bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Implementation and costs of agroforestry system in a degraded area of Brazilian Semi-Arid region
Authors: de Quadro Israel Pereira , de Sousa Antônio Gilvan da Cruz , Nogueira Danilo Batista , Giroldo Aelton Biasi
Published: March 2023

The Brazilian semi-arid region is characterized by scarce water and often saline soils, and the agricultural practices there contribute to desertification. Most of the land in this region is used for subsistence and income generation through the use of forestry resources, but the traditional management practices of clearing areas with fire and cutting trees result in long-term ecosystem degradation. Agroforestry systems (AS) are an alternative to traditional systems that incorporate ecological concepts and aim to increase ecosystem services while maintaining ecological relationships. This study aimed to analyze the implementation of an agroforestry system in a degraded urban area, estimate the costs of implementation, and observe the development of vegetation after 3 years. The initial attempt to implement the system failed due to direct seeding, but the method was changed after 6 months by using 4-month-old seedlings. The costs of the system involved preparation and planting expenses, as well as maintenance. All individuals in the sample area were measured for diameter, height above ground, and maximum height, and their phytosociological parameters were calculated. The study found that agroforestry systems are feasible in the semi-arid region and that species such as Ceiba, Gliricidia, and Moringa have fast growth and can increase organic matter in the semi-arid systems. After 3 years, the system had a basal area of 6.37 m²/ha and a carbon stock of 17.69 Mg/ha. The implementation costs were R$ 5,120.47 ($ 988.68), totaling R$ 57,468,79/ha ($ 11,096.29/ha), which were considered relatively low compared to other studies on degraded area restoration. ASs can be seen as an alternative for small producers, allowing them to generate income, ensure conservation, and improve social conditions, ensuring sustainability.
Pelestarian Mangrove sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Keberlanjutan Tambak Ikan Etuwain di Kabupaten Malaka
Authors: Sanbein Emirensiana , Binsasi Remigius , Klau Maria Matilde , Blegur Willem Amu
Published: March 2023

Hutan mangrove memiliki fungsi ekologi sebagai pendukung habitat biota dan fungsi ekonomi sebagai pendukung kesejahteraan masyarakat. Distribusi dan kemelimpahan hutan mangrove Etuwain di Desa Lakekun, Kecamatan Kobalima, Kabupaten Malaka mempengaruhi aktivitas tambak yang diusahakan oleh masyarakat setempat di lokasi hutan mangrove tersebut. Kekurangpahaman masyarakat setempat dalam konversi mangrove menjadi tambak dengan cara yang ramah lingkungan berpotensi mengganggu kelestarian mangrove. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis fungsi penting hutan mangrove Etuwain yang akan mendukung pengelolaan tambak ikan Etuwain dan menganalisis dampak kegiatan penghijauan yang dilakukan di lokasi. Metode survei-observasi diterapkan untuk menemukan dan menentuan titik lokasi tanpa mangrove akibat penebangan, dan metode partisipasi diterapkan dengan mengajak masyarakat untuk menanam anakan mangrove (propagule) khususnya di titik yang tidak memiliki pohon mangrove. Analisis SWOT diterapkan dalam penyusunan strategi pengembangan hutan mangrove Etuwain secara berkelanjutan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hutan mangrove Etuwain mendukung fungsi sebagai habitat bagi dekapoda dan ikan. Akan tetapi, ada beberapa titik di lokasi hutan mangrove yang memerlukan penghijauan dengan wajib mempertimbangkan jenis mangrove yang ditanam dan fisiografi lokasi tambak ikan Etuwain. Upaya penghijauan mangrove, khususnya jenis Rhizophora stylosa, dilakukan dengan teknik penanaman yang menggabungkan sistem alat pemecah ombak (APO) dan hybrid engineering. Keterlibatan masyarakat lokal dan berbagai pihak diperlukan dalam menjaga kelestarian mangrove Etuwain. Pertambahan jenis dan jumlah mangrove serta perluasan hutan mangrove Etuwain akan memberikan manfaat ekonomis bagi masyarakat setempat secara berkelanjutan.
Climate Change Impacts on LULC in the Jarmet Wetland and its Surrounding Areas in Western Ethiopia
Authors: Bojer Amanuel Kumsa , Suryabhagavan Karuturi Venkata , Mekasha Samson Tsegaye , Al-Quraishi Ayad M. Fadhil
Published: March 2023

The concerns over land use and land cover (LULC) change have emerged on the global stage due to realization that changes occurring on the land surface also influence climate, ecosystem and its services. This study aimed to map the temporal dynamic of LULC patterns and LST in the Jarmet wetland in Ethiopia. The dynamics and pattern of changes for a period of 21 years (2000-2021) were analyzed using geospatial techniques. Multi-temporal satellite images from Landsat ETM+ and Landsat-8 OLI sensor data were used to extract land-cover maps. The Land Surface Temperature (LST) trend of the study areas was computed using MODIS satellite imagery (2000-2021). Supervised classification using a Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) was applied to prepare LULC maps of the watershed. The accuracy of the classified map was assessed using high-resolution data, and ground realities have been verified and ascertained through field observations. The results revealed a decreased trend in wetland, forest, shrubland and grassland in the period of 21 years (2000-2021) by -1148.71ha, -1073.26 ha, -1480.1 ha, and -87.73 ha, respectively. On the other hand, farmland and plantation areas followed an increasing trend. LST revealed decreasing trend in terms of mean and minimum with a fraction change of -0.018 and -0.073, whereas the maximum LST value shows an increasing trend with 0.021. The overall accuracy was 84.41%, with Kappa index of 76.13%. The analysis and findings of the study highlight important policy implications for sustainable LULC management in the study area. The study suggests the design and implementation of a guided natural resource policy, stopping the illegal expansion of farmland and educating society about the value of the sustainable management of habitat reserves.
Semiotically Adaptive Computer-Mediated Speech Therapy with Patients in Aphasia in the Light of Ecolinguistics
Authors: Kolmogorova A. V. , Lyamzina S. A. , Gimazdinov I. B.
Published: March 2023

The article describes the theory behind the design of a computer application for speech therapy of patients in aphasia. The project novelty consists in its data: to build up the training tasks, the authors used speech patterns that were semiotically relevant for the patients and visual supports obtained in experimental work.

   The research featured target-groups of healthy people whose gender, age, and social profile corresponded with those of patients undergoing neurorehabilitationat the Federal Siberian Research and Clinical Center of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia.

   The material included statistical data on the sociological characteristics of patients of the neurorehabilitation center in 2014-2018, as well as 18 questionnaires filled in by relatives of patients who were in rehabilitation from February to March 2019. It also involved scripts of interviews with 40 neurologically healthy native speakers of the Russian language of two gender-socio-professional groups that coincided in the language biography and collective speech profile with the most frequent groups of patients with complex motor aphasia. The data were processed using Sketch Engine corpus manager tools.

   The main methods of analysis included linguistic experiment, questioning, description, modeling, and design.

   The article introduces a methodological linguistic basis and a design project for a novel computer application that organizes speech therapy for patients with aphasia at home. The research was based on the ecolinguistic principle of relevance, which demonstrated good practical application prospects.
Continuum of Fuzzy Emotions
Authors: Shteba A. A.
Published: March 2023

The article deals with the current trends in the field of linguistic categorization of emotions. The emotional spectrum is much wider than the experiences that possess stable verbal explications. Fuzzy emotions include mixed, blended, complex, and other emotional experiences. They are primary, but they have never been subjected to independent linguistic research. This article focuses on the cultural particularities of emotions that reflect the ability of language consciousness to actualize the boundless emotional and semantic potential of the word to express the inner world. The research relied on the National Corpus of the Russian language to describe the process of creating emotional endoconcepts, i.e., emotional experiences that go beyond the traditional classification of emotive words. The authors believe that the controversial nature of the basic emotional paradigm is argued by the class of emotive words formed from basic emotions, e.g., sad emotions. Their dominant remains fuzzy, and only the evaluative meaning is clear. The approach that the linguistics of emotions adopts to categorize emotive words has a number of advantages because it takes into account the poly-ambivalence, discursivity, and flexibility of emotions that depend on the communicative situation.
Traditions of Magical Realism in M. Shishkin's Letter Book and N. Abgaryan's Simon
Authors: Rogova E. N. , Yanitskiy L. S.
Published: March 2023

The article describes the traditions of magical realism in M. Shishkin's  Letter Book and N. Abgaryan's Simon. The research involved comparative, mytho-poetic, hermeneutic, formal, and structural methods. V. I. Tyupa's theory of artistic discourse and F. Schlegel's idea of irony served as the basic theory in identifying the motifs associated with magical realism and generated by the ironic type of artistic completion. The term of magical realism covers works that belong to very different literary movements. The authors used the ironic type of aesthetic completion to explain similar elements in different poetics of magical realism fiction. The traditions of magical realism in the twentieth-century fiction revealed the following features: an ironic type of artistic integrity; dual worlds and miracles; fantasy intertwined with reality; myths, traditions, and legends; archetypes (father, savior, eternal lover, etc.) and symbols (tree, sea, etc.); unmotivated fantasy; fantastical timeline with no clear boundaries between the past and the future; a highly rhythmical pattern, etc.
From the History of German Terminology: Umlaut
Authors: Ivanov A. V.
Published: March 2023

The article described the early history of the linguistic term Umlaut in the terminological system of the German language. The study relied on the methods of historical, linguistic, definitional, and semantic analyses. The research covered German grammars, grammatical treatises, and dictionaries published in Germany between the early XVI century and the mid XIX century. The author traced the early evolution of the phonetic status of umlaut from a diphthong to a semi-diphthong: it was often believed to be a combination of two mutually pronounced sounds. In the first half of the XVII century, the status of umlaut began to change. T. Olearius (1630) referred umlauts to simple sounds. However, T. Olearius was not supported by his contemporaries. J. Schottel (1641) ascertained the ability of umlaut to realise a distinctive function. In spite of this, umlaut remained a diphthong up to the last quarter of the XVIII century. The term Umlaut was introduced into linguistic usage only in 1774 by F. Klopstock, who understood it as any change of the root vowels, regardless of the reasons for this alternation. The final status of the umlaut was determined when linguists came to the unequivocal conclusion that umlauts were simple vowels that required a single articulatory effort to be realized in speech. The author also analysed the five ways of umlaut graphics, as well as the names that denoted the diacritical marks. Umlaut received its final terminological status from J. Grimm in 1819.
Linguistic Means of Constructing the Image of Japan in Pedagogical Discourse
Authors: Kozachina A. V. , Temerova O. A.
Published: March 2023

The current globalization means that countries have to use different channels in order to build a positive national image.

   This article describes linguistic means that shape the image of Japan in the corpus of academic and methodological texts for learners of the Japanese language.

   It focuses on the impact of pedagogical discourse and foreign language textbooks as a channel for linguistic construction of a positive national image. The analysis involved such methods as linguo-imagological analysis, content analysis, lexico-semantic and morpho-semantic analyses. The study owes its scientific novelty to the fact that the Japanese textbooks for foreigners were described for the first time not from the perspective of cultural studies or Japanese language teaching methodology, but as a key genre of pedagogical discourse that transmits knowledge and attitudes reflecting the interests of the most influential social groups and institutions. The textbooks demonstrated a variety of linguistic means of Japan’s image at different linguistic levels. The directions of country image-making are set by texts related to linguistic and cultural studies. Intertextual inclusions, visuals, and grammatical constructions have an ancillary character in this process. Japan’s image has a complex nature, which includes positive and negative aspects. Lexical units with negative connotations are used to "ground" the image, presenting Japan as a country which has problems that should be corrected. The conclusions and observations on the process of country image formation obtained in the study are of practical significance for teaching such university courses as Cultural Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Discourse Analysis. The research will be useful for specialists in the Japanese language, linguistic imagology, and pedagogical linguistics.
Speech Genre of Congratulation in Asymmetric Communication
Authors: Malashenkova E. N.
Published: March 2023

The article describes the pragmatic, semantic, and axiological features of the speech genre of congratulation complement in pedagogical discourse with asymmetric communicants.

   The research material included 170 fragments. The research revealed two groups based on semantic, axiological, pragmatic, and linguistic differences: personal informal internet congratulations made by teaching staff to students and formal public speeches given by university rectors and teaching staff to students published on official websites of universities. The analysis relied on the factor of formality / informality. The differences between formal and informal congratulations manifested themselves in the content, language, and tactics. Both types were detailed and poly-intentional. The informal congratulations touched upon the addressee's personality, hobbies, achievements, and character traits. The formal congratulations showed a much greater distance between the sender and the addressee. They focused on the addressee's status, not personality. The texts often reflected current events, e.g., in 2019–2020 they touched upon the COVID-2019 pandemic.
Invective Lexicon in the Foreign Film Discourse of the Last Decade
Authors: Pankratova S. A.
Published: March 2023

Invectivity is an ambiguous but integral feature of modern cinema. The author used a complex linguistic approach to describe the obscene vocabulary of foreign movie discourse. The article attempts to answer the following questions: Why do films need invectives? Who they are addressed to? How many invectives fit in one movie line? How emotionally colored are invectives? How do they fit into the idiomatic composition of the language? What kind of shock power do they carry? What sacred values do they attack? Who swear more, male or female characters? Are invectives perceived literally or figuratively? How can they be avoided? The scientific novelty of the taboo studies is in tracking and maintaining the balance between two conflicting trends: the oversaturation of mass media with obscenities vs. the current purist movement. The theoretical significance lies in the comprehension of the ongoing cultural interaction. The author believes that the choice of invectives depends on the filmmaker, their sense of humor, and the style of character imagery. The method of continuous sampling from modern film scripts provided extensive exemplary material, which was subjected to cognitive-semantic, stylistic, pragmatic, and quantitative analyses. Western cinema often uses invectivity to make a line catchy. In addition, obscene vocabulary designates subgroup affiliation, encourages immediate interaction, and demonstrates a dominant social position. In a cultural society, invective vocabulary refers to criticized signs of verbal aggression, and the negative connotations of invectiveness can be eliminated in euphemisms. However, foreign cinema demonstrates and facilitates the degradation of the cultural background.
A comparative analysis of methods for establishing environmental flows in a Mediterranean watershed: suggestions for management
Authors: Baeza Sanz Domingo , Matías Aida Gómez
Published: March 2023

In Spain, the largest inter-basin transfer is between the Tagus and Segura Basins. This transfer affects the regimes of the Mundo River, a tributary, and the Segura River. In this study, we examine two methodologies for the calculation of environmental flow regimes for the stretches affected by this alteration. When several methodologies are used to determine environmental flows, difficulty arises in deciding which values to propose to restore the river system hydrologically. This work tries to overcome this problem because we present a proposal to make them complementary. As a method for establishing the validity of minimum flow results, a simulation has been carried out on the river section, which has made it possible to evaluate the habitat created and the possibility of fauna movement. The results obtained by the habitat simulation method exceeded those obtained by hydrological methods in terms of habitat creation and hydraulic conditions for connectivity. These same tests have been used to assess the minimum official proposal made by the water administration.
An Iterative Model for Identifying Essential Proteins Based on the Whole
Process Network of Protein Evolution
Authors: Zhang Zhen , Zhu Yaocan , Pei Hongjing , Wang Xiangyi , Wang Lei
Published: March 2023

Introduction:

Essential proteins play important roles in cell growth and regulation. However,
due to the high costs and low efficiency of traditional biological experiments to identify essential proteins,
in recent years, with the development of high-throughput technologies and bioinformatics, more
and more computational models have been proposed to infer key proteins based on Protein-Protein Interaction
(PPI) networks.

Methods:

In this manuscript, a novel prediction model named MWPNPE (Model based on the Whole
Process Network of Protein Evolution) was proposed, in which, a whole process network of protein
evolution was constructed first based on known PPI data and gene expression data downloaded from
benchmark databases. And then, considering that the interaction between proteins is a kind of dynamic
process, a new measure was designed to estimate the relationships between proteins, based on which, an
improved iterative algorithm was put forward to evaluate the importance of proteins.

Results:

Finally, in order to verify the predictive performance of MWPNPE, we compared it with stateof-
the-art representative computational methods, and experimental results demonstrated that the recognition
accuracy of MWPNPE in the top 100, 200, and 300 candidate key proteins can reach 89, 166, and
233 respectively, which is significantly better than the predictive accuracies achieved by these competitive
methods.

Conclusion:

Hence, it can be seen that MWPNPE may be a useful tool for the development of key protein
recognition in the future.
Evaluation of the Factors Influencing Self-leadership in the Saudi’s Healthcare Sector: A Systematic Review
Authors: Almeharish Amani , Bugis Bussma Ahmed
Published: March 2023

Background:

Self-leadership in the Saudi Arabian healthcare sector is vital due to the ongoing transformation of this industry. However, research on self-leadership training for Saudi healthcare workers is presently limited.

Objective:

A systematic literature review is performed, focusing on articles about self-leadership and the impact of factors influencing self-leadership in the Saudi Arabian health sector.

Methods:

PRISMA reporting was used for this systematic review. Data was sourced from various electronic databases based on predefined selection criteria.

Results:

Nine studies met the study inclusion criteria and were reviewed further. Results showed a lack of evidence on leadership training for healthcare workers in the Saudi Arabian healthcare sector. In some studies, self-leadership was associated with emotional intelligence, education, job satisfaction, job engagement, and internalized moral skills. High levels of self-leadership positively correlated with increased performance of healthcare workers in the Saudi Arabian health sector.

Conclusion:

Healthcare workers should have the necessary skills and strategies to develop self-leadership, thus enhancing communication competence and collaboration to achieve high performance in the health sector. Further research is needed in the Saudi Arabian healthcare sector to close the literature gap regarding self-leadership.
Waz touc mir doch min Altez leben?: Irmenschart como mater mediatrix em Willehalm de Wolfram von Eschenbach
Authors: Gomes Mafalda Sofia
Published: March 2023

In medieval literature, female characters can affect the course of events by speaking before an audience. These women are often maternal characters. In this article, I will analyze a reconfiguration of this paradigm by considering the example of the matriarch Irmenschart, depicted in Willehalm (c. 1210-20) by the Middle High German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach. An astute speech characterizes the intervention of the maternal character in the narrative in the imperial court for the benefit of her son, through whom she intercedes and whose conflict she mediates. This will rehabilitate the manly virtue of the members of the künne, restore her family’s identity and, finally, ensure material assistance to Willehalm’s cause. The mediator and intercessor nature that commands Irmenschart’s role in the plot will also be perceived in the light of a possible connection to the Christian and Marian model of the mater mediatrix.
Maria! Não me mates, que sou tua mãe!, de Camilo Castelo Branco: uma teodiceia literária
Authors: Moreira Tânia Furtado
Published: March 2023

This article proposes a reading of Maria! Não Me Mates, que Sou Tua Mãe! (1848), by Camilo Castelo Branco, with a special focus on the narration instance. The analysis of the narrator’s perspective, configured by the rhetorical pathos, will lead to a reflection on this Camillian narrative in the light of theodicy attempts as investigated by Immanuel Kant. Since the sapiential book of the Old Testament, the problem of theodicy has arisen when the good man Job, facing a catastrophe of unusual evils, perseveres in his belief in God. The Kantian reading of the Book of Job, a substantial hypotext in Camillian fiction, will allow us to elucidate this particular narrative in its theodicy bias, namely based on Kant’s critique of doctrinal theodicy
A Línguamãe – Oficina de Leitura e Escrita sobre Literatura e Maternidade como espaço de resistência e pensamento das mães na pandemia
Authors: Araújo Cacau , Amaral Gabriela do
Published: March 2023

The new social rules established by the covid-19 pandemic have pressed an immense contingent of women to their physical and emotional limits. Línguamãe (mothertonge) is a reading and writing workshop about Literature and Motherhood created by two mothers, writers, and expatriated Brazilian women: one in Portugal, the other one in the USA. Both occupying the same territory of extended isolation (the postpartum followed by the pandemic). Although isolated, women, especially women-mothers, even more women-mothers-writers remained together, speaking the same language, because being a mother is a nationality within itself. Reading and writing about motherhood during this dystopian moment does not save them from the difficulties, but invites them to find in Literature a refuge that helps them pass through the storm, safeguarding, creating connections, and serving as an artistic elaboration tool.
Stabat amǐta: D. Isabel da Borgonha como protetora da família de Avis
Authors: Ramos Manuel
Published: March 2023

D. Pedro, Duke of Coimbra, was killed in Alfarrobeira when he was heading to the kingdom’s capital with his army and his son D. Jaime in order to capture the city. He was severely punished along with his sons and supporters with the punishment of damnatio memoriae and the confiscation of the right to property. Among the siblings who strove the most for the rehabilitation of the defeated are, not D. Henrique, but rather D. Isabel, fraternal sister of the former regent and friendly aunt of her nephews, who, although living in Burgundy, was always close to the Avis family. She immediately took the initiative, through her experienced ambassador, Jean Jouffroy, to reverse the situation of punishment that had befallen her family. As the court resisted the ambassador’s appeals and the legal justifications, having made few concessions to his pleas, she welcomed her brother’s children to Burgundy and projected them to international careers — stabat amǐta (paternal aunt)
Kinetic model of biogas production from food waste
Authors:   Program Studi Teknik Kimia, Fakultas Teknologi Industri, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Shitophyta Lukhi Mulia
Published: March 2023

Biogas is one of the renewable energies to minimize the use of fossil fuels. Biogas can be generated from food wastes through anaerobic digestion. The study aimed to determine the kinetic model of biogas production from food waste using linear, exponential and Gaussian equations. The result showed that the simulation of the exponential equation is the ideal model to be applied to a kinetic model of biogas production from food waste with R2 > 0.9.
Spin mixing conductance of the iridate/manganite interface
Authors: Ovsyannikov G. A.  , Constantinyan K. I.  , Kalachev E. A.  , Klimov A. A.
Published: March 2023

The results of studies of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) of iridate/manganite epitaxial heterostructures in a wide range of microwave frequencies (1- 20 GHz) are presented. The magnitudes of imaginary and real parts of the spin mixing conductance of the heterostructure boundary determining the spin current were determined from the frequency dependence of the spin damping and changes in the resonance field of the FMR. It is shown that the value of the imaginary part of spin conductance is comparable to the real part, which may be caused by strong spin-orbit interaction occurring in 5d-oxides of transition metals (iridate). Keywords: ferromagnetic resonance, SrIrO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures, spin current, spin mixing conductance.
Pengaruh Penggunaan Media Pembelajaran Interaktif Berbasis Android dengan Pendekatan Matematik Realistik terhadap Hasil Belajar Matematika Siswa Kelas VII MTS Assalafiyah Mlangi
Authors: Choir Rosa Mufrida , Abdullah Ahmad Anis
Published: March 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan hasil belajar antara kelas siswa yang menggunakan media pembelajaran interaktif berbasis android dengan kelas siswa yang menggunakan media pembelajaran konvesional pada materi Himpunan di kelas VII MTs Assalafiyyah Mlangi. Jenis penelitian ini adalah quasi experimental design dengan desain nonequivalent control group design. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas VII MTs Assalafiyyah putri tahun pelajaran 2020/2021 yang terdiri dari 50 siswa dengan rincian 25 siswa pada kelas eksperimen dan 25 siswa pada kelas kontrol. Instrumen yang digunakan sebagai data hasil belajar siswa adalah dengan menggunakan soal test kemampuan yaitu berupa soal tes kemampuan pre-test dan post-test. Pengujian hipotesis menggunakan uji t satu pihak (one tail test) dengan jenis Independent sample t-test. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan  terdapat pengaruh penggunaan media pembelajaran interaktif berbasis android dengan pendekatan matematik realistik terhadap hasil belajar materi himpunan siswa kelas VII MTs Assalafiyyah, dimana hasil t hitung = 5,543 lebih besar dari t tabel = 1,677. Serta rata-rata hasil belajar siswa kelas eksperimen lebih tinggi jika dibandingkan dengan hasil belajar kelas kontrol setelah diberikannya perlakuan, dimana rata-rata hasil belajar siswa kelas eksperimen sebesar 76 dan kelas kontrol hanya sebesar 63.
Development of an Alcohol Refusal Training in Immersive Virtual Reality for Patients With Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disability and Alcohol Use Disorder: Cocreation With Experts in Addiction Care
Authors: Langener Simon , Kolkmeier Jan , VanDerNagel Joanne , Klaassen Randy , van Manen Jeannette , Heylen Dirk
Published: March 2023

Background

People with mild to borderline intellectual disability (MBID; IQ=50-85) are at risk for developing an alcohol use disorder (AUD). One factor contributing to this risk is sensitivity to peer pressure. Hence, tailored trainings are needed to practice alcohol refusal in impacted patients. Immersive virtual reality (IVR) appears promising to engage patients in dialogs with virtual humans, allowing to practice alcohol refusal realistically. However, requirements for such an IVR have not been studied for MBID/AUD.

Objective

This study aims to develop an IVR alcohol refusal training for patients with MBID and AUD. In this work, we cocreated our peer pressure simulation with experienced experts in addiction care.

Methods

We followed the Persuasive System Design (PSD) model to develop our IVR alcohol refusal training. With 5 experts from a Dutch addiction clinic for patients with MBID, we held 3 focus groups to design the virtual environment, persuasive virtual human(s), and persuasive dialog. Subsequently, we developed our initial IVR prototype and conducted another focus group to evaluate IVR and procedures for clinical usage, resulting in our final peer pressure simulation.

Results

Our experts described visiting a friend at home with multiple friends as the most relevant peer pressure situation in the clinical setting. Based on the identified requirements, we developed a social-housing apartment with multiple virtual friends present. Moreover, we embedded a virtual man with generic appearance to exert peer pressure using a persuasive dialog. Patients can respond to persuasive attempts by selecting (refusal) responses with varying degrees of risk for relapse in alcohol use. Our evaluation showed that experts value a realistic and interactable IVR. However, experts identified lacking persuasive design elements, such as paralanguage, for our virtual human. For clinical usage, a user-centered customization is needed to prevent adverse effects. Further, interventions should be therapist delivered to avoid try-and-error in patients with MBID. Lastly, we identified factors for immersion, as well as facilitators and barriers for IVR accessibility.

Conclusions

Our work establishes an initial PSD for IVR for alcohol refusal trainings in patients with MBID and AUD. With this, scholars can create comparable simulations by performing an analogous cocreation, replicate findings, and identify active PSD elements. For peer pressure, conveying emotional information in a virtual human’s voice (eg, paralanguage) seems vital. However, previous rapport building may be needed to ensure that virtual humans are perceived as cognitively capable entities. Future work should validate our PSD with patients and start developing IVR treatment protocols using interdisciplinary teams.
Personal Health Data Tracking by Blind and Low-Vision People: Survey Study
Authors: Lee Jarrett G W , Lee Kyungyeon , Lee Bongshin , Choi Soyoung , Seo JooYoung , Choe Eun Kyoung
Published: March 2023

Background

Personal health technologies, including wearable tracking devices and mobile apps, have great potential to equip the general population with the ability to monitor and manage their health. However, being designed for sighted people, much of their functionality is largely inaccessible to the blind and low-vision (BLV) population, threatening the equitable access to personal health data (PHD) and health care services.

Objective

This study aims to understand why and how BLV people collect and use their PHD and the obstacles they face in doing so. Such knowledge can inform accessibility researchers and technology companies of the unique self-tracking needs and accessibility challenges that BLV people experience.

Methods

We conducted a web-based and phone survey with 156 BLV people. We reported on quantitative and qualitative findings regarding their PHD tracking practices, needs, accessibility barriers, and work-arounds.

Results

BLV respondents had strong desires and needs to track PHD, and many of them were already tracking their data despite many hurdles. Popular tracking items (ie, exercise, weight, sleep, and food) and the reasons for tracking were similar to those of sighted people. BLV people, however, face many accessibility challenges throughout all phases of self-tracking, from identifying tracking tools to reviewing data. The main barriers our respondents experienced included suboptimal tracking experiences and insufficient benefits against the extended burden for BLV people.

Conclusions

We reported the findings that contribute to an in-depth understanding of BLV people’s motivations for PHD tracking, tracking practices, challenges, and work-arounds. Our findings suggest that various accessibility challenges hinder BLV individuals from effectively gaining the benefits of self-tracking technologies. On the basis of the findings, we discussed design opportunities and research areas to focus on making PHD tracking technologies accessible for all, including BLV people.
Disruptions in the Cystic Fibrosis Community’s Experiences and Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Topic Modeling and Time Series Analysis of Reddit Comments
Authors: Yao Lean Franzl , Ferawati Kiki , Liew Kongmeng , Wakamiya Shoko , Aramaki Eiji
Published: March 2023

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the needs and concerns of the cystic fibrosis community. Patients with cystic fibrosis were particularly vulnerable during the pandemic due to overlapping symptoms in addition to the challenges patients with rare diseases face, such as the need for constant medical aid and limited information regarding their disease or treatments. Even before the pandemic, patients vocalized these concerns on social media platforms like Reddit and formed communities and networks to share insight and information. This data can be used as a quick and efficient source of information about the experiences and concerns of patients with cystic fibrosis in contrast to traditional survey- or clinical-based methods.

Objective

This study applies topic modeling and time series analysis to identify the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the cystic fibrosis community’s experiences and concerns. This study illustrates the utility of social media data in gaining insight into the experiences and concerns of patients with rare diseases.

Methods

We collected comments from the subreddit r/CysticFibrosis to represent the experiences and concerns of the cystic fibrosis community. The comments were preprocessed before being used to train the BERTopic model to assign each comment to a topic. The number of comments and active users for each data set was aggregated monthly per topic and then fitted with an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to study the trends in activity. To verify the disruption in trends during the COVID-19 pandemic, we assigned a dummy variable in the model where a value of “1” was assigned to months in 2020 and “0” otherwise and tested for its statistical significance.

Results

A total of 120,738 comments from 5827 users were collected from March 24, 2011, until August 31, 2022. We found 22 topics representing the cystic fibrosis community’s experiences and concerns. Our time series analysis showed that for 9 topics, the COVID-19 pandemic was a statistically significant event that disrupted the trends in user activity. Of the 9 topics, only 1 showed significantly increased activity during this period, while the other 8 showed decreased activity. This mixture of increased and decreased activity for these topics indicates a shift in attention or focus on discussion topics during this period.

Conclusions

There was a disruption in the experiences and concerns the cystic fibrosis community faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. By studying social media data, we were able to quickly and efficiently study the impact on the lived experiences and daily struggles of patients with cystic fibrosis. This study shows how social media data can be used as an alternative source of information to gain insight into the needs of patients with rare diseases and how external factors disrupt them.
Online Medical Consultation Service–Oriented Recommendations: Systematic Review (Preprint)
Authors: Jiang Hongxun , Mi Ziyue , Xu Wei
Published: March 2023

BACKGROUND

Online health communities have given rise to a new e-service known as online medical consultations (OMCs), enabling remote interactions between physicians and patients. To address challenges, such as patient information overload and uneven distribution of physician visits, online health communities should develop OMC-oriented recommenders.

OBJECTIVE

We aimed to comprehensively investigate what paradigms lead to the success of OMC-oriented recommendations.

METHODS

A literature search was conducted through e-databases, including PubMed, ACM Digital Library, Springer, and ScienceDirect, from January 2011 to December 2023. This review included all papers directly and indirectly related to the topic of health care–related recommendations for online services.

RESULTS

The search identified 611 articles, of which 26 (4.3%) met the inclusion criteria. Despite the growing academic interest in OMC recommendations, there remains a lack of consensus among researchers on the definition of e-service–oriented recommenders. The discussion highlighted 3 key factors influencing recommender success: features, algorithms, and metrics. It advocated for moving beyond traditional e-commerce–oriented recommenders to establish an innovative theoretical framework for e-service–oriented recommenders and addresses critical technical issues regarding 2-sided personalized recommendations.

CONCLUSIONS

This review underscores the essence of e-services, particularly in knowledge- and labor-intensive domains such as OMCs, where patients seek interpretable recommendations due to their lack of domain knowledge and physicians must balance their energy levels to avoid overworking. Our study’s findings shed light on the importance of customizing e-service–oriented personalized recommendations to meet the distinct expectations of 2-sided users considering their cognitive abilities, decision-making perspectives, and preferences. To achieve this, a paradigm shift is essential to develop unique attributes and explore distinct content tailored for both parties involved.
Generasi Z dalam Komunitas Keagamaan: Potensi Intoleransi Beragama melalui Budaya Eksklusif dalam Memahami Agama
Authors: Sukmayadi Qolbi Mujahidillah Adzimat , Sardin Sardin , Utami Nindita Fajria
Published: March 2023

Intoleransi merupakan salah satu bentuk konflik dan diskriminasi umat beragama yang hingga kini termanifestasi dalam bentuk-bentuk pelarangan, penyerangan, sampai pemaksaan terhadap umat agama minoritas. Faktor yang memberikan pengaruh terhadap intoleransi adalah eksklusivisme beragama, khususnya pada generasi Z yang berpotensi terpapar pemahaman keagamaan yang ekstrem, terlebih dalam komunitas keagamaan yang dianggap dapat mengembangkan budaya eksklusif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur hubungan antara eksklusivisme beragama dengan intoleransi beragama. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif dengan metode statistik deskriptif dan statistik inferensial melalui model analisis regresi linear sederhana. Teknik random sampling digunakan dengan menarik 100 sampel dari keseluruhan populasi melalui rumus Lemeshow dengan menggunakan teknik pengumpulan data Google Form. Instrumen penelitian telah teruji dengan uji validitas pearson product moment, uji reliabilitas cronbach alpha, uji normalitas kolmogorov-smirnov, dan uji linearitas deviation from linearity. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwasanya terdapat pengaruh eksklusivisme beragama terhadap intoleransi beragama dengan persentase koefisien korelasi sebesar 36%, koefisien determinasi sebesar 13%, serta thitung   = 3,835 > ttabel =1,984.
Effect of Brassicaceae Waste Application on Soil Nematode Community
Authors: Ibrahim Ahmad Yusuf , Supramana Supramana , Giyanto Giyanto
Published: March 2023

Brassicaceae are known to contain compounds that are biofumigants. This study aimed to determine the effect of Brassicaceae waste application on soil nematode community. Broccoli leaves and stems (Brassica oleracea var. italic), cabbage leaves and stems (B. oleracea var. capitate), kailan stems (B. oleracea var. alboglabra), radish leaves (Raphanus sativus), and leaves of kamanilan weed (Rorippa indica) were tested in this study. The total glucosinolate content of Brassicaceae waste was estimated using the palladium method with a modified spectrophotometer. The experiment was carried out in polybags containing 500 grams of soil-infested nematodes. Brassicaceae waste (15 grams/polybag) was chopped and mixed into the soil, watered, and polybags were tightly closed for 14 days. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design with nine treatments and five replications. The results of the total glucosinolate analysis showed that broccoli, radish, and kamanilan leaves fall into the high category (144.7-185.2 µmol/g); cabbage leaves, cabbage stems, and kailan stems fall into the medium category (52.0-56.0 µmol/g); and broccoli stems fall into the low category (35.4 µmol/g). There was no correlation between total glucosinolate contents and their effect on suppressing soil nematode communities at the applied effluent dose. The population of bacterivorous nematodes increased in each waste treatment, especially in kamanilan leaf treatment (R. indica) which reached 13,008 individuals. These results indicate that kamanilan weed has good potential to improve soil health. The treatment of Brassicaceae waste against soil nematode communities showed a low diversity index, an uneven evenness index, and a high dominance index.
ANN based PV-WE and Bess Control Strategies of Grid Off-Microgrid
Authors: Vaishnavi Mahankali , Rambabu Mr. Y.
Published: March 2023

Abstract: The project aims to improve the PV-WE system's energy usage and the battery energy storage system (BESS). Literature research focuses exclusively on PV, BESS. Surveillance, tension management, frequency control, energy distribution, power quality and artificial intelligence techniques (AI). The aim must therefore be to increase the power quality of the gridconnected PV-BESS system. In order to increase energy quality, technology is continually explored and evaluated. The PVBESS system is built for the microgrid, which offers benefits including continuous supply, efficient load content and effective electricity utilisation. The flow of energy from source to source is controlled by ANN. The development of the MPPT algorithm for validation of the proposed approach is using an artificial network (ANN) technological technique. Both treatments have the greatest technology to compare the results. An extensive research and data finding demonstrates that FLC-based MPCP output is better than the ANN-based MPPT output. The precise and cost efficient use of power is therefore achieved by ANN. This study therefore proposes a new way for assessing the performance at a specific site of the microgrid. The power translation systems are therefore handled in an active and reactive manner taking into consideration their circumstances and limitations.
Medical use of Tulsi Plant and its Importance for Human Beings
Authors: Santwani Dr. Soniya
Published: March 2023

Abstract: Ocimum tenuiflorum (synonym Ocimum sanctum), commonly known as holy basil, tulsi is an aromatic perennial plant. Tulsi is a plant that has many medicinal properties. It has an excellent analeptic effect that can heal the mind as well as the body. Tulsi as properties antioxidant and anti-inflammatory reduces inflammation by maintaining the nerves and the tissues that are damaged by harmful free radicals.
The failure of urban entrepreneurialism on patrimonial lands – the Rio de Janeiro of mega-events and the limits of peripheral neoliberalization
Authors: Carvalho Nelson Rojas de
Published: March 2023

Based on a comparative perspective involving the growth machines that have propelled cities in the US and the recent experiences of urban localism that have spread across Europe, this paper analyzes the specific path that peripheral cities such as Rio de Janeiro have followed in adhering to the model of urban entrepreneurialism. It contends that, on one side, due to a lack of organization by the economic agents and on the other, insufficient state capacities, peripheral cities like Rio have been unable to replicate either the European pathway or that of US cities in implanting the tenets of urban entrepreneurialism. With the support of a case-study on the main urban interventions and economic actors involved during the mega-events in Rio, the study has developed a hypothesis, according to which, to a large extent, the project of the entrepreneurial city was mainly hailed as an ideological construct that reiterated “rent-seeking” strategies on the part of economic actors who, for decades, have occupied a central position in commanding the political economy of the city.
Төмөр агуулсан наносоронзон материалын дулаан ялгаруулах чадамжийн судалгаа
Authors: Б Энхмэнд , И Хишигдэмбэрэл , Б Хонгорзул , Э Уянга , Н Жаргалан , Д Сангаа , Э Дамдинсүрэн
Published: March 2023

Энэхүү ажилд золь-гелийн аргаар синтезлэн гарган авсан магнийн болон зэсийнферрит (MgFe2O4, CuFe2O4) нэгдлүүдийн хувьсах соронзон оронд дулаан ялгаруулахчадамжийг дээжний хэмжээнээс хамааруулан өөрсдийн угсарч усан хөргүүр бүхийсоронзон орон үүсгэх төхөөрөмжийг ашиглан гүйцэтгэсэн судалгааны үр дүнгээстусгалаа. Дээжний хэмжээ 50, 75, 100 мг байхад дулаан ялгаруулалтын температур 32- 45 оС хооронд байсан,харин Чадлын Хувийн Шингээлт харгалзан MgFe2O4 дээжийнхувьд 5.46 Вт/гр, 5.13 Вт/гр, 4.9 Вт/гр гарсан бол CuFe2O4 дээжүүдийн хувьд 1.61Вт/гр, 1.4 Вт/гр, 1.3 Вт/гр байв
Монгол улсын дунд сургуулийн физикийн хөтөлбөрийн хөгжил
Authors: М Мөнхболд , Д Пүрэвдорж
Published: March 2023

Хүн төрөлхтөний өдөр тутмын амьдралын төлөөх тэмцэлийн явцад хуримтлагдсанмэдлэг нь аливаа шинжлэх ухааны үүсэл, хөгжлийн үндэс болдог. Монгол оронд 1921онд ардын хувьсгал ялсны дараа орчин үеийн боловсролын системийн үндэс суурьтавигдаж, байгалийн үзэгдэл юмсыг шинжлэх ухааны үүднээс тайлбарлах монголхэлийн үгсийн санд цоо шинэ, урьд өмнө сонсож байгаагүй, нэр, томъёо олноор оржирж мэдлэгийн сан өргөжиж шинэ хөгжлийн зам тавигдсан. Физикийн шинжлэхухааныг цаашид системтэй хөгжүүлэхэд түүний үүсэл, хөгжлийг зайлшгүй судлахшаардлагатай.