers to promote food security.
Resilience in Lifelong Learning for Individuals
Authors: Kucuksuleymanoglu Ruyam
Published: November 2024

Resilience enables individuals to embrace failure as a natural part of learning, and persevere in their pursuit of knowledge and personal development. The concept of lifelong learning supports the adaptation of individuals to the change and development process in society, providing human resources with resilience. Lifelong learning not only enhances knowledge and skills but also plays a crucial role in building psychological resilience. By continually engaging in learning activities, individuals can improve their ability to handle stress, recover from adversity, and maintain overall mental well-being. Lifelong learners who possess resilience are better equipped to adapt to changing environmental, social, and economic conditions. They embrace innovation, creativity, and flexibility, enabling them to respond effectively to emerging challenges and opportunities for sustainability. Lifelong learning empowers individuals to understand and act on sustainability principles.
Harnessing Literary Narratives for Educational Resilience and Emotional Growth
Authors: Özen Özlem , Oğuz Nuray Tuğçe
Published: November 2024

This chapter discusses how natural and man-made disasters, crises and traumas encountered in human life are reflected through literature and the importance of literature in teaching resilience in this context. Mythology, as a field of literature, aims to provide readers with creative problem-solving skills by presenting characters coping with personal and social traumas. Nazlı Eray's Orphée, as a modern reinterpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, offers a rich resource that can be used to teach emotional and cultural resilience while addressing themes of love, death and loss. The chapter examines the impact of literature on the individual and society, and suggests new approaches to teaching resilience and emotional growth in particular. It highlights how literary narratives can be effective in building emotional resilience in students through methods such as classroom discussions and bibliotherapy.
Integrating Psychological Resilience into Business Education
Authors: Biggane Jonathan , Steinbauer Robert
Published: November 2024

This chapter explores the critical role of psychological resilience in business education, highlighting its impact on student success and well-being. It begins by considering the relationship between psychological resilience and important educational outcomes before examining the operationalization of psychological resilience and its nomological network. Subsequently, we explore the process of psychological resilience and how students can build it by investigating its theoretical underpinnings as they relate to business education. We then offer practical strategies to integrate resilience into curricula by examining common techniques to enhance resilience, including cognitive reappraisal, self-efficacy enhancement, and cognitive control training. Ultimately, the chapter advocates for a greater focus on fostering resilience in order to prepare students to thrive in a dynamic global environment.
Attrition Among Indian Social Science Doctoral Scholars
Authors: Kannan Vinusha , Yadati Nymisha
Published: November 2024

Doctoral education, while a pinnacle of academic achievement, presents significant challenges. This study explores the factors contributing to attrition among social science doctoral scholars in India, focusing on the resilience and adaptability required to sail through the doctoral journey. Employing semi-structured interviews with former doctoral students, we identified key themes related to academic, personal, and institutional challenges. Our findings highlight the importance of fostering resilience and adaptability in doctoral students and creating culturally responsive support systems within educational institutions. By understanding the factors influencing attrition, we can develop strategies to enhance doctoral student persistence and well-being, thereby contributing to a more inclusive and supportive educational landscape.
Contingency Framework of Structural Factors for Public Participation Spaces and Consultation for Improved Governance
Authors: Vargas-Hernandez José G. , González-Avila Francisco J. , Castañeda-Burciaga Selene , Guirette Omar Alejandro , Vargas-Gonzàlez Omar C.
Published: November 2024

This study has the aim to analyse the structural factors for public participation spaces in a contingency framework for consultation and improved governance. It departs from the assumption that the structural factors framed by a contingency construct can support the public participation spaces for consultation and improved governance. The method employed is the meta-analysis supported by the reflective and descriptive analysis based on the conceptual, theoretical and empirical research literature. The analysis concludes that the creation and development of some structural factors such as the infrastructure, structure, power, resources, methods, and tools framed in a contingency model contribute to enhance the public and political participation spaces and consultation for governance in any organization, community, and society.