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Amending the Ryan Haight Act
Authors: Vaughn Dillon
Published: June 2020

The Ryan Haight Act has established excessive restrictions on controlled substance prescribing through telemedicine by first requiring an in-person exam. If the Act is not amended, many individuals in need of medication will go without proper medical care. While other agencies and states have made moves to expand telehealth, the DEA has dragged its feet on making any significant changes. This Comment argues that the federal government should amend the Ryan Haight Act, allowing telemedicine providers to prescribe controlled substances without an in-person exam. This amendment would focus on the standard of care while requiring stringent documentation by physicians who perform telemedicine services. If this change occurs, patients who have barriers to accessing medical treatment will have the opportunity to get the proper care they need.
A New Horatia spp. from the Balkans (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae Stimpson, 1865)
Authors: Glöer Petr , Reuselaars Robert
Published: June 2020

In this article we describe a new species of Horatia from North Macedonia (former FYROM). Description of the new species is based on the shell characters only. This new species is compared with the other known species of Horatia from the Balkans, i.e., H. klecakiana, H. novoselensis and H. macedonica.
New subspecies of Colias tyche (Boeber, 1812) (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea: Pieridae) from Taimyr Peninsula (Northern Siberia)
Authors: Yakovlev Roman V.
Published: June 2020

The article describes a new subspecies, Colias tyche antonkozlovi Yakovlev ssp. n. (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea: Pieridae) from Taimyr Peninsula. We provide a detailed illustrated description and distinctive features of the new subspecies from other Palaearctic subspecies of C. tyche.
Human Sustainable Urbanism Against Unsustainable Realities: A Holistic Model
Authors: Oktay Derya
Published: June 2020

Sustainable urbanism is explained in many contexts through addressing natural environment and ecological sustainability as the major concern, a condition that is related with the climate change. However, it should not be underestimated that today’s realities also include unsustainable realities about social aspects, i.e. inequities between groups of people, undermined local community and social-cultural values, economies and quality of life. These issues imply a more critical state in cities of traditional societies where transformations in the urban level are still visible. This calls for sensitivity to the traditional urbanism and impact of global ideas, practices, and technologies on local social and cultural practices both at the city scale and architecture scale. In line with these, this paper aims to establish an environmentally sound and human friendly framework for ‘human sustainable urbanism’ integrating ecological and cultural sustainability. In this context, the study firstly provides a conceptual understanding of sustainable urbanism and a critical review of its philosophical and practical framework; secondly, it provides a critical assessment of contemporary approaches to sustainable urbanism; thirdly, the paper analyses the traditional Turkish (Ottoman) city which provides valuable clues for sustainable development, and discusses possible research directions that could help promote the concept of sustainability.
Van lokaal tot internationaal: Goudsbloms invloed
Authors: Wilterdink Nico
Published: June 2020

De betekenis van Johan Goudsblom voor de sociologie is gelegen in zowel zijn eigen werk als de door hem gestimuleerde sociologische schoolvorming op lokaal, nationaal en internationaal niveau.
STUDIES ON CHARACTERISTICS OF XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE ISOLATES ASSOCIATED WITH RICE CROP
Authors: Nawaz Asif , Tariq Javed Asghar , Lodhi Abdul Mubeen , Memon Raza Muhammad
Published: June 2020

Rice Bacterial Leaf Blight (BLB) is considered the most imperative disease among various dangerous maladies of rice in Pakistan. There is no any reliable source of resistance against this disease. Moreover, pathogen has a vast diversity in its population. So, first and most important step for its control is pathogen identification and characterization. Therefore, present studies were carried out for surveillance of disease and to collect disease specimens from Hyderabad and Tando-Muhammad Khan (TMK) Districts. Associated pathogen was isolated from collected samples by direct plating method. Fourteen cultures were purified by streaking method and were characterized on the basis of colony morphology, cell morphology and gram staining. The colonies were found to be large, medium and small. Their shapes were filamentous, irregular and circular. They were found to be raised, undulate, entire and convex showing pale yellow, yellow, off white, reddish and creamy color and surface of most of the colonies was observed to be smooth
SCHEDULING OF REPETITIVE CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES WITH CONCURRENT WORK OF SIMILARLY SPECIALIZED CREWS
Authors: Jaskowski Piotr , Biruk Slawomir
Published: June 2020

The highest degree of construction works harmonization can be achieved when planning a repetitive project with processes replicated many times in work zones of identical size. In practice, structural considerations affect the way of dividing the object under construction into zones differing in terms of scope and quantity of works. Due to this fact, individual processes are being allotted to different non-identical zones. Most methods intended for scheduling repetitive processes were developed with the assumption that the work zones are identical and that a particular process cannot be concurrently conducted. To address this gap, the authors put forward a mathematical model of the problem of scheduling of repetitive processes that are repeated in different work zones with the following assumption: several crews of the same type are available, thus particular process can run simultaneously in different locations. The aim of optimization is minimizing the idle time of all crews under the constraint of not exceeding the contractual project duration. The proposed mixed binary linear programming model can be solved using software available in the market or developed into a dedicated system to support decisions. To illustrate the benefits of the model, an example of scheduling interior finishing works was provided.
EVALUATING THE COMPREHENSIVE IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN HAINAN BY INTERGRATING INPUT-OUTPUT MODEL WITH MCDM METHODS
Authors: Lin Ping-Ping , Li Deng-Feng , Jiang Bin-Qian , Yu Gao-Feng , Wei An-Peng
Published: June 2020

To evaluate the comprehensive impacts of tourism in Hainan, this paper proposes an approach integrating
input-output (IO) model with multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods. Four steps are taken: (1) constructing an extended
IO model that can separate out domestic and imported effects from the traditional IO system; (2) constituting a 3-level evaluation
criteria hierarchy based on various tourism multipliers obtained from the extended IO model; (3) calculating the weights of
criteria using the entropy theory; (4) giving an evaluation of comprehensive impacts of tourism based on four MCDM methods – WSM,
TOPSIS, ELECTRE, and PROMETHEE. Using Hainan 2002, 2007, and 2012 IO tables as database, the proposed approach is implemented
in the empirical study of Hainan. The results show economic dimension is the most important consideration and the overall
performance of tourism in Hainan shows a trend of first increasing and then decreasing from 2002 to 2012. Two types sensitivity
analysis of weights show single criterion weight change has little influence on the results. But it is different when four
dimensions weights change. Especially, when the environmental dimension is valued, the overall performance gets worse annually.
These findings can offer insightful policies for the development of Hainan’s tourism.
Survey of Extremely High-velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars
Authors: Rodríguez Hidalgo Paola , Khatri Abdul Moiz , Hall Patrick B. , Haas Sean , Quintero Carla , Khatu Viraja , Kowash Griffin , Murray Norm
Published: June 2020

We present a survey of extremely high-velocity outflows (EHVOs) in quasars, defined by speeds between 0.1c and 0.2c. This region of parameter space has not been included in previous surveys, but it might present the biggest challenge for theoretical models and it might be a large contributor to feedback due to the outflows’ potentially large kinetic power. Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we find 40 quasar spectra with broad EHVO C iv absorption, 10 times more than the number of previously known cases. We characterize the EHVO absorption and find that in 26 cases, C iv is accompanied by N v and/or O vi absorption. We find that EHVO quasars lack He ii emission and have overall larger bolometric luminosities and black hole masses than those of their parent sample and broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs), while we do not find significant differences in their Eddington ratios. We also report a trend toward larger black hole masses as the velocity of the outflowing gas increases in the BALQSOs in our sample. The overall larger L
bol and lack of He ii emission of EHVO quasars suggest that radiation is likely driving these outflows. We find a potential evolutionary effect as EHVO quasars seem to be more predominant at large redshifts. We estimate that the kinetic power of these outflows may be similar to or even larger than that of the outflows from BALQSOs as the velocity factor increases this parameter by 1–2.5 orders of magnitude. Further study of EHVO quasars will help improve our understanding of quasar physics.
Spatial Distribution of the Origin of Umbral Waves in a Sunspot Umbra
Authors: Yurchyshyn Vasyl , Kilcik Ali , Şahin Seray , Abramenko Valentina , Lim Eun-Kyung
Published: June 2020

Umbral flashes (UFs) are emissions in the core of chromospheric lines caused by upward propagating waves steepening into shocks. UFs are followed by an expanding blueshifted umbral wave and redshifted plasma returning to the initial state. Here we use 5 s cadence images acquired at ±0.04 nm off the H

line center by the Visible Imaging Spectrometer installed on the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) to detect the origin of UFs and umbral waves (UWs) in a sunspot with a uniform umbra free of light bridges and clusters of umbral dots. The data showed that UFs do not randomly originate over the umbra. Instead, they appear to be repeatedly triggered at locations with the lowest umbral intensity and the most powerful oscillations of H

–0.04 nm intensity. GST magnetic field measurements using the Near-Infrared Imaging Spectropolarimeter also showed that the dominant location of prevalent UF origin is cospatial associated with the strongest fields in the umbra. Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph 149.0 nm images showed that no bright UV loops were anchored in the umbra in general, and near the UF patches in particular, suggesting that UFs and UWs alone cannot be responsible for the origin of warm coronal loops. We thus conclude that the existence of locations with prevalent origin of UFs confirms the idea that they may be driven by a subsurface source located near the axis of a flux rope, while the presence of several UFs trigger centers may indicate the complex structure of a sunspot umbra.
Study of the Influence of the Solar Wind Energy on the Geomagnetic Activity for Space Weather Science
Authors: Telloni Daniele , Carbone Francesco , Antonucci Ester , Bruno Roberto , Grimani Catia , Villante Umberto , Giordano Silvio , Mancuso Salvatore , Zangrilli Luca
Published: June 2020

This paper addresses the investigation of the interaction of the solar wind energy with the Earth’s magnetosphere, by studying its correlation with the disturbance storm time (Dst) index, a proxy of the geomagnetic activity. Some relevant parameters of the solar wind (the bulk speed and the z-component of the interplanetary magnetic field) are explored in the energy−Dst space. It results that (i) the solar wind energy and the geomagnetic activity are strictly related, with the coronal mass ejections representing the most energetic and geoeffective driver; (ii) the slow solar wind has negligible effects on Earth regardless of its energy content, whereas high-speed streams may induce severe geomagnetic storming depending on the advected energy; and (iii) while at low and mid energies, geomagnetic disturbances are induced provided the magnetic reconnection between the interplanetary and terrestrial magnetic fields occurs, high-energy solar wind plasma can impact Earth even without reconnecting with the geomagnetic field at the dayside magnetopause. The most significant result in the framework of space weather science resides in the observational evidence that the Earth’s magnetosphere has a maximum response to the energetic content of the solar wind, which leads to the derivation of an empirical law allowing the proper forecast of the upper limit of the intensity of any geomagnetic disturbance on the basis of the solar wind energy derived in situ at the Lagrangian point L1.
Rotational Disruption of Dust Grains by Mechanical Torques for High-velocity Gas–Grain Collisions
Authors: Hoang Thiem , Lee Hyeseung
Published: June 2020

Dust grains moving at hypersonic velocities of

through an ambient gas are known to be destroyed by nonthermal sputtering. Yet, previous studies of nonthermal sputtering disregarded the fact that dust grains can be spun up to suprathermal rotation by stochastic mechanical torques from gas–grain collisions. In this paper, we show that such grain suprathermal rotation can disrupt a small grain into small fragments because induced centrifugal stress exceeds the maximum tensile strength of grain material, S
max. We term this mechanism MEchanical Torque Disruption (METD). We find that METD is more efficient than nonthermal sputtering in destroying the smallest grains (a < 10 nm) of non-ideal structures, moving with velocities of

. The ratio of rotational disruption to sputtering time is

/

/

/

, where a is the radius of spherical grains and Y
sp is the sputtering yield. We also consider the high-energy regime and find that the rate of METD is reduced and becomes less efficient than sputtering for

because impinging particles only transfer part of their momentum to the grain. We finally discuss the implications of the METD mechanism for the destruction of hypersonic grains accelerated by radiation pressure, as well as grains in fast shocks. Our results suggest that the destruction of small grains by METD in fast shocks of supernova remnants may be more efficient than previously predicted by nonthermal sputtering, depending on grain internal structures.
Organic Food Production and Consumption Policies and Strategies
Authors: Vargas-Hernández José G.
Published: June 2020

This chapter aims to analyze the main factors of the production and consumption of organic products, as well as their policies and strategies. The analysis is based on the premise of the sustainable development of the production, distribution, and consumption systems of organic products that have the potential to improve the quality of life levels of producers, consumers, and society. It is concluded that the production and consumption of organic food is based on a more favorable agriculture of the ecological and the environment, as well as by providing more nutritious and healthy food for consumption.
Machine Learning in Authentication of Digital Audio Recordings
Authors: Patole Rashmika Kiran , Rege Priti Paresh
Published: June 2020

The field of audio forensics has seen a huge advancement in recent years with an increasing number of techniques used for the analysis of the audio recordings submitted as evidence in legal investigations. Audio forensics involves authentication of the evidentiary audio recordings, which is an important procedure to verify the integrity of audio recordings. This chapter focuses two audio authentication procedures, namely acoustic environment identification and tampering detection. The authors provide a framework for the above-mentioned procedures discussing in detail the methodology and feature sets used in the two tasks. The main objective of this chapter is to introduce the readers to different machine learning algorithms that can be used for environment identification and forgery detection. The authors also provide some promising results that prove the utility of machine learning algorithms in this interesting field.
Spanish and Portuguese MICE Tourists' Profile
Authors: Araújo Vila Noelia , Cardoso Lucília , de Araújo Arthur Filipe , Dias Francisco
Published: June 2020

Professional and academic congresses play a relevant role on what came to be known as meetings tourism or business tourism. This market has grown significantly in the last years and is expected to maintain, or even increase, such growth rates in the short range. Moreover, congress tourists consume complementary activities, as well as accommodations services, within the destination, which make them a very profitable segment. For these reasons, many cities are including this market in their promotional strategies. To illustrate this scenario, the chapter presents an analysis of Portuguese and Spanish congress tourists' profile. Results corroborate that congress attendees do some sightseeing, visit local cultural attractions, and taste local cuisine while in the destination. In other words, their consumption goes beyond the participation in the congress per se, and consequently, their average daily expenditure is significantly higher than that of the average tourist.
Authentic Leaders and Business Tourism
Authors: Knox Matthew Wayne , Crawford Joseph
Published: June 2020

With increasing global accessibility, business travel has become a key mechanism to share knowledge across modernist nation borders. Such business travel typically includes conferences, training events, meetings, pitches, and working retreats. Yet, at the end of each of these activities, the rate of continued knowledge sharing, and network establishment likely diminishes. This chapter explores the role of authentic leaders and authentic relationships as a catalyst to create meaningful exchanges of knowledge and a genuine desire to maintain relationships after the business tourism activity ends. The implications, if founded, include a need to train and develop authentic leader behaviors for employees who are likely to engage in business tourism activities. The effect? Higher creativity and innovation, more knowledge sharing, and better cross-cultural connectivity.
Signifying Business Tourism Through Knowledge Sharing and Innovation Processes
Authors: Tanvir Nabila , Baig Sajjad Ahmed
Published: June 2020

The main objective of this chapter is to highlight the significance of business tourism in the global village where the advanced technologies are utilizing for knowledge sharing and implementing innovation to attract the potential customers effectively and enhance the profitability of tourism industry. It also reviews how the professionals are developed by business schools, which are offering degree programs in tourism. With the growing popularity of tourism industry, there is a need for producing graduates in tourism who may perform excellently in launching innovations through effective knowledge sharing processes. It also discusses how knowledge sharing and innovation play an instrumental role in meeting the challenging demands of the potential clients of the tourism industry.
The Car-Free (Day) Movement
Authors: Prasetyo Frans Ari
Published: June 2020

As various cities around the world are implementing car-free policies, the need to understand it from a dynamic point of view becomes more pronounced. In effect, by invoking the organic nature of urbanism, a complexity involving the growth of cities in relation to their environment and human society emerges. Seeking to contribute to an understanding of the production processes of space in the contemporary street, the discussion of the planning future of cities, and perspectives on urban transformation, this chapter aims to build an understanding of the production of spaces for public life in Indonesian cities from the perspective of planning, production, and culture in car-free (day) movement in Bandung. This chapter contributes to the process of spatial production in car-free (day) and implies a reflective paradigm of practice and its potential to illustrate in planning the street transformation-productions of public spaces within the current process of globalization in car-free scheme.
Success Measures for Transforming Into Car-Free Cities
Authors: Doheim Rahma M. , Farag Alshimaa Aboelmakarem , Badawi Samaa
Published: June 2020

Private cars contribute heavily to air pollution and significantly lower air quality in cities. The number of deaths because of pollution and car accidents is increasing on a global level; therefore, achieving sustainable mobility in urban areas is essential. Hence, the transformation into a car-free model is not a marginal issue but rather a crucial need that should be a global trend. The biggest challenge in this transforming process is to minimize the dependency on private cars. This chapter reviews thoroughly some global practices of inspiring models of transforming into car-free cities around the world. This review aims to identify the success measures for the transformation of a car-free city through investigating the challenges that affected the adoption of the transformation process. This would potentially guide governments and policymakers to select the approach that copes effectively with the cultural, social, geographical, and economic characteristics of their countries.
Social Dynamics of Hindi Eco-Cinema and the Politics of Water
Authors: Bhattacharya Panchali
Published: June 2020

Eco-terrorism and environmentalism in Indian mainstream visual media are either eclipsed or serve as ancillary thematic props to the project. The big banners, production houses, mainstream directors, actors, scriptwriters of the industry rarely undertake eco-cinematic projects since these movies fail in box-office collection. However, the beginning of the 21st century has seen a paradigmatic shift with the advent of “green movies.” Interestingly, Nila Madhab Panda's Kaun Kitney Paani Mein (2015) and Aparnaa Singh's Irada (2017) have successfully projected on the silver screen the problem of groundwater contamination and the scarcity of water leading to ecocide. The current chapter explores how eco-cinema has become a critical platform to talk about grim ecological matters like water contamination and depletion to sensitise the audience regarding the need for water conservation.
The Idea of Femininity in Cinematic Rites of Passage in Bollywood Cinema
Authors: Satapathy Amrita
Published: June 2020

Most movies pre-2000 focused on feminine stereotypes conceived within the confined ambit of societal constructs. It is only with the millennium that scriptwriters became bolder in their conception of femininity. Directors and women actors have begun experimenting with unconventional feminine roles which are definitively plausible. The portrayals of new-age peripatetic women like Deepika Padukone's single and successful architect Piku Banerjee, living with her septuagenarian father or Paravathy's urbane, sophisticated, English speaking, corporate executive, the widowed Jaya Shashidharan, prove that fixities have given way to flexibilities in portrayal and form. This chapter seeks to undertake a comprehensive study of the idea of femininity in cinematic rites of passage through an in-depth analysis of Shoojit Sircar's Piku (2015) and Tanuja Chandra's Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017), and show how itinerant women protagonists are negotiating identities by challenging alterity.
Tawaifs and Islamicate Culture
Authors: Khatun Nadira
Published: June 2020

This chapter focuses primarily on the relationship between Islamicate culture and Muslim women in Indian Hindi cinema. This chapter goes beyond the simple deconstruction of gender stereotyping in Hindi cinema. Here, the researcher argues that the Muslim courtesan films convey the concept of seduction as a form of art through visual aesthetic. Focusing on the Muslim courtesan genre, this study locates a multi-layered status of Muslim women and traces how that creates an imaginary notion of Muslim women. Looking at the representational pattern, the study also will explore three specific arguments. Firstly, Muslim courtesan films are an art of seduction. Secondly, to make the representation seductive, they are positioned in a particular mise-en-scene. Lastly, the chapter points out how the makers of these films tried to fit the courtesan characters into the normative majoritarian gender discourse in which women are represented as subservient by ignoring the liberated identity of tawaifs.
Rise of Strong Women
Authors: Ananda Kumar Rajalakshmi , Ravi Sowndaram C. S.
Published: June 2020

A living being enters this world in a tabula rasa state (i.e., a clear mind without any information). It is the society that fills human nature with information, which later turns into behaviour, pattern, personality, habit, values, culture. This concept portrays in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory. This theory explains how the environment is affecting a person's development, which is of five levels. Can the environment show discrimination in the process of information filling? This question is answered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey, which showed India as the most unsafe place for women. How India has surpassed all other countries in this genre is shown in Bollywood films. Matrubhoomi, Padmaavat, Bandit Queen, Begum Jaan, and the like have depicted various forms of violence and injustice committed against women. We cannot ignore the fact that many films listed above are real history. This chapter critically reflects women's state in Bollywood films by using Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory.
A Queer Reading of “New Generation” Malayalam Cinema
Authors: Thankappan Ranjith
Published: June 2020

This chapter looks at the queer possibilities of reading the idea of travel and modern libidinal imaginations at the site of ‘new generation' Malayalam cinema, a recent origin of a genre of films that introduced a new style of filmmaking, format, themes, and young stars in the industry. The spatial mobility associated with the notion of travel and the performative space of love and desire may form the conjuncture for expounding the fluidity of the queer moments within which intersections of power relations. Power relations are played out, and heteronormative conjugal and romantic ties are resisted, subverted, or reproduced. The trope of travel becomes the site that embodies, at varying historical and social contexts, the statist colonising/civilising mission, individuated liberal emancipatory utopias, and non-conforming and subverting queer desires. It is argued that the queer moments explored through a queer approach offer the theoretical possibility of reading romantic relationship and friendship beyond the homo-social and popular heteronormative frameworks.
Adaptation of Shakespeare in Bengali Theatre and Cinema
Authors: Chakrabarty Darshana
Published: June 2020

The mastery and majestic aestheticism of Shakespeare has a global influence. The extensive presence of Shakespeare began in India as a part of the colonial strategy. The Bard's works were first introduced in schools and colleges as a scheme of the British government to get cheap administrative services from the natives. Gradually, Shakespeare entered the theatres of India, beginning with Calcutta, the then capital of India. With time, when the theatres were experiencing “dark stage,” Shakespeare got adopted and adapted in the film industry. From Bollywood to regional Indian cinemas, like the Bengali film industry, all felt the influence as well as drew inspiration. This chapter discusses in details about the introduction of Shakespeare in India, Calcutta, his movement from page to stage, and then stage to screen. Movies like Saptapadi, Bhranti Bilas, Srimati Bhayankari, Hrid Majhare, Arshinagar, Hemanta, and Zulfiqar have been discussed.
Auteurs and Transitions in Cinema
Authors: Manavalan Amutha
Published: June 2020

The chapter focuses on the transition in Tamil cinema and its subtle yet eloquent approach given by the auteurs in the recent past (from 2000-2018). An auteur film involves subjective and personalised filmmaking, rather than the mechanical transposition of a script onto film. An auteur film is about the filmmaking practices engaged in filming a script. Despite having two different ideologies in this industry, each auteur has managed to achieve and prove a point to the audience and the critiques. These directors were exposed to world cinemas at film institutes and motivated to make similar films in their mother tongue. Expression through cinema was the new identity each of them was seeking identical to that of the audience of Tamil cinema. Some auteurs use formulas of box office success to find it whereas some use innovative ways in cinema to find it.
The Quarrel of Naturalisms or the Question of Ecology
Authors: Larrère Catherine
Published: June 2020

The chapter examines the distinctions between nature and culture, or nature and artifice. These are not equivalent distinctions; they draw a triangle. Thus, the erasure of the distinction between the natural and the artificial establishes a continuous segment between these two poles, without leading to the absorption of one into the other (erasure by artificialization, or by naturalization: this duality of solutions shows the persistence of dualism, even as one envisages its disappearance). This passage from two to three obeys the principle of the three musketeers (which, are four). It paves the way for indefinite plurality. One can go from three to four, adding, to the triangle of nature/artifact/culture, the plurality of culture; we are faced with an indefinite plurality of humans and non-humans. This should allow the re-encompassing patterns of domination, and the development of patterns of cooperation, which are not based on a rigid separation between praxis and poiesis.
Contextualising Theology
Authors: Musendekwa Menard , Rutoro Ester
Published: June 2020

While theology is an international discipline, there is a need to contextualize theology so that it can address the local expectations. This theme is critical for contemporary theological curriculum. Reformed Church University is providing an Honours Degree in Theology. Towards improving the curriculum, there is a need for contextualisation as an ongoing exercise as the context continues to change from time to time. Theology should therefore aim at addressing contemporary issues and increase the program viability. The author explores all the potential areas that need to be considered to achieve a heritage-based curriculum. While theology sometimes can be regarded as an exclusive discipline, there is potential for improvement when it incorporates national heritage.
From an Inventory to a Heritage Information System
Authors: Costa Vasco
Published: June 2020

The protection and valorisation of built heritage, informed by the evolution of the very concept of heritage, has garnered a growing attention from specialists, public entities, and the general population. In so far that its importance grows so does the concept of inventory expands. The authors go beyond morphological or typological issues to focus on materials and construction techniques as well as on social and economic values. Bearing in mind the principles that should be honoured and the need of reliable and readily available information, they consider the development of a heritage information system. In its creation and development, they made use of the most advanced information and communication technologies available. They present an actual case and showcase the potential of the heritage information and of heritage itself as significant elements of a sustainable development strategy.
The Negative Effects of Carbon Emission on FDI
Authors: Yüksel Serhat , Dinçer Hasan , Karakuş Hüsne , Ubay Gözde Gülseven
Published: June 2020

This study aims to understand the negative impacts of carbon emission on the foreign direct investments. For this purpose, a comparative analysis is performed for both E7 and G7 countries. In the analysis process, Pedroni panel cointegration (PPC), Kao panel cointegration (KPC), and Dumitrescu Hurlin panel causality (DHPC) analyses are taken into consideration. The findings indicate that carbon emission has a negative influence on foreign direct investments for both country groups. Nonetheless, this relationship is stronger for G7 economies. It is also identified that there is no causality relationship between these variables. It is recommended that the countries should generate appropriate policies to minimize carbon emission problem. Within this context, new tax can be implemented for the companies that lead to high carbon emission. Additionally, governments can give incentives to the projects that aim to decrease carbon emission. In this scope, decreasing tax ratio and providing a technical support can be given as examples.
The New Concept of Logistics Platforms 4.0
Authors: Fernández-Villacañas Marín Manuel Antonio
Published: June 2020

This chapter aims to address a review of the new concept of Logistics Platform 4.0 for the improvement of global competitiveness, which is supported, within the scope of global sustainable logistics, in the development of the new Omnichannel and Synchromodality Logistics 4.0, and the global value networks driven by intra-industrial trade. The development of the new Logistics Platforms 4.0 induces public-private actions that lead to a new territorial planning and integration of routes, corridors, logistics centres, and commercial areas, in which the metropolitan area stands out as a main actor, leading to the creation of chains of connected and intelligent logistics platforms worldwide. The new urban logistics, which is more effective and efficient, is analyzed as an essential vector for the development of the new logistics platforms. Likewise, the most important logistic problems and metropolitan restrictions that arise for the development of more sustainable and intelligent cities, and the applicable concept of aerotropolis are analyzed.
Disruptive Logistics and Green Supply Chain Management
Authors: Gencer Yasin Galip , Akkucuk Ulas
Published: June 2020

Today, when global warming and its negative effects are more apparent, companies and individuals have given importance to green logistics practices. At the same time that computer technologies and smart applications serve in this field, new and innovative ideas are emerging every other day. Examples of disruptive innovation can change the way we do business in an industry, such as the Uber application. These new players in the sector tend to disengage the existing players. In this chapter, sector-changing national and international instances of disruptive logistics will be presented and discussed. Also, the effects of Industry 4.0 and smart cities on green logistics will be explained.
The Role of Technological Development on Renewable Energy Usage
Authors: Yüksel Serhat , Dinçer Hasan , Uluer Gülsüm Sena
Published: June 2020

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between technological development and renewable energy use. Within this framework, G7 countries were included in the scope of the review. Data for the countries in question between 1990 and 2015 were used. In order to determine the relationship between these two variables, Pedroni panel cointegration analysis was utilized. As a result, it has been determined that technological development is very effective in the use of renewable energy. Therefore, countries need to improve themselves technologically in order to increase the use of renewable energy. It is very important to have technological infrastructure in renewable energy investments. Hence, technological investments should have the priority in order to increase the use of renewable energy. With the help of this issue, it can be more possible to be successful in this kind of investment.
Recycling Technologies for Sustainability
Authors: Gören Sami
Published: June 2020

Technology is improving every day in each aspect of daily life. This will help us to increase the sustainability rates and efficiency of recycling. In fact, waste generation is an indicator of economic activities by maintaining production output and also supplying many jobs. However, the treatment methods should also improve as the types and quantities of the wastes increase. There are many recycling technologies that are already serving mankind; however, the types of wastes are changing with composite materials. These types of “not only one origin” composite wastes make it difficult to recycle by the conventional methods. There are huge differences in the types of wastes discarded by different types of industries that make the situation more complicated. Conventional methods are no longer enough to treat and recycle all types of wastes. This chapter will discuss recent improvements and technologies about increasing the recycling rate without causing environmental impact.
Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Total Quality Management in the Health Sector
Authors: Sayan İlknur , Sarıcı Aytan Yasemin
Published: June 2020

The supply system in health sector determines effective stock management, regular material supply, speed, and quality of maintenance and service process. Elimination of all non-value-adding activities, movements, and processes in the procurement process; minimizing errors; and increasing the efficiency of the process between the inputs and outputs of the hospital is possible by applying total quality in supply management. Effective supply chain management in health institutions improves the quality of healthcare.
Unified Approach to Integrated Food Quality and Safety Management
Authors: Stoyanova Antoaneta Petrova
Published: June 2020

The market development and globalization requires for every organization to seek assurance in its supply chain in order to ensure that the products manufactured meet the requirements. Production quality is considered as a socio-economic category and is perceived as an aggregation of properties and features that are to satisfy the ever-growing customer needs and requirements in terms of consumption. Health insurance of all food consumers target groups is the basis of the global food safety policies. The goal of the present study is to analyze the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 22000:2018 standards for food quality and safety management systems and thus identify the opportunities for a unified approach towards an integrated management to be implemented through risk-based thinking at all management levels. It is necessary for the assurance of food safety; it being the most important element of quality, to be perceived as an essential part of all management activities.
Behavioral Economics
Authors: Krstić Miloš , Pavlović Nebojša
Published: June 2020

The idea of the significance of the psychological dimension of human behavior is not new and has existed in the social sciences since ancient times. Accordingly, there is an endeavor to place economic analysis on the foundations of psychological research, which takes its form of expression in economic theory through the affirmation of behavioral economics. The aim of this chapter is to critically analyze various normative research programs in behavioral economics and to consider the importance of alternative concepts, models, and theories from the point of view of improving understanding of real economic and social behavior. The particular value of this chapter lies in affirming the importance of a program of behavioral economics known as new paternalism, which is based on challenging the concept of maximizing rationality and opens a new dimension of understanding the justification of state interference in the sphere of economy and society.
Intelligent Technique Based on Enhanced Metaheuristic for Optimization Problem in Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Network
Authors: Mihoubi Miloud , Rahmoun Abdellatif , Zerkouk Meriem , Lorenz Pascal , Baidar Lotfi
Published: June 2020

For the last decade, there has been an intensive research development in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSN). This is mainly due to their growing interest in several applications of the Internet of Things (IoT). Several issues are thus discussed such as node localization, a capability that is highly desirable for performance evaluation in monitoring applications. The localization aim is to look for precise geographical positions of sensors. Recently, swarm intelligence techniques are suggested to deal with localization challenge and localization is seen as an optimization problem. In this article, an Enhanced Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm (EFFOA) is proposed to solve the localization. EFFOA has a strong capacity to calculate the position of the unknown nodes and converges iteratively to the best solution. Distributing and exploiting nodes is a chief challenge to testing the scalability performance. the EFFOA is simulated under variant studies and scenarios. in addition, a comparative experimental study proves that EFFOA outperforms some of the well-known optimization algorithms.
A Hybrid Portfolio Selection Model
Authors: Srivastava Praveen Ranjan , Eachempati Prajwal
Published: June 2020

It is generally observed that investors approach asset managers and financial analysts to recommend a customized portfolio based on certain personalized preferences. The article discusses a methodology to build a hybrid personalized multi-criteria model in the Indian stock market context suiting investor preferences. The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was used to compute the criteria weights and data envelopment analysis (DEA) was adopted to screen the best portfolios which were subsequently ranked by a fuzzy technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) and evaluation based on distance from average solution (EDA). The rankings of portfolios were validated for robustness with the actual rankings awarded by Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL) to demonstrate the efficacy of the hybrid model and it was found that Fuzzy TOPSIS and EDA rankings were consistent with the CRISIL rankings proposed by expert investors.
A Hybrid Hierarchical Heuristic-ACO With Local Search Applied to Travelling Salesman Problem, AS-FA-Ls
Authors: Rokbani Nizar , Kromer Pavel , Twir Ikram , Alimi Adel M.
Published: June 2020

The combinatorial optimization problem is attracting research because they have a wide variety of applications ranging from route planning and supply chain optimization to industrial scheduling and the IoT. Solving such problems using heuristics and bio-inspired techniques is an alternative to exact solutions offering acceptable solutions at fair computational costs. In this article, a new hierarchical hybrid method is proposed as a hybridization of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Firefly Algorithm (FA), and local search (AS-FA-Ls). The proposed methods are compared to similar techniques on the traveling salesman problem, (TSP). ACO is used in a hierarchical collaboration schema together with FA which is used to adapt ACO parameters. A local search strategy is used which is the 2 option method to avoid suboptimal solutions. A comparative review and experimental investigations are conducted using the TSP benchmarks. The results showed that AS-FA-Ls returned better results than the listed works in the following cases: berlin52, st70, eil76, rat99, kroA100, and kroA200. Computational investigations allowed determining a set of recommended parameters to be used with ACO for the TSP instances of the study.
Technological Innovation and Smart Resiliency Strategies in Supply Chain Management
Authors: Bradley-Swanson Orna T , Burrell Darrell Norman
Published: June 2020

When it comes to supply chain management, innovations and new information technologies have the potential to improve organizational supply chain resilience, enhance customer service, cut costs, reduce risks, augment quality management, enrich reliability, and advance efficiency in smart and significant ways. Demand aggregation, inventory management, logistics preparation, and supply chain threats are just a few areas that have become managed more efficiently and effectively through the use of new technologies that improve communication and information distribution throughout a firm and its network to make it both smart, efficient, and adaptive. This article explores technological innovation as a smart resiliency strategy in supply chain management through a review of the literature.
Consumer-Brand Engagement With E-Commerce Market Place Brands
Authors: Mohanty Pankaj Kumar , Dey Dipanjan Kumar
Published: June 2020

Consumer-brand engagement (CBE) has gained much attention from both the academicians and practitioners. However, despite such scholarly attention, only a few studies have empirically tested the scale of CBE. Moreover, limited attention is paid toward examining the consumer-brand relationships in the e-commerce marketplace context. The study is an empirical investigation of the new ways for examining CBE by testing the impact of consumer advocacy (CA). Furthermore, the study has examined and validated the relationship between consumer involvement (CI) and CBE in the e-commerce marketplace context. The study has further examined the impact of CBE on two outcome variables, viz., positive word-of-mouth (PWOM) and brand usage intention (BUI). A sample size of 408 has been collected randomly from a postgraduate program of a large university located in south India. Various multivariate techniques (Confirmatory Factor Analysis & Path Analysis) have been applied to validate and test the proposed relationships. The results indicate that both CI and CA positively influence CBE. Further, CBE has a positive impact on PWOM and BUI.
Bird community of upper-montane rupestrian fields in South of Minas Gerais State, Southeastern Brazil
Authors: Moura Aloysio Souza de , Machado Felipe Santana , Mariano Ravi Fernandes , Souza Cleber Rodrigo de , Fontes Marco Aurélio Leite
Published: June 2020

Studies about the birds of rupestrian fields in the south of Minas Gerais State in Southeastern Brazil are incomplete, although this region is ornithologically well studied. This bird community has closely associated ecology with fields and the most endangered species of the Cerrado domain. The objective of this manuscript is to create a list of birds which occur in the rupestrian fields of seven municipalities in the south of Minas Gerais State, and further to analyze the birds’ distribution, the endangered species (and their conservation status), and generate bases for future conservation actions. We evaluated seven cities in the south of Minas Gerais State between 2012 and 2018 by using binoculars and cameras. We found a high richness in relation to other open areas, with the Tyrannidae and Trochilidae families being the most representative. We highlight the endangered species in the Cerrado domain which of these species are closely linked to rupestrian fields. The composition is similar to closer areas, with exception to São Thomé das Letras city because it suffers an influence of mining areas. We suggest creating a wildlife protected area to preserve and conserve a great area of rupestrian fields and consequently the associated biota, especially the bird communities
A literatura, a crítica e o crítico: caminhos da leitura literária
Authors: Candido Weslei Roberto
Published: June 2020

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